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May 2017 WikiCup newsletter
The second round of the competition has now closed, with just under 100 points being required to qualify for round 3.
YellowEvan just scraped into the next round with 98 points but we have to say goodbye to the thirty or so competitors who didn't achieve this threshold; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Our top scorers in round 2 were:
Cas Liber, led the field with five featured articles, four on birds and one on astronomy, and a total score of 2049, half of which came from bonus points.
1989 was in second place with 826 points, 466 of which were bonus points. 1989 has claimed points mostly relating to anime and Japanese-related articles.
Peacemaker67 took third place with two FAs, one GA and seven GARs, mostly on naval vessels or military personnel, scoring 543 points.
Other contestants who scored over 400 points were
Freikorp,
Carbrera, and
Czar. Of course all these points are now wiped out and the 32 remaining contestants start again from zero in round 3.
Vivvt submitted the largest number of DYKs (30), and
MBlaze Lightning achieved 13 articles at ITN.
Carbrera claimed for 11 GAs and
Argento Surfer performed the most GARs, having reviewed 11. So far we have achieved 38 featured articles and a splendid 132 good articles. Commendably, 279 GARs have been achieved so far, more than double the number of GAs.
So, on to the third round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on
Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on
Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from
Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.
Godot13,
Sturmvogel 66 and
Cwmhiraeth 13:16, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
Scripts using very old
deprecated wikibits functions show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see
examples of how to upgrade scripts. This is the same thing as Tech News wrote about in issue
2017/16.
You need to addmw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ) block for your scripts also, or add mediawiki.util dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in
MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition.
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Problems
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 3 May. This will start at
14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.
You can read more about this.
Changes this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.
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
2 May at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
All Wikimedia wikis will have cookie blocks from May 8. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a
cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new
IP address the cookie will block them again.
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The Publish changes, Show preview and Show changes buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the
OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding &ooui=1 to the URL.
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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
Some users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn on Hide categorization of pages in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from
Special:EditWatchlist/raw.
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There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered a
CAPTCHA. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May.
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Changes this week
When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now say Visual editing and Source editing instead of Switch to visual editing and Switch to code editing. This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (
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
9 May at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users.
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Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If -{ is used in
transclusions or
web addresses it has to be
escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use -{ in a template: {{1x| sad :-{ face }}. This is because of some code fixes to the
preprocessor and affects all wikis.
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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 use
ISBNs to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that have
enabled Citoid.
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The mediawiki.util library does not load automatically any more. Your
Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding mw.loader.using('mediawiki.util').done(function(){ as the first line in the file and }); as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the
2017/18 issue.
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Changes this week
The
RevisionSlider extension will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences.
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There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages.
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Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. If -{ is used in
transclusions or
web addresses it has to be
escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the
preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see
the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find
false positives. You can
read more about what to fix.
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Older unreported changes
Your
Meta user page is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word __NOGLOBAL__ to your Meta user page to stop this.
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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 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (
calendar).
There will be a <div> tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext
parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can
report new problems you think are related to this.
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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
Last week’s MediaWiki version was rolled back from some wikis because of a problem. This means planned changes did not happen.
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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
30 May at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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 see new files on
Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from.
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When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox.
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You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article.
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New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June.
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Problems
The
MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen.
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Changes this week
Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the
compact language links will see languages they have in their
Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in
your preferences.
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You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions.
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When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (
calendar).
String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules.
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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
6 June at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
The
2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see
a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all.
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Wikimedia wikis use
OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is
Electron. You can
tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too.
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The
Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the
draft that describes the new committee.
Hello, I am curious if you can create vector maps of Harris County, TX and Fort Bend County, TX please if you don't mind. The old municipality maps of Harris County, TX and Fort Bend County, TX are very outdated and need a revamp. Also, love your vector maps by the way too. Thank you.
ExecutiveWashington (
talk) 23:04, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
Thanks - and I'll do those counties in the near future when I get around to them. Rcsprinter123(engage) 20:42, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
Question about project leader identification
Hi Rcsprinter123,
I am a PhD student major in computer science from the University of Minnesota. I do research in Wikipedia area about the collaboration among editors mostly in the context of WikiProjects. I have a question to you, and hope you would provide me some suggestion.
Right now, I am planning on a project is about WikiProject recommendation - we will create algorithms to generate a list of recommended editors for the leaders of WikiProjects, and let them to recruit those editors. Do you like the idea? To start, we are planning to conduct a polite study, and contact about 10 - 20 project leaders to participate. A problem then is how to identify the project leaders. I came across the
WikiProject report where you did interviews with some participants of the project. I think those participating editors could to some extend be considered as project leaders, or core project members, aren't they? So I wonder how did you identify those editors, maybe as well as the editors who participated the previous interviews in the report. Please let me know. Thanks for your time in advance!
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 have the larger and brighter
OOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long.
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When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results.
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Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
13 June at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the
test wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account.
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Wikimedia wikis use
OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is
Electron. You can
tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects.
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Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding &fuzzy=1 to the end of the web address when looking at
Special:Undelete.
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Hey, Rcsprinter123. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the
Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!
Mz7 (
talk) 23:58, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
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
ORES had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40
UTC. It has now been fixed.
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Changes this week
irc.wikimedia.org has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down.
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Special:PageData will be an entry point for machine-readable page data.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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
The <
inputbox> has a new searchfilter parameter. You can add values like searchfilter=insource:foo. It will add that to the user's search query.
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Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (
calendar).
Users will be able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in enhanced watchlist/recent changes. Previously, this was disabled for everyone.
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Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
27 June at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the next WMF Language team office hour, an open session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects. The meeting will be on
27 June at 13:00 UTC.
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The third round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 288 points being required to qualify for round 4. It was a hotly competitive round with all but four of the contestants exceeding the 106 points that was necessary to proceed to round 4 last year.
Coemgenus and
Freikorp tied on 288, and both have been allowed to proceed, so round 4 now has one pool of eight competitors and one of nine.
Round 3 saw the achievement of a 26-topic Featured topic by
MPJ-DK as well as 5 featured lists and 13 featured articles.
PanagiotisZois and
SounderBruce achieved their first ever featured articles.
Carbrera led the GA score with 10,
Tachs achieved 17 DYKs and
MBlaze Lightning 10 In the news items. There were 167 DYKs, 93 GARs and 82 GAs overall, this last figure being higher than the number of GAs in round 2, when twice as many people were taking part. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.
As we start round 4, we say goodbye to the fifteen or so competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).
If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on
Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on
Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from
Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.
Godot13,
Sturmvogel 66 and
Cwmhiraeth 05:37, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
Glasgow Subway
I'm probably editing wrong so I apologise if so! Just wondering if you are up for making a symbol for Glasgow subway stations, as I have suggested on your user page section for this project of yours, and if not, I will be willing to carry this out if you can explain how to do it :) - J — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
81.158.96.75 (
talk) 21:15, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
Yes, a symbol does seem to be missing for that system. I'll look into it over the next few days. Rcsprinter123(post) 00:30, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
{{rint|glasgow}} exists; I see you've added to the station articles. Rcsprinter123(quip) 17:59, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
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 was a problem with maps on Wikimedia wikis that used <
mapframe> when you clicked on the link to another map service. Open Street Map or Google Maps are examples of other map services. If you had marked a place on the map the marker would not be in the same place on the other map service. It was in the middle of the map. This has now been fixed.
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Changes this week
Very old and inactive unpublished translations in the
Content Translation database will be removed. This is because of technical maintenance. If you have not worked on a translation after 1 January 2016 you will lose it after 6 July. If you want to keep the unfinished translation you need to open it before 6 July with the Content Translation tool. You can continue working on it later. Translations that were started or have been worked on after 1 January 2016 will not be affected.
There is no new Mediawiki version this week.
EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. It works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace
RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. Tech News wrote about this in the
2017/07 issue.
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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 are sometimes links to pages about the same thing on other Wikimedia projects. A Wikipedia article about Berlin can link to the Wikivoyage guide or Wiktionary entry about Berlin. You can now see when that page has a badge. A badge could be the star that shows that an article is a featured article.
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Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 July. It will be on all wikis from 13 July (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
11 July at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
Mobile users will be able to edit Wikipedia without JavaScript. This will make it possible to edit the wikis from older mobile phones. This will probably happen on 18 July for most wikis.
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We will
not useTidy on Wikimedia wikis in the future. It will be replaced by June 2018. It could be earlier. Editors will need to fix pages that could break. You can read the
simplified instructions for editors.
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
"Wikimedia Labs" is now called "Cloud VPS". "Wikimedia Tool Labs" is now called "Wikimedia Toolforge". This is to help clarify the purpose of these services.
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Problems
On some pages, the Table of Contents is not being shown. It will normally appear if you edit the page again. Investigation is currently ongoing.
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Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
18 July at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is: Migrate to HTML5 section ids.
[56] The meeting will be on
19 July at 21:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
Page Previews, currently a Beta Feature, will be enabled for logged-out users for all remaining Wikipedias (with the exception of English and German) the week of 24 July. An A/B test will be run on English Wikipedia to collect data before approaching the community for further discussion.
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Here is the 4th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from
this list.
21 inactive bots have been deflagged (see
discussion).
WP:BOTISSUE has been
updated to mention that BAG members can act as neutral mediators in bot-related disputes.
WP:INTERWIKIBOT has been
updated to reflect the post-February 2013 practice of putting interwiki links on Wikidata, rather than on Wikipedia (see
discussion).
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
CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. This will make it easier to make templates look good on mobile devices. This now works on
mediawiki.org and
Wikitech. It will come to more wikis later.
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.mw-ui-constructive modifier class is deprecated and has been removed.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 July. It will be on all wikis from 27 July (
calendar).
It will be possible to restrict who can send you notifications on a wiki. This new feature will accessible in your preferences,
in the Notifications tab, on Wednesday, July 26. Please see
the documentation.
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Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
25 July at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the Wikimedia Foundation July 2017 Metrics & Activities Meeting. The meeting is about how Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement are perceived and understood by the world. The meeting will be on
27 July at 19:00 (UTC). See
the agenda and how to join.
Future changes
New Filters for Edit Review, at the moment available as a Beta feature,
will be released by default for the Recent Changes in September.
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
Some pages show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a
Lua module that uses Wikidata. The developers are working on fixing the problem. You can fix a page by opening it for editing and then saving without changing anything.
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Wikidata and German Wikipedia could not be edited for an hour on 28 July. You can read why and how we could avoid it in the future in the
incident report.
Changes later this week
Some wikis already have the larger and brighter
OOjs UI edit page buttons. All remaining wikis except Commons will have these from 1 August.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
1 August at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
The default font in the edit window will soon change for some users. Instead of using the browser default it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices.
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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 see which Wikipedia language versions are read in a specific country. This tool is called
Wikipedia Views Visualized.
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You can get an email when a page on your watchlist was edited. You can choose not to get emails for minor edits. There is a bug that means that you then don't get an email when someone does a normal edit after a minor edit. The developers are working on fixing this. Until it has been fixed you can activate "Email me also for minor edits of pages and files" at the bottom of "User profile" in your preferences if you want to.
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The thanks button sometimes didn't work for mobile users. This was because of a new bug and has now been fixed.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 August. It will be on all wikis from 10 August (
calendar).
Future changes
Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install
Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP.
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Links to sections on Wikipedia don't work well in languages that don't use the
Latin script. The
URL in the address bar in your browser shows Latin characters like .D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8 instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months.
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Wiki pages printed by the web browser "Print" function will have an updated style. This new style will be similar to the when you download a page as PDF. It will be better at showing tables, infoboxes and headings.
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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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Recent changes
Bureaucrats can now set users as
confirmed. Previously only stewards could do this on most wikis. Nothing will change for wikis that have previously decided to let administrators set users as confirmed.
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Problems
The symbols in the language list that show that an article is good or featured in that language doesn't work. Links to the Commons category in the sidebar doesn't work either. The developers are working on fixing it.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (
calendar).
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Your watchlist can now have the option to unwatch pages. You have to turn this on in your preferences.
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If a table has several columns you can often choose which column you want to use to sort the table. This has not worked for some columns for readers who have used Firefox or Safari. This has now been fixed.
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The
RelatedArticles extension has shown related pages on Wikivoyages. You will now see the related pages at the end of the article together with an image. Previously the links were in the sidebar. Wikis that want this extension can request it on
Phabricator.
Changes later this week
Videos will now be played in the
WebM format in all browsers. Previously some browsers used
Ogg Theora (.ogv). If you use Safari, Internet Explorer or Edge you may see slower playback speed at high resolutions. Instead we will get better quality and smaller file size. You can still upload video as Ogg files. They are automatically converted to WebM. This doesn't affect Ogg audio files.
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The default font in the edit window will change for some users this week. Instead of using the browser default, it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
23 August at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
22 August at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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Recent changes
Syntax highlighting is now a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It will come to right-to-left wikis later. This beta feature is based on
CodeMirror.
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You will now
get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can turn this off or choose to get an email notification in your preferences. You can also turn on to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address.
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Problems
Some pages show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a
Lua module that use Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this problem. You still need to fix pages that were broken before and still show the error message. You can see how
on this page.
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Changes later this week
You can block users from sending you notifications.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
29 August at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
In the future you will have
global preferences. This means you could set something in your preferences to work in the same way on all wikis. You will not be forced to use global preferences. The developers are now asking if editors need exceptions. This is where you want to use global settings on almost all wikis, but have some wikis where you want it to work in a different way. If you want this you need to tell the developers now. You can do so on
the talk page.
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New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September.
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The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 in September 2017. Wikis can
ask on Phabricator to get it early, so they can help find and solve problems now.
Round 4 of the WikiCup has ended and we move forward into the final round. In round 4, a total of 12 FAs, 3 FLs, 44 GAs, 3 FLs, 79 DYKs, 1 ITN and 42 GARs was achieved, with no FPs or FTs this time. Congratulations to
Peacemaker67 on the
Royal Yugoslav Navy Good Topic of 36 items, and the 12 featured articles achieved by
Cas Liber (5),
Vanamonde93 (3), Peacemaker67 (2),
Adityavagarwal (1) and
12george1 (1). With a FA scoring 200 points, and bonus points available on top of this, FAs are likely to feature heavily in the final round. Meanwhile
Yellow Evan, a typhoon specialist, was contributing 12 DYKs and 10 GAs, while Adityavagarwal and
Freikorp topped the GAR list with 8 reviews each. As we enter the final round, we are down to eight contestants, and we would like to thank those of you who have been eliminated for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. The lowest score needed to reach round 5 was 305, and I think we can expect a highly competitive final round.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on
Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on
Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck, and let the best man (or woman) win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from
Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.
Godot13,
Sturmvogel 66 and
Cwmhiraeth 06:25, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
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Tech News
We are asking Tech News readers five questions to make the newsletter better.
You can answer the questions here. We are grateful for every reply we get.
Recent changes
The
RevisionSlider user interface has changed. You can now select revisions by clicking on the bars. You can move the blue knob past the yellow one and the yellow one will move along, and the other way around.
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Problems
Some users have problems loading very large watchlists. It is working better than earlier but the problem has not been solved. The developers are working on fixing it. Until it has been fixed you can turn on "Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent" in your preferences and see if it helps.
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Changes later this week
New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
5 September at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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Recent changes
You can get a
notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis.
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The
Newsletter extension is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later.
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The
Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category: tidy-whitespace-bug. This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more
about using Linter and the
Tidy whitespace bug.
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Problems
Tech News
2017/36 reported about
new filters for edit review coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (
calendar).
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
13 September at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
12 September at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
You can't use
OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use
Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can
read more on mediawiki.org.
Wisconsin and South Carolina Map with County Lines, no highlighting, for making regional maps
Hi there, I was pointed to you as someone who makes most of the US State maps with highlighted counties. Do you create copies of the state level maps with county lines without highlighting, or would it be easy for a beginner to create them? I don't know how maps are created, but I would like to try my hand at creating region maps for a couple states, and I was thinking blank maps would be a good place to start. -
Furicorn (
talk) 04:03, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
What I think you are looking for can be found at
Commons:Category:Wisconsin county locator maps (same for SC), and you can use an SVG editor to color any, many or none of the counties whatever color(s) you need, and so remove the highlighting of the county you don't want. Just download a file from there to get started. Ask if you need any more help. Rcsprinter123(inform) 15:25, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
Thanks, I'm taking a look at that. I downloaded one of the images and and am trying to use SVG-edit, but I'm not sure how to get rid of the red county highlighting. I'm sorry but I really am bad at image editing. -
Furicorn (
talk) 10:59, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
Which image software are you using? I recommend Inkscape, which is very easy to use. You can change the colors of any element of the file on there. (Be familiar with the differences between raster and vector graphics first.) Rcsprinter123(spout) 23:03, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
I was just using an online editor called SVG-edit, but it didn't work. I'll give inkscape a try. -
Furicorn (
talk) 08:32, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
Here's what I managed to put together for wisconsing (I couldn't figure out how to get rid of all the red, but it's mostly gone). -
Furicorn (
talk) 09:19, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
OK, I uploaded a new version of that file so you can see what I did. I downloaded one of the files from the category I linked to above, opened it in Inkscape, selected the red county, and changed the fill to white, and it took less than a minute. Your version seemed to consist of a raster version of the downloaded file, with a vector white area drawn over most of the red county. You must have downloaded something wrongly or not found the right buttons within Inkscape. Could I be of any assistance creating these region maps for your project? Rcsprinter123(quip) 19:18, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
I'm trying to create a map of regions based on the
DNR regions. Here is my attempt at that
File:Map of Wisconsin AllRegionsDNR-Highlighted.svg. Ideally each region would be superimposed with its name (i.e. Northern, Northeast, South Central, Southeast, and West Central), and there would also be one version per region with that particular region broken out from the state like in the DNR images. -
Furicorn (
talk) 01:41, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
I've made another version of the region maps and uploaded it over yours. I had a try at popping out the regions but the base files are made in such a way that individual counties can't be moved. Which article(s) are the one-highlighted ones going to be put on to? I can make those too. Rcsprinter123(face) 17:58, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
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Recent changes
You can now see contributions from an
IP range at
Special:Contributions. Before you could only see contributions from single
IP addresses. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
19 September at 18:30 (UTC). See
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
20 September at 15:00 (UTC). See
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Recent changes
Wikitext
syntax highlighting is a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. This beta feature is based on
CodeMirror. You can now search through the entire article with CTRL+F or cmd+F when you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs.
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You now
get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences.
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Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September. (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
27 September at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can't use
OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can still create PDFs.
Tech News 2017/37 said the function to create PDFs from books would still work. It is now clear it will not work for the next few months. The developers are working on fixing this. You can
read more on mediawiki.org.
Apologies if I've missed something but where does it say that "Class" has to be included in the table? It seems quite repetitive and unnecessary to me -
Coradia175 (
talk) 20:16, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
It's just a widely-used and simple convention that seems easier to follow. From a reader's point of view, will they realise that the number in the column should be combined with the column heading to form the type's name of 'Class xxx'? Additionally, these changes have been instigated by a disruptive IP who has today been blocked, which seems like a good reason to revert. Rcsprinter123(drone) 20:54, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
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Recent changes
You can now use
preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it.
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Changes later this week
If you have turned on "Automatically enable most beta features" you will now get the
2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature.
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The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
3 October at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
4 October at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can
give feedback on this feature.
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The search function has used
fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can
read more and give feedback.
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Recent changes
The number of active users listed by {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}} and on
Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too.
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You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at
06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models.
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Changes later this week
The font in the edit window is
monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week.
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If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can
read more on mediawiki.org.
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
10 October at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
11 October at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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Recent changes
When you edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's format configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in
more powerful ways if your wiki wants it.
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The
TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now
try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can
give feedback to the developers.
Problems
There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis.
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Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this.
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Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed.
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Changes later this week
Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install
Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
17 October at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
18 October at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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Recent changes
You can use ccnorm_contains_any when you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more
in the documentation.
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Changes later this week
When you search in some languages the search function could use specific other languages if the first language didn't work. This is called a fallback language. This didn't work properly and created bad searches. The search index is being fixed to work better.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
24 October at 18:30 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
25 October at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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Recent changes
You can now block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
31 October at 18:30 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
1 November at 16:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
This edit seems to now be pointing at three non-existent archive pages. I guess that it wasn't intended to do that?
The Rambling Man (
talk) 08:47, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
That appears to be the functionality of the itndate parameters of {{Article history}}, but I don't know why, who wrote that or how to get to the source of it. It is the bot's practise to consolidate into an {{Article history}} template where one exists, to avoid having loads and loads of {{ITN talk}} boxes filling up the page top. Rcsprinter123(witter) 13:14, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
It didn't seem to be a problem until a day or two ago....
The Rambling Man (
talk) 13:21, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
WikiCup 2017 November newsletter: Final results
The final round of the 2017 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2017 WikiCup top three finalists:
In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:
Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a two-way tie with themselves for an astonishing five FAs in R2 and R4).
Good Article – Adityavagarwal had 14 GAs promoted in R5.
Over the course of the 2017 WikiCup the following content was added or improved on Wikipedia: 51 Featured Articles, 292 Good Articles, 18 Featured Lists, 1 Featured Picture, 1 Featured Topics, 4 Good Topics, around 400 Did You Knows, 75 In The News, and 442 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.
Regarding the prize vouchers - @
Adityavagarwal,
Vanamonde93,
Casliber,
Bloom6132,
1989, and
SounderBruce: please send
Godot13 (
talk·contribs·email) an email from the email address to which you would like your Amazon voucher sent. Please include your preference of global Amazon
marketplace as well. We hope to have the electronic gift cards processed and sent within a week.
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 will no longer see the patrol log on
Special:Log unless you specifically select it.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
8 November at 16:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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 later this week
The diff you see when you compare two different versions of a page has changed on
MediaWiki.org and
the test wiki. This is to make it easier to find a text change in a moved paragraph. It will hopefully soon come to more wikis. You can
report bugs in Phabricator.
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A new user group on Commons will be able to upload
MP3 files. The plan is to have this user group from 17 November.
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Wikis using Flagged Revisions will get the
New filters for Edit Review by default on the recent changes pages. It will be possible to opt-out in user preferences.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
15 November at 16:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
Support for uploading and viewing 3D models is coming soon to Wikimedia Commons. The feature will support the
.STL file format. You can see an example
on the test wiki.
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So the 2017 WikiCup has come to an end. Congratulations to the winner, to the other finalists and to all those who took part. 177 contestants signed up, more than usual, but not all of them submitted entries in the first round. Were editors attracted by the cash prizes offered for the first time this year, or were these irrelevant? Do the rules and scoring need changing for the 2018 WikiCup? If you have a view on these or other matters, why not join in the
WikiCup discussion about next year's contest?
Sturmvogel 66 (
talk·contribs·email),
Godot13 (
talk·contribs·email) and
Cwmhiraeth (
talk·contribs·email).
MediaWiki message delivery (
talk) 13:59, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
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Translations are available.
Recent changes
If you use the Chrome web browser on
Android you can see a download icon on the mobile website. You can download a formatted PDF. It will work in other mobile browsers in the future.
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The abuse filter now has a function called get_matches. You can use it to store matches from regular expressions – one of each capturing group. You can read more
in Phabricator.
Problems
Last week's MediaWiki version didn't come to all Wikipedias because of a database crash. It will be on all wikis on 20 November.
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Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
21 November at 19:30 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
22 November at 16:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
Language converter syntax will no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week.
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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 test the new
advanced search function beta feature on mediawiki.org. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It will come to German and Arabic Wikipedia this week. It will come to more wikis later.
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You can now upload large files with the
Internet Archive upload tool. Previously you could not upload files larger than 100 MB.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
28 November at 19:30 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
29 November at 16:00 (UTC). See
how to join.