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Wikimedia wikis have a new way of counting visitors.
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Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 6. It will be on all wikis from April 7 (
calendar).
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Recent changes
The visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can ask to change to options in your language in Phabricator.
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Wiktionaries and Wikisources can now use the visual editor. It is an opt-in beta feature. It still needs development to work better with these projects.
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ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new
API.
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The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters.
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Problems
There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. 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 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (
calendar).
The wikipedia.org portal will get many small bug fixes and improvements. Most will be for the search box and suggested results that were added in March.
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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
12 April at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes.
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Recent changes
You can filter
Special:Log in more detail. You can filter different imports and new users.
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MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB.
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Changes this week
Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes.
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There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data center 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
April 19 at 19:00 (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
Wikimedia tested a new data center last week. This meant that the wikis could be read but not edited for 45 minutes on April 19 and for 20 minutes on April 21.
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When the data center was tested, new edits were not shown in the recent changes log for 20 minutes. They are in the logs now. You can
read more about how to find the edits.
Unread notifications were sometimes counted incorrectly. This has now been fixed.
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Changes this week
Wikimedia Commons will have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Commons. This will happen on April 26.
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It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 27. It will be on all wikis from April 28 (
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
April 26 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
The "Save page" button when you edit will be called "Publish" instead. This is to help new editors understand what it does. It already works like this on some wikis.
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Recent changes
The visual editor now works when you use Internet Explorer 9.
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Problems
There was a security problem with the
MobileFrontend extension. It showed information that had been oversighted. This has now been fixed.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 4. It will be on all wikis from May 5 (
calendar).
Pages could be added to new users' watchlists by default when they edit them. New users could also by default get email notifications when pages they watch are edited. This is
discussed on Meta.
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Recent changes
Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May 3.
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Users are invited to try
Cross-wiki Notifications on all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default, scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC.
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You can use
keyboard shortcuts to open the visual editor (meta+V) or the wikitext editor (meta+E) (on certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor).
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Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore.
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The
UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons.
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Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved.
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Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org.
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Problems
MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue.
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Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 12 (
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
May 10 at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We plan to reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please
tell the developers if the change will cause problems.
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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
Some image thumbnails now load faster on mobile. They also take up less bandwidth.
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Problems
Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis.
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Changes this week
Special:Notifications will have "mark as read" buttons for each day. The non-JavaScript version will get it this week. A JavaScript version will come later.
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Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce.
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A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 18. It will be on all wikis from May 19 (
calendar).
Using self-closing tags like <div/> and <span/> to mean <div></div> and <span></span> will not work in the future. Templates and pages that use these tags should be fixed. When
Phabricator ticket T134423 is fixed these tags will parse as <div> and <span> instead. This is normal in HTML5.
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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
You now see a
warning message on pages that try to use {{
DISPLAYTITLE}} but it doesn't work because it doesn't match the page's actual title.
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Problems
Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories.
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Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (
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
May 24 at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12.
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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
There is now a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module.
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Problems
A new way to handle rollback was introduced. It broke some tools and scripts and was reverted. This will be re-planned after review.
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CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed.
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Changes this week
When you edit a file or category page with the visual editor the rest of the page will be shown in its normal place.
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A change to the <charinsert> feature could break some user scripts. Contact
Bawolff if the "click to insert special characters" links in the edit window break on your wiki.
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Elasticsearch will be upgraded on Wikimedia wikis this week. This should not affect you, but if you have problems with the search function this is probably the reason.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (
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
31 May at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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Recent changes
MathML/
SVG is now the default <math> rendering mode on Wikimedia projects.
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Changes this week
The history page can tell you if a page on your watchlist was updated since you last visited it. This now works the same way in
Vector as in other
skins. The change broke local designs on some wikis. This will be fixed this week.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (
calendar).
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Recent changes
Wikimedia wikis now use
AuthManager. If you have new problems related to logging in or being logged in,
report them.
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Visiting
Special:Notifications doesn't automatically mark notifications as read anymore. You can go between read, unread or all notifications on
Special:Notifications. Notifications on
Special:Notifications are grouped by day. You can mark every daily group as read individually. Notifications are displayed by groups of 50 on
Special:Notifications and you can find former notifications by using navigation arrows.
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Changes this week
You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits.
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It will be easier to edit galleries with the visual editor.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (
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
Notifications were not always marked as read when you followed a link from an email notification. This will now happen.
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Changes this week
The list of other languages an article is available in will be shorter on small Wikipedias and non-Wikipedia projects. This is to make it easier to find the most relevant languages for each user. You will still be able to see the other languages.
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Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup.
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When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (
calendar).
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Recent changes
The
ORES service has now moved to
a new location. This should make it easier to use ORES. The
ORES review service is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia. ORES is an artificial intelligence system for Wikimedia wikis to help editors.
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The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (
calendar).
The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be more clear.
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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
28 June at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation will look at developing better tools for edit review. This is because research suggests we scare away newcomers who want to help.
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An e-mail from the Editing Department explains the technical work that is planned and being researched for the future. Items include better wikitext and visual editing, prompts for edits, language improvements, annotations, and meta-data separation.
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The sorting of Notifications into the two fly-out menus is going to change on July 5 to 7. Bundled notifications should be easier to explore and mark as read individually.
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From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected.
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Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later.
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Recent changes
A daily email summary of notifications could be sent even when there were no notifications from the wiki. Now no email will be sent if there is no activity.
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Changes this week
The "⧼citoid-citefromidtool-title⧽" button in the visual editor's toolbar will move into the "Insert" menu except for Wikipedias, Wikibookses and Wikiversities. This is to make it less prominent on wikis that don't use it as much.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (
calendar).
Meetings
You can take part in the next office hour for Wikidata on IRC on July 8 at 16:00 (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.
Translations are available.
Recent changes
A new image scaler fixed a number of bugs for showing SVG files. Some new problems turned up.
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Notifications are grouped by types. They are now counted by number of notifications and not by unread groups. That change may increase the number of notifications displayed. The earlier way of counting was often incorrect. Unread notifications will also be displayed first.
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Special:Notifications now has a maximum width for the notifications list on desktop computers. This allows long titles and descriptions to be cut properly. Notifications are now also better parsed.
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Problems
On 5 July Wikimedia Commons had problems and could not be edited for 20 minutes. For a short while after that the recent changes log and some gadgets were not working properly. It affected administrative actions on other projects too.
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Users who have multiple unread notifications can mark them as read by visiting
Special:Notifications page on their wiki.
Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 July. It will be on all wikis from 14 July (
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
12 July at 19:00 (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.
Translations are available.
Recent changes
Due to the rollback,
new sorting of Notifications on the Fly-Out Menus has been deployed with a delay.
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In notifications, "Messages" are now called "Notices".
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Problems
On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system.
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Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (
calendar).
The
RevisionSlider can be tested
on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia
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
19 July at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on
20 July at 21:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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Future changes
User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages.
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Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it.
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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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Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed.
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Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (
calendar).
It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on
Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon.
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Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages.
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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
26 July at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on
27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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Future changes
The current icon for Notifications "Notices" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency.
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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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The
RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.
Problems
Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed.
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Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (
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
2 August at 19:00 (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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Recent changes
In notifications, the icon for Notices has been changed from a speech-bubble icon () to a tray icon () for consistency. The Alerts icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility.
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Problems
If you use the
wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed.
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Changes this week
Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a
wildcard.
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On Commons,
UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images.
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When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template.
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The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August.
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When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (
calendar).
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
August 9 at 19:00 (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.
Translations are available.
Problems
Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead.
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Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor.
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For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon.
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Changes this week
The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will
now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16.
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Some
abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed.
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In
compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article".
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The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (
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
August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world.
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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
ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia.
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The norm and ccnorm functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the
TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore.
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The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the
new pageview data here. This happened on August 5.
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Problems
Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed.
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When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. 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 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (
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
23 August at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the
test wiki.
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How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test
the prototype.
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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.
Translations are available.
Recent changes
Wikimedia mobile sites now
don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster.
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When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing Tab in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing Shift and Tab in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row.
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Changes this week
The name of the "Save page" button will change. The button will say
"Publish page" when you create a new page. It will say
"Publish changes" when you change an existing page.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (
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
30 August at 19:00 (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.
Translations are available.
Recent changes
Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs.
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Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta.
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When you preview the
MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed
IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not.
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Changes this week
You will be able to use <maplink> on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map.
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Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (
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
6 September at 19:00 (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.
Translations are available.
Recent changes
The Wikimedia Commons app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos.
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The
RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (
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
13 September at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
When you search on the Wikimedia wikis in the future you could see results from sister projects in your language. You can
read more and discuss how this could work.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
The
new version of MediaWiki will hopefully be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (
calendar). This is the version that was meant to go out last week.
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
20 September at 19:00 (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.
Translations are available.
When you edit text and
mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions.
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Users are notified if they are
mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit.
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Problems
The
MediaWiki version that was supposed to come to the wikis two weeks ago was put on hold again because of new problems. The
MediaWiki version after it is now on all wikis.
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Changes this week
There will be no new MediaWiki version this week.
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Abandoned tools on
Tool Labs could be taken over by other developers. There is a new
discussion on Meta about this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on.
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