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The Signpost: 12 March 2014

Tech News: 2014-12

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf18) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 13. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 18, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 20 (calendar).
  • You can now view smaller versions of PNG images bigger than 20 megapixels. [1]
  • You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch) on all small wikis. You can now enable it in your Beta options. [2] [3]
  • You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for February 2014. [4]

VisualEditor news

  • Searching for template parameters in now case-insensitive. [5] [6]
  • Required template parameters now have an asterisk (*) next to their edit boxes. [7]
  • Several template dialogs are now smaller, and their insert buttons have changed wording. [8]

Future software changes

Problems

  • VisualEditor was slow to load on March 13 because of an API issue. [12]

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07:14, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 March 2014

Tech News: 2014-13

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf19) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 20. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 25, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 27 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

  • You can now double-click or press the ↲ Enter key on an image or template to change its settings. [13] [14]
  • Pages that don't exist will now show as red links in the edit mode. [15]
  • You will no longer be able to try to use VisualEditor on pages translated using the Translate extension, and you will see a warning if you try to edit pages marked for translation. [16]
  • You will now see a full warning, including the most recent log entry, when you try to edit protected pages with VisualEditor. [17]

Future software changes

  • Typography Refresh will be enabled for test wiki and MediaWiki.org users who use the Vector skin on March 27. For users on non-Wikipedia wikis, it will be enabled on April 1, and for Wikipedia users on April 3. If you don't use Vector as your skin, you will not be affected.
  • You will be able to use the Hovercards tool as a beta feature on all wikis from March 26.
  • You will soon be able to include the Whatlinkshere special page in other pages. [18] [19]

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18:56, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 March 2014

Tech News: 2014-14

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf20) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 1, and all Wikipedia wikis on April 3 (calendar).
  • Typography Refresh was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 27. You'll only see it if you use the Vector skin. For users on non-Wikipedia wikis, it will be enabled on April 1, and for Wikipedia users on April 3.
  • CirrusSearch, the new search tool, was enabled as a beta feature on over 30 new wikis on March 27. [20] [21]

VisualEditor news

  • Blocked users now see the same messages in VisualEditor as in the wikitext editor. [22] [23]
  • The search box for re-using a reference in VisualEditor is now cleared after each use. [24]
  • New links on sub-pages no longer point to the wrong location in VisualEditor. [25]
  • VisualEditor's media dialog no longer breaks when opening some types of images. [26]

Future software changes

  • You will not be able to use the Wikitech wiki for a short period around 16:00 UTC on April 1 due to a server change. [27]
  • CirrusSearch will become the main search engine for all non-Wikipedia wikis except Commons, Meta and Incubator on April 2.
  • You will soon be able to use a new special page listing duplicate files. [28]
  • Deleting a version of a file or a version of its description page will soon be shown differently in the logs. [29]

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09:20, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 April 2014

Tech News: 2014-15

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf21) was scheduled to be deployed to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 3, however it was temporarily put on hold due to localization issues. (calendar).
  • Typography Refresh was enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on April 1, and on all Wikipedias on April 3. You'll only see it if you use the Vector skin.
  • CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on over 400 non-Wikipedia wikis on April 2. [30]

Future software changes

  • A new special page (Special:TrackingCategories) will soon list all the tracking categories on a wiki. [31] [32]
  • All Wikiquote projects will start using language links from Wikidata on April 8. [33]
  • The Hovercards feature will soon work with right-to-left languages. [34] [35]
  • You will soon be able to download files directly from MediaViewer, the new multimedia tool. [36]
  • MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on MediaWiki.org on April 10. Comments are welcome.
  • You can help check that users can read CAPTCHAs in your language. [37]

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08:00, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 09 April 2014

Tech News: 2014-16

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

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Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf22) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and all Wikipedias on April 17 (calendar).
  • MediaViewer was enabled for all users on MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be enabled for all users on the Catalan (ca), Hungarian (hu) and Korean (ko) Wikipedias and English Wikivoyage on April 17. Comments are welcome. [38] [39] [40]
  • Font issues caused by Typography refresh for Windows users were fixed on April 7. [41] [42]

VisualEditor news

  • You will now see only three options when you try to add a template parameter in VisualEditor; you will see other options after a click. [43]
  • The size changing controls in VisualEditor media editing dialog were simplified further.
  • The wikitext editor tab will now fold into a drop-down menu in the Vector skin if there is not enough space on your screen. [44] [45]

Future software changes

  • The font used for body text on Wikimedia wikis will change to your system default sans-serif font. This temporary change will be enabled on all non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and on all Wikipedias on April 17. [46] [47]
  • Files from Commons seen on another wiki will soon have a tab saying "View on Wikimedia Commons". The create tab will change to "Add local description" (see screenshot). [48]
  • You will soon be able to hide Notification and Hovercards pop-ups by pressing the Esc key. [49] [50] [51] [52]
  • Shorter lists of language links will soon work in right-to-left languages. Languages that you have used before will be shown in the list. [53]
  • You will soon be able to send messages with the MassMessage tool to all pages in a given category. [54] [55]
  • The date format user preference will soon be moved to the appearance tab. [56] [57]
  • An IRC discussion with the Wikimedia Foundation Multimedia team will take place on April 16 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [58]

Problems

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07:18, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-17

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

Tech News updates

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf1) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 22, and all Wikipedias on April 24 (calendar).
  • CirrusSearch was enabled as a beta feature on 27 new wikis on April 18. [61] [62]
  • Problems with various fonts in SVG files were fixed last week. Files that use DejaVu Sans Condensed, DejaVu Serif Condensed, DejaVu Sans Light, Kochi Gothic and Kochi Mincho fonts now show correctly. [63] [64] [65] [66]
  • The page view statistics site developed by Henrik (stats.grok.se) should now work faster. [67]
  • You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for March 2014. [68]

VisualEditor news

  • If you try to add a category which redirects to another category, VisualEditor will now suggest adding the target category directly. [69] [70]
  • VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear on Education Program pages. [71] [72]
  • You can now use VisualEditor on Meta-Wiki and the French Wikinews by enabling it in your preferences. [73] [74] [75]

Future software changes

  • MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Czech (cs), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), Hebrew (he), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Thai (th) and Vietnamese (vi) Wikipedias on April 24. Feedback is welcome. [76]
  • Edits by anonymous users will now be marked with a new CSS class (mw-anonuserlink). This way, you can easily make those edits use a different color, font or background. [77] [78]
  • The user preference to remember login will soon be removed from all wikis. The edit review preferences will be moved to the recent changes tab, and the preference for the WikiLove tool will be moved to the editing tab. [79] [80] [81] [82]
  • You will soon be able to give parameters to preloaded templates. [83] [84]
  • You will soon be able to use CodeEditor in read-only mode on pages that you cannot edit. [85] [86]
  • It is now proposed to replace Bugzilla, Gerrit and other tools by a single tool called Phabricator. You can test Phabricator and add your opinion on MediaWiki.org. [87]
  • An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on April 22 at 03:30 AM UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [88]

Problems

  • For about 40 minutes on April 17, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.
  • There is a problem with the rendering of formulas with MathJax. If you enabled MathJax in your preferences, you might need to turn it off and on again. [89]

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08:34, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 April 2014

Tech News: 2014-18

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf2) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 29, and all Wikipedias on May 1 (calendar).
  • You can now use interwiki prefix c: to link to pages on Wikimedia Commons. [90]

VisualEditor news

  • You will soon be able to set content language and direction with VisualEditor. [91]
  • VisualEditor now works on all Wikipedias after broken MediaWiki:Common.js pages (and similar) were fixed last week. [92]
  • VisualEditor dialogs now use an animation of moving lines rather than animated GIF images.

Future software changes

  • CirrusSearch will be enabled as a beta feature on 41 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and the Swedish (sv), Russian (ru), Polish (pl), Japanese (ja) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias next week. This change means that CirrusSearch will now be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis.
  • MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the French (fr) and Dutch (nl) Wikipedias on May 1. Feedback is welcome. [93]
  • The mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will soon include filters to limit the number of uploaded files that are copyright violations. [94]
  • CodeEditor will soon have a status bar about errors and warnings. [95] [96]
  • You can test a new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. Comments are welcome. [97]

Problems

  • For about 30 minutes on April 21, there were problems with image scaling due to a high server load. [98] [99]
  • On April 22, it was not possible to use the Collection extension for about 90 minutes due to a server move. [100] [101]

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07:23, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 April 2014

Tech News: 2014-19

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf3) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and all Wikipedias on May 8 (calendar).
  • The Compact Personal Bar was added as a beta feature to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added as a beta feature to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and to all Wikipedias on May 8. To test it, you can enable it now in your preferences on MediaWiki.org. [102]
  • It is now easier to disable the CodeEditor tool. [103]

VisualEditor news

  • External links in VisualEditor are now in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki. [104]
  • The template tool now tells you if a parameter is obsolete. [105]
  • You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData; VisualEditor will add them like required ones. [106]
  • There is a new type for TemplateData parameters: wiki-file-name for file names. [107][108]
  • Editing formulae in VisualEditor will soon be enabled for all users. [109] [110]
  • You will soon be able to try a new beta feature to edit text in another language. [111] [112]

Future software changes

  • MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Japanese (ja), Portuguese (pt), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 8. Feedback is welcome. [113]
  • You can help translate about 100 new language names that have been added to our data source. They are used, for example, as hover text for interwiki links. Send an e-mail to Nemo if you want to help.
  • If you click on a redirect page in your watchlist, you will soon access the redirect itself. [114] [115]

Problems

  • For about 40 minutes around 00:20 UTC on April 29, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.

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07:29, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 May 2014

This Month in GLAM: April 2014



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Tech News: 2014-20

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf4) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 8. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and all Wikipedias on May 15 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

  • A new citation system in VisualEditor was enabled on the English Wikipedia. It will soon be enabled on more wikis. [116]
  • Templates that were previously broken in VisualEditor should now appear correctly. [117]

Future software changes

  • It will soon be possible to move category description pages. Pages in changed categories will still have to be moved independently. [118] [119]
  • You will soon be able to clear your watchlist with one click or through the API. [120] [121] [122] [123]
  • You will soon be able to link to Flow posts and workflows with Special:Flow. [124] [125]
  • The jQuery JavaScript library will soon be updated. Please check that your gadgets and scripts will still work. [126]
  • The Vector skin will work faster, as the sidebar will no longer collapse partly after being loaded. [127] [128] [129]
  • MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on Wikimedia Commons on May 15. Feedback is welcome.
  • An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on May 14 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [130]
  • Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead. [131]

Problems

  • There were problems with generating file thumbnails for all wikis between May 3 and May 6 due to a configuration error. [132] [133]

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06:00, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 May 2014

Tech News: 2014-21

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

Tech News updates

  • Tech News is one year old this week; thank you for being with us!

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf5) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendar).
  • The jQuery JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work. [134] [135] [136]
  • MediaViewer was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22. Feedback is welcome. [137] [138]
  • VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferences. [139] [140]
  • You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014.

VisualEditor news

  • VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys. [141] [142]
  • VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like {{cite_web}} and not just {{Cite web}}. [143] [144]
  • VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it. [145] [146]
  • VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit. [147]
  • The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. [148] [149]

Future software changes

Problems

  • For several hours on May 16, there were problems with loading gadgets on some wikis due to a server problem. [152]

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07:18, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 May 2014

Tech News: 2014-22

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar).
  • MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.

VisualEditor news

  • VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them. [153] [154] [155] [156]
  • A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the File: namespace was fixed last week. [157] [158]
  • VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled. [159] [160]
  • It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed. [161]
  • VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names. [162]

Future software changes

  • Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade. [163]
  • It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard tool. [164] [165]
  • Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax [[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]] will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear. [166] [167] [168]
  • You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki. [169] [170]

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08:29, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 May 2014

Tech News: 2014-23

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar).
  • CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30. [171]

VisualEditor news

  • Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target. [172]
  • The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [173] [174]
  • VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons. [175]
  • There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters: date for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. [176]

Future software changes

Problems

  • For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error. [183]

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08:08, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 June 2014

Tech News: 2014-24

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar).
  • You can now use guided tours on the Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [184] [185]

VisualEditor news

  • You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor. [186] [187]
  • The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content. [188] [189] [190]
  • You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor. [191] [192]

Future software changes

  • MediaViewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback is welcome. [193]
  • You will be able to use information from Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10. [194]
  • On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page migration tool to import existing translations to the new system. [195] [196]
  • You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (example video, example audio). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly. [197] [198]
  • Templates containing <ref> or <references> tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching. [199] [200] [201]
  • You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it. [202] [203]
  • Hovercards will no longer flicker. [204]

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07:39, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

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