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Absolutely amazed at ClueBot! How on earth it recognised this as vandalism I'll never know! Well spotted, about to give an award for it as well!--5 albert square (talk) 01:23, 22 October 2012 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2012-10-22T01:23:00.000Z","author":"5 albert square","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-5_albert_square-2012-10-22T01:23:00.000Z-Can_I_just_say..............","replies":[]}}-->
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HI , I have tried twice to enter the correct Bio material on myself . Why isn't it being posted correctly? No one has lived it but ME . Please advise . This is very confusing as I had a Wikipedia savvy person help me with this and as far as we know the guidelines were always observed . Thank you. Tim Gorman / Timtone Timtone (talk) 03:40, 17 November 2012 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2012-11-17T03:40:00.000Z","author":"Timtone","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Timtone-2012-11-17T03:40:00.000Z-MY_True_History_Update","replies":[]}}-->
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Sorry to interupt, but please talk to me on my talk page. Also, not to be rude, but why is your name METHecooldude. I mean, METH? Sorry, I just caught that.
It's Me-The-Cool-Dude... - Rich(MTCD)T|C|E-Mail17:55, 24 November 2012 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2012-11-24T17:55:00.000Z","author":"Methecooldude","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Methecooldude-2012-11-24T17:55:00.000Z-The_Signpost:_19_November_2012","replies":[],"displayName":"Rich(MTCD)"}}-->
Sorry — Preceding unsigned comment added by Da best director (talk • contribs) 22:33, 24 November 2012 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2012-11-24T22:33:00.000Z","author":"Da best director","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Da_best_director-2012-11-24T22:33:00.000Z-The_Signpost:_19_November_2012","replies":[]}}-->
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Why did you change it, it was perfect. How dare you?! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.60.233.11 (talk) 20:52, 30 November 2012 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2012-11-30T20:52:00.000Z","author":"67.60.233.11","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-67.60.233.11-2012-11-30T20:52:00.000Z-The_Signpost:_26_November_2012","replies":[]}}-->
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The cookies were very nice, and please hand out more. I love how you are contributing so much on our beloved Wikipedia.Hug da panda.DPandaOPande (talk) 00:26, 3 December 2012 (UTC)DPandaOPande__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2012-12-03T00:26:00.000Z","author":"Da panda of pandemonium","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Da_panda_of_pandemonium-2012-12-03T00:26:00.000Z-Thank-you_for_your_contributations!","replies":[],"displayName":"DPandaOPande"}}-->
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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
Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May 3. [1]
Users are invited to try Cross-wiki Notifications on all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default, scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC. [3][4]
You can use keyboard shortcuts to open the visual editor (meta+V) or the wikitext editor (meta+E) (on certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor). [5]
Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore. [6]
The UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons. [7]
Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved. [8]
Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org. [9]
Problems
MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue. [10]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 12 (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on May 10 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We plan to reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please tell the developers if the change will cause problems. [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
Some image thumbnails now load faster on mobile. They also take up less bandwidth. [12]
Problems
Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis. [13]
Changes this week
Special:Notifications will have "mark as read" buttons for each day. The non-JavaScript version will get it this week. A JavaScript version will come later. [14]
Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce. [15]
A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users. [16]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 18. It will be on all wikis from May 19 (calendar).
Using self-closing tags like <div/> and <span/> to mean <div></div> and <span></span> will not work in the future. Templates and pages that use these tags should be fixed. When Phabricator ticket T134423 is fixed these tags will parse as <div> and <span> instead. This is normal in HTML5. [17]
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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 now see a warning message on pages that try to use {{DISPLAYTITLE}} but it doesn't work because it doesn't match the page's actual title. [18]
Problems
Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories. [19]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on May 24 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12. [20]
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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
There is now a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module. [21]
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. [22][23]
CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed. [24]
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. [25]
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. [27][28]
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. [29]
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.