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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
388		Education in Singapore (talk)						Add sources
14		Lush 99.5FM (talk)						Add sources
95		Indians in Singapore (talk)						Add sources
13		SPH MediaWorks Channel i (talk)						Add sources
39		Mudah.my (talk)						Add sources
18		Vampire Cheerleaders (talk)						Add sources
10		2010 in Malaysia (talk)						Cleanup
109		Geylang (talk)						Cleanup
31		Batu Pahat (town) (talk)						Cleanup
9		Charles Chong (talk)						Expand
79		The Journey of Flower (talk)						Expand
471		Najib Razak (talk)						Expand
103		Polynesian languages (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
287		Foxtel (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
21		Catholic High School, Singapore (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
7		Polishchuk (talk)						Merge
235		List comprehension (talk)						Merge
36		Stile antico (talk)						Merge
110		GNU Bazaar (talk)						Wikify
147		The Straits Times (talk)						Wikify
57		NeGcon (talk)						Wikify
3		Philip Jameson (talk)						Orphan
8		Malaysian Telugu (talk)						Orphan
2		Khaede (talk)						Orphan
12		Abdullah Tarmugi (talk)						Stub
14		Straits Times Online Mobile Print (talk)						Stub
9		Tabla! (talk)						Stub
3		St. Michael's, Singapore (talk)						Stub
21		Thomas Gansch (talk)						Stub
5		Joachim Nicolas Eggert (talk)						Stub

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Tech News: 2014-51

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 software changes

• You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [1]
• You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects. [2]
• You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf12) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar). [3]
• You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu, Ctrl+F or Cmd+F. [4]
• VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold. [5]
• The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change. [6]

Future changes

• The star image of the watchlist may change soon. [7] [8]
• You won't be able to use Phabricator on December 18, 2014. It will be down between 00:00 and 08:00 (UTC). [9] [10]

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16:43, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 December 2014

• Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee election results

• Featured content: Tripping hither, tripping thither, Nobody knows why or whither; We must dance and we must sing, Round about our fairy ring!

• In the media: Wikipedia's year in review video; Checking in with Wikipedia's founders

• Traffic report: A December Lull

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Tech News: 2014-52

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 software changes

• The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private. [11]

Software changes this week

• There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6. [12]

Future changes

• The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations. [13]
• A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis. [14]

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16:52, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 December 2014

• From the editor: Looking for new editors-in-chief

• In the media: Wales on GamerGate

• Featured content: Still quoting Iolanthe, apparently.

• WikiProject report: Microsoft does The Signpost

• Traffic report: North Korea is not pleased

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Tech News: 2015-01

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Software changes

• There are no technical changes this week.

Feedback about Tech News in 2014

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16:52, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 December 2014

• News and notes: The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers

• In the media: Study tour controversy; class tackles the gender gap

• Traffic report: Surfin' the Yuletide

• Op-ed: My issues with the Wiki Education Foundation

• Featured content: A bit fruity

• Recent research: Wikipedia in higher education; gender-driven talk page conflicts; disease forecasting

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The Signpost: 07 January 2015

• In the media: ISIL propaganda video; AirAsia complaints

• Interview: Interview with Jakob, one of Wikipedia's more prolific waterway contributors

• Featured content: Kock up

• Traffic report: Auld Lang Syne

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
196		Chinese Singaporean (talk)						Add sources
154		Parahuman (talk)						Add sources
28		MediaCorp Suria (talk)						Add sources
104		Raffles Institution (talk)						Add sources
312		Johor Bahru (talk)						Add sources
1,941		Okto (talk)						Add sources
92		Population control in Singapore (talk)						Cleanup
4,989		Richard Armitage (actor) (talk)						Cleanup
70		Smartphone patent wars (talk)						Cleanup
33		Deletionpedia (talk)						Expand
44		Malaysia–Singapore relations (talk)						Expand
1,099		Strike the Blood (talk)						Expand
48		Wikipedia in culture (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
20		Anderson Junior College (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
17		Discovery Kids (UK) (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
56		Hwa Chong Institution (talk)						Merge
1,036		GNOME (talk)						Merge
165		Big Three (credit rating agencies) (talk)						Merge
14		Grant management software (talk)						Wikify
49		Shape (magazine) (talk)						Wikify
200		2014 in Malaysia (talk)						Wikify
1		Yegana Akhundova (talk)						Orphan
2		Dwight Yates (talk)						Orphan
90		Measuring GDP (talk)						Orphan
14		Pasir Ris-Punggol Group Representation Constituency (talk)						Stub
520		Sundar Pichai (talk)						Stub
4		Sonar Radio (talk)						Stub
3		Kwambi dialect (talk)						Stub
695		The Condor Heroes (2014 TV series) (talk)						Stub
15		Berita Harian (Singapore) (talk)						Stub

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Tech News: 2015-03

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 software changes

• Rotated PDF files in landscape format used to show too small. They will now display correctly. You may need to purge older files. [15]
• You can now use the {{!}} magic word instead of Template:!. Many wikis used the template to create a pipe (|) in tables and templates. You can delete the template. [16]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf14) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from January 13. It will be on all Wikipedias from January 14 (calendar).
• A bug in VisualEditor sometimes added a ☀ (Sun) character. This is now fixed. [17]
• The search and replace tool in VisualEditor is now much faster in long pages. [18]
• The TemplateData editor now uses the same design as VisualEditor. [19] [20] [21]
• The thumb option is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar. [22]

Future changes

• You can sign up to answer questions from designers. It will help them make editing easier. [23]

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16:47, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 January 2015

• Op-ed: Articles for creation needs you

• WikiProject report: Articles for creation: the inside story

• News and notes: Erasmus Prize recognizes the global Wikipedia community

• In the media: Wikipedia's birthday brings tributes, app, award; Castro death rumors

• Featured content: Citations are needed

• Traffic report: Wikipédia sommes Charlie

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Tech News: 2015-04

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 download the new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. The new version shows lead images, better galleries and content from Wikidata. It also has many other new features.[24] [25]
• Programs and bots still can't read information about images on many wikis. You can see the list of wikis with the most files to fix. Wikipedia in Italian, Indonesian and Japanese language have the most files to fix. On the biggest wikis you should use bots. Bots can add information templates to groups of files. You can ask other tech users to help you.

Problems

• All JavaScript on Commons was broken for a few minutes on Tuesday. It was because of old code in the HotCat tool. The same problem happened on some Wikipedias on Wednesday. It is now fixed. [26]

Software changes this week

• There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings. [27]

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18:13, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 January 2015

• From the editor: Introducing your new editors-in-chief

• Anniversary: A decade of the Signpost

• Interview: WWII veteran honors shipmates through Wikipedia editing

• News and notes: Annual report released; Wikimania; steward elections

• Op-ed: Let's make WikiProjects better

• In the media: Johann Hari; bandishes and delicate flowers

• Featured content: Yachts, marmots, boat races, and a rocket engineer who attempted to birth a goddess

• Arbitration report: As one door closes, a (Gamer)Gate opens

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Tech News: 2015-05

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 software changes

• You can now translate articles with the new ContentTranslation tool on several wikis. [28]

This week

• There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings. [29]

Future changes

• You can join a project to improve WikiProjects. [30]
• The Compact Personal Bar will be removed for now. It has a bug that breaks the tool to choose your language. It will come back when the bug is fixed. [31]

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16:08, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 January 2015

• From the editor: An editorial board that includes you

• In focus: Thirteen editors sanctioned in mammoth GamerGate arbitration case

• In the media: A murderous week for Wikipedia

• Forum: Evaluating the Arbitration Committee's handling of GamerGate

• Traffic report: A sea of faces

• Recent research: Bot writes about theatre plays; "Renaissance editors" create better content

• Special report: Traffic in the fog—most-viewed articles of 2014 include death, Facebook, and Ebola

• Featured content: Like Jack Kerouac's On The Road, this week's issue was written on amphetamines

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