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Tech News: 2015-01

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

Software changes

• There are no technical changes this week.

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Tech News: 2015-03

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

Recent software changes

• Rotated PDF files in landscape format used to show too small. They will now display correctly. You may need to purge older files. [१]
• You can now use the {{!}} magic word instead of Template:!. Many wikis used the template to create a pipe (|) in tables and templates. You can delete the template. [२]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf14) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from January 13. It will be on all Wikipedias from January 14 (calendar).
• A bug in VisualEditor sometimes added a ☀ (Sun) character. This is now fixed. [३]
• The search and replace tool in VisualEditor is now much faster in long pages. [४]
• The TemplateData editor now uses the same design as VisualEditor. [५] [६] [७]
• The thumb option is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar. [८]

Future changes

• You can sign up to answer questions from designers. It will help them make editing easier. [९]

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Tech News: 2015-04

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

Recent changes

• You can download the new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. The new version shows lead images, better galleries and content from Wikidata. It also has many other new features.[१०] [११]
• Programs and bots still can't read information about images on many wikis. You can see the list of wikis with the most files to fix. Wikipedia in Italian, Indonesian and Japanese language have the most files to fix. On the biggest wikis you should use bots. Bots can add information templates to groups of files. You can ask other tech users to help you.

Problems

• All JavaScript on Commons was broken for a few minutes on Tuesday. It was because of old code in the HotCat tool. The same problem happened on some Wikipedias on Wednesday. It is now fixed. [१२]

Software changes this week

• There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings. [१३]

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Tech News: 2015-05

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

Recent software changes

• You can now translate articles with the new ContentTranslation tool on several wikis. [१४]

This week

• There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings. [१५]

Future changes

• You can join a project to improve WikiProjects. [१६]
• The Compact Personal Bar will be removed for now. It has a bug that breaks the tool to choose your language. It will come back when the bug is fixed. [१७]

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Tech News: 2015-06

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

• There was a security issue on Wikimedia Labs. Many Labs tools were down after the issue was fixed. [१८]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 4 (calendar).
• The "Save page" button in the VisualEditor toolbar is now blue rather than green. This is the same as on the mobile site. [१९]
• You can now edit pages on the draft namespace with VisualEditor on the Russian Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia. You can ask to get VisualEditor for a namespace on your wiki. When your community agrees, ask in Phabricator. [२०] [२१]

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Tech News: 2015-07

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 software changes

• You can now use {{#lsth: PageName | SectionName }} to transclude a section with its title. [२२]

Problems

• MediaWiki was reverted to the previous version on February 4. It was because of a performance issue. It was restored later. [२३]
• UploadWizard was broken on February 4 because of the revert of MediaWiki. [२४]
• All sites were broken for 30 minutes on February 5. It was due to a network problem. [२५]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 11 (calendar).
• You can have one user page for all wikis. Your Meta user page will show if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can test this tool on test wikis. [२६] [२७] [२८]
• You can search for media files in VisualEditor more easily. Images are bigger and you see the size and license. [२९] [३०]
• It is easier to review your changes when you save the page in VisualEditor. The window is wider. [३१]
• You can read the latest news about VisualEditor. You can now join weekly meetings with developers. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The first meeting is on February 11 at 20:00 (UTC).

Future changes

• Administrators will soon be able to delete change tags used fewer than 5,000 times. [३२]
• In the future you will be able to have personal lists of articles on the mobile site. [३३]

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Tech News: 2015-08

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

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 18 (calendar).
• On Wednesday your Meta user page will be shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. [३४] [३५] [३६]
• You can now change the order of categories in VisualEditor using drag-and-drop. [३७]
• In VisualEditor, you now need to make a change before you can "Apply Changes" to citations and templates. [३८]
• The way the cursor moves in VisualEditor is changing. Your browser now handles the cursor directly. Most of you will see no change. In right-to-left text, the cursor now moves in a 'visible' rather than 'logical' way. This is like other sites but you may be surprised at first.​ [३९]

Meetings

• The VisualEditor Team had their first public bug triage meeting on February 11. They will post the results on the meeting page. [४०]
• You can join the second weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 18 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join. [४१]
• You can join a meeting with the developers of the Content Translation tool. It will be on February 18 at 13:00 (UTC). [४२]

Future changes

• You can comment on a proposal about abandoned Labs tools.

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Wikimedia Highlights from January 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in January 2015, covering selected activities of the Wikimedia Foundation and other important events from the Wikimedia movement.

• Wikipedia turns 14, receives prestigious Erasmus Prize 2015
• Civility, Wikipedia, and the conversation on Gamergate
• How high school student Jack Andraka used Wikipedia to research a new test for cancer
• Wellcome Library donates 100,000 medical images to Wikimedia Commons
• Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in the Czech Republic
• Try Content Translation: A quick way to create new articles from other languages
• Weekly edit-a-thons help create new articles about women and literature in Sweden

(The Wikimedia Highlights issues from some recent months have not been distributed via this notice, but can be found in the archive.)

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Tech News: 2015-09

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 software changes

• All new accounts are now global. [४३]
• Your Meta user page is now shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can report problems if you see any. You can ask a bot to delete your old user pages. [४४] [४५] [४६]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 25. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 26 (calendar).
• It is now easier to see template fields in VisualEditor. The fields are bigger. [४७]
• It is now easier to see when a button is disabled in VisualEditor. [४८]
• Sometimes when you copy-pasted a template in VisualEditor, it was replaced by HTML. This problem is now fixed. [४९]
• Tools in Labs will stop working for a few hours on February 24. [५०]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 26 at 00:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• At the moment you need to log in to edit Wikimedia wikis on mobile devices. You can say if anyone should be allowed to edit on the mobile sites. The discussion ends on March 15.
• Images in the interface will soon work better in Opera 12. [५१]

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Tech News: 2015-10

नए तकनीकी समाचार विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय द्वारा। कृपया अन्य सदस्यों को इस परिवर्तन के बारे में बताएं। सभी परिवर्तन आप पर प्रभाव नहीं डालेगा। अनुवाद उपलब्ध है।

हाल के सॉफ्टवेयर परिवर्तन

• विकिडाटा का लौआ कार्य परिवर्तित हो चुका है। आपको पन्ने जो उपयोग कर रहे हैं उसे बदलना होगा। [५२]
• अब आप सामग्री अनुवादक उपकरण विकिपेडिया के उज़्बेक और मिनङ्ग्कबौ के लिए उपयोग कर सकते हैं। इसके लिए आपको बीटा विकल्प पर जाकर इसे सक्रिय करना होगा।
• अब आप बैनर छुपा सकते हो यदि आपके पास कोई खाता नहीं है। [५३] [५४]

इस सप्ताह का सॉफ्टवेयर परिवर्तन

• नए मीडियाविकि संस्करण का जाँच विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 25 फरवरी से चल रहा है। अ-विकिपीडिया में 3 मार्च से साथ ही यह सभी विकिपीडिया पर 4 मार्च से होगा। पंचांग
• आप सामग्री अनुवादक उपकरण का विकिपीडिया के पंजाबी और क्यर्ग्यज के लिए उपयोग कर सकते हो। आप अन्य भाषा के लिए उपकरण के लिए पूछ भी सकते हो।
• असत्य खाली पंक्ति यथादृश्य संपादिका में सम्पादन सरल हो गया है। यह परिवर्तन और भी कई त्रुटियों को ठीक करता है। [५५] [५६] [५७] [५८]
• साँचा के आंकड़ों का संपादक आपको आगाह कर देगा यदि उस पृष्ठ पर पहले से साँचा के आंकड़े उपस्थित होंगे। [५९]
• साँचा के आंकड़ों की सारणी आपको बता देगी यदि साँचा कोई स्थान नहीं ले रहा। [६०]

बैठक

• यथादृश्य संपादिका दल के साथ अंतिम बैठक में [पढ़] सकते हैं।
• आप अगले साप्ताहिक बैठक में यथादृश्य संपादिका के दल से जुड़ सकते हो। बैठक के समय आप निर्माणकर्ता से इसके त्रुटि जो अति महत्वपूर्ण है, के बारे में बता सकते हो। यह [4 मार्च 16:00 (यूटीसी)] को होगा। कैसे हिस्सा लें देखें।
• आप फ़्रांस और मेक्सिको में तकनीकी बैठक में हिस्सा ले सकते हो। आप सहायता के लिए पूछ सकते हो यदि आप स्वयं से पैसे नहीं दे सकते। [६१]

भविष्य में परिवर्तन

• अब आप पृष्ठ के अनुभाग का सीधा कड़ी ले सकते हो। [६२]

तकनीकी समाचार तकनीक राजदूत द्वारा तैयार हुआ और प्रकाशित बॉट • योगदान • अनुवाद • सहायता लें • प्रतिक्रिया दें • सदस्यता ले या हटाएँ।

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Tech News: 2015-11

नए तकनीकी समाचार विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय द्वारा। कृपया अन्य सदस्यों को इस परिवर्तन के बारे में बताएं। सभी परिवर्तन आप पर प्रभाव नहीं डालेगा। अनुवाद उपलब्ध है।

Recent changes

• You can now create books on almost all wikis. It doesn't work yet on wikis using the language converter. [६३] [६४]
• VisualEditor had problems with categories in Safari. It sometimes moved or removed the categories. The issue is now fixed. [६५] [६६] [६७]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 11 (calendar).
• In VisualEditor the "Edit ^beta" button is now called "Edit" on the English Wikipedia. [६८] [६९]
• The feedback tool in VisualEditor now looks like the other tools. It also asks for information about your browser to help fix bugs. [७०] [७१]
• You now see the VisualEditor toolbar even if the rest of the page is still loading. [७२] [७३]
• You now see more information when you edit a link, a reference or other items in VisualEditor. You also see a clearer edit button in those tools. [७४] [७५]
• If you use the ContentTranslation tool you now see red links in the list of articles in other languages. The link is red if the article doesn't exist in the language of your options or of your browser. You can translate the article by clicking on the red link.

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a technical meeting in France in May. You can ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [७६]

भविष्य में परिवर्तन

• You can get help to become a developer. You can learn more on the Google Summer of Code and Outreachy pages. [७७]
• You will soon be able to read technical reports in Phabricator. [७८]

तकनीकी समाचार तकनीक राजदूत द्वारा तैयार हुआ और प्रकाशित बॉट • योगदान • अनुवाद • सहायता लें • प्रतिक्रिया दें • सदस्यता ले या हटाएँ।

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Tech News: 2015-12

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 servers that resize images are using new software. You should report new problems that you notice with images. [७९]
• You can now see lists of bugs about Commons, Wikisource and Wiktionary. [८०]
• It is now easier to add special characters in VisualEditor. You can edit the list of characters for your wiki. [८१] [८२]

Problems

• Wikis were broken for a few minutes on Thursday due to a code error.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 18 (calendar).
• A puzzle piece icon () now shows hidden templates in VisualEditor. You can edit the template by clicking the icon. For example, you can now edit anchor templates. [८३] [८४]
• You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in TemplateData. [८५] [८६]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 18 at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The list of bad user names on your wiki will no longer work. The global list will replace it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [८७] [८८]
• You can comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [८९]
• The final steps of single user login (SUL) will happen in April. You can see the rules to rename accounts. [९०]

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Tech News: 2015-13

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 this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 25 (calendar).
• The text of a reference is now more visible when you click on it. It has a blue background. Many wikis already have the blue color. Those wikis can now remove it from their CSS page. [९१]
• VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor. [९२] [९३] [९४]
• When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it. [९५]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Talk pages using "LiquidThreads" on mediawiki.org will soon use the new system. [९६]

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Wikimedia Highlights from February 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in February 2015, covering selected activities of the Wikimedia Foundation and other important events from the Wikimedia movement.

• Love on the Wikis
• A WikiLove story
• Who links to Wikipedia?
• What is Wikipedia Zero? (VIDEO)
• Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation
• Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps
• Wiki Loves Africa photo contest announces winning pictures

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Tech News: 2015-14

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

Recent changes

• You can now hide site banners even if you don't have an account. [९७]
• You can now add citations more easily with VisualEditor on the French and Italian Wikipedia. The tool adds the information when you add some types of links. In the future you will be able to add this tool to your wiki. [९८] [९९] [१००]
• All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser. [१०१]
• You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [१०२]
• VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly. [१०३]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 31. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 1 (calendar).
• VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias. [१०४]
• You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account. [१०५]
• You can test a new tool on the beta mobile site on the English Wikipedia. With the new tool, you can create lists of articles. [१०६]
• You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page. [१०७]
• VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more. [१०८] [१०९] [११०] [१११]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on IRC on March 31 at 16:00 (UTC). [११२]
• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 1 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2015-15

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

• You can join a new email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs. [११३]
• You can read the last monthly report. In the future you can read team reports every three months. You can see current work on the roadmap. [११४] [११५]
• The number of articles in Special:Statistics is now updated once a month. [११६]
• You can use a new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. Using the app, you can now share a fact with your friends. [११७]

Problems

• The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary. [११८]
• Labs was broken several times this week. [११९] [१२०] [१२१] [१२२]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 8 (calendar).
• You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor. [१२३]
• Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [१२४] [१२५]
• You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people. [१२६]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 8 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can again comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [१२७]

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Tech News: 2015-16

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 read the latest news about VisualEditor.
• You can now use the new translation tool on 22 Wikipedias. You now see the tool the first time you create a new page. [१२८]
• The list of bad user names on your wiki no longer works. The global list replaces it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [१२९] [१३०]

Problems

• Some wikis had issues on Wednesday. [१३१] [१३२]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 15 (calendar).
• Developers will start to rename 1.5 million accounts on Wednesday. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [१३३] [१३४]
• All users can now test link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias. [१३५]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 15 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2015-17

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

• There was sometimes a problem when saving a page in VisualEditor. It is now fixed on all wikis. [१३६]
• VisualEditor sometimes showed empty warnings for wikis using Flagged Revisions. This is now fixed on all wikis. [१३७]
• You can get the new version of the Wikipedia app for iOS. With it you can share facts with your friends. [१३८]
• If you write JavaScript, you should stop using importScript and importStylesheet. [१३९]

Problems

• There was a problem with Labs on Monday. [१४०]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 21. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 22 (calendar).
• Developers are renaming 1.5 million accounts. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [१४१] [१४२] [१४३]
• If your wiki has the auto-fill tool for citations, you can now use it when you edit a reference. [१४४]
• You can now give examples for template options in TemplateData. [१४५]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 22 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will soon be able to add and remove tags on edits. [१४६] [१४७]

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Tech News: 2015-18

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

• All accounts are now unique and work on all wikis. [१४८] [१४९]
• You can read a report from experts who tested the security of MediaWiki. [१५०]
• There was a problem between VisualEditor and an antivirus software. It is now fixed. [१५१]
• You can help test VisualEditor to see if it works in your language. [१५२]

Problems

• Some Labs tools had problems due to a software bug. [१५३]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 29 (calendar).
• It is now clearer that you can delete several rows and columns when you edit tables in VisualEditor. [१५४]
• You now see more information when you search for a template in VisualEditor. [१५५]
• You can now cancel when you add citations on desktop, or edit links on mobile, in VisualEditor. [१५६]
• You can now see the list of other formats for videos only after they're ready. [१५७]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 29 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Support request with team editing experiment project

Dear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Wikipedia about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Wikipedia community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Wikipedia everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta.

Wikimedia Highlights from March 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in March 2015.

• Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA to challenge upstream mass surveillance
• Womens History Month
• Growing free knowledge through open data
• Raspberry Pi in Masekelo: Bringing Wikipedia to a school without electricity
• Wikimedia Foundation adopts Open Access Policy to support free knowledge
• Welcome new members of Wikimedia Foundation

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Tech News: 2015-19

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 chat with other users in Phabricator. [१५८]
• There was a rare problem with VisualEditor. The text of another wiki could be added to your edit. The issue is now fixed. [१५९] [१६०]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 6 (calendar).
• It is now easier to add a link in VisualEditor. You can see an image and a description about the page. [१६१]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on May 5 at 14:30 (UTC). [१६२]
• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 6 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join an event in France on May 22−25. You need to sign up before May 8. [१६३]

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Tech News: 2015-20

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 make charts and maps on your wiki with the new "graph" tool. If you have an old browser, you will see images instead. It uses a tool called Vega; you can learn how to use it and write help pages for your wiki. You can use the Vega edit tool to make charts and copy the code to your wiki. Charts and maps use complex code and you should put them into templates. In the future, you will be able to create charts with VisualEditor. [१६४] [१६५] [१६६]
• You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community. [१६७]
• The logos of all wikis are now in a new place. It will make pages load faster. You can still ask to change the logo. You can also use local CSS for brief changes. [१६८] [१६९]

Problems

• There was a problem that caused slow editing. [१७०]
• Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed. [१७१]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 13 (calendar).
• You can now use data from Wikidata on more pages. The page doesn't need to be linked to the Wikidata item. It works on a few wikis and more wikis will be added soon. [१७२] [१७३]
• You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons. [१७४]
• When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link. [१७५]
• When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match. [१७६]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 13 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikimedia Highlights from April 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in April 2015.

• New features on Wikipedia iOS app help readers access, explore, and share knowledge
• Wiki Learning holds massive edit-a-thon at Tec de Monterrey in Mexico City
• The first Wikipedia TV spots and awareness campaign in Cameroon (VIDEO)
• Celebrity photographer Allan Warren shares the big shots on Wikipedia
• Introducing the new Wikipedia store
• A Wikimedian asks European Parliament members for copyright reform
• Join Wiki Loves Earth 2015: help capture our natural heritage

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Tech News: 2015-21

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

• You can watch a video about the new graph tool.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
• References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page. [१७७]
• You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [१७८]
• The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [१७९]
• You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [१८०] [१८१]
• UploadWizard now shows better matches when you add a category to your file. [१८२]
• A test about VisualEditor will start on the English Wikipedia on Thursday. [१८३]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 21 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a technical meeting in France this week.

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Tech News: 2015-22

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

• VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [१८४]
• Some Labs tools had issues last week. [१८५] [१८६]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can add your ideas of new tools to help active users like you. [१८७]

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Tech News: 2015-23

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

Problems

• Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [१८८]
• Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [१८९]
• Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [१९०] [१९१]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
• You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [१९२]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2015-24

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

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar). [१९३] [१९४]
• If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [१९५]
• When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [१९६]
• The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [१९७]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on June 10 at 14:30 (UTC). [१९८]

Future changes

• If you have a bot, you may need to fix it. The default continuation mode of the API for action=query will change at the end of June. [१९९]

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Wikimedia Highlights from May 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in April 2015.

• Meet the Inspire grantees working to increase gender diversity on Wikimedia
• A dark side of comedy: John Oliver asks TV viewers to vandalize Wikipedia articles on U.S. politicians
• Fundraising made in Germany: lessons learned by Wikimedia Deutschland
• Editing the Uzbek Wikipedia: Kamarniso Vrandečić
• First ever WikiArabia conference gathers Wikipedians in Tunisia to connect and share experiences
• Wikimania and the differences between online and offline cultures

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Tech News: 2015-25

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

• Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool. [२००]
• Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [२०१]

Changes 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 from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on June 19 at 16:00 (UTC). [२०२]

Future changes

• Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas about it. [२०३]
• If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use compat anymore. [२०४] [२०५] [२०६]

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Tech News: 2015-26

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

• Some wikis can now be used only with HTTPS. This includes the English, Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only HTTPS for all users. [२०७] [२०८]
• You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [२०९]

Problems

• On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [२१०] [२११] [२१२]
• On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons. [२१३] [२१४] [२१५]
• Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days. [२१६] [२१७] [२१८]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 23 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2015-27

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

• Long lines in code blocks now look better. [२१९]
• You can now see graphs in VisualEditor. [२२०]
• When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [२२१]
• The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [२२२] [२२३] [२२४]
• You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [२२५]

Problems

• JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [२२६]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar).
• You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color. [२२७]
• When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them. [२२८]
• If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password. [२२९]
• Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for action=query doesn't work any more. [२३०]

Meetings

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

Future

• When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org. [२३१]

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Tech News: 2015-28

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

• On the mobile site, you now see more information when you search for a page. It now shows the description from Wikidata. [२३२]

Problems

• The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets. [२३३]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 8. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 9 (calendar).
• The "Page information" tool shows how many users watch the page. You can now see how many are active. [२३४] [२३५]
• You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool. [२३६]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 7 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikimedia Highlights from June 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in June 2015.

• These Texans are on a quest to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of their state’s revolution
• Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS
• 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia
• Record featured article author recommends five Wikipedia articles
• How English Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition
• Preserving Wikipedia citations for the future: Geoffrey Bilder

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Tech News: 2015-29

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 see a list of pages with errors in code coloring. [२३७]

Problems

• There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes. [२३८]
• There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes. [२३९]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

• You can join a technical meeting at Wikimania in Mexico City this week. [२४०]

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१५:०६, १३ जुलाई २०१५ (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-30

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

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 22. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 23 (calendar).
• You now see more warnings in the image viewer. They tell you to be careful when using the image, for example if it shows a person. [२४१]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 21 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Soon you won't be able to use MathJax to display math. [२४२]

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Tech News: 2015-31

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

• You can now use redirects to link to JavaScript pages. [२४३]
• You cannot use the compact user bar any more. [२४४]
• You can change your options to see bigger images. [२४५]
• You can watch short videos about how to use VisualEditor. [२४६]
• You can now edit pages linked in "what links here" more easily. [२४७]

Problems

• There was a problem with some Lua modules on July 22 and 23. Some pages using them did not list them in "what links here". You can fix those pages with a null edit: edit and save the page without making any change.
• There was a problem with the abuse filter page on big wikis on July 23. It was due to a code error. [२४८]

Changes 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 from July 29. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 30 (calendar).
• JavaScript authors: You cannot use wgNoticeUserData to get edit counts anymore. [२४९]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 28 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2015-32

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

• The ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
  • You can now type in list paragraphs on wikis with right-to-left scripts. [२५०]
  • Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look. [२५१] [२५२] [२५३] [२५४]
• The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [२५५]
• MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [२५६]
• Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [२५७]

Problems

• There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [२५८]
• We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now. [२५९]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 4 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2015-33

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

• MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page. [२६०]
• The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [२६१]
• You can now play Ogg video files in some browsers that don't support this format. This solution uses JavaScript and works on desktop browsers only for now. It will work on mobile later. [२६२]
• You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [२६३]
• It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [२६४]
• JavaScript authors:
  • You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix. [२६५] [२६६]
  • You can no longer use document.write on Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix. [२६७] [२६८]
• The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [२६९]

Problems

• More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [२७०]
• Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [२७१]
• Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [२७२]

Changes 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 from August 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 13 (calendar).
• UploadWizard is getting a new look. The look of buttons and checkboxes has already changed. This week, UploadWizard gets a new date picker. The other text fields will change soon. [२७३]
• You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [२७४]

Meetings

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

Future changes

• Some things in the watchlist will get a new look. [२७५]

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Wikimedia Highlights from July 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in July 2015.

• Konkani Wikipedia goes live
• “Becoming involved in making the changes you want to see”: Leigh Thelmadatter
• Wikidata, coming soon to a menu near you
• Wikimedians urge the EU to protect freedom of panorama
• ACLU files amended complaint on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation
• Get the latest Wikipedia updates easily with IFTTT

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Tech News: 2015-34

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

Recent changes

• Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [२७६] [२७७] [२७८]
• Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems. [२७९]

Problems

• Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [२८०] [२८१]
• On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [२८२]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
• You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category. [२८३]

Meetings

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

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Tech News: 2015-35

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

Recent changes

• Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function. [२८४]

Problems

• There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed. [२८५]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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

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Tech News: 2015-36

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

Recent changes

• VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC. [२८६][२८७]
• The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [२८८]
• VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead. [२८९]
• Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [२९०]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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

Future changes

• The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9. [२९१]

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Tech News: 2015-37

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

Recent changes

• You can now mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users. [२९२]
• A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [२९३]
• You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [२९४]

Problems

• There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed. [२९५]
• The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [२९६][२९७]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
• The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters. [२९८]
• The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page. [२९९][३००]

Meetings

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

Future changes

• The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours. [३०१]
• Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [३०२][३०३]

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१७:२९, ७ सितम्बर २०१५ (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from August 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in August 2015.

• Hundreds of “black hat” English Wikipedia accounts blocked following investigation
• The Hunt for Tirpitz
• My life as an autistic Wikipedian
• Content Translation updates from Wikimania 2015
• Using Wikipedia to preserve indigenous languages of Colombia
• When cultural heritage gets a digital life

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Tech News: 2015-38

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

Recent changes

• You can now use the Wikidata query service. [३०४]
• Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [३०५]
• Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [३०६][३०७]

Problems

• There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [३०८]
• The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [३०९]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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

Future changes

• ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [३१०]
• The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [३११]

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१६:१७, १४ सितम्बर २०१५ (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from August 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in August 2015.

• Hundreds of “black hat” English Wikipedia accounts blocked following investigation
• The Hunt for Tirpitz
• My life as an autistic Wikipedian
• Content Translation updates from Wikimania 2015
• Using Wikipedia to preserve indigenous languages of Colombia
• When cultural heritage gets a digital life

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Tech News: 2015-39

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

Recent changes

• There is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here. [३१२][३१३]
• Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong. [३१४][३१५][३१६][३१७]
• More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [३१८]
• The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [३१९]

Problems

• Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time. [३२०]
• Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [३२१][३२२]
• UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [३२३]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
• The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms. [३२४]
• You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it. [३२५]
• Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [३२६]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on September 23 at 17:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can register to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 in San Francisco 4–6 January 2016. Gadget, template, bot, and tool developers are welcome as well. Call for participation and travel sponsorship requests are open until 2 October.

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Tech News: 2015-40

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

Recent changes

• In UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them. [३२७]
• UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [३२८]
• You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [३२९]
• When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [३३०]
• You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [३३१]
• The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [३३२]
• MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in Gerrit. The goal was to clean up the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers. [३३३]

Problems

• Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [३३४][३३५]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar).
• There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide if they want to enable it. [३३६]
• The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan. [३३७]

Meetings

• You can join the strategy process of the Reading department of Wikimedia Engineering. [३३८]
• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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

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१५:१५, २८ सितम्बर २०१५ (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-41

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

Recent changes

• The link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile. [३३९]
• The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [३४०]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar).
• UploadWizard will remind users to add a category. [३४१]
• UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [३४२]
• A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [३४३]

Meetings

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

Future changes

• Wikidata requests your input on how to improve the editing of Wikidata's data in other locations, such as Wikipedias.

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Tech News: 2015-42

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

Recent changes

• The database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters. [३४४]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar).
• You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing. [३४५]
• Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [३४६]

Meetings

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

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Wikimedia Highlights from September 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in September 2015.

• Drone photography of Versailles
• Wikimedia project milestones: Swedish Wikipedia hits 2 million
• What I Learned: Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina
• In September, we love monuments
• Reimagining the Wikimedia Foundation’s grants
• Wikipedia’s very active editor numbers have stabilized—delve into the data with us
• Should I pay for a Wikipedia article?

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Tech News: 2015-43

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

Recent changes

• Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback on this change.
• Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [३४७]

Problems

• A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [३४८]
• Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [३४९]
• The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen. [३५०]

Changes this week

• Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [३५१]
• Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [३५२][३५३][३५४][३५५]

Meetings

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

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१६:०२, १९ अक्टूबर २०१५ (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-44

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

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
• The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools. [३५६]
• You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "चित्र जोड़ें" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor. [३५७][३५८]
• When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [३५९][३६०]
• Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [३६१]

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१८:०४, २६ अक्टूबर २०१५ (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-45

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

Recent changes

• You can now see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [३६२]
• If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [३६३]
• Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [३६४]

Problems

• On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [३६५]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

• 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 3 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can also read the latest VisualEditor newsletter.

Future changes

• A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links. [३६६]
• Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [३६७]

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१६:४२, २ नवम्बर २०१५ (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-46

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

Recent changes

• Superprotect has been removed. [३६८]
• You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [३६९]
• JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [३७०]

Problems

• Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [३७१]

Changes this week

• Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [३७२]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A new tool to navigate through diff pages is being developed. You can test it out and give feedback. [३७३]
• The options on Special:Watchlist will look slightly different. [३७४]

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१७:१८, ९ नवम्बर २०१५ (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from October 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in October 2015.

• Wikipedia’s global impact recognized with Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award ceremony
• Creating change one step at a time: Miguel Zuñiga Gonzalez
• Your October milestones include Wikidata’s 15 millionth item
• District court grants government’s motion to dismiss Wikimedia v. NSA, appeal expected
• Making Chinese Wikipedia more ethnologically diverse

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Tech News: 2015-47

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

Changes this week

• You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information. [३७५]
• Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [३७६]
• The Community Tech team is doing a community wishlist survey to understand what they should be working on. They are now accepting proposals in all languages. You can create your proposal in the small box above the blue button and click it when you're done.
• Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [३७७]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. The change will happen in January 2016. [३७८][३७९]

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Tech News: 2015-48

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

Recent changes

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

Changes this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Language Engineering team. The topic is: Content Translation updates and Questions & Answers. The meeting will be on 25 November at 13:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• 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 24 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: Raise MediaWiki's PHP version requirement and update coding standards". The meeting will be on 25 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats. [३८०]

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२०:२६, २३ नवम्बर २०१५ (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-49

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

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

Problems

• On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015. [३८१]
• Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed. [३८२]

Changes this week

• Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [३८३][३८४]
• There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (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 1 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is using the <figure> tag for media. The meeting will be on 2 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [३८५]
• Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified. [३८६]

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१६:१६, ३० नवम्बर २०१५ (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-50

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

Recent changes

• Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias. [३८७]

Problems

• Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [३८८]

Changes this week

• You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [३८९]
• IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [३९०]
• You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be. [३९१]
• It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [३९२]
• You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor. [३९३]
• UploadWizard will look a bit different. [३९४]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
• New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays. [३९५]

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 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Graph/Graphoid/Kartographer – data storage architecture" and "Parametric JSON builder". The meeting will be on 9 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default. [३९६]

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१७:५२, ७ दिसम्बर २०१५ (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-51

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

Changes this week

• Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [३९७]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 17 December. (calendar).

Meetings

• 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 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is talking about the agenda for the Wikimedia Developer Summit. The meeting will be on 16 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join. [३९८]

Future changes

• A new gadget manager will come next year. The new gadget system is called Gadgets 2.0. [३९९]

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Password Strength RFC

नमस्कार

हमने मॅटा पर पासवर्ड आवश्यकताएँ बढ़ाने हेतु उन प्रयोक्ताओं के लिए एक आरऍफ़सी आरम्भ किया है जिनके पास वे खाते हैं जिनसे वे MediaWiki:Common.js को सम्पादित कर सकते हैं, और जिनकी पहुँच प्रयोक्ताजाँच (checkuser) तक और निरीक्षक तक है।

इस प्रकार के खातों की पहुँच हमारे जालपृष्ठों पर बहुत संवेदनशील होती है और ये खाते गलत हाथों में पड़ने पर गहन क्षति पहुँचा सकते हैं। अभी के लिए एकमात्र आवश्यकता है कि पासवर्ड कम से कम एक अक्षर का हो। हम चाहते हैं कि पासवर्ड के लिए न्यूनतम 8 अक्षर (बाइट) अनिवार्य किया जाए और कुछ आम पासवर्डों को प्रतिबन्धित किया जाए।

गहन स्तर तक की पहुँच वाले खातों के लिए पासवर्ड आवश्यकताएँ बढ़ाकर हम यह आशा करते हैं कि विकिमीडिया विकियों को सभी के लिए और अधिक सुरक्षित बनाया जाए। कृपया इस प्रस्ताव की विषय-वस्तु यहाँ पढ़ें, और आरऍफ़सी में अपना स्वर ऊँचा करें।

धन्यवाद

(WMF सुरक्षा टीम की ओर से) BWolff (WMF) (वार्ता) ०७:५६, २१ दिसम्बर २०१५ (UTC)

वैश्विक सन्देश प्रदत्ती और प्रदत्ती सूची का उपयोग कर पहुँचाए जाते हैं।

Tech News: 2015-52

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 2016.
• The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2015? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes

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

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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

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