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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now use datasets on Commons. You can see an example that is using this source. [1]
- 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you update a page with translations on wikis with the Translate extension the existing translations will be marked as outdated instead of removed. [2]
- The new version of MediaWiki was released to all wikis last week (calendar).
- MoodBar has been removed from the Wikimedia wikis. [3]
The liveoption for the Tipsy notice tool has been removed. Gadgets and user scripts which use it need to be updated. [4]
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:configin the address bar and setnetwork.cookie.maxPerHostto 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox. [5]
Changes this week
- There is no new version of MediaWiki this week because of the Wikimedia Developer Summit.
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19:12, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech 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. [6]
Problems
- video2commons was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up. [7]
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. [8] - 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. [9]
- You will be able to use
<chem>to write chemical formulas. Before you could use<ce>.<ce>should be replaced by<chem>. [10] - You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown on Special:UncategorizedCategories. The list is at MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist. [11]
- 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 number50to make it look like you want to. [12] - 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. [13]
- When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu. [14]
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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23:24, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
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Please listen.
changeHello. I am only trying to reach you this way as you seem to totally ignore my pleas for your assistance via email. (I'm not sure how or why I have your email address but I do,m my email is tom.june13@gmail.com for the record) Yes, you seem to be above helping me. I had an account on enwiki by the name of LoyuisPhilippeCharles. I was blocked because of the spite of an admin who took a personal dislike to me and they were able to scheme enough to get my account blocked. I then got into contact with another admin on enwiki by the name of Salvidrim, who was helpful for about 5 minutes (He revived my old to the name LouisPhilippeCharlesNew) eventually I was re-blocked for NO reason AT ALL. And have since frantically begged for ANYONE'S HELP. Anyway under the LouisPhilippeCharlesNew account I contributed on the commons A LOT and was then blocked on there by another fool. Prior to being blocked on the commons I had made a few coats of arms for 2 princesses, so I set up another account to add them to the commons. The name of said account was Simplegoose (I forgot I was logged in on that while I made a few minor additions to simplewiki and with hindsight looked like a was a sockpuppet which frankly is ridiculous. I AM NOT I'm a HUMAN BEING. Anyway I'm coming to you for your help because as mentioned you totally ignore my emails where I have been nothing but civil and patient but you ignore me. Like I said I'm another human being that relishes the opportunity to continue on the simplewiki. I counted that I made aout 350 pages on `simplewiki ALONE. Yet vast contributions like that are conveniently forgotten. Like I said my email address is tom.june13@gmail.com. Tom being my name and the 13th of June being my birthday, being a human being after all. I may seem a bit snotty, I don't mean to be at all. It's just pure frustration. Lastly, happy new year. :) 77.232.172.134 (talk) 14:32, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
- I will not help you. Over the past year, I have been telling you that your repeated attempts to bypass the appeal process is not helping your case. Please stop emailing me - I have already configured a filter to delete all incoming messages from you. If you wish to appeal a block, contact simple-admins-l@lists.wikimedia.org instead. Chenzw Talk 14:36, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech 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. [15]
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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20:14, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Changes this week
- 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. [17]
- 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. [18][19]
- 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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18:45, 30 January 2017 (UTC)