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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). [1]
• Bureaucrats on all Wikivoyage wikis are no longer able to merge two accounts into one. [2]

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. [3]

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! [4] [5] [6]
• 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. [7] [8]
• You will now always see recent changes to the source language text when editing a translation with the Translate extension. [9] [10]
• 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). [11]

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07:43, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

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1,282		Electronics (talk)						Add sources
174		Scattergories (talk)						Add sources
854		San Fernando Valley (talk)						Add sources
17		D-37C (talk)						Cleanup
56		FileServe (talk)						Cleanup
8		Malay Gamelan (talk)						Cleanup
5		Lake Palatinus (talk)						Expand
1,273		Indiana Jones (franchise) (talk)						Expand
30		Alameda High School (talk)						Expand
653		Longest words (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
350		MagicJack (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
17		East West (band) (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
108		Nerf Blaster (talk)						Merge
1,110		Stretch marks (talk)						Merge
319		Primer (paint) (talk)						Merge
498		Transliteration (talk)						Wikify
157		National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (talk)						Wikify
987		Colossus (comics) (talk)						Wikify
12		Synaptop (talk)						Orphan
2		Jessica Savona (talk)						Orphan
7		Outline of electronics (talk)						Orphan
41		FurReal Friends (talk)						Stub
8		Atlantic Boulevard (Los Angeles County) (talk)						Stub
10		Lirik (talk)						Stub
8		The Brakenhale School (talk)						Stub
51		Mystery Date (game) (talk)						Stub
119		Guess Who? (talk)						Stub

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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. [12] [13] [14]
• You can now create empty pages directly. A message asks you to confirm that you want to create an empty page. [15] [16]
• You can search for Wikimedia tools using a new list of tools. [17]
• 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. [18]
• 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. [19]

Problems

• There was an issue with ProofreadPage and WikiEditor on Wikisource wikis. It is now fixed. [20] [21]

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07:17, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

GOCE July drive and August blitz

Guild of Copy Editors July 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Thanks to everyone who participated in the July drive. Of the 40 people who signed up this drive, 22 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We reduced our article backlog from 2400 articles to 2199 articles in July. This is a new month-end record low for the backlog. Nice work, everyone! Blitz: The August blitz will run from August 24–30. The blitz will focus on articles from the GOCE's Requests page. Awards will be given out to everyone who copy edits at least one of the target articles. The blitz will run from August 24–30. Sign up here! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:11, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

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51		Downtown Kansas City (talk)						Cleanup
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137		Pound Puppies (talk)						Expand
113		Tomy (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
95		Chinatowns in the United States (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
1,696		Google Drive (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
68		Shalivahana era (talk)						Merge
324		Golf club (talk)						Merge
372		Santa Clarita, California (talk)						Merge
292		Duel Masters (talk)						Wikify
13		Transportation in Arizona (talk)						Wikify
1,371		My Little Pony (talk)						Wikify
1		Masagaway District (talk)						Orphan
7		Giovanni Felice (talk)						Orphan
1		Herojale (talk)						Orphan
37		Bob Dishy (talk)						Stub
50		Muon neutrino (talk)						Stub
7		Lake (Los Angeles Metro station) (talk)						Stub
6		Anna Thompson (netball player) (talk)						Stub
31		1988 Summer Paralympics (talk)						Stub
5		Downtown Pasadena, California (talk)						Stub

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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. [22]
• You can now add colors to links in the editor using gadgets. You can do this to see links to redirects or disambiguation pages. [23]
• If you use Internet Explorer, you will soon be able to use VisualEditor. [24] [25] [26]

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. [27]

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09:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

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18		CirKis (talk)						Add sources
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264		Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film) (talk)						Add sources
46		Stickle Bricks (talk)						Add sources
137		Beyblade (toy) (talk)						Add sources
35		Alternative versions of Beast (talk)						Cleanup
804		X-23 (talk)						Cleanup
248		Pictionary (talk)						Cleanup
101		Kre-O (talk)						Expand
3,823		The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (talk)						Expand
41		Mid-City, Los Angeles (talk)						Expand
40		Comparison of Axis & Allies games (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
153		Red Line (Los Angeles Metro) (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
73		Woodlands, Singapore (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
747		Heat transfer coefficient (talk)						Merge
2,680		Blood pressure (talk)						Merge
31		Gateway Multimodal Transportation Center (talk)						Merge
36		James Irvine (landowner) (talk)						Wikify
1,440		Professor X (talk)						Wikify
2,653		Sanskrit (talk)						Wikify
10		In a Pickle (card game) (talk)						Orphan
5		Bull's-Eye Ball (talk)						Orphan
3		Galaangale (talk)						Orphan
10		Long Beach Boulevard (talk)						Stub
7		Ryan Cordell (talk)						Stub
20		Gator Golf (talk)						Stub
22		Middle Shebelle (talk)						Stub
7		Aviation Boulevard (talk)						Stub
9		Luke McGrath (talk)						Stub

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WikiCup 2014 August newsletter

The final of the 2014 WikiCup begins in a few short minutes! Our eight finalists are listed below, along with their placement in Round 4:

1. Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer, finished top of Pool A and was the round's highest scorer. Godot is a featured picture specialist, claiming large numbers of points due to high-quality scans of historical documents, especially banknotes.
2. Casliber (submissions) is a WikiCup veteran, having been a finalist every year since 2010. In the semi-final, he was Pool B's highest scorer. Cas's points primarily come from articles on the natural sciences.
3. Czar (submissions) was Pool A's runner-up. Czar's points come mostly from content related to independent video games, including both articles and topics.
4. Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Pool B's runner-up. Another featured picture specialist, many of Adam's points come from the restoration of historical media. He has been a WikiCup finalist twice before.
5. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) won the WikiCup in 2012 and 2013, and enters this final as the first wildcard. She focuses on biology-related articles, and has worked on several high-importance articles.
6. 12george1 (submissions) is the second wildcard. George's points come primarily from meteorology-related articles. This year and last year, George was the first person in the competition to score.
7. Sturmvogel 66 (submissions), the third wildcard, was the 2010 champion and a finalist last year. His writes mostly on military history, especially naval history.
8. Bloom6132 (submissions), the fourth and final wildcard, has participated in previous WikiCups, but not reached any finals. Bloom's points are mostly thanks to did you knows, featured lists and good articles related to sport and national symbols.

We say goodbye to this year's semi-finalists. Matty.007 (submissions), ThaddeusB (submissions), WikiRedactor (submissions), Figureskatingfan (submissions), Yellow Evan (submissions), Prism (submissions) and Cloudz679 (submissions) have all performed well to reach this stage of the competition, and we hope they will all be joining us again next year.

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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. [28] [29]
• You can now search pages that link to a page. Use the linksto: keyword in your search. [30] [31]
• 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". [32] [33]
• If you are testing Flow, you now have a Flow tab in your Notifications. It is called "Messages". [34]

VisualEditor news

• You can no longer delete required fields in templates. [35]
• 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. [36] [37] [38]
• VisualEditor now looks better in Monobook. [39]
• We fixed a bug where some of your typing could be undone when you used "cut" (Ctrl+X). [40]
• You will no longer see empty or deleted categories among the suggestions when you add a category. [41]

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. [42]
• 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. [43]
• 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. [44]

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07:49, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

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360		Decimation (comics) (talk)						Cleanup
147		Tabitha Smith (talk)						Cleanup
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99		Free Java implementations (talk)						Expand
92		Alara block (talk)						Expand
31		Jewelry District (Los Angeles) (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
52		Secondary mutation (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
809		Fresno, California (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
24		Colotomy (talk)						Merge
67		Clustering illusion (talk)						Merge
34		Gambang (talk)						Merge
136		Catenaccio (talk)						Wikify
609		Age of Apocalypse (talk)						Wikify
6		Steven Staryk (talk)						Wikify
4		Location OC (talk)						Orphan
1		Gulane (talk)						Orphan
2		Hansholey (talk)						Orphan
50		Lars Mortimer (talk)						Stub
3		Canadian Health Network (talk)						Stub
23		Downtown Long Beach (Los Angeles Metro station) (talk)						Stub
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297		Igor Vetokele (talk)						Stub

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Tech News: 2014-37

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VisualEditor news

• From Thursday, Internet Explorer 11 users will get VisualEditor. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [45] [46] [47]

Future software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf20) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 9, and on all Wikipedias on September 11 (calendar).
• You will soon confirm a "Thanks" inline instead of in a dialog. [48]
• You can read more about the plan to move to Phabricator, a tool that will help people develop the MediaWiki software and report bugs. [49]

Problems

• There were problems with JavaScript and CSS on Friday, September 5 because of a code error.

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09:33, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

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586		Bunny Man (talk)						Add sources
43		Glo Worm (talk)						Add sources
38		Metro Local (talk)						Add sources
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352		Orange juice (talk)						Cleanup
1,932		Ouija (talk)						Cleanup
694		Foursquare (talk)						Expand
3,608		Nintendo (talk)						Expand
372		Tone (linguistics) (talk)						Expand
245		You aren't gonna need it (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
7,421		California (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
32		Musical expression (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
313		Series A round (talk)						Merge
44		Staccatissimo (talk)						Merge
1,295		Looney Tunes (talk)						Merge
278		Pyro (comics) (talk)						Wikify
216		Cannonball (comics) (talk)						Wikify
977		SCSI (talk)						Wikify
3		Gashanle (talk)						Orphan
1		Balanbaal (talk)						Orphan
0		Qurajome (talk)						Orphan
1,318		Anna Wood (actress) (talk)						Stub
4		Lincoln-Villa, Pasadena, California (talk)						Stub
13		Norwalk (Los Angeles Metro station) (talk)						Stub
204		Joey Bragg (talk)						Stub
15		Qoryoley (talk)						Stub
1		Robby Maria & The Silent Revolution (Album 2012) (talk)						Stub

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Tech News: 2014-38

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 software changes

• You can now change the style of links to disambiguation pages. This is done with the mw-disambig CSS class. [50] [51]
• There was a problem on right-to-left wikis with Wikidata log entries. The text was messy in watchlists and recent changes. The problem is now fixed. The same problem will be fixed soon for user names. [52] [53] [54]
• New users are randomly chosen for a test on 12 Wikipedias. They get messages with ideas of articles to edit. The ideas come from what they have already edited. [55]

Problems

• There was a problem with loading images on September 10. [56]

VisualEditor news

• If you don't select text when you add a link, the link now shows a number. [57]
• The citation tool no longer offers to reuse a citation if there are none on the page yet. [58] [59]
• You can now use help buttons in the "Page settings" menu to see what the options are for. [60]

Future software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf21) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 16, and on all Wikipedias on September 18 (calendar).
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