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Tech News: 2015-19

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

  • You can now chat with other users in Phabricator. [1]
  • There was a rare problem with VisualEditor. The text of another wiki could be added to your edit. The issue is now fixed. [2] [3]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 6 (calendar).
  • It is now easier to add a link in VisualEditor. You can see an image and a description about the page. [4]

Meetings

  • You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on May 5 at 14:30 (UTC). [5]
  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 6 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join an event in France on May 22−25. You need to sign up before May 8. [6]

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15:14, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Category:Orphaned articles from November 2007

Please restore Category:Orphaned articles from November 2007 since it is no longer empty. I found one in the "few links" that had no article links heading to it. Thanks. 3gg5amp1e (talk) 14:43, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

3gg5amp1e there is a bot doing this. Moreover, not worthy to keep a cat for a single page. I moved the tag. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:22, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 May 2015

Tech News: 2015-20

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 now make charts and maps on your wiki with the new "graph" tool. If you have an old browser, you will see images instead. It uses a tool called Vega; you can learn how to use it and write help pages for your wiki. You can use the Vega edit tool to make charts and copy the code to your wiki. Charts and maps use complex code and you should put them into templates. In the future, you will be able to create charts with VisualEditor. [7] [8] [9]
  • You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community. [10]
  • The logos of all wikis are now in a new place. It will make pages load faster. You can still ask to change the logo. You can also use local CSS for brief changes. [11] [12]

Problems

  • There was a problem that caused slow editing. [13]
  • Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed. [14]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 13 (calendar).
  • You can now use data from Wikidata on more pages. The page doesn't need to be linked to the Wikidata item. It works on a few wikis and more wikis will be added soon. [15] [16]
  • You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons. [17]
  • When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link. [18]
  • When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match. [19]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 13 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:47, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 May 2015

Tech News: 2015-21

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

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
  • References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page. [20]
  • You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [21]
  • The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [22]
  • You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [23] [24]
  • UploadWizard now shows better matches when you add a category to your file. [25]
  • A test about VisualEditor will start on the English Wikipedia on Thursday. [26]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 21 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join a technical meeting in France this week.

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15:24, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 May 2015

Tech News: 2015-22

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

  • VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [27]
  • Some Labs tools had issues last week. [28] [29]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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16:19, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 May 2015

Tech News: 2015-23

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

  • Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [31]
  • Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [32]
  • Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [33] [34]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
  • You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [35]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:39, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 June 2015

Hi could you please put up a cool picture for grinder blues, band members, and record label (megaforce/Sony) and associated acts. Thank you very much! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wyatt2112 (talk • contribs) 12:30, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Would you be interested in doing a Wikipedia site on 5 Time Emmy award winning www.bihlmanbros.com. We can talk compensation. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wyatt2112 (talk • contribs) 14:16, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-24

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

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar). [36] [37]
  • If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [38]
  • When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [39]
  • The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [40]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on June 10 at 14:30 (UTC). [41]

Future changes

  • If you have a bot, you may need to fix it. The default continuation mode of the API for action=query will change at the end of June. [42]

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15:21, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 June 2015

Tech News: 2015-25

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

  • Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool. [43]
  • Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [44]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas about it. [46]
  • If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use compat anymore. [47] [48] [49]

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15:04, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Phabricator

Pinging you here for an update that has happened with your Phabricator-account. phab:T99455#1358803. (t) Josve05a (c) 00:14, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

@Josve05a: Thank you for pinging me. --Meno25 (talk) 17:32, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

I was unsuccessful in changing the email address because I need to know the email address that you used to register. Can you either provide the email you used (you can email me, my username minus the (WMF) part @wikimedia.org or post the address here if you are comfortable with posting it. Alternatively, I can delete the old account but I'm not sure if there might be negative consequences in doing so. MModell (WMF) (talk) 20:01, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

@MModell (WMF): Thank you for your message. The old email address that I used to register was: meno25wiki (at) gmail.com --Meno25 (talk) 05:06, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 June 2015

Tech News: 2015-26

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

  • Some wikis can now be used only with HTTPS. This includes the English, Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only HTTPS for all users. [50] [51]
  • You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [52]

Problems

  • On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [53] [54] [55]
  • On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons. [56] [57] [58]
  • Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days. [59] [60] [61]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 25 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 23 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:24, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

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