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Tech News: 2015-34

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

  • Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [1] [2] [3]
  • Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems. [4]

Problems

  • Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [5] [6]
  • On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [7]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
  • You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category. [8]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 18 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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15:58، 17 أغسطس 2015 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2015-34

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

  • Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [9] [10] [11]
  • Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems. [12]

Problems

  • Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [13] [14]
  • On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [15]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
  • You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category. [16]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 18 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:09، 17 أغسطس 2015 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2015-35

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

  • Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function. [17]

Problems

  • There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed. [18]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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12:48، 24 أغسطس 2015 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2015-36

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

  • VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC. [19][20]
  • The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [21]
  • VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead. [22]
  • Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [23]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 1 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9. [24]

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21:33، 31 أغسطس 2015 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2015-37

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 mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users. [25]
  • A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [26]
  • You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [27]

Problems

  • There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed. [28]
  • The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [29][30]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
  • The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters. [31]
  • The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page. [32][33]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 8 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the Wikitech ambassadors mailing list. The list is for Wikimedians interested in spreading information about Wikimedia technology news. See how to join.

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours. [34]
  • Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [35][36]

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17:21، 7 سبتمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2015-38

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 the Wikidata query service. [37]
  • Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wiki.x.io to be-tarask.wiki.x.io. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [38]
  • Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [39][40]

Problems

  • There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [41]
  • The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [42]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [43]
  • The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [44]

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16:12، 14 سبتمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2015-39

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 is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here. [45][46]
  • Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong. [47][48][49][50]
  • More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [51]
  • The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [52]

Problems

  • Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time. [53]
  • Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [54][55]
  • UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [56]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
  • The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms. [57]
  • You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it. [58]
  • Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [59]

Meetings

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18:19، 21 سبتمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2015-40

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

  • In UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them. [60]
  • UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [61]
  • You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [62]
  • When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [63]
  • You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [64]
  • The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [65]
  • MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in Gerrit. The goal was to clean up the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers. [66]

Problems

  • Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [67][68]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar).
  • There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide if they want to enable it. [69]
  • The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan. [70]

Meetings

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia Foundation developers want the community to decide who can use OAuth in the future. You can discuss it on Meta.

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15:02، 28 سبتمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2015-41

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 link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile. [72]
  • The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [73]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar).
  • UploadWizard will remind users to add a category. [74]
  • UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [75]
  • A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [76]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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18:26، 5 أكتوبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2015-42

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 database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters. [77]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar).
  • You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing. [78]
  • Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [79]

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 13 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:23، 12 أكتوبر 2015 (ت ع م)

لقد تم اختيارك عشوائيا للمشاركة في استبيان مختصر تم تحضيره بواسطة فريق خدمة تقنيات المجتمع

التعليق الأخير: قبل 9 سنواتتعليق واحدشخص واحد في النقاش

https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6QIHWaUg14qL1D7

يهدف الاستبيان لقياس مدى رضاء المجتمع عن الدعم التقني (للأدوات والإمدادات) الذي تقدمة مؤسسة ويكيميديا لويكيبيديا وبخاصة احتياجات الأعضاء الفاعلين في مجتمع ويكيبيديا العربية العربية. لمعرفة المزيد عن الاستبيان برجاء زيارة Research:Tech support satisfaction poll.

يمكنك ازالة اسمك من قائمة المسجلين حتى تتوقف عن تلقي تحديثات الاستبيان. برجاء زيارة Tech support satisfaction poll/Target lists/Arabic.

MediaWiki message delivery (نقاش) 20:42، 15 أكتوبر 2015 (ت ع م)

لقد تم اختيارك عشوائيا للمشاركة في استبيان مختصر تم تحضيره بواسطة فريق خدمة تقنيات المجتمع

التعليق الأخير: قبل 9 سنواتتعليق واحدشخص واحد في النقاش

https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6QIHWaUg14qL1D7

يهدف الاستبيان لقياس مدى رضاء المجتمع عن الدعم التقني (للأدوات والإمدادات) الذي تقدمة مؤسسة ويكيميديا لويكيبيديا وبخاصة احتياجات الأعضاء الفاعلين في مجتمع ويكيبيديا العربية العربية. لمعرفة المزيد عن الاستبيان برجاء زيارة Research:Tech support satisfaction poll.

يمكنك ازالة اسمك من قائمة المسجلين حتى تتوقف عن تلقي تحديثات الاستبيان. برجاء زيارة Tech support satisfaction poll/Target lists/Arabic.

MediaWiki message delivery (نقاش) 20:43، 15 أكتوبر 2015 (ت ع م)

لقد تم اختيارك عشوائيا للمشاركة في استبيان مختصر تم تحضيره بواسطة فريق خدمة تقنيات المجتمع

التعليق الأخير: قبل 9 سنواتتعليق واحدشخص واحد في النقاش

https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6QIHWaUg14qL1D7

يهدف الاستبيان لقياس مدى رضاء المجتمع عن الدعم التقني (للأدوات والإمدادات) الذي تقدمة مؤسسة ويكيميديا لويكيبيديا وبخاصة احتياجات الأعضاء الفاعلين في مجتمع ويكيبيديا العربية العربية. لمعرفة المزيد عن الاستبيان برجاء زيارة Research:Tech support satisfaction poll.

يمكنك ازالة اسمك من قائمة المسجلين حتى تتوقف عن تلقي تحديثات الاستبيان. برجاء زيارة Research:Tech support satisfaction poll/Target lists/Arabic.

MediaWiki message delivery (نقاش) 20:44، 15 أكتوبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2015-43

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

  • Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The   icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The   icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback on this change.
  • Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [80]

Problems

  • A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [81]
  • Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [82]
  • The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen. [83]

Changes this week

  • Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [84]
  • Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [85][86][87][88]

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 20 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:56، 19 أكتوبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2015-44

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

Changes this week

  • The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools. [89]
  • You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "أدرج الملف" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor. [90][91]
  • When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [92][93]
  •   Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [94]

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15:37، 26 أكتوبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2015-44

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

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
  • The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools. [95]
  • You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "أدرج الملف" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor. [96][97]
  • When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [98][99]
  •   Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [100]

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18:00، 26 أكتوبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2015-45

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 changes

  • You can now see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [101]
  • If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [102]
  • Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [103]

Problems

  • On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [104]

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  •   A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links. [105]
  • Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [106]

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16:37، 2 نوفمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2015-46

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 changes

  • Superprotect has been removed. [107]
  • You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [108]
  •   JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [109]

Problems

  • Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [110]

Changes this week

  • Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [111]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (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 10 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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17:06، 9 نوفمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2015-46

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 changes

  • Superprotect has been removed. [114]
  • You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [115]
  •   JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [116]

Problems

  • Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [117]

Changes this week

  • Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [118]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (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 10 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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17:11، 9 نوفمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2015-46

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 changes

  • Superprotect has been removed. [121]
  • You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [122]
  •   JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [123]

Problems

  • Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [124]

Changes this week

  • Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [125]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (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 10 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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17:16، 9 نوفمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Community Wishlist Survey

التعليق الأخير: قبل 9 سنواتتعليق واحدشخص واحد في النقاش

Hi everyone! Apologies for writing in English. Translations are very welcome.

The Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is focused on building improved curation and moderation tools for experienced Wikimedia contributors. We're now starting a Community Wishlist Survey to find the most useful projects that we can work on.

For phase 1 of the survey, we're inviting all active contributors to submit brief proposals, explaining the project that you'd like us to work on, and why it's important. Phase 1 will last for 2 weeks. In phase 2, we'll ask you to vote on the proposals. Afterwards, we'll analyze the top 10 proposals and create a prioritized wishlist.

While most of this process will be conducted in English, we're inviting people from any Wikimedia wiki to submit proposals. We'll also invite volunteer translators to help translate proposals into English.

Your proposal should include: the problem that you want to solve, who would benefit, and a proposed solution, if you have one. You can submit your proposal on the Community Wishlist Survey page, using the entry field and the big blue button. We will be accepting proposals for 2 weeks, ending on November 23.

We're looking forward to hearing your ideas!

MediaWiki message delivery (نقاش) 20:54، 9 نوفمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Community Wishlist Survey

التعليق الأخير: قبل 9 سنواتتعليق واحدشخص واحد في النقاش

Hi everyone! Apologies for posting this in English. Translations are very welcome.

The Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is focused on building improved curation and moderation tools for experienced Wikimedia contributors. We're now starting a Community Wishlist Survey to find the most useful projects that we can work on.

For phase 1 of the survey, we're inviting all active contributors to submit brief proposals, explaining the project that you'd like us to work on, and why it's important. Phase 1 will last for 2 weeks. In phase 2, we'll ask you to vote on the proposals. Afterwards, we'll analyze the top 10 proposals and create a prioritized wishlist.

While most of this process will be conducted in English, we're inviting people from any Wikimedia wiki to submit proposals. We'll also invite volunteer translators to help translate proposals into English.

Your proposal should include: the problem that you want to solve, who would benefit, and a proposed solution, if you have one. You can submit your proposal on the Community Wishlist Survey page, using the entry field and the big blue button. We will be accepting proposals for 2 weeks, ending on November 23.

We're looking forward to hearing your ideas!

Community Tech Team via MediaWiki message delivery (نقاش) 21:38، 9 نوفمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2015-47

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

Changes this week

  • You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information. [128]
  • Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [129]
  • The Community Tech team is doing a community wishlist survey to understand what they should be working on. They are now accepting proposals in all languages. You can create your proposal in the small box above the blue button and click it when you're done.
  • Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [130]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 19 (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 17 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. The change will happen in January 2016. [131][132]

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19:37، 16 نوفمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2015-48

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

  •   A new Pageview API has been announced. Feedback is requested to help decide which data to add to it next.

Changes this week

  • There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  •   From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats. [133]

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20:24، 23 نوفمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2015-49

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 symbol for advanced news items has been changed. This is because the symbols were too similar. If a news item is for more technical readers it now looks like this:  . You can give feedback on this change.

Problems

  • On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015. [134]
  • Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed. [135]

Changes this week

  • Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [136][137]
  • There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [138]
  • Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified. [139]

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16:14، 30 نوفمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Community Wishlist Survey

التعليق الأخير: قبل 9 سنواتتعليق واحدشخص واحد في النقاش

Hi everyone! Apologies for posting this in English. Translations are very welcome.

We're beginning the second part of the Community Tech team's Community Wishlist Survey, and we're inviting all active contributors to vote on the proposals that have been submitted.

Thanks to you and other Wikimedia contributors, 111 proposals were submitted to the team. We've split the proposals into categories, and now it's time to vote! You can vote for any proposal listed on the pages, using the {{Support}} tag. Feel free to add comments pro or con, but only support votes will be counted. The voting period will be 2 weeks, ending on December 14.

The proposals with the most support votes will be the team's top priority backlog to investigate and address. Thank you for participating, and we're looking forward to hearing what you think!

Community Tech via

MediaWiki message delivery (نقاش) 14:31، 1 ديسمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2015-50

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 changes

  • Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias. [140]

Problems

  • Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [141]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [142]
  • IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [143]
  • You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be. [144]
  • It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [145]
  • You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor. [146]
  • UploadWizard will look a bit different. [147]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
  • New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays. [148]

Meetings

Future changes

  • A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default. [149]

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17:47، 7 ديسمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2015-51

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

Changes this week

  • Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [150]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 17 December. (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

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17:38، 14 ديسمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Test tech news

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

Tech News

  • Because of the holidays, the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2016.
  • 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 2015? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes

  • CompletionSuggester is a new suggestions algorithm for Search. It is available as a Beta feature since 17 December. (more information)
  • The Multimedia team is running an A/B test for the cross-wiki upload tool. They are testing four different interfaces. The test is running from 16-23 December. (more information)

Changes this week

  • There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 (calendar).

Meetings

  • Should administrators and other users with advanced tools need stronger passwords? You can discuss about it in a Request for Comments.
  • No meeting with the VisualEditor team on 22 and 29 December, and 5 January.

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18:20، 21 ديسمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-02

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

Problems

  • Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated. [155]

Changes this week

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 12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  •   URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. [160]
  • The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab. [161][162]
  • There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [163][164]
  • The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.

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16:54، 11 يناير 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-03

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 changes

  • You will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [165]
  • Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis. [166]

Changes this week

  • The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving. [167]
  •   MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change. [168]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (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 19 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  •   You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is governance model. The meeting will be on 20 January at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:53، 18 يناير 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-04

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 now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [169][170]
  • Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [171]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [172]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (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 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [173]
  • The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [174]
  • Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [175]

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16:35، 25 يناير 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-05

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

Problems

  • Sites with a wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [176]
  • Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [177][178]
  • Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [179]

Changes this week

  • The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [180]
  • Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [181][182]
  • The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [183]
  • The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [184][185][186]
  • The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [187][188]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  •   The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead. [189]

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20:33، 1 فبراير 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-05

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

Problems

  • Sites with a wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [190]
  • Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [191][192]
  • Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [193]

Changes this week

  • The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [194]
  • Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [195][196]
  • The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [197]
  • The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [198][199][200]
  • The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [201][202]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  •   The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead. [203]

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20:38، 1 فبراير 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-05

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

Problems

  • Sites with a wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [204]
  • Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [205][206]
  • Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [207]

Changes this week

  • The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [208]
  • Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [209][210]
  • The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [211]
  • The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [212][213][214]
  • The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [215][216]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  •   The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead. [217]

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20:40، 1 فبراير 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-06

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

  • Syntax highlighting support is now available for 53 more computer languages. [218]
  • When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [219]
  •   RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [220]

Changes this week

  • Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [221][222]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [223][224]
  • Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [225][226][227]

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18:56، 8 فبراير 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-07

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 edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [228]
  • You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas. [229]

Problems

  • A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [230][231]

Changes this week

  • There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [232][233]
  • Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [234]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (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 16 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [235]

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16:12، 15 فبراير 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-08

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

Problems

  • There was no new MediaWiki version last week. Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week instead. This is because of a bug that made saving pages take longer time. [238][239]

Changes this week

  • After February 23, you can use Wikidata for inter-language links on Wikiversity. [240]

Meetings

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18:20، 22 فبراير 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-09

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

  • Thanks to the Graph extension and Pageview API, we now have {{Graph:PageViews}} templates that can show pageviews for any wiki page for any of the wikis. See the examples.
  • The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
  • The visual editor now follows the TemplateData format setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [241][242]
  • The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [243][244]

Changes this week

  • On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences. [245]
  • Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [246]
  • Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [247]

Meetings

  • Resigning Executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project. [248]
  • You can join a Tech Talk about "automated citations in Wikipedia: Citoid and the technology behind it" on Monday February 29th at 20:00 UTC, hosted by Sebastian Karcher (Zotero). [249][250]
  •   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 1 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:00، 29 فبراير 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-09

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

  • Thanks to the Graph extension and Pageview API, we now have {{Graph:PageViews}} templates that can show pageviews for any wiki page for any of the wikis. See the examples.
  • The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
  • The visual editor now follows the TemplateData format setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [251][252]
  • The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [253][254]

Changes this week

  • On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences. [255]
  • Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [256]
  • Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [257]

Meetings

  • Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project. [258]
  •   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 1 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:09، 29 فبراير 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-10

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

  • Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB. [259]
  • Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one. [260]
  • The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the Eqiad cluster have now been upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again because of this. [261]
  • It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app. [262]
  •   Bare attributes in tags now parse according to the HTML5 specifications. <pages from= to= section=1> will parse as <pages from="to=" section="1"> instead of <pages from="" to="" section="1"> as it used to. Please use <pages from="" to="" section=1> or <pages section=1> instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on Wikisource projects. [263]

Problems

  • Phabricator has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now. [264]
  • The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title. [265]
  • The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource. [266]
  • You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of contents. This should be fixed soon. [267]
  • Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes. [268]

Changes this week

  • Cross-wiki notifications will be enabled as a beta feature on all wikis on 10 March. You will be able to get notifications when something happens on another Wikimedia wiki. [269]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).
  • Wikivoyages will get the Kartographer extension. Kartographer will allow <mapframe> and <maplink> tags in an article to insert an interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas and suggestions to the Maps talk page. If you find any bugs, you can report them in Phabricator. [270]

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 8 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [271]
  • The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The date for this might change. [272]

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20:22، 7 مارس 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-11

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

Please note that the link to read more about the backup data centre and the work on it doesn't work yet. It will be written before the newsletter is distributed to the wikis on Monday.

Recent changes

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 22 March and 24 March. This could be postponed to April 18. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. Because of a test, there will also be a couple of minutes where you can't edit the wikis on 15 March starting 07:00 UTC. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
  • Administrators and other users with advanced permissions will need to have an 8-byte long passwords. This change takes place on 15 March. Users with too short passwords will be asked to change password the next time they log in. This was decided in a discussion on Meta and is because they can use tools that can hurt the wikis. [275]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
  • The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [276]

Meetings

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18:27، 14 مارس 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-11

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

Please note that the link to read more about the backup data centre and the work on it doesn't work yet. It will be written before the newsletter is distributed to the wikis on Monday.

Recent changes

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 22 March and 24 March. This could be postponed to April 18. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. Because of a test, there will also be a couple of minutes where you can't edit the wikis on 15 March starting 07:00 UTC. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
  • Administrators and other users with advanced permissions will need to have an 8-byte long passwords. This change takes place on 15 March. Users with too short passwords will be asked to change password the next time they log in. This was decided in a discussion on Meta and is because they can use tools that can hurt the wikis. [279]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
  • The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [280]

Meetings

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18:34، 14 مارس 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-11

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

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 22 March and 24 March. This could be postponed to April 18. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. Because of a test, there will also be a couple of minutes where you can't edit the wikis on 15 March starting 07:00 UTC. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
  • Administrators and other users with advanced permissions will need to have an 8-byte long passwords. This change takes place on 15 March. Users with too short passwords will be asked to change password the next time they log in. This was decided in a discussion on Meta and is because they can use tools that can hurt the wikis. [283]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
  • The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [284]

Meetings

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18:35، 14 مارس 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-12

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

  • Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. The Wikimedia Technology department planned to test it this week. This will take place the week of April 18 instead. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
  • In Firefox, the visual editor would sometimes just jump down to the bottom of the page when you double-clicked on a table cell. This has now been fixed. [285]

Changes this week

  • It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve CAPTCHAs. [286]
  • You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread. [287]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (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 22 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  •   URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. This will happen on May 2. [288]

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16:00، 21 مارس 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-14

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 filter Special:Log in more detail. [289]
  • Wikimedia wikis have a new way of counting visitors. [290]

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 6. It will be on all wikis from April 7 (calendar).

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22:11، 4 أبريل 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-16

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 visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can ask to change to options in your language in Phabricator. [291][292]
  • Wiktionaries and Wikisources can now use the visual editor. It is an opt-in beta feature. It still needs development to work better with these projects. [293][294]
  • ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new API. [295]
  • The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters. [296]

Problems

  • There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [297]

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).
  • The wikipedia.org portal will get many small bug fixes and improvements. Most will be for the search box and suggested results that were added in March. [298]

Meetings

Future changes

  • Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [299]

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20:39، 11 أبريل 2016 (ت ع م)

Server switch 2016

التعليق الأخير: قبل 8 سنواتتعليق واحدشخص واحد في النقاش

The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its newest data center in Dallas. This will make sure Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to conduct a planned test. This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

They will switch all traffic to the new data center on Tuesday, 19 April.
On Thursday, 21 April, they will switch back to the primary data center.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop during those two switches. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

  • You will not be able to edit for approximately 15 to 30 minutes on Tuesday, 19 April and Thursday, 21 April, starting at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT).

If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

  • Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped.

Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.

  • There will be a code freeze for the week of 18 April.

No non-essential code deployments will take place.

This test was originally planned to take place on March 22. April 19th and 21st are the new dates. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. They will post any changes on that schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:52، 17 أبريل 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-16

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 filter Special:Log in more detail. You can filter different imports and new users. [300][301]
  • You can use Telnet to read Wikimedia wikis. [302]
  • MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB. [303]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [304]
  • There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data center test.

Meetings

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20:36، 18 أبريل 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-17

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

مشاكل

  • Wikimedia tested a new data center last week. This meant that the wikis could be read but not edited for 45 minutes on April 19 and for 20 minutes on April 21. [305]
  • When the data center was tested, new edits were not shown in the recent changes log for 20 minutes. They are in the logs now. You can read more about how to find the edits.
  • Unread notifications were sometimes counted incorrectly. This has now been fixed. [306]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia Commons will have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Commons. This will happen on April 26. [307]
  • It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard. [308]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 27. It will be on all wikis from April 28 (calendar).

لقاءات

  •   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 April 26 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

تغييرات مستقبلية

  • The "حفظ الصفحة" button when you edit will be called "Publish" instead. This is to help new editors understand what it does. It already works like this on some wikis. [309]

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21:00، 25 أبريل 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-18

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 visual editor now works when you use Internet Explorer 9. [310]

Problems

Changes this week

Meetings

Future changes

  • Pages could be added to new users' watchlists by default when they edit them. New users could also by default get email notifications when pages they watch are edited. This is discussed on Meta. [313]

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20:07، 2 مايو 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-19

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

  • Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May 3. [314]
  • You can use Wikipedia GapFinder to find missing articles between languages. [315]
  • Users are invited to try Cross-wiki Notifications on all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default, scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC. [316][317]
  • You can use keyboard shortcuts to open the visual editor (meta+V) or the wikitext editor (meta+E) (on certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor). [318]
  • Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore. [319]
  • The UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons. [320]
  • Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved. [321]
  • Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org. [322]

Problems

  • MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue. [323]

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 12 (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We plan to reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please tell the developers if the change will cause problems. [324]

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23:21، 9 مايو 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-20

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 image thumbnails now load faster on mobile. They also take up less bandwidth. [325]

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis. [326]

Changes this week

  • Special:Notifications will have "mark as read" buttons for each day. The non-JavaScript version will get it this week. A JavaScript version will come later. [327]
  • Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce. [328]
  • A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users. [329]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 18. It will be on all wikis from May 19 (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Using self-closing tags like <div/> and <span/> to mean <div></div> and <span></span> will not work in the future. Templates and pages that use these tags should be fixed. When Phabricator ticket T134423 is fixed these tags will parse as <div> and <span> instead. This is normal in HTML5. [330]

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15:56، 16 مايو 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-21

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

Problems

  • Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories. [332]

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 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 May 24 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  •   All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12. [333]

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18:29، 23 مايو 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-21

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

Problems

  • Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories. [335]

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 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 May 24 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  •   All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12. [336]

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18:33، 23 مايو 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-21

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

Problems

  • Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories. [338]

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 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 May 24 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  •   All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12. [339]

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18:35، 23 مايو 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-21

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

Problems

  • Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories. [341]

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 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 May 24 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  •   All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12. [342]

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18:38، 23 مايو 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-22

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 is now a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module. [343]

Problems

  • A new way to handle rollback was introduced. It broke some tools and scripts and was reverted. This will be re-planned after review. [344][345]
  • CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed. [346]

Changes this week

  • When you edit a file or category page with the visual editor the rest of the page will be shown in its normal place. [347]
  • The Translate extension will get an edit summary field. [348]
  • A change to the <charinsert> feature could break some user scripts. Contact Bawolff if the "click to insert special characters" links in the edit window break on your wiki. [349][350]
  • Elasticsearch will be upgraded on Wikimedia wikis this week. This should not affect you, but if you have problems with the search function this is probably the reason. [351]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (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 31 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:16، 30 مايو 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-24

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

Changes this week

  • You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits. [357]
  • It will be easier to edit galleries with the visual editor. [358]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).

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18:35، 13 يونيو 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-25

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

  • Notifications were not always marked as read when you followed a link from an email notification. This will now happen. [359]

Changes this week

  • The list of other languages an article is available in will be shorter on small Wikipedias and non-Wikipedia projects. This is to make it easier to find the most relevant languages for each user. You will still be able to see the other languages. [360][361]
  • Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup. [362]
  • When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks. [363]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).

Meetings

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19:11، 20 يونيو 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-26

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

Problems

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
  • The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be more clear. [369]

لقاءات

  •   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 28 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

تغييرات مستقبلية

  • The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation will look at developing better tools for edit review. This is because research suggests we scare away newcomers who want to help. [370]
  • An e-mail from the Editing Department explains the technical work that is planned and being researched for the future. Items include better wikitext and visual editing, prompts for edits, language improvements, annotations, and meta-data separation. [371]
  • The sorting of Notifications into the two fly-out menus is going to change on July 5 to 7. Bundled notifications should be easier to explore and mark as read individually. [372][373][374]
  •   From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected. [375]
  • Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later. [376]

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15:39، 27 يونيو 2016 (ت ع م)

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Tech News: 2016-27

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

Problems

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
  • The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be more clear. [382]

لقاءات

  •   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 28 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

تغييرات مستقبلية

  • The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation will look at developing better tools for edit review. This is because research suggests we scare away newcomers who want to help. [383]
  • An e-mail from the Editing Department explains the technical work that is planned and being researched for the future. Items include better wikitext and visual editing, prompts for edits, language improvements, annotations, and meta-data separation. [384]
  • The sorting of Notifications into the two fly-out menus is going to change on July 5 to 7. Bundled notifications should be easier to explore and mark as read individually. [385][386][387]
  •   From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected. [388]
  • Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later. [389]

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19:39، 4 يوليو 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-27

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

  • A daily email summary of notifications could be sent even when there were no notifications from the wiki. Now no email will be sent if there is no activity. [390]

Changes this week

  • The "⧼citoid-citefromidtool-title⧽" button in the visual editor's toolbar will move into the "إدراج" menu except for Wikipedias, Wikibookses and Wikiversities. This is to make it less prominent on wikis that don't use it as much. [391]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can take part in the next office hour for Wikidata on IRC on July 8 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:43، 4 يوليو 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-30

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

Problems

  • Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [393]

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
  • It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon. [394]
  • Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages. [395]

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 26 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  •   You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on 27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [396]

Future changes

  • The current icon for Notifications "إخطارات" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency. [397]
  • Special:Notifications page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly. [398]

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19:50، 25 يوليو 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-31

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

  • A prototype for structured data on Commons is available now. [399]
  • 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. [400]

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

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21:41، 1 أغسطس 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-31

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

  • A prototype for structured data on Commons is available now. [401]
  • 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. [402]

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

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21:46، 1 أغسطس 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-32

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

  • In notifications, the icon for إخطارات has been changed from a speech-bubble icon ( ) to a tray icon ( ) for consistency. The تنبيهات icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility. [403]

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. [404]

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. [405]
  • 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. [406]
  • 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. [407]
  • The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [408]
  • 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. [409]
  •   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).
  • A message on Notifications panel will invite users to try Special:Notifications page. [410]

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 August 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:37، 8 أغسطس 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-33

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 Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [411]
  • Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [412]
  • For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [413][414]

Changes this week

  • The login session when you choose "ابق مسجل الدخول (لمدة أقل من يوم)" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [415]
  • Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [416]
  • In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [417][418]
  • The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [419]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (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 August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [420]

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19:27، 15 أغسطس 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-33

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 Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [421]
  • Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [422]
  • For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [423][424]

Changes this week

  • The login session when you choose "ابق مسجل الدخول (لمدة أقل من يوم)" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [425]
  • Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [426]
  • In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [427][428]
  • The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [429]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (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 August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [430]

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19:31، 15 أغسطس 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-33

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 Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [431]
  • Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [432]
  • For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [433][434]

Changes this week

  • The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [435]
  • Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [436]
  • In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [437][438]
  • The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [439]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (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 August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [440]

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19:34، 15 أغسطس 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-34

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 ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia. [441]
  •   The norm and ccnorm functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore. [442]
  •   The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here. This happened on August 5. [443]

Problems

  • Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [444]
  • When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [445]

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 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 23 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki. [446][447]
  • How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [448]

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21:14، 22 أغسطس 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-35

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 mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster. [449]
  • When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing Tab in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing Shift and Tab in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row. [450]

Changes this week

  • The name of the "حفظ الصفحة" button will change. The button will say "نشر الصفحة" when you create a new page. It will say "نشر التغييرات" when you change an existing page. [451][452]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).

Meetings

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15:57، 29 أغسطس 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-36

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

  • Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs. [453]
  • Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta. [454]
  •   When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not. [455]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to use <maplink> on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [456][457]
  • Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. [458][459]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

تغييرات مستقبلية

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17:09، 5 سبتمبر 2016 (ت ع م)

RevisionSlider

اعتبارا من 13 سبتمبر، مقارن النسخ سوف يكون متاحا للتجربة في الويكي الذي تستخدمه. "مقارن النسخ" هو شريط يظهر النسخ السابقة لصفحة معينة ويسهل المقارنة بينها. الخاصية تحقق أمنية من قائمة أمنيات المجتمع الألماني التقنية. الكل بوسعه تجربة هذه الخاصية ونرجو أن تكون مفيدة لك. --Birgit Müller (WMDE)

14:22، 12 سبتمبر 2016 (ت ع م)

RevisionSlider

التعليق الأخير: قبل 8 سنواتتعليق واحدشخص واحد في النقاش
اعتبارا من 13 سبتمبر، مقارن النسخ سوف يكون متاحا للتجربة في الويكي الذي تستخدمه. "مقارن النسخ" هو شريط يظهر النسخ السابقة لصفحة معينة ويسهل المقارنة بينها. الخاصية تحقق أمنية من قائمة أمنيات المجتمع الألماني التقنية. الكل بوسعه تجربة هذه الخاصية ونرجو أن تكون مفيدة لك.

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:32، 12 سبتمبر 2016 (ت ع م)

RevisionSlider

التعليق الأخير: قبل 8 سنواتتعليق واحدشخص واحد في النقاش
اعتبارا من 13 سبتمبر، مقارن النسخ سوف يكون متاحا للتجربة في الويكي الذي تستخدمه. "مقارن النسخ" هو شريط يظهر النسخ السابقة لصفحة معينة ويسهل المقارنة بينها. الخاصية تحقق أمنية من قائمة أمنيات المجتمع الألماني التقنية. الكل بوسعه تجربة هذه الخاصية ونرجو أن تكون مفيدة لك.

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:52، 12 سبتمبر 2016 (ت ع م)

RevisionSlider

التعليق الأخير: قبل 8 سنواتتعليق واحدشخص واحد في النقاش
From September 13th on, RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature in your wiki. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page, so that you can easily move between revisions. The feature fulfills a wish from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 15:01، 12 سبتمبر 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-37

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

أحدث التغييرات

التغييرات هذا الأسبوع

  • The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history. [464]
  •   A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages. [465][466]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).

اللقاءات

  •   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 13 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

تغييرات مستقبلية

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17:57، 12 سبتمبر 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-38

أحدث الأخبار التقنية من مجتمع ويكيميديا التقني. يرجى إعلام المستخدمين الآخرين بهذه التغييرات. لن تؤثر كافة التغييرات عليك. الترجمات متاحة كذلك.

مشاكل

التغييرات هذا الأسبوع

  •   سوف يستخدم الإصدار الجديد من ميدياويكي على مواقع ويكي الاختبار وعلى موقع MediaWiki.org بدءا من تاريخ 20 سبتمبر/أيلول. وسوف يستخدم على مواقع الويكي المختلفة عن ويكيبيديا وبعض مواقع ويكيبيديا من تاريخ 21 سبتمبر/أيلول. بعد ذلك سوف تستخدم على كافة مواقع الويكي من تاريخ 22 سبتمبر/أيلول (الرزنامة). هذه هي الإصدارة التي كان مطلوب تطبيقها الأسبوع الماضي.

لقاءات

تغييرات مستقبلية

  • سوف تشرع ويكي بيانات في إضافة الدعم لموقع ويكي قاموس. يقوم فريق تصميم ويكي بيانات في الوقت الحالي بمراجعة أخيرة على خطة التصميم. [469]

الأخبار التقنية إعداد سفراء التقنية وينشرها بوت • ساهم فيها • ترجمها • احصل على المساعدة • أخبرنا رأيك وملاحظاتك • اشترك فيها أو الغ اشتراكك.

22:06، 19 سبتمبر 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-39

أحدث الأخبار التقنية من مجتمع ويكيميديا التقني. يرجى إعلام المستخدمين الآخرين بهذه التغييرات. لن تؤثر كافة التغييرات عليك. الترجمات متاحة كذلك.

أحدث التغييرات

  • لو كان موقع الويكي الخاص بك يرغب في تصنيفها رقميا في تصنيفات يمكنك طلب ذلك بعد اتخاذ المجتمع لقرار بشأن ذلك. طالع كيفية طلب ذلك. [470]
  • حينما تعدل نص وتذكر اسم مستخدم جديد سوف يصل له إشعار لو أضفت توقيعك. هذا الأمر كان يحدث من قبل بموجب شروط محددة. [471]
  • يحصل المستخدمون على إشعار لو ذكروا في قسم حيث تضيف توقيعك حتى لو عدلت أكثر من قسم واحد. قبل ذلك، لم يحصل المستخدم على إشعار لو عدلت أكثر من قسم في تعديل واحد. [472]

مشاكل

التغييرات هذا الأسبوع

  • لن تكون هناك أي إصدارات ميدياويكي جديدة لهذا الأسبوع. [475]

لقاءات

تغييرات مستقبلية

  •   قد يستحوذ على الأدوات المهملة على معامل الأدوات مطوري برمجيات آخرين. يوجد نقاش جديد على ميتا بهذا الشأن. سوف يظل باب النقاش مفتوح حتى 12 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول ومن ثم يطرح للتصويت. [476]

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17:57، 26 سبتمبر 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-40

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التغييرات هذا الأسبوع

  •   سوف يستخدم الإصدار الجديد من ميدياويكي على مواقع ويكي الاختبار وعلى موقع MediaWiki.org بدءا من تاريخ 4 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول. وسوف يستخدم على مواقع الويكي المختلفة عن ويكيبيديا وبعض مواقع ويكيبيديا من تاريخ 5 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول. بعد ذلك سوف يستخدم على كافة مواقع الويكي من تاريخ 6 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول (الرزنامة).

لقاءات

تغييرات مستقبلية

  •   Tidy سوف يستخدم بدلا منه شيء آخر. بدلا منه سيستخدم لوغاريتم تحليل إتش تي إم إل 5 بغرض تنظيف برمجة إتش تي إم إل الفاسدة في نصوص الويكي. قد يتسبب ذلك في حدوث بضعة مشكلات على عدد من مواقع الويكي. سيتعين تصحيح هذه أولا. [477]
  • لن يكون كود <slippymap> ساريا على ويكي الرحلات بعد 24 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول. استخدم بدلا منه كود <mapframe>. لو أردت الحصول على المساعدة في إصلاح هذا الأمر قبل تاريخ 24 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول عليك أن تطلب هذه المساعدة في أقرب وقت ممكن. [478]

الأخبار التقنية إعداد سفراء التقنية وينشرها بوت • ساهم فيها • ترجمها • احصل على المساعدة • أخبرنا رأيك وملاحظاتك • اشترك فيها أو الغ اشتراكك.

21:27، 3 أكتوبر 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-41

أحدث الأخبار التقنية من مجتمع ويكيميديا التقني. يرجى إعلام المستخدمين الآخرين بهذه التغييرات. لن تؤثر كافة التغييرات عليك. الترجمات متاحة كذلك.

أحدث التغييرات

  • يمكنك عرض خاص:أحدث التغييرات على صفحة مستخدما {{Special:RecentChanges}}. يمكنك الآن استخدام مرشحات الوسوم مستخدما {{Special:RecentChanges/tagfilter=tagname}}. [479]
  • سوف يتغير لون شارة الإشعارات حينما يكون لديك إشعارات. حينما تطالع الإشعارات سوف يتحول لون الشارة الآن إلى اللون الرمادي على كافة مواقع الويكي وليس فقط على الويكي المحلي. [480]
  • تغيرت الألوان المستخدمة على مواقع الويكي التابعة لويكيميديا قليلا. الغرض من هذا التغيير هو تيسير المطالعة لكل من القراء والمحررين الذين يعانون من ضعف في البصر. [481]

التغييرات هذا الأسبوع

  • تعليقات إتش تي إم إل المخفية سوف تصبح بارزة أكثر حينما تعدل مستخدما المحرر المرئي. <!-- You write hidden HTML comments like this. --> [482]
  •   سوف يستخدم الإصدار الجديد من ميدياويكي على مواقع ويكي الاختبار وعلى موقع MediaWiki.org بدءا من تاريخ 11 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول. وسوف يستخدم على مواقع الويكي المختلفة عن ويكيبيديا وبعض مواقع ويكيبيديا من تاريخ 12 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول. بعد ذلك سوف يستخدم على كافة مواقع الويكي من تاريخ 13 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول (الرزنامة).

لقاءات

تغييرات مستقبلية

  • لن تعود بنية تحويل اللغة مستخدمة في الروابط الخارجية. أي أن نص الويكي http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- يجب استبداله. سيتعين عليك أن تكتب -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- بدلا عنه. سوف يؤثر ذلك فقط على اللغات التي يعمل عليها محول اللغة. أمثلة تلك اللغات هي اللغة الصينية والصربية. [483]

الأخبار التقنية إعداد سفراء التقنية وينشرها بوت • ساهم فيها • ترجمها • احصل على المساعدة • أخبرنا رأيك وملاحظاتك • اشترك فيها أو الغ اشتراكك.

20:27، 10 أكتوبر 2016 (ت ع م)

The Wikimedia Developer Summit wants you

التعليق الأخير: قبل 8 سنواتتعليق واحدشخص واحد في النقاش

The Wikimedia Developer Summit is the annual meeting to push the evolution of MediaWiki and other technologies supporting the Wikimedia movement. The next edition will be held in San Francisco on January 9–11, 2017.

We welcome all Wikimedia technical contributors, third party developers, and users of MediaWiki and the Wikimedia APIs. We specifically want to increase the participation of volunteer developers and other contributors dealing with extensions, apps, tools, bots, gadgets, and templates.

Important deadlines:

  • Monday, October 24: last day to request travel sponsorship. Applying takes less than five minutes.
  • Monday, October 31: last day to propose an activity. Bring the topics you care about!

More information: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit

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MKramer (WMF) (talk) 19:04، 14 أكتوبر 2016 (ت ع م)

Tech News: 2016-42

أحدث الأخبار التقنية من مجتمع ويكيميديا التقني. يرجى إعلام المستخدمين الآخرين بهذه التغييرات. لن تؤثر كافة التغييرات عليك. الترجمات متاحة كذلك.

أحدث التغييرات

مشاكل

  • ظهر لبعض المستخدمين تحذير بشأن شهادة أمن موقع ويكيبيديا الأسبوع الماضي. كان هذا الأمر ناتج عن مشكلة متعلقة بتسجيل الدخول العام. تم حل المشكلة الآن. ظهر هذا التحذير لعدد محدود من المستخدمين. [484]
  • لم يتمكن المحررين من تحرير الصفحات التي تتمتع بحماية جزئية باستخدام تطبيق ويكيبيديا الخاص بأجهزة أندرويد. هذا الأمر تم تصويبه في النسخة التجريبية. [485]

التغييرات هذا الأسبوع

  • لن تكون هناك أي إصدارات ميدياويكي جديدة لهذا الأسبوع. [486]

تغييرات مستقبلية

  • يعمل قسم التحرير في الوقت الحالي على محرر نصوص ويكي جديد. سوف يتمتع بالأدوات الموجودة في المحرر المرئي إلا أنها ليست موجودة في محرر نصوص الويكي في الوقت الحالي. يمكنك الاطلاع على المزيد عن هذا الأمر. هذا الأمر ليس إلا خطة مبكرة جدا ويمكن أن تتغير الأمور لاحقا. كما أن محرر نصوص الويكي القديم سيظل قائما.

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16:38، 17 أكتوبر 2016 (ت ع م)

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