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This Month in GLAM: May 2014



Headlines
  • Netherlands report: Libraries; Wikidata & DBpedia; Wikipedians in Residence; Open Culture Data
  • Norway report: 2 x GLAM edit-a-thons
  • Sweden report: Award, competitions and Coat of Arms
  • UK report: No trouble at t'mill; Assisting Metropolitan Police with image licensing enquiries; Wikimania is coming
  • USA report: New Edit-a-thons; GLAM at Wikiconference USA; Activities in New York City
  • Open Access report: WikiProject Open Access launched on the English Wikisource
  • Calendar: June's GLAM events
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Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 00:28, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 June 2014

Tech News: 2014-25

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

Reminder

  • You can subscribe to the wikitech-ambassadors mailing list to get news more quickly and to send feedback or report problems.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 17, and to all Wikipedias on June 19 (calendar).
  • You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for May 2014.

VisualEditor news

  • You can now easily see the target of a link or other information using the context menu. [1]
  • When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to switch it to re-use another reference. [2] [3]
  • You can now add and edit {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and __DISAMBIG__ in the page settings menu. [4] [5] [6] [7]
  • The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler; the order of mathematical symbols is now correct. [8] [9] [10]

Future software changes

  • Media Viewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 19. Feedback is welcome. [11]
  • You will no longer be able to use navigation popups and Hovercards at the same time. [12]
  • You will no longer see image thumbnails on search results pages on Wikibooks and Wikisource wikis. [13] [14]
  • It will soon be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [15] [16]
  • Tablet users will be redirected to the mobile view of Wikimedia wikis starting on June 17. [17]
  • The special page that lists most linked-to templates will soon include pages from all namespaces; it will also be renamed to Special:MostTranscludedPages. [18]
  • An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on June 17 at 17:30 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). You can also read a blog post about the upcoming switch to Phabricator.
  • You can now comment on the draft 2014-15 goals of the Wikimedia Foundation engineering department. [19]

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07:13, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 June 2014

Tech News: 2014-26

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 (1.24wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 19. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 24, and to all Wikipedias on June 26 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

  • You can now drag-and-drop selections of content, not just files and templates. [20] [21]
  • When dragging an item, you will now see a line that helps you to drop it. [22] [23]
  • You can now only move an image to the start of a paragraph, not to the middle of it, so you don't accidentally split it. [24] [25]
  • You will now be warned if you add wikitext to file captions and references. [26] [27]

Future software changes

  • You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [28] [29]
  • CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on additional 70 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and Wikimedia Incubator, during the next week. [30]
  • CirrusSearch results will soon take into account categories, the first paragraph and the wikitext of a page. You will also be able to use regular expressions to search the wikitext. It will take a few days for the changes to be enabled on all wikis. [31]
  • You will soon be able to watch translations for e-mail notifications without receiving an e-mail when they are reviewed by another translator. [32] [33]
  • An IRC meeting to organize old high priority MediaWiki bug reports will take place on June 24 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [34]

Problems

  • On June 19, all wikis were broken for about 15 minutes due to a high server load.
  • Between June 13 and June 15 there were problems with the scaling of video files due to a configuration error. [35]

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07:20, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 June 2014

Tech News: 2014-27

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 (1.24wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 26. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 1, and to all Wikipedias on July 3 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

  • Context menus in VisualEditor will no longer flicker and disappear when you insert a new reference, formula, image, etc. [36] [37]
  • A bug that prevented relocating items due to cache was fixed last week. [38] [39]
  • VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the bottom of the page when you try to edit section 0. When you try to add a formula, VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the top of the page. [40] [41] [42] [43]
  • Links to category pages or file pages added with VisualEditor will now work correctly. [44] [45]

Future software changes

  • You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [46] [47]
  • 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.
  • CirrusSearch will be enabled on June 30 as the primary search method on 34 new wikis, including the Czech (cs), Danish (da), Finnish (fi) and Hebrew (he) Wikipedias. [48]
  • All Wikimedia wikis will be using a security method called perfect forward secrecy starting on July 1. If you see a problem, please report it. [49] [50]
  • Starting on July 1, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [51]
  • You will soon see block information when you visit the contributions page or try to edit the user page or user talk page of a user who is affected by an IP range block. [52] [53]
  • You will soon be able to use {{!}} as a magic word to produce the pipe character, for instance for use in tables. [54]

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06:53, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 July 2014

Tech News: 2014-28

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

  • We are looking for contributors to help write a new issue every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 3. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 8, and to all Wikipedias on July 10 (calendar).
  • CirrusSearch was enabled on July 1 as the primary search method on 36 new wikis, including the Norwegian (no), Portuguese (pt) and Ukrainian (uk) Wikipedias. [55]
  • It is now possible to create Atom or RSS feeds for Word of the Day, Word of the Week and similar entries on Wiktionary wikis. [56] [57]
  • You can now use a graphical interface to edit TemplateData information on the English (en), French (fr) and Italian (it) Wikipedias. [58] [59]

VisualEditor news

  • Saving an edit with VisualEditor will now be much faster. [60] [61]
  • You can now add a caption when you add a file to a page with VisualEditor. You can also change the file to a different one and keep the existing caption. [62] [63] [64]
  • When you switch to the Edit source tab, you are now asked to keep your changes. You no longer need to find the option in the menus. [65] [66] [67]
  • The reference tool that adds empty <ref></ref> tags is now at the bottom of the Cite menu, below references that use templates like {{Cite web}}. [68]
  • Context menus will no longer be shown over items that you can edit directly, for example formulæ. [69] [70] [71]

Future software changes

  • Starting on July 9, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. The feature was first scheduled for July 1, but was delayed due to bugs.
  • A plan to enable CirrusSearch as the primary search method on the 11 largest Wikimedia wikis has now been prepared. [72]
  • If you use references on a page, you will soon always see them at the bottom of the page, even if you forget to add the <references /> tag (or a template). [73] [74]
  • Black-and-white XCF images will soon display correctly. [75] [76]
  • Description pages of SVG files will soon always show download links for multiple resolutions (example). The links were previously shown only for SVG files in large original resolutions. [77] [78]

Problems

  • Between July 2-3, there were problems with loading pages on multiple wikis due to a configuration issue. [79] [80]
  • For a few hours on July 1, there were problems with uploading new files on Wikimedia Commons due to a configuration error. [81] [82]

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07:07, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2014



Headlines
  • Belgium report: Bouchout Declaration on Open Access to Biodiversity data; Virtual collaboration in the government
  • France report: Round table in Brussels; Video at Sèvres; 70th anniversary of the D-Day
  • Germany report: Exhibition photography
  • Mexico report: Edit-a-thon of Museo Soumaya; simulthaneous edit-a-thon in Argentina, Mexico and Spain about Spanish Exile; new cultural partner of Wikimedia México
  • Netherlands report: Music edit-a-thon; Library workshops; Videos, maps and Japanese art donations; Wiki Loves Earth
  • Sweden report: Wiki Loves Monuments is being prepared for Sweden
  • UK report: Free Culture; Image releases
  • USA report: A GLAM Day Out! in Philadelphia; Local History at the Local Library
  • Wikimania report: GLAM presentations at Wikimania
  • Open Access report: Open biodiversity data; Automated import of scholarly journal articles into Wikisource
  • Calendar: July's GLAM events
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The Signpost: 09 July 2014

Tech News: 2014-29

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 (1.24wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 15, and to all Wikipedias on July 17 (calendar).
  • It is now possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. Please go to the username changes page on Meta if you want to rename your account on all wikis. [83] [84]
  • You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for June 2014.
  • You can now read the latest issue of the Wikidata newsletter and translate it into your language.

VisualEditor news

  • The tool to add templates and citations will now work for templates that include HTML comments or templates in their titles. [85] [86]
  • The button to make images full size should now work correctly. [87] [88] [89]
  • References will now be shown in the default font size again. [90]

Future software changes

  • CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on the Dutch (nl) and Japanese (ja) Wikipedias on July 14, and on the Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias on July 16. [91]
  • The Special:Version page will soon show the exact version of MediaWiki and all extensions installed on your wiki (example). [92] [93]
  • It will soon no longer be possible to order printed books of wiki articles via PediaPress. You will still be able to create PDF files. [94]
  • Pages that use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''}} more than once will soon show a warning. You can use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''|noerror}} to hide it. [95] [96]
  • Pages that have the list of references added automatically will soon be added to a tracking category. Administrators will be able to configure the name of the category on their wikis. [97] [98]
  • Administrators will soon be able to easily merge histories of two pages using Special:MergeHistory. [99] [100]
  • Administrators will soon see links to delete files on Special:ListFiles. [101]

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07:49, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 July 2014

Tech News: 2014-30

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 (1.24wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 22, and to all Wikipedias on July 24 (calendar).
  • CirrusSearch was removed as the primary search method from Wikimedia Commons and the Spanish (es) Wikipedia due to a high server load. The plan to enable it on the Dutch (nl), Japanese (ja), Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias was also postponed to a later date. [102] [103] [104]
  • The tool that stores information about languages (CLDR) was updated to its latest version. You can still help translate language names into your own language so they can be used in the sidebar and other places. [105]
  • Translation memory for newly translatable pages should now offer more suggestions. [106] [107]
  • A tool to convert MediaWiki pages to LaTeX is now available on Tool Labs. [108]

VisualEditor news

  • Tablet users visiting the mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will be able to use a special version of VisualEditor starting on July 31. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu. Feedback is welcome. [109]
  • All windows in VisualEditor have now a new design. Main action buttons will always be located in the top bar and will use simple words rather than icons. [110]
  • You can now easily open links inside the link editor, for example to see their target. [111]
  • Several bugs related to the positioning of the cursor around some items (like images and references) were fixed last week. [112] [113] [114] [115] [116] [117]

Future software changes

Problems

  • Mailing lists were broken for about 16 hours between July 14 and July 15 due to a server problem. [121]

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07:42, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 July 2014

Tech News: 2014-31

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 (1.24wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 29, and to all Wikipedias on July 31 (calendar).
  • You can now download the latest version of the anti-vandalism tool Huggle.

VisualEditor news

  • You can now create, edit, and view HTML comments in VisualEditor. [122] [123]
  • The cancel button in VisualEditor toolbar has been removed. You can still use the Read tab and the Back button in your browser to cancel your edit. [124]
  • If you try to use a template which has no suggested or required parameters in TemplateData, you will now be asked to add the parameters. [125] [126]
  • You will no longer be able to edit a page if you can't create it, for example on pages protected against recreation. [127] [128]

Future software changes

  • You will soon be able to filter Meta-Wiki's user rights log by wiki and user. [129] [130]
  • Wikidata will soon be able to store data about article status, for example "good article" or "featured article". If your wiki has highlighted content, please make sure it is on Wikidata's list. [131]
  • It will soon be possible to directly create empty pages, for example in the user namespace. [132] [133]

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08:09, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 July 2014

Tech News: 2014-32

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 will be presented at the Wikimania 2014 conference in London! If you will be attending the conference, please join us in Auditorium 2 at 14:30 local time on Sunday, August 10.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 31. Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, it will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [134]
  • You can now test a new tool to render wiki pages as PDF files. [135] [136] [137]
  • You can now download an update to the archive of Wikimedia Commons files (uploaded up to December 31, 2013). If you have free space on your computer, please help preserve the files. [138]
  • New users using the mobile Commons site now need to make 75 edits before they can upload a file. [139] [140]

VisualEditor news

Future software changes

  • You will soon have a user option to watch pages where you revert edits. [152] [153]
  • All Toolserver data will be deleted in September. If you want to back up your data, contact Toolserver administrators before August 31. [154]
  • Pages in the Translations: namespace on wikis using the Translate extension will no longer be indexed by search engines. [155]

Problems

  • Wikivoyage wikis were broken for about 45 minutes on July 29 due to a configuration problem. [156]
  • Some users were not able to log in on test wikis and MediaWiki.org between July 31 and August 1. The problem is now fixed. [157]

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07:37, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 August 2014

Tech News: 2014-33

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

  • Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, there were no MediaWiki changes this week. The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [158]
  • Bureaucrats on all Wikivoyage wikis are no longer able to merge two accounts into one. [159]

VisualEditor news

  • Tablet users visiting the mobile version of non-Wikipedia wikis will be able to use VisualEditor starting on August 12. The feature will also be enabled on all Wikipedias on August 14. [160]

Future software changes

  • Internet Explorer 6 users will soon see a JavaScript-free version of Wikimedia wikis; JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work on that browser. If you use Internet Explorer 6, make sure to update to a newer browser! [161] [162] [163]
  • If you visit a special page that requires you to be logged-in, you will soon be automatically redirected to the log-in page instead of seeing a warning. [164] [165]
  • You will now always see recent changes to the source language text when editing a translation with the Translate extension. [166] [167]
  • An IRC meeting to discuss VisualEditor will take place on August 14 at 09:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [168]

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07:43, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2014



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Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 21:17, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 August 2014

Tech News: 2014-34

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 (1.24wmf17) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 21 (calendar).
  • There is a new protection level called superprotection. At the moment, only some Wikimedia Foundation employees have access to it. Administrators can't edit "superprotected" pages. [169] [170] [171]
  • You can now create empty pages directly. A message asks you to confirm that you want to create an empty page. [172] [173]
  • You can search for Wikimedia tools using a new list of tools. [174]
  • You can watch the first videos from Wikimania 2014. Some of them are about technical topics. More videos will come later.

Wikidata

  • After August 19, you can use Wikidata for inter language links on Wikinews. [175]
  • After August 19, you can use Wikidata for badges like "good" or "featured" articles. Next week, you will be able to show the badges in the article sidebar on Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikiquote. [176]

Problems

  • There was an issue with ProofreadPage and WikiEditor on Wikisource wikis. It is now fixed. [177] [178]

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07:17, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 August 2014

Tech News: 2014-35

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

VisualEditor news

  • There was a error when you put your cursor directly after a reference list. It is now fixed. [179]
  • You can now add colors to links in the editor using gadgets. You can do this to see links to redirects or disambiguation pages. [180]
  • If you use Internet Explorer, you will soon be able to use VisualEditor. [181] [182] [183]

Future software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf18) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 28 (calendar).
  • After August 26, you will have a central JavaScript and CSS page. They will be on Meta-Wiki and will work on all wikis. Read more on the help page. [184]

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09:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 August 2014

Tech News: 2014-36

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

  • You can now test a new Beta Feature to see links to other wikis in the sidebar. The links come from Wikidata. [185] [186]
  • You can now search pages that link to a page. Use the linksto: keyword in your search. [187] [188]
  • A redirect to a section now changes the URL in the address bar of your browser. If "Dog" redirects to "Animals#Dog", you now see "Animals#Dog" instead of "Dog#Dog". [189] [190]
  • If you are testing Flow, you now have a Flow tab in your Notifications. It is called "Messages". [191]

VisualEditor news

  • You can no longer delete required fields in templates. [192]
  • We fixed many Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 11, you will get VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [193] [194] [195]
  • VisualEditor now looks better in Monobook. [196]
  • We fixed a bug where some of your typing could be undone when you used "cut" (Ctrl+X). [197]
  • You will no longer see empty or deleted categories among the suggestions when you add a category. [198]

Future software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf19) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 2, and on all Wikipedias on September 4 (calendar).
  • There is a proposal to build a database on Commons for file data. It will make it easier to see the author, license and topics. You can give feedback on this idea. You can also come to the IRC chat on September 3 at 18:00 (UTC) in #wikimedia-office at freenode. [199]
  • You can give feedback on Media Viewer until September 7. You can say what needs to be improved and ask other people to give feedback too. [200]
  • You can test a new version of the tool to show math. It uses MathML. Report bugs in bugzilla.
  • You will no longer be able to upload images from the mobile site. [201]

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07:49, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

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