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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [2]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon. [3]
Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages. [4]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on 27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [5]
Future changes
The current icon for Notifications "Notices" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency. [6]
Numbers on Wikidata:Database reports/without claims by site for some projects decreased (e.g. dewiki), remained consistently low (e.g. nlwiki), or recently increased to new highs (e.g. enwiki).
Development
Finished first rough prototype for structured data on Commons. Wanted to sent out announcement on Friday but one configuration issue is still unsolved. Should be solved in the next 1 or 2 days.
We are adding a "no match found" message to the suggester that you get when selecting an item or property while adding a new statement for example (phabricator:T140085)
When a query result contains a mathematical expression it will soon be rendered correctly (phabricator:T137784)
Added support for Haida (hai) for monolingual text values (phabricator:T138131)
You removed my edit on the "list of air training corps Squadrons" page. The information is now missing.
The information is correct and is provided for all the other categories except the one I edited. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.184.186.231 (talk) 09:39, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
Thanking users
Hello, CAPTAIN RAJU/Archive 19, i noticed that you sent a welcome message to User talk:Ana-Gabriela Lacrus, and in your welcome message you thanked User:Ana-Gabriela Lacrus for their contributions, but please note that we don't thank users with no contributions. Thanks. —Constanstin 18:10, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
This is a kind request to amend authors name to 'Lucien Bulathsinhala'. Since the spelling is wrong, please amend with folowing correct spelling. [[8]]--Limelightlite (talk) 17:44, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
(talk page watcher) @Limelightlite: Facebook is not a Reliable Source. Please provide other links which support the different spelling. The existing spelling is used by imdb (not reliable) and in the pagename of the BBC reference. Three other links are dead, and one is not in English. PamD 19:43, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
i already submitted his personal facebok page[[9]]--Limelightlite (talk) 19:19, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
Did you already know what "Consequence of Sound" was?
Thank you for your interest in my edits. In regards to I Feel Love (Every Million Miles), did you already know what "Consequence of Sound" was? I did not. 69.58.42.90 (talk) 21:04, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
July 2016
Hello CAPTAIN RAJU. Thanks for patrolling new pages – it's a very important task! I'm just letting you know, however, that you shouldn't tag pages as lacking context (CSD A1) and content (CSD A3) moments after they are created, as you did at E with diaeresis and acute (Cyrillic). It is also suggested that pages that might meet CSD A7 criteria not be tagged for deletion immediately after they are created. It's usually best to wait at least 10–15 minutes for more content to be added if the page is very short, and the articles should not be marked as patrolled. Tagging such pages in a very short space of time may drive away well-meaning contributors, which is not good for Wikipedia. Attack pages (G10), blatant nonsense (G1), copyright violations (G12) and pure vandalism/blatant hoaxes (G3) should of course be tagged and deleted immediately. Thanks. VQuakr (talk) 18:23, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
You can now translate all sister project pages to your language, like Wikidata:Wikipedia. Please, link to them from your projects to give your fellow users chance to learn Wikidata basics.
You can now enable the CoordinateDiffMap Gadget in your preferences to get a map for coordinate changes.
Added a message to the suggester that pops up when you search for items or properties. When no matching property or item is found it will now tell you. (phabricator:T140085)
Considerably improved our browser tests to find more issues before You ever see them.
Added Haida as a language available for monolingual text properties (phabricator:T138131)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.
Problems
Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [11]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Hi! Just a quick note that I reverted your Huggle patrol of a couple of IP edits because they were constructive. Admittedly, it did look (at a quick glance) like the IP was taking out a large chunk of text, but said text was actually copied-and-pasted from the lead of the article. Enterprisey (talk!) (formerly APerson) 15:57, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
In notifications, the icon for Notices has been changed from a speech-bubble icon () to a tray icon () for consistency. The Alerts icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility. [12]
Problems
If you use the wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed. [13]
Changes this week
Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a wildcard. [14]
On Commons, UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images. [15]
When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template. [16]
The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [17]
When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way. [18]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (calendar).
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on August 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Congratulations, CAPTAIN RAJU! You're receiving this barnstar of merit because you recently crossed the 10,000 classification threshold using STiki.
We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool.
We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g (developer) and ƬheStrikeΣagle 05:43, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #221
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Worked on layout improvements to have a better visual separation of qualifiers and references (phabricator:T141862)
Added a line to the suggester to indicate when no matching item or property was found (phabricator:T142034)
Fixed and issue with scroll bars in the logo section of the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T139977)
Worked more on making it possible to translate an article in the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T124036)
Worked on fixing link in in other languages section for ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T137933)
Worked more on groundwork for multi content revisions which we need for structured data support for Commons in order to have structured and unstructured data on the file page at the same time (phabricator:T141878)
Worked on automatically creating a mediainfo entity when adding a statement - so far it is only possible by adding a label or description (phabricator:T140760)
As seems to be usual with self-appointed Wikipedia 'editors', you seem more intent and concerned on playing the rules and sending self-important messages than actually doing something useful. In this case that would be either sourcing the quote that Alton used bad language or deleting it until a source for the claim can be given. But I've noticed that tendency before among folk like you. Wikipedia is quite clear: unless a statement or claim can be sourced, it has no place in a Wikipedia entry. So why do you, by deleting my addition (which was, in fact, more of a request than an edit, but let's leave that for now) choose to acknowledge one Wikipedia rule but ignore another? It makes no sense, but I doubt folk with your committee man mentality would even see the point on that one. I have, in keeping with Wikipedia's editing rules, deleted all unsourced statements and left just what has been sourced. If you want to reinstate it, make sure you DO source in accordance with the rules you feel must be obeyed. PP — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pfgpowell (talk • contribs) 11:55, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
The club has renamed, check it yourself, from Alton Town FC to simply Alton FC and I updated the clubs league position history for the last couple years. How is that not constructive? Sherms95 (talk) 20:03, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
Chopsticks
Hello, the edit that I made yesterday was reverting an introduction that was not concise, dubious and biased. If you read the introduction you would see that it is quite biased and some of the information is dubious. The page is about chopsticks not the "Imperial Han Chinese empire" that the IP address stated it as, a few days ago. The information is biased and incorrect for example Ming sailors did not sail to Nepal, Nepal is a landlocked country and chopsticks came to Nepal via Tibet through Chinese influence, there are sources. Also, what does Saudi Arabia and Africa have to do with chopsticks, the edit is an attempt to spread nationalistic views and comes at a very tense time for many Asia-Pacific countries involved in territorial disputes with China. Also why is the Ming dynasty even mentioned, the "history" section of the article discusses its origins in the Shang dynasty, Zheng He had nothing to do with the spread of chopsticks to other countries in Asia, the article is about chopsticks not about tributary and vassal states of ancient Chinese empires. The earlier introduction was neutral it did not glorify any country and was concise. You also reverted extra information that I added in, there was a source I added along with it and it was not vandalism or a test. I was thanked for the contribution I made yesterday so I would like to know why you reverted all of them? (137.147.1.153 (talk) 00:50, 13 August 2016 (UTC))
Please don't revert everything and say it's a "test/vandalism", my edit was a constructive edit. (58.164.106.197 (talk) 23:54, 13 August 2016 (UTC))
August 2016
Hello, I'm Alexander svt and I disagree with your words that my changes are unconstructive. I'm russian and i know how to name Mikhail Gorbachov. If you'll take a look on his surname in Russian, you'll see that it's "Горбачёв". Please, pay attention on the letter "ё", it sounds and transliterates as "yo", not as "e". If you want, you can check it on the internet. So such surnames as "Горбачёв", "Хрущёв" transliterates as Gorbachov and Khrushchov.
An other example: the word "чёрный" means the black colour. So it transliterates as "Chorny", not as "Cherny".
Hope you're well. Best regards.
Alexander Svetochev
Russia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexander svt (talk • contribs) 07:48, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
