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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 (
1.24wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (
calendar).
You can now use
guided tours on the Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to
translate it and ask in
Bugzilla.
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VisualEditor news
You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor.
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The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content.
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You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor.
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You will be able to use information from
Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10.
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On wikis with the
Translate extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the
page migration tool to import existing translations to the new system.
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You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (
example video,
example audio). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly.
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Templates containing <ref> or <references> tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching.
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You will no longer be able to use
Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it.
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Hello! I don't know if you're aware but there is a
wikimedia meet up in Leeds this Saturday (14 June) if you're interested. Hopefully you can make it. Regards
IJA (
talk) 17:33, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi
IJA: Leeds is a bit of a long way for me, I'm afraid. Hope you get lots of attendees though. —
Tom Morris (
talk) 18:00, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
Also if you're thinking of any future York meet ups, let me know. Regards
IJA (
talk) 18:04, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
IJA, I think you might be confusing me with someone else. I've never been to a York meetup. I've never been to York. I'm in London. But thanks for the offer. —
Tom Morris (
talk) 20:25, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
I must apologise, I've blatantly lost my marbles!
IJA (
talk) 22:53, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
As stated by other contributors to the above request - this is a notable piece of software with global usage in very large organizations. However both contributors to the AFD deemed it “non-notable”.
What is the process to have this reviewed or re-posted?
{
Leggattst (
talk)}
Hi
Leggattst. Wikipedia articles need to show that there are multiple reliable sources covering the topic in detail. I've looked at the deleted version of the article and also done some checking on Google and I can't find enough sources to satisfy notability. If there are sources which are reliable, in-depth and independent, it'd be helpful if you could point me to them. I'm happy to move the article into Draft state and then when you think the article is ready, it can be submitted through
articles for creation so another pair of eyes can look over it and check the sources. Does that seem reasonable? —
Tom Morris (
talk) 09:56, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi
Tom Morris,
Under References the first ten entries are from independent authors.
CSIRO (Australia), Object Management Group
OMG (US), IPG insurance (New Zealand), Doug Rosenberg
Iconix (US), Frank Truen - Cephas (US), Phil Chudley - Dunstan Thomas (UK). A couple of these are published on the Sparx site, but other independant sources for these possibly could be set.
Do you think there needs to be more independent papers or case studies? There are others available.
Some years ago there was a bibliography listing books written about the application. This was removed for reasons that a bibliography was not relevant. Would you prefer something like that is restored?
Leggattst (
talk) 07:15, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #113
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
More cleanup for the coming switch to WikibaseDataModel 1.0.
Icinga Dispatch Lag monitoring scripts, including IRC notifier bot, have been tested and are ready for Ops implementation. This should give us quicker notifications in case the notifications to Wikipedia and co about changes on Wikidata are slow again.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (
1.24wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 17, and to all Wikipedias on June 19 (
calendar).
You can now read a
summary of the Wikimedia technical report for May 2014.
VisualEditor news
You can now easily see the target of a link or other information using the context menu.
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When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to switch it to re-use another reference.
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You can now add and edit {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and __DISAMBIG__ in the page settings menu.
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The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler; the order of mathematical symbols is now correct.
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You will no longer see image thumbnails on search results pages on Wikibooks and Wikisource wikis.
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It will soon be possible to globally rename global (
SUL) users.
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Tablet users will be redirected to the mobile view of Wikimedia wikis starting on June 17.
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The special page that
lists most linked-to templates will soon include pages from all namespaces; it will also be renamed to Special:MostTranscludedPages.
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An
IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on June 17 at 17:30 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (
time conversion). You can also read a
blog post about the upcoming switch to Phabricator.
You can now comment on the draft
2014-15 goals of the Wikimedia Foundation engineering department.
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