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You can now translate all sister project pages to your language, like
Wikidata:Wikipedia. Please, link to them from your projects to give your fellow users chance to learn Wikidata basics.
You can now enable the CoordinateDiffMap Gadget in your preferences to get a map for coordinate changes.
Got the demo system for structured data on Commons ready for first show (see above)
Wikipedia editors will soon get a notification when an article they created was connected to a Wikidata item. Thanks Matej! (
phabricator:T110604)
Worked on improving handling of +-1 etc in quantities (
phabricator:T115269)
Added a message to the suggester that pops up when you search for items or properties. When no matching property or item is found it will now tell you. (
phabricator:T140085)
Considerably improved our browser tests to find more issues before You ever see them.
Added Haida as a language available for monolingual text properties (
phabricator:T138131)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
The
RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.
Problems
Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed.
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Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (
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
2 August at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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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
In notifications, the icon for Notices has been changed from a speech-bubble icon () to a tray icon () for consistency. The Alerts icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility.
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Problems
If you use the
wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed.
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Changes this week
Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a
wildcard.
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On Commons,
UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images.
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When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template.
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The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August.
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When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (
calendar).
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
August 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Worked on layout improvements to have a better visual separation of qualifiers and references (
phabricator:T141862)
Added a line to the suggester to indicate when no matching item or property was found (
phabricator:T142034)
Fixed and issue with scroll bars in the logo section of the ArticlePlaceholder (
phabricator:T139977)
Worked more on making it possible to translate an article in the ArticlePlaceholder (
phabricator:T124036)
Worked on fixing link in in other languages section for ArticlePlaceholder (
phabricator:T137933)
Worked more on groundwork for multi content revisions which we need for structured data support for Commons in order to have structured and unstructured data on the file page at the same time (
phabricator:T141878)
Worked on automatically creating a mediainfo entity when adding a statement - so far it is only possible by adding a label or description (
phabricator:T140760)