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Tech News: 2016-13

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • Adding references with Citoid was broken for approximately 6 hours on 24 March. This was fixed. [3]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
  • You will be able to remove the header and footer style from User language (babel) boxes. This will make it easier to use them with other userboxes. [4]

Meetings

Future changes

  • Commons will soon have improved access to Wikidata's data. It will then be possible to access data about any concept on any page on Commons. Assistance with testing this on the beta cluster is appreciated. [5]
  • Wikibits.js will not be loaded by default anymore starting April 2016. Gadget and script authors should have already updated their code since the previous announcements, but there is another migration path available if needed. See wikitech-l for details.

Corrections

  • Last week Tech News said the new MediaWiki version would come to wikis from 21 March to 23 March. The right dates were 22 March to 24 March.

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19:43, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2016)

A typical Swedish school lunch.
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Lunch

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This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2016)

Critic by Lajos Tihanyi. Oil on canvas, c.1916.
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Critic

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This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2016)

The Gates of Hell sculpture by Auguste Rodin, an example depicting the concept of the gates of hell
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Gates of hell

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Tech News: 2016-14

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

Recent changes

  • You can filter Special:Log in more detail. [6]
  • Wikimedia wikis have a new way of counting visitors. [7]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 6. It will be on all wikis from April 7 (calendar).

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22:13, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Google Doodle task force collaboration for 8 March 2016

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This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2016)

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Pecan pie

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This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2016)

Debt is the amount of money that is owed or due.
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Debt

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This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2016)

Various foods in a delicatessen in Rome, Italy
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Delicatessen

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Tech News: 2016-10

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

Recent changes

  • Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB. [8]
  • Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one. [9]
  • The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the Eqiad cluster have now been upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again because of this. [10]
  • It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app. [11]
  • Bare attributes in tags now parse according to the HTML5 specifications. <pages from= to= section=1> will parse as <pages from="to=" section="1"> instead of <pages from="" to="" section="1"> as it used to. Please use <pages from="" to="" section=1> or <pages section=1> instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on Wikisource projects. [12]

Problems

  • Phabricator has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now. [13]
  • The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title. [14]
  • The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource. [15]
  • You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of contents. This should be fixed soon. [16]
  • Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes. [17]

Changes this week

  • Cross-wiki notifications will be enabled as a beta feature on all wikis on 10 March. You will be able to get notifications when something happens on another Wikimedia wiki. [18]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).
  • Wikivoyages will get the Kartographer extension. Kartographer will allow <mapframe> and <maplink> tags in an article to insert an interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas and suggestions to the Maps talk page. If you find any bugs, you can report them in Phabricator. [19]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [20]
  • The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The date for this might change. [21]

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20:24, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-11

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

Recent changes

  • The mobile web interface no longer suggests HiDPI thumbnails. This is to take up less bandwidth on slow or expensive connections. [22]
  • The search engine on wikipedia.org has been updated. [23]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 22 March and 24 March. This could be postponed to April 18. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. Because of a test, there will also be a couple of minutes where you can't edit the wikis on 15 March starting 07:00 UTC. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
  • Administrators and other users with advanced permissions will need to have an 8-byte long passwords. This change takes place on 15 March. Users with too short passwords will be asked to change password the next time they log in. This was decided in a discussion on Meta and is because they can use tools that can hurt the wikis. [24]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
  • The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [25]

Meetings

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18:37, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-12

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

Problems

  • Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. The Wikimedia Technology department planned to test it this week. This will take place the week of April 18 instead. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
  • In Firefox, the visual editor would sometimes just jump down to the bottom of the page when you double-clicked on a table cell. This has now been fixed. [26]

Changes this week

  • It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve CAPTCHAs. [27]
  • You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread. [28]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. This will happen on May 2. [29]

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16:04, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Calm?

Hey Checkingfax. Great to see that you're coordinating accounts for Alexander Street. Just wondering why you added {{calm}} to the talk page? I don't really see how it's relevant. Thanks, Sam Walton (talk) 16:33, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi Samwalton9. Nice catch. I put up a Talk Header but the message was wrong so I was trying Calm but it stinks too. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 11:42, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

WikiSalon planning

Hi, thank you for all your efforts to capture our ideas and build out our planning page. Very helpful, and something that often gets overlooked! I do have one suggestion: In planning events in the past, I've found that there can be undesirable/unanticipated consequences to listing specific people on public "desired speaker" type pages. This is something the Wikimania Committee has considered, for instance, in pursuing keynote speakers, and has concluded it's best not to publish such lists. It can be disconcerting for a possible speaker to learn of the interest by chance (for instance, through a Google Alert or a search on their own name), rather than by a more direct invitation or inquiry. It can also be challenging to keep such lists up-to-date over time, as interest in specific speakers waxes and wanes. So my suggestion would be to shift the list to describe the kinds of qualities we might look for in speakers, or hypothetical specifics -- such as "historians with an interest in technology and experience engaging with the general public," as opposed to one specific historian. What do you think? -Pete (talk) 19:17, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi Peteforsyth. I am all ears. For privacy and brevity I couched most of the names even though I know them. If there are any names you want to remove, go ahead. I think a somewhat specific list will help us. I do not think a generic list is very motivating, unless we back it up with a password protected Google sheet where we can all go in and list specifics so we do not duplicate our efforts. I will not post the actual name of the people I know until I have contacted them and they have accepted the invitation. If they decline the invitation I will delete their reference entirely. LaPorte mentioned inviting big named people, so I named those that came to mind. To me this is a wish list, and naming names is helpful, so we can agree or disagree to pursue them. I really appreciate your expertise and analysis of all this. I am going to add one more semi-generic suggestion. I will not make it totally generic as I have somebody specific in mind, he will agree to speak if I ask him, and I will list his name if his invitation and topic is acceptable to the group, and his invitation is accepted. Ping me back. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 19:47, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
UPDATE: We were asked last night to pick somebody quickly, and that is going to be fastest by focusing on particular speakers. My draft list included generic, less generic, less generic with specific people in my mind, and specifically named people (ones with name recognition who would not be out by such a premature mention).
LaPorte poked us to improve the planning page, so I made a [draft] stab at smoothing it out. I purposefully left out the street number for WMF even though that information can be found by digging. I felt it was TMI and can be included in other correspondence with interested attendees. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 19:54, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi, two things stand out:
  • You're right, we certainly needed to get moving quickly on inviting specific people right at first, to get things going; I'm glad you and others boldly took steps to support doing that.
  • In general and longer-term, and now that we have at least one good option for the first event, I do think a private Google Doc or spreadsheet would be a better tool. Do you think you could set one up?
-Pete (talk) 21:08, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Peteforsyth. I will launch a spreadsheet (a Google Sheet), and share it with you and Ben with full privileges, and then you can share it with others, and it can spread holistically that way, as you see fit, on a need to know basis. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 21:27, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Michael Laucke

The article Michael Laucke you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Michael Laucke for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MPJ-DK -- MPJ-DK (talk) 23:21, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

Google Doodle task force collaboration for 6 April 2016

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1896 Summer Olympics

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Do you want one Edit tab, or two? It's your choice

How to switch between editing environments
Part of the toolbar in the visual editor
Click the [[ ]] to switch to the wikitext editor.
Part of the toolbar in the wikitext editor
Click the pencil icon to switch to the visual editor.

The editing interface will be changed soon. When that happens, editors who currently see two editing tabs – "Edit" and "Edit source" – will start seeing one edit tab instead. The single edit tab has been popular at other Wikipedias. When this is deployed here, you may be offered the opportunity to choose your preferred appearance and behavior the next time you click the Edit button. You will also be able to change your settings in the Editing section of Special:Preferences.

You can choose one or two edit tabs. If you chose one edit tab, then you can switch between the two editing environments by clicking the buttons in the toolbar (shown in the screenshots). See Help:VisualEditor/User guide#Switching between the visual and wikitext editors for more information and screenshots.

There is more information about this interface change at mw:VisualEditor/Single edit tab. If you have questions, suggestions, or problems to report, then please leave a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.

Whatamidoing (WMF) 19:22, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-15

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

Recent changes

  • The visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can ask to change to options in your language in Phabricator. [30][31]
  • Wiktionaries and Wikisources can now use the visual editor. It is an opt-in beta feature. It still needs development to work better with these projects. [32][33]
  • ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new API. [34]
  • The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters. [35]

Problems

  • There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [36]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).
  • The wikipedia.org portal will get many small bug fixes and improvements. Most will be for the search box and suggested results that were added in March. [37]

Meetings

Future changes

  • Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [38]

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20:44, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 16

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 16, February-March 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)

  • New donations - science, humanities, and video resources
  • Using hashtags in edit summaries - a great way to track a project
  • A new cite archive template, a new coordinator, plus conference and Visiting Scholar updates
  • Metrics for the Wikipedia Library's last three months

Read the full newsletter

The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:16, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-16

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

Recent changes

  • You can filter Special:Log in more detail. You can filter different imports and new users. [39][40]
  • You can use Telnet to read Wikimedia wikis. [41]
  • MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB. [42]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [43]
  • There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data center test.

Meetings

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20:40, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Google Doodle task force collaboration for 22 April 2016

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Earth Day

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This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2016)

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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Fame (Irene Cara song)

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Previous selections: Debt • Delicatessen

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Hi! What's this about? You didn't leave an edit summary, and I can't guess your motives. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:13, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi, Justlettersandnumbers. I put my fat finger on the touchpad and sent you a thanks for your edit, then when I slid my finger to see the nom, the touchpad clicked the rollback link which is right next to the thanks link. So, when I got to the nom, and it still showed that the hook was unreferenced I knew something was amiss. I looked in the history and it showed I had just rolled back your edit, so I immediately rolled back my rollback. Rollback using the rollbacker's rollback link does not allow an edit summary. It is a quick and dirty rollback. Sorry for vexing you. I am on a deadline right now and was unable to send you a message about my fat finger rollback, and I was hoping you would see that I immediately self rolled back my rollback. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 23:44, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
No problem – I wasn't vexed, just slightly puzzled. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:36, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Justlettersandnumbers. I was very puzzled after I saw your edit but when I looked at the DYK there was still a tick that said the hook was unreferenced. The history showed my rollback which unvexed me. I wish they wouldn't make those thank/rollback links so close together and I wish my ThinkPad had a better touchpad like my older Dell did. I also wish the rollbackers feature gave time for an edit summary so at least there would be a delay before the rollback was actually performed. It is even harder to hit the thank/rollback links on a touchscreen smartphone becaue they are so tightly entwined.
Thank you for circling around to the DYK. Can you make a more prominent tick that the hook is approved? I am not sure you used the "standard" DYK GTG tick. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 16:01, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK

Hello! Your submission of Michael Laucke at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! North America1000 11:19, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Planned Parenthood

Hello! Your submission of Planned Parenthood at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 21:05, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-17

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

Problems

  • Wikimedia tested a new data center last week. This meant that the wikis could be read but not edited for 45 minutes on April 19 and for 20 minutes on April 21. [44]
  • When the data center was tested, new edits were not shown in the recent changes log for 20 minutes. They are in the logs now. You can read more about how to find the edits.
  • Unread notifications were sometimes counted incorrectly. This has now been fixed. [45]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia Commons will have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Commons. This will happen on April 26. [46]
  • It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard. [47]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 27. It will be on all wikis from April 28 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on April 26 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The "Save page" button when you edit will be called "Publish" instead. This is to help new editors understand what it does. It already works like this on some wikis. [48]

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21:02, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Talk:Michael Laucke/GA1

Checkingfax, the GA review page for your nomination was opened back on February 12, but nothing has been done with the review since, and the reviewer, MurderByDeadcopy, hasn't edited on Wikipedia in over a month at this point. If you'd like me to put the review back in the nomination pool so it is available to be picked up by another reviewer, respond here to let me know; I'd be happy to do so. Thank you very much. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:18, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Dear BlueMoonset. Yes, please. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 15:23, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
The nomination now shows up as available to review on the talk page and on the GAN page. There's a bit more to do once the old review page is deleted; I'll take care of it when the time comes. Best of luck in finding a new reviewer soon; with the GA Cup and WikiCup ongoing, and the nomination retaining its original seniority, I hope it won't take too long. Incidentally, the review would have been MurderByDeadcopy's first at GAN, and I don't see a lot of article-building experience (indeed, the talk page declares that the user will never create an article, which is not a good sign), so finding a new reviewer is probably all for the best. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:49, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
@Checkingfax and BlueMoonset: Many thanks for the good legwork here. all my very best wishes, Natalie --Natalie.Desautels (talk) 18:09, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
Natalie.Desautels, I do not understand why you have added a "Contested deletion" section on the review page, which could stop the review page's deletion. The speedy deletion request there only affects the page itself, and would (and could) never affect the article talk page, its parent. Your edit there only serves to confuse matters; I can only hope that the admin will go ahead and delete the page despite your post. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:38, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
@Checkingfax and BlueMoonset: Hello @BlueMoonset: So sorry and thank you so much for your clear explanation, and that this tag would never affect the article talk page. Kindly excuse; I was confused about this issue. It is certainly not my nature to cause damage. Is there anything I can do, such as undoing my edit? Thanks once again for your kind understanding, and again I am sorry for my blunder. very best wishes, Natalie --Natalie.Desautels (talk) 19:11, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
Natalie.Desautels, thank you. Yes, if you could revert your edit, perhaps with an edit summary something like "no objection to page deletion", that would be perfect. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:48, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
@Checkingfax and BlueMoonset: Hello @BlueMoonset: I did an "undo" ; I hope this helps. Also, I just got off a plane and am so jetlagged I can't think straight. But I did want to get this done. Sorry for the trouble. Natalie Natalie.Desautels (talk) 20:00, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
BlueMoonset has your back. BTW, you do NOT have to ping somebody when you are on their Talk page: The ping to the page owner is done automatically by the system when you save the edit. Also, you only need to ping somebody once per message; in this message you pinged BlueMoonset twice. I do not think BlueMoonset will actually receive an extra ping, nor did I, but it is unnecessary to add the two extra pings. Just an FYI. It really bugs some of the purists Cheers! PS: Welcome back. {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 20:09, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
See that. I get all preachy and then I forget to ping Natalie.Desautels {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 20:11, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to our April event

You are invited...

Women Writers worldwide online edit-a-thon

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Shhh! Invitation to Women in Espionage

You are invited...

Women in Espionage worldwide online edit-a-thon

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Bay Area WikiSalon series kickoff, April 27

Please join us in San Francisco!
A Wikipedia panel discussion about journalism
Panel discussion at a recent Wikipedia & Journalism event.

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts in the San Francisco Bay Area will gather to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. We have two brief presentations lined up for our kickoff event in downtown San Francisco:

  • The Nueva Upper School recently hosted the first ever high school Wikipedia edit-a-thon. We will hear what interests them about Wikipedia, what they have learned so far, and what they hope to achieve.
  • Photojournalist Kris Schreier Lyseggen, author of The Women of San Quentin: The Soul Murder of Transgender Women in Male Prisons, will tell us about her work and how she researched the topic.

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. We will have beverages and light snacks.

Please note: You must register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on this point.

For further details, see here: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, April 2016

We hope to see you -- and until then, happy editing! - Pete, Ben & Wayne

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Wikidata weekly summary #208

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Tech News: 2016-19

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

Recent changes

  • Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May 3. [49]
  • You can use Wikipedia GapFinder to find missing articles between languages. [50]
  • Users are invited to try Cross-wiki Notifications on all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default, scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC. [51][52]
  • You can use keyboard shortcuts to open the visual editor (meta+V) or the wikitext editor (meta+E) (on certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor). [53]
  • Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore. [54]
  • The UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons. [55]
  • Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved. [56]
  • Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org. [57]

Problems

  • MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue. [58]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 12 (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We plan to reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please tell the developers if the change will cause problems. [59]

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23:22, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-18

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

Recent changes

  • The visual editor now works when you use Internet Explorer 9. [60]

Problems

  • There was a security problem with the MobileFrontend extension. It showed information that had been oversighted. This has now been fixed. [61]

Changes this week

Meetings

Future changes

  • Pages could be added to new users' watchlists by default when they edit them. New users could also by default get email notifications when pages they watch are edited. This is discussed on Meta. [63]

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20:09, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #207

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Wikidata's coverage as of April 2016
Difference of Wikidata's coverage between April 2016 and 6 month before

Wikidata weekly summary #206

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:42, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-09

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

Recent changes

  • Thanks to the Graph extension and Pageview API, we now have {{Graph:PageViews}} templates that can show pageviews for any wiki page for any of the wikis. See the examples.
  • The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
  • The visual editor now follows the TemplateData format setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [64][65]
  • The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [66][67]

Changes this week

  • On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences. [68]
  • Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [69]
  • Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [70]

Meetings

  • Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project. [71]
  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:12, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

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