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The Signpost: 14 May 2014

Investigative report: Hong Kong's Wikimania 2013—failure to produce financial statement raises questions of probity

WikiProject report: Relaxing in Puerto Rico

News and notes: 'Ask a librarian'—connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia

Featured content: On the rocks

Traffic report: Eurovision, Google Doodles, Mothers, and 5 May

Technology report: Technology report needs editor, Media Viewer offers a new look

The Signpost: 21 May 2014

News and notes: "Crisis" over Wikimedia Germany's palace revolution

Featured content: Staggering number of featured articles

Traffic report: Doodles' dawn

A beer 0 % ALCHOLIC ! WTF

HELLO IM SEXY AND WE KNOW IT Mustafa El assaad (talk) 06:16, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 May 2014

News and notes: The English Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion; wiki inventor interviewed on video

Featured content: Zombie fight in the saloon

Traffic report: Get fitted for flipflops and floppy hats

Recent research: Predicting which article you will edit next

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5	Manorbier railway station (talk)	Stub
50	Stu Francis (talk)	Stub
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1	Yemen national football team 2009 (talk)	Stub
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8	Inherent vowel (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2016-42

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

There is a new newsletter from the Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation. It will have more details about for example Flow and notifications. You can read the first issue.

Problems

Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning. [1]
Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version. [2]

Changes this week

There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [3]

Future changes

The Editing Department are working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this. This is an early plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.

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16:42, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Bot question

Hi, I've got an idea for an anti-vandalism bot, or maybe a new feature/task for ClueBot, but I can't find a noticeboard or similar to suggest it. I can't program a bot myself but I think maybe others find my idea interesting to work on. Is there a noticeboard or forum where Wikipedia's bot makers hang out? Thanks, Yintan 09:47, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Bot question

Hi, I've got an idea for an anti-vandalism bot, or maybe a new feature/task for ClueBot, but I can't find a noticeboard or similar to suggest it. I can't program a bot myself but I think maybe others find my idea interesting to work on. Is there a noticeboard or forum where Wikipedia's bot makers hang out? Thanks, Yintan 09:47, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-43

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

The abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed. [4]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia". [5]
About a dozen wikis now have numerical sorting in categories. If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can ask for it. [6]
Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.

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17:39, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
79	Daiwa Securities Group (talk)	Add sources
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296	Akai (talk)	Cleanup
182	Seven & I Holdings Co. (talk)	Expand
89	NTN Corporation (talk)	Expand
177	Kikkoman (talk)	Expand
148	Sega Sammy Holdings (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
224	Mitsubishi Corporation (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
52	Modernism in the Catholic Church (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
63	Airport, Inner West & South Line (talk)	Merge
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197	Christmas ornament (talk)	Merge
36	Mystici corporis Christi (talk)	Wikify
70	Pope Eusebius (talk)	Wikify
146	Pope Evaristus (talk)	Wikify
4	Vinod Raina (talk)	Orphan
4	Bharat mata ki jai (talk)	Orphan
6	Bravelets (talk)	Orphan
28	Nippon Soda Co., Ltd. (talk)	Stub
50	Marui (talk)	Stub
35	Nippon Kayaku (talk)	Stub
36	Denki Kagaku Kogyo (talk)	Stub
7	Lisnasharragh (District Electoral Area) (talk)	Stub
7	Episcopal Carmel of Saint Teresa (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2016-44

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

Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only. [7]
Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester. [8]
The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script. [9]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1^st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2^nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3^rd (calendar).
Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" field when editing templates. [10]
Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size. [11]

Future changes

New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29. [12]

Miscellaneous

The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Collaboration Guideline is available for community review. Any feedback welcome, in any language.

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16:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)