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Tech News: 2016-20

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 image thumbnails now load faster on mobile. They also take up less bandwidth. [1]

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis. [2]

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. [3]
  • Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce. [4]
  • A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users. [5]
  • 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).

Meetings

Future changes

  • 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. [6]

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16:01, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Complaint

Hi Jackmcbarn

I have seen wikipedias rules, the question is if you have? First of all I was given 2 weeks to translate my article into English by one of your editors? How come, if you agree that Iridescent based on that reason can delete the article? I guess you now have to see which editor you like the most :)

Second, the algorithme was proven to be working perfectly, with the code provided, so there shouldn't be an issue there.

Third, the only thing you had to check was if it was true I invented the algorithme, and that I am sure one of your editors with lots of knowledge about algorithmes could have given you an answer to.

If you still thinks that Iridescent shouldn't be removed as an editor, then provide me with your supervisors phone number, so I can talk with that person about this issue.

Regards David Hyldkrog — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cop77 (talk • contribs) 20:58, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

@Cop77: You would have got 2 weeks to translate your article if being written in the wrong language was its only flaw. However, that was not the case. Nobody cares whether the algorithm works. See WP:42 and WP:N for rules about what's allowed on Wikipedia. Also, the fact that you invented the algorithm is actually a strike against it; see WP:COI and WP:A11. Wikipedia is self-governing, so none of us have "supervisors". In fact, both Iridescent and I are both administrators here, and any other administrator you ask will also agree with us. Jackmcbarn (talk) 21:11, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

1. So how come the language part was mentioned as a reason for being deleted. 2. An obvious reason why it does matter if the algorithme works or not is that it can help software developers who face mutual exclusion problems. 3. At least you are honest enough to admit that editors protect each other no matter what, which is a big flaw in the way wikipedia works. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.23.49.240 (talk) 23:24, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

1. When things are wrong with an article, correct procedure is to mention all of them, even if they're not all necessary to get it deleted. 2. That's not important to Wikipedia. 3. The fact that people agree with each other and disagree with you doesn't mean that they're protecting each other. Jackmcbarn (talk) 23:29, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News addition

Hi! Thanks for your addition to the current Tech News draft. Since Tech News goes out to a lot of non-native speakers of English, I've tried to simplify it a bit, hopefully making it a bit more accessible for non-technical en-2 editors. Please edit/tell me if I've misunderstood something. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 21:48, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

@Johan (WMF): That still seems accurate. Thanks. Jackmcbarn (talk) 22:43, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-21

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

Problems

  • Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories. [8]

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. [9]

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18:40, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-22

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

  • There is now a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module. [10]

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. [11][12]
  • CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed. [13]

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. [14]
  • The Translate extension will get an edit summary field. [15]
  • 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. [16][17]
  • 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. [18]
  • 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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16:19, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-23

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

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. [21]
  • 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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20:51, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-24

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

Changes this week

  • You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits. [27]
  • It will be easier to edit galleries with the visual editor. [28]
  • 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).

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18:41, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-25

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

  • Notifications were not always marked as read when you followed a link from an email notification. This will now happen. [29]

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. [30][31]
  • Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup. [32]
  • When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks. [33]
  • 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).

Meetings

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19:14, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:European migrant crisis

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:European migrant crisis. Legobot (talk) 04:27, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-26

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 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. [34]
  • The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed. [35]
  • A new category for tracking pages with math errors was added: Category:Pages with math errors. [36]

Problems

Changes this week

  • 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. [39]

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. [40]
  • 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. [41]
  • 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. [42][43][44]
  • From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected. [45]
  • 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. [46]

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15:42, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Location map switcher logic

I just noticed the "switcher logic" at Module:Location map. Thanks for implementing that! As far as I can tell, it's not documented anywhere, but people are starting to quietly use it in infoboxes (which settles at least one recent disagreement)

I am not very good at Lua --- could you explain the feature to me, so that I can write some documentation? As I understand it, if you specify more than one location separated by a #, then the first one will be displayed, but the reader can select from any of them with a switcher UI element. Is that right?

Thanks! —hike395 (talk) 06:16, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

@Hike395: Your understanding is correct. Jackmcbarn (talk) 15:54, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
I added documentation to {{Location map}}, and noticed a bug where the radio button selector does not line up with the map. If you'd like to take a look, see Template:Location map/doc. —hike395 (talk) 11:06, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
@Hike395: Yeah, I see what's going on. Apparently I only ever tested this inside of infoboxes, where the radio buttons look nice outside the map. I'll try to make it look good standalone too. Jackmcbarn (talk) 15:17, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

Sorry to say, I found another bug, and this one is more urgent. Take a look at Mono Mills, California. Ser Amantio di Nicolao has been running AWB on articles with {{Infobox settlement}}, changing the map parameter from (e.g.) California to California#USA. However, this particular article uses the |AlternativeMap= parameter to {{Location map}}. The switcher logic doesn't work when this is supplied -- as a short-term fix, the logic should ignore |AlternativeMap= and |overlay_image= for the second and subsequent maps.

As I said above, I am a terrible Lua programmer. I can try to fix this, but am not confident that I will do it correctly. Could you put in a fix?

In the longer term, I fear that feeding a #-separated list of maps is not a robust way of specifying multiple maps. The common way of doing this is to use extra parameters, such as |map1= or |map2=, and hence allow extra control parameters such as |AlternativeMap1= or |overlay_image2=. If we do decide to add extra parameters, we'll need to surface them in infoboxes (such as in {{Infobox settlement}}, where I just hacked out these parameters today!). We would also need to run AWB to redo the work that Set Amantio has been doing over the last few days.

I do like the multiple map feature -- {{location map}} is just tricky to get perfectly correct. —hike395 (talk) 07:11, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

@Hike395: I added an emergency fix for now that disables AlternativeMap when using the switcher. I'll come up with a solution that lets you specify different AlternativeMaps for different maps. As for why I used #-separated names instead of multiple parameters, I did that because of the sheer number of infoboxes that currently wrap location maps, to avoid all of them having to be changed. Jackmcbarn (talk) 16:12, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
And it's fixed properly now. Jackmcbarn (talk) 16:32, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-27

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 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. [47]

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. [48]
  • 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.

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19:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Module:Protection banner/sandbox

Hi Jackmcbarn, was there any reason your updates to Protection banner weren't synced to the main template? I've added awareness of the extended-protected level for edit request links on top of your changes, which should go in itself regardless at some point. I think your edits can go live as well, right? Thanks, let me know. — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 23:18, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

@Andy M. Wang: The only reason I didn't add them was that they were too inconsequential to edit such a widely-used template for. Now that a more important change needs to happen, by all means, please add them along with it. Jackmcbarn (talk) 23:54, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-28

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. [49][50][51]
  • 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. [52][53][54]
  • 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. [55][56][57]

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. [58]
  • 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.

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15:14, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-29

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

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. [62][63]

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).
  • Special:Log now has a help link. [64]
  • 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. [65]

Future changes

  • User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [66][67]
  • Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [68]

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12:01, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Pakistan location map

Hi. Can I ask you why you moved Template:Location map Pakistan to its new name? Mar4d (talk) 06:25, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

@Mar4d: The move log history is a little bit misleading. I actually converted it to Module:Location map/data/Pakistan, but this had to be done as a C&P move for technical reasons. See Template:Location map/doc/Converting map definition templates to modules for details. Jackmcbarn (talk) 16:16, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-30

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

Problems

  • Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [70]

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. [71]
  • 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. [72]

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. [73]

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. [74]
  • Special:Notifications page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly. [75]

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19:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game). Legobot (talk) 04:31, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-31

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 prototype for structured data on Commons is available now. [76]
  • 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. [77]

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

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21:48, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Karabakh

Unprotected. Thanks for bringing it up :) --Golbez (talk) 15:07, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-32

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

  • 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. [78]

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. [79]

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. [80]
  • 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. [81]
  • 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. [82]
  • The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [83]
  • 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. [84]
  • 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).
  • A message on Notifications panel will invite users to try Special:Notifications page. [85]

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 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:41, 8 August 2016 (UTC)


Pasterski Dear Jack McBarn,

Thank you for preventing vandalism on so many wikipedia pages. However, you locked the barn door on the Pasterski article after the horses were already stolen.

Can you please revert the page to what it was before the Greek and Netherlandian physics post-docs gutted it?

One appears to be Pasterki's former officemate and was turned down, if you know what I mean. The other tried to prevent her from joining their group in 2013—when she did join, she was the ONLY female—since then 8 other females have joined. They are livid with Pasterski for bringing in so many females.

The Greek one has been upset ever since he added his name to the Strominger page as a Doctor and then the strominger page was completely gutted. He seems to think Pasterski did it. It does not appear that she did.

Everyone outside of Harvard/Cambridge thinks the reason why Pasterski is getting media attention is because Hawking cited her. When in fact, it is because Strominger and Hawking and Perry mis-applied her Triangle and Memory Effects. She gave a Harvard Faculty Conference talk that Lubos Motl helped set up, where she warned, six months before the paper was published, that her ideas should NOT be applied to black hole hair. Lenny Susskind agrees with Pasterski—that is why Susskind and Pasterski were cited, as a 'different way to approach' the problem.

Hawking came to Harvard and had the strongest reactions to Pasterski (uncontrolled jaw movement and shaking) asking her to leave just about anytime he noticed her near him. Pasterski was then invited to Cambridge (by two physicists with a sense of humor that don't agree with Hawking) to talk to the issue. In those two talks, she called Strominger, Perry and Hawking's application of her work “naive” !!!https://www.newton.ac.uk/files/seminar/20160705100011002-732789.pdf

That resulted in Perry giving an afternoon talk to rebut. He was not originally on the schedule. He cited her work 7 times, cited her by name 7 additional times, and then invited her to spend Spring semester at Cambridge to 'work this out.'

Recently, Hawking deleted his citation of her in the PRL article by dropping the last arXiv digit of her completing the triangle for EM single author paper.

If the page is allowed to survive (Pasterski would be the first to admit that her ideas are not as great as Hawking thinks they are) please revert it to the point just before the two Greek edits (IP addresses, no names then -eg UVAL now, they point back to the Greek university where the post-docs father is a professor of computer science.)

Thank you,

Course 6 guy

166.170.223.9 (talk) 00:27, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-33

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. [86]
  • Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [87]
  • 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. [88][89]

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. [90]
  • Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [91]
  • 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". [92][93]
  • 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. [94]
  • 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. [95]

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19:37, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-34

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 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. [96]
  • 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. [97]
  • 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. [98]

Problems

  • Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [99]
  • When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [100]

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. [101][102]
  • How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [103]

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21:18, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Noël Coward

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Noël Coward. Legobot (talk) 04:31, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-35

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. [104]
  • 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. [105]

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. [106][107]
  • 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

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16:01, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Reference given to add Christianity as a religion in the page "vellalar"

Vellalar's are also Christians from the early 16th century.

Missions and Empire (Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series) 1st Edition by Norman Etherington. page 112. ISBN-13: 978-0199253487.

Caste, Catholic Christianity, and the Language of Conversion: Social Change ... By S. Jeyaseela Stephen. page 97. isbn=8178356864.--Chronicleof COGRLAHEPETA (talk) 05:03, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

@Chronicleof COGRLAHEPETA: If you want an article to be edited, post an edit request on the article's talk page, not on mine. Jackmcbarn (talk) 17:42, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Yeah. Sorry. readdressed accordingly.

@Jackmcbarn:

Request for edit posted on the page.

Thank you. --Chronicleof COGRLAHEPETA (talk) 18:03, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-36

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. [108]
  • 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. [109]
  • 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. [110]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to use <maplink> on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [111][112]
  • 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. [113][114]
  • 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.

Future changes

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17:12, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

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