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When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a
cookie. This means their
browser will be blocked even if they change their
IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals.
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When you use
Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (
calendar).
Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using [rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden].
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Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
29 November at 19:00 (UTC). See
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Wikidata weekly summary #238
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
The
Fossasia Opentech Submit in Singapore is looking for speakers. If you're in the area and want to introduce attendees to Wikidata, feel free to send your application!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Everyone can now see
Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message.
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ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have
trained ORES to recognize damaging edits.
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Changes this week
You will now see categories with 0 pages in
Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
6 December at 20:00 (UTC). See
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of User:Coyau. He was a very active editor on Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects. He will be deeply missed by his friends and family but his great work on open culture will stay. Feel free to browse and share his work. Thanks Guillaume
for this message.
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Users who have Yahoo email addresses could not use
Special:EmailUser to send emails. This has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address. Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and be able to see it.
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You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in
Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention.
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Because of work on
cross-wiki watchlistsglobal renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well.
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Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (
calendar).
Meetings
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December 13 at 20:00 (UTC). See
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On 1 January 2017, WikiCup 2017 (the 10th Annual WikiCup) will begin. This year we are trying something a little different – monetary prizes.
For the WC2017 the prizes will be as follows (amounts are based in US$ and will be awarded in the form of an online Amazon gift certificate):
First place – $200
Second & Third place – $50 each
Category prizes – $25 per category (which will be limited to FA, FL, FP, GA, and DYK for 2017). Winning a category prize does not require making it to the final round.
Note: Monetary prizes are a one-year experiment for 2017 and may or may not be continued in the future. In order to be eligible to receive any of the prizes above, the competing Wikipedia account must have a valid/active email address.
After two years as a WikiCup judge,
Figureskatingfan is stepping down. We thank her for her contributions as a WikiCup judge. We are pleased to announce that our newest judge is two-time WikiCup champion
Cwmhiraeth.
Basque language Wikipedia develops a most prominent basque and worlwide person born/death in this day for all the day related articles. For example,
eu:Abenduaren 19. It also displays interesting red links for people born and dead that day that are not represented in eu:wp.