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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. [1]

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. [2][3]
• CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed. [4]

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. [5]
• The Translate extension will get an edit summary field. [6]
• 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. [7][8]
• 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. [9]
• 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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30 de maio de 2016 ás 16:18 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-23

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

• MathML/SVG is now the default <math> rendering mode on Wikimedia projects. [10][11]

Changes this week

• The history page can tell you if a page on your watchlist was updated since you last visited it. This now works the same way in Vector as in other skins. The change broke local designs on some wikis. This will be fixed this week. [12]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).

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6 de xuño de 2016 ás 20:51 (UTC)

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

• Wikimedia wikis now use AuthManager. If you have new problems related to logging in or being logged in, report them. [13]
• Visiting Special:Notifications doesn't automatically mark notifications as read anymore. You can go between read, unread or all notifications on Special:Notifications. Notifications on Special:Notifications are grouped by day. You can mark every daily group as read individually. Notifications are displayed by groups of 50 on Special:Notifications and you can find former notifications by using navigation arrows. [14][15][16][17]

Changes this week

• You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits. [18]
• It will be easier to edit galleries with the visual editor. [19]
• 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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13 de xuño de 2016 ás 18:41 (UTC)

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. [20]

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. [21][22]
• Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup. [23]
• When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks. [24]
• 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

• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is develop Markdown support strategy for MediaWiki. The meeting will be on 22 June at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20 de xuño de 2016 ás 19:14 (UTC)

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

• The ORES service has now moved to a new location. This should make it easier to use ORES. The ORES review service is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia. ORES is an artificial intelligence system for Wikimedia wikis to help editors. [25]
• The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed. [26]
• A new category for tracking pages with math errors was added: Categoría:Wikipedia:Páxinas con erros matemáticos. [27]

Problems

• The Wikimedia Etherpad crashed on June 23. Some edits done that day have been lost. They can be found at etherpad-restore.wikimedia.org for another few days. [28][29]

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. [30]

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

Future changes

• 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. [31]
• 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. [32]
• 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. [33][34][35]
• From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected. [36]
• 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. [37]

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27 de xuño de 2016 ás 15:42 (UTC)

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. [38]

Changes this week

• The "⧼citoid-citefromidtool-title⧽" button in the visual editor's toolbar will move into the "Inserir" menu except for Wikipedias, Wikibookses and Wikiversities. This is to make it less prominent on wikis that don't use it as much. [39]
• 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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4 de xullo de 2016 ás 19:45 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-28

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 image scaler fixed a number of bugs for showing SVG files. Some new problems turned up. [40][41][42]
• Notifications are grouped by types. They are now counted by number of notifications and not by unread groups. That change may increase the number of notifications displayed. The earlier way of counting was often incorrect. Unread notifications will also be displayed first. [43][44][45]
• Special:Notifications now has a maximum width for the notifications list on desktop computers. This allows long titles and descriptions to be cut properly. Notifications are now also better parsed. [46][47][48]

Problems

• On 5 July Wikimedia Commons had problems and could not be edited for 20 minutes. For a short while after that the recent changes log and some gadgets were not working properly. It affected administrative actions on other projects too. [49]
• Users who have multiple unread notifications can mark them as read by visiting Special:Notifications page on their wiki.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 July. It will be on all wikis from 14 July (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 12 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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11 de xullo de 2016 ás 15:14 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-29

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

• Due to the rollback, new sorting of Notifications on the Fly-Out Menus has been deployed with a delay. [50]
• Due to the rollback, the daily special patch deployment process has been changed. [51]
• In notifications, "Messages" are now called "Avisos". [52]

Problems

• On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system. [53][54]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).
• Special:Log now has a help link. [55]
• The RevisionSlider can be tested on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: Wikipedia en alemán, Wikipedia en árabe, Wikipedia en hebreo

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 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on 20 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [56]

Future changes

• User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [57][58]
• Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [59]

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18 de xullo de 2016 ás 12:01 (UTC)

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

• Interactive maps have been enabled for Meta wiki and the Catalan, Hebrew, and Macedonian Wikipedias. Learn how to add interactive maps to wiki pages.
• Last week's rollback is now documented. [60]

Problems

• Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [61]

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. [62]
• 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. [63]

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. [64]

Future changes

• The current icon for Notifications "Avisos" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency. [65]
• Special:Notifications page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly. [66]

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25 de xullo de 2016 ás 19:54 (UTC)

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. [67]
• 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. [68]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• The next CREDIT showcase will be on 3 August at 18:00 (UTC). This is to present and comment on new gadgets, small projects and works in progress. See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "notifications in core". The meeting will be on 3 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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1 de agosto de 2016 ás 21:48 (UTC)

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 Avisos has been changed from a speech-bubble icon () to a tray icon () for consistency. The Alertas icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility. [69]

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. [70]

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. [71]
• 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. [72]
• 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. [73]
• The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [74]
• 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. [75]
• 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. [76]

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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8 de agosto de 2016 ás 15:41 (UTC)

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. [77]
• Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [78]
• 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. [79][80]

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. [81]
• Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [82]
• 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". [83][84]
• 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. [85]
• 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. [86]

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15 de agosto de 2016 ás 19:37 (UTC)

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. [87]
• 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. [88]
• 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. [89]

Problems

• Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [90]
• When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [91]

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. [92][93]
• How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [94]

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22 de agosto de 2016 ás 21:17 (UTC)

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. [95]
• 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. [96]

Changes this week

• The name of the "Gardar a páxina" button will change. The button will say "Publicar a páxina" when you create a new page. It will say "Publicar os cambios" when you change an existing page. [97][98]
• 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

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 30 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: image and oldimage tables". The meeting will be on 31 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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29 de agosto de 2016 ás 15:59 (UTC)

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. [99]
• 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. [100]
• 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. [101]

Changes this week

• You will be able to use <maplink> on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [102][103]
• 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. [104][105]
• 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.

Future changes

• The CheckUser extension could work differently in the future. There is a Request for Comments to figure out how. [106]

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5 de setembro de 2016 ás 17:12 (UTC)

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.

Recent changes

• The Wikimedia Commons app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos. [107]
• <maplink> and <mapframe> can now use geodata from Open Street Map if Open Street Map has defined a region and given it an ID in Wikidata. You can use this to draw on the map and add information. [108][109]

Changes this week

• 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. [110]
• A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages. [111][112]
• 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).

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

Future changes

• When you search on the Wikimedia wikis in the future you could see results from sister projects in your language. You can read more and discuss how this could work.

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12 de setembro de 2016 ás 18:04 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-38

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

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back because of bugs. Creating new accounts did not work between 15 September 19:10 UTC and 16 September 12:50 UTC. [113][114]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will hopefully be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar). This is the version that was meant to go out last 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 20 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is multi-content revisions. The meeting will be on 21 September at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will start working on adding support for Wiktionary. The Wikidata development team is now taking one last look at the development plan. [115]

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19 de setembro de 2016 ás 22:09 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-39

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

• If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can request it after a community decision. See how to request it. [116]
• When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [117]
• Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit. [118]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version that was supposed to come to the wikis two weeks ago was put on hold again because of new problems. The MediaWiki version after it is now on all wikis. [119][120]

Changes this week

• There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [121]

Meetings

• You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on September 27 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Abandoned tools on Tool Labs could be taken over by other developers. There is a new discussion on Meta about this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on. [122]

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26 de setembro de 2016 ás 18:07 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-40

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

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (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 4 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Tidy will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This would cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. [123]

• <slippymap> will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use <mapframe> instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it as soon as possible. [124]

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3 de outubro de 2016 ás 21:30 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-41

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

• You can show Special:RecentChanges on a page by using {{Special:RecentChanges}}. You can now use tag filters by using {{Special:RecentChanges/tagfilter=tagname}}. [125]
• The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [126]
• Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them easier to see for readers and editors with reduced eyesight. [127]

Changes this week

• Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor. <!-- You write hidden HTML comments like this. --> [128]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (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 11 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week is CREDITS files. The meeting will be on 12 October at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Language converter syntax will soon no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. [129]

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10 de outubro de 2016 ás 20:29 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-42

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

• There is a new newsletter from the Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation. It will have more details about for example Flow and notifications. You can read the first issue.

Problems

• Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning. [130]
• Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version. [131]

Changes this week

• There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [132]

Future changes

• The Editing Department are working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this. This is an early plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.

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17 de outubro de 2016 ás 16:42 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-43

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

Problems

• The abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed. [133]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
• The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia". [134]
• About a dozen wikis now have numerical sorting in categories. If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can ask for it. [135]
• Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.

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24 de outubro de 2016 ás 17:39 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-44

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

Recent changes

• Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only. [136]
• Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester. [137]
• The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script. [138]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1^st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2^nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3^rd (calendar).
• Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "Vista previa da páxina con este modelo" field when editing templates. [139]
• Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size. [140]

Future changes

• New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29. [141]

Miscellaneous

• The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Collaboration Guideline is available for community review. Any feedback welcome, in any language.

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31 de outubro de 2016 ás 16:18 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-45

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

• Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation. [142]
• First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available. [143]
• .gitreview for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using track=1. [144]
• Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability. [145]

Changes this week

• The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 7 November.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 8th. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 9th. It will be on all wikis from November 10th (calendar).
• Special:ActiveUsers will allow users groups selection. [146]

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 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• RevisionSlider will be enabled by default on all beta wikis, on testwiki, testwiki2, mediawikiwiki and de.wikipedia.org. [147][148][149]
• Upcoming holidays will impact deployments. The schedule has been published.

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7 de novembro de 2016 ás 23:01 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-46

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

• When you edit with the visual editor you can use meta + shift + k to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key. [150]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar).
• In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation. [151]

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 15 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Magic links might not work in the future. [152]

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14 de novembro de 2016 ás 19:17 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-47

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

Recent changes

• Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone. [153]
• You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has. [154]
• The latest Collaboration team products newsletter has been published. It has more details about their work than Tech News has.

Problems

• A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication. [155]

Changes this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later. [156][157][158]

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

Future changes

• It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this. [159]
• Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page. [160]

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21 de novembro de 2016 ás 15:33 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-48

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

Changes this week

• When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie. This means their browser will be blocked even if they change their IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals. [161]
• When you use Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon. [162]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
• Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using [rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]. [163][164]

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 29 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Tool Labs could get two new policies. One would be to be able to adopt tools without an active developer. The other would be a right to fork. There is a request for comment on Meta.

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28 de novembro de 2016 ás 21:16 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-49

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

Recent changes

• You can choose to see users from specific user groups in Special:ActiveUsers. [165]
• Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [166]
• ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES to recognize damaging edits. [167]

Changes this week

• You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [168]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (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 December at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You vote for wishes on the survey page until 12 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2015 results page.

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5 de decembro de 2016 ás 18:07 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-50

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

• Users who have Yahoo email addresses could not use Special:EmailUser to send emails. This has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address. Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and be able to see it. [169]
• You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention. [170]
• Markup colours for reviewed and pending revisions in the page history and recent changes and logs now match Wikimedia standard colours. The "You have a new message on your talk page" notification will have a slightly different colour. [171]

Problems

• Because of work on cross-wiki watchlists global renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well. [172]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (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 December 13 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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12 de decembro de 2016 ás 19:29 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-51

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2017.
• 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 2016? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes

• Administrators and translation administrators can now use Special:PageLanguage on wikis with the Translate extension. This means you can say what language a page is in. The Translate extension will use that language as the source language when you translate. Previously this was always the wiki's default language. This was usually English. [173]
• Wikis connected to Wikidata can now use the parser function {{#statements: }} to get formatted data. You can also use {{#property: }} to get raw data. You can see the difference between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua. [174]

Problems

• Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should. We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the wikis. MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October. Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been affected since 17 November. [175]

Changes this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

Meetings

• The next meeting with the VisualEditor team will be on 3 January at 20:00 (UTC). During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey is done. It decides what the Community Tech team will work on during 2017. You can see the results.

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19 de decembro de 2016 ás 20:33 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-02

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

• You can now use datasets on Commons. You can see an example that is using this source. [176]
• There is a new opt-in beta feature of a wikitext mode for the visual editor. You can try it out.
• When you update a page with translations on wikis with the Translate extension the existing translations will be marked as outdated instead of removed. [177]
• The new version of MediaWiki was released to all wikis last week (calendar).
• MoodBar has been removed from the Wikimedia wikis. [178]
• The live option for the Tipsy notice tool has been removed. Gadgets and user scripts which use it need to be updated. [179]

Problems

• Editors who use Firefox 50 might get logged out or fail to save their edits. This is because of a browser bug. Until this is fixed you can enter about:config in the address bar and set network.cookie.maxPerHost to 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox. [180]

Changes this week

• There is no new version of MediaWiki this week because of the Wikimedia Developer Summit.

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9 de xaneiro de 2017 ás 19:12 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-03

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 can now upload WebP files to Commons. [181]

Problems

• video2commons was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up. [182]

Changes this week

• There is a new magic word called {{PAGELANGUAGE}}. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators. [183]
• When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu. [184]
• You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas. Before you could use <ce>. <ce> should be replaced by <chem>. [185]
• You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown on Special:UncategorizedCategories. The list is at MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist. [186]
• The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to your personal CSS: #wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; } You can change the number 50 to make it look like you want to. [187]
• Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs, including Tool Labs will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in. [188]
• When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu. [189]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 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 January 17 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16 de xaneiro de 2017 ás 23:24 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-04

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 see a list of the templates on a page you edit with the visual editor. [190]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).

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23 de xaneiro de 2017 ás 20:14 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-05

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

Recent changes

• The OAuth management interfaces now look slightly different. [191]

Changes this week

• ElectronPdfService will be enabled by default on Meta and German Wikipedia. This is a new way to get articles as PDF files you can download. It will come to more wikis later. [192]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 31. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from February 1. It will be on all wikis from February 2 (calendar).

Future changes

• The Community Tech team will develop more tools to handle harassment of Wikimedia editors. The goal is to give the communities better tools to find, report and evaluate harassment. They will also work on more effective blocking tools. [193][194]
• The Wikimedia technical community is doing a Developer Wishlist survey. Developers can propose ideas before 31 January 23:59 UTC. This is soon.

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30 de xaneiro de 2017 ás 18:45 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-06

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

Problems

• The block log sometimes showed blocks as being much longer than they were. This has now been fixed. [195]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia pages will now be better at showing pictures when you share them on social media. The descriptions will be different too. You can see an example of before and after. [196]
• There are some changes to the OOjs UI. Some old functions will not work anymore or not work as they used to. This could be a breaking change. [197]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 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 7 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Tidy will be replaced later this year. Instead, the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This will cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. You can see if your wiki still has something to fix here for one of the HTML problems. This list does not cover all problems. You can read about more problems. [198][199]

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6 de febreiro de 2017 ás 19:45 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-07

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

• EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. For now it works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. [200]

Problems

• The Firefox add-on Firefogg can cause problems with the Upload Wizard. This will not be fixed, because Firefox will not support Firefogg in the future. The Upload Wizard will no longer work with Firefogg. [201]
• Tool Labs and Wikimedia Labs databases will be under maintenance on 15 February. This will start at 17:00 (UTC) and last for about six hours. Some tools could have problems during or after this. [202]

Changes this week

• The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It will come to Meta and German Wikipedia this week. It is already available on MediaWiki.org. It will come to more wikis later. [203]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 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 14 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on the Catalan, Greek, Russian, and Italian Wikipedias in the middle of February. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. It will come to more wikis later this spring. [204]
• The Developer Wishlist is a list where developers prioritize tools they need. The voting closes at 14 February 23:59 (UTC). This process is only for developers.

Review

• You can read the 2016 product summary from the Wikimedia Foundation Product group to see what they did with things they said they would work on in the annual plan.

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13 de febreiro de 2017 ás 18:06 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-08

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

• The edit summary box is now a little bit bigger. This is to make it follow the Wikimedia design guide. [205]

Changes this week

• Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards. [206]
• There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options: type and peers. The type option solves this problem. You can use peers to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers. [207]
• OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way. [208]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 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 21 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20 de febreiro de 2017 ás 19:25 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-09

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

Problems

• On 22 February the wikipedia.org portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file. [209]

Changes this week

• You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor. [210]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 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 28 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can soon upload 3D files to Commons. The file formats are AMF and STL. The plan is for this to work later this week but it could be later. [211]
• The name "Wikipedia" will be more obvious at the top of the page when you read Wikipedia in the mobile view. This is because many readers don't realize they are on Wikipedia. [212][213]

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27 de febreiro de 2017 ás 19:55 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-10

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

• You can now search on English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis and find words even if you forget the diacritics. It also works if you use diacritics in your search but the wiki doesn't. [214]
• When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view. [215]

Problems

• Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed. [216]
• Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user's Special:Contributions will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately. [217]

Changes this week

• The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view. [218]
• The "flag the edit in the abuse log" checkbox will be removed from the abuse filter interface. This is because the edits are always flagged in the abuse log. [219]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 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 7 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Clarification

• The 2017/09 issue of Tech News mentioned 3D file formats you can soon upload to Commons. The AMF format will be available later.

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6 de marzo de 2017 ás 23:23 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-11

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

Changes this week

• You will be able to show references from <references /> tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use <references /> tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists. [220][221]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 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 14 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some old web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis in the future. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [222]
• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. [223][224]

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13 de marzo de 2017 ás 15:25 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-12

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

Recent changes

• The Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page. [225]
• DMOZ no longer works. Templates that use DMOZ can be redirected to archive.org or another mirror. DMOZ has been removed from the RelatedSites extension on Wikivoyage. [226]
• You can see monthly page views when you click on Page information in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API. [227]
• The Linter extension is now on smaller Wikimedia wikis. It helps editors find some wikitext errors so they can be fixed. It will come to other Wikimedia wikis later. The extension will be able to find more errors later. [228]
• The MediaWiki-Vagrant portable development environment has been updated to use Debian Jessie. This means local development and testing will be more like on the majority of Wikimedia production servers. [229]

Problems

• On 15 March some interwiki links to other languages were not correctly sorted. This has been fixed. If you still see pages where the interwiki links are not sorted as they should be, they should be fixed automatically with time or you can edit the page and save it without changing anything. If this doesn't work, please report it. [230]

Changes this week

• When you edit with the visual editor, you will be able to switch the direction you write in from right-to-left to left-to-right as you are editing. This is especially important for editors who edit in languages that write from right to left. You can do this with a tool in the editing menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+X on PCs or Cmd+Shift+X on Macs. [231]
• 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 21 marzo at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20 de marzo de 2017 ás 22:03 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-13

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

• When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes. [232]

Problems

• Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed. [233][234]

Changes this week

• New filters for Recent changes will be released on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias and MediaWikiwiki on March 28. Other wikis will get it progressively. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and, on certain wikis, user intent prediction.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from March 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from March 29. It will be on all wikis from March 30 (calendar).

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27 de marzo de 2017 ás 14:46 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-14

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

• The Gardar a páxina button now says Publicar a páxina or Publicar os cambios on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publicar a páxina is when you save a new page and Publicar os cambios when you edit an existing page. [235]
• The tracking category Categoría:Wikipedia:Páxinas con bucles de modelo is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template. [236]
• English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [237]

Problems

• Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed. [238]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (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 4 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on 5 April at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech and Hebrew Wikipedia on 11 April. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and user intent prediction. User intent prediction means the filter tries to help editors determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [239]

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3 de abril de 2017 ás 17:53 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-15

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

• Tidy is going to be replaced with an HTML5 parsing algorithm. Bad HTML in wikitext would cause problems on a number of wikis. There is now a ParserMigration extension on all wikis that you can use to help clean this up. You can read more about how you can use it. [240]

Changes this week

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [241]
• New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [242]
• The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters. [243]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (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 11 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.
• RevisionSlider will change how you move between revisions. This will be available on the test wiki from 11 April. It will come to other wikis later if users like the change. You can test it and give feedback.

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10 de abril de 2017 ás 18:35 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-16

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 add ?safemode=1 to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature?safemode=1. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them. [244]
• You can now see a list of all autoblocks on Special:AutoblockList. [245]
• The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from [[Ficheiro:Wiki.png]]. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way. [246]

Problems

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this. This will also happen on 3 May.

Changes this week

• There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings

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

Future changes

• stats.wikimedia.org will be replaced. You can see the new prototype. You can leave feedback on this change.
• Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature can give feedback. [247]
• From next week, user scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. [248][249]

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17 de abril de 2017 ás 19:32 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-17

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

Recent changes

• New filters for recent changes are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can turn it on in your preferences. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May. [250]
• When administrators, bureaucrats and stewards make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time. Special:UserRights will have new options for this. You can read more about user groups. [251]

Problems

• Since the data centre test last week the content translation tool has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved. [252]

Changes this week

• The GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit. [253]
• Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read more about this. [254]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (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 25 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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24 de abril de 2017 ás 16:40 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-18

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 content translation tool works again. It was turned off because of a database problem. [255]
• Scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. This is the same thing as Tech News wrote about in issue 2017/16. You need to add mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ) block for your scripts also, or add mediawiki.util dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. [256][257]

Problems

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.

Changes this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• All Wikimedia wikis will have cookie blocks from May 8. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [258]
• The Publicar os cambios, Amosar a vista previa and Amosar os cambios buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding &ooui=1 to the URL. [259]

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1 de maio de 2017 ás 19:50 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-19

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

Problems

• Some users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn on Agochar as categorías das páxinas in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off Ampliar a lista de vixilancia para amosar todos os cambios e non só os máis recentes in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from Special:EditWatchlist/raw. [260]
• There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered a CAPTCHA. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May. [261]

Changes this week

• When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now say Visual editing and Source editing instead of Switch to visual editing and Switch to code editing. This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using. [262]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users. [263][264]
• Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If -{ is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use -{ in a template: {{1x| sad :-{ face }}. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. [265][266]

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9 de maio de 2017 ás 02:24 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-20

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

• You can now use ISBNs to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that have enabled Citoid. [267]
• The Two Column Edit Conflict View is available as a beta feature on all wikis. It is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. [268]

Problems

• The mediawiki.util library does not load automatically any more. Your Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ).done(function(){ as the first line in the file and }); as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/18 issue. [269]

Changes this week

• The RevisionSlider extension will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences. [270]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages. [271][272]
• Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. If -{ is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find false positives. You can read more about what to fix. [273][274]

Older unreported changes

• Your Meta user page is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word __NOGLOBAL__ to your Meta user page to stop this. [275][276]

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15 de maio de 2017 ás 21:48 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-21

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

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).
• There will be a <div> tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can report new problems you think are related to this. [277]

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22 de maio de 2017 ás 22:02 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-22

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

Problems

• Last week’s MediaWiki version was rolled back from some wikis because of a problem. This means planned changes did not happen. [278]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 30 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to control who can notify you on the Wikimedia wikis. You will have a user blacklist. When you add a user to the blacklist you will not get a notification when they mention you. You can test this on Beta Wikipedia. You can read more and give feedback on Meta. [279]

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30 de maio de 2017 ás 12:18 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-23

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

Recent changes

• You can see new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from. [280]
• When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox. [281]
• You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article. [282]
• New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June. [283]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen. [284]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links will see languages they have in their Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences. [285]
• You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions. [286]
• When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead. [287]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
• String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules. [288]

Meetings

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

Future changes

• The 2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all. [289][290]
• Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too. [291]
• The Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft that describes the new committee.

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5 de xuño de 2017 ás 19:04 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-24

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

• Some wikis have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long. [292]
• When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results. [293]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the test wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account. [294]
• Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects. [295]
• Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding &fuzzy=1 to the end of the web address when looking at Special:Undelete. [296][297]

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12 de xuño de 2017 ás 15:29 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-25

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

Problems

• ORES had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40 UTC. It has now been fixed. [298]

Changes this week

• irc.wikimedia.org has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down. [299]
• Special:PageData will be an entry point for machine-readable page data. [300]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. You can now see how the TemplateStyles extension works on Beta Labs.

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19 de xuño de 2017 ás 15:44 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-26

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

• The <inputbox> has a new searchfilter parameter. You can add values like searchfilter=insource:foo. It will add that to the user's search query. [301]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
• Users will be able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in enhanced watchlist/recent changes. Previously, this was disabled for everyone. [302]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next WMF Language team office hour, an open session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects. The meeting will be on 27 June at 13:00 UTC. [303]

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26 de xuño de 2017 ás 15:38 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-27

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

• There was a problem with maps on Wikimedia wikis that used <mapframe> when you clicked on the link to another map service. Open Street Map or Google Maps are examples of other map services. If you had marked a place on the map the marker would not be in the same place on the other map service. It was in the middle of the map. This has now been fixed. [304]

Changes this week

• Very old and inactive unpublished translations in the Content Translation database will be removed. This is because of technical maintenance. If you have not worked on a translation after 1 January 2016 you will lose it after 6 July. If you want to keep the unfinished translation you need to open it before 6 July with the Content Translation tool. You can continue working on it later. Translations that were started or have been worked on after 1 January 2016 will not be affected.
• There is no new Mediawiki version this week.
• EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. It works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/07 issue. [305]

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3 de xullo de 2017 ás 15:31 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-28

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

Recent changes

• There are sometimes links to pages about the same thing on other Wikimedia projects. A Wikipedia article about Berlin can link to the Wikivoyage guide or Wiktionary entry about Berlin. You can now see when that page has a badge. A badge could be the star that shows that an article is a featured article. [306]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 July. It will be on all wikis from 13 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Mobile users will be able to edit Wikipedia without JavaScript. This will make it possible to edit the wikis from older mobile phones. This will probably happen on 18 July for most wikis. [307]
• We will not use Tidy on Wikimedia wikis in the future. It will be replaced by June 2018. It could be earlier. Editors will need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors.

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10 de xullo de 2017 ás 15:07 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-29

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

Recent changes

• "Wikimedia Labs" is now called "Cloud VPS". "Wikimedia Tool Labs" is now called "Wikimedia Toolforge". This is to help clarify the purpose of these services. [308]

Problems

• On some pages, the Table of Contents is not being shown. It will normally appear if you edit the page again. Investigation is currently ongoing. [309]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 18 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is: Migrate to HTML5 section ids. [310] The meeting will be on 19 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Page Previews, currently a Beta Feature, will be enabled for logged-out users for all remaining Wikipedias (with the exception of English and German) the week of 24 July. An A/B test will be run on English Wikipedia to collect data before approaching the community for further discussion. [311]

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17 de xullo de 2017 ás 22:59 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-30

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

• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. This will make it easier to make templates look good on mobile devices. This now works on mediawiki.org and Wikitech. It will come to more wikis later. [312][313][314]
• .mw-ui-constructive modifier class is deprecated and has been removed. [315]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 July. It will be on all wikis from 27 July (calendar).
• It will be possible to restrict who can send you notifications on a wiki. This new feature will accessible in your preferences, in the Notifications tab, on Wednesday, July 26. Please see the documentation. [316]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 25 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the Wikimedia Foundation July 2017 Metrics & Activities Meeting. The meeting is about how Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement are perceived and understood by the world. The meeting will be on 27 July at 19:00 (UTC). See the agenda and how to join.

Future changes

• New Filters for Edit Review, at the moment available as a Beta feature, will be released by default for the Recent Changes in September.

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24 de xullo de 2017 ás 15:57 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-31

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

Problems

• Some pages show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that uses Wikidata. The developers are working on fixing the problem. You can fix a page by opening it for editing and then saving without changing anything. [317]
• Wikidata and German Wikipedia could not be edited for an hour on 28 July. You can read why and how we could avoid it in the future in the incident report.

Changes later this week

• Some wikis already have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. All remaining wikis except Commons will have these from 1 August. [318]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).

Meetings

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

Future changes

• The default font in the edit window will soon change for some users. Instead of using the browser default it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [319]

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31 de xullo de 2017 ás 21:45 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-32

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

• You can now see which Wikipedia language versions are read in a specific country. This tool is called Wikipedia Views Visualized. [320]
• The Architecture Committee is now the Wikimedia Technical Committee. You can read the charter. [321]

Problems

• You can get an email when a page on your watchlist was edited. You can choose not to get emails for minor edits. There is a bug that means that you then don't get an email when someone does a normal edit after a minor edit. The developers are working on fixing this. Until it has been fixed you can activate "Recibir tamén unha mensaxe de correo electrónico cando haxa edicións pequenas nas páxinas ou nos ficheiros" at the bottom of "Información de usuario" in your preferences if you want to. [322]
• The thanks button sometimes didn't work for mobile users. This was because of a new bug and has now been fixed. [323]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 August. It will be on all wikis from 10 August (calendar).

Future changes

• Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [324]
• Links to sections on Wikipedia don't work well in languages that don't use the Latin script. The URL in the address bar in your browser shows Latin characters like .D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8 instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months. [325][326]
• Wiki pages printed by the web browser "Print" function will have an updated style. This new style will be similar to the when you download a page as PDF. It will be better at showing tables, infoboxes and headings. [327][328]

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7 de agosto de 2017 ás 21:45 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-33

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

Recent changes

• Bureaucrats can now set users as confirmed. Previously only stewards could do this on most wikis. Nothing will change for wikis that have previously decided to let administrators set users as confirmed. [329]

Problems

• The symbols in the language list that show that an article is good or featured in that language doesn't work. Links to the Commons category in the sidebar doesn't work either. The developers are working on fixing it. [330][331]

Changes later this week

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

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14 de agosto de 2017 ás 23:29 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-34

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

• You can now test the new Timeless skin on the test wiki and mediawiki.org. You can turn it on in your preferences. You can report bugs in Phabricator. It will come to more wikis soon. [332][333]
• Your watchlist can now have the option to unwatch pages. You have to turn this on in your preferences. [334]
• If a table has several columns you can often choose which column you want to use to sort the table. This has not worked for some columns for readers who have used Firefox or Safari. This has now been fixed. [335]
• The RelatedArticles extension has shown related pages on Wikivoyages. You will now see the related pages at the end of the article together with an image. Previously the links were in the sidebar. Wikis that want this extension can request it on Phabricator.

Changes later this week

• Videos will now be played in the WebM format in all browsers. Previously some browsers used Ogg Theora (.ogv). If you use Safari, Internet Explorer or Edge you may see slower playback speed at high resolutions. Instead we will get better quality and smaller file size. You can still upload video as Ogg files. They are automatically converted to WebM. This doesn't affect Ogg audio files. [336]
• The default font in the edit window will change for some users this week. Instead of using the browser default, it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [337]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21 de agosto de 2017 ás 18:00 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-35

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

• Syntax highlighting is now a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It will come to right-to-left wikis later. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. [338][339]
• You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can turn this off or choose to get an email notification in your preferences. You can also turn on to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. [340]

Problems

• Some pages show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that use Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this problem. You still need to fix pages that were broken before and still show the error message. You can see how on this page. [341]

Changes later this week

• You can block users from sending you notifications. [342]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Technical Committee. The topic this week is Migrate to HTML5 section ids. The meeting will be on 30 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• In the future you will have global preferences. This means you could set something in your preferences to work in the same way on all wikis. You will not be forced to use global preferences. The developers are now asking if editors need exceptions. This is where you want to use global settings on almost all wikis, but have some wikis where you want it to work in a different way. If you want this you need to tell the developers now. You can do so on the talk page. [343]
• New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [344]
• The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 in September 2017. Wikis can ask on Phabricator to get it early, so they can help find and solve problems now.

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28 de agosto de 2017 ás 22:09 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-36

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

Tech News

• We are asking Tech News readers five questions to make the newsletter better. You can answer the questions here. We are grateful for every reply we get.

Recent changes

• The RevisionSlider user interface has changed. You can now select revisions by clicking on the bars. You can move the blue knob past the yellow one and the yellow one will move along, and the other way around. [345][346]

Problems

• Some users have problems loading very large watchlists. It is working better than earlier but the problem has not been solved. The developers are working on fixing it. Until it has been fixed you can turn on "Ampliar a lista de vixilancia para amosar todos os cambios e non só os máis recentes" in your preferences and see if it helps. [347]

Changes later this week

• New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [348]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can see a presentation about and discuss the new Technical Committee on 5 September at 17:30 (UTC). There will be a presentation on YouTube and a discussion in #wikimedia-office on Freenode. You can use the web chat. [349]

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4 de setembro de 2017 ás 22:14 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-37

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 get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis. [350]
• The Newsletter extension is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later. [351]
• The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category: tidy-whitespace-bug. This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more about using Linter and the Tidy whitespace bug. [352]

Problems

• Tech News 2017/36 reported about new filters for edit review coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead. [353]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
• OOjs UI will be updated. This could affect some icons. You can read more about the changes.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
• New filters for edit review are available now on recent changes as a beta feature. Some of those filters and other features will be deployed as default features in the coming weeks. Users will be able to opt out in their preferences. [354]

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11 de setembro de 2017 ás 19:15 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-38

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 see contributions from an IP range at Special:Contributions. Before you could only see contributions from single IP addresses. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them. [355][356]
• Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions and the development has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed. [357]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 September at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• We are replacing Tidy on Wikimedia wikis. Editors need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors. Some wikis have already switched. If your wiki would like to switch to the new format now, you can file a task.

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18 de setembro de 2017 ás 15:31 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-39

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

• Wikitext syntax highlighting is a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. You can now search through the entire article with CTRL+F or cmd+F when you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs. [358][359]
• Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions as a beta feature or by default can now create and move Structured Discussions boards. Structured Discussions was previously called Flow. [360]

Changes later this week

• You now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences. [361]
• Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser. [362]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September. (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department has proposed changing the mobile website. You can read more on mediawiki.org. This would be a big change.
• You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can still create PDFs. Tech News 2017/37 said the function to create PDFs from books would still work. It is now clear it will not work for the next few months. The developers are working on fixing this. You can read more on mediawiki.org.

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25 de setembro de 2017 ás 15:59 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-40

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

• You can now use preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it. [363]

Changes later this week

• If you have turned on "Activar automaticamente case todas as novas características en probas" you will now get the 2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature. [364]
• Special:Block and Special:Unblock will get the OOUI look. [365]
• The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October. [366]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can give feedback on this feature. [367]
• The search function has used fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can read more and give feedback.

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2 de outubro de 2017 ás 23:25 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-41

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 number of active users listed by {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}} and on Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too. [368]
• Previously you could create wiki links starting with two colons. Now you need to use one colon. [[::File:X.jpg]] now has to be [[:File:X.jpg]]. There is now a new Linter category. You can see a list on Special:Linterrors/multi-colon-escape. The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. You can read more about using Linter. [369]

Problems

• You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at 06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models. [370]

Changes later this week

• The font in the edit window is monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week. [371]
• If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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9 de outubro de 2017 ás 14:20 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-42

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

• When you edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's format configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in more powerful ways if your wiki wants it. [372][373]
• The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can give feedback to the developers.

Problems

• There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis. [374]
• Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this. [375]
• Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed. [376]

Changes later this week

• Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [377]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16 de outubro de 2017 ás 15:31 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-43

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

• You can use ccnorm_contains_any when you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more in the documentation. [378]

Changes later this week

• When you search in some languages the search function could use specific other languages if the first language didn't work. This is called a fallback language. This didn't work properly and created bad searches. The search index is being fixed to work better. [379]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is a Structured Commons community focus group for Commons and Wikidata contributors who want to give input on structured data on Wikimedia Commons. You can sign up to join it. [380]

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23 de outubro de 2017 ás 18:18 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-44

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

Recent changes

• You can now block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis. [381]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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31 de outubro de 2017 ás 00:20 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-45

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 will no longer see the patrol log on Special:Log unless you specifically select it. [382]

Changes later this week

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 6 November. You can post proposals from 19:00 UTC and until November 19.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F instead of https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История. This will soon be fixed. Old links will still work. [383][384]

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6 de novembro de 2017 ás 18:45 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-46

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

Changes later this week

• The diff you see when you compare two different versions of a page has changed on MediaWiki.org and the test wiki. This is to make it easier to find a text change in a moved paragraph. It will hopefully soon come to more wikis. You can report bugs in Phabricator. [385]
• A new user group on Commons will be able to upload MP3 files. The plan is to have this user group from 17 November. [386]
• Wikis using Flagged Revisions will get the New filters for Edit Review by default on the recent changes pages. It will be possible to opt-out in user preferences. [387]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Support for uploading and viewing 3D models is coming soon to Wikimedia Commons. The feature will support the .STL file format. You can see an example on the test wiki. [388]

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13 de novembro de 2017 ás 19:19 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-47

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

Recent changes

• If you use the Chrome web browser on Android you can see a download icon on the mobile website. You can download a formatted PDF. It will work in other mobile browsers in the future. [389]
• The abuse filter now has a function called get_matches. You can use it to store matches from regular expressions – one of each capturing group. You can read more in Phabricator.

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki version didn't come to all Wikipedias because of a database crash. It will be on all wikis on 20 November. [390][391][392]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Language converter syntax will no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week. [393][394]

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20 de novembro de 2017 ás 19:18 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-48

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

• You can now test the new advanced search function beta feature on mediawiki.org. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It will come to German and Arabic Wikipedia this week. It will come to more wikis later. [395]
• You can now upload large files with the Internet Archive upload tool. Previously you could not upload files larger than 100 MB. [396]
• You can now use the Timeless skin on all wikis. You can choose skins in Special:Preferences#Appearance. [397]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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27 de novembro de 2017 ás 20:30 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-49

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

Recent changes

• It is now possible to upload MP3 files to Commons. Only users with MP3 file upload rights can upload MP3 files. [398]
• You can now use live updates for recent changes if you use the new filters. This feature updates the filtered recent changes every three seconds when you activate it. [399]
• There is an experimental onion service for Wikimedia projects. [400]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 December. It will be on all wikis from 7 December (calendar).
• Very old versions of the Opera Web browser are no longer supported. This means that technical development will not be tested to make sure it works with those Opera versions. Use Opera 15 or above or another browser if you have problems. [401]
• Almost 170 wikis with no high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. A few larger wikis such as German and Italian Wikipedia will also make this switch. It will happen on 5 December. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [402][403]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You can vote for wishes on the survey page until 10 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2016 results page.
• The Community Liaisons team at the Wikimedia Foundation is looking for active tech ambassadors. This is to make sure the Wikimedia communities get all the information they need about new features and can be involved in the technical development. [404]

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4 de decembro de 2017 ás 17:50 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-50

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

• URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F instead of https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История. This has now been fixed on all wikis. Old links will still work. [405]
• A new tag marks edits where a redirect was created or removed. This still works when the editor writes something else in the edit summary. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. [406]
• If you use Chrome on Android, you can now use the print to PDF button to create a PDF of an article. [407]
• Filter by number of edits or filter by time range have been grouped on a same menu on the recent changes page if you use the new filters. The "Amosar os cambios novos desde o $1" link is now more prominent. [408]
• Some of the web fonts that were provided by the Universal Language Selector extension are being removed. This is to reduce the load time on pages. The web fonts were added many years ago to help users read text in scripts which did not have fonts or had broken fonts. This is not the case any more. You can check the status page for a list of all web fonts and whether they are currently being used and especially for special requirements. [409]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can discuss new or improved blocking tools with the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team. They will work on building better blocking tools. Leave comments on the talk page.

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11 de decembro de 2017 ás 17:58 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-51

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2018.

Problems

• When you import a page from another wiki the usernames of the users who edited the article on the wiki you imported it from are shown in the article history. This should link to the users on the original wiki. A script to fix this caused problems for Wikidata and German Wikipedia. It also created a large number of SUL accounts on wikis where editors had never edited. [410]
• Some bot owners got email about their bots logging in from a new computer. If this is from one or a couple of wikis, you can turn these messages off in your preferences on those wikis until the problem has been solved. If not, you can report more about the problem in Phabricator.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Files on Commons will have structured metadata in the future. The developers are now looking for examples of different kinds of metadata to make sure they are aware of them when they build prototypes for structured data on Commons. You can read more and help by giving examples of interesting media files.
• The Structured Commons team are making sure Commons work with structured data. If you regularly contribute to Commons and Wikidata you can answer a survey that helps the team prioritise the tools that are important for the Commons and Wikidata communities. The survey ends on 22 December. You can read more on Commons. You can also help the team decide on better names for "captions" and "descriptions". This ends on 3 January 2018.
• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey has now ended. You can see the results. They decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year.

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18 de decembro de 2017 ás 15:26 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-02

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

• On Wikidata, the "gardar" button when you edit is now called "publicar". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "Gardar a páxina" to "Publicar os cambios". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [411][412]
• Some edits will get an automatic tag on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways. [413]
• Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [414]
• Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated. [415][416]

Problems

• Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem. [417]
• With the new filters in the recent changes, "Excluír os seleccionados" in "Espazos de nomes" did not work for "Filtros gardados" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [418]
• The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 instead of #Résumé even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March). [419]
• Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [420]

Changes later this week

• Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this you will be able to read but not edit Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis. [421]
• The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems. [422][423]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).
• WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: ext.wikiEditor. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed. [424]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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8 de xaneiro de 2018 ás 16:19 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-3

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

• Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [425]
• There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [426]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [427][428]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [429][430]

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15 de xaneiro de 2018 ás 18:45 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-04

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

• Filters on Special:RecentChangesLinked will get the new look similar to on the recent changes page. Special:RecentChangesLinked will also get some new features. [431][432]

Problems

• With the new OOUI look menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed. [433]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• irc.wikimedia.org will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically. [434]

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22 de xaneiro de 2018 ás 23:56 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-05

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

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation is working on how to get less unmaintained code on Wikimedia wikis. This could be by finding maintainers or removing unmaintained features. They are now looking for feedback on what do do with AbuseFilter, the IRC RecentChanges feed, the RelatedSites extension and TimedMediaHandler. You can leave feedback on the linked talk pages. [435]

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29 de xaneiro de 2018 ás 17:06 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-06

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

• Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [436]
• The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [437]
• Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [438]

Problems

• Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [439]

Changes later this week

• When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [440]
• When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [441]
• The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of Si or Non it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [442]
• Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [443]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Education Program extension will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the Programs and Events Dashboard. [444][445]

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5 de febreiro de 2018 ás 20:51 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-07

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

• TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [446][447][448]
• Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week

• You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [449]
• The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{Listaref}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [450]
• The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [451]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 February at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved. [452]

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12 de febreiro de 2018 ás 21:59 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-08

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

• The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [453][454]
• You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [455]

Problems

• Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [456]
• Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [457][458]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible. [459]
• Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.

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19 de febreiro de 2018 ás 22:54 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-09

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

• Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [460]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [461][462]
• Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [463]
• Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [464][465][466]

Changes later this week

• Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [467]
• The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [468][469]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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26 de febreiro de 2018 ás 19:52 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-10

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

• You can now make longer edit summaries. [470]

Changes later this week

• You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. [471]
• On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [472][473]
• Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [474]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• In the future you will be able to use global preferences. This means you could change a preference for all wikis instead of having to change it every time for each wiki. You can now test global preferences and give feedback.
• You can now read about planned works on maps during 2018. This will be done by June. You can give feedback on the planned maps work.

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5 de marzo de 2018 ás 17:12 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-11

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

• 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons. [475]
• Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [476]
• Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [477]
• Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [478]

Problems

• The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [479]

Changes later this week

• You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [480]
• It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [481][482]
• A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [483][484][485]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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12 de marzo de 2018 ás 19:43 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-12

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

• On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [486]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 marzo. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 marzo. It will be on all wikis from 22 marzo (calendar).

Meetings

• There is no Editing team meeting this week.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 marzo at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [487][488]
• In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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19 de marzo de 2018 ás 15:04 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-13

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

Changes later this week

• Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [489] [490]
• The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [491]
• TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [492]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [493]
• Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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26 de marzo de 2018 ás 20:04 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-14

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

• Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
• The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

Problems

• MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [494][495][496]
• The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [497]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
• User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns. [498]
• Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [499][500][501]
• AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [502] [503]
• In Special:Preferences, the preference "Recargar a lista de vixilancia automaticamente cando se produza un cambio nun filtro (necesítase JavaScript)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [504]
• You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [505]
• You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [506]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
• On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [507][508]

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2 de abril de 2018 ás 19:28 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-15

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 pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it. [509]
• You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year. [510]
• The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details. [511]
• Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left). [512]

Problems

• The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [513]
• For a week in March rollbacks got both the rollback and the undo tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed. [514]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
• Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits. [515]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The iOS and Android apps will get synced reading lists later in April.

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9 de abril de 2018 ás 18:09 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-16

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

Changes later this week

• Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [516]
• Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [517][518]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The new PDF renderer could not create PDFs from books. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki. PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function. [519]
• Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3. [520]
• Volunteer developers can fill out the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey. The last day is April 22 (UTC). This is a third-party service survey. See the privacy statement.

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16 de abril de 2018 ás 15:20 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-17

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

Recent changes

• All Wikipedias now have Page Previews.
• The iOS and Android apps now have synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
• The icons in the 2010 wikitext editor have changed. [521]
• The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press Publish. This button now also shows an ellipsis. This is to show that pressing Publish is not the last step. [522]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 April. It will be on all wikis from 26 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• <mapframe> will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of flagged revisions will not get this feature in May. [523]
• The rollback function could change. This was a German community request. All editors with rollback rights can leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).

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23 de abril de 2018 ás 18:16 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-18

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 parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links. [524]

Problems

• We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator. [525]

Changes later this week

• You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right. [526]
• When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date. [527]
• You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the Edición section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly. [528]
• There is a new abuse filter function called equals_to_any. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jharewikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
• All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [529][530][531]

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30 de abril de 2018 ás 16:18 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-19

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

• The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones. [532]

Problems

• The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed. [533]

Changes later this week

• The advanced search function beta feature will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. [534]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [535][536]

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7 de maio de 2018 ás 16:27 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-20

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

• Dynamic maps are now available on most Wikipedias. Labels on maps can also be in different languages.
• The new Advanced Search interface is now available as a Beta Feature on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated. [537]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can give feedback and suggestions.
• The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it. Read more on mediawiki.org [538]

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14 de maio de 2018 ás 22:23 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-21

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 May. It will be on all wikis from 24 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• It could become easier to reference different pages of a book in an article. You can give feedback. The last day for feedback is 27 May.

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21 de maio de 2018 ás 17:33 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-22

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

• You can now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki. Global preferences will come to the Wikipedias later this week. [539][540]
• It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked. [541]
• Wikidata now supports lexicographical data. This helps describe words.
• There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups. [542]
• Some rare invisible Unicode characters have recently been banned from page titles. This includes soft hyphens (U+00AD) and left-to-right (U+2066) and right-to-left (U+2067) isolate markers. Existing pages with these characters will soon be moved by a script. [543]
• There's a new Wikimedia Foundation team to support the Wikimedia technical communities. It's called the Technical Engagement team. Most of the team members did similar work in other teams before this. [544]

Problems

• Some translatable pages are showing old translations instead of latest ones. The cause of this issue has been fixed. We will update all pages automatically to show the latest translations. [545]

Changes later this week

• There will be a new special page named PasswordPolicies. This page gives information about the password rules for each user group on that wiki. [546]
• A new way to see moved paragraphs in diffs is coming to most wikis. This is to make it easier to find the moved paragraphs and the changes in them. [547]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 May. It will be on all wikis from 31 May (calendar).
• Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. This is complex. The tool will now disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. It has warned about this in the JavaScript console since February. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [548]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Content Translation drafts which have not been updated in over a year will be removed. This allows other users to translate those articles. [549]
• A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development. [550]
• Some wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 30 May and 13 June. Wikis with fewer than 100 linter issues in the main namespace in all high-priority linter categories will switch. This includes Wikidata. Tidy will probably be removed on all wikis in the first week of July. [551][552]

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29 de maio de 2018 ás 12:40 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-23

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 MonoBook skin has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different. [553]
• Planet Wikimedia collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the Rawdog feed aggregator to do this instead of Planet. [554][555]
• Redirect links in Special:WhatLinksHere now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again. [556]

Problems

• You will not be able to edit some wikis between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. You can see if your wiki is one of them.
• MassMessage did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late. [557]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This is planned to happen in June or early July. [558][559]

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4 de xuño de 2018 ás 21:54 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-24

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

• In the Wikipedia app for Android or iOS users can create reading lists. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome. [560]
• There is a new version of Pywikibot. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis. [561]

Problems

• The MonoBook skin was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design. [562]

Changes later this week

• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. For most wikis this will happen on 18 June. For the rest it will happen on 25 June. [563][564]

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 June. It will be on all wikis from 14 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the Readers Web team IRC office hour. There you can discuss tools to contribute on the mobile web for the existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on 18 June at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to move local wiki files to Commons and keep their original data intact. This is planned to come to the first wikis in June.

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11 de xuño de 2018 ás 21:55 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-25

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

• Syntax highlighting has been a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It is now a normal feature. It is based on CodeMirror. [565]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3. [566][567]
• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [568][569]
• All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the Remex parsing library on 5 July. This is to replace Tidy. You can help fix remaining errors. [570]

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18 de xuño de 2018 ás 21:47 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-26

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

• PAWS, our JupyterHub system, got an upgrade and a logo. Several bugs should be fixed.

Problems

• When a link text was in italics or had other formatting you could sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [571][572]

Changes later this week

• Content translation users who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create better tools for translating articles. [573]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 June. It will be on all wikis from 28 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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25 de xuño de 2018 ás 23:10 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-27

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

• The database for tags will be changed. This will happen on 2 July on French Wikipedia and 9 July on all other wikis. Please report if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge. [574]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem. [575]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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3 de xullo de 2018 ás 00:46 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-28

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

• WebM video files have smaller file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take longer time. [576]
• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July. [577]
• All wikis now use the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy. This could cause errors. You can help fix the errors. [578]

Problems

• When you rolled back an edit it could get both the Rollback and Undo tags. This has been fixed. [579]
• Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed. [580]

Changes later this week

• When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label). [581][582]
• On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page. [583]
• When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures. [584]
• Structured discussions toolbars will have more style options. [585]
• When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening. [586]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Today all administrators can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can read more. [587]
• Page previews will be on by default for new accounts. [588]

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9 de xullo de 2018 ás 23:10 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-29

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 global preferences on Wikimedia wikis. You can set them on the global preferences page. [589]
• You can now see a new log of pages being created at Special:Log/create. It includes pages which are later deleted. It is now available on all Wikimedia wikis except Commons and Wikidata. [590]
• You can see how many pageviews a wiki had from specific countries. The Wikistats2 maps have now been updated. [591]

Changes later this week

• Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change. [592]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on July 17 at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on July 18 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some articles have messages to readers about problems with the article. For example that it does not cite sources or might not be neutral. Readers do not see these messages on the mobile version. The developers now want to show them. You can read more and leave feedback.
• You can use <inputbox> to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead of prefix:Page name you will see a text that explains which pages are being searched. You can read more and leave feedback.

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16 de xullo de 2018 ás 16:01 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-30

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

• When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [593]
• Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [594]
• Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [595]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 xullo. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 xullo. It will be on all wikis from 26 xullo (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 xullo at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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24 de xullo de 2018 ás 09:44 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-31

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

• The design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [596]

Problems

• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [597][598]
• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [599][600]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 xullo. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 agosto. It will be on all wikis from 2 agosto (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 xullo at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 agosto at 15:00 (UTC) as well as at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• After a community discussion, a new group for users will be created. "Interface administrators" will be the only users allowed to edit interface pages like MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Common.js. This is done to avoid technical issues and improve security. That change will be effective by the end of August 2018.

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30 de xullo de 2018 ás 14:05 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-32

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

• Special:NewPages now has the OOUI look. [601]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [602][603]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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6 de agosto de 2018 ás 19:39 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-33

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

Recent changes

• CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [604]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [605]

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13 de agosto de 2018 ás 17:53 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-34

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
• Legacy JavaScript global variables have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia or mediawiki.org. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide to fix old scripts. [606]

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20 de agosto de 2018 ás 16:46 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-35

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

• You can now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [607]
• Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [608]

Problems

• Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [609]

Changes later this week

• The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [610]
• AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [611]
• Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title. [612]
• Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [613]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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27 de agosto de 2018 ás 16:16 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-36

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

• There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [614][615]
• There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [616][617]
• You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [618]
• wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [619]
• When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [620]

Problems

• UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [621]
• You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [622]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation.
• The RelatedSites extension will be removed from Wikivoyage.
• Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server will be removed. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used. [623]

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3 de setembro de 2018 ás 16:48 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-37

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

• When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [624]

Problems

• Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [625]
• Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [626]
• <maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [627]
• {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [628]
• When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [629]

Changes later this week

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
• Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 Septmber at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers work on making the wikis work better on mobile phones. There is a list of common problems when making content easier to read in the mobile view. You can add things to the page and ask others to help.

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10 de setembro de 2018 ás 22:36 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-38

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

• The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [630]
• MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [631]

Problems

• You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [632]

Changes later this week

• Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [633]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers are testing new mobile web navigation. You can use it and give feedback.

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17 de setembro de 2018 ás 21:58 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-39

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

Changes later this week

• The preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [634]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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24 de setembro de 2018 ás 15:23 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-40

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

• Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [635][636]

Problems

• New and updated translations from translatewiki.net will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [637][638]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.

Future changes

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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1 de outubro de 2018 ás 17:35 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-41

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 Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. You can use the Programs and Events Dashboard or the Fountain instead. [639]

Problems

• There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [640]

Changes later this week

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
• Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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8 de outubro de 2018 ás 23:38 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-42

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

Problems

• Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [641]
• Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [642]

Changes later this week

• When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [643]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).

Meetings

• There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [644]
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15 de outubro de 2018 ás 22:41 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-43

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 October. It will be on all wikis from 25 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.

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22 de outubro de 2018 ás 23:12 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-44

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

Recent changes

• You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
• The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [645]

Problems

• Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [646]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
• The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [647][648]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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29 de outubro de 2018 ás 20:09 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-45

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 use TemplateWizard to edit templates. This works only with the 2010 wikitext editor and not in the visual editor or the 2017 wikitext editor. If you click on you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences. [649]

Changes later this week

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
• When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [650]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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5 de novembro de 2018 ás 17:29 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-46

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

• Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [651]

Problems

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [652][653][654]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [655]

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12 de novembro de 2018 ás 19:22 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-47

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

Recent changes

• You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
• There is an A/B test for sameAs data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [656]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [657]
• The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [658]

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19 de novembro de 2018 ás 23:29 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-48

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

• On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [659]

Changes later this week

• The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [660]
• Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [661]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [662]

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26 de novembro de 2018 ás 22:22 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-49

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

Recent changes

• Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [663]
• Small SVG images are now bigger when you see them in MediaViewer. [664]
• You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow. [665]
• When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back. [666][667]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 December at 16:00 (UTC) and at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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3 de decembro de 2018 ás 16:13 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-50

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 December. It will be on all wikis from 13 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [668][669]
• When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [670]

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10 de decembro de 2018 ás 17:34 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-51

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.

Recent changes

• Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [671][672]
• Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [673]
• The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.

Problems

• <ref> tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example <ref name="adams" group="books">. If a <ref> tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [674]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 December. It will be on all wikis from 20 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
• tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [675]

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17 de decembro de 2018 ás 20:35 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-02

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

Tech News writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.

Recent changes

• RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [676]
• MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [677]
• codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [678]
• On several wikis, an account named "Filtro de abusos" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.

Problems

• In AbuseFilter, the "Limitar" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [679]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from January 9. It will be on all wikis from January 10 (calendar).

Meetings

• Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.

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7 de xaneiro de 2019 ás 18:30 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-03

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 can now use Google Translate in the content translation tool. [680][681]
• You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
• Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. [682][683]
• Templates with could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. has a new wrapper parameter now. You can use it for selectors like .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [684]

Problems

• When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed. [685]

Changes later this week

• You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new FileExporter. It will be a beta feature on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it and check your wiki's configuration file.
• Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage. [686]
• The AbuseFilter variable minor_edit has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15 14 de xaneiro de 2019 ás 17:55 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-04

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

Tech News

• Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was because of a problem with MassMessage. If you did not get last week's issue, you can read it on Meta. [687]

Recent changes

• The content translation tool can now use version 2 as the default version for users who turned on the beta feature. For example it adds the tracking category Wikipedia:Páxinas con traducións non revisadas to translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category in Special:TrackingCategories on Wikipedias.
• https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org can now convert collects of up to 800 pages to PDF, EPUB or ODT. Previously this was 200 pages.

Problems

• When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17 January and is now fixed. [688]
• MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone. [689][690]
• Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This has now been fixed. [691]

Changes later this week

• You will be able to use template styles in the Module namespace. [692]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all wikis from 24 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21 de xaneiro de 2019 ás 20:33 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-05

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

Recent changes

• The Wikimedia servers use HHVM to run the PHP code. They are going to use PHP7 and stop using HHVM. You can test PHP7 with a new beta feature. That way you can help find and report problems.

Problems

• When someone moves a page to a name that already exists that page that had the name the article is moved to is deleted. For a couple of months this didn't always work. Some users saw an error message instead. This has now been fixed. [693]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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28 de xaneiro de 2019 ás 18:16 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-06

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

Changes later this week

• It was easy to untick a box by accident in Special:Preferences. This will now be fixed. [694]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 February. It will be on all wikis from 7 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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4 de febreiro de 2019 ás 17:12 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-07

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 use the ambox CSS class to show page issues to mobile readers. When you use ambox there are classes you can use.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 February. It will be on all wikis from 14 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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11 de febreiro de 2019 ás 18:46 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-08

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

• When you thank someone on the mobile web you will now have two seconds to cancel the thank. This is in case you clicked on the thank button by accident. [695]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 February. It will be on all wikis from 21 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is a proposal to add a red link to mobile search results if there is no page with that name. This is how it works on desktop. You can leave feedback. [696]

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18 de febreiro de 2019 ás 23:14 (UTC)

Talk to us about talking

The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.

We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.

We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.

We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.

We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.

You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:

1. First, sign up your group here.
2. Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group. This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
3. Then ask people what they think about communication processes. We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki. Please consider asking these five questions:
   1. When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
   2. What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
   3. What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
   4. What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
   5. What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
4. Finally, please go to Talk pages consultation 2019 on Mediawiki.org and report what you learned from your group. Please include links if the discussion is available to the public.

You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.

Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell us how your group communicates.

You can read more about the overall process on mediawiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you can leave feedback about the consultation process in the language you prefer.

Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you.

Trizek (WMF) 21 de febreiro de 2019 ás 15:08 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-09

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

• There is a new version of the iOS Wikipedia app. It has for example syntax highlighting and new toolbars to make it easier to write wikitext. It also has night mode, a find-on-page function and other things. You can give feedback and suggestions. [697]

Changes later this week

• When you look at your watchlist or the recent changes page you can use the new filters for edit review. There you can choose tags to filter different edits. Empty tags will no longer be shown. [698]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 February. It will be on all wikis from 28 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback.

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25 de febreiro de 2019 ás 21:17 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-10

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

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can give feedback on the future of talk pages.
• The mobile website will use the standard fonts on your computer or phone instead of a generic font. This will make it easier to read text in many scripts. [699][700]

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4 de marzo de 2019 ás 16:38 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-11

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

• Pages can use geocoordinates from Wikidata with the mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements Lua function or the #statements parser function. If they do, they will now be shown using a Kartographer <maplink> if the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on Phabricator.
• There is now an EventStream to see when links are added or removed on Wikimedia wikis. You can read the discussions and plans.

Problems

• Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (UTC). This will start at 15:00 UTC. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
• Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed. [701]
• Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed. [702][703]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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11 de marzo de 2019 ás 19:29 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-12

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

Changes later this week

• When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March. [704][705]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers. [706]
• Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.

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18 de marzo de 2019 ás 19:44 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-13

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 new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version. [707]

Problems

• There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed. [708]
• The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon. [709]
• Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them. [710]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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25 de marzo de 2019 ás 18:05 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-14

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

Changes later this week

• Notifications tell you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications about new links to pages you created. For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this. [711]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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1 de abril de 2019 ás 16:29 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-15

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

• More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can read more.
• Admins on French and Polish Wikipedia can block someone from editing a page or a namespace. If your wiki wants to get these blocks before they are available to all wikis, you can tell the developers. [712][713]

Problems

• You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on 11 April at 05:00 (UTC). This is because of a hardware problem. You can see a list of the affected wikis. [714]
• A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [715]
• Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [716]

Changes later this week

• When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site. [717]
• The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more. [718]
• The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return "" (empty string). When you read a page it will return "-" (dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces. [719]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. [720][721]
• The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.

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8 de abril de 2019 ás 18:24 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-16

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

• All wikis now have the TemplateWizard for the wikitext editor.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will get a new constraint status called suggestion. This will change how the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API works. [722][723]
• You can test the depicts property for structured data on Commons.

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15 de abril de 2019 ás 23:00 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-17

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

Recent changes

• The advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook. [724][725][726]
• The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [727]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikipedia articles will have the sameAs meta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test. [728][729]

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23 de abril de 2019 ás 19:08 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-18

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 Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [730][731]

Problems

• Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [732]

Changes later this week

• You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [733]
• When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in local storage instead of session storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [734]
• You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [735]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikidata wb_terms table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more. You can ask for help if you need it.
• Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [736]

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29 de abril de 2019 ás 22:28 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-19

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

Problems

• Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem. [737]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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6 de maio de 2019 ás 16:28 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-20

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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14 de maio de 2019 ás 00:49 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-21

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

• The report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019 has been published. Communities are invited to start phase 2 of the consultation on their wikis.

Problems

• File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [738][739]
• Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments. [740][741]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 maio. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 maio. It will be on all wikis from 23 maio (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 maio at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The content translation tool on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team. [742]
• The Wikidata wbeditentity API endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June. [743]

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20 de maio de 2019 ás 13:04 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-22

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

Changes later this week

• Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [744][745]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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27 de maio de 2019 ás 15:34 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-23

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 write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version. [746]
• There is now a field called depicts on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development. [747]
• Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema. [748][749]

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [750]

Changes later this week

• Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited. [751]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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3 de xuño de 2019 ás 15:25 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-24

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

• When you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton. Before this we used Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them. [752][753]
• The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [754]
• Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [755]

Problems

• Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it. [756]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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10 de xuño de 2019 ás 17:07 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-25

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

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [757]

Changes later this week

• MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with [[File:Filename.midi]]. Later override_midi and override_audio will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score. [758]
• A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [759]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old wgEnableAPI and wgEnableWriteAPI values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values. [760]

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17 de xuño de 2019 ás 20:38 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-26

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

Problems

• The new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday. [761]
• Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced. [762]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can watch or join the next Wikimedia Language showcase. It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects. The showcase will be on 26 June at 13:00 (UTC). A recording will be kept for later viewing
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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24 de xuño de 2019 ás 17:30 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-27

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

• The development of Wikidata Bridge has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia. [763]

Problems

• Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress. [764]
• Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed. [765]

Changes later this week

• You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database. [766]
• There is no deployment of a new version of MediaWiki on the wikis this week (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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1 de xullo de 2019 ás 21:23 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-28

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

• For event organizers, if you request a temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation, this will now also raise the edit rate limit for those new accounts at the event, which will prevent another bottleneck. [767]
• Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new partial blocks feature. [768]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 July. It will be on all wikis from 11 July (calendar).
• The design of MediaWiki's software windows will change for desktop users. Layout will be simpler, buttons will be bolder and clearer, and close buttons will be just icons. This is like the mobile design. This will affect ContentTranslation, VisualEditor, TemplateWizard, and other tools. [769]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [770]
• There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July. [771]

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8 de xullo de 2019 ás 20:13 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-29

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 mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the mobile web and give feedback. [772]

Changes later this week

• The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called Filtro de abusos and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical problems. It will not do any other changes. You can read more.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all wikis from 18 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback. [773]

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15 de xullo de 2019 ás 15:30 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-30

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

• Communities interested by easing newcomers' first steps can now benefit from the Growth team experiments on their wikis. Check the conditions and the request process.
• The Coolest Tool Award 2019 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools by July 29. The awarded tools will be presented at Wikimania. [774]

Problems

• The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2. [775]

Changes later this week

• Phabricator database will be moved to a different server. Writes will be blocked on Thursday 25 July, between 05:30 and 06:00 AM UTC. Reads will remain unaffected. [776]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 July. It will be on all wikis from 25 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some items in the visual editor will change later this week. This will make it easier to edit links, citations, and templates on both desktop and mobile. [777][778]
• With advanced search turned on you will be able to choose the sorting order of the search results when you do a search. [779][780]
• Users who edit from IP addresses whitelisted on a request for temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation will bypass CAPTCHAs. This will happen in August. If you think this should not happen for some reason, please let us know.
• The variable user_wpzero will be removed from AbuseFilter. A list of filters needing a fix is provided.

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22 de xullo de 2019 ás 13:08 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-31

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

Problems

• Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [781]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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29 de xullo de 2019 ás 21:42 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-32

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 August. It will be on all wikis from 8 August (calendar).

Problems

• A change in RelatedArticles extension accidentally enabled it for everyone, not just for mobile users. This has been fixed. [782][783]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Today everyone can see IP addresses if someone edits without an account. In the future this could be more hidden. This is to protect unregistered editors so fewer can see their IP address. This would only happen after we make sure the tools for vandal fighting can still be effective. You can read more and comment.

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5 de agosto de 2019 ás 13:25 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-33

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

Recent changes

• Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools. Feedback on the discussion page is appreciated. [784]
• Due to the absence of volunteer maintenance of Cologne Blue skin, the link to activate it will be hidden. The skin will still work, but editors using it are encouraged to switch to another skin. [785]

Changes later this week

• Due to Wikimania, there is no deployment this week. [786]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The "Wikidata item" link will be moved from "Tools" to "In other projects" section on all Wikimedia projects, starting on August 21. Full announcement, Phabricator task.

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12 de agosto de 2019 ás 18:20 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-34

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

Tech News

• There will be no Tech News issue next week. The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 2 September 2019.

Problems

• Some abuse filters stopped working because of a code change. Only variables for the current action will work. Variables defined inside a branch may not work outside of that branch. You can read more to see how to fix the filters.
• Only six accounts can be created from one IP address per day. Between 12 August and August 15 this was two accounts per day. This was because of a security issue. It is now six accounts per day again. [787]

Changes later this week

• Only a limited number of accounts can be created from one IP address. An IP address can be whitelisted so that it can create as many accounts as needed. This is useful at events where many new persons learn to edit. IP addresses that are whitelisted for this reason will also not show CAPTCHAs when you create accounts. This will happen on Wednesday. [788]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 August. It will be on all wikis from 22 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is an RFC about creating a new global user group with the right to edit abuse filters. This will be used to fix broken filters and make sure all filters will still work when software changes happen. You can read more and comment.
• Special:Contributions/newbies will no longer be working. This is because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the recent changes feed instead. [789]

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19 de agosto de 2019 ás 15:21 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-36

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

• You can use the new termbox interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages. [790]
• The new version of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week.
• The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues. [791]
• The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute. [792]
• The advanced version of the edit review pages (Recent Changes, Watchlist, and Related Changes) now include two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces. However the "All discussions" filter does not include pseudo talk pages, like discussions that are in the Project: or Wikipedia: namespaces. But it will include changes happening on Project talk: or the Wikipedia talk:. [793]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 setembro. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 setembro. It will be on all wikis from 5 setembro (calendar).
• When you log in, the software checks your password to see if it follows the Password policy. From this week, it will also complain if your password is one of the most common passwords in the world. If your password is not strong enough, please consider to change your password for a stronger password. [794]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 setembro at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikidata for up to 30 minutes on September 10 at 05:00 (UTC). [795]
• You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 17 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [796]
• You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 24 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [797]
• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to 30 minutes on September 26 at 05:00 (UTC). [798]

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4 de setembro de 2019 ás 09:08 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-40

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

Problems

• Last week's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The problem where some pages got it three times should now be fixed. [799]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 outubro at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working on a watchlist expiry feature. This means you can put things on your watchlist for a period of time instead of forever. They are looking for feedback on the questions they have.
• Special:Contributions will get the standard OOUI look. This makes it easier to use on mobile and makes it look like other Special: pages. There is a script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to. [800]

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30 de setembro de 2019 ás 16:49 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-41

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 abuse filter function now has a faster parser. This is to shorten the waiting time when you save an edit. [801]

Problems

• There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text with footnotes. It will be fixed soon. [802]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 October. It will be on all wikis from 10 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Community Wishlist Survey has a new format. It will focus on wikis that typically get less support. It will probably go back to the normal format next year. It is not decided exactly how it will work this year. You can leave feedback.
• The URL of the Wikimedia wiki main pages could be changed. This is because the current URLs cause several problems. For example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page would be https://www.wikidata.org/ instead. You can tell the developers if this would cause problems for your wiki.
• There is a new technical community newsletter. You can read more about the work of Wikimedia's technical community. Subscribe to get the information in the future.
• Outreachy is an internship program for groups who are underrepresented in free and open-source software. There are seven Wikimedia projects about coding, documentation and quality assurance in the next round. Persons who fit the criteria can apply. The last day to apply is 5 November.

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7 de outubro de 2019 ás 15:35 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-42

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

• You can now use more advanced editing tools on the mobile web. You can turn them on and off in your preferences in the mobile version. [803]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are no longer supported. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They will not get security support. You can't read Wikimedia wikis in Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows versions that are older than Windows XP. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them made the wikis less secure for everyone else. [804]
• In the future section headings might have a share link. This is to make it easier to link to the section. You can read more and discuss.

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14 de outubro de 2019 ás 23:33 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-43

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

• The API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as internal. API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives. [805]

Problems

• There is a translation tool we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed. [806]
• The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed. [807]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (calendar).
• Reference Previews will be a beta feature on all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 October. See how to join.

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21 de outubro de 2019 ás 14:27 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-44

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

Recent changes

• You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
• Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist. [808][809]
• You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
• OOUI now allows using px (pixels) instead of em (em) for some specific cases. [810][811]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 outubro. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 outubro. It will be on all wikis from 31 outubro (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 outubro at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January. [812]
• Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named wg* to mw.config. The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.

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28 de outubro de 2019 ás 16:11 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-45

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

• At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites. [813]

Changes later this week

• MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip to set a different default block length for IP editors. [814]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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4 de novembro de 2019 ás 16:47 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-46

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

• MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.

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11 de novembro de 2019 ás 22:03 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-47

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

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the centralauth database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames. [815]

Changes later this week

• You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18 de novembro de 2019 ás 20:16 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-48

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

Changes later this week

• The mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script. [816]
• Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them. [817]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view. [818]

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25 de novembro de 2019 ás 16:51 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-49

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

Recent changes

• Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work. [819]
• The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns "" (empty string). When you read a page it returns "-" (dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces. [820]

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2 de decembro de 2019 ás 16:58 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-50

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

• Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language. [821]
• There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article. [822]

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9 de decembro de 2019 ás 16:37 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-51

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

Problems

• The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again. [823]
• Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem. [824]

Changes later this week

• You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki. [825]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now. [826]

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17 de decembro de 2019 ás 00:16 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-52

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.

Recent changes

• All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "advanced mode".

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

• You can use setlang in the URL to change the user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript is not working in your browser. [827]

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23 de decembro de 2019 ás 20:04 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-02

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

Changes later this week

• When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [828]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 January. It will be on all wikis from 9 January (calendar).

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6 de xaneiro de 2020 ás 21:20 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-03

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 can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade attacks. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the browser recommendations. [829]
• Special:LinkSearch has been moved from the "Páxinas de redirección especiais" section on Special:SpecialPages to the "Listas de páxinas" section. [830]

Changes later this week

• Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are Permitir só aos usuarios autoconfirmados and Permitir só aos administradores. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see. [831]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all wikis from 16 January (calendar).

Future changes

• Deepcat and Catgraph will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead. [832]
• You can use <ref follow="…"> to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead. [833]

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MediaWiki message delivery (conversa) 13 de xaneiro de 2020 ás 18:39 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-04

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 January. It will be on all wikis from 23 January (calendar).

Future changes

• There is a new suggestion for what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work go faster. You can give feedback.
• Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will no longer support Python 2. Use the python2 tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so. [834]
• The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The timing for this cut may change. You can discuss in Phabricator if this affects you. [835]
• You can read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.

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20 de xaneiro de 2020 ás 19:41 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-05

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

• Some mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown. Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working on fixing it. [836][837]
• Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions can't move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing it. [838]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• There is JavaScript code on Special:Undelete for administrators that makes it possible to automatically select multiple checkboxes by holding the "Shift" key and clicking. This code is also loaded by accident on other special pages and on articles. This makes pages slower to load. This will be fixed. If you know of other special pages where this is useful please tell the developers at phab:T232688.

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27 de xaneiro de 2020 ás 18:52 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-06

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 February. It will be on all wikis from 6 February (calendar).

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3 de febreiro de 2020 ás 20:04 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-07

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

• There is a new version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem. [839]

Problems

• There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things. [840]

Changes later this week

• The MediaWiki action API is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work. [841]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February (calendar).

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10 de febreiro de 2020 ás 19:10 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-08

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

• Pages on Wikidata and Commons now load faster. You can read more about page load performance. [842][843]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 February. It will be on all wikis from 20 February (calendar).

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17 de febreiro de 2020 ás 16:17 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-09

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

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• There will be a reply button after each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later. You can test the reply button. It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first wikis last week.

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24 de febreiro de 2020 ás 20:59 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-10

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

Problems

• Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug. [844]

Changes later this week

• If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. [845]
• When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security. [846]
• On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to. [847]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 marzo. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 marzo. It will be on all wikis from 5 marzo (calendar).

Future changes

• The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback. [848]
• There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
• wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list. [849]

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3 de marzo de 2020 ás 00:35 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-11

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

• There is a new search word called articletopic. You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon. [850][851][852]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
• The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year. [853]

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9 de marzo de 2020 ás 17:14 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-12

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

Recent changes

• There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org. [854]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).

Future changes

• If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface. [855][856]
• You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.

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16 de marzo de 2020 ás 21:17 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-13

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

Problems

• Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
• There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed. [857][858]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 March. It will be on all wikis from 26 March (calendar).

Future changes

• There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.

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23 de marzo de 2020 ás 17:07 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-14

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

• The beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts. [859]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April (calendar).

Future changes

• The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed. [860]
• There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback. [861]

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30 de marzo de 2020 ás 17:25 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-15

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

Problems

• There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [862]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (calendar).

Future changes

• MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to. [863]

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6 de abril de 2020 ás 19:02 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-16

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 now use the articletopic search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic. [864]
• You can see wiki tools in the new Tools Gallery. [865]
• You can see edits from the Wikimedia Cloud Services in a new dashboard.
• When you use filters on a history page you sometimes don't see any edits. There is a text explaining this now. Before it was just empty. [866]
• There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog. [867]

Problems

• There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest. [868][869][870]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 (calendar).

Future changes

• Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed. [871]
• The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
• For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated <source> tag, as well as the use of the deprecated enclose parameter, will add tracking categories.

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13 de abril de 2020 ás 15:30 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-17

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

Tech News

• The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.

Recent changes

• The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills. [872]
• Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed. div#content is now .mw-body. div.portal is now .portal. div#footer is now #footer. This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them. [873]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011. [874]
• The font in the diffs will change. [875]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar).

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20 de abril de 2020 ás 18:44 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-19

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

Problems

• Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 5 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [876]
• Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 7 May. This will also affect CentralAuth. This can for example affect global renames, password changes, changing or confirming your email address and logging in to new wikis. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [877]

Changes later this week

• You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can soon turn these notifications off for individual pages. [878]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 May. It will be on all wikis from 7 May (calendar).

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4 de maio de 2020 ás 16:59 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-20

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

• Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr. [879]

Problems

• Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [880]
• Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [881][882]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 May. It will be on all wikis from 14 May (calendar).

Future changes

• JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via mw.config.exists() or mw.user.tokens.exists(). You can use exists() or get() to check one at a time instead. [883]

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11 de maio de 2020 ás 20:40 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-21

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

• If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. [884][885]

Problems

• There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them. [886]
• Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [887][888]

Changes later this week

• The Wikipedia app for Android can let users add depicts on Commons. The beta version used computer-aided tagging. This was removed to get more specific depicts. [889]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files. [890]
• Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction, div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces, div#p-variants and div#footer. They will have to remove div. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5. [891]
• Some CSS for the Vector skin has been changed. This affects #p-variants, #p-namespaces, #p-personal, #p-views and #p-cactions. They can no longer use > ul. You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how.

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18 de maio de 2020 ás 17:18 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-22

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

Changes later this week

• The visual editor will now work in the Modern skin. The changes that needed to happen for this to work could cause problems for some scripts or gadgets. [892]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 27. It will be on all wikis from May 28 (calendar).

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25 de maio de 2020 ás 14:17 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-23

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 a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos. [893]

Problems

• There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May. [894][895][896]
• The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed. [897]

Changes later this week

• You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon turn them off also in the notifications you get. [898]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all wikis from 4 June (calendar).

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1 de xuño de 2020 ás 22:31 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-24

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

• Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting. [899]
• Self-closed tags now work as in the HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them. <b/> is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work. area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect <references /> or <ref />. [900]
• There is a banner called WikidataPageBanner. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on MediaWiki:Sitenotice so that editors know to test and style for mobile too. [901][902]

Changes later this week

• You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets. [903]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June (calendar).

Future changes

• A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [904]

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8 de xuño de 2020 ás 21:11 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-25

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

• Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.

Problems

• There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed. [905]
• Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed. [906]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (calendar).

Future changes

• Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help. [907]
• The selectors .menu and .vectorMenu will no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts. .menu should be replaced by ul. .vectorMenu should be replaced by .vector-menu. [908]

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15 de xuño de 2020 ás 21:37 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-26

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

Problems

• There are some new tools to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed. [909]
• Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS selectors. .vectorTabs should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs to fix this. [910]

Changes later this week

• The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback. [911]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (calendar).

Future changes

• A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [912]

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22 de xuño de 2020 ás 18:48 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-27

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

Problems

• Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [913]
• Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed. [914]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

Future changes

• The Modern and Monobook skins use the ID searchGoButton for the go button. This is searchButton for Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change to searchButton in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use searchButton. You can read more and see a list of affected scripts.

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29 de xuño de 2020 ás 16:30 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-28

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

• The Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed. [915]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 July. It will be on all wikis from 9 July (calendar).

Future changes

• Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more. [916]
• The iOS Wikipedia app developers are thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help them by answering the survey.
• Some rules for user signatures will soon be enforced. Lint errors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.

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6 de xullo de 2020 ás 20:18 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-29

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

• Users can thank others for their edits. Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets who harass others using thanks. [917]

Problems

• Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week. [918][919]

Changes later this week

• Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background. Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using <translate nowrap></translate> on the source page. [920]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (calendar).

Future changes

• Wikimedia code review plans to use GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. [921][922][923][924]

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13 de xullo de 2020 ás 16:29 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-30

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

• A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help in Phabricator. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News 2020/24 and 2020/26.

Problems

• There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution. [925]
• Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events. [926]
• Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a browser cookie problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details on Phabricator. [927]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 July. It will be on all wikis from 23 July (calendar).

Future changes

• There is a Versión para imprimir link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway. [928]

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20 de xullo de 2020 ás 19:13 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-31

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

• The Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this. [929]
• The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck Usar a versión antiga de Vector in your local or global preferences in section Preferencias de pel. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
• On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget directly from mediawiki.org, end users can now choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC.

Problems

• The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week. [930][931]
• Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed. [932]
• Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed. [933]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 (calendar).

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27 de xullo de 2020 ás 13:52 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-32

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

Problems

• All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period. [934]
• Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago. The problem is now fixed. [935]
• There is a problem with the global preferences for the "Usar a versión antiga de Vector" option. Developers are working on fixing it. [936]
• A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed. [937]

Changes later this week

• The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed. [938]
• Users' global.js and global.css pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin. [939]
• In the MonoBook skin, the searchGoButton identifier is now searchButton. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27.
• Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses counter to prevent large archives was changed. [940]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 5. It will be on all wikis from August 6 (calendar).

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3 de agosto de 2020 ás 15:43 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-33

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

Recent changes

• FileImporter and FileExporter became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact. [941]

Problems

• The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions and content translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it. [942]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 12. It will be on all wikis from August 13 (calendar).

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [943][944]

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10 de agosto de 2020 ás 16:06 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-34

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

• If you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an undo tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else. [945]
• The new OOUI version will not work with Internet Explorer 8. This means the wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was reported in Tech/News/2020/17. This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates other problems. [946]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 August. It will be on all wikis from 20 August (calendar).

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis next week. This is a reminder. You can help by translating the announcement message. [947][948]

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17 de agosto de 2020 ás 20:41 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-35

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

Changes later this week

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

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24 de agosto de 2020 ás 17:59 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-36

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

Problems

• This is a reminder. All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 14:00 and 15:00 UTC. Please check on the details on the announcement message. [949][950]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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31 de agosto de 2020 ás 20:12 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-37

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

Changes later this week

• Normally pages can be moved to a title that has no existing page yet or to a page that has only one revision, which is a redirect to the page to be moved. A new user right allows editors to move pages over one-revision pages that redirect to anywhere. [951]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 September. It will be on all wikis from 10 September (calendar).
• All MediaWiki API modules will now use watchlist instead of watch. This was inconsistent before. [952]

Future changes

• The Wikipedia Android app team might work on patrolling tools in the future. You can let them know what tools would be useful for you or for less experienced patrollers. See the page on mediawiki.org.
• OTRS will be updated to a new version. This will probably take around two days. OTRS agents will not have access to the system during these days. Emails that come in during the update will be delivered when the update is done. The plan is to start around 08:00 UTC on 14 September. This could change. [953]
• The Wikipedia Android app will send push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will need Google Play Services to work. It will also be possible to get the app without Google Play Services but push notifications will not work. Google Play Services is also used to make the app work for Android 4.4 users. [954][955]
• Wikimedia code review could move to GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. You can take part in the consultation.
• Dropdown menus in the Vector skin use a .menu class. This will not work in the future. Scripts can use nav ul instead. .vectorTabs and .vectorMenu will also not work. Some scripts need to be updated. You can read more in Phabricator.

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7 de setembro de 2020 ás 16:00 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-38

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

Problems

• The Wikipedia apps briefly showed pages without CSS last week. This meant they looked wrong. It was quickly fixed but cached pages without CSS were shown for a few hours. [956][957]

Changes later this week

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

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14 de setembro de 2020 ás 16:19 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-39

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 a new tag for reverted edits. For example you can see it in the recent changes feed or in the article history. It is added to edits when they have been undone, rollbacked or manually reverted to an older version of the page. [958][959]

Changes later this week

• The number of times you can do something in a period of time on wiki is limited. This could be the number of edits per minute or the number of users you email in a day. Some users are not affected by all limits because of their user rights. They could soon see the limit even if it does not affect them. [960]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 September. It will be on all wikis from 24 September (calendar).

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21 de setembro de 2020 ás 21:28 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-40

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

• Admins can now see links to diffs of deleted revisions on Special:AbuseLog. This uses the interface of Special:Undelete. [961]
• Editors are automatically added to some user groups. For example editors are added to autoconfirmed users when they have edited enough times and long enough. Abuse filters can hinder users from automatically getting user rights for a period of time. They can also remove rights user have. Wikis can now ask to change how long this period of time is for their wiki in Phabricator. It is currently five days. [962]

Problems

• Last year some abuse filters stopped working because of a new change. If they tried to use variables that were unavailable for that action they would fail. This has now been fixed. [963]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 September. It will be on all wikis from 1 October (calendar).

Future changes

• You can't see the language links to other language versions from the talk page or history page. They are also not shown when you edit an article. This could change. It is not decided if for example the history page should link to another history page or to the article. You can take part in the discussion in Phabricator.
• The link colours could change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. You can read more in Phabricator.
• In your preferences you can choose to get different notifications on the web or by email. You will see Apps as one of the alternatives later this week. This is because the Android and iOS Wikipedia apps will use push notifications for those who want them. You can see the preferences on the test wiki. The goal is to have push notifications on Android in October and on iOS in early 2021. [964]
• You can soon put pages on your watchlist for a limited time. This could be useful if you want to watch something for a shorter time but don't want it on your watchlist forever. It now works on mediawiki.org and will come to more wikis later. You can read more and see when it will come to other wikis.
• You can see what Wikimedians think are the best new technical tools this year. You can also nominate them.

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28 de setembro de 2020 ás 21:24 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-41

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

• There is a new tool where you can see which home wiki users have in discussions on Meta. This can help show which communities are not part of the discussion on wikis where we make decisions that affect many other wikis.
• You can now thank users for file uploads or for changing the language of a page. [965]

Problems

• There were many errors with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new version was rolled back. Updates that should have happened last week are late. [966]
• Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [967]
• Many pages have JavaScript errors. You can read more and now see a list of user scripts with errors.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 October. It will be on all wikis from 8 October (calendar).
• Letters immediately after a link are shown as part of the link. For example the entire word in [[Child]]ren is linked. On Arabic wikis this works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic letters will extend links on Arabic wikis. [968]

Future changes

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [969]

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5 de outubro de 2020 ás 16:25 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-42

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

Problems

• Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last week's updates are also late. [970][971][972]

Changes later this week

• Live previews didn't show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This has now been fixed. You can also test CSS and JavaScript pages even if you have the live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well. [973][974]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (calendar).

Future changes

• A new stable version of Pywikibot is coming soon. [975]

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12 de outubro de 2020 ás 15:25 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-43

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 October. It will be on all wikis from 22 October (calendar).

Future changes

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [976]
• In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [977]
• Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID #jump-to-nav. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either #siteSub or #mw-content-text. A list of affected scripts is at the top of phab:T265373.

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19 de outubro de 2020 ás 16:32 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-44

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

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on October 27 around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [978]
• Last week, links to "diffs" from mobile watchlists and recentchanges were linking to page-revisions instead of diffs. This has now been fixed. [979]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Since the introduction of the interface administrators user group in 2018, administrators couldn’t view the deleted history of CSS/JS pages. Now they can. [980]
• There was a problem with the Change Tags. The software would apply the "Revertida" tag to any page actions such as page-protection changes if they came directly after a reverted edit. This has now been fixed for new edits. [981]
• The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias in November. Another announcement will be made once the date is finalized. [982]

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26 de outubro de 2020 ás 17:39 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-45

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 no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser uses very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It could lead to downgrade attacks. Since October 29, 2020, users who use old TLS versions will not be able to connect to Wikimedia projects. A list of browser recommendations is available. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [983]
• There is a new automatic tracking category available: Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments. It collects pages which use the {{formatnum}} parser function with invalid (non-numeric) input, e.g. {{formatnum:TECHNEWS}}. Note that {{formatnum:123,456}} is also invalid input: as described in the documentation, the argument should be unformatted so that it can be reliably and correctly localised. The tracking category will help identify problematic usage and double-formatting. The new tracking category's name can be translated at translatewiki. [984]

Changes later 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 and some Wikipedias from November 4. It will be on all wikis from November 5 (calendar).
• Administrators and stewards will be able to use a special page (Special:CreateLocalAccount) to force local account creation for a global account. This is useful when account creation is blocked for that user (by a block or a filter). [985]
• The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias on November 4. This change excludes the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias, plus a few smaller Wikipedias with special circumstances. You can read the help page and the troubleshooting guide for more information. [986]

Future changes

• A discussion has been restarted about using a Unicode minus sign (− U+2212) in the output of {{formatnum}} when it is given a negative argument. [987]
• In the future IP addresses of unregistered users will not be shown for everyone. They will get an alias instead. There will be a new user right or an opt-in function for more vandal fighters to see the IPs of unregistered users. There would be some criteria for who gets the user right or opt-in. There will also be other new tools to help handle vandalism. This is early in the process and the developers are still collecting information from the communities before they suggest solutions.

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2 de novembro de 2020 ás 16:10 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-46

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

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• You can see reference previews. This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been a beta feature. It will move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be the first ones. You can let them know if your wiki is interested. [988]
• From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the internationalisation library. They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [989][990]

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9 de novembro de 2020 ás 15:50 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-47

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

Recent changes

• Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [991][992]

Changes later this week

• If you merged two pages in a namespace where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed. [993]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 November. It will be on all wikis from 19 November (calendar).

Future changes

• The Community Wishlist Survey is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.

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16 de novembro de 2020 ás 15:37 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-48

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

• Timestamps in Special:Log are now links. They go to Special:Log for only that entry. This is how timestamps work on for example the history page. [994]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from 1 December. Unclaimed projects can be deleted from 1 January. [995]

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23 de novembro de 2020 ás 17:19 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-49

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

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• The iOS Wikipedia app will show readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will first be shown only to some iOS app users as a test. [996][997]
• The Wiki Replicas can be used for SQL queries. You can use Quarry, PAWS or other ways to do this. To make the Wiki Replicas stable there will be two changes. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. [998]

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30 de novembro de 2020 ás 17:45 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-50

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

• You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [999][1.000]

Changes later this week

• Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [1.001][1.002]
• 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 wikis from 10 December (calendar).

Future changes

• You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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7 de decembro de 2020 ás 16:15 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-51

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

Recent changes

• There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too. [1.003]

Changes later this week

• 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 wikis from 17 December (calendar).

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14 de decembro de 2020 ás 21:34 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-52

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2021.

Recent changes

• The {{citation needed}} template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added. [1.004]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

• You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
• Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a <langconvert> tag that can convert a piece of text on a page. [1.005]
• Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January. [1.006]

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21 de decembro de 2020 ás 20:54 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-02

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

• You can choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed. [1.007]
• You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [1.008]
• Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
  • The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [1.009]
  • Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [1.010]
  • When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
• There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback. [1.011]
• Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the watchlist to watch will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [1.012]
• Scribunto's file metadata now includes length. [1.013]
• CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50. [1.014]
• There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all wikis from 14 January (calendar).

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11 de xaneiro de 2021 ás 15:42 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-03

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

Changes later this week

• 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 wikis from 21 January (calendar).

Future changes

• The Growth team plans to add features to get more visitors to edit to more Wikipedias. You can help translating the interface.
• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). [1.015]
• MassMessage posts could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be timestamped you can let the developers know.

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18 de xaneiro de 2021 ás 16:10 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-04

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

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech for a short time on 28 January at 09:00 (UTC). [1.016][1.017]

Changes later this week

• Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [1.018]
• 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).

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25 de xaneiro de 2021 ás 18:31 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-05

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

• IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed. [1.019]

Changes later this week

• You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [1.020]
• Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [1.021][1.022]
• Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55 as well as the 1.2.3.4/27 syntax for IP ranges. [1.023]
• 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).

Future changes

• Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more. [1.024][1.025]
• Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be 185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.

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1 de febreiro de 2021 ás 22:39 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-06

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

• The Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [1.026]

Changes later this week

• You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [1.027]
• 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).

Future changes

• When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [1.028][1.029]
• Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [1.030]
• Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [1.031]

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8 de febreiro de 2021 ás 17:42 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-07

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

Problems

• There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned. [1.032][1.033]
• Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [1.034]

Changes later this week

• 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).

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15 de febreiro de 2021 ás 17:56 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-08

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

• The visual editor will now use MediaSearch to find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better images. [1.035]
• The syntax highlighter now works with more languages: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU. [1.036]

Problems

• Editing a timeline might have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly. [1.037]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 February. It will be on all wikis from 25 February (calendar).

Future changes

• There is a user group for developers and users interested in working on Wikimedia wikis with the Rust programming language. You can join or tell others who want to make your wiki better in the future.

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23 de febreiro de 2021 ás 00:18 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-09

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

• Wikis using the Growth team tools can now show the name of a newcomer's mentor anywhere through a magic word. This can be used for welcome messages or userboxes.
• A new version of the VideoCutTool is now available. It enables cropping, trimming, audio disabling, and rotating video content. It is being created as part of the developer outreach programs.

Problems

• There was a problem with the job queue. This meant some functions did not save changes and mass messages were delayed. This did not affect wiki edits. [1.038]
• Some editors may not be logged in to their accounts automatically in the latest versions of Firefox and Safari. [1.039]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 March. It will be on all wikis from 4 March (calendar).

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1 de marzo de 2021 ás 19:08 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-10

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

• Section translation now works on Bengali Wikipedia. It helps mobile editors translate sections of articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis with a smaller number of articles. You can test it and leave feedback.
• Flagged revisions now give admins the review right. [1.040]
• When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article. [1.041]

Problems

• Many graphs have JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing. [1.042]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 March. It will be on all wikis from 11 March (calendar).
• The New Discussion tool will soon be a new discussion tools beta feature for on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new discussions. [1.043]

Future changes

• There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates and those who create or maintain them. You can read more.
• Reference Previews will become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a setting with Page Previews. If you prefer the Reference Tooltips or Navigation-Popups gadget you can keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown. [1.044][1.045]
• New JavaScript-based functions will not work in Internet Explorer 11. This is because Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can read more.

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8 de marzo de 2021 ás 17:51 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-11

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

• Wikis that are part of the desktop improvements project can now use a new search function. The desktop improvements and the new search will come to more wikis later. You can also test it early.
• Editors who put up banners or change site-wide JavaScript code should use the client error graph to see that their changes has not caused problems. You can read more. [1.046]

Problems

• Due to database issues the Wikimedia Beta Cluster was read-only for over a day.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 March. It will be on all wikis from 18 March (calendar).

Future changes

• You can add a newline or carriage return character to a custom signature if you use a template. There is a proposal to not allow them in the future. This is because they can cause formatting problems. [1.047][1.048]
• You will be able to read but not edit 12 wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
• You can use Quarry for SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. PAWS and other ways to do SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later. [1.049]

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15 de marzo de 2021 ás 23:23 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-12

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

Recent changes

• There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. They don't have a touch screen so readers navigate with the phone keys. There is now a simulator so you can see what it looks like.
• The reply tool and new discussion tool are now available as the "Ferramentas de discussão" beta feature in almost all wikis except German Wikipedia.

Problems

• You will be able to read but not edit twelve wikis for a short period of time on 23 marzo at 06:00 (UTC). This can also affect password changes, logging in to new wikis, global renames and changing or confirming emails. This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 March. It will be on all wikis from 25 March (calendar).
• Syntax highlighting colours will change to be easier to read. This will soon come to the first wikis. [1.050]

Future changes

• Flagged revisions will no longer have multiple tags like "tone" or "depth". It will also only have one tier. This was changed because very few wikis used these features and they make the tool difficult to maintain. [1.051][1.052]
• Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015 this was moved from wg* to mw.config. wg* will soon no longer work. [1.053]

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22 de marzo de 2021 ás 16:53 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-13

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 very old web browsers don’t work well with the Wikimedia wikis. Some old code for browsers that used to be supported is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. [1.054]
• IRC recent changes feeds have been moved to a new server. Make sure all tools automatically reconnect to irc.wikimedia.org and not to the name of any specific server. Users should also consider switching to the more modern EventStreams. [1.055]

Problems

• When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split. It might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. [1.056]
• Some translatable pages on Meta could not be edited. This was because of a bug in the translation tool. The new MediaWiki version was delayed because of problems like this. [1.057][1.058]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 March. It will be on all wikis from 1 April (calendar).

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29 de marzo de 2021 ás 17:31 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-14

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

• Editors can collapse part of an article so you have to click on it to see it. When you click a link to a section inside collapsed content it will now expand to show the section. The browser will scroll down to the section. Previously such links didn't work unless you manually expanded the content first. [1.059]

Changes later this week

• The citoid API will use for example 2010-12-XX instead of 2010-12 for dates with a month but no days. This is because 2010-12 could be confused with 2010-2012 instead of December 2010. This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the Extended Date/Time Format. [1.060]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 April. It will be on all wikis from 8 April (calendar).

Future changes

• PAWS can now connect to the new Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 28 April. There is a new way to connect to the databases. Until 28 April both ways to connect to the databases will work. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech.

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5 de abril de 2021 ás 19:41 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-16

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

• Email to the Wikimedia wikis are handled by groups of Wikimedia editors. These volunteer response teams now use Znuny instead of OTRS. The functions and interface remain the same. The volunteer administrators will give more details about the next steps soon. [1.061][1.062]
• If you use syntax highlighting, you can see line numbers in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors when editing templates. This is to make it easier to see line breaks or talk about specific lines. Line numbers will soon come to all namespaces. [1.063][1.064][1.065]
• Because of a technical change there could be problems with gadgets and scripts that have an edit summary area that looks similar to this one. If they look strange they should use mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.edit.styles') to go back to how they looked before. [1.066]
• The latest version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis last week. There was no Tech News issue last week.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in two weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.

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19 de abril de 2021 ás 16:49 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-17

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

Recent changes

• Templates have parameters that can have specific values. It is possible to suggest values for editors with TemplateData. You can soon see them as a drop-down list in the visual editor. This is to help template users find the right values faster. [1.067][1.068][1.069]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 April. It will be on all wikis from 29 April (calendar).

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26 de abril de 2021 ás 21:25 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-18

As últimas tech news da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• Twinkle é um gadget na Wikipédia inglesa. Pode ajudar na manutenção e patrulhamento. Pode agora ser usado em outros wikis. Você pode obter Twinkle no seu wiki usando o repositório gitHub twintle-starter.

Problemas

• A content translation tool não funcionou para muitos artigos durante algum tempo. Isto foi por causa de um bug. [1.070]
• Algumas coisas não funcionarão por um minuto no dia 5 de maio. Isto vai acontecer por volta das 06:00 UTC. Isto afetará a ferramenta de tradução de conteúdos e as notificações, entre outras coisas. Isto é por causa de um upgrade para evitar acidentes. [1.071]

Alterações no final desta semana

• Pré-visualizações de referência tornar-se-á uma funcionalidade predefinição em vários wikis no dia 5 de maio. Isto é mais tarde do que o planeado devido a algumas mudanças. Pode usá-lo sem usar pré-visualizações de páginas se quiser. O plano anterior era ter a preferência de usar ambos ou nenhum. [1.072][1.073]
• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará em testes wikis e MediaWiki.org de 4 maio. Será em wikis não-Wikipedia e alguns Wikipedias de 5 maio. Será em todos os wikis de

6 maio (calendário).

Alterações futuras

• As classes de CSS $class 1, $class 2 e $class 3 não funcionam para leitores móveis se não tiverem sido especificamente definidas no seu wiki. A partir de junho não trabalharão para os leitores de desktop. Isto pode afetar gadgets e modelos. As classes podem ser definidas em estilos de MediaWiki:Common.css ou modelo. [1.074]

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3 de maio de 2021 ás 15:43 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-19

As últimas Novidades de Tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 11 maio. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 12 maio. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 13 maio (calendário).

Alterações futuras

• Podes ver em que participantes planeiam trabalhar no Wikimedia hackathon online de 22 a 23 de maio.

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10 de maio de 2021 ás 15:10 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-20

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

• There is a new toolbar in the Reply tool. It works in the wikitext source mode. You can enable it in your preferences. [1.075] [1.076] [1.077]
• Wikimedia mailing lists are being moved to Mailman 3. This is a newer version. For the character encoding to work it will change from UTF-8 to utf8mb3. [1.078][1.079]
• An earlier issue of Tech News said that the citoid API would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first. [1.080]

Changes later this week

• MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist will be renamed MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist. The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles. [1.081]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 May. It will be on all wikis from 20 May (calendar).

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17 de maio de 2021 ás 13:49 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-21

As últimas Novidades de Tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• O movimento Wikimedia tem usado IRC numa rede chamada Freenode. Houve mudanças em torno de quem controla a rede. Os Contactos do Grupo Wikimedia IRC decidiram mudar-se para o novo Libera Chat em vez disso. Esta não é uma decisão formal para o movimento mover todos os canais, mas a maioria dos canais Wikimedia IRC provavelmente deixará Freenode. Existe um guia de migração em curso da Wikimedia sobre este problema.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 25 de maio. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 26 de maio. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 27 de maio (calendário).

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24 de maio de 2021 ás 17:07 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-22

As últimas Novidades de Tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Problemas

• Houve um problema na pele do vetor com o tamanho de texto de categorias e avisos no título da página. Foi arranjado na segunda-feira passada. [1.082]

Alterações no final desta semana

• Não há nova versão do MediaWiki esta semana.

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31 de maio de 2021 ás 17:06 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-23

As últimas Novidades de Tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 8 de junho. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 9 de junho. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 10 de junho (calendário).

Alterações futuras

• O movimento Wikimedia usa Phabricator para tarefas técnicas. É aqui que recolhemos sugestões técnicas, bugs e em que desenvolvedores estão a trabalhar. A empresa por trás do Phabricator vai parar de trabalhar nele. Isto não vai mudar nada para o movimento Wikimedia agora. Pode levar a mudanças no futuro. [1.083][1.084][1.085]
• Procurar na Wikipédia encontrará mais resultados em algumas línguas. Isto é principalmente verdade para quando aqueles que procuram não usam o correto diacríticos porque não são vistos como necessários nessa língua. Por exemplo, procurar Bedusz não encontra Będusz na Wikipédia alemã. A personagem ę não é usada em alemão, pelo que muitos escreveriam e em vez disso. Isto funcionará melhor no futuro em algumas línguas. [1.086]
• Os parâmetros simbólicos da CSRF na API de ação de foram alterados em 2014. Os velhos parâmetros de antes de 2014 deixarão de funcionar em breve. Isto pode afetar bots, gadgets e scripts de utilizador que ainda usam os parâmetros antigos. [1.087][1.088]

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7 de xuño de 2021 ás 20:03 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-24

As últimas Novidades de Tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• Os utilizadores com sessão registada na web móvel podem optar por utilizar o o modo móvel devancimento Agora vêem categorias de forma semelhante à dos utilizadores no ambiente de trabalho. Isto significa que alguns gadgets que se têm vindo a candidatar a utilizadores de desktop também podem funcionar para os utilizadores do site móvel. Se o seu wiki tiver tais gadgets, você pode decidir ligá-los para o site móvel também. Alguns aparelhos provavelmente precisam de ser arranjados para ficarem bem no telemóvel. [1.089]
• As ligações linguísticas no Wikidata funcionam agora para multilingual Wikisource. [1.090]

Alterações no final desta semana

• Não há nova versão do MediaWiki esta semana.

Alterações futuras

• No futuro não poderemos mostrar o IP de editores não registados a todos. Isto é por razões legais. Existe agora um rascunho áspero de como sondo o IP a quem precisa de o ver poderia funcionar.
• A Wikipédia alemã, a Wikipédia inglesa e 29 wikis menores serão lidas apenas por alguns minutos no dia 22 de junho. Está previsto entre as 5h00 e as 5h30 UTC. [1.091]
• Todos os wikis serão lidos apenas por alguns minutos na semana de 28 de junho. Mais informações serão publicadas no Tech News mais tarde. Também será publicado em wikis individuais nas próximas semanas. [1.092][1.093]

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14 de xuño de 2021 ás 20:26 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-25

As últimas Novidades de Tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• O nome do grupo otrs-member é agora vrt-permissions. Isto pode afetar filtros de abuso. [1.094]

Problemas

• Poderá ler, mas não editar a Wikipédia alemã, a Wikivoyage Inglesa e 29 wikis menores durante alguns minutos, no dia 22 de junho. Isto está planeado entre 5:00 e 5:30 UTC. [1.095]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 22 de junho. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 23 de junho. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 24 de junho (calendário).

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21 de xuño de 2021 ás 15:49 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-26

As últimas Novidades de Tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• Wikis com o recursos de crescimento agora pode configurar as funcionalidades de crescimento diretamente na sua wiki. Isto usa a nova página especial Special:EditGrowthConfig. [1.096]
• Os Wikisources têm uma nova ferramenta OCR. Se não quiser ver o botão "extrair texto" no Wikisource, pode adicionar .ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; } à sua página common.css [1.097]

Problemas

• Poderá ler, mas não editar os wikis Wikimedia por alguns minutos no dia 29 de junho. Está previsto para 14:00 UTC. [1.098][1.099]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 29 de junho. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 30 de junho. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 1 de julho (calendário).

Alterações futuras

• Limite para a formatação de hiperligações para esboços, Tamanho da miniatura e Numerar cabeçalhos automaticamente pode ser definido nas preferências. São caros para manter e poucos editores os usam. Os desenvolvedores planeiam removê-los. Removê-las fará com que as páginas carreguem mais rapidamente. Você pode ler mais e dar feedback
• Será adicionada uma barra de ferramentas à ferramenta Reply o modo de origem wikitexto. Isto facilitará a ligação às páginas e ao ping de outros utilizadores. [1.100][1.101]

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28 de xuño de 2021 ás 16:32 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-27

As últimas Novidades de Tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Novidades de Tecnologia

• A próxima edição das Novidades de Tecnologia será enviada no dia 19 de julho.

Alterações recentes

• AutoWikiBrowser é uma ferramenta para facilitar as tarefas repetitivas. Agora usa JSON. Wikipédia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage mudou-se para Wikipédia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON e Wikipédia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. Wikipédia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version mudou-se para Wikipédia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. A ferramenta será configurada no wiki para que não tenha de esperar até que a nova versão adicione modelos de exemplos ou correções de expressão regulares. [1.102]

Problemas

• O InternetArchiveBot ajuda a salvar fontes online em algumas wikis. Adiciona-os a Wayback Machine e liga-se a eles lá. Isto é para que não desapareçam se a página a que estava ligada for removida. Atualmente, tem um problema em ligar-se à data errada quando muda páginas de archive.is para web.archive.org. [1.103]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A ferramenta para encontrar, adicionar e remover modelos será atualizada. Isto é para facilitar a procura e utilização dos modelos certos. Chegará ao primeiro wikis no dia 7 de julho. Chegará a mais wikis ainda este ano. [1.104][1.105]
• Não há nova versão do MediaWiki esta semana.

Alterações futuras

• Algumas wikis usam Revisões assinaladas ou alterações pendentes. Esconde edições de contas novas e não registadas para os leitores até serem patrulhadas. A ação de revisão automática em Revisões Assinaladas deixará de ser registada. Todos os registos antigos de auto-revisão serão removidos. Isto porque cria muitos registos que não são muito úteis. [1.106]

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5 de xullo de 2021 ás 17:33 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-29

As últimas Novidades de Tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• A ferramenta para encontrar, adicionar e remover predefinições foi atualizada. Isto é para facilitar a procura e utilização de predefinições certos. Era suposto chegar ao primeiro wikis no dia 7 de julho. Foi adiado para 12 de julho. Chegará a mais wikis ainda este ano. [1.107][1.108]
• Special:UnconnectedPages lista páginas que não estão ligadas ao Wikidata. Isto ajuda-o a encontrar páginas que possam ser ligadas a itens Wikidata. Algumas páginas não devem estar ligadas à Wikidata. Pode utilizar a palavra mágica __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ em páginas que não devem constar da página especial. [1.109]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A versão nova do MediaWiki estará nas wikis de teste e MediaWiki.org de 20 julho Estará nas wikis não-Wikipédia e algumas Wikipédias de 21 julho Estará em todas as wikis de 22 julho (calendário).

Alterações futuras

• Como os meios de comunicação são estruturados na saída HTML parser Em breve mudará. Isto pode afetar bots, gadgets, scripts de utilizador e extensões. Pode ler mais. Pode testá-lo em Testwiki ou Testwiki 2.
• Os parâmetros para a forma como obtém tokens na API MediaWiki foram alterados em 2014. À maneira antiga já não funcionará a partir de 1 de setembro. Scripts, bots e ferramentas que usam os parâmetros de antes da mudança de 2014 precisam de ser atualizados. Pode lá mais

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19 de xullo de 2021 ás 15:32 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-30

As últimas Novidades de Tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• A nova versão da MediaWiki chegou as wikis da Wikimedia na semana anterior. Isto não estava nas Novidades de Tecnologia porque não havia boletim naquela semana.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A versão nova do MediaWiki estará nas wikis de teste e MediaWiki.org de 27 de julho. Estará nas wikis não-Wikipédia e algumas Wikipédias de 28 de julho Estará em todas as wikis de 29 de julho (calendário).

Alterações futuras

• Se usar o Monobook skin você pode optar por desligar design responsivo em dispositivos móveis. Isto agora vai funcionar para mais skins. Se ⧼monobook-responsive-label⧽ não estiver escolhido, também precisa de desacolhê-lo preferências Activar o modo reactivo. Caso contrário, deixará de funcionar. Os administradores de interface podem automatizar este processo na sua wiki. Pode ler mais.

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26 de xullo de 2021 ás 21:11 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-31

As últimas Novidades de Tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• Se a sua wiki usar marcação como <div class="mw-content-ltr"> ou <div class="mw-content-rtl"> sem o atributo necessário de dir, então estes não funcionarão mais em 2 semanas. Há uma correção de curto prazo que pode ser adicionada à página local das wikis Common.css, que é explicada em T287701. A partir de agora, todas as utilizações devem incluir todos os atributos, por exemplo: <div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="en"> ou <div class="mw-content-rtl" dir="rtl" lang="he">. Isto também se aplica a algumas outras tags HTML, tais como span ou code. Pode encontrar exemplos existentes no seu wiki que precisam de ser atualizados, utilizando as instruções em T287701.
• Lembrete: A Wikimedia migrou para a rede Libera Chat IRC, da antiga rede Freenode. A documentação local deve ser atualizada.

Problemas

• Na semana passada, todas as wikis tiveram acesso lento ou sem acesso por 30 minutos. Houve um problema com a geração de listas dinâmicas de artigos no Wikinotícias russo, devido à importação de mais de 200.000 novos artigos ao longo de 3 dias, o que levou a problemas de base de dados. A funcionalidade problemática foi desativada na wiki e os desenvolvedores estão a discutir se pode ser corrigido corretamente. [1.110][1.111]

Alterações no final desta semana

• Ao adicionar links a uma página utilizando Editor Visual ou o editor de wikitexto 2017, páginas de desambiguação agora só aparecerão na parte inferior dos resultados da pesquisa. Isto porque os utilizadores não querem muitas vezes ligar-se às páginas de desambiguação. [1.112]
• A versão nova do MediaWiki estará nas wikis de teste e MediaWiki.org de 3 de agosto Estará nas wikis não-Wikipédia e algumas Wikipédias de 4 de agosto Estará em todas as wikis de 5 de agosto (calendário).

Alterações futuras

• O app da Wikipédia para equipe Android está a trabalhar na comunicação na aplicação. Os desenvolvedores estão a trabalhar em como falar com outros editores e receber notificações. Pode ler mais. Eles estão à procura de utilizadores que queiram testar os planos. Qualquer editor que tenha um telefone Android e esteja disposto a descarregar o app pode fazê-lo.
• O Recurso Beta para Ferramentas de discussão será atualizado nas próximas semanas. Você será capaz de subscrever para secções individuais numa página de conversação em mais wikis. Pode testá-lo agora adicionando ?dtenable=1 ao final do URL da página de conversação (exemplo).

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2 de agosto de 2021 ás 20:47 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-32

As últimas Novidades de Tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Problemas

• Pode ler, mas não editar 17 wikis por alguns minutos no dia 10 de agosto. Isto está previsto no 05:00 UTC (02:00 BRT; 06:00 PT). Isto é por causa do trabalho na base de dados. [1.113]

Alterações no final desta semana

• O Wikimania Hackatona terá lugar remotamente no dia 13 de agosto, a partir das 5:00 UTC (2:00 BRT; 6:00 PT), durante 24 horas. Pode participar de muitas maneiras. Você ainda pode propor projetos e sessões.
• A versão nova do MediaWiki estará nas wikis de teste e MediaWiki.org de 10 de agosto Estará nas wikis não-Wikipédia e algumas Wikipédias de 11 de agosto Estará em todas as wikis de 12 de agosto (calendário).
• O antigo CSS <div class="visualClear"></div> não será mais apoiado após 12 de agosto. Em vez disso, as predefinições e páginas devem usar <div style="clear:both;"></div>. Por favor, ajude a substituir quaisquer utilizações existentes no seu wiki. Existem links de pesquisa global disponíveis em T287962

Alterações futuras

• A Biblioteca da Wikipédia é um local para os editores da Wikipédia acederem a fontes. Existe uma extensão que tem uma nova função para dizer aos utilizadores quando podem participar. Utilizará notificações. Começará a fazer sinal aos primeiros utilizadores em setembro. Vai ter mais utilizadores mais tarde. [1.114]
• Vue.js será a estrutura JavaScript para MediaWiki no futuro. [1.115]

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9 de agosto de 2021 ás 16:21 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-33

As últimas Novidades de Tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• Pode adicionar links linguísticos na barra lateral no tema do Vector novamente. Faça-lo ligando a página a um item do Wikidata. O novo tema do Vector moveu as ligações linguísticas, mas o novo seletor de idiomas ainda não pode adicionar ligações linguísticas. [1.116]

Problemas

• Ocorreu um problema nas wikis que usam a extensão Translate. As traduções não foram atualizadas ou foram substituídas pelo texto em inglês. Os problemas foram corrigidos. [1.117][1.118][1.119]

Alterações no final desta semana

• Em breve será adicionada uma etiqueta de revisão às edições que adicionam links às páginas de desambiguação. Isto porque estas ligações são geralmente adicionadas por acidente. A etiqueta permitirá que os editores encontrem facilmente as ligações partidas e as corrijam. Se a sua wiki não gostar desta funcionalidade, pode ser ocultado. [1.120]
• Gostaria de ajudar a melhorar a informação sobre ferramentas? Gostaria de participar ou ajudar a organizar um pequeno encontro virtual para a sua comunidade discutir a lista de ferramentas? Entre em contacto na página de discussão Toolhub Quality Signal Sessions. Também estamos à procura de feedback dos mantenedores de ferramentas sobre algumas questões específicas.
• No passado, as edições para qualquer página do seu espaço de discussão de utilizador ignoraram a sua lista de mute, por exemplo, subpáginas. A partir desta semana, isto só é verdade para as edições na sua página de discussão. [1.121]
• A versão nova do MediaWiki estará nas wikis de teste e MediaWiki.org de 17 de agosto Estará nas wikis não-Wikipédia e algumas Wikipédias de 18 de agosto Estará em todas as wikis de 19 de agosto (calendário).

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16 de agosto de 2021 ás 19:28 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-34

As últimas Novidades de Tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• A extensão Score (tag <score>) foi re-activada nas wikis públicas e atualizada para uma versão mais recente. Algumas funcionalidades de pontuação musical podem deixar de funcionar porque a extensão só está ativada em "modo de segurança". A questão da segurança foi corrigida e um comunicado publicado.

Problemas

• Poderá ler, mas não editar algumas wikis durante alguns minutos em 25 de agosto. Isto vai acontecer por volta 07:00 PT (06:00 UTC). Isto é para manutenção de bases de dados. Durante este período, as operações no CentralAuth também não serão possíveis.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A versão nova do MediaWiki estará nas wikis de teste e MediaWiki.org de 24 de agosto Estará nas wikis não-Wikipédia e algumas Wikipédias de 25 de agosto Estará em todas as wikis de 26 de agosto (calendário).

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23 de agosto de 2021 ás 21:59 (UTC)

Read-only reminder

A maintenance operation will be performed on Wednesday August 25 06:00 UTC. It should only last for a few minutes.

This will affect your wiki as well as 11 other wikis. During this time, publishing edits will not be possible.

Also during this time, operations on the CentralAuth will not be possible (GlobalRenames, changing/confirming e-mail addresses, logging into new wikis, password changes).

For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.

A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.

Please help your community to be aware of this maintenance operation. Grazas!

24 de agosto de 2021 ás 20:35 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-35

As últimas Novidades de Tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• Alguma sintaxe de pontuação musical já não funciona e pode precisar de ser atualizada, pode verificar Category:Páxinas con erros de renderización de partituras na sua wiki para obter uma lista de páginas com erros.

Problemas

• As pontuações musicais não foram capazes de renderizar letras em algumas línguas por causa de tipos de letra desaparecidos. Isto foi arranjado agora. Se o seu idioma preferir uma fonte diferente, por favor, apresente um pedido no Phabricator. [1.122]

Alterações no final desta semana

• Os parâmetros para a forma como obtém tokens na MediaWiki API foram alterados em 2014. À maneira antiga já não funcionará a partir de 1 de setembro. Scripts, bots e ferramentas que usam os parâmetros de antes da mudança de 2014 precisam de ser atualizados. Você pode read mais sobre isso.
• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 31 agosto. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 1 setembro. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 2 setembro (calendário).

Alterações futuras

• Poderá ler, mas não editar Commons durante alguns minutos em 6 de setembro. Isto vai acontecer por volta 07:00 PT (06:00 UTC). Isto é para manutenção de bases de dados.
• Todas as wikis serão lidos apenas por alguns minutos na semana de 13 de setembro. Mais informações serão publicadas no Tech News mais tarde. Também será publicado nas wikis individuais nas próximas semanas. [1.123]

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30 de agosto de 2021 ás 16:02 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-36

As últimas Novidades de Tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• As wikis que tem os recursos de crescimento (Growth) implementadas fazem parte dos testes A/B desde a sua implantação, em que alguns recém-chegados não receberam as novas funcionalidades. Agora, todos os recém-chegados em 21 das menores wikis receberão as funcionalidades. [1.124]

Alterações no final desta semana

• Não há nova versão do MediaWiki esta semana.

Alterações futuras

• Em 2017, a biblioteca jQuery fornecida foi atualizada da versão 1 para 3, com uma camada de compatibilidade. A migração terminará em breve, para que o local seja carregado mais rápido para todos. Se mantiver um gadget ou script do utilizador, verifique se tem algum erro JQMIGRATE e corrige-os, ou eles irão quebrar. [1.125][1.126]
• No ano passado, a comunidade da Wikipédia em português iniciou uma experiência para tornar o login obrigatório para edição. O relatório de impacto deste julgamento está pronto. Seguindo em frente, a equipa de Ferramentas Anti-Assédio está à procura de projetos que estejam dispostos a experimentar restringir a edição ip na sua wiki para uma experiência de curto prazo. Saiba mais.

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6 de setembro de 2021 ás 15:20 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-37

As últimas Novidades de Tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• 45 novas Wikipédias agora têm acesso aos recursos de crescimento (Growth). [1.127]
• A maioria das Wikipédias agora têm acesso às funcionalidades de Crescimento (Growth). A equipa de Crescimento a publicação de uma página de Perguntas Frequentes sobre as funcionalidades. Esta FAQ traduzível cobre a descrição das funcionalidades, como usá-las, como alterar a configuração, e muito mais.

Problemas

• Todas as wikis passarão pelo modo somente leitura por alguns minutos no dia 14 de setembro. Está previsto para 14:00 UTC (15:00 PT; 11:00 BRT). [1.128]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 14 setembro. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 15 setembro. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 16 setembro (calendário).
• A partir desta semana, a Wikipédia em italiano receberá atualizações semanais de software às quartas-feiras. Costumava receber as atualizações às quintas-feiras. Devido a esta mudança, os bugs serão notados e corrigidos mais cedo. [1.129]
• Você pode adicionar links de linguagem na barra lateral no novo tema Vector novamente. Fá-lo ligando a página a um item Wikidata. O novo tema do Vector moveu as ligações linguísticas, mas o novo seletor de idiomas ainda não pode adicionar ligações linguísticas. [1.130]
• A ferramenta sintaxe marca código com cores diferentes. Agora pode destacar 23 novas línguas de código. Além disso, golang pode agora ser usado como um pseudónimo para a linguagem de programação Go, e um modo especial de output foi adicionado para mostrar a saída de um programa. [1.131][1.132]

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13 de setembro de 2021 ás 15:36 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-38

As últimas Novidades de Tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• Os recursos de crescimento (Growth) estão agora implantadas em quase todas as Wikipédias. Para a maioria das pequenas Wikipédias, as funcionalidades só estão disponíveis para utilizadores experientes, para para testar as funcionalidades e configure-as As funcionalidades estarão disponíveis para os recém-chegados a partir de 20 de setembro de 2021.
• O MediaWiki tinha uma funcionalidade que destacava as ligações locais a artigos curtos num estilo diferente. Cada utilizador poderia escolher o tamanho em que seriam destacados "esboços". Esta funcionalidade foi péssima para o desempenho, e após uma consulta, foi removida. [1.133]
• Foi feita uma alteração técnica na skin Monobook para permitir uma manutenção e manutenção mais fáceis. Isto resultou em algumas pequenas alterações no HTML que tornam o HTML do MonoBook consistente com outras skins. Foram feitos esforços para minimizar o impacto nos editores, mas por favor pingue o utilizador Jon (WMF) na wiki ou no phabricator se algum problema for reportado.

Problemas

• Houve um problema com a procura na semana passada. Muitos pedidos de pesquisa não funcionaram durante 2 horas devido a um reinício acidental dos servidores de pesquisa. [1.134]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 21 setembro. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 22 setembro. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 23 setembro (calendário).
• A API meta=proofreadpage mudou. O parâmetro piprop foi renomeado para $ltr código2. Os utilizadores da API devem atualizar o seu código para evitar avisos de parâmetros não reconhecidos. Os utilizadores de Pywikibot devem fazer atualizar para 6.6.0. [1.135]

Alterações futuras

• O ferramenta Reply será implantada nas restantes wikis nas próximas semanas. Atualmente faz parte do "Ferramentas de discussão" em recursos beta na maioria das wikis. Você vai ser capaz de desligá-lo em preferências de edição. [1.136]
• A alteração prezada à forma como obtém tokens da API foi adiada para 21 de setembro devido a uma incompatibilidade com Pywikibot. Os operadores de bots que usam Pywikibot podem seguir T291202 para o progresso numa correção, e deve planear a atualização para 6.6.1 quando for lançado.

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20 de setembro de 2021 ás 18:32 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-39

As últimas Novidades de Tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• iOS 15 tem uma nova função chamada Private Relay (sítio da Apple). Isto pode ocultar o IP do utilizador quando eles usam navegador Safari. Isto é como usar uma VPN na medida em que vemos outro endereço IP em vez disso. É opt-in e apenas para aqueles que pagam extra por iCloud. Chegará aos utilizadores do Safari em OSX mais tarde. Há uma discussão técnica sobre o que isto significa para as wikis da Wikimedia.

Problemas

• Alguns gadgets e scripts de utilizador adicionam itens à parte portlets (ferramentas de artigo) da skin. Uma recente alteração ao HTML pode ter feito desses links um tamanho de letra diferente. Isto pode ser corrigido adicionando a classe CSS .vector-menu-dropdown-noicon. [1.137]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 28 setembro. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 29 setembro. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 30 setembro (calendário).
• A extensão GettingStarted foi construída em 2013 e fornece um processo de embarque para novos titulares de contas em algumas versões da Wikipédia. No entanto, as características de crescimento (Growth) desenvolvidos recentemente proporcionam uma melhor experiência de embarque. Uma vez que a grande maioria das Wikipédias tem agora acesso às características de crescimento, o GettingStarted será desativado a partir de 4 de outubro. [1.138]
• Um pequeno número de utilizadores não conseguirá ligar-se as wikis da Wikimedia após o dia 30 de setembro. Isto porque um antigo certificado raiz deixará de funcionar. Também terão problemas com muitos outros sites. É pouco provável que os utilizadores que atualizaram o seu software nos últimos cinco anos tenham problemas. Os utilizadores na Europa, África e Ásia são menos propensos a ter problemas imediatos, mesmo que o seu software seja demasiado antigo. Você pode ler mais.
• Você pode recimento de notificações quando alguém deixa um comentário na página de conversação do utilizador ou o menciona num comentário de página de conversação. Clicar no link de notificação irá agora levá-lo ao comentário e realçá-lo. Anteriormente, o levou ao topo da secção que continha o comentário. Você pode encontrar mais informações em T282029.

Alterações futuras

• A ferramenta Reply será implantada nas wikis restantes nas próximas semanas. Atualmente faz parte do "Ferramentas de discussão" em recursos beta na maioria das wikis. Você vai ser capaz de desligá-lo em Preferências de edição. Veja a lista de wikis. [1.139]

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27 de setembro de 2021 ás 22:23 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-40

As últimas Novidades de Tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• Uma forma mais eficiente de enviar alterações da Wikidata para as wikis da Wikimedia que os mostrem foi ativado para as seguintes 10 wikis: mediawiki.org, italiano, catalão, hebraico e vietnamita, Wikisource em francês e Wikivoyage em inglês, Wikilivros, Wikcionário e Wikinotícias. Se notar algo estranho sobre como as mudanças da Wikidata aparecem nas alterações recentes ou na sua lista de páginas vigiadas nessas wikis pode informar os desenvolvedores.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 5 outubro. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 6 outubro. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 7 outubro (calendário).
• Alguns gadgets e bots que usam a API para ler o registo do Filtro de Abuso podem quebrar. A propriedade hidden não dirá mais que uma entrada é implicit para entradas de registo não reprimidas sobre edições suprimidas. Se o seu bot precisar de saber isso, faça uma consulta de revisão separada. Além disso, o imóvel terá o valor false para entradas visíveis; anteriormente, não foi incluído na resposta. [1.140]
• Uma forma mais eficiente de enviar alterações da Wikidata para as wikis da Wikimedia que as mostrem será ativada para todas as wikis de produção. Se notar algo estranho sobre como as mudanças do Wikidata aparecem em alterações recentes ou na sua lista de páginas vigiadas pode informar os desenvolvedores

Alterações futuras

• Em breve, você poderá obter notificações entre wikis no aplicativo iOS da Wikipédia. Também pode receber notificações como notificações push. Mais atualizações de notificação seguirão em versões posteriores. [1.141]
• As variáveis JavaScript wgExtraSignatureNamespaces, wgLegalTitleChars e wgIllegalFileChars em breve serão removidas do código mw.config. Estas não fazem parte das variáveis "estáveis" disponíveis para utilização na wiki JavaScript. [1.142]
• As variáveis JavaScript wgCookiePrefix, wgCookieDomain, wgCookiePath e wgCookieExpiration em breve serão removidas de mw.config. Os scripts devem, em vez disso, utilizar mw.cookie do módulo "mediawiki.cookie". [1.143]

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4 de outubro de 2021 ás 16:32 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-41

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 October. It will be on all wikis from 14 October (calendar).

• The "auto-number headings" preference is being removed. You can read phab:T284921 for the reasons and discussion. This change was previously announced. A JavaScript snippet is available which can be used to create a Gadget on wikis that still want to support auto-numbering.

Meetings

• Podes participar da reunião sobre melhorias de Desktops. Uma versão de demostração do recurso mais recente será mostrada. O evento será na Terça-feira, dia 12 de outubro pelas 16h. Veja como entrar.

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11 de outubro de 2021 ás 15:31 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-42

As últimas Novidades de Tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• Toolhub é um catálogo para facilitar a procura de ferramentas de software que podem ser usadas para trabalhar nos projetos da Wikimedia. Você pode ler mais.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 19 de outubro. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 20 de outubro. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 21 de outubro (calendário).

Alterações futuras

• Os desenvolvedores do aplicativo no Android, Wikipédia estão a trabalhar comunicação no app. Agora pode responder a perguntas numa pesquisa para ajudar no desenvolvimento.
• 3 a 5% dos editores podem ser bloqueados nos próximos meses. Isto é por causa de um novo serviço no Safari, que é semelhante a um proxy ou a VPN . Chama-se iCloud Private Relay. Há uma discussão sobre isso no Meta. O objetivo é aprender o que o iCloud Private Relay pode significar para as comunidades.
• Wikimedia Enterprise é uma nova API para aqueles que utilizam muita informação dos projetos da Wikimedia em outros sites. É uma forma de fazer com que os grandes utilizadores comerciais paguem pelos dados. Em breve haverá uma cópia do conjunto de dados da Wikimedia Enterprise. Pode ler mais. Você também pode fazer perguntas à equipa no Zoom em 22 de outubro às 15:00 UTC (12:00 BRT; 16:00 PT).

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18 de outubro de 2021 ás 20:54 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-43

As últimas Novidades de Tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as mudanças vão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• O Coolest Tool Award 2021 está à procura de nomeações. Você pode recomendar ferramentas até 27 de outubro.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 26 de outubro. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 27 de outubro. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 28 de outubro (calendário).

Alterações futuras

• As páginas de diferenças entre edições (diff) terão uma melhor experiência de cópia e colagem. As alterações permitirão que o texto no diff para antes e depois seja tratado como colunas separadas e removerá qualquer sintaxe indesejada. [1.144]
• A versão das tipografias Liberation as utilizações em ficheiros SVG serão atualizadas. Só novas miniaturas serão afetadas. Liberation Sans Narrow não vai mudar. [1.145]

Reuniões

• Pode participar de uma reunião sobre a Pesquisa de desejos comunitários. Serão mostradas notícias sobre os desejos disambiguação e os desejos em tempo real serão mostradas. O evento terá lugar na quarta-feira, 27 de outubro, às 14h30 UTC (11h30 BRT; 15h30 PT). Veja como entrar.

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25 de outubro de 2021 ás 20:08 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-44

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações recentes

• Existe um limite para a quantidade de e-mails que um utilizador pode enviar diariamente. Este limite é agora global em vez de por wiki. Esta mudança é para evitar abusos. [1.146]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 2 de novembro. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 3 de novembro. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 4 de novembro (calendário).

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1 de novembro de 2021 ás 20:28 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-45

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações recentes

• Os editores de IP móveis podem agora receber avisos de aviso indicando que têm uma mensagem de página de conversa no sítio móvel (semelhante aos banners laranja disponíveis na área de trabalho). Estes avisos serão exibidos em todas as páginas fora do espaço de nome principal e sempre que o utilizador tentar editar. O aviso na área de trabalho tem agora uma cor ligeiramente diferente. [1.147][1.148]

Alterações no final desta semana

• Wikidata será somente leitura por alguns minutos no dia 11 de novembro. Isto vai acontecer por volta de 06:00 UTC (03:00 BRT; 07:00 PT). Isto é para manutenção de bases de dados. [1.149]
• Não há nova versão do MediaWiki esta semana.

Alterações futuras

• No futuro, os editores não registados receberão uma identidade que não seja o seu endereço IP. Isto é por razões legais. Um novo direito de utilizador permitirá aos editores que precisam de conhecer os IPs de contas não registadas para combater o vandalismo, spam e assédio, ver o IP. Você pode ler as sugestões para como essa identidade poderia funcionar e a discussão na página de discussão.

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8 de novembro de 2021 ás 20:36 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-46

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações recentes

• A maioria dos uploads de ficheiros que tinham mensagens como "stashfailed" ou "DBQueryError" foram agora corrigidos. Está disponível um relatório do incidente.

Problemas

• Por vezes, as edições feitas no iOS utilizando o editor visual guardam grupos de números como ligações de números de telefone, devido a uma funcionalidade no sistema operativo. Este problema está sob investigação. [1.150]
• Houve um problema com a procura na semana passada. Muitos pedidos de pesquisa não funcionaram durante 2 horas devido a um erro de configuração. [1.151]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 16 de novembro. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 17 de novembro. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 18 de novembro (calendário).

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15 de novembro de 2021 ás 22:07 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-47

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações no final desta semana

• Não há nova versão do MediaWiki esta semana.
• O diálogo da predefinição no Editor Visual e no novo modo wikitexto Beta será bastante melhorado em algumas wikis. O seu feedback é bem-vindo.

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22 de novembro de 2021 ás 20:03 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-48

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 30 de novembro. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 1 de dezembro. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 2 de dezembro (calendário).

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29 de novembro de 2021 ás 21:15 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-49

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Problemas

• O MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 estava agendado para ser lançado em algumas wikis na semana passada. A implantação foi adiada devido a problemas inesperados.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 7 de dezembro. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 8 de dezembro. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 9 de dezembro (calendário).
• Em todas as Wikipédias, um Painel de Mentores está agora disponível em Special:MentorDashboard. Permite que os mentores registados, que cuidam dos primeiros passos dos recém-chegados, monitorizem a atividade dos recém-chegados. Faz parte do Recursos de Crescimento. (Growth) Você pode aprender mais sobre ativar a lista de mentores na sua wiki e sobre o projeto do painel de mentores
• O antecessor da atual MediaWiki Action API (que foi criada em 2008), action=ajax, será removida esta semana. Quaisquer scripts ou bots que o utilizem terão de mudar para o módulo API correspondente. [1.152]
• Um antigo módulo ResourceLoader, $ltr-código-jqjs, que foi depreciado em 2016, será removido esta semana. Quaisquer scripts ou bots que o utilizem terão de mudar para mediawiki.storage em vez disso. [1.153]

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6 de decembro de 2021 ás 21:59 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-50

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações recentes

• Existem agora o padrão aliases curtas para o namespace "Projeto:" na maioria das wikis. Por exemplo, nas wikis do Wikilivros, [[WB:]] irá para o padrão de linguagem local para o namespace [[Project:]]. Esta mudança destina-se a ajudar as comunidades mais pequenas a terem fácil acesso a esta funcionalidade. Pseudónimos locais adicionais ainda podem ser solicitados através o processo habitual [1.154]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 14 de dezembro. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 15 de dezembro. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 16 de dezembro (calendário).

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13 de decembro de 2021 ás 22:27 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-51

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Novidades de Tecnologia

• Por causa dos feriados a próxima edição das novidades de tecnologia será enviada no dia 10 de janeiro de 2022.

Alterações recentes

• As consultas feitas pela extensão DynamicPageList (<DynamicPageList>) só podem ser executadas durante 10 segundos e erros se demorarem mais tempo. Isto é em resposta a múltiplas interrupções em que consultas de longa duração causaram uma paragem em todos as wikis. [1.155]

Alterações no final desta semana

• Não há nova versão do MediaWiki esta semana.

Alterações futuras

• Os desenvolvedores do aplicativo iOS da Wikipédia estão à procura de testadores que editam em vários idiomas. Você pode lá mais e informá-los se você está interessado.
• O Wikimedia Cloud VPS acolhe projetos técnicos para o movimento Wikimedia. Os desenvolvedores precisam clamar projetos que usam. Isto porque os projetos antigos e não reutilizados são removidos uma vez por ano. Os projetos não reclamados podem ser encerrados a partir de fevereiro. [1.156]

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20 de decembro de 2021 ás 22:06 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-02

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações recentes

• Foi adicionada uma variável de oauth_consumer ao Filtro de Abusos para permitir a identificação de alterações feitas por ferramentas específicas. [1.157]
• Os gadgets são agora capazes de incluir diretamente as páginas JSON. Isto significa que alguns gadgets podem agora ser configurados por administradores sem precisar da permissão do administrador de interface, como é o caso do gadget Geonotice. [1.158]
• Os gadgets podem agora especificar as ações da página nas quais estão disponíveis. Por exemplo, |actions=edit,history carregará um gadget apenas durante a edição e nas páginas de história. [1.159]
• Os gadgets podem agora ser carregados a pedido com o parâmetro URL de withgadget. Isto pode ser usado para substituir um corte anterior que normalmente se parece com withJS ou withCSS. [1.160]
• Nas wikis onde o sistema de Mentoria está configurado, agora pode usar a API de Ação para obter uma lista de mentores pupilos. [1.161]
• O título na página principal agora pode ser configurado usando MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin para usuários conectados e MediaWiki:Mainpage-title para usuários conectados. Qualquer CSS que tenha sido usado anteriormente para ocultar o título deve ser removido. [1.162] [1.163]
• Quatro páginas especiais (e suas contrapartes de API) agora têm um tempo máximo de execução de consulta de banco de dados de 30 segundos. Estas páginas especiais são: mudanças recentes, páginas vigiadas, contribuições e registro. Essa mudança ajudará no desempenho e estabilidade do site. Você pode ler mais detalhes sobre essa mudança incluindo algumas soluções possíveis se isso afetar seus fluxos de trabalho. [1.164]
• O cabeçalho fixo foi implantado para 50% dos usuários conectados em mais de 10 wikis. Isso faz parte do Melhorias da área de trabalho. Veja como participar do projeto.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 11 de janeiro. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 12 de janeiro. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 13 de janeiro (calendário).

Eventos

• A Pesquisa de desejos da comunidade 2022 começa. Todos os contribuintes para os projetos Wikimedia podem propor ferramentas e melhorias na plataforma. A fase de proposta ocorre a partir de 10 janeiro às 18:00 UTC (15:00 BRT; 19:00 PT) para 23 janeiro às 18:00 UTC (15:00 BRT; 19:00 PT). Saiba mais.

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11 de xaneiro de 2022 ás 01:23 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-03

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações recentes

• Ao utilizar WikiEditor (também conhecido como o editor wikitexto de 2010), as pessoas verão agora um aviso se ligarem às páginas de desambiguação. Se clicar em "Rever hiperligação" no aviso, pedir-lhe-á para corrigir o link para um termo mais específico. Você pode ler mais informações sobre este item preenchido da lista de desejos da comunidade de 2021.
• Você pode subscrever automaticamente todas as discussões da página de conversação que você começa ou comenta ao usar DiscussionTools. Receberá notificações quando outro editor responder. Isto está disponível na maioria dos wikis. Vá para suas Preferências e ative "Subscrever automaticamente os tópicos". [1.165]
• Quando solicitado para criar uma nova página ou secção de página de conversação, os campos de entrada podem ser "pré-carregado" com algum texto. Esta funcionalidade está agora limitada às páginas wikitexto. Isto é para que os utilizadores não possam ser enganados a fazer edições maliciosas. Há uma discussão sobre se esta funcionalidade deve ser re-habilitada para alguns tipos de conteúdo.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 18 de janeiro. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 19 de janeiro. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 20 de janeiro (calendário).

Eventos

• A Pesquisa de desejos da comunidade 2022 continua. Todos os contribuintes para os projetos da Wikimedia podem propor ferramentas e melhorias na plataforma. A fase de proposta decorre de 10 de janeiro às 18:00 UTC (15:00 BRT; 19:00 PT) para 23 de janeiro às 18:00 UTC (15:00 BRT; 19:00 PT). Saiba mais.

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17 de xaneiro de 2022 ás 19:55 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-04

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 25 de janeiro. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 26 de janeiro. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 27 de janeiro (calendário).
• As seguintes línguas podem agora ser usadas com syntax highlighting BDD, Elpi, LilyPond, Maxima, Rita, Savi, Sed, Sophia, Spice, . SRCINFO.
• Agora pode aceder à sua lista de páginas vigiadas de fora do menu de utilizador na skin do novo Vector. O link da lista de páginas vigiadas aparece ao lado dos ícones de notificação se estiver no topo da página. [1.166]

Eventos

• Pode ver os resultados do Coolest Tool Award 2021 e saiba mais sobre 14 ferramentas que foram selecionadas este ano.
• Pode traduzir, promover, ou comentar nas propostas da Pesquisa de desejos comunitários. A votação começará em 28 de janeiro

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24 de xaneiro de 2022 ás 21:38 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-05

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

Recent changes

• If a gadget should support the new ?withgadget URL parameter that was announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specify supportsUrlLoad in the gadget definition (documentation). [1.167]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• A change that was announced last year was delayed. It is now ready to move ahead:
  • The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on translatewiki (direct links are available) or by administrators on your wiki.

Events

• You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 28 January and 11 February. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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31 de xaneiro de 2022 ás 17:42 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-06

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações recentes

• A Wikipédia em inglês criou recentemente um gadget para o modo escuro. Pode capacitá-lo lá, ou pedir ajuda a um administrador do interface para o configurar no sua wiki (instruções e captura de tela).
• As contagens de categorias às vezes estão erradas. Serão agora completamente recontados no início de cada mês. [1.168]

Problemas

• Uma alteração de código na semana passada para corrigir um bug com Live Preview pode ter causado problemas com alguns dispositivos locais e scripts de utilizador. Qualquer código com comportamento específico da skin para vector deve ser atualizado para verificar também se vector-2022. Um trecho de código, pesquisa global e exemplo estão disponíveis.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 8 de fevereiro. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 9 de fevereiro. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 10 de fevereiro (calendário).

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7 de febreiro de 2022 ás 21:16 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-07

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações recentes

• Purgar uma página de categoria com menos de 5.000 membros irá agora recontá-la completamente. Isto permitirá que os editores corrijam contagens incorretas quando está errada. [1.169]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki será implantada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org em 15 de fevereiro. Será implantada em wikis selecionadas em 16 de fevereiro e nas restantes em 17 de fevereiro (calendário).
• Na extensão Filtro de Abusos, a função rmspecials() foi atualizada para que não remova o caractere "espaço". As wikis são aconselhadas a embrulhar todos os usos de rmspecials() com rmwhitespace() sempre que necessário para manter o comportamento dos filtros inalterado. Pode utilizar a função de pesquisa em Special:AbuseFilter para localizar a sua utilização. [1.170]

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14 de febreiro de 2022 ás 19:18 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-08

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações recentes

• Special:Nuke irá agora fornecer as razões padrão de eliminação (editável em MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown) para usar quando as páginas de eliminação em massa. Este foi pedido na Pesquisa de desejos comunitários de 2022. [1.171]
• Na Wikipédia, todas as novas contas recebem agora o Recursos de crescimento (Growth) por padrão ao criar uma conta. As comunidades são encorajadas a atualizar os seus recursos de ajuda. Anteriormente, apenas 80% das novas contas obteriam os recursos de crescimento. Algumas Wikipédias continuam a não ser afetadas por esta mudança. [1.172]
• Agora pode evitar que imagens específicas que são usadas numa página apareçam em outros locais, tais como dentro de pré-visualizações de página ou resultados de pesquisa. Isto é feito com a marcação class=notpageimage. Por exemplo, [[File:Exemplo.png|class=notpageimage]]. [1.173]
• Houve uma alteração para o HTML das páginas Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory e History, para apoiar o agrupamento de alterações por data na skin móvel Embora improvável, isto pode afetar gadgets e scripts de utilizador. A lista de todas as alterações HTML está no Phabricator.

Eventos

• Os resultados da Pesquisa de desejos comunitários foram publicados. Está também disponível a se de propostas prioritárias.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki será implantada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org em 22 de fevereiro. Será implantada em wikis selecionadas em 23 de fevereiro e nas restantes em 24 de fevereiro (calendário).

Alterações futuras

• O software para reproduzir vídeos e ficheiros áudio em páginas mudará em breve em todas as wikis. O antigo player será removido. Alguns players de áudio tornar-se-ão mais amplos após esta mudança. O novo player tem sido uma característica beta há mais de quatro anos. [1.174][1.175]
• O sistema operativo subjacente da Toolforge está a ser atualizado. Se mantiver alguma ferramenta lá, existem duas opções para migrar as suas ferramentas para o novo sistema. Existem detalhes, prazos e instruções na Wikitech. [1.176]
• Os administradores terão em breve a opção de eliminar/restaurar a página de "discussão" associada quando estiverem a eliminar uma determinada página. Um ponto final da API com esta opção também estará disponível. Este foi um pedido da Pesquisa de desejos comunitários de 2021.

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21 de febreiro de 2022 ás 19:12 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-09

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações recentes

• Ao pesquisar por edições para alterar etiquetas, por exemplo, no histórico de páginas ou contribuições dos utilizadores, existe agora uma lista de possíveis etiquetas. Este foi a pedido na Pesquisa de desejos comunitários 2022. [1.177]
• Os mentores que usam o painel do mentor (Recurso de crescimento) vai agora ver os recém-chegados atribuídos a eles que fizeram pelo menos uma edição, até 200 edições. Anteriormente, todos os recém-chegados atribuídos ao mentor eram visíveis no painel de instrumentos, mesmo os que não tinham qualquer edição ou que fizessem centenas de edições. Os mentores ainda podem alterar estes valores usando os filtros no seu painel de instrumentos. Além disso, a última escolha dos filtros será agora guardada. [1.178][1.179]
• O grupo de utilizadores oversight foi renomeada para suppress. Isto é por razões técnicas. Pode ser necessário atualizar quaisquer referências locais ao nome antigo, por exemplo, gadgets, links para Special:Listusers ou utilizações de NUMBERINGROUP.

Problemas

• A recente alteração ao HTML das páginas de mudanças recentes causou alguns problemas aos leitores de ecrã. Isto está a ser arranjado. [1.180]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki será implantada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org em 1 de março. Será implantada em wikis selecionadas em 2 de março e nas restantes em 3 de março (calendário).

Alterações futuras

• Trabalhar com modelos tornar-se-á mais fácil. Várias melhorias estão previstas para 9 de março na maioria das wikis e a 16 de março na Wikipédia em inglês. As melhorias incluem: correspondência de colchetes, sintaxe realçando cores, encontrando e inserindo modelos, e funcionalidades de editor visual relacionadas.
• Se você é um desenvolvedor de predefinições ou um administrador de interface, e você está intencionalmente substituindo ou usando os estilos CSS padrão de caixas de feedback do utilizador (as classes: successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox), por favor, note que estas classes e CSS associados serão brevemente removidos do núcleo do MediaWiki. Isto é para prevenir problemas quando os mesmos nomes de classe também são usados em uma wiki. Por favor, avise-nos comentando phab:T300314 se acha que pode ser afetado.

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28 de febreiro de 2022 ás 23:00 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-10

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Problemas

• Houve um problema com alguns rótulos de interface na semana passada. Será arranjado esta semana. Esta mudança fez parte do trabalho em curso para simplificar o suporte para skins que não têm manutenção ativa. [1.181]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki será implantada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org em 8 de março. Será implantada em wikis selecionadas em 9 de março e nas restantes em 10 de março (calendário).

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7 de marzo de 2022 ás 21:16 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-11

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações recentes

• No aplicativo Android da Wikipédia agora é possível alterar a barra de ferramentas na parte inferior para que as ferramentas que usa mais frequentemente sejam mais fáceis de clicar. A aplicação agora também tem um modo de leitura focado. [1.182][1.183]

Problemas

• Houve um problema com a recolha de alguns dados de visualização de página de junho de 2021 a janeiro de 2022 em todos as wikis. Isto significa que as estatísticas estão incompletas. Para ajudar a calcular quais os projetos e regiões mais afetados, os conjuntos de dados relevantes estão a ser conservados por 30 dias extras. Você pode ler mais no Meta-wiki
• There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then. [1.184]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki será implantada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org em 15 de março. Será implantada em wikis selecionadas em 16 de março e nas restantes em 17 de março (calendário).
• Quando susing uselang=qqx para encontrar mensagens de localização, irá agora mostrar todas as chaves de mensagem possíveis para separadores de navegação, como "Ver o historial". [1.185]
• O acesso a Especial:Revisións borradas foi alargado para incluir utilizadores que tenham deletelogentry e direitos de deletedhistory através dos seus membros do grupo. Antes, só aqueles com a direita deleterevision podiam aceder a esta página especial. [1.186]
• Nas páginas Especial:Restaurar para diffs e revisões, haverá um link de volta para a página principal de Restaurar com a lista de revisões. [1.187]

Alterações futuras

• A Fundação Wikimedia anunciou a estratégia de implementação do mascaramento de IP e os próximos passos. O anúncio pode ser lido aqui.
• Os desenvolvedores do aplicativo Android da Wikipédia estão a trabalhar em novas funções para páginas de conversação de utilizadores e páginas de comentários de artigos. [1.188]

Events

• The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.

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14 de marzo de 2022 ás 22:08 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-12

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Novo calendário de lançamento de código para esta semana

• Haverá quatro lançamentos do MediaWiki esta semana, em vez de apenas um. Esta é uma experiência que deve levar a menos problemas e a atualizações de funcionalidades mais rápidas. Os lançamentos estarão em todos as wikis, em momentos diferentes, na segunda, terça e quarta-feira. Você pode ler mais sobre este projeto

Alterações recentes

• Agora pode definir quantos resultados de pesquisa mostrar por predefinição em suas preferências. Este foi o 12º desejo mais popular no Pesquisa de desejos comunitários 2022. [1.189]
• A ferramenta de cadernos Jupyter PAWS foi atualizado para uma nova interface. [1.190]

Alterações futuras

• Mapas interativos via Kartographer em breve trabalhará nas wikis usando a extensão FlaggedRevisions. Por favor, diga-nos quais as melhorias que deseja ver no Kartographer. Pode fazer esta pesquisa em inglês simples. [1.191]

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21 de marzo de 2022 ás 16:01 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-13

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 a simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular database maintenance. It will be performed on 29 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 31 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [1.192][1.193]

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28 de marzo de 2022 ás 19:55 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-14

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

Problems

• For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the Especial:Cambios recentes feed. This bug has been fixed. [1.194]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 April. It will be on all wikis from 7 April (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 7 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

• Starting next week, Tech News' title will be translatable. When the newsletter is distributed, its title may not be Tech News: 2022-14 anymore. It may affect some filters that have been set up by some communities. [1.195]
• Over the next few months, the "Add a link" Growth feature will become available to more Wikipedias. Each week, a few wikis will get the feature. You can test this tool at a few wikis where "Link recommendation" is already available.

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4 de abril de 2022 ás 21:01 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2022-15

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações recentes

• Há uma nova página de status pública na www.wikimediastatus.net. Este site mostra cinco métricas automatizadas de alto nível onde você pode ver a saúde geral e desempenho do ambiente técnico das nossas wikis. Contém também atualizações escritas manualmente para incidentes generalizados, que são escritas tão rapidamente quanto os engenheiros são capazes de fazê-lo, ao mesmo tempo que reparam o problema real. O site está separado da nossa infraestrutura de produção e hospedado por um serviço externo, para que possa ser acedido mesmo que as wikis estejam brevemente indisponíveis. Você pode ler mais sobre este projeto.
• Nas wikis do Wikcionário, o software para reproduzir vídeos e ficheiros de áudio em páginas mudou agora. O antigo player foi removido. Alguns players de áudio tornar-se-ão mais amplos após esta mudança. O novo player tem sido uma característica beta há mais de quatro anos. [1.196][1.197]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki será implantada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org em 12 de abril. Será implantada em wikis selecionadas em 13 de abril e nas restantes em 14 de abril (calendário).

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11 de abril de 2022 ás 19:44 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2022-16

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki será implantada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org em 19 de abril. Será implantada em wikis selecionadas em 20 de abril e nas restantes em 21 de abril (calendário).
• Algumas wikis ficarão em modo de leitura apenas por alguns minutos devido a uma troca da sua base de dados principal. Será realizado em 21 de abril às 07:00 UTC (wikis direcionadas) e em 21 de abril às 7:00 UTC (wikis direcionadas).
• Os administradores terão agora a opção de eliminar/restaurar da página "Discussão" associada quando estiverem a eliminar uma determinada página. Um endpoint da API com esta opção também está disponível. Isto conclui o 11º desejo da Pesquisa de desejos comunitários de 2021.
• Em wikis selecionadas, 50% dos utilizadores logados verão o nova tabela de conteúdos. Ao deslocar-se para cima e para baixo na página, a tabela de conteúdos permanecerá no mesmo local no ecrã. Isto faz parte do projeto Melhorias da Área de Trabalho. [1.198]
• As caixas de mensagens produzidas pelo código MediaWiki deixarão de ter estas classes CSS: successbox, errorbox, warningbox. Os estilos para essas aulas e messagebox serão removidos do núcleo do MediaWiki. Isto apenas afeta wikis que usam estas classes em wikitexto, ou alterar a sua aparência dentro do CSS em todo o site. Por favor, reveja qualquer utilização local e definições para estas aulas que você pode ter. Isto foi previamente anunciado na edição 28 de fevereiro das Novidades de Tecnologia.

Mudanças futuras

• Kartographer tornar-se-á compatível com estabilização da página da FlaggedRevisions. Os mapas do Kartographer também trabalharão em páginas com alterações pendentes. [1.199] A documentação do Kartographer foi completamente atualizada. [1.200] [1.201] [1.202]

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18 de abril de 2022 ás 23:12 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-17

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

Recent changes

• On many wikis (group 1), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [1.203][1.204]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 April. It will be on all wikis from 28 April (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 26 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• Some very old browsers and operating systems are no longer supported. Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in very old browsers like Internet Explorer 9 or 10, Android 4, or Firefox 38 or older. [1.205]

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25 de abril de 2022 ás 22:56 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2022-18

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações recentes

• Em todos as wikis restantes (grupo 2), o software para reproduzir vídeos e ficheiros de áudio em páginas mudou agora. O antigo player foi removido. Alguns players de áudio tornar-se-ão mais amplos após esta mudança. O novo player tem sido uma característica beta há mais de quatro anos. [1.206][1.207]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki será implantada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org em 3 de maio. Será implantada em wikis selecionadas em 4 de maio e nas restantes em 5 de maio (calendário).

Alterações futuras

• Os desenvolvedores estão a trabalhar em páginas de discussão no app Wikipédia para iOS. Você pode dar feedback. Pode fazer a pesquisa em inglês, alemão, hebraico ou chinês.
• A maioria das wikis receberá um diálogo do modelo de modelo no modo Editor Visual e Novo Wikitexto. [1.208] [1.209]
• Se você utilizar o destaque da sintaxe durante a edição do wikitexto, pode em breve ativar um esquema de cores compatíveis com daltônicos. [1.210]
• Vários IDs CSS relacionados com mensagens de interface MediaWiki serão removidos. Os editores técnicos devem agradar reve a lista de IDs e links para as suas utilizações existentes. Estes incluem #mw-anon-edit-warning, #mw-undelete-revision e outros 3.

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2 de maio de 2022 ás 19:34 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-19

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

• You can now see categories in the Wikipedia app for Android. [1.211]

Problems

• Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [1.212]
• Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change. [1.213]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [1.214]
• Incompatibility issues with Kartographer and the FlaggedRevs extension will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension on May 24.
• The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022).

Future meetings

• The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.

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9 de maio de 2022 ás 15:22 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2022-20

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações no final desta semana

• Algumas wikis podem em breve usar a funcionalidade adicionar um link. Isto começará na quarta-feira. As wikis são Wikipédia em catalão, Wikipédia em hebraico, Wikipédia em hindi, Wikipédia em coreano, Wikipédia em norueguês bokmål, Wikipédia em português, Wikipédia em inglês simples, Wikipédia em sueco, Wikipédia em ucraniano. Isto faz parte da implementação progressiva desta ferramenta para mais Wikipédias. As comunidades podem configure como esta funcionalidade funciona localmente. [1.215]
• O Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 terá lugar online nos dias 20 e 22 de maio. Será em inglês. Há também encontros locais hackathon na Alemanha, Gana, Grécia, Índia, Nigéria e Estados Unidos. Os wikimedianos tecnicamente interessados podem trabalhar em projetos de software e aprender novas habilidades. Também pode realizar uma sessão ou publicar um projeto em que pretende trabalhar.
• A nova versão do MediaWiki será implantada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org em 17 de maio. Será implantada em wikis selecionadas em 18 de maio e nas restantes em 19 de maio (calendário).

Alterações futuras

• Em breve poderá editar páginas traduzíveis no editor visual. Existem páginas traduzíveis em, por exemplo, Meta e Commons. [1.216]

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16 de maio de 2022 ás 18:58 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2022-21

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações recentes

• Os administradores que utilizam a interface do sítio móvel podem agora aceder ao Special:Block diretamente a partir das páginas de utilizador. [1.217]
• A página do portal www.wiktionary.org utiliza agora um sistema de atualização automatizado. Outros portais de projetos serão atualizados ao longo dos próximos meses. [1.218]

Problemas

• A equipa de Crescimento (Growth) mantém um programa de orientação para os recém-chegados. Anteriormente, os recém-chegados não podiam excluir o programa. A partir de 19 de maio de 2022, os recém-chegados podem optar por sair totalmente da tutela do Crescimento, caso não desejem ter qualquer mentor. [1.219]
• Alguns editores não conseguem aceder à ferramenta de tradução de conteúdos se a carregarem clicando no menu de contribuições. Este problema está a ser trabalhado. Deve continuar a funcionar corretamente se tiver acesso direto através da Special:ContentTranslation. [1.220]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki será implantada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org em 24 de maio. Será implantada em wikis selecionadas em 25 de maio e nas restantes em 26 de maio (calendário).

Alterações futuras

• Os desenvolvedores de scripts de gadgets e de utilizadores são convidados a dar feedback sobre uma política técnica proposta com o objetivo de melhorar o suporte dos desenvolvedores do MediaWiki. [1.221]

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24 de maio de 2022 ás 00:21 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2022-22

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações recentes

• Na extensão Filtro de Abusos foi introduzida uma função de ip_in_ranges() para verificar se um IP está em algum dos intervalos. As wikis são aconselhadas a combinar várias expressões ip_in_range() unidas por | numa única expressão para um melhor desempenho. Pode utilizar a função de pesquisa em Especial:AbuseFilter para localizar o seu uso. [1.222]
• O recurso de informações de IP que ajuda os combatentes de abuso a aceder a informações sobre IPs, a ser implementado a todas as wikis como uma funcionalidade beta. Isto surge depois de semanas de testes beta na test.wikipedia.org.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki será implantada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org em 31 de maio. Será implantada em wikis selecionadas em 1 de junho e nas restantes em 2 de junho (calendário).
• Algumas wikis ficarão em leitura apenas por alguns minutos por causa de um interruptor da sua base de dados principal. Será realizado em 31 de maio às 7:00 UTC (wikis direcionadas).
• A Nova Ferramenta de Tópico será implementada para todos os editores no máximo em breve. Você poderá optar por sair da ferramenta e em Preferências. [1.223][1.224]
• A list=usercontribs API apoiará a obtenção de contribuições de um intervalo de IP em breve. Os utilizadores da API podem definir o parâmetro uciprange para obter contribuições de qualquer intervalo de IP dentro do limite. [1.225]
• Será introduzida uma nova função de parser: {{=}}. Substituirá os modelos existentes chamados "=". Vai inserir um sinal de igual Isto pode ser usado para escapar ao sinal igual nos valores dos parâmetros das predefinições. [1.226]

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30 de maio de 2022 ás 20:28 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2022-23

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki será implantada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org em 7 de junho. Será implantada em wikis selecionadas em 8 de junho e nas restantes em 9 de junho (calendário).
• Uma nova função str_replace_regexp() pode ser utilizada filtros de abuso para substituir partes de texto utilizando uma expressão regular. [1.227]

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7 de xuño de 2022 ás 02:46 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2022-24

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações recentes

• Todas as wikis podem agora usar mapas do Kartographer. Os mapas do Kartographer agora também trabalham em páginas com alterações pendentes. [1.228][1.229]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki será implantada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org em 14 de junho. Será implantada em wikis selecionadas em 15 de junho e nas restantes em 16 de junho (calendário).
• Algumas wikis ficarão em modo de somente leitura apenas por alguns minutos por causa de a uma troca da sua base de dados principal. Será realizado em 14 de junho às 06:00 UTC (wikis direcionadas). [1.230]
• A partir de quarta-feira, um novo conjunto de Wikipédias receberá "Adicionar um link" (Wikipédia em abcázio, Wikipédia em achém, Wikipédia em adigue, Wikipédia em africânder, Wikipédia em akan, Wikipédia em alemânico, Wikipédia em amárico, Wikipédia em aragonês, Wikipédia em inglês antigo, Wikipédia em siríaco, Wikipédia em árabe egípcio, Wikipédia em asturiano, Wikipédia em atikamekw, Wikipédia em avárico, Wikipédia em aimará, Wikipédia em azerbaijano, Wikipédia em azerbaijano meridional). Isto faz parte da implementação progressiva desta ferramenta para mais Wikipédias. As comunidades podem configure como esta funcionalidade funciona localmente. [1.231]
• A Nova Ferramenta de Tópico será implementado para todos os editores da Commons, Wikidata e alguns outras wikis em breve. Poderá excluir-se de dentro da ferramenta e em Preferências. [1.232][1.233]

Reuniões futuras

• A próxima reunião aberta com a equipa web sobre Vector (2022) terá lugar hoje (13 de junho). As seguintes reuniões terão lugar em: 28 de junho, 12 de julho, 26 de julho.

Alterações futuras

• Até ao final de julho, a skin Vector 2022 deve estar pronta para se tornar o padrão em todas as wikis. As discussões sobre como ajustá-lo às necessidades das comunidades começarão nas próximas semanas. Será sempre possível reverter para a versão anterior numa base individual. Saiba mais.

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13 de xuño de 2022 ás 16:59 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2022-25

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações recentes

• O Aplicativo da Wikipédia para Android agora tem uma opção para editar toda a página de uma só vez, localizada no menu transbordante (menu de três pontos ). [1.234]
• Algumas alterações recentes na base de dados podem afetar as consultas utilizando a ferramenta Quarry. As consultas para site_stats na Wikipédia em inglês, Commons e Wikidata terão de ser atualizadas. Ler mais.
• Uma nova variável user_global_editcount pode ser usada em filtros de abuso para evitar afetar os utilizadores globalmente ativos. [1.235]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki será implantada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org em 21 de junho. Será implantada em wikis selecionadas em 22 de junho e nas restantes em 23 de junho (calendário).
• Os utilizadores das skins não responsivas (por exemplo, MonoBook ou Vector) em dispositivos móveis podem notar uma ligeira alteração no nível de zoom predefinido. Isto destina-se a otimizar o zoom e garantir que todos os elementos de interface estão presentes na página (por exemplo, o índice no Vector 2022). No caso improvável de isto causar problemas com a forma como você usa o site, nós gostaríamos de entender melhor, por favor pingue Jon (WMF) para qualquer conversa on-wiki. [1.236]

Alterações futuras

• A funcionalidade Beta para DiscussionTools será atualizado ao longo de julho. As discussões parecerão diferentes. Pode ver algumas das alterações propostas.
• A saída HTML da Parsoid em breve deixará de anotar links de ficheiros com valores de atributos typeof diferentes e, em vez disso, utilizará mw:File para todos os tipos. Os autores da ferramenta devem ajustar qualquer código que espere: mw:Image, mw:Audio ou mw:Video. [1.237]

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20 de xuño de 2022 ás 20:18 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2022-26

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações recentes

• O serviço API da Wikimedia Enterprise dispõe agora de contas de autoatendimento com solicitações gratuitas a pedido e instantâneos mensais (documentação da API). O acesso comunitário através de dumps de banco de dados e Wikimedia Cloud Services continua.
• Todas as wikis da Wikimedia podem agora usar Wikidata Lexemes em Lua depois de criar módulos e predefinições locais. As discussões são bem-vindas na página de discussão do projeto.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki será implantada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org em 28 de junho. Será implantada em wikis selecionadas em 29 de junho e nas restantes em 30 de junho (calendário).
• Algumas wikis estarão em modo somente leitura apenas por alguns minutos por causa devido a uma troca da sua base de dados principal. Será realizada em 28 junho às 06:00 UTC (wikis direcionadas). [1.238]
• Alguns serviços globais e de cross-wiki estarão em modo somente leitura apenas por alguns minutos devido a uma mudança da sua base de dados principal. Será realizada em 30 de junho às 06:00 UTC. Isto terá impacto no ContentTranslation, Echo, Structurediscussions, experimentos de Crescimento (Growth) e mais alguns serviços. [1.239]
• Os utilizadores serão capazes de classificar colunas dentro de tabelas ordenadas na skin móvel. [1.240]

Reuniões futuras

• A próxima reunião aberta com a equipa web sobre Vector (2022) terá lugar amanhã (28 de junho). As seguintes reuniões terão lugar nos dias 12 e 26 de julho.

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27 de xuño de 2022 ás 20:03 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2022-27

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki será implantada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org em 5 de julho. Será implantada em wikis selecionadas em 6 de julho e nas restantes em 7 de julho (calendário).
• Algumas wikis estarão em modo somente leitura apenas por alguns minutos por causa devido a uma troca da sua base de dados principal. Será realizado em 5 de julho às 07:00 UTC (wikis direcionadas) e em 7 de julho às 7:00 UTC (wikis direcionadas).
• O recurso beta do DiscussionTools será atualizado ao longo de julho. As discussões parecerão diferentes. Você pode ver algumas das alterações propostas.
• Esta alteração apenas afeta páginas no espaço de nome principal em Wikisource. A variável de configuração Javascript proofreadpage_source_href será removida do mw.config e substituída pela variável prpSourceIndexPage. [1.241]

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4 de xullo de 2022 ás 19:32 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2022-28

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações recentes

• Na skin Vector 2022, o título da página é agora exibido acima dos separadores tais como Discussão, Ler, Editar, Ver histórico ou Mais. Saiba mais. [1.242]
• Agora é possível visualizar facilmente a maioria das definições de configuração que se aplicam a apenas uma wiki, e comparar configurações entre dois wikis se essas configurações forem diferentes. Por exemplo: configurações do Wikcionário Japonês, ou configurações que são diferentes entre as Wikipédias em Espanhol e Esperanto. As comunidades locais podem querer discutir e propor mudanças às suas configurações locais. Os detalhes sobre cada uma das definições nomeadas podem ser encontrados por pesquisando MediaWiki.org. [1.243]
• A equipa de Ferramentas Anti-Assédio recentamente implantada o Recurso de Informações de IP como um Recurso Beta em todas as wikis. Esta funcionalidade permite que os lutadores de abuso acedam a informações sobre endereços IP. Por favor, consulte a nossa atualização sobre como encontrar e usar a ferramenta. Por favor, partilhe seu feedback usando um link que lhe será dado dentro da própria ferramenta.

Alterações no final desta semana

• Não há nova versão do MediaWiki esta semana.
• Algumas wikis ficarão em leitura apenas por alguns minutos por causa de um interruptor da sua base de dados principal. Será realizado em 12 de julho às 7:00 UTC (wikis direcionadas).

Alterações futuras

• A funcionalidade Beta para DiscussionTools será atualizado ao longo de julho. As discussões parecerão diferentes. Pode ver algumas das alterações propostas.

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11 de xullo de 2022 ás 19:25 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2022-29

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Problemas

• A funcionalidade na web móvel para Páginas próximas desapareceu na semana passada. Será arranjado esta semana. [1.244]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki será implantada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org em 19 de julho. Será implantada em wikis selecionadas em 20 de julho e nas restantes em 21 de julho (calendário).

Alterações futuras

• O Fórum de Decisão Técnica procura representantes da comunidade. Pode candidatar-se na wiki ou por e-mail TDFSupport@wikimedia.org antes de 12 de agosto.

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18 de xullo de 2022 ás 23:00 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-30

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

• The www.wikibooks.org and www.wikiquote.org portal pages now use an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [1.245]

Problems

• Last week, some wikis were in read-only mode for a few minutes because of an emergency switch of their main database (targeted wikis). [1.246]

Changes later 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).
• The external link icon will change slightly in the skins Vector legacy and Vector 2022. The new icon uses simpler shapes to be more recognizable on low-fidelity screens. [1.247]
• Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "Cambiar o bloqueo" and "Desbloquear un usuario" instead of just "Bloquear o usuario" if the user is already blocked. [1.248]

Future meetings

• The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (26 July).

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25 de xullo de 2022 ás 19:27 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2022-31

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações recentes

• As capacidades aprimoradas de LaTeX para renderização matemática estão agora disponíveis nas wikis graças ao suporte a tags Phantom. Isto completa parte do desejo #59 da Pesquisa de desejos comunitários 2022.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão da plataforma MediaWiki será implantada nas wikis de teste e no site MediaWiki.org em 2 de agosto. Será implantada em wikis selecionadas em 3 de agosto e nas restantes em 4 de agosto (calendário).
• A Visualização em Tempo Real estará disponível como um Recurso Beta nas wikis em Grupo 0. Este recurso foi desenvolvido para atender uma das propostas da Pesquisa de desejos comunitários.

Alterações futuras

• O Recurso Beta do DiscussionTools será atualizado ao longo de agosto. As discussões parecerão diferentes. Você pode ver algumas das alterações propostas.

Reuniões futuras

• Esta semana, três reuniões sobre Vector (2022) com interpretação ao vivo terá lugar. Na terça-feira, será dada uma interpretação em russo. Na quinta-feira terão lugar reuniões para falantes árabes e espanhóis. Veja como participar.

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1 de agosto de 2022 ás 21:22 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-32

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

• GUS2Wiki copies the information from Especial:GadgetUsage to an on-wiki page so you can review its history. If your project isn't already listed on the Wikidata entry for Project:GUS2Wiki you can either run GUS2Wiki yourself or make a request to receive updates. [1.249]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 9 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 11 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future meetings

• The Wikimania Hackathon will take place online from August 12–14. Don't miss the pre-hacking showcase to learn about projects and find collaborators. Anyone can propose a project or host a session. Newcomers are welcome!

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8 de agosto de 2022 ás 19:50 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-33

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

Recent changes

• The Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia community decided to block IP editing from October 2021 to April 2022. The Wikimedia Foundation's Product Analytics team tracked the impact of this change. An impact report is now available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 August. It will be on all wikis from 18 August (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 16 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 18 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 1. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

Future changes

• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes. [1.250][1.251][1.252]

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15 de agosto de 2022 ás 21:08 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-34

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

• Two problems with Kartographer maps have been fixed. Maps are no longer shown as empty when a geoline was created via VisualEditor. Geolines consisting of points with QIDs (e.g., subway lines) are no longer shown with pushpins. [1.253][1.254]

Changes later 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).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 25 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The colours of links and visited links will change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. [1.255]

Future changes

• The new [subscribirse] button helps newcomers get answers. The Editing team is enabling this tool everywhere. You can turn it off in your preferences. [1.256]

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23 de agosto de 2022 ás 00:13 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-35

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

• The Realtime Preview is available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 2. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals. Please note that when this Beta feature is enabled, it may cause conflicts with some wiki-specific Gadgets.

Problems

• In recent months, there have been inaccurate numbers shown for various Especial:Estatísticas at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed. [1.257]

Changes later this week

• 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).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 30 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation wants to improve how Wikimedia communities report harmful incidents by building the Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) to make it easy and safe for users to make reports. You can leave comments on the talk page, by answering the questions provided. If you have ever faced a harmful situation that you wanted to report/reported, join a PIRS interview to share your experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

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29 de agosto de 2022 ás 23:05 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-36

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

Changes later this week

• 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).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 6 September at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 8 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• On Special pages that only have one tab, the tab-bar's row will be hidden in the Vector-2022 skin to save space. The row will still show if Gadgets use it. Gadgets that currently append directly to the CSS id of #p-namespaces should be updated to use the mw.util.addPortletLink function instead. Gadgets that style this id should consider also targeting #p-associated-pages, the new id for this row. Examples are available. [1.258][1.259]

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5 de setembro de 2022 ás 23:22 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-37

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

• The search servers have been upgraded to a new major version. If you notice any issues with searching, please report them on Phabricator. [1.260]

Changes later this week

• 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).
• Syntax highlighting is now tracked as an expensive parser function. Only 500 expensive function calls can be used on a single page. Pages that exceed the limit are added to a tracking category. [1.261]

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13 de setembro de 2022 ás 01:50 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-38

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

• Two database fields in the templatelinks table are now being dropped: tl_namespace and tl_title. Any queries that rely on these fields need to be changed to use the new normalization field called tl_target_id. See T299417 for more information. This is part of normalization of links tables. [1.262][1.263]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar).
• In Kartographer maps, you can use icons on markers for common points of interest. On Tuesday, the previous icon set will be updated to version maki 7.2. That means, around 100 new icons will be available. Additionally, all existing icons were updated for clarity and to make them work better in international contexts. [1.264][1.265]

Future changes

• In a group discussion at Wikimania, more than 30 people talked about how to make content partnership software in the Wikimedia movement more sustainable. What kind of support is acceptable for volunteer developers? Read the summary and leave your feedback.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19 de setembro de 2022 ás 22:16 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-39

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

• Parsoid clients should be updated to allow for space-separated multi-values in the rel attribute of links. Further details are in T315209.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 September. It will be on all wikis from 29 September (calendar).
• Visual diffs will become available to all users, except at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [1.266]
• Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. [1.267] [1.268]
• In the Módulo namespace, pages ending with .json will be treated as JSON, just like they already are in the Usuario and MediaWiki namespaces. [1.269]

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MediaWiki message delivery 27 de setembro de 2022 ás 00:30 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-40

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

• Kartographer maps can now show geopoints from Wikidata, via QID or SPARQL query. Previously, this was only possible for geoshapes and geolines. [1.270] [1.271]
• The Coolest Tool Award 2022 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 12 October.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar).
• Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. (Last week's release was delayed) [1.272] [1.273]
• The scribunto-console API module will require a CSRF token. This module is documented as internal and use of it is not supported. [5]
• The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikimedia projects. Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 4 de outubro de 2022 ás 00:23 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-41

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).
• On some wikis, Kartographer maps in full size view will be able to display nearby articles. After a feedback period, more wikis will follow. [1.274][1.275]

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10 de outubro de 2022 ás 14:09 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-42

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 recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in Special:Search will be limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510. [1.276]
• A bug that caused problems in loading article thumbnails in Special:Search has been fixed. Further details are in T320406.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 October. It will be on all wikis from 20 October (calendar).
• Lua module authors can use mw.loadJsonData() to load data from JSON pages. [1.277]
• Lua module authors can enable require( "strict" ) to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "Module:No globals" on most wikis. [1.278]

Future changes

• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated at most wikis. The "responder" button will look different after this change. [1.279]

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MediaWiki message delivery 17 de outubro de 2022 ás 21:46 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-43

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

• There have been some minor visual fixes in Special:Search, regarding audio player alignment and image placeholder height. Further details are in T319230.
• On Wikipedias, a new preference has been added to hide article thumbnails in Special:Search. Full details are in T320337.

Problems

• Last week, three wikis (French Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Russian Wikipedia) had read-only access for 25 minutes. This was caused by a hardware problem. [1.280]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 October. It will be on all wikis from 27 October (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 25 October at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 27 October at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Assamese Wikipedia, Bashkir Wikipedia, Balinese Wikipedia, Bavarian Wikipedia, Samogitian Wikipedia, Bikol Central Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Belarusian (Taraškievica) Wikipedia, Bulgarian Wikipedia, Bhojpuri Wikipedia, Bislama Wikipedia, Banjar Wikipedia, Bambara Wikipedia, Bishnupriya Wikipedia, Breton Wikipedia, Bosnian Wikipedia, Buginese Wikipedia, Buryat Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [1.281]
• Starting on Wednesday October 26, 2022, the list of mentors will be upgraded at wikis where Growth mentorship is available. The mentorship system will continue to work as it does now. The signup process will be replaced, and a new management option will be provided. Also, this change simplifies the creation of mentorship systems at Wikipedias. [1.282][1.283][1.284]
• Pages with titles that start with a lower-case letter according to Unicode 11 will be renamed or deleted. There is a list of affected pages at m:Unicode 11 case map migration. More information can be found at T292552.
• The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikipedias. Learn more.

Future changes

• The Reply tool and New Topic tool will soon get a special characters menu. [1.285]

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MediaWiki message delivery 24 de outubro de 2022 ás 21:23 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-44

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

Recent changes

• When using keyboard navigation on a Kartographer map, the focus will become more visible. [1.286]
• In Especial:Cambios recentes, you can now hide the log entries for new user creations with the filter for "⧼rcfilters-filter-newuserlogactions-label⧽". [1.287]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 November. It will be on all wikis from 3 November (calendar).
• The maps dialog in VisualEditor now has some help texts. [1.288]
• It is now possible to select the language of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor via a dropdown menu. [1.289]
• It is now possible to add a caption to a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [1.290]
• It is now possible to hide the frame of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [1.291]

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MediaWiki message delivery 31 de outubro de 2022 ás 21:15 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-45

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

• An updated version of the Event Registration tool is now available for testing at testwiki and test2wiki. The tool provides features for event organizers and participants. Your feedback is welcome at our project talkpage. More information about the project is available. [1.292]

Problems

• Twice last week, for about 45 minutes, some files and thumbnails failed to load and uploads failed, mostly for logged-in users. The cause is being investigated and an incident report will be available soon.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 8 de novembro de 2022 ás 00:32 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-46

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

• At Wikidata, an interwiki link can now point to a redirect page if certain conditions are met. This new feature is called sitelinks to redirects. It is needed when one wiki uses one page to cover multiple concepts but another wiki uses more pages to cover the same concepts. Your feedback on the talkpage of the new proposed guideline is welcome. [1.293]
• The www.wikinews.org, www.wikiversity.org, and www.wikivoyage.org portal pages now use an automated update system. [1.294]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 November. It will be on all wikis from 17 November (calendar).
• There will be a new link to directly "Edit template data" on Template pages. [1.295]

Future changes

• Wikis where mobile DiscussionTools are enabled (these ones) will soon use full CSS styling to display any templates that are placed at the top of talk pages. To adapt these “talk page boxes” for narrow mobile devices you can use media queries, such as in this example. [1.296]
• Starting in January 2023, Community Tech will be running the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) every two years. This means that in 2024, there will be no new proposals or voting.

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MediaWiki message delivery 14 de novembro de 2022 ás 21:55 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-47

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

Recent changes

• The display of non-free media in the search bar and for article thumbnails in Special:Search has been deactivated. Further details are in T320661.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 22 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 24 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

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MediaWiki message delivery 21 de novembro de 2022 ás 23:22 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-48

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 preference, “Enable limited width mode”, has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also available as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. It allows for increasing the width of the page for logged-out and logged-in users. [1.297]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 29 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 December at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• Mathematical formulas shown in SVG image format will no longer have PNG fall-backs for browsers that don't support them. This is part of work to modernise the generation system. Showing only PNG versions was the default option until in February 2018. [1.298][1.299][1.300]
• On some wikis that use flagged revisions, a new checkbox will be added to Special:Contributions that enables you to see only the pending changes by a user. [1.301]

Future changes

• How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change early next week at group1 wikis (but not Wikimedia Commons or Meta-Wiki). This change improves the accessibility of content, and makes it easier to write related CSS. You may need to update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems. [1.302]

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MediaWiki message delivery 28 de novembro de 2022 ás 20:03 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-49

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

Recent changes

• The Wikisources use a tool called ProofreadPage. ProofreadPage uses OpenSeadragon which is an open source tool. The OpenSeadragon JavaScript API has been significantly re-written to support dynamically loading images. The functionality provided by the older version of the API should still work but it is no longer supported. User scripts and gadgets should migrate over to the newer version of the API. The functionality provided by the newer version of the API is documented on MediaWiki. [1.303][1.304]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 6 de decembro de 2022 ás 00:41 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-50

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

• An A/B test has begun at 15 Wikipedias for DiscussionTools on mobile. Half of the editors on the mobile web site will have access to the Responder tool and other features. [1.305]
• The character = cannot be used in new usernames, to make usernames work better with templates. Existing usernames are not affected. [1.306]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (calendar).
• The HTML markup used by DiscussionTools to show discussion metadata below section headings will be inserted after these headings, not inside of them. This change improves the accessibility of discussion pages for screen reader software. [1.307]

Events

• The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award will happen online on Friday 16 December 2022 at 17:00 UTC! The event will be live-streamed on YouTube in the MediaWiki channel and added to Commons afterwards.

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MediaWiki message delivery 12 de decembro de 2022 ás 23:34 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-51

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2023.

Recent changes

• On a user's contributions page, you can filter it for edits with a tag like 'reverted'. Now, you can also filter for all edits that are not tagged like that. This was part of a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [1.308]
• A new function has been used for gadget developers to add content underneath the title on article pages. This is considered a stable API that should work across all skins. Documentation is available. [1.309]
• One of our test wikis is now being served from a new infrastructure powered by Kubernetes (read more). More Wikis will switch to this new infrastructure in early 2023. Please test and let us know of any issues. [1.310]

Problems

• Last week, all wikis had no edit access for 9 minutes. This was caused by a database problem. [1.311]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
• The word "Responder" is very short in some languages, such as Arabic ("ردّ"). This makes the Ferramentas de discussão button on talk pages difficult to use. An arrow icon will be added to those languages. This will only be visible to editors who have the Beta Feature turned on. [1.312] [1.313]

Future changes

• Edits can be automatically "tagged" by the system software or the Xestión do filtro de abusos system. Those tags link to a help page about the tags. Soon they will also link to Recent Changes to let you see other edits tagged this way. This was a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [1.314]
• The Trust & Safety tools team have shared new plans for building the Private Incident Reporting System. The system will make it easier for editors to ask for help if they are harassed or abused.
• Realtime Preview for Wikitext is coming out of beta as an enabled feature for every user of the 2010 Wikitext editor in the week of January 9, 2023. It will be available to use via the toolbar in the 2010 Wikitext editor. The feature was the 4th most popular wish of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021.

Events

• You can now register for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, taking place on May 19–21 in Athens, Greece. You can also apply for a scholarship until January 14th.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20 de decembro de 2022 ás 00:00 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-02

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

• You can use tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see. Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags. [1.315]
• Special:WhatLinksHere shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket.
• You can now use the thanks function on your watchlist and the user contribution page. [1.316]
• A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time. [1.317]
• Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use matrix: to create Matrix links on wiki pages. [1.318]
• You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages. [1.319]

Changes later this week

• Realtime preview for wikitext is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar.
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 10 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 12 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 January. It will be on all wikis from 12 January (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 10 de xaneiro de 2023 ás 01:07 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-03

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

Problems

• The URLs in "anterior" links on page history now contain diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID] in place of diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]. This is to fix a problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change. [1.320]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).
• Some changes to the appearance of talk pages have only been available on Conversa: and Conversa usuario: namespaces. These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such as Conversa Wikipedia:. They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including Wikipedia: pages (e.g., at the Village Pump). You can change your preferences (beta feature). [1.321]
• On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page: namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page: namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page. [1.322]
• The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC. Learn more.

Future changes

• The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey, which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can start drafting your proposals in the CWS sandbox.

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MediaWiki message delivery 17 de xaneiro de 2023 ás 01:10 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-04

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

Problems

• Last week, for ~15 minutes, all wikis were unreachable for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a timing issue. [1.323]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).
• If you have the Beta Feature for DiscussionTools enabled, the appearance of talk pages will add more information about discussion activity. [1.324][1.325]
• The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS), which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts on Monday 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23 de xaneiro de 2023 ás 23:46 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-05

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

• Last week, for ~15 minutes, some users were unable to log in or edit pages. This was caused by a problem with session storage. [1.326]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 February. It will be on all wikis from 2 February (calendar).

Future changes

• Wikis that use localized numbering schemes for references need to add new CSS. This will help to show citation numbers the same way in all reading and editing modes. If your wiki would prefer to do it yourselves, please see the details and example CSS to copy from, and also add your wiki to the list. Otherwise, the developers will directly help out starting the week of February 5.

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MediaWiki message delivery 31 de xaneiro de 2023 ás 00:05 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-06

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

• In the Vector 2022 skin, logged-out users using the full-width toggle will be able to see the setting of their choice even after refreshing pages or opening new ones. This only applies to wikis where Vector 2022 is the default. [1.327]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (calendar).
• Previously, we announced when some wikis would be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. These switches will not be announced any more, as the read-only time has become non-significant. Switches will continue to happen at 7AM UTC on Tuesdays and Thursdays. [1.328]
• Across all the wikis, in the Vector 2022 skin, logged-in users will see the page-related links such as "What links here" in a new side menu. It will be displayed on the other side of the screen. This change had previously been made on Czech, English, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [1.329]
• Community Wishlist Survey 2023 will stop receiving new proposals on Monday, 6 February 2023, at 18:00 UTC. Proposers should complete any edits by then, to give time for translations and review. Voting will begin on Friday, 10 February.

Future changes

• Gadgets and user scripts will be changing to load on desktop and mobile sites. Previously they would only load on the desktop site. It is recommended that wiki administrators audit the gadget definitions prior to this change, and add skins=… for any gadgets which should not load on mobile. More details are available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 6 de febreiro de 2023 ás 10:21 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-07

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

Problems

• On wikis where patrolled edits are enabled, changes made to the mentor list by autopatrolled mentors are not correctly marked as patrolled. It will be fixed later this week. [1.330]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar).
• The Reply tool and other parts of DiscussionTools will be deployed for all editors using the mobile site. You can read more about this decision. [1.331]

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [1.332][1.333][1.334]

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MediaWiki message delivery 14 de febreiro de 2023 ás 01:49 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-08

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

Problems

• Last week, during planned maintenance of Cloud Services, unforeseen complications forced the team to turn off all tools for 2–3 hours to prevent data corruption. Work is ongoing to prevent similar problems in the future. [1.335]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar).
• The voting phase for the Community Wishlist Survey 2023 ends on 24 February at 18:00 UTC. The results of the survey will be announced on 28 February.

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [1.336][1.337][1.338]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21 de febreiro de 2023 ás 01:58 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-09

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

Problems

• Last week, in some areas of the world, there were problems with loading pages for 20 minutes and saving edits for 55 minutes. These issues were caused by a problem with our caching servers due to unforseen events during a routine maintenance task. [1.339][1.340]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (calendar).
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [1.341]

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MediaWiki message delivery 27 de febreiro de 2023 ás 23:47 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-10

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

• The Community Wishlist Survey 2023 edition has been concluded. Community Tech has published the results of the survey and will provide an update on what is next in April 2023.
• On wikis which use LanguageConverter to handle multiple writing systems, articles which used custom conversion rules in the wikitext (primarily on Chinese Wikipedia) would have these rules applied inconsistently in the table of contents, especially in the Vector 2022 skin. This has now been fixed. [1.342]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (calendar).
• A search system has been added to the Preferences screen. This will let you find different options more easily. Making it work on mobile devices will happen soon. [1.343]

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MediaWiki message delivery 6 de marzo de 2023 ás 23:50 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-11

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Chavacano de Zamboanga Wikipedia, Min Dong Chinese Wikipedia, Chechen Wikipedia, Cebuano Wikipedia, Chamorro Wikipedia, Cherokee Wikipedia, Cheyenne Wikipedia, Central Kurdish Wikipedia, Corsican Wikipedia, Kashubian Wikipedia, Church Slavic Wikipedia, Chuvash Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [1.344][1.345]

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MediaWiki message delivery 13 de marzo de 2023 ás 23:20 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-12

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

• Last week, some users experienced issues loading image thumbnails. This was due to incorrectly cached images. [1.346]

Changes later this week

• 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).
• A link to the user's Especial:Autenticación central page will appear on Especial:Contribucións — some user scripts which previously added this link may cause conflicts. This feature request was voted #17 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
• The Especial:Filtro de abusos edit window will be resizable and larger by default. This feature request was voted #80 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
• There will be a new option for Administrators when they are unblocking a user, to add the unblocked user’s user page to their watchlist. This will work both via Especial:Desbloquear and via the API. [1.347]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on 24 March at 17:00 (UTC). See details and how to join.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21 de marzo de 2023 ás 01:26 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-13

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 AbuseFilter condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000. [1.348]
• Some Global AbuseFilter actions will no longer apply to local projects. [1.349]
• Desktop users are now able to subscribe to talk pages by clicking on the Subscrever link in the Ferramentas menu. If you subscribe to a talk page, you receive notifications when new topics are started on that talk page. This is separate from putting the page on your watchlist or subscribing to a single discussion. [1.350]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 March. It will be on all wikis from 30 March (calendar).

Future changes

• You will be able to choose visual diffs on all history pages at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [1.351]
• The legacy Mobile Content Service is going away in July 2023. Developers are encouraged to switch to Parsoid or another API before then to ensure service continuity. [1.352]

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MediaWiki message delivery 28 de marzo de 2023 ás 01:13 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-14

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

• The system for automatically creating categories for the Babel extension has had several important changes and fixes. One of them allows you to insert templates for automatic category descriptions on creation, allowing you to categorize the new categories. [1.353][1.354][1.355][1.356][1.357]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).
• Some older Web browsers will stop being able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can try to upgrade to a newer version. [1.358]
• The deprecated jquery.hoverIntent module has been removed. This module could be used by gadgets and user scripts, to create an artificial delay in how JavaScript responds to a hover event. Gadgets and user scripts should now use jQuery hover() or on() instead. Examples can be found in the migration guide. [1.359]
• Some of the links in Especial:Páxinas especiais will be re-arranged. There will be a clearer separation between links that relate to all users, and links related to your own user account. [1.360]
• You will be able to hide the Reply button in archived discussion pages with a new __ARCHIVEDTALK__ magic word. There will also be a new .mw-archivedtalk CSS class for hiding the Reply button in individual sections on a page. [1.361][1.362][1.363]

Future changes

• The Vega software that creates data visualizations in pages, such as graphs, will be upgraded to the newest version in the future. Graphs that still use the very old version 1.5 syntax may stop working properly. Most existing uses have been found and updated, but you can help to check, and to update any local documentation. Examples of how to find and fix these graphs are available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 3 de abril de 2023 ás 23:39 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-15

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 the visual editor, it is now possible to edit captions of images in galleries without opening the gallery dialog. This feature request was voted #61 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [1.364]
• You can now receive notifications when another user edits your user page. See the "Edições da minha página de utilizador" option in your Preferences. This feature request was voted #3 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [1.365]

Problems

• There was a problem with all types of CentralNotice banners still being shown to logged-in users even if they had turned off specific banner types. This has now been fixed. [1.366]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia, Danish Wikipedia, Dinka Wikipedia, Lower Sorbian Wikipedia, Ewe Wikipedia, Greek Wikipedia, Emiliano-Romagnolo Wikipedia, Esperanto Wikipedia, Estonian Wikipedia, Basque Wikipedia, Extremaduran Wikipedia, Tumbuka Wikipedia, Fulah Wikipedia, Finnish Wikipedia, Võro Wikipedia, Fijian Wikipedia, Faroese Wikipedia, Arpitan Wikipedia, Northern Frisian Wikipedia, Friulian Wikipedia, Irish Wikipedia, Guianan Creole Wikipedia, Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia, Galician Wikipedia, Gilaki Wikipedia, Guarani Wikipedia, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Gothic Wikipedia, Gujarati Wikipedia, Manx Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [1.367][1.368]

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MediaWiki message delivery 10 de abril de 2023 ás 20:05 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-16

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 now see nearby articles on a Kartographer map with the button for the new feature "Amosar artigos próximos". Six wikis have been testing this feature since October. [1.369][1.370]
• The Special:GlobalWatchlist page now has links for "marcar página como lida" for each entry. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [1.371]

Problems

• At Wikimedia Commons, some thumbnails have not been getting replaced correctly after a new version of the image is uploaded. This should be fixed later this week. [1.372][1.373]
• For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed. [1.374]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 April. It will be on all wikis from 20 April (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 18 de abril de 2023 ás 01:54 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-17

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

Recent changes

• The date-selection menu on pages such as Especial:Contribucións will now show year-ranges that are in the current and past decade, instead of the current and future decade. This feature request was voted #145 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [1.375]

Problems

• Due to security issues with the Graph extension, graphs have been disabled in all Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Foundation teams are working to respond to these vulnerabilities. [1.376]
• For a few days, it was not possible to save some kinds of edits on the mobile version of a wiki. This has been fixed. [1.377][1.378][1.379]

Changes later this week

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [1.380]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

Future changes

• The Editing team plans an A/B test for a usability analysis of the Talk page project. The planned measurements are available. Your wiki may be invited to participate. Please suggest improvements to the measurement plan at the discussion page.
• The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input until May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023 on Meta-wiki.

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MediaWiki message delivery 24 de abril de 2023 ás 22:03 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-18

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 content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the French and Italian Wikipedias. More languages will be added in the near future. This is part of the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [1.381][1.382][1.383]
• The Video2commons tool has been updated. This fixed several bugs related to YouTube uploads. [1.384]
• The Especial:Preferencias page has been redesigned on mobile web. The new design makes it easier to browse the different categories and settings at low screen widths. You can also now access the page via a link in the Settings menu in the mobile web sidebar. [1.385]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 May. It will be on all wikis from 4 May (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 2 de maio de 2023 ás 01:45 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-19

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

• Last week, Community Tech released the first update for providing better diffs, the #1 request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. This update adds legends and tooltips to inline diffs so that users unfamiliar with the blue and yellow highlights can better understand the type of edits made.
• When you close an image that is displayed via MediaViewer, it will now return to the wiki page instead of going back in your browser history. This feature request was voted #65 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [1.386]
• The SyntaxHighlight extension now supports wikitext as a selected language. Old alternatives that were used to highlight wikitext, such as html5, moin, and html+handlebars, can now be replaced. [1.387]
• Preloading text to new pages/sections now supports preloading from localized MediaWiki interface messages. Here is an example at the Czech Wikipedia that uses preload=MediaWiki:July. [1.388]

Problems

• Graph Extension update: Foundation developers have completed upgrading the visualization software to Vega5. Existing community graphs based on Vega2 are no longer compatible. Communities need to update local graphs and templates, and shared lua modules like de:Modul:Graph. The Vega Porting guide provides the most comprehensive detail on migration from Vega2 and here is an example migration. Vega5 has currently just been enabled on mediawiki.org to provide a test environment for communities. [1.389]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).
• Until now, all new OAuth apps went through manual review. Starting this week, apps using identification-only or basic authorizations will not require review. [1.390]

Future changes

• During the next year, MediaWiki will stop using IP addresses to identify logged-out users, and will start automatically assigning unique temporary usernames. Read more at IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation/Updates. You can join the discussion about the format of the temporary usernames. [1.391]
• There will be an A/B test on 10 Wikipedias where the Vector 2022 skin is the default skin. Half of logged-in desktop users will see an interface where the different parts of the page are more clearly separated. You can read more. [1.392][1.393]
• jquery.tipsy will be removed from the MediaWiki core. This will affect some user scripts. Many lines with .tipsy( can be commented out. OO.ui.PopupWidget can be used to keep things working like they are now. You can read more and read about how to find broken scripts. [1.394]

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MediaWiki message delivery 9 de maio de 2023 ás 00:36 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-20

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

Problems

• Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN are currently broken. This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing to restore this feature. [1.395]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 May. It will be on all wikis from 18 May (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Gorontalo Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Hakka Chinese Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Upper Sorbian Wikipedia, Haitian Creole Wikipedia, Interlingua Wikipedia, Interlingue Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Iloko Wikipedia, Ingush Wikipedia, Ido Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Inuktitut Wikipedia, Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, Javanese Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [1.396]

Future changes

• There is a recently formed team at the Wikimedia Foundation which will be focusing on experimenting with new tools. Currently they are building a prototype ChatGPT plugin that allows information generated by ChatGPT to be properly attributed to the Wikimedia projects.
• Gadget and userscript developers should replace jquery.cookie with mediawiki.cookie. The jquery.cookie library will be removed in ~1 month, and staff developers will run a script to replace any remaining uses at that time. [1.397]

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MediaWiki message delivery 15 de maio de 2023 ás 21:45 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-21

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

• The "recent edits" time period for page watchers is now 30 days. It used to be 180 days. This was a Community Wishlist Survey proposal. [1.398]

Changes later this week

• An improved impact module will be available at Wikipedias. The impact module is a feature available to newcomers at their personal homepage. It will show their number of edits, how many readers their edited pages have, how many thanks they have received and similar things. It is also accessible by accessing Special:Impact. [1.399]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).

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22 de maio de 2023 ás 16:55 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-22

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

• Citations can once again be added automatically from ISBNs, thanks to Zotero's ISBN searches. The current data sources are the Library of Congress (United States), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (French National Library), and K10plus ISBN (German repository). Additional data source searches can be proposed to Zotero. The ISBN labels in the VisualEditor Automatic tab will reappear later this week. [1.400]
• The page Especial:Editar a lista de vixilancia now has "Marcar todo" options to select all the pages within a namespace. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [1.401]

Problems

• For a few days earlier this month, the "Add interlanguage link" item in the Tools menu did not work properly. This has now been fixed. [1.402]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 May. It will be on all wikis from 1 June (calendar).
• VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on small and medium wikis this week. Large wikis will follow in the coming weeks. This is part of the effort to move Parsoid into MediaWiki core. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [1.403]

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MediaWiki message delivery 29 de maio de 2023 ás 22:03 (UTC)

Noticias técnicas: 2023-23

As últimas novas de tecnoloxía da comunidade técnica de Wikimedia. Difunda estes cambios entre os usuarios. Non todos os cambios che serán relevantes. Hai Traduccións dispoñibles.

Cambios recentes

• A extensión RealMe permite marcar como verificadas as URL da súa páxina de usuario, para usar con Mastodon e programas semellantes.
• Xa se poden modificar as citas e notas dende a lista de referencias ao usar o editor visual. Isto fora a 2ª mellora máis votada na Enquisa de Desexos da Comunidade de 2023. [1.404]
• Arranxouse un fallo que podería modificar as preferencias de «Agrupar resultados por páxina» ao premer na ligazón de Cambios Recentes doutro usuario con filtros aplicados á URL. [1.405]

Problemas

• Algunhas ferramentas e robots devolveron información antiga durante varios días por mor de problemas ao actualizar as bases de datos, e pode que non funcionasen durante os arranxos. Todos os fallos deberían estar xa resoltos. [1.406]

Cambios a finais desta semana

• A nova versión de MediaWiki estará dispoñible nas wikis de proba e en MediaWiki.org a partir do 6 xuño. A partir do 7 xuño tamén estará dispoñible en wikis externas á Wikipedia e en algunhas Wikipedias. A partir do 8 xuño xa estará dispoñible para todas as wikis (calendar).
• Xa non se impedirá que, por mor de coincidencias coas URL na lista negra de spam, os robots poidan realizar modificacións. [1.407]

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MediaWiki message delivery 5 de xuño de 2023 ás 22:52 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-24

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

• The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the Dutch, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias. This was the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [1.408]
• The Search Preview panel has been deployed on four Wikipedias (Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian and Norwegian). The panel will show an image related to the article (if existing), the top sections of the article, related images (coming from MediaSearch on Commons), and eventually the sister projects associated with the article. [1.409]
• The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software. [1.410]
• The default project license has been officially upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0. The software interface messages have been updated. Communities should feel free to start updating any mentions of the old CC BY-SA 3.0 licensing within policies and related documentation pages. [1.411]

Problems

• For three days last month, some Wikipedia pages edited with VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended __TOC__ (or its localized form) added during an edit. There is a listing of affected pages sorted by wiki, that may still need to be fixed. [1.412]
• Currently, the "Ordenar esta páxina por defecto como" feature in VisualEditor is broken. Existing {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords incorrectly appear as missing templates in VisualEditor. Developers are exploring how to fix this. In the meantime, those wishing to edit the default sortkey of a page are advised to switch to source editing. [1.413]
• Last week, an update to the delete form may have broken some gadgets or user scripts. If you need to manipulate (empty) the reason field, replace #wpReason with #wpReason > input. See an example fix. [1.414]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).
• VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on English Wikipedia on Monday, and all other large wikis on Thursday. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [1.415]

Future changes

• From 5 June to 17 July, the Foundation's Security team is holding a consultation with contributors regarding a draft policy to govern the use of third-party resources in volunteer-developed gadgets and scripts. Feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome at Third-party resources policy on meta-wiki.

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MediaWiki message delivery 12 de xuño de 2023 ás 14:51 (UTC)

Noticias técnicas: 2023-25

Últimas novas sobre tecnoloxía da comunidade técnica de Wikimedia. Animámoslle a que difunda estes cambios co resto de usuarios. Non todos os cambios seránlle relevantes. Hai traduccións dispoñibles.

Cambios recentes

• Xa se poden usar os gráficos de lapas en WikimediaDebug. [1.416][1.417]

Cambios a finais desta semana

• Non hai unha actualización de MediaWiki para esta semana.
• Engadiuse unha barra de búsqueda despregable no editor visual. Pode activlo escribindo \ ou premendo ctrl + shift + p. Isto pódelle axudar a acceder máis rápido as ferramentas do editor. [1.418][1.419]

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MediaWiki message delivery 19 de xuño de 2023 ás 20:09 (UTC)

Noticias sobre tecnoloxía: 2023-26

Últimas novas sobre tecnoloxía da comunidade técnica de Wikimedia. Animámoslle a que difunda estes cambios co resto de usuarios. Non todos os cambios seranlle relevantes. Hai traducións dispoñibles.

Cambios recentes

• Agora os módulos da API «Action» e Especial:Buscar ligazóns web engadirán / ao final de todas as respostas prop=extlinks para dominios soltos. Isto forma parte do traballo realizado para eliminar a duplicación na base de datos externallinks. [1.420]

Problemas

• A semana pasada a busca en Commons e Wikidata estivo sen funcionar durante 23 horas. [1.421][1.422]

Cambios a finais desta semana

• A nova versión de MediaWiki estará dispoñible nas wikis de proba e MediaWiki.org a partir do 27 xuño. A partir do 28 xuño tamén estará dispoñible en todas as wikis apartes de Wikipedia e algunhas Wikipedias. A nova versión estará dispoñible para todas as wikis a partir do 29 xuño (calendar).
• O estilo Minerva aplicará máis estilos predefinidos á clase CSS .mbox-text. Isto permitirá usar os modelos mbox que usen divs no canto de táboas. Recomendamos que comprobe que os novos estilos non afectarán aos outros modelos na súa wiki. [1.423][1.424]
• Os trebellos agora cargarán no escritorio e nas plataformas móbiles por omisión. Antes os trebellos só se cargaban por omisión no escritorio. Xa non se deberá cambiar esta opción usando o parámetro |targets=. Os trebellos que se fagan deberán funcionar en móbiles ou desactivarse segundo o estilo activo (usando o parámetro |skins= de MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition) no canto de mirar se se está a usar a versión de escritorio ou móbil. Os trebellos populares que creen fallos en móbiles serán temporalmente desactivados polos desenvolvedores no estilo Minerva. [1.425]
• Por omisión agora todas as lapelas de espazos de nomes compartirán a mesma chave de acceso do navegador. Anteriormente os espazos de nomes personalizados e aqueles definidos por extensións tiñan que configurar as súas chaves de acceso manualmente na wiki. Isto xa non se terá que facer. [1.426]
• O formulario de revisión da extensión Edicións Marcadas («FlaggedRevs») agora usa os compoñentes de interface de usuario normativizados. [1.427]

Trocos futuros

• A estrutura de vídeos e imaxes na saída HTML do intérprete recibirá modificacións durante as seguintes semanas nas wikis group2. Este cambio mellorará a a accesibilidade do contido. Pode que o seu CSS do sitio, programas de usuario e trebellos precisen unha actualización. Están dispoñibles os detalles de que código hai que comprobar, como hai que actualizalo e onde se pode avisar de posibles problemas. [1.428]

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MediaWiki message delivery 26 de xuño de 2023 ás 16:19 (UTC)

Noticias sobre tecnoloxía: 2023-27

Últimas novas sobre tecnoloxía da comunidade técnica de Wikimedia. Animámoslle a que difunda estes cambios co resto de usuarios. Non todos os cambios seranlle relevantes. Hai traducións dispoñibles.

Cambios recentes

• Grazas á implantación da proposta de ligazóns a son que se reproduzan ao premer as wikis pequenas xa poden usar o o reprodutor de son integrado que implementa a extensión Phonos. [1.429]
• A partir desta semana os trebellos cargaranse automaticamente nos sitios en móbil e escritorio. Se atopa algún fallo nalgún trebello da wiki axuste as opcións no ficheiro de definicións de trebellos. [1.430]

Cambios a finais desta semana

• A nova versión de MediaWiki estará dispoñible nas wikis de proba e MediaWiki.org a partir do 4 xullo. A partir do 5 xullo tamén estará dispoñible en todas as wikis apartes de Wikipedia e algunhas Wikipedias. A nova versión estará dispoñible para todas as wikis a partir do 6 xullo (calendario).

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MediaWiki message delivery 3 de xullo de 2023 ás 22:51 (UTC)

Noticias sobre tecnoloxía: 2023-28

Últimas novas sobre tecnoloxía da comunidade técnica de Wikimedia. Animámoslle a que difunda estes cambios co resto de usuarios. Non todos os cambios seranlle relevantes. Hai traducións dispoñibles.

Cambios recentes

• A ferramenta de Suxestións de Imaxes por Sección xa está dispoñible en sete Wikipedias (portuguesa, rusa, indonesia, catalá, húngara, finlandesa e a norueguesa bokmål). Esta ferramenta recomenda imaxes que encaixen en certas seccións dos artigos na lista de vixilancia dos contribuidores.
• Activáronse os filtros de abuso globais en todos os proxectos de Wikimedia, excepto na inglesa e xaponesa (por decisión propia). Este cambio realizouse tras unha petición de comentarios global. [1.431]
• Especial:BlockedExternalDomains é unha ferramenta para axudar aos administradores na loita contra o vandalismo. Esta ferramenta ten unha mellor interface para bloquear dominios normais e os seus subdominios, é máis sinxela de buscar e consume menos recursos ao procesar cada edición da wiki. Non pode usar expresións regulares (para casos complexos), comprobar as rutas das URL nin mirar a MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist, pero no resto de casos substitúe a maioría de funcionalidades existentes de MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Hai dispoñible un programa en Python para axudar a migrar os dominios a esta ferramenta. Máis información sobre as súas funcionalidades na documentación da ferramenta. Isto está dispoñible en todas as wikis, excepto Meta, Commons e Wikidata. [1.432]
• Actualizouse a extensión WikiEditor, que agora inclúe algunhas das ferramentas máis usadas ao editar textos wiki. Antes moitos textos só os podían traducir administradores, pero agora xa poden traducir todos os tradutores de translatewiki. Comprobe o estado da tradución ao seu idioma, e se non está ao 100% lle animamos a que colabore na tradución. Consulte o anuncio para máis información.

Cambios a finais desta semana

• A nova versión de MediaWiki estará dispoñible nas wikis de proba e MediaWiki.org a partir do 11 xullo. A partir do 12 xullo tamén estará dispoñible en todas as wikis apartes de Wikipedia e algunhas Wikipedias. A nova versión estará dispoñible para todas as wikis a partir do 13 xullo (calendario).
• O protocolo predeterminado de Especial:Buscar ligazóns web e correspondente API mudou de http a usar tanto http coma https. [1.433]
• Especial:Buscar ligazóns web e a súa versión API agora buscan a URL completa. Antes só miraban os primeiros 60 caracteres. Isto lévano pedindo dende fai 15 anos. [1.434]

Trocos futuros

• Hai un complemento experimental con ChatGPT. Isto amósalles aos usuarios de onde ven a información que están a ler na Wikipedia. Os empregados da Fundación Wikimedia e outros wikimedianos xa o probaron. Nun intre o complemento tamén estará dispoñible para o resto de usuarios de complementos de ChatGPT. Isto é o mesmo que se mencionaba nas Novas de Tecnoloxía de 2023/20. [1.435]
• Hai unha discusión en curso sobre unha política sobre os recursos de terceiros. A proposta afectaría o uso de recursos de terceiros en trebellos e programas de usuario. Segundo as ideas recibidas a política inclúe algúns dos riscos de ter programas de usuario e trebellos cargando recursos de terceiros e algúns apuntamentos e requisitos, como poden ser transparencia no código e poder inspeccionalos. Aceptaranse comentarios e suxestións na páxina de discusión da política ate o 17 de xullo de 2023.

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MediaWiki message delivery 10 de xullo de 2023 ás 19:54 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-29

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

• We are now serving 1% of all global user traffic from Kubernetes (you can read more technical details). We are planning to increment this percentage regularly. You can follow the progress of this work.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (calendar).
• MediaWiki system messages will now look for available local fallbacks, instead of always using the default fallback defined by software. This means wikis no longer need to override each language on the fallback chain separately. For example, English Wikipedia doesn't have to create en-ca and en-gb subpages with a transclusion of the base pages anymore. This makes it easier to maintain local overrides. [1.436]
• The action=growthsetmentorstatus API will be deprecated with the new MediaWiki version. Bots or scripts calling that API should use the action=growthmanagementorlist API now. [1.437]

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MediaWiki message delivery 17 de xullo de 2023 ás 23:08 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-30

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

• On July 18, the Wikimedia Foundation launched a survey about the technical decision making process for people who do technical work that relies on software that is maintained by the Foundation or affiliates. If this applies to you, please take part in the survey. The survey will be open for three weeks, until August 7. You can find more information in the announcement e-mail on wikitech-l.

Changes later this week

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 25 de xullo de 2023 ás 02:20 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-31

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

• The Synchronizer tool is now available to keep Lua modules synced across Wikimedia wikis, along with updated documentation to develop global Lua modules and templates.
• The tag filter on Especial:Páxinas novas and revision history pages can now be inverted. For example, you can hide edits that were made using an automated tool. [1.438][1.439]
• The Wikipedia ChatGPT plugin experiment can now be used by ChatGPT users who can use plugins. You can participate in a video call if you want to talk about this experiment or similar work. [1.440]

Problems

• It was not possible to generate a PDF for pages with non-Latin characters in the title, for the last two weeks. This has now been fixed. [1.441]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).
• Starting on Tuesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Georgian Wikipedia, Kara-Kalpak Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Kabardian Wikipedia, Kabiyè Wikipedia, Kikuyu Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Khmer Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Kashmiri Wikipedia, Colognian Wikipedia, Kurdish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [1.442]

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MediaWiki message delivery 31 de xullo de 2023 ás 23:54 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-32

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

• Mobile Web editors can now edit a whole page at once. To use this feature, turn on "⧼Mobile-frontend-mobile-option-amc⧽" in your settings and use the "Editar toda a páxina" button in the "Máis" menu. [1.443]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 7 de agosto de 2023 ás 21:21 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-33

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

Recent changes

• The Content translation system is no longer using Youdao's machine translation service. The service was in place for several years, but due to no usage, and availability of alternatives, it was deprecated to reduce maintenance overheads. Other services which cover the same languages are still available. [1.444]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Latin Wikipedia, Ladino Wikipedia, Luxembourgish Wikipedia, Lak Wikipedia, Lezghian Wikipedia, Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia, Ganda Wikipedia, Limburgish Wikipedia, Ligurian Wikipedia, Lombard Wikipedia, Lingala Wikipedia, Latgalian Wikipedia, Latvian Wikipedia, Maithili Wikipedia, Basa Banyumasan Wikipedia, Moksha Wikipedia, Malagasy Wikipedia, Armenian Wikipedia, Kyrgyz Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [1.445]

Future changes

• A few gadgets/user scripts which add icons to the Minerva skin need to have their CSS updated. There are more details available including a search for all existing instances and how to update them.

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MediaWiki message delivery 15 de agosto de 2023 ás 05:59 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-34

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 GDrive to Commons Uploader tool is now available. It enables securely selecting and uploading files from your Google Drive directly to Wikimedia Commons. [1.446]
• From now on, we will announce new Wikimedia wikis in Tech News, so you can update any tools or pages.
  • Since the last edition, two new wikis have been created:
    • a Wiktionary in Pa'O (wikt:blk:) [1.447]
    • a Wikisource in Sundanese (s:su:) [1.448]
  • To catch up, the next most recent six wikis are:
    • Wikifunctions (f:) [1.449]
    • a Wiktionary in Mandailing (wikt:btm:) [1.450]
    • a Wikipedia in Ghanaian Pidgin (w:gpe:) [1.451]
    • a Wikinews in Gungbe (n:guw:) [1.452]
    • a Wiktionary in Kabardian (wikt:kbd:) [1.453]
    • a Wikipedia in Fante (w:fat:) [1.454]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).

Future changes

• There is an existing stable interface policy for MediaWiki backend code. There is a proposed stable interface policy for frontend code. This is relevant for anyone who works on gadgets or Wikimedia frontend code. You can read it, discuss it, and let the proposer know if there are any problems. [1.455]

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21 de agosto de 2023 ás 15:25 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2023-35

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

Mudanças recentes

• As part of the changes for the better diff handling of paragraph splits, improved detection of splits is being rolled out. Over the last two weeks, we deployed this support to group0 and group1 wikis. This week it will be deployed to group2 wikis. [1.456]
• All Especial:Contribucións pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. [1.457]
• Wikisource users can now use the prpbengalicurrency label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the <pagelist> tag. [1.458]
• Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "Ativar o editor visual" is now shown on the "Edición" tab at all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "Características en probas" tab at some wikis. The preference "Usar o modo de texto wiki dentro do editor visual, no lugar de nun editor de texto wiki diferente" is now also shown on the "Edición" tab at all wikis, instead of the "Características en probas" tab. [1.459][1.460]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar).
• New signups for a Wikimedia developer account will start being pushed towards idm.wikimedia.org, rather than going via Wikitech. Further information about the new system is available.
• All right-to-left language wikis, plus Korean, Armenian, Ukrainian, Russian, and Bulgarian Wikipedias, will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. This feature will come to more wikis in future weeks. [1.461]

Mudanças futuras

• The removal of the DoubleWiki extension is being discussed. This extension currently allows Wikisource users to view articles from multiple language versions side by side when the <=> symbol next to a specific language edition is selected. Comments on this are welcomed at the phabricator task.
• A proposal has been made to merge the second hidden-categories list (which appears below the wikitext editing form) with the main list of categories (which is further down the page). More information is available on Phabricator; feedback is welcome!

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MediaWiki message delivery 28 de agosto de 2023 ás 14:00 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-36

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

• EditInSequence, a feature that allows users to edit pages faster on Wikisource has been moved to a Beta Feature based on community feedback. To enable it, you can navigate to the beta features tab in Preferences. [1.462]
• As part of the changes for the Generate Audio for IPA and Audio links that play on click wishlist proposals, the inline audio player mode of Phonos has been deployed to all projects. [1.463]
• There is a new option for Administrators when they are changing the usergroups for a user, to add the user’s user page to their watchlist. This works both via Especial:Dereitos de usuario and via the API. [1.464]
• One new wiki has been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Talysh (w:tly:) [1.465]

Problems

• The LoginNotify extension was not sending notifications since January. It has now been fixed, so going forward, you may see notifications for failed login attempts, and successful login attempts from a new device. [1.466]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Eastern Mari Wikipedia, Maori Wikipedia, Minangkabau Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Mongolian Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Western Mari Wikipedia, Malay Wikipedia, Maltese Wikipedia, Mirandese Wikipedia, Erzya Wikipedia, Mazanderani Wikipedia, Nāhuatl Wikipedia, Neapolitan Wikipedia, Low German Wikipedia, Low Saxon Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Newari Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Novial Wikipedia, N'Ko Wikipedia, Nouormand Wikipedia, Northern Sotho Wikipedia, Navajo Wikipedia, Nyanja Wikipedia, Occitan Wikipedia, Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia, Oromo Wikipedia, Oriya Wikipedia, Ossetic Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Pangasinan Wikipedia, Pampanga Wikipedia, Papiamento Wikipedia, Picard Wikipedia, Pennsylvania German Wikipedia, Palatine German Wikipedia, Norfuk / Pitkern Wikipedia, Piedmontese Wikipedia, Western Punjabi Wikipedia, Pontic Wikipedia, Pashto Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [1.467][1.468]

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MediaWiki message delivery 4 de setembro de 2023 ás 23:33 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-37

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

• ORES, the revision evaluation service, is now using a new open-source infrastructure on all wikis except for English Wikipedia and Wikidata. These two will follow this week. If you notice any unusual results from the Recent Changes filters that are related to ORES (for example, "Predicións da cualidade da contribución" and "Predicións das intencións do usuario"), please report them. [1.469]
• When you are logged in on one Wikimedia wiki and visit a different Wikimedia wiki, the system tries to log you in there automatically. This has been unreliable for a long time. You can now visit the login page to make the system try extra hard. If you feel that made logging in better or worse than it used to be, your feedback is appreciated. [1.470]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
• The Technical Decision-Making Forum Retrospective team invites anyone involved in the technical field of Wikimedia projects to signup to and join one of their listening sessions on 13 September. Another date will be scheduled later. The goal is to improve the technical decision-making processes.
• As part of the changes for the Better diff handling of paragraph splits wishlist proposal, the inline switch widget in diff pages is being rolled out this week to all wikis. The inline switch will allow viewers to toggle between a unified inline or two-column diff wikitext format. [1.471]

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 20 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [1.472]
• The Enterprise API is launching a new feature called "breaking news". Currently in BETA, this attempts to identify likely "newsworthy" topics as they are currently being written about in any Wikipedia. Your help is requested to improve the accuracy of its detection model, especially on smaller language editions, by recommending templates or identifiable editing patterns. See more information at the documentation page on MediaWiki or the FAQ on Meta.

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MediaWiki message delivery 11 de setembro de 2023 ás 21:08 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-38

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

• MediaWiki now has a stable interface policy for frontend code that more clearly defines how we deprecate MediaWiki code and wiki-based code (e.g. gadgets and user scripts). Thank you to everyone who contributed to the content and discussions. [1.473][1.474]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [1.475]
• All wikis will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. [1.476]

Future changes

• The team investigating the Graph Extension posted a proposal for reenabling it and they need your input.

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MediaWiki message delivery 18 de setembro de 2023 ás 19:19 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-39

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

• The Vector 2022 skin will now remember the pinned/unpinned status for the Table of Contents for all logged-out users. [1.477]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September (calendar).
• The ResourceLoader mediawiki.ui modules are now deprecated as part of the move to Vue.js and Codex. There is a guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex for any tools that use it. More details are available in the task and your questions are welcome there.
• Gadget definitions will have a new "namespaces" option. The option takes a list of namespace IDs. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages in the given namespaces.

Future changes

• New variables will be added to AbuseFilter: global_account_groups and global_account_editcount. They are available only when an account is being created. You can use them to prevent blocking automatic creation of accounts when users with many edits elsewhere visit your wiki for the first time. [1.478][1.479]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on 27 October at 17:00 (UTC). See details and how to join.

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MediaWiki message delivery 26 de setembro de 2023 ás 16:51 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-40

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

• There is a new user preference for "Activar sempre o modo seguro". This setting will make pages load without including any on-wiki JavaScript or on-wiki stylesheet pages. It can be useful for debugging broken JavaScript gadgets. [1.480]
• Gadget definitions now have a new "contentModels" option. The option takes a list of page content models, like wikitext or css. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages with the given content models.

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• The Vector 2022 skin will no longer use the custom styles and scripts of Vector legacy (2010). The change will be made later this year or in early 2024. See how to adjust the CSS and JS pages on your wiki. [1.481]

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MediaWiki message delivery 3 de outubro de 2023 ás 01:27 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2023-41

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Alterações recentes

• Uma nova wiki foi criada: uma Wikipedia em Fon (w:fon:) [1.482]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki será implantada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org em 10 de outubro. Será implantada em wikis selecionadas em 11 de outubro e nas restantes em 12 de outubro (calendário).
• A partir de quarta-feira, um novo conjunto de Wikipédias receberá "Adicione um link" (Wikipédia em suaíli, Wikipédia em valão, Wikipédia em waray-waray, Wikipédia em uolof, Wikipédia em calmuco, Wikipédia em xhosa, Wikipédia em mingrélio, Wikipédia em iídiche, Wikipédia em ioruba, Wikipédia em zhuang, Wikipédia em zelandês, Wikipédia em min nan, Wikipédia em zulu). Isso faz parte da implantação progressiva desta ferramenta para mais Wikipédias. As comunidades podem configurar como esse recurso funciona localmente. [1.483]
• Em algumas wikis, os recém-chegados são sugeridas imagens do Commons para adicionar aos artigos sem imagens. A partir de terça-feira, os recém-chegados a estas wikis poderão adicionar imagens a secções de artigos não ilustrados. As wikis específicas estão listadas em "Recomendações de imagens" na tabela de implantação da equipe de Crescimento. (Growth) Você pode saber mais sobre esse recurso. [1.484]
• Na skin sítio móvel (Minerva) o ID CSS #page-actions será substituído por #p-views. Esta alteração é para torná-lo consistente com outras skins e para melhorar o suporte para gadgets e extensões na skin móvel. Alguns gadgets podem precisar ser atualizados; há detalhes e links de pesquisa na tarefa.

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MediaWiki message delivery 9 de outubro de 2023 ás 14:39 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2023-42

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• O sistema de login unificado deve agora estar corrigido para alguns navegadores (Chrome, Edge, Opera). Isso significa que se você visitar uma nova wiki de projeto irmão, deverá estar logado automaticamente, sem a necessidade de clicar em 'Log in' ou recarregar a página. O feedback sobre se está funcionando para você é bem-vindo. [1.485]
• Avisos de edição agora estão disponíveis na interface MobileFrontend/Minerva. Essa funcionalidade foi inspirada pelo gadget na Wikipédia em inglês. Veja mais detalhes em T316178.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível em wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a partir de 17 outubro. Ela estará disponível em wikis não pertencentes à Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 18 outubro. Estará disponível em todos os wikis a partir de 19 outubro (calendário).

Alterações futuras

• Em 3 semanas, no tema Vector 2022, o código relacionado ao addPortletLink e o #p-namespaces, que foi descontinuado há um ano, será removido. Se você notar que ferramentas que deveriam aparecer ao lado da aba 'Discussão' estão faltando, por favor, informe aos responsáveis do gadget para ver instruções na tarefa do Phabricator.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16 de outubro de 2023 ás 23:47 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2023-43

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• Há um novo boletim de língua e internacionalização, escrito trimestralmente. Ele contém atualizações sobre o desenvolvimento de novos recursos, melhorias em vários projetos técnicos relacionados à linguagem e trabalho de suporte relacionado.
• O suporte ao mapa de origem foi ativado em todas as wikis. Ao abrir o depurador nas ferramentas de desenvolvedor do seu navegador, você deve ser capaz de ver o código-fonte JavaScript não minificado. [1.486]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível em wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a partir de 24 outubro. Ela estará disponível em wikis não pertencentes à Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 25 outubro. Estará disponível em todos os wikis a partir de 26 outubro (calendário).

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MediaWiki message delivery 23 de outubro de 2023 ás 23:16 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2023-44

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• A equipe de Conteúdo Estruturado, como parte de seu projeto de melhorar o UploadWizard no Commons, fez algumas melhorias de UX na etapa de upload de escolher de trabalho próprio ou não próprio (T347590), bem como para a etapa de licenciamento para trabalho próprio (T347756).
• A equipe da Sistema de Design lançou a versão 1.0.0 do Codex, o novo sistema de design para a Wikimedia. Veja o anúncio completo sobre o lançamento do Codex 1.0.0.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível em wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a partir de 31 outubro. Ela estará disponível em wikis não pertencentes à Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 1 novembro. Estará disponível em todos os wikis a partir de 2 novembro (calendário).
• As listagens em páginas de categoria são classificadas em cada wiki para esse idioma usando uma biblioteca. Durante um breve período em 2 de novembro, as alterações às categorias não serão corretamente ordenadas para muitas línguas. Isso ocorre porque os desenvolvedores estão atualizando para uma nova versão da biblioteca. Em seguida, eles usarão um script para corrigir as categorias existentes. Isso levará algumas horas ou alguns dias, dependendo do tamanho da wiki. Você pode ler mais. [1.487][1.488]
• A partir de 1º de novembro, o módulo de impacto (Special:Impact) será atualizado pela equipe de Crescimento (Growth). O novo módulo de impacto mostra aos recém-chegados mais dados sobre o seu impacto na wiki. Foi testado por algumas wikis durante os últimos meses. [1.489]

Alterações futuras

• Há um plano proposto para reativar a extensão Graph. Você pode ajudar revisando esta proposta e compartilhando o que você pensa sobre ela.
• A WMF está trabalhando para possibilitar que os administradores editar a configuração do MediaWiki diretamente. Isso é semelhante ao trabalho anterior em Special:EditGrowthConfig. Um pedido de comentários técnicos está em execução até 08 de novembro, onde você pode fornecer feedback.

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MediaWiki message delivery 30 de outubro de 2023 ás 23:21 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2023-45

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• Na skin do Vector 2022, o tamanho de fonte padrão de vários elementos de navegação (slogan, menu de ferramentas, links de navegação e muito mais) foi ligeiramente aumentado para corresponder ao tamanho da fonte usada no conteúdo da página. [1.490]

Problemas

• Na semana passada, houve um problema ao exibir algumas edições recentes em algumas wikis, por 1-6 horas. As edições foram salvas, mas não mostradas imediatamente. Isto deveu-se a um problema na base de dados. [1.491]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível em wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a partir de 7 novembro. Ela estará disponível em wikis não pertencentes à Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 8 novembro. Estará disponível em todos os wikis a partir de 9 novembro (calendário).
• A equipe de crescimento (Growth) remanejará recém-chegados de antigos mentores para os mentores atualmente ativos. Também alteraram a língua de notificação para serem mais conviviais. [1.492][1.493]

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MediaWiki message delivery 6 de novembro de 2023 ás 21:06 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2023-46

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• Quatro novas wikis foram criadas:
  • a Wikipédia em Amazigh marroquino (w:zgh:) [1.494]
  • a Wikipédia em Dagaare (w:dga:) [1.495]
  • a Wikipédia em Toba Batak (w:bbc:) [1.496]
  • a Wikiquote em Banjar (q:bjn:) [1.497]

Problemas

• Na semana passada, os usuários que já visitaram Meta-Wiki ou Wikimedia Commons e depois se desconectaram nessas wikis não puderam fazer login novamente. O problema está agora resolvido. [1.498]
• Na semana passada, algumas caixas de diálogo pop-up e menus foram mostrados com o tamanho de fonte errado. O problema está agora resolvido. [1.499]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível em wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a partir de 14 novembro. Ela estará disponível em wikis não pertencentes à Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 15 novembro. Estará disponível em todos os wikis a partir de 16 novembro (calendário).

Alterações futuras

• As visualizações de referência estão chegando a muitas wikis como um recurso padrão. São pop-ups para referências, semelhantes ao recurso PagePreviews. Você pode optar por não vê-los. Se você estiver usando os gadgets, dicas de ferramentas de referência ou pop-ups de navegação, não verá Visualizações de referência. Implantação está prevista para 22 de novembro de 2023.
• Os eventos Canary (também conhecidos como heartbeat) serão produzidos em streams de eventos da Wikimedia a partir de 11 de dezembro. Os usuários de streams são aconselhados a filtrar esses eventos, descartando todos os eventos em que meta.domain == "canary". Atualizações para Pywikibot ou wikimedia-streams descartará esses eventos por padrão. [1.500]

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MediaWiki message delivery 13 de novembro de 2023 ás 23:52 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2023-47

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações no final desta semana

• Não há nenhuma nova versão do MediaWiki esta semana. [1.501][1.502]
• A partir de quarta-feira, um novo conjunto de Wikipédias receberá "Adicione um link" (Wikipédia em quíchua, Wikipédia em grisão, Wikipédia em romani, Wikipédia em rundi, Wikipédia em arromeno, Wikipédia em tarentino, Wikipédia em ruteno, Wikipédia em quiniaruanda, Wikipédia em sânscrito, Wikipédia em iacuto, Wikipédia em santali, Wikipédia em sardo, Wikipédia em siciliense, Wikipédia em escocês, Wikipédia em sindi, Wikipédia em sami setentrional, Wikipédia em sango, Wikipédia em servo-croata, Wikipédia em cingalês, Wikipédia em eslovaco, Wikipédia em esloveno, Wikipédia em samoano, Wikipédia em somali, Wikipédia em albanês, Wikipédia em sérvio, Wikipédia em surinamês, Wikipédia em suázi, Wikipédia em sesoto, Wikipédia em frisão de Saterland, Wikipédia em sundanês, Wikipédia em silesiano, Wikipédia em tâmil, Wikipédia em túlu, Wikipédia em telugo, Wikipédia em tétum, Wikipédia em tajique, Wikipédia em tailandês, Wikipédia em turcomano, Wikipédia em tagalo, Wikipédia em sechuana, Wikipédia em tonga, Wikipédia em tok pisin, Wikipédia em turco, Wikipédia em tsonga, Wikipédia em tártaro, Wikipédia em axante, Wikipédia em taitiano, Wikipédia em tuvano, Wikipédia em udmurte, Wikipédia em uigur, Wikipédia em usbeque, Wikipédia em tshivenda, Wikipédia em veneziano, Wikipédia em vepes, Wikipédia em flamengo ocidental, Wikipédia em volapuque). Isso faz parte da implantação progressiva desta ferramenta para mais Wikipédias. As comunidades podem configurar como esse recurso funciona localmente. [1.503][1.504][1.505]
• A skin do Vector 2022 terá algumas pequenas alterações visuais nos menus suspensos, larguras de coluna e muito mais. Estas alterações foram adicionadas a quatro Wikipédias na semana passada. Se nenhum problema for encontrado, essas alterações prosseguirão para todas as wikis esta semana. Essas alterações possibilitarão a adição de novos menus para legibilidade e modo escuro. Saiba mais. [1.506]

Alterações futuras

• Há uma atualização sobre a reativação da extensão do Graph. Para acelerar o processo, o Vega 2 não será suportado e apenas alguns protocolos estarão disponíveis no lançamento. Pode ajudar partilhando o que pensa sobre o plano.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21 de novembro de 2023 ás 00:55 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2023-48

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível em wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a partir de 28 novembro. Ela estará disponível em wikis não pertencentes à Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 29 novembro. Estará disponível em todos os wikis a partir de 30 novembro (calendário). Não há nova versão do MediaWiki na próxima semana. [1.507][1.508]
• O sistema JavaScript do MediaWiki agora permitirá async/await sintaxe de espera em gadgets e scripts de usuário. Os autores de gadgets devem lembrar que os navegadores dos usuários podem não suportá-lo, por isso deve ser usado adequadamente. [1.509]
• A implantação de "Adicionar um link" anunciado semana passada foi adiado. Será retomado esta semana.

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MediaWiki message delivery 27 de novembro de 2023 ás 23:09 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2023-49

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• O espaçamento entre parágrafos no Vector 2022 foi alterado de 7px para 14px para corresponder ao tamanho do texto. Deste modo, será mais fácil distinguir parágrafos de frases. [1.510]
• O recurso "Ordenar esta páxina por defecto como" no Editor Visual está funcionando novamente. Você não precisa mais alternar para a edição de código-fonte para editar {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} palavras-chave. [1.511]

Alterações no final desta semana

• Não há nenhuma nova versão do MediaWiki esta semana. [1.512][1.513]
• No dia 6 de dezembro, as pessoas que tiverem a preferência ativada por "Mostrar a atividade de discussões" notarão que as melhorias de usabilidade da página de discussão aparecerão em páginas que incluem a palavra mágica __NEWSECTIONLINK__. Se você notar algum problema, por favor compartilhe-os com a equipe no Phabricator.

Alterações futuras

• O processo de desligamento do Grid Engine do Toolforge começará em 14 de dezembro. Os mantenedores de ferramentas que ainda usam este sistema antigo devem planejar migrar para o Kubernetes, ou dizer à equipe seus planos no Phabricator na tarefa sobre sua ferramenta, antes dessa data. [1.514]
• Comunidades que usam Discussões Estruturadas estão sendo contatadas a respeito de a próxima descontinuação de Discussões Estruturadas. Você pode ler mais sobre este projeto e compartilhar seus comentários, na página do projeto.

Eventos

• Inscrições e inscrições para bolsas de estudo já estão abertas para o Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 que terá lugar de 3 a 5 de maio em Tallinn, Estónia. As candidaturas a bolsas de estudo estão abertas até 5 de janeiro de 2024.

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MediaWiki message delivery 4 de decembro de 2023 ás 23:50 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2023-50

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• No Wikimedia Commons, há algumas pequenas melhorias na interface do usuário para a etapa "escolher o próprio ou não o próprio trabalho" no UploadWizard. Isso faz parte do projeto da equipe de Conteúdo Estruturado de melhorar o UploadWizard no Commons. [1.515][1.516]

Problemas

• Houve um problema ao mostrar o Página inicial dos recém-chegados recurso com o "módulo de impacto" e seus gráficos de visualização de página, por alguns dias no início de dezembro. Esta situação foi agora corrigida. [1.517][1.518]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível em wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a partir de 12 dezembro. Ela estará disponível em wikis não pertencentes à Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 13 dezembro. Estará disponível em todos os wikis a partir de 14 dezembro (calendário). [1.519][1.520]

Alterações futuras

• A Pesquisa de Satisfação do Desenvolvedor 2023 está buscando as opiniões da comunidade de desenvolvedores da Wikimedia. Por favor, responda à pesquisa se você tiver algum papel no desenvolvimento de software para o ecossistema Wikimedia. O inquérito está aberto até 5 de janeiro de 2024 e tem associado declaração de privacidade.

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MediaWiki message delivery 12 de decembro de 2023 ás 02:12 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2023-51

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Novidades de Tecnologia

• A próxima edição das Novidades de Tecnologia será enviada em 8 de janeiro de 2024 por causa dos feriados.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível em wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a partir de 19 dezembro. Ela estará disponível em wikis não pertencentes à Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 20 dezembro. Estará disponível em todos os wikis a partir de 21 dezembro (calendário). Não há nova versão do MediaWiki na próxima semana. [1.521][1.522]
• A partir de 18 de dezembro, não será possível ativar as Discussões Estruturadas na página de discussão do próprio usuário usando o recurso Beta. A opção de recurso Beta permanece disponível para usuários que desejam desativar Discussões Estruturadas. Isso faz parte de trabalho de depreciação das Discussões Estruturadas. [1.523]
• Haverá suporte total para redirecionamentos no namespace do Módulo. O recurso "Mover página" deixará um redirecionamento apropriado para trás, e tais redirecionamentos serão devidamente reconhecidos pelo software (por exemplo, oculto de Especial:Páginas sem conexões). Também haverá suporte para redirecionamentos manuais. [1.524]

Alterações futuras

• A documentação JavaScript do MediaWiki está mudando para um novo formato. Durante a mudança, você pode ler os documentos antigos usando versão 1.41. Comentários sobre o novo site são bem-vindos na página de discussão do projeto.
• O Wishathon é uma nova iniciativa que incentiva a colaboração em toda a comunidade Wikimedia para desenvolver soluções para desejos recolhidos através do Pesquisa de lista de desejos da comunidade. O primeiro Wishathon comunitário terá lugar de 15 a 17 de março. Se você estiver interessado em uma proposta de projeto como usuário, desenvolvedor, designer ou líder de produto, você pode inscreva-se no evento e leia mais.

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MediaWiki message delivery 18 de decembro de 2023 ás 16:18 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-02

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

• mediawiki2latex is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can install on your local machine.
• The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing. [1.525]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar). [1.526][1.527]

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MediaWiki message delivery 9 de xaneiro de 2024 ás 01:20 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2024-03

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• As páginas que usam o JSON contentmodel agora usarão guias em vez de espaços para recuo automático. Isso reduzirá significativamente o tamanho da página. [1.528]
• Gadgets e scripts de usuário pessoal agora podem usar a sintaxe JavaScript introduzida no ES6 (também conhecido como "ES2015") e ES7 ("ES2016"). O MediaWiki valida o código-fonte para proteger outras funcionalidades do site contra erros de sintaxe e para garantir que os scripts sejam válidos em todos os navegadores suportados. Anteriormente, os gadgets podiam usar a opção requiresES6. Esta opção já não é necessária e será removida no futuro. [1.529]
• Senhas de bot e consumidores OAuth apenas para proprietários agora podem ser restritos para permitir a edição apenas de páginas específicas. [1.530]
• Agora você pode agradecer edições feitas por bots. [1.531]
• Uma atualização sobre o status da Pesquisa de Desejos Comunitários para 2024 foi publicada. Por favor, leia e dê a sua opinião.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível em wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a partir de 16 janeiro. Ela estará disponível em wikis não pertencentes à Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 17 janeiro. Estará disponível em todos os wikis a partir de 18 janeiro (calendário). [1.532][1.533]
• A partir de 17 de janeiro, não será possível fazer login nas wikis da Wikimedia a partir de algumas versões antigas específicas do navegador Chrome (versões 51-66, lançadas entre 2016-2018). Além disso, os usuários do iOS 12, ou Safari no Mac OS 10.14, podem precisar fazer login em cada wiki separadamente. [1.534]
• O módulo jquery.cookie foi preterido e substituído pelo módulo mediawiki.cookie no ano passado. Um script foi executado para substituir quaisquer usos restantes e, esta semana, o alias temporário será removido. [1.535]

Alterações futuras

• A Wikimedia Deutschland está trabalhando para tornar a reutilização de referências mais fácil. Eles estão procurando pessoas que estejam interessadas em participar de chamadas de vídeo individuais para pesquisa de usuários em janeiro e fevereiro.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16 de xaneiro de 2024 ás 00:13 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2024-04

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Problemas

• Um bug no UploadWizard impediu o link para a página de usuário do carregador durante o upload. Agora foi corrigido. [1.536]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível em wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a partir de 23 janeiro. Ela estará disponível em wikis não pertencentes à Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 24 janeiro. Estará disponível em todos os wikis a partir de 25 janeiro (calendário). [1.537][1.538]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23 de xaneiro de 2024 ás 01:04 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2024-05

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• A partir de segunda-feira, 29 de janeiro, todos os timestamps de data/hora das mensagens das páginas de discussão se tornarão um link. Este link é um link permanente para o comentário. Ele permite que os usuários encontrem o comentário que estão procurando, mesmo que esse comentário tenha sido movido para outro lugar. Isso afetará todas as wikis, exceto a Wikipédia em inglês. Você pode ler mais sobre essa alteração no Diff ou no Mediawiki.org. [1.539]
• Há algumas melhorias no CAPTCHA para tornar mais difícil para os bots de spam e scripts ignorá-lo. Se você tiver comentários sobre essa alteração, comente na tarefa. A equipe está monitorando métricas relacionadas ao CAPTCHA, bem como métricas secundárias, como criações de contas e contagens de edições.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível em wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a partir de 30 de janeiro. Ela estará disponível em wikis não pertencentes à Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 31 de janeiro. Estará disponível em todas as wikis a partir de 1 de fevereiro (calendário). [1.540][1.541]
• Em 1º de fevereiro, um link será adicionado ao menu "Ferramentas" para baixar um código QR que liga à página que está a visualizar. Haverá também uma nova página Especial:QrCode para criar códigos QR para qualquer URL da Wikimedia. Isso aborda o #19 desejo mais votado da Pesquisa de lista de desejos da comunidade de 2023. [1.542]
• Gadgets que só funcionam em algumas skins às vezes usaram a opção targets para limitar onde você pode usá-los. Isto vai deixar de funcionar esta semana. Você deve usar a opção skins em vez disso. [1.543]

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MediaWiki message delivery 29 de xaneiro de 2024 ás 19:31 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2024-06

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• As páginas de histórico de sites para dispositivos móveis agora usam o mesmo HTML que as páginas de histórico da área de trabalho. Se você souber de algum problema relacionado ao uso do histórico móvel, por favor, aponte para a tarefa no phabricator.
• Na maioria das wikis, os administradores agora podem impedir que os usuários façam ações específicas. Essas ações são: carregar ficheiros, criar novas páginas, mover (renomear) páginas e enviar agradecimentos. O objetivo desse recurso é permitir que os administradores apliquem blocos adequados à atividade dos usuários bloqueados. Saiba mais sobre "bloqueios de ação". [1.544][1.545]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível em wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a partir de 6 de fevereiro. Ela estará disponível em wikis não pertencentes à Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 7 de fevereiro. Estará disponível em todas as wikis a partir de 8 de fevereiro (calendário). [1.546][1.547]
• Os links permanentes das páginas de discussão que incluíam diacríticos e escrita não-latina estavam funcionando mal. Esse problema foi corrigido. [1.548]

Alterações futuras

• 24 Wikipédias com Reference Tooltips como um gadget padrão são incentivados a remover esse sinalizador padrão. Isso faria Visualizações de referência o novo padrão para pop-ups de referência, levando a uma experiência mais consistente entre wikis. Para 46 Wikipédias com menos de 4 administradores de interface, a mudança já está programada para meados de fevereiro, a menos que haja preocupação. O gadget Reference Tooltips mais antigo ainda permanecerá utilizável e substituirá esse recurso, se ele estiver disponível em sua wiki e você o tiver ativado em suas configurações. [1.549][1.550]

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MediaWiki message delivery 5 de febreiro de 2024 ás 19:22 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2024-07

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• O Experiência WDQS Graph Split está funcionando e carregado em 3 servidores de teste. A equipe responsável está testando o impacto da divisão e requer feedback dos usuários do WDQS por meio da interface do usuário ou programaticamente em diferentes canais. [1.551][1.552][1.553] O feedback dos usuários validará o impacto de vários casos de uso e fluxos de trabalho em torno do serviço Wikidata Query. [1.554][1.555]

Problemas

• Houve um bug que afetou a aparência dos links visitados ao usar o dispositivo móvel para acessar sites wiki. Fez com que os links parecessem pretos; este problema foi corrigido.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível em wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a partir de 13 de fevereiro. Ela estará disponível em wikis não pertencentes à Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 14 de fevereiro. Estará disponível em todas as wikis a partir de 15 de fevereiro (calendário). [1.556][1.557]
• À medida que o trabalho continua na descontinuação do motor de grade, as ferramentas de [1.558] no motor de grade serão interrompidas a partir de 14 de fevereiro de 2024. Se você tiver ferramentas migrando ativamente, você pode pedir uma extensão para que elas não sejam interrompidas. [1.559]

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MediaWiki message delivery 13 de febreiro de 2024 ás 05:49 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2024-08

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• Se você tiver a opção "Recibir un aviso por correo electrónico cando alguén mude unha páxina ou un ficheiro da miña lista de vixilancia" ativada, as edições por contas de bot não disparam mais e-mails de notificação. Anteriormente, apenas pequenas edições não acionavam os e-mails de notificação. [1.560]
• Há alterações na forma como os scripts de usuário e site são carregados por Vector 2022 em wikis específicas. As mudanças afetaram as seguintes Wikis: todos os projetos com Vector legado como skin padrão, Wikivoyage e Wikilivros. Outras wikis serão afetadas ao longo dos próximos três meses. Os gadgets não são afetados. Se você foi afetado ou deseja minimizar o impacto em seu projeto, consulte essa tarefa. Por favor, coordene e atue de forma proativa.
• As contas recém-criadas automaticamente (as contas que você recebe quando visita um nova wiki) agora têm as mesmas preferências de notificação local que os usuários que se registram recentemente nessa wiki. Ele é efetuado em quatro tipos de notificação listados na descrição da tarefa.
• O tamanho máximo do ficheiro ao utilizar Upload Wizard agora é de 5 GiB. [1.561]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível em wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a partir de 20 de fevereiro. Ela estará disponível em wikis não pertencentes à Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 21 de fevereiro. Estará disponível em todas as wikis a partir de 22 de fevereiro (calendário). [1.562][1.563]

• Ferramentas selecionadas no mecanismo de rede foram paradas enquanto nos preparamos para desligar a rede em 14 de março de 2024. O código e os dados da ferramenta não foram excluídos. Se você é um mantenedor e deseja que sua ferramenta seja reativada, entre em contato com a equipe. Apenas ferramentas que pediram extensão ainda estão em execução na rede.
• A propriedade CSS filter agora pode ser usada em atributos HTML style no wikitexto. [1.564]

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MediaWiki message delivery 19 de febreiro de 2024 ás 15:37 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-09

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

• The mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well. [1.565]
• The mw.config value wgGlobalGroups now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is: if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [1.566]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (calendar). [1.567][1.568]

Future changes

• The right to change edit tags (changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.

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MediaWiki message delivery 26 de febreiro de 2024 ás 19:23 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2024-10

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• A página de Special:Book (bem como a funcionalidade associada "Criar um livro") fornecida pela antiga extensão Collection foi removida de todas as wikis Wikisource, pois estava quebrada. Isso não afeta a capacidade de baixar livros normais, que é fornecida pela extensão Wikisource. [1.569]
• Wikitech agora usa a próxima geração Parsoid analisador de wikitexto por padrão para gerar todas as páginas no namespace Discussão. Reporte quaisquer problemas na página de discussão de problemas conhecidos. Você pode usar o ParserMigration para controlar o uso de Parsoid; veja a documentação de ajuda do ParserMigration para obter mais detalhes.
• A manutenção em etherpad está concluída. Se você encontrar algum problema, por favor, indique na tarefa.
• Gadgets permitem que os administradores de interface criem recursos personalizados com CSS e JavaScript. Os namespaces Gadget e Gadget_definition e o direito de usuário de gadgets-definition-edit foram reservados para um experimento em 2015, mas nunca foram usados. Estes eram visíveis em Special:Search e Special:ListGroupRights. Os namespaces não utilizados e os direitos de usuário agora são removidos. Nenhuma página é movida e nenhuma alteração precisa ser feita. [1.570]
• Uma melhoria de usabilidade para o "Adicionar uma citação" no fluxo de trabalho da Wikipédia foi feita, o botão inserir foi movido para o cabeçalho pop-up. [1.571]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível em wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a partir de 5 de março. Ela estará disponível em wikis não pertencentes à Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 6 de março. Estará disponível em todas as wikis a partir de 7 de março (calendário). [1.572][1.573]

Alterações futuras

• Todas as wikis serão somente leitura por alguns minutos em 20 de março. Isto está previsto para as 14h UTC. Mais informações serão publicadas no Tech News e também serão publicadas em wikis individuais nas próximas semanas. [1.574]
• A marcação HTML de cabeçalhos e links de edição de seção será alterada ainda este ano para melhorar a acessibilidade. Veja alterações de título HTML para detalhes. A nova marcação será a mesma do novo analisador de wikitexto Parsoid. Você pode testar seu gadget ou folha de estilo com a nova marcação se adicionar ?useparsoid=1 ao URL (mais informações) ou ativar as visualizações de leitura Parsoid nas opções do usuário (mais informações).

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MediaWiki message delivery 4 de marzo de 2024 ás 19:47 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2024-11

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível em wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a partir de 12 de março. Ela estará disponível em wikis não pertencentes à Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 13 de março. Estará disponível em todas as wikis a partir de 14 de março (calendário). [1.575][1.576]
• Depois de consultar várias comunidades, a altura da linha do texto no skin Minerva será aumentada para o seu valor anterior de 1,65. Diferentes opções de tipografia também podem ser definidas usando as opções no menu, conforme necessário. [1.577]
• A cor do link ativo em Minerva será alterada para fornecer mais consistência com nossas outras plataformas e melhores práticas. [1.578]
• Dados estruturados no Commons não perguntarão mais se você deseja sair da página sem salvar. Isso impedirá que os pop-ups "informações que você inseriu podem não ser salvas" apareçam quando nenhuma informação tiver sido inserida. Também fará com que as páginas de ficheiros no Commons carreguem mais rapidamente em certos casos. No entanto, os pop-ups serão ocultos, mesmo que a informação tenha sido realmente inserida. Se você fechar acidentalmente a página antes de salvar os dados estruturados inseridos, esses dados serão perdidos. [1.579]

Alterações futuras

• Todas as Wikipédia serão de leitura somente durante alguns minutos no dia 20 de março.

Esta planeado ocorrer as 14:00 UTC. Informações serão acrescidas na Tech News assim como serão publicadas em wikis individuais nas próximas semanas. [1.580][1.581]

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MediaWiki message delivery 11 de marzo de 2024 ás 23:04 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2024-12

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• O aviso "Links de idioma estão na parte superior da página" que aparece na skin Vector 2022 menu principal foi removido agora que os usuários aprenderam a nova localização do seletor de idioma. [1.582]
• Recurso de informações de IP exibe dados do Spur, um banco de dados de endereços IP. Anteriormente, a única fonte de dados para esse recurso era o MaxMind. Agora, as informações de IP são mais úteis para os patrulheiros. [1.583]
• Os serviços do Toolforge Grid Engine foram encerrados após o processo final de migração do Grid Engine para o Kubernetes. [1.584][1.585][1.586]
• As comunidades agora podem personalizar os motivos padrão para cancelar a eliminação de uma página criando MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [1.587]

Problemas

• RevisionSlider é uma interface para navegar interativamente no histórico de uma página. Usuários em da direita para a esquerda idiomas relataram RevisionSlider reagindo errado a cliques do mouse. Isso deve ser corrigido agora. [1.588]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível em wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a partir de 19 de março. Ela estará disponível em wikis não pertencentes à Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 20 de março. Estará disponível em todas as wikis a partir de 21 de março (calendário). [1.589][1.590]
• Todas as wikis serão somente leitura por alguns minutos em 20 de março. Isto está planeado para 14:00 UTC. [1.591][1.592]

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MediaWiki message delivery 18 de marzo de 2024 ás 17:39 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2024-13

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• Uma atualização foi feita em 18 de março de 2024 para como vários projetos que carregam no site, o JavaScript e o CSS do usuário na skin Vector 2022. Uma lidta de verificação é fornecida para os administradores do site seguirem.

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível em wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a partir de 26 de março. Ela estará disponível em wikis não pertencentes à Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 27 de março. Estará disponível em todas as wikis a partir de 28 de março (calendário). [1.593][1.594]

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MediaWiki message delivery 25 de marzo de 2024 ás 18:56 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2024-14

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• Os usuários do recurso beta acessibilidade de leitura notarão que a altura da linha padrão para as opções de texto padrão e grande foi alterada. [1.595]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível em wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a partir de 2 de abril. Ela estará disponível em wikis não pertencentes à Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 3 de abril. Estará disponível em todas as wikis a partir de 4 de abril (calendário). [1.596][1.597]

Alterações futuras

• A Fundação Wikimedia tem um plano anual. O plano anual decide no que a Fundação Wikimedia vai trabalhar. Agora você pode ler o rascunho dos principais resultados para o departamento de Produto e Tecnologia. São sugestões para os resultados que a Fundação quer das grandes mudanças técnicas de julho de 2024 a junho de 2025. Você pode comentar na página de discussão.

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MediaWiki message delivery 2 de abril de 2024 ás 03:36 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2024-15

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Alterações recentes

• Os navegadores da Web podem usar ferramentas chamadas extensões. Existe agora uma extensão do Chrome chamada Citation Needed que você pode usar para ver se uma declaração online é suportada por um artigo da Wikipédia. Esta é uma pequena experiência para ver se a Wikipédia pode ser usada desta forma. Por ser um experimento pequeno, ele só pode ser usado no Chrome em inglês.
• Um novo recurso Editar Recuperação foi adicionado a todas as wikis, disponível como uma preferência de usuário. Depois de ativá-lo, suas edições em andamento serão armazenadas em seu navegador da Web e, se você fechar acidentalmente uma janela de edição ou seu navegador ou computador falhar, você será solicitado a recuperar o texto não publicado. Por favor, deixe qualquer comentário na página de discussão do projeto. Este foi o desejo #8 na Pesquisa de Desejos da Comunidade de 2023.
• Resultados iniciais dos experimentos da Verificação de Edição foram publicados. A Verificação de Edição agora é implantado como um recurso padrão nas wikis que o testaram. Deixe-nos saber se você quiser que sua wiki faça parte da próxima implantação da Verificação de Edição. [1.598][1.599]
• Leitores que usam a skin Minerva no celular notará que houve uma melhoria na altura da linha em todas as configurações de tipografia. [1.600]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível em wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a partir de 9 de abril. Ela estará disponível em wikis não pertencentes à Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 10 de abril. Estará disponível em todas as wikis a partir de 11 de abril (calendário). [1.601][1.602]
• Novas contas e usuários desconectados receberão o editor visual como seu editor padrão em dispositivos móveis. Esta implantação é feita em todas as wikis, exceto na Wikipédia em inglês. [1.603]

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MediaWiki message delivery 8 de abril de 2024 ás 23:37 (UTC)

Novidades de Tecnologia: 2024-16

As últimas novidades de tecnologia da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças afetarão você. Traduções estão disponíveis.

Problemas

• Entre 2 e 8 de abril, nas wikis usando Revisões sinalizadas, a tag "Revertida" não foi aplicada a edições desfeitas. Além disso, as movimentações de página, proteções e importações não foram revisadas automaticamente. Este problema foi corrigido. [1.604][1.605]

Alterações no final desta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível em wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a partir de 16 de abril. Ela estará disponível em wikis não pertencentes à Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 17 de abril. Estará disponível em todas as wikis a partir de 18 de abril (calendário). [1.606][1.607]
• As chaves de classificação de categoria padrão agora afetarão as categorias adicionadas por modelos colocados em notas de rodapé. Anteriormente, as notas de rodapé usavam o título da página como a chave de classificação padrão, mesmo que uma chave de classificação padrão diferente fosse especificada (chaves de classificação específicas da categoria já funcionavam). [1.608]
• Uma nova variável page_last_edit_age será adicionada a filtros de abuso. Ele informa quantos segundos atrás a última edição de uma página foi feita. [1.609]

Alterações futuras

• Os desenvolvedores voluntários são gentilmente solicitados a atualizar o código de suas ferramentas e recursos para lidar com contas temporárias. Saiba mais.
• Quatro campos de banco de dados serão removidos das réplicas de banco de dados (incluindo Quarry). Isso afeta apenas as mesas de abuse_filter e abuse_filter_history. Algumas consultas podem precisar ser atualizadas. [1.610]

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MediaWiki message delivery 15 de abril de 2024 ás 23:29 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-17

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

Recent changes

• Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [1.611]
• You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [1.612][1.613]

Future changes

• This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Especial:A miña páxina de usuario/vector.js to Especial:A miña páxina de usuario/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [1.614]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22 de abril de 2024 ás 20:28 (UTC)