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Tech News: 2018-02
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Recent changes
On Wikidata, the "
spyychere
" button when you edit is now called "
veröffentlichen
". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "
Syte spychere
" to "
Änderige spychere
". This is to help new editors understand what it does.
Some edits will get an automatic
tag
on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways.
Special:UnusedFiles
shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new
Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons
only shows files that are not used on any wiki.
Structured discussions
now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation
has been updated
Problems
Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem.
With the new filters in the recent changes, "
Ausgewählte ausschließen
" in "
Namensryym
" did not work for "
Gespeicherte Filter
" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again.
The latest version of
Google Chrome
broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see
#R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9
instead of
#Résumé
even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March).
Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed.
Changes later this week
Wikidata will be moved to its own database
servers
. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this
you will be able to read but not edit
Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30
UTC
on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis.
The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems.
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (
calendar
).
WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one:
ext.wikiEditor
. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed.
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
9 January at 19:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
10 January at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
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Tech News: 2018-3
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Recent changes
Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the
Translate extension
is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed.
There is a new
Discourse test support channel
for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development.
Problems
Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-
ASCII
characters when a page was edited.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (
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
16 January at 19:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
17 January at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in
Linter
categories will switch to use the
Remex parsing library
. This is
to replace Tidy
. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018.
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Filters on
Special:RecentChangesLinked
will get the new look similar to on the recent changes page. Special:RecentChangesLinked will also get some new features.
Problems
With the new
OOUI look
menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed.
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
24 January at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
irc.wikimedia.org
will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically.
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Tech News: 2018-05
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Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
31 January at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation is working on how to get less unmaintained code on Wikimedia wikis. This could be by finding maintainers or removing unmaintained features. They are now
looking for feedback
on what do do with
AbuseFilter
, the
IRC RecentChanges feed
, the
RelatedSites extension
and
TimedMediaHandler
. You can leave feedback on the linked talk pages.
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Tech News: 2018-06
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Recent changes
Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an
editathon
. Wikis can change this if they want to.
The
Wikidata vandalism dashboard
is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language.
Info pages for file pages now show the file's
SHA1 hash value
in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded.
Problems
Special:Export
has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this.
Changes later this week
When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a
visual diff
of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users.
When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like
gallery widths="150px"
. You could use
em
or
instead of
px
but it would make no difference. You can now only use
150px
or nothing (
150
). If you write something else, instead of treating it like
px
, it will not work.
The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of
Jo
or
Nei
it will say
Thank
and
Cancel
. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public.
Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a
tracking category
for this. Wikis that don't want it
can disable it
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (
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
6 February at 19:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
7 February at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
The
Education Program extension
will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the
Programs and Events Dashboard
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Tech News: 2018-07
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Recent changes
TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please
submit a task on Phabricator
Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for
research on identifying spambots
Changes later this week
You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use
visual diffs
on history pages.
The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like
{{reflist}}
, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates.
The abuse filter extension has a new feature
contains_all
that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (
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 February at 18:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
14 February at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
The
settings page and beta options
for the mobile website are being improved.
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Tech News: 2018-08
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Recent changes
The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed.
You can now
see statistics
for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table.
Problems
Linter
is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed.
Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like
{{sfn}}
are not visible in the references list whilst editing.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (
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 February at 19:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
21 February at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will
make longer comments possible
Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can
test a new prototype
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Tech News: 2018-09
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Recent changes
Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly.
Problems
Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug.
Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February
UTC
, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed.
Special:Statistics
did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated.
Changes later this week
Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version.
The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the
Remex parsing library
. This is
to replace Tidy
. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018.
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (
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
27 February at 19:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
28 February at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
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27. Februar 2018
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Apologies for writing in English.
Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen
Greetings,
Global preferences, a
highly request feature in the 2016 Community Wishlist
, is available for testing.
Read over the help page
, it is brief and has screenshots
Login or register an account on
Beta English Wikipedia
Visit
Global Preferences
and try enabling and disabling some settings
Visit some other language and project test wikis such as
English Wikivoyage
, the
Hebrew Wikipedia
and test the settings
Report your findings, experience, bugs, and other observations
Once the team has feedback on design issues, bugs, and other things that might need worked out, the problems will be addressed and global preferences will be sent to the wikis.
Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! --
Keegan (WMF)
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01:23, 27. Feb. 2018 (MEZ)
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Did you know?
Did you know that you can now use the
visual diff tool
on any page?
Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.
If you
enable the Beta Feature
for "
⧼visualeditor-preference-visualdiffpage-label⧽
", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.
Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.
In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.
This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence.
You can read and help translate
the user guide
, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since
the last newsletter
, the
Editing Team
has spent most of their time supporting
the 2017 wikitext editor mode
, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving
the visual diff tool
. Their work board is available
in Phabricator
. You can find links to the work finished each week at
mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings
. Their
current priorities
are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.
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The
2017 wikitext editor
is
available as a Beta Feature
on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments. They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing. The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January. Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor. Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. More information will be posted at
mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance
The
visual diff tool
was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can also
enable the new Beta Feature
for "Visual diffs". The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and
Special:RecentChanges
Wikitext syntax highlighting
is available as a Beta Feature for both
the 2017 wikitext editor
and the 2010 wikitext editor.
The
citoid service
automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be a bit tricky to set up.
Your wiki can have this service. Please
read the instructions
. You can
ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki
Let's work together
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The team will talk about editing tools at an upcoming
Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting
Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact
Dan Garry
The

block can
automatically display long lists of references in columns
on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can
request multi-column support
for your wiki.
If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation.
Merci!
Elitre (WMF)
21:56, 2. Mär. 2018 (MEZ)
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Recent changes
You can now make longer edit summaries.
Changes later this week
You can
notify users in edit summaries
. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page.
On
Special:AbuseLog
you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options.
Wikis can
enable Citoid
to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can
ask for help
if you need it.
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (
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
6 March at 19:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
7 March at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
In the future you will be able to use global preferences. This means you could change a preference for all wikis instead of having to change it every time for each wiki. You can now
test global preferences
and
give feedback
You can now
read about planned works on maps
during 2018. This will be done by June. You
can give feedback
on the planned maps work.
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Recent changes
3D models can now be uploaded to Commons.
Page Previews
has been updated to use
HTML
for previews. This has fixed many issues. An
A/B test
was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made.
Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an
abuse filter
. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be
tagged
for review.
Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab.
Problems
The
abuse filter
did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC).
Changes later this week
You can
notify users in edit summaries
. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week.
It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in
Special:AbuseFilter
. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users.
A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the
Remex parsing library
. This is
to replace Tidy
. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018.
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (
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 March at 19:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
14 March at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
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Greetings,
The ability to
notify other users in edit summaries
will be available later this week, on 15 March 2018. Other users can be notified if a
link to their user page is provided in an edit summary
. Some user-made gadgets and scripts that automatically put user names in edit summaries may need to be changed to put a colon in the link, such as
[[:User:Example]]
. You can change how you receive these mention notifications in your
preferences
. This feature was
highly requested in the 2017 Community Wishlist survey
, and
feedback is welcome
Thanks, happy editing to you. -
Keegan (WMF)
talk
22:09, 12. Mär. 2018 (MEZ)
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Tech News: 2018-12
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Problems
On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
20 März
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
21 März
. It will be on all wikis from
22 März
calendar
).
Meetings
There is no Editing team meeting this week.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
21 März
at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days.
In-Context Help and Onboarding
is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity.
Collaboration team
is expecting feedback and comments on
the project talk page
, especially from people working with newcomers.
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Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change.
The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate.
TemplateStyles
will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018.
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (
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
27 March at 18:30 (UTC)
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on
28 March at 15:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read
more details
Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in
Serbian
or
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22:03, 26. Mär. 2018 (MESZ)
We need your feedback to improve Lua functions
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Hello,
(I’m sorry for writing in English.
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If you’re regularly using Lua modules, creating and improving some of them, we need your feedback!
The Wikidata development team would like to provide more Lua functions, in order to improve the experience of people who write Lua scripts to reuse Wikidata's data on the Wikimedia projects. Our goals are to help harmonizing the existing modules across the Wikimedia projects, to make coding in Lua easier for the communities, and to improve the performance of the modules.
We would like to know more about your habits, your needs, and what could help you. We have a few questions for you
on this page
. Note that if you don’t feel comfortable with writing in English, you can answer in your preferred language.
Merci!
Lea Lacroix (WMDE)
10:56, 27. Mär. 2018 (MESZ)
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Template Wizard
script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools,
please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey
Problems
MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version
1.31.0-wmf.26
on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week.
The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (
calendar
).
User subpages ending in
.json
will now be protected from other people editing them, like
.js
and
.css
pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like
User:Example/mygadget.json
to do this without concerns.
Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml
on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time.
AbuseFilter
will transition to use
OOUI
starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks.
In Special:Preferences, the preference "
Wänn e Filter gänderet woren isch, d Beobachtigslischt automatisch nei lade (brucht JavaScript)
" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist.
You can see names of individual abuse filters in
Special:AbuseLog
. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed.
You can now search through filter patterns at
Special:AbuseFilter
. You may specify either a plain string or a
regular expression
and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted.
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
3 April at 18:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
4 April at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can
give your feedback
to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow
T175706
to monitor progress of
Tidy replacement
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Recent changes
Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it.
You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was
one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey
last year.
The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can
read more details
Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left).
Problems
The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed.
For a week in March rollbacks got both the
rollback
and the
undo
tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (
calendar
).
Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits.
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
10 April at 18:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
11 April at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
The iOS and Android apps will get
synced reading lists
later in April.
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Profiling statistics for an
abuse filter
tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can
file a phabricator task
to do so.
Abuse filters
will now treat integers and
floats
more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (
===
and
!==
) will be affected leaving the values unchanged.
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (
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
17 April at 18:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
18 April at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
The
new PDF renderer
could not create PDFs from
books
. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki.
PediaPress
will take over development of the books-to-PDF function.
Pywikibot
will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3.
Volunteer developers can fill out the
Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey
. The last day is April 22 (UTC). This is a third-party service survey. See
the privacy statement
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All Wikipedias now have
Page Previews
The iOS and Android apps now have
synced reading lists
. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
The icons in the
2010 wikitext editor
have changed.
The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press
Publish
. This button now also shows an
ellipsis
. This is to show that pressing
Publish
is not the last step.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 April. It will be on all wikis from 26 April (
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
24 April at 18:30 (UTC)
. See
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
25 April at 15:00 (UTC)
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Future changes

will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of
flagged revisions
will not get this feature in May.
The rollback function could change. This was a
German community request
. All editors with rollback rights can
leave feedback
on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).
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Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias
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Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias
Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen
Mapframe
is a feature that enables users to easily display interactive maps right on wiki pages. Currently, most Wikipedias don’t have mapframe. But
fifteen Wikipedias
, along with all the other Wikimedia projects, are using mapframe today to display maps on thousands of pages.
A little background: over the last few months, the Foundation’s
Collaboration team
has been working to improve the stability and user experience of the maps service. In addition, a question about long-term support for the maps service was recently settled, and a small team has been assigned for routine maintenance. Given these developments, bringing the benefits of mapframe to Wikipedias that lack the feature seems both safe and supportable.
Nine Wikipedias
that use a stricter version of Flagged Revisions will not get mapframe in this release.
Maps are a valuable form of visual data that can improve readers’ understanding across a wide range of topics. If you know of any reasons why mapframe shouldn’t be implemented on your Wikipedia, let us know
on the project talk page
. Unless we hear from you, we plan to release mapframe to most Wikipedias in May, 2018. So, if you foresee an issue, please let us hear from you. Otherwise, happy mapping!
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Recent changes
The parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links.
Problems
We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex
. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can
help fix broken wikitext
to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process
on Phabricator
Changes later this week
You will be able use
CodeMirror
in the
2017 wikitext editor
on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with
syntax highlighting
. It has previously been a
beta feature
and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right.
When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date.
You can soon turn on the
Performance Inspector
in the
Tekscht-Ygab
section in your preferences. It shows information about the
performance
of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly.
There is a new
abuse filter
function called
equals_to_any
. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (
===
) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can
read more on mediawiki.org
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (
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
1 May at 18:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
2 May at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
The
Wikimedia Cloud Services team
is working on a new project called
Toolhub
. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on
the talk page
or email jhare
Vorlage:@wikimedia
.org to leave private feedback.
All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the
Remex parsing library
. This is
to replace Tidy
. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018.
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Wikitext highlighting out of beta
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Wikitext syntax highlighting
, also known as CodeMirror, has been moved out of Beta Features and is available in the
2017 Wikitext Editor
on all wikis. Syntax highlighting helps you see problems in your wikitext before previewing or publishing text. Please try out the tool if you did not do so while it was being developed, and
feedback is welcome
. -
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20:55, 4. Mai 2018 (MESZ)
AdvancedSearch
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From May 8,
AdvancedSearch
will be available as a
beta feature
in your wiki. The feature enhances the
search page
through an advanced parameters form and aims to make
existing search options
more visible and accessible for everyone. AdvancedSearch is a project by
WMDE Technical Wishes
. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!
Birgit Müller (WMDE)
16:45, 7. Mai 2018 (MESZ)
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The
Wikimedia Commons mobile app
has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones.
Problems
The
abuse filters
had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed.
Changes later this week
The
advanced search function beta feature
will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist.
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (
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
8 May at 18:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
9 May at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the
Remex parsing library
. This is
to replace Tidy
. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018.
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Dynamic maps
are now available on most Wikipedias.
Labels on maps
can also be in different languages.
The new
Advanced Search
interface is now available as a
Beta Feature
on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 May. It will be on all wikis from 17 May (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
16 May at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can
give feedback and suggestions
The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it.
Read more on mediawiki.org
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Tech News: 2018-21
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 May. It will be on all wikis from 24 May (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
23 May at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
It could become easier to reference different pages of a book in an article. You can
give feedback
. The last day for feedback is 27 May.
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You can now use
global preferences
on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki. Global preferences will come to the Wikipedias later this week.
It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.
Wikidata now supports
lexicographical data
. This helps describe words.
There is now a checkbox on
Special:ListUsers
to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
Some rare invisible Unicode characters have recently been banned from page titles. This includes soft hyphens (U+00AD) and left-to-right (U+2066) and right-to-left (U+2067) isolate markers. Existing pages with these characters will soon be moved by a script.
There's a new Wikimedia Foundation team to support the Wikimedia technical communities. It's called the Technical Engagement team. Most of the team members did similar work in other teams before this.
Problems
Some translatable pages are showing old translations instead of latest ones. The cause of this issue has been fixed. We will update all pages automatically to show the latest translations.
Changes later this week
There will be a new special page named
PasswordPolicies
. This page gives information about the
password rules
for each user group on that wiki.
A new way to see moved paragraphs in diffs is coming to most wikis. This is to make it easier to find the moved paragraphs and the changes in them.
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 May. It will be on all wikis from 31 May (
calendar
).
Wikis can
enable Citoid
to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. This is complex. The tool will now disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. It has warned about this in the JavaScript console since February. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can
ask for help
if you need it.
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
29 May at 18:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
30 May at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
Content Translation
drafts which have not been updated in over a year will be removed. This allows other users to translate those articles.
A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development.
Some wikis will switch to use the
Remex parsing library
. This is
to replace Tidy
. It will happen on 30 May and 13 June. Wikis with fewer than 100 linter issues in the main namespace in all high-priority linter categories will switch. This includes Wikidata. Tidy will probably be removed on all wikis in the first week of July.
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2018)
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Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says sign up today!
The Wikipedia Library
is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to research and tools as part of our
Publisher Donation Program
. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the
Library Card platform
Rock's Backpages
– Music articles and interviews from the 1950s onwards - 50 accounts
Invaluable
– Database of more than 50 million auctions and over 500,000 artists - 15 accounts
Termsoup
– Translation tool
Expansions
Fold3
– Available content has more than doubled, now including new military collections from the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
Oxford University Press
– The Scholarship collection now includes
Electronic Enlightenment
Alexander Street Press
Women and Social Movements Library
now available
Cambridge University Press
Orlando Collection
now available
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on
our partners page
, including
Baylor University Press
Loeb Classical Library
Cairn
Gale
and
Bloomsbury
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
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20:03, 30. Mai 2018 (MESZ)
You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact
Ocaasi (WMF)
This message was delivered via the
Global Mass Message
tool to
The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List
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The
MonoBook skin
has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different.
Planet Wikimedia
collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the
Rawdog
feed aggregator
to do this instead of
Planet
Redirect links in
Special:WhatLinksHere
now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again.
Problems
You will not be able to edit some wikis between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. You can see if
your wiki is one of them
MassMessage
did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 June. It will be on all wikis from 7 June (
calendar
).
Meetings
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6 June at 15:00 (UTC)
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The
new filters for edit review
tools and interface for watchlists will leave
beta
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Improvements coming soon on Watchlists
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Hello
Sorry to use English.
Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen
Vielen Dank.
In short:
starting on June 18, New Filters for Edit Review (
now in Beta
) will become standard on Watchlists. They provide an array of new tools and an improved interface. If you prefer the current page you will be able to opt out.
Learn more about the New Filters
What is this feature again?
This feature is used by default on
Special:RecentChanges
Special:RecentChangesLinked
and as a Beta feature on
Special:Watchlist
Based on a new design, that feature adds new functions to those pages, to ease vandalism tracking and support of newcomers:
Filtering
- filter recent changes with easy-to-use and powerful filters combinations, including filtering by namespace or tagged edits.
Highlighting
- add a colored background to the different changes you are monitoring. It helps quick identification of changes that matter to you.
Bookmarking
to keep your favorite configurations of filters ready to be used.
Quality and Intent Filters
- those filters use
ORES predictions
. They identify real vandalism or good faith intent contributions that need help. They are not available on all wikis.
You can know more about this project by visiting
the quick tour help page
About the release on Watchlists
Over 70,000 people have activated the New Filters beta, which has been in testing on Watchlist for more than eight months. We feel confident that the features are stable and effective, but if you have thoughts about these tools or the beta graduation,
please let us know
on the project talk page. In particular, tell us if you know of a special incompatibility or other issue that makes the New Filters problematic on your wiki. We’ll examine the blocker and may delay release on your wiki until the issue can be addressed.
The deployment will start on June 18 or on June 25, depending on the wiki (
check the list
). After the deployment, you will also be able to opt-out this change directly from the Watchlist page and also in your preferences.
How to be ready?
Please share this announcement!
If you use local Gadgets that change things on your Watchlist pages, or have a customized scripts or CSS, be ready. You may have to make some changes to your configuration. Despite the fact that we have tried to take most cases into consideration, some configurations may break. The Beta phase is a great opportunity to have a look at local scripts and gadgets: some of them may be replaced by native features from the Beta feature.
Please share your questions and comments on the
feedback page
On behalf of the
Collaboration team
Trizek (WMF)
15:14, 7. Jun. 2018 (MESZ)
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Recent changes
In
the Wikipedia app
for Android or iOS users can create
reading lists
. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome.
There is a new version of
Pywikibot
. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis.
Problems
The
MonoBook skin
was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design.
Changes later this week
The
new filters for edit review
tools and interface for watchlists will leave
beta
. For most wikis this will happen on 18 June. For the rest it will happen on 25 June.
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 June. It will be on all wikis from 14 June (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the
Readers Web team
IRC office hour. There you can discuss tools to contribute on the mobile web for the existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on
18 June at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
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
12 June at 18:30 (UTC)
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
13 June at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
You will be able to
move local wiki files to Commons
and keep their original data intact. This is
planned to come
to the first wikis in June.
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Update on page issues on mobile web
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Update on page issues on mobile web
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Hi everyone. The
Readers web team
has recently begun working on exposing issue templates on the mobile website. Currently, details about issues with page content are generally hidden on the mobile website. This leaves readers unaware of the reliability of the pages they are reading. The goal of this project is to improve awareness of particular issues within an article on the mobile web. We will do this by changing the visual styling of page issues.
So far, we have
drafted a proposal on the design and implementation
of the project. We were also able to run
user testing on the proposed designs
. The tests so far have positive results. Here is a quick summary of what we learned:
The new treatment increases awareness of page issues among participants. This is true particularly when they are in a more evaluative/critical mode.
Page issues make sense to readers and they understand how they work
Readers care about page issues and consider them important
Readers had overwhelmingly positive sentiments towards Wikipedia associated with learning about page issues
Our next step would be to start implementing these changes. We wanted to reach out to you for any concerns, thoughts, and suggestions you might have before beginning development. Please
visit the project page
where we have more information and mockups of how this may look. Please
leave feedback on the talk page
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22:57, 12. Jun. 2018 (MESZ)
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Recent changes
Syntax highlighting
has been a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It is now a normal feature. It is based on
CodeMirror
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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
19 June at 18:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
20 June at 15:00 (UTC)
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how to join
Future changes
Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a
PlayStation 3
The
new filters for edit review
tools and interface for watchlists will leave
beta
. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July.
All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the
Remex parsing library
on 5 July. This is
to replace Tidy
. You
can help
fix remaining errors.
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Recent changes
PAWS
, our JupyterHub system, got
an upgrade and a logo
. Several bugs should be fixed.
Problems
When a link text was in
italics
or had other formatting you could sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed.
Changes later this week
Content translation
users who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create better tools for translating articles.
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 June. It will be on all wikis from 28 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
26 June at 18:30 (UTC)
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27 June at 15:00 (UTC)
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Recent changes
The database for
tags
will be changed. This will happen on 2 July on French Wikipedia and 9 July on all other wikis. Please
report
if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge.
Problems
Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem.
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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
3 July at 18:30 (UTC)
. See
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4 July at 15:00 (UTC)
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Consultation on the creation of a separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS
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9. Juli 2018
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Hi all,
I'm preparing a change in who can edit sitewide CSS/JS pages. (These are pages like
MediaWiki:Common.css
and
MediaWiki:Vector.js
which are executed in the browser of all readers and editors.) Currently all administrators are able to edit these pages, which poses a serious and unnecessary security risk. Soon, a dedicated, smaller user group will take over this task. Your community will be able to decide who belongs in this group, so this should mean very little change for you. You can find out more and provide feedback at
the consultation page on Meta
. If you are involved in maintaining CSS/JS code, or policymaking around adminship requests, please give it a look!
Thanks!
Tgr
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12:50, 9. Jul. 2018 (MESZ)
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Recent changes
WebM video files
have smaller file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take longer time.
The
new filters for edit review
tools and interface for watchlists will leave
beta
. This was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July.
All wikis now use the
Remex parsing library
instead of
Tidy
. This could cause errors. You
can help
fix the errors.
Problems
When you rolled back an edit it could get both the
Rollback
and
Undo
tags. This has been fixed.
Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed.
Changes later this week
When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label).
On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page.
When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures.
Structured discussions
toolbars will have more style options.
When you look at Wikimedia code in
Gerrit
there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening.
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (
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
10 July at 18:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
11 July at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
Today all administrators can edit
CSS
and
JavaScript
for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can
Page previews
will be on by default for new accounts.
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Global preferences are now available, you can set them by visiting your new
global preferences page
. Visit
mediawiki.org for information on how to use them
and
leave feedback
. --
Keegan (WMF)
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21:19, 10. Jul. 2018 (MESZ)
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Recent changes
You can now use
global preferences
on Wikimedia wikis. You can set them on the
global preferences page
You can now see a new log of pages being created at
Special:Log/create
. It includes pages which are later deleted. It is now available on all Wikimedia wikis except Commons and Wikidata.
You can see how many pageviews a wiki had from specific countries. The
Wikistats2 maps
have now been updated.
Changes later this week
Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change.
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (
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
July 17 at 18:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
July 18 at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
Some articles have messages to readers about problems with the article. For example that it does not cite sources or might not be neutral. Readers do not see these messages on the mobile version. The developers now want to show them. You can
read more and leave feedback
You can use

to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead of
prefix:Page name
you will see a text that explains which pages are being searched. You can
read more and leave feedback
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Recent changes
When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript.
Wikis that use
Citoid
can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for
Swedish public service radio
. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future.
Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
24 Juli
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
25 Juli
. It will be on all wikis from
26 Juli
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
25 Juli
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New user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS
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Hi all!
To improve the security of our readers and editors, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed. (These are pages like
MediaWiki:Common.css
and
MediaWiki:Vector.js
which contain code that is executed in the browsers of users of the site.)
A new user group,
interface-admin
, has been created.
Starting four weeks from now, only members of this group will be able edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with
.css
or
.js
that is either in the
MediaWiki:
namespace or is another user's user subpage).
You can learn more about the motivation behind the change
here
Please add users who need to edit CSS/JS to the new group (this can be done the same way new administrators are added, by stewards or local bureaucrats).
This is a dangerous permission; a malicious user or a hacker taking over the account of a careless interface-admin can abuse it in far worse ways than admin permissions could be abused. Please only assign it to users who need it, who are trusted by the community, and who follow common basic password and computer security practices (use strong passwords, do not reuse passwords, use two-factor authentication if possible, do not install software of questionable origin on your machine, use antivirus software if that's a standard thing in your environment).
Thanks!
Tgr
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15:08, 30. Jul. 2018 (MESZ)
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Recent changes
The design on
Special:Log
has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems.
Problems
Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes.
Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
31 Juli
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
1 Augschte
. It will be on all wikis from
2 Augschte
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
31 Juli
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. See
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
1 Augschte
at 15:00 (UTC)
as well as at
23:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
After
a community discussion
, a new group for users will be created. "
Interface administrators
" will be the only users allowed to edit interface pages like
MediaWiki:Common.css
or
MediaWiki:Common.js
. This is done to avoid technical issues and improve security. That change will be effective by the end of August 2018.
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Recent changes
Special:NewPages
now has the
OOUI look
Problems
The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.
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
7 August at 18:30 (UTC)
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8 August at 15:00 (UTC)
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Enabling a helpful feature for Template editors
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Hello.
The team working on TemplateStyles at the Wikimedia Foundation would like to enable TemplateStyles on this wiki.
TemplateStyles is a feature to allow non-administrators to write and manage CSS styles for templates. It allows contributors who edit templates to separate content and presentation. A good web practice that makes it easier to manage the layout of templates. If you don't edit templates, this will not have any impact on your contributions.
TemplateStyles is useful for a few reasons.
It makes it possible for templates to work better on mobile.
It cuts out confusion on where to apply CSS rules.
Editing CSS is currently limited to administrators, which is a major barrier to participation.
All stylesheets must be loaded on all pages (whether they actually use the page or not), which wastes bandwidth and makes debugging style rules more difficult.
You can
learn more about TemplateStyles on MediaWiki.org
Technical documentation is also available
This is an optional feature and no one must use it, but template contributors are encouraged to do so! Please discuss and let us know if there are any concerns. If there are no concerns we will proceed to deploy the feature on the 9th of August.
Thank you.
CKoerner (WMF)
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23:28, 6. Aug. 2018 (MESZ)
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CSS
in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called
TemplateStyles
. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look.
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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
14 August at 18:30 (UTC)
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15 August at 15:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can
. You can leave feedback on the
talk page
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Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
22 August at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
The
2018 Community Wishlist Survey
begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the
Community Tech team
will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
Legacy JavaScript global variables
have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example
Test Wikipedia
or
mediawiki.org
. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can
read the migration guide
to fix old scripts.
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Editing of sitewide CSS/JS is only possible for interface administrators from now
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27. Augschte 2018
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Hi all,
as
announced previously
, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed: only members of the
interface-admin
Oberflächenadministratoren
) group, and a few highly privileged global groups such as stewards, can edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage). This is done to improve the security of readers and editors of Wikimedia projects. More information is available at
Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS
. If you encounter any unexpected problems, please contact me or file a bug.
Thanks!
Tgr
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Recent changes
You can now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view.
Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the
interface admin
user right.
Problems
Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it.
Changes later this week
The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand.
AWB
will stop adding
using AWB
in the edit summary. Instead it will add a
tag
that says
AWB
Some
abuse filter
variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables
on mediawiki.org
. They have a note which says
Deprecated. Use ... instead
. An example is
article_text
which is now
page_title
Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is
page_age
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (
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
28 August at 18:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
29 August at 15:00 (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 up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at
14:00 (UTC)
. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
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Recent changes
There is a new user right for users who can edit
CSS
and
JavaScript
for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called
interface administrators
. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages.
There will be an
A/B test
on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks.
You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of
TemplateStyles
wp10
in
ORES
is now called
articlequality
When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed.
Problems
UploadWizard
had problems with
campaigns
. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed.
You can get a
notification
when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
5 September at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation
Readers department
will work on advanced mobile editing. You can
about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also
see the presentation
The RelatedSites extension
will be removed from Wikivoyage.
Unused projects on the
Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server
will
be removed
. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used.
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
will be testing its secondary data centre. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
On
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop when we switch. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday, 12 September and Wednesday, 10 October. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
(15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 13 September and Thursday 11 October).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the weeks of 10 September 2018 and 8 October 2018. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this.
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Recent changes
When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text.
Problems
Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week.
Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed.

did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed.
{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}
is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with
{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}
would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected.
When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this.
Changes later this week
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at
14:00 (UTC)
. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
You can read more about this
Because of
the data centre test
there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.
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
11 Septmber at 18:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
12 September at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
The developers
work on making the wikis work better on mobile phones. There is a list
of common problems when making content easier to read in the mobile view
. You can add things to the page and ask others to help.
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Recent changes
The
Wikimedia Commons mobile app
has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs.
MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests.
Problems
You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed.
Changes later this week
Special:AncientPages
can hide disambiguation pages.
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
19 September at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
The developers
are testing new mobile web navigation. You can
use it and give feedback
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Commons
will no longer allow
uploads of photos, paintings, drawings, audio and video that use the GFDL
license
and no other license. This starts after 14 October. Textbooks, manuals and logos, diagrams and screenshots from GFDL software manuals that only use the GFDL license are still allowed. Files licensed with both GFDL and an accepted license like Creative Commons BY-SA are still allowed.
There is no time limit to move files from other projects to Commons. The licensing date is all that counts. It doesn't matter when the file was uploaded or created. Every wiki that allows local uploads should check if bots, scripts and templates that are used to move files to Commons need to be updated. Also update your local policy documentation if needed.
The decision to allow files that only have a GFDL license, or not allow them, is a decision all wikis can make for themselves. Your wiki can decide to continue allowing the files that Commons will no longer allow after 14 October. If your wiki decides to continue to allow files after 14 October that Commons will no longer allow those files should not be moved to Commons. —
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Changes later this week
The
preferences form
will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please
report them on Phabricator
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
26 September at 15:00 (UTC)
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Recent changes
Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as
javascript
. You could do this using
?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript
in the
URL
. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security.
Problems
New and updated translations from
will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 October (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
3 October at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on
3 October at 15:00 UTC
. See
how to join
if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.
Future changes
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at
14:00 (UTC)
. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
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Reminder: No editing for up to an hour on 10 October
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
are testing its secondary data center. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster.
They switched all traffic to the secondary data center 12 September 2018.
On
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop while we switch.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday, 10 October. The test will start a bit after
14:00 UTC
(15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST). If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule.
Please share this information with your community.
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Recent changes
The
Education Program extension
was removed from all Wikimedia projects. You can use the
Programs and Events Dashboard
or the
Fountain
instead.
Problems
There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add
href
where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed.
Changes later this week
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at
14:00 (UTC)
. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
You can read more about this
Because of
the data centre test
there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
10 October at 15:00 (UTC)
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Problems
Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the
server switch
. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix.
Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from
translatewiki.net
again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again.
Changes later this week
When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message.
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (
calendar
).
Meetings
There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use
Phabricator
as normal.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
17 October at 15:00 (UTC)
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Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 October. It will be on all wikis from 25 October (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
24 October at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
The
Community Wishlist Survey
begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the
Community Tech team
will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
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You can post proposals for the
Community Wishlist Survey
. The survey decides what the
Community Tech team
will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
The wikis now have a
content security policy report
. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future.
Problems
Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (
calendar
).
The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from
Special:Preferences
. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the
2010 wikitext editor
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
31 October at 15:00 (UTC)
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The Community Wishlist Survey
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The Community Wishlist Survey.
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Hey everyone,
The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation
Community Tech
should work on over the next year.
The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can post technical proposals from now until 11 November. The communities will vote on the proposals between 16 November and 30 November. You can read more on the
wishlist survey page
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12:05, 30. Okt. 2018 (MEZ)
Editing News #2—2018
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Did you know?
Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?
Tap on the pencil icon to start editing. The page will probably open in the wikitext editor.
You will see another pencil icon in the toolbar. Tap on that pencil icon to the switch between visual editing and wikitext editing.
Remember to publish your changes when you're done.
You can read and help translate
the user guide
, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the
Editing Team
has wrapped up most of their work on the
2017 wikitext editor
and
the visual diff tool
. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available
in Phabricator
. Their
current priorities
are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.
Recent changes
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The Editing team has published an
initial report about mobile editing
The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles. You can
read the report
The Reading team is working on a
separate mobile-based contributions project
The 2006 wikitext editor is
no longer supported
. If you used
that toolbar
, then you will no longer see any toolbar. You may choose another editing tool in your
editing preferences
local gadgets
, or
beta features
The Editing team described the history and status of
VisualEditor
in
this recorded public presentation
(starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
The Language team released
a new version of Content Translation
(CX2) last month, on
International Translation Day
. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images. It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published.
Let's work together
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The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website.
Please read
their ideas
and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.
The
Community Wishlist Survey
begins next week.
If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation.
Merci!
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You can now use
TemplateWizard
to edit templates. This works only with the
2010 wikitext editor
and not in the visual editor or the
2017 wikitext editor
. If you click on
you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences.
Changes later this week
You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can
When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the
Crossref
and
WorldCat
databases and add the top result.
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
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Recent changes
Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called
grade C browsers
. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10.
Problems
You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
14 November at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
You can use the
content translation
tool to translate articles. The developers are working on
a new version
. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations.
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Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web
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Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web
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Hello,
In a few weeks the Readers web team will be changing how some templates look on the mobile web site. We will make these templates more noticeable when viewing the article. We ask for your help in updating any templates that don't look correct.
What kind of templates? Specifically templates that notify readers and contributors about issues with the content of an article – the text and information in the article. Examples like
Template:Unreferenced
or
Template:More citations needed
. Right now these notifications are hidden behind a link under the title of an article. We will format templates like these (mostly those that use Template:Ambox or message box templates in general) to show a short summary under the page title. You can tap on the "Learn more" link to get more information.
For template editors we have
some recommendations on how to make templates that are mobile-friendly
and also further
documentation on our work so far
If you have questions about formatting templates for mobile,
please leave a note on the project talk page
or
file a task in Phabricator
and we will help you.
Merci!
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You can vote on proposals in the
Community Wishlist Survey
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Community Tech team
will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
There is an
A/B test
for
sameAs
data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the
metadata
for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks.
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
21 November at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated.
The
Education Program extension
was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The
database tables
used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page.
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00:28, 20. Nov. 2018 (MEZ)
Community Wishlist Survey vote
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The Community Wishlist Survey.
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Hey everyone,
The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation
Community Tech
should work on over the next year.
The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. The communities have now posted a long list of technical proposals. You can vote on the proposals from now until 30 November. You can read more on the
wishlist survey page
User:Johan (WMF)
19:13, 22. Nov. 2018 (MEZ)
Advanced Search
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Advanced Search
will become a default feature on your wiki on November 28. This new interface allows you to perform specialized searches on the
search page
, even if you don’t know any
search syntax
. Advanced Search originates from the
German Community’s Technical Wishes project
. It's already a default feature on German, Arabic, Farsi and Hungarian Wikipedia. Besides, more than 40.000 users across all wikis have tested the beta version. Feedback is welcome on the
central feedback page
Johanna Strodt (WMDE)
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11:57, 26. Nov. 2018 (MEZ)
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Translations
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Recent changes
On wikis with
translatable pages
you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use
to create a new page:
/wiki/Page/Subpage
. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages.
Changes later this week
The
advanced search interface
will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia.
Special:UnusedCategories
show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the
magic word
__EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
28 November at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
The
mw.util.jsMessage()
function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week.
Look for the warning
Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated
in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains
mw.util.jsMessage
. There is a
migration guide
. It explains how to use
mw.notify
instead.
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Recent changes
Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can
report it on Phabricator
. You can also ask questions
on Meta
. There is a discussion
on Phabricator
about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki.
Small
SVG images
are now bigger when you see them in
MediaViewer
You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow.
When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back.
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
5 December at 16:00 (UTC)
and
at 23:00 (UTC)
. See
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New Wikimedia password policy and requirements
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The Wikimedia Foundation security team is implementing a new
password policy and requirements
You can learn more about the project on MediaWiki.org
These new requirements will apply to new accounts and privileged accounts. New accounts will be required to create a password with a minimum length of 8 characters. Privileged accounts will be prompted to update their password to one that is at least 10 characters in length.
These changes are planned to be in effect on December 13th. If you think your work or tools will be affected by this change, please let us know on
the talk page
Merci!
CKoerner (WMF)
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21:02, 6. Dez. 2018 (MEZ)
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 December. It will be on all wikis from 13 December (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
12 December at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts.
When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off.
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Tech News
Because of the
holidays
the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.
Recent changes
Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before.
Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped.
The
ParserMigration extension
has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the
Remex parsing library
instead of
Tidy
Problems

tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example

. If a

tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 December. It will be on all wikis from 20 December (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
19 December at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation
Android app team
are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can
about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell
Dchen (WMF)
you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
tiles.wmflabs.org
and
wma.wmflabs.org
will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes
the mapnik gadget
, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going.
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21:35, 17. Dez. 2018 (MEZ)
Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019
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Love is an important subject for humanity and it is expressed in different cultures and regions in different ways across the world through different gestures, ceremonies, festivals and to document expression of this rich and beautiful emotion, we need your help so we can share and spread the depth of cultures that each region has, the best of how people of that region, celebrate love.
Wiki Loves Love (WLL)
is an international photography competition of Wikimedia Commons with the subject love testimonials happening in the month of February.
The primary goal of the competition is to document love testimonials through human cultural diversity such as monuments, ceremonies, snapshot of tender gesture, and miscellaneous objects used as symbol of love; to illustrate articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects.
The theme of 2019 iteration is
Celebrations, Festivals, Ceremonies and rituals of love.
Sign up your affiliate or individually at
Participants
page.
To know more about the contest, check out our
Commons Page
and
FAQs
There are several prizes to grab. Hope to see you spreading love this February with Wiki Loves Love!
Kind regards,
Wiki Loves Love Team
Imagine... the sum of all love!
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