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Recent changes
When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes.
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Problems
Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from March 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from March 29. It will be on all wikis from March 30 (
calendar).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Recent changes
The Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page.
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The tracking category
Category:Pages with template loops is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template.
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English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a
cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new
IP address the cookie will block them again.
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Problems
Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed.
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Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
4 April at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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Some older
web browsers will not be able to use
JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version.
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New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the
user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis
will get it later.
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The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
11 April at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May. This will start at
14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.
You can read more about this.
RevisionSlider will change how you move between revisions. This will be available on
the test wiki from 11 April. It will come to other wikis later if users like the change. You can test it and
give feedback.
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Recent changes
You can add ?safemode=1 to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal
CSS and
JavaScript. Example: /info/en/?search=Literature?safemode=1. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them.
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The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from [[File:Wiki.png]]. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see
how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way.
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Problems
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at
14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.
You can read more about this. This will also happen on 3 May.
Changes this week
There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
18 April at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature
can give feedback.
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From next week, user scripts using very old
deprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see
examples of how to upgrade scripts.
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The article will be discussed at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allah Dino Khawaja until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. —
kashmiriTALK13:29, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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When
administrators,
bureaucrats and
stewards make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time.
Special:UserRights will have new options for this. You can
read more about user groups.[20]
Problems
Since the
data centre test last week the
content translation tool has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved.
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Changes this week
The
GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit.
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Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The
Cognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can
read more about this.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
25 April at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.