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A barnstar for you!
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The Real Life Barnstar |
| For your plans to try and get Wikipedia and University College London working together, you get this barnstar and the gratitude of Jeremy Bentham for increasing global net utility. —Tom Morris (talk) 12:20, 9 July 2014 (UTC) |
Thank you! This is awesome! :)
Raya Sharbain :)) Get in touch: @RayaSharbain 14:39, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Real Life Barnstar |
| For your tireless work in helping me get WMUK's efforts around Campus Ambassadors off the ground, especially the UK's first Campus Ambassadors Workshop at University College London on Friday 12 September 2014. Thank you! |
Thank you Toni! This is wonderful, I really appreciate it :) --Raya - Get in touch! 15:07, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
25th Oct ballet editathon
Hi Raya, nice to meet you today. The Ballet editathon at the Royal Opera House is on the 25th - be great to see you there, feel free to bring a friend. ϢereSpielChequers 16:26, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi there :) Thank you for letting me know! This looks great! --Raya - Get in touch! 13:53, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
Can you please contact whoever is in charge of this course and get them to tell their students that articles aren't essays and not to edit war? Example. --NeilN talk to me 02:52, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
- I'll let the students know, thank you. --Raya - Get in touch! 18:26, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
- FYI another example, leading to this problematic request at Mean as custard's talk page. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 13:25, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Rhododendrites: I'll get in touch with the student... Apologies for this... --Flycatchr 13:34, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for the quick reply and for being on top of things. I know these things happen with student assignments sometimes. I'm not sure if it's articulated in class, but I find it helps to make it clear to everyone that grades aren't based on what "sticks" in the article (i.e. what remains at the end of the course/assignment) -- that their work is visible in the page history, so there's no need to try to force things :) — Rhododendrites talk \\ 14:08, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Rhododendrites: Actually, the assignment is set in a way that what sticks on the article is what matters most... Which is evidently not good/ideal for a Wikipedia assignment and which explains students' stress. I am going to talk to the organisers of the module to see how we can structure the assignment differently for next year, taking into consideration your contributions and @NeilN:'s contributions.
- Indeed. It's an aspect of assignments that tends to cause conflicts with other editors (being contrary to Wikipedia's collaborative spirit). If you haven't come across it, you might be interested to check out some of the information (e.g. brochures, training) at the Wiki Education Foundation website (I work for them). We're only able to support classes in the US and Canada right now, but the materials are applicable to anyone working on the English Wikipedia. PS: You're pinging Mean as custard, but seem to be responding to me, User:Rhododendrites :) — Rhododendrites talk \\ 01:42, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Rhododendrites: Apologies for pinging Mean as custard this entire time (got a bit confused there) and for not replying earlier... I have actually gone through a less formal Campus Ambassador training last year and am aware of the brilliant work you do at the Wiki Ed Foundation. The problem in my case is the module leader himself is not familiar with the dynamics of Wiki platforms and community and wasn't too keen on evaluating students on collaboration. I'm only a student and didn't have much authority over how the assignment should have been run or graded.--Flycatchr 12:17, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
- @Rhododendrites: Apologies for pinging Mean as custard this entire time (got a bit confused there) and for not replying earlier... I have actually gone through a less formal Campus Ambassador training last year and am aware of the brilliant work you do at the Wiki Ed Foundation. The problem in my case is the module leader himself is not familiar with the dynamics of Wiki platforms and community and wasn't too keen on evaluating students on collaboration. I'm only a student and didn't have much authority over how the assignment should have been run or graded.--Flycatchr 12:17, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
- Indeed. It's an aspect of assignments that tends to cause conflicts with other editors (being contrary to Wikipedia's collaborative spirit). If you haven't come across it, you might be interested to check out some of the information (e.g. brochures, training) at the Wiki Education Foundation website (I work for them). We're only able to support classes in the US and Canada right now, but the materials are applicable to anyone working on the English Wikipedia. PS: You're pinging Mean as custard, but seem to be responding to me, User:Rhododendrites :) — Rhododendrites talk \\ 01:42, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Rhododendrites: Actually, the assignment is set in a way that what sticks on the article is what matters most... Which is evidently not good/ideal for a Wikipedia assignment and which explains students' stress. I am going to talk to the organisers of the module to see how we can structure the assignment differently for next year, taking into consideration your contributions and @NeilN:'s contributions.
- Thanks for the quick reply and for being on top of things. I know these things happen with student assignments sometimes. I'm not sure if it's articulated in class, but I find it helps to make it clear to everyone that grades aren't based on what "sticks" in the article (i.e. what remains at the end of the course/assignment) -- that their work is visible in the page history, so there's no need to try to force things :) — Rhododendrites talk \\ 14:08, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Rhododendrites: I'll get in touch with the student... Apologies for this... --Flycatchr 13:34, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
- FYI another example, leading to this problematic request at Mean as custard's talk page. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 13:25, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
User:YueHe is on the verge of being indef'ed for long-term/repeated copyvio. If "what sticks is what matters", you might recommend to him that he thinks very hard about what it would mean that all of his edits are undone and he is prohibited from making any more. Not sure what training the students received in this aspect of WP contribution, and this editor in particular has a history pre-dating this course, but I often see this sort of problem arise when students' prime directive sounds like "get something, anything, on there". DMacks (talk) 02:43, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
User:Vixtoria and User:Amna Kashif were the next two I spot-checked from the course-page, and both were copyvio'ing. What a mess; I'm too tired to look further. But hopefully the instructor takes note, both for grading appropriately this time and for working to avoid it next time. DMacks (talk) 03:25, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
I warned User:AndrejKoc for edit-warring (unexplained undoing of my explained edits), but his edits (and redoings thereof) include multiple violations of policy and guideline (the topic itself isn't my specialty; no comment on the general editorial/content aspect). DMacks (talk) 04:19, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
Let's make a flyer
woot! That'd be great :) Cool - I'll work on the text and get back to you! Lirazelf (talk) 10:37, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
I took your redlinked AFD nomination at Mohammed Al-Moeini and completed the steps to list it at AFD. The debate may be found at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mohammed Al-Moeini. However, since then there seems to be a consensus that the subject is a notable footballer. He has played for multiple pro teams in a fully pro league. If you don't object, we can go ahead and close the debate. Since the nomination started with your tag on the article, the decision to withdraw is yours. Best, UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 19:12, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Ultraexactzz: I would like to object. Although you state that the footballer is notable, I can't seem to find any external sources linking to him. --Flycatchr 15:07, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, the debate was already closed as Keep. If the team they played for is a fully professional team (which they are), then the player is considered notable. Now, if there isn't actually any evidence that they did indeed play on the teams they're shown to have played for, then yes deletion might be appropriate. So your best bet is going to be checking the teams listed and seeing if this player is listed on their rosters for the years he was with that club. If he's missing from the official lists, then let me know and we'll see how to proceed. UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 16:28, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
- From the debate, This link to the Soccerway database seems to confirm that this player was on notable teams. It's not much, but is probably enough to confirm notability under WP:NFOOTY. UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 16:30, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
- Then I think in this case the name of the player is wrong on the WP article. By comparing height/weight/DOB details in the current WP page with external pages like this one, and this one, I get Mohamed Ali Abdulla. --Flycatchr 00:25, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
- I'd suggest raising that issue at WT:FOOTY, then. The editors at the Football wikiproject are more familiar with international soccer than I am, and should be able to help you out. Changing the article to reflect a correct name is simple - because whoever this player is, they did play on pro teams. So they get an article. Best, UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 18:41, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
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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
- When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes. [1]
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. [2][3]
Changes this week
- New filters for Recent changes will be released on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias and MediaWikiwiki on March 28. Other wikis will get it progressively. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and, on certain wikis, user intent prediction.
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).
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14:47, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
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
Save pagebutton now saysPublish pageorPublish changeson most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately.Publish pageis when you save a new page andPublish changeswhen you edit an existing page. [4] - 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. [5]
- 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. [6]
Problems
- Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed. [7]
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.
- You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on 5 April at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech and Hebrew Wikipedia on 11 April. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and user intent prediction. User intent prediction means the filter tries to help editors determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [8]
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17:53, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
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
Tidy is going to be replaced with an HTML5 parsing algorithm. Bad HTML in wikitext would cause problems on a number of wikis. There is now a ParserMigration extension on all wikis that you can use to help clean this up. You can read more about how you can use it. [9]
Changes this week
- 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. [10]
- 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. [11]
- The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters. [12]
- 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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18:35, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
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 add
?safemode=1to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature?safemode=1. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them. [13] - You can now see a list of all autoblocks on Special:AutoblockList. [14]
- 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. [15]
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.
Future changes
- stats.wikimedia.org will be replaced. You can see the new prototype. You can leave feedback on this change.
- 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. [16]
- 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. [17][18]
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19:32, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
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
- New filters for recent changes are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can turn it on in your preferences. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May. [19]
- 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. [21]
Changes this week
- The GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit. [22]
- 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. [23]
- 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.
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16:40, 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. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The content translation tool works again. It was turned off because of a database problem. [24]
- Scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions 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. This is the same thing as Tech News wrote about in issue 2017/16. You need to add
mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' )block for your scripts also, or addmediawiki.utildependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. [25][26]
Problems
- Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 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.
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 2 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- All Wikimedia wikis will have cookie blocks from May 8. 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. [27]
- The
Publish changes,Show previewandShow changesbuttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding&ooui=1to the URL. [28]
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19:50, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
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
- Some users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn on
Hide categorization of pagesin your watchlist preferences. You can turn offExpand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recentin your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from Special:EditWatchlist/raw. [29] - There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered a CAPTCHA. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May. [30]
Changes this week
- When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now say
Visual editingandSource editinginstead ofSwitch to visual editingandSwitch to code editing. This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using. [31] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 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 9 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users. [32][33]
- Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If
-{is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use-<nowiki/>{for transclusions and%2D{in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use-{in a template:{{1x| sad :-{ face }}. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. [34][35]
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02:25, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
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 ISBNs to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that have enabled Citoid. [36]
- The Two Column Edit Conflict View is available as a beta feature on all wikis. It is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. [37]
Problems
- The
mediawiki.utillibrary does not load automatically any more. Your Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try addingmw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ).done(function(){as the first line in the file and});as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/18 issue. [38]
Changes this week
- The RevisionSlider extension will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences. [39]
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages. [40][41]
- Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. If
-{is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use-<nowiki/>{for transclusions and%2D{in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find false positives. You can read more about what to fix. [42][43]
Older unreported changes
- Your Meta user page is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word
__NOGLOBAL__to your Meta user page to stop this. [44][45]
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21:48, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).
- There will be a
<div>tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can report new problems you think are related to this. [46]
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22:18, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
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’s MediaWiki version was rolled back from some wikis because of a problem. This means planned changes did not happen. [47]
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 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will be able to control who can notify you on the Wikimedia wikis. You will have a user blacklist. When you add a user to the blacklist you will not get a notification when they mention you. You can test this on Beta Wikipedia. You can read more and give feedback on Meta. [48]
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12:18, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
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 see new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from. [49]
- When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox. [50]
- You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article. [51]
- New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June. [52]
Problems
- The MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen. [53]
Changes this week
- Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links will see languages they have in their Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences. [54]
- You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions. [55]
- When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead. [56]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
- String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules. [57]
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 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The 2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all. [58][59]
- Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too. [60]
- The Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft that describes the new committee.
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19:05, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
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
- Some wikis have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long. [61]
- When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results. [62]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the test wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account. [63]
- Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects. [64]
- Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding
&fuzzy=1to the end of the web address when looking at Special:Undelete. [65][66]
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15:30, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
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
Changes this week
irc.wikimedia.orghas to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down. [68]-
Special:PageDatawill be an entry point for machine-readable page data. [69] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. You can now see how the TemplateStyles extension works on Beta Labs.
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15:44, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
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 <inputbox> has a new
searchfilterparameter. You can add values likesearchfilter=insource:foo. It will add that to the user's search query. [70]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
- Users will be able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in enhanced watchlist/recent changes. Previously, this was disabled for everyone. [71]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next WMF Language team office hour, an open session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects. The meeting will be on 27 June at 13:00 UTC. [72]
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15:38, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
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Nomination of Angela Glendenning for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Angela Glendenning is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Angela Glendenning 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.
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Hi there
Thank you for the training.
- 13:38, 30 May 2018 (UTC)