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Tech News: 2014-44

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

• There was an issue with files from Commons on October 21. You could only see those with names between 140 and 159 characters by visiting Commons itself. [1]
• There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It was fixed quickly. [2]
• There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [3]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every Wednesday, instead of every Thursday. [4]
• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
• VisualEditor now uses autovalues for templates if they are in TemplateData. [5] [6] [7]
• VisualEditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them. [8]
• VisualEditor now opens faster when you click "edit". [9]
• The rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages. Interface translations are currently not being updated from translatewiki.net; this process will start again on November 6. [10]

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05:20, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-45

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

• The "Special:Cite" page is now called "Special:CiteThisPage". That way, you know it's to cite the page, not to add a reference. [11]
• You can no longer use the insource: keyword for text searches. It caused issues with the new search tool. It will come back later. [12] [13]

Problems

• There was a bug in VisualEditor with Internet Explorer. It hid tools like the link editor when you opened them. The bug was fixed on Monday. [14]
• Issues with the new search tool caused geo data code to show up on pages on Monday and Friday. The mobile "nearby" tool was also broken. The problem is now fixed. [15] [16] [17]
• HHVM caused server issues on Thursday. They are now fixed.

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4, and on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).
• Some wikis have icons at the top of a page to show if it is protected or featured. Icons show up using CSS. You can now use the <indicator> tag in these templates instead to add the icons. [18] [19]
• VisualEditor now tells you if you're editing a re-used reference. This helps you avoid changing it if you just want to add a new one. [20]
• The icons in VisualEditor's template editor tool for adding more fields are back, along with other fixes. [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]
• After November 6, all wikis will have the tool to edit TemplateData. [26] [27] [28]

Future changes

• The new search tool will come to the last wikis in the coming weeks. This includes Wikipedia in French, Chinese, German and English. [29]

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17:28, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-46

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 may see a new tool on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [30] [31]
• The MediaWiki API now shows information in a nice format. You can translate it in translatewiki.net. [32]

File information cleanup

• Reminder: You can help fix file information on your wiki. It will help robots understand the information. After that, it will be easier for you to search files and re-use them.
• You can join two IRC chats this week to learn more about the file cleanup project. One will be on Wednesday at 18:00 (UTC) and the other on Thursday at 04:00 (UTC). You can ask questions during the chat if you need help to fix files on your wiki.
• You can see a list of files to fix on the Labs tool. You can report bugs and ask questions on the talk page.

Problems

• Wikimedia Labs was broken for a few hours on Thursday. It was due to a hardware problem. [33]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf7) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11, and on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).
• You can now use more editing tools for tables in VisualEditor. You can add rows and columns, merge cells, and edit table captions. [34] [35]
• The style and insert menus in the toolbar of VisualEditor now show fewer tools. This helps you see the most common tasks. You can see all items by clicking "More". [36]
• The way windows inside VisualEditor work has changed. VisualEditor should be faster and have fewer bugs. [37]

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15:00, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - November 2014

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02:12, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-47

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf8) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 12. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18, and on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).
• The new search tool ("CirrusSearch") will be on the English Wikipedia from November 19. [38]

Move from Bugzilla to Phabricator

• The tool to track bugs will change on November 21.
• You won't be able to add or edit bugs between November 21 and November 24.
• You can make the change easier for you by creating your account.
• Bugzilla will be frozen after the change. You will see, edit and report bugs in Phabricator.
• You can join two IRC chats to learn more about the change. The chats will be on Tuesday, November 18 at 16:00 (UTC) and 23:00 UTC. [39]

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18:28, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Correction on Sean Connery page.

I did not realize that s meant shilling. I thought it was something left over from a previous edit that I was attempting to clean up. Thank you for correcting my mistake. Gabe1972 (talk) 11:48, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

May be needs clarifying for those who do not know old UK currency, possibly a dash to join the parts together. Keith D (talk) 11:57, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Or just in the standard notation of the time, maybe with an appropriate link? As for Gabe1972, the clue (05/02/71) is perhaps in the user name! :) Best wishes to all DBaK (talk) 12:26, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-48

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 move from Bugzilla to Phabricator is done. You can now report bugs in Phabricator. [40]

Problems

• There was a problem when editing tables in VisualEditor. VisualEditor was trying to fix bad values for the colspan or rowspan option. VisualEditor now leaves the bad values to avoid making things worse. This was fixed on November 17. [41]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf9) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 19. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 25, and on all Wikipedias from November 26 (calendar).
• You will be able to try VisualEditor on many new wikis for the first time. After November 26, VisualEditor will become available on Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews wikis. You can find it in your Beta options. [42]
• VisualEditor now tells you if your edit needs to be approved. [43]
• You can now use VisualEditor's tools directly when you resume editing after closing the save window. [44]
• VisualEditor's table editing tools now work better in right-to-left languages. [45] [46]

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19:31, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - December 2014

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01:10, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Gratitude for your edits, guidance and assistance regards the Berkhamsted article

Just wanted to say thank you your help has been really appreciated. -- BOD -- 20:44, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-50

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

• All users are now getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [47]
• You can join a video chat about Phabricator on December 11 at 18:00 (UTC). Phabricator is the new tool to report issues. [48]

Problems

• There was a problem with Phabricator on November 29. It was due to a network issue. [49]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf11) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 10 (calendar). [50]
• You can now exit VisualEditor by pressing the "Esc" key. [51]
• It is now easier to use VisualEditor with IMEs. Typing in Malayalam now works better. [52] [53]
• The new version of OOjs UI fixed many issues with the size and layout of buttons in dialogs. [54] [55] [56]
• (Lua) You can no longer use mw.text.unstrip to get the HTML from special page transclusion. You can see a list of scripts to fix. [57] [58]

Future changes

• Starting next week JavaScript tools won't work if they use jQuery Migrate. [59]

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17:11, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia genealogy project

Just wondering if you have any thoughts re: the idea of WMF hosting a genealogy project. If so, feel free to contribute to this discussion. And apologies if I have made this request before. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 16:54, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-51

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 may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [60]
• You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects. [61]
• You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf12) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar). [62]
• You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu, Ctrl+F or Cmd+F. [63]
• VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold. [64]
• The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change. [65]

Future changes

• The star image of the watchlist may change soon. [66] [67]
• You won't be able to use Phabricator on December 18, 2014. It will be down between 00:00 and 08:00 (UTC). [68] [69]

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16:43, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Merry Merry

To you and yours

FWiW Bzuk (talk) 15:36, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-52

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

• The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private. [70]

Software changes this week

• There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6. [71]

Future changes

• The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations. [72]
• A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis. [73]

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16:52, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-01

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Software changes

• There are no technical changes this week.

Feedback about Tech News in 2014

• The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2014? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us at m:Talk:Tech/News. You can write in your language. Thank you!

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16:52, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

2015 already

Hi Keith. No frills - just a quiet ‘’all the best’’ to you for 2015 and I hope you’ll continue to be around on Wikipedia for a long time to come. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 15:07, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Dear Keith D,
HAPPY NEW YEAR Hoping 2015 will be a great year for you! Thank you for your contributions!
From a fellow editor,
--FWiW Bzuk (talk)

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Scheduled Monuments in South Somerset/archive1

Hi, You put some comments on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Scheduled Monuments in South Somerset/archive1 but didn't say if you think they are resloved or whether you think there are still issues which stop it meeting the Featured list criteria?— Rod ^talk 11:39, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Somerset Scheduled Monuments lists

Thanks for your helpful comments on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Scheduled Monuments in South Somerset/archive1 which has now been promoted. I've now nominated List of Scheduled Monuments in North Somerset at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Scheduled Monuments in North Somerset/archive1 and would be grateful for any comments you might have. As you know there is a discussion about the column widths etc on these lists at Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates#Column widths in table layout. Thanks for any input.— Rod ^talk 21:20, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - January 2015

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01:25, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

William Bunting (eco-warrior)

Greetings. Sorry I've been away from WP for a while.

This evening on the BBC1 documentary programme Inside Out, the above subject was given some very negative exposure, in which Bunting's own relatives witnessed that he was a child abuser whose conservationist achievements, they said, should not be celebrated, and that they thought that his name should be removed from Bunting Wood at Thorne Moor and possibly from other sites. Although, of course, this type of information should in due course be added to the article, there is the possibility that the programme may initiate a temporary burst of vandalism to the article. As I'm not currently in a position to edit WP regularly, please may I request that you or and admin colleague keep an eye on this article? Thanks. --Storye book (talk) 19:55, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing this out. I have added it to watchlist in case there is any unusual activity. Keith D (talk) 20:27, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. --Storye book (talk) 08:35, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-03

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

• Rotated PDF files in landscape format used to show too small. They will now display correctly. You may need to purge older files. [74]
• You can now use the {{!}} magic word instead of Template:!. Many wikis used the template to create a pipe (|) in tables and templates. You can delete the template. [75]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf14) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from January 13. It will be on all Wikipedias from January 14 (calendar).
• A bug in VisualEditor sometimes added a ☀ (Sun) character. This is now fixed. [76]
• The search and replace tool in VisualEditor is now much faster in long pages. [77]
• The TemplateData editor now uses the same design as VisualEditor. [78] [79] [80]
• The thumb option is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar. [81]

Future changes

• You can sign up to answer questions from designers. It will help them make editing easier. [82]

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16:47, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

January 2015

Hello, I'm Sock. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Keeping Up Appearances because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Sock (tock talk) 17:42, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

I have reverted as the edit I originally reverted was just a repetition of the whole article. Keith D (talk) 17:47, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

I replied below. This was a blunder on my part. I didn't check the editor name, or I would've known I was just looking at it the wrong way. Thanks Keith! Sock (tock talk) 17:48, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Keeping Up Appearances

Thank you for catching that. From what I could see on STiki, it looked like a page blank. I'm still new to the software (in that I downloaded it ten minutes ago), so thanks for fixing my error! Sock (tock talk) 17:47, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-04

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 download the new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. The new version shows lead images, better galleries and content from Wikidata. It also has many other new features.[83] [84]
• Programs and bots still can't read information about images on many wikis. You can see the list of wikis with the most files to fix. Wikipedia in Italian, Indonesian and Japanese language have the most files to fix. On the biggest wikis you should use bots. Bots can add information templates to groups of files. You can ask other tech users to help you.

Problems

• All JavaScript on Commons was broken for a few minutes on Tuesday. It was because of old code in the HotCat tool. The same problem happened on some Wikipedias on Wednesday. It is now fixed. [85]

Software changes this week

• There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings. [86]

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18:13, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-05

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 translate articles with the new ContentTranslation tool on several wikis. [87]

This week

• There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings. [88]

Future changes

• You can join a project to improve WikiProjects. [89]
• The Compact Personal Bar will be removed for now. It has a bug that breaks the tool to choose your language. It will come back when the bug is fixed. [90]

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16:08, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

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