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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
new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version.
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Problems
There was a problem with editing with
Safari on
iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed.
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The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on
iOS devices. This will be fixed soon.
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Wikis can
over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
27 March at 16:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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Changes later this week
Notifications tell you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications about
new links to pages you created. For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
3 April at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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Recent changes
More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can
read more.
A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back.
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Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed.
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Changes later this week
When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the
visual and
wikitext modes on desktop. It also works
on the mobile site.
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The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return "" (empty string). When you read a page it will return "-" (dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
10 April at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like
page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia.
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The Wikidata
JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can
read more and see how to test your code.
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Recent changes
All wikis now have the
TemplateWizard for the wikitext editor.
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
17 April at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
Wikidata will get a new
constraint status called suggestion. This
will change how the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API works.
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You can test the
depicts property for structured data on Commons.
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
advanced search function
URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also
add new fields to the search interface through a
hook.
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The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version.
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Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
23 April at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
Wikipedia articles will have the sameAsmeta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an
A/B test.
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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
Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits.
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Problems
Tech News was late last week because of a
MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem.
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Changes later this week
You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are.
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When you write a comment in
Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your
web browser will save it in local storage instead of session storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow.
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You will be able to turn off
milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
1 May at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
The Wikidata wb_terms table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can
read more. You can ask for help if you need it.
Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated.
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Problems
Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
8 May at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
15 May at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed.
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Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
22 May at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
The
content translation tool on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can
tell the language team.
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The Wikidata wbeditentityAPI endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June.
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Changes later this week
Big changes to the
replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on
Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
29 May at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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Recent changes
You can now write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version.
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There is now a field called depicts on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development.
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Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema.
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Problems
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on
19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem.
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Changes later this week
Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
5 May at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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Recent changes
When you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by
Proton. Before this we used
Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them.
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The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment.
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Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable
User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly.
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Problems
Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please
report it.
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Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
12 June at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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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Problems
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on
19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem.
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Changes later this week
MIDI files can soon be played without the
Score extension. You can then add them with [[File:Filename.midi]]. Later override_midi and override_audio will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score.
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A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in
your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
19 June at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old wgEnableAPI and wgEnableWriteAPI values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values.
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Problems
The
new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday.
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Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (
calendar).
Meetings
You can watch or join the next
Wikimedia Language showcase. It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects. The showcase will be on
26 June at 13:00 (UTC). A recording will be kept for later viewing
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
26 June at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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Recent changes
The development of
Wikidata Bridge has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia.
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Problems
Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress.
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Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed.
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Changes later this week
You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database.
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There is no deployment of a new version of MediaWiki on the wikis this week (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
3 July at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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Recent changes
For event organizers, if you
request a temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation, this will now also raise the edit rate limit for those new accounts at the event, which will prevent another bottleneck.
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Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new
partial blocks feature.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 July. It will be on all wikis from 11 July (
calendar).
The design of MediaWiki's software windows will change for desktop users. Layout will be simpler, buttons will be bolder and clearer, and close buttons will be just icons. This is like the mobile design. This will affect ContentTranslation, VisualEditor, TemplateWizard, and other tools.
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Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
10 July at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch.
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There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July.
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Recent changes
The mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the mobile web and give feedback.
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Changes later this week
The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called Edit filter and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical problems. It will not do any other changes. You
can read more.
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all wikis from 18 July (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
17 July at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
The
Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can
read more and
leave feedback.
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Recent changes
Communities interested by easing newcomers' first steps can now benefit from the Growth team experiments on their wikis. Check
the conditions and the request process.
The
Coolest Tool Award 2019 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools by July 29. The awarded tools will be presented at Wikimania.
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Problems
The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2.
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Changes later this week
Phabricator database will be moved to a different server. Writes will be blocked on Thursday 25 July, between 05:30 and 06:00 AM UTC. Reads will remain unaffected.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 July. It will be on all wikis from 25 July (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
24 July at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
Some items in the visual editor will change later this week. This will make it easier to edit links, citations, and templates on both desktop and mobile.
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With
advanced search turned on you will be able to choose the sorting order of the search results when you do a search.
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Problems
Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 August (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
31 July at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 August. It will be on all wikis from 8 August (
calendar).
Problems
A change in
RelatedArticles extension accidentally enabled it for everyone, not just for mobile users. This has been fixed.
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Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
7 August at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
Today everyone can see
IP addresses if someone edits without an account. In the future this could be more hidden. This is to protect unregistered editors so fewer can see their IP address. This would only happen after we make sure the tools for vandal fighting can still be effective. You can
read more and
comment.
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Recent changes
Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new
advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools. Feedback on the discussion page is appreciated.
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Due to the absence of volunteer maintenance of Cologne Blue skin, the link to activate it will be hidden. The skin will still work, but editors using it are encouraged to switch to another skin.
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Changes later this week
Due to Wikimania, there is no deployment this week.
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Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
13 August at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
The "Wikidata item" link will be moved from "Tools" to "In other projects" section on all Wikimedia projects, starting on August 21.
Full announcement,
Phabricator task.
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Tech News
There will be no Tech News issue next week. The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 2 September 2019.
Problems
Some abuse filters stopped working because of a code change. Only variables for the current action will work. Variables defined inside a branch may not work outside of that branch. You can
read more to see how to fix the filters.
Only six accounts can be created from one
IP address per day. Between 12 August and August 15 this was two accounts per day. This was because of a security issue. It is now six accounts per day again.
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Changes later this week
Only a limited number of accounts can be created from one
IP address. An IP address can be
whitelisted so that it can create as many accounts as needed. This is useful at events where many new persons learn to edit. IP addresses that are whitelisted for this reason will also not show
CAPTCHAs when you create accounts. This will happen on Wednesday.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 August. It will be on all wikis from 22 August (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
21 August at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
There is an
RFC about creating a new global user group with the right to edit
abuse filters. This will be used to fix broken filters and make sure all filters will still work when software changes happen. You can
read more and comment.
Special:Contributions/newbies will no longer be working. This is because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the recent changes feed instead.
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Recent changes
You can use the new
termbox interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages.
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The
new version of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week.
The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues.
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The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute.
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The advanced version of the edit review pages (Recent Changes, Watchlist, and Related Changes) now include two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces. However the "All discussions" filter does not include pseudo talk pages, like discussions that are in the Project: or Wikipedia: namespaces. But it will include changes happening on Project talk: or the Wikipedia talk:.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 September. It will be on all wikis from 5 September (
calendar).
When you log in, the software checks your password to see if it follows the
Password policy. From this week, it will also complain if your password is one of the most common passwords in the world. If your password is not strong enough, please consider to
change your password for a
stronger password.
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Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
4 September at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Two years ago, an edit from your IP address incorrectly changed "Dī Esu" to "Desu" on a talk page. In addition to being wrong, changing others' talk page comments is discouraged. So I
reverted it. There's no need to be concerned. This edit was likely not made by you, you were merely reassigned the same IP address that someone else previously used.
Reach Out to the Truth18:12, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
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Problems
Last week's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The problem where some pages got it three times should now be fixed.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 October. It will be on all wikis from 3 October (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
2 October at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Special:Contributions will get the standard
OOUI look. This makes it easier to use on mobile and makes it look like other Special: pages. There is a
script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to.
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There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text with footnotes. It will be fixed soon.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 October. It will be on all wikis from 10 October (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
9 October at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
The
Community Wishlist Survey has a new format. It will focus on wikis that typically get less support. It will probably go back to the normal format next year. It is not decided exactly how it will work this year. You can
leave feedback.
There is a new
technical community newsletter. You can read more about the work of Wikimedia's technical community.
Subscribe to get the information in the future.
Outreachy is an internship program for groups who are underrepresented in free and open-source software. There are seven Wikimedia projects about coding, documentation and quality assurance in the next round. Persons who fit the criteria
can apply. The last day to apply is 5 November.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can now use
more advanced editing tools on the mobile web. You can turn them on and off in your preferences in the mobile version.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 October. It will be on all wikis from 17 October (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
16 October at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are no longer
supported. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They will not get security support. You
can't read Wikimedia wikis in Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows versions that are older than Windows XP. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them made the wikis less secure for everyone else.
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In the future section headings might have a share link. This is to make it easier to link to the section. You can
read more and discuss.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
Recent changes
The
API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as internal. API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives.
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Problems
There is a
translation tool we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed.
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The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (
calendar).
Reference Previews will be a beta feature on
all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
23 October. See
how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can post proposals for the
Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the
Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can
read more about the format for this year.
Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist.
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You can share feedback and ideas on the
Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
OOUI now allows using px (pixels) instead of em (
em) for some specific cases.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 October. It will be on all wikis from 31 October (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
30 October at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January.
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Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named wg* to mw.config. The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can
know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.
maqsadingiz o`zbek wikipediasini rivojlantirish ekan lekin nega menga to`siq qoydingiz. Sizga tel nomerimni berdim kelishib olamiz dedim men universitet hodimiman va maqola kiritish meni vazifam iltimos tel qiling yoki telegramdan yozing [phone number removed] --
ADUuz (
talk)
07:03, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
I'm sorry. I don't know who you are or what you're referring to. I don't recall editing any articles about Uzbek topics. I have also never edited the Uzbek Wikipedia. If you wish to edit there I will not stop you.
Reach Out to the Truth15:12, 30 October 2019 (UTC)