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Changes later this week
When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [1]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 January. It will be on all wikis from 9 January (calendar).
Novidades de Tecnologia mais recentes da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe os outros utilizadores sobre estas alterações. Nem todas as alterações o irão afetar. Estão disponíveis 'Traduções'.
Alterações recentes
Não poderá mais ler as wikis da Wikimedia se o seu navegador utilizar o TLS muito antigo. Isto ocorre porque é um problema de segurança para todos. Isto pode levar a ataques de downgrade. Desde 9 de dezembro que vê apenas um aviso. Em breve, o navegador não se ligará às wikis. A maioria são utilizadores de sistemas Android com mais de 4.4. Pode ler as recomendações de navegador. [2]
As wikis podem proteger páginas para que apenas alguns utilizadores as possam editar. Os níveis de proteção padrão são Permitir apenas utilizadores autoconfirmados e Permitir apenas administradores. Se a sua wiki utilizar mais níveis de proteção, o nome técnico poderá ser renomeado para padronização. Isto não afeta o que os utilizadores vêem. [4]
A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 14 janeiro. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 15 janeiro. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 16 janeiro (calendário).
Alterações futuras
Deepcat e Catgraph irão deixar de funcionar. Isto irá acontecer no final de janeiro. Isto ocorre porque agora pode utilizar a função de pesquisa normal. [5]
Pode utilizar nowiki><ref follow="…"></nowiki> para unir notas de rodapé que se seguem umas às outras. Isto deve ser utilizado para os livros digitalizados na Wikisource. Se a ordem das notas de rodapé estiver errada, não foi mostrado nenhum erro, mas foi mostrado <ref> fora da lista de <referências. Isto irá alterar e irá ver uma mensagem de erro. [6]
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Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 January. It will be on all wikis from 23 January (calendar).
Future changes
There is a new suggestion for what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work go faster. You can give feedback.
Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will no longer support Python 2. Use the python2 tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so. [7]
The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The timing for this cut may change. You can discuss in Phabricator if this affects you. [8]
You can read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.
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Problems
Some mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown. Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working on fixing it. [9][10]
Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions can't move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing it. [11]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
There is JavaScript code on Special:Undelete for administrators that makes it possible to automatically select multiple checkboxes by holding the "Shift" key and clicking. This code is also loaded by accident on other special pages and on articles. This makes pages slower to load. This will be fixed. If you know of other special pages where this is useful please tell the developers at phab:T232688.
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Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 February. It will be on all wikis from 6 February (calendar).
Caro usuário(a), foi aberto um pedido de opinião sobre o(a) administrador(a)Mr. Fulano. Caso tenha interesse, poderá participar da votação que ocorre nesta página: Wikipédia:Administradores/Pedidos de opinião/Mr. Fulano/2. O resultado do pedido não é vinculativo, cabendo unicamente ao administrador(a) a tomada final da decisão. A sua participação é importante. Obrigado pela atenção. Mr. Fulano, usando o recurso MassMessage. 22h25min de 4 de fevereiro de 2020 (UTC)
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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 a new version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem. [12]
Problems
There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things. [13]
Changes later this week
The MediaWiki action API is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work. [14]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February (calendar).
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 February. It will be on all wikis from 20 February (calendar).
Convite para participação no Mês Africano da Wikipédia
Caro(a) Jaideraf,
Convidamos você a participar na segunda edição Mês Africano da Wikipédia, um concurso que visa aumentar a qualidade e a quantidade de artigos relativos a países e territórios africanos. Se deseja participar, acesse Mês Africano da Wikipédia 2020 e siga as instruções. O evento será realizado ao longo do mês de março de 2020. Todos os trabalhos devem ser submetidos para avaliação durante o mês de março para que sejam contabilizados.
Se tiver quaisquer dúvidas, pergunte na página de discussão do concurso. Contamos com sua participação!
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Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be on all wikis from 27 February (calendar).
Future changes
There will be a reply button after each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later. You can test the reply button. It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first wikis last week.
Nós do grupo de usuários Wiki Movimento Brasil planejamos para os próximos meses um wikiconcurso a decorrer na Wikipédia em português. Trata-se de um evento inserido numa série de atividade conduzidas em colaboração entre o referido grupo e o Museu Paulista, mais conhecido como Museu do Ipiranga. Neste wikiconcurso, pretendemos convidar e estimular a comunidade da Wikipédia lusófona a contribuir no aprimoramento de artigos relacionados aos conteúdos resultantes da iniciativa GLAM com o Museu Paulista, que tem sido conduzida desde o ano de 2017.
O wikiconcurso ocorrerá entre os dias 15 de março a 15 de junho de 2020 e a página contendo as regras e detalhamentos está em Wikiconcurso Novo Museu do Ipiranga. Não deixe de visitá-la e participar. Haverá prêmios de até R$2.500,00.
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Problems
Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug. [17]
Changes later this week
If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. [18]
When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security. [19]
On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to. [20]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 março. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 março. It will be on all wikis from 5 março (calendar).
There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list. [22]
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Recent changes
There is a new search word called articletopic. You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon. [23][24][25]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all wikis from 12 March (calendar).
The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year. [26]
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Recent changes
There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org. [27]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).
Future changes
If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface. [28][29]
You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.
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Problems
Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed. [30][31]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 March. It will be on all wikis from 26 March (calendar).
Future changes
There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April (calendar).
Future changes
The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed. [33]
There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback. [34]
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Problems
There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [35]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (calendar).
Future changes
MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to. [36]
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Recent changes
You can now use the articletopic search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic. [37]
There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest. [41][42][43]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 (calendar).
Future changes
Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed. [44]
The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated <source> tag, as well as the use of the deprecated enclose parameter, will add tracking categories.
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Tech News
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.
Recent changes
The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills. [45]
Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed. div#content is now .mw-body. div.portal is now .portal. div#footer is now #footer. This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them. [46]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011. [47]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar).
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The Signpost: 26 April 2020
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
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Problems
Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 5 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [49]
Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 7 May. This will also affect CentralAuth. This can for example affect global renames, password changes, changing or confirming your email address and logging in to new wikis. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [50]
Changes later this week
You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can soon turn these notifications off for individual pages. [51]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 May. It will be on all wikis from 7 May (calendar).
Caro usuário(a), foi aberto um pedido de opinião sobre o(a) administrador(a)ChristianH. Caso tenha interesse, poderá participar da votação que ocorre nesta página: Wikipédia:Administradores/Pedidos de opinião/ChristianH. O resultado do pedido não é vinculativo, cabendo unicamente ao administrador(a) a tomada final da decisão. A sua participação é importante. Obrigado pela atenção. ChristianH, usando o recurso MassMessage.
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Recent changes
Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr. [52]
Problems
Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [53]
Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [54][55]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 May. It will be on all wikis from 14 May (calendar).
Future changes
JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via mw.config.exists() or mw.user.tokens.exists(). You can use exists() or get() to check one at a time instead. [56]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. [57][58]
Problems
There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them. [59]
Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [60][61]
Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files. [63]
Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction, div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces, div#p-variants and div#footer. They will have to remove div. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5. [64]
Some CSS for the Vector skin has been changed. This affects #p-variants, #p-namespaces, #p-personal, #p-views and #p-cactions. They can no longer use > ul. You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how.
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Changes later this week
The visual editor will now work in the Modern skin. The changes that needed to happen for this to work could cause problems for some scripts or gadgets. [65]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 27. It will be on all wikis from May 28 (calendar).
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The Signpost: 31 May 2020
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
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Recent changes
There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos. [66]
Problems
There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May. [67][68][69]
The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed. [70]
Changes later this week
You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon turn them off also in the notifications you get. [71]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all wikis from 4 June (calendar).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting. [72]
Self-closed tags now work as in the HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them. <b/> is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work. area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect <references /> or <ref />. [73]
There is a banner called WikidataPageBanner. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on MediaWiki:Sitenotice so that editors know to test and style for mobile too. [74][75]
Changes later this week
You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets. [76]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June (calendar).
Future changes
A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [77]
Olá! Escrevo para avisá-lo que o Grupo de Usuários Wiki Movimento Brasil está realizando uma oficina para orientar educadores e wikimedistas que queiram realizar programas de educação nas plataformas Wikimedia. O evento acontecerá mensalmente, sempre na terceira quarta-feira do mês, com o título "Oficinas Wikimedia & Educação: A educação livre no Brasil e as plataformas Wikimedia".
A primeira oficina acontecerá no dia 17 de junho, às 14h. Caso queira assistir e se juntar a nós, compartilho o link da sala no Google Meets: meet.google.com/smn-rfkh-kky
Aproveito para divulgar a página do evento, assim como um grupo no Slack para educadores terem um local de contato e uma rede de apoio direto comigo e com o WMB. Caso realize atividades educacionais e queira participar do grupo, entre em contato comigo!
Segue a programação da primeira oficina:
14h às 14h20 - Introdução e apresentação geral
14h20 às 14h45 - Liráucio Girardi e os cursos de Sociologia e Humanidades Digitais na Cásper Líbero e na USCS
14h45 às 15h10 - Flávia Varella e os cursos de História na UFSC
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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
Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.
Problems
There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed. [78]
Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed. [79]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (calendar).
Future changes
Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help. [80]
The selectors .menu and .vectorMenu will no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts. .menu should be replaced by ul. .vectorMenu should be replaced by .vector-menu. [81]
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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.
Problems
There are some new tools to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed. [82]
Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS selectors. .vectorTabs should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs to fix this. [83]
Changes later this week
The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback. [84]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (calendar).
Future changes
A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [85]
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The Signpost: 28 June 2020
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
Últimas novidades tecnológicas da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe os outros utilizadores acerca destas alterações. Nem todas as informações o irão afetar. Estão disponíveis «Traduções».
Problemas
A sessão de toda a gente foi terminada. Isto ocorreu porque alguns utilizadores viram as wikis como se estivessem autenticados na conta de outra pessoa. O problema deverá ser corrigido agora. [86]
Alguns leitores não viram as novas edições nas páginas. Se a página foi alterada recentemente, eles viram uma versão mais antiga da página. Isto afetou apenas os leitores que tiveram a sessão terminada. Isto durou dez dias. O problema já foi corrigido. [87]
Alterações no final desta semana
A nova versão do MediaWiki estará disponível nas wikis de teste e em Mediawiki.org a partir de 30 junho. Esta irá estar nas wikis que não são da Wikipédia e em algumas Wikipédias a partir de 1 julho. Esta irá estar em todas as wikis a partir de 1 julho (calendário).
Alterações futuras
Os temas «Moderno» e «Monobook» utilizam a Id. searchGoButton for para o botão "Ir". Isto é searchButton para Vector. Para ter a mesma Id. para todos os temas também irá alterar para searchButton no «Monobook» e «Moderno». Isto irá afetar os gadgets e os scripts do utilizador. Isto irá ocorrer no dia 23 de julho. Estes deverão ser atualizados para utilizarem searchButton. Pode ler mais e consultar a lista dos scripts' afetados.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
The Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed. [88]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 July. It will be on all wikis from 9 July (calendar).
Future changes
Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more. [89]
Some rules for user signatures will soon be enforced. Lint errors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.
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Segunda edição das "Oficinas Wikimedia & Educação"
O evento acontecerá mensalmente, sempre na terceira quarta-feira do mês, com o intuito de orientar educadores que desejem realizar projetos educacionais nas plataformas Wikimedia.
A segunda oficina acontecerá no dia 15 de julho, das 14h às 16h, numa sala do Google Meet. Dessa vez, será necessário fazer inscrição prévia. Para participar, envie um email para giofontenellewmnobrasil.org ou wmnobrasilwmnobrasil.org com seu nome, email ou usuário wiki e instituição de ensino (se tiver).
Também montamos um grupo no Slack para educadores terem um local de contato e uma rede de apoio direto com outros educadores, wikipedistas e o WMB. Caso realize atividades educacionais e queira participar do grupo, entre em contato por email.
Programação da segunda oficina:
14h00 às 14h20: Introdução e apresentação geral
14h20 às 14h50: Valério Andrade Melo, os cursos da UESC e a comunidade Wikimedia
14h50 às 15h20: Solange Ferraz de Lima, o Museu Paulista da USP e as instituições acadêmicas
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Users can thank others for their edits. Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets who harass others using thanks. [90]
Problems
Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week. [91][92]
Changes later this week
Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background. Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using <translate nowrap></translate> on the source page. [93]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (calendar).
Future changes
Wikimedia code review plans to use GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. [94][95][96][97]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help in Phabricator. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News 2020/24 and 2020/26.
Problems
There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution. [98]
Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events. [99]
Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a browser cookie problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details on Phabricator. [100]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 July. It will be on all wikis from 23 July (calendar).
Future changes
There is a Versão para impressão link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway. [101]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this. [102]
The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck Usar o Vector antigo in your local or global preferences in section Preferências do tema. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week. [103][104]
Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed. [105]
Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed. [106]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 (calendar).
Estas são as mais recentes novidades técnicas da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Informe outros usuários sobre as seguintes mudanças. Nem todas afetarão você. Estão disponíveis em outros idiomas.
Problemas
Todas as consultas para o serviço de Consulta do Wikidata falharam entre 17:50 e 17:59 UTC na quinta-feira 23 de julho. Algumas consultas falharam durante um período mais longo. [107]
Os links entre idiomas foram solicitados incorretamente nas últimas semanas. Esse problema também foi mencionado nas novidades técnicas há duas semanas. O problema está resolvido. [108]
Há um problema com as preferências globais para a opção "Usar o Vector antigo". Os desenvolvedores estão trabalhando para corrigi-lo. [109]
Um erro na extensão Wikibase havia desativado os tipos de proteção "mover" e "criar" no espaço para nome principal (Galeria) no Wikimedia Commons. Não foi possível adicionar novas proteções e as proteções existentes não foram aplicadas, permitindo algumas movimentações e criações de páginas que não deveriam ter sido possíveis. Isso foi consertado agora. [110]
Alterações no final desta semana
O reprodutor de vídeo mudará para ser mais simples e mais moderno. Nesta semana, o recurso beta atual se tornará o reprodutor de vídeo para todos na maioria dos wikis que não são da Wikipédia. O reprodutor antigo será eliminado. [111]
As páginas global.js e global.css dos usuários agora também serão carregadas no site móvel. Você pode ler a documentação para saber como evitar a aplicação de estilos na máscara para celular. [112]
Na máscara MonoBook, o searchGoButton identificador é agora searchButton. Isto pode afectar os gadgets CSS e JS. Instruções de migração podem-se encontrar em T255953. Isso foi mencionado anteriormente na edição 27.
Os operadores de bot podem usar o Pywikibot para arquivar regularmente as discussões. Mudou-se o comportamento do bot quando usa o counter para impedir grandes arquivos. [113]
A nova versão do MediaWiki será implantada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org em 4 agosto. Será implantada em wikis selecionadas em 5 agosto e nas restantes em 6 agosto (calendário).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
FileImporter and FileExporter became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact. [114]
Problems
The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions and content translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it. [115]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 12. It will be on all wikis from August 13 (calendar).
Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [116][117]
O evento acontecerá mensalmente, sempre na terceira quarta-feira do mês, com o intuito de orientar educadores que queiram realizar projetos educacionais nas plataformas Wikimedia.
A terceira oficina acontecerá no dia 19 de agosto, das 14h às 16h, numa sala do Google Meet. Dessa vez, será necessário fazer inscrição prévia. Para participar, envie um email para giofontenellewmnobrasil.org ou wmnobrasilwmnobrasil.org com seu nome, email ou usuário wiki e instituição de ensino (se tiver).
Também montamos um grupo no Slack para educadores terem um local de contato e uma rede de apoio direto com outros educadores, wikipedistas e o WMB. Caso realize atividades educacionais e queira participar do grupo, entre em contato por email.
Programação da terceira oficina:
14h00 às 14h20: Introdução e apresentação geral
14h20 às 14h50: Stela Madruga e Lilian Viana - Bibliotecas universitárias, Wikimedia e educação: diálogos e possibilidades
14h50 às 15h20: Alexandre Montilha - A comunidade Wikimedia e os programas de educação
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
If you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an undo tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else. [118]
The new OOUI version will not work with Internet Explorer 8. This means the wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was reported in Tech/News/2020/17. This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates other problems. [119]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 August. It will be on all wikis from 20 August (calendar).
Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis next week. This is a reminder. You can help by translating the announcement message. [120][121]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 August. It will be on all wikis from 27 August (calendar).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
This is a reminder. All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 14:00 and 15:00 UTC. Please check on the details on the announcement message. [122][123]
Necessidade de registo para editar a Wikipédia lusófona
Caro usuário(a), foi aberta uma votação sobre a necessidade de registo para editar a Wikipédia lusófona. Caso tenha interesse, poderá participar da votação que ocorre nesta página: Wikipédia:Votações/Necessidade de registo para editar a Wikipédia lusófona. A sua participação é importante. Obrigado pela atenção. Albertoleoncio, usando o recurso MassMessage. 12h01min de 4 de setembro de 2020 (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.
Changes later this week
Normally pages can be moved to a title that has no existing page yet or to a page that has only one revision, which is a redirect to the page to be moved. A new user right allows editors to move pages over one-revision pages that redirect to anywhere. [124]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 September. It will be on all wikis from 10 September (calendar).
All MediaWiki API modules will now use watchlist instead of watch. This was inconsistent before. [125]
Future changes
The Wikipedia Android app team might work on patrolling tools in the future. You can let them know what tools would be useful for you or for less experienced patrollers. See the page on mediawiki.org.
OTRS will be updated to a new version. This will probably take around two days. OTRS agents will not have access to the system during these days. Emails that come in during the update will be delivered when the update is done. The plan is to start around 08:00 UTC on 14 September. This could change. [126]
The Wikipedia Android app will send push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will need Google Play Services to work. It will also be possible to get the app without Google Play Services but push notifications will not work. Google Play Services is also used to make the app work for Android 4.4 users. [127][128]
Wikimedia code review could move to GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. You can take part in the consultation.
Dropdown menus in the Vector skin use a .menu class. This will not work in the future. Scripts can use nav ul instead. .vectorTabs and .vectorMenu will also not work. Some scripts need to be updated. You can read more in Phabricator.
O evento acontece mensalmente, sempre na terceira quarta-feira do mês, com o intuito de orientar educadores que queiram realizar projetos educacionais nas plataformas Wikimedia.
Esta quarta oficina acontecerá no dia 16 de setembro, das 14h às 16h, numa sala do Google Meet. É necessário fazer inscrição prévia. Para participar, envie um email para giofontenellewmnobrasil.org ou wmnobrasilwmnobrasil.org com seu nome, email ou usuário wiki e instituição de ensino (se tiver).
Também montamos um grupo no Slack para educadores terem um local de contato e uma rede de apoio direto com outros educadores, wikipedistas e o WMB. Caso realizem atividades educacionais e queiram participar do grupo, entrem em contato por email.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
The Wikipedia apps briefly showed pages without CSS last week. This meant they looked wrong. It was quickly fixed but cached pages without CSS were shown for a few hours. [129][130]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 September. It will be on all wikis from 17 September (calendar).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
There is a new tag for reverted edits. For example you can see it in the recent changes feed or in the article history. It is added to edits when they have been undone, rollbacked or manually reverted to an older version of the page. [131][132]
Changes later this week
The number of times you can do something in a period of time on wiki is limited. This could be the number of edits per minute or the number of users you email in a day. Some users are not affected by all limits because of their user rights. They could soon see the limit even if it does not affect them. [133]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 September. It will be on all wikis from 24 September (calendar).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Editors are automatically added to some user groups. For example editors are added to autoconfirmed users when they have edited enough times and long enough. Abuse filters can hinder users from automatically getting user rights for a period of time. They can also remove rights user have. Wikis can now ask to change how long this period of time is for their wiki in Phabricator. It is currently five days. [135]
Problems
Last year some abuse filters stopped working because of a new change. If they tried to use variables that were unavailable for that action they would fail. This has now been fixed. [136]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 September. It will be on all wikis from 1 October (calendar).
Future changes
You can't see the language links to other language versions from the talk page or history page. They are also not shown when you edit an article. This could change. It is not decided if for example the history page should link to another history page or to the article. You can take part in the discussion in Phabricator.
The link colours could change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. You can read more in Phabricator.
In your preferences you can choose to get different notifications on the web or by email. You will see Apps as one of the alternatives later this week. This is because the Android and iOS Wikipedia apps will use push notifications for those who want them. You can see the preferences on the test wiki. The goal is to have push notifications on Android in October and on iOS in early 2021. [137]
You can soon put pages on your watchlist for a limited time. This could be useful if you want to watch something for a shorter time but don't want it on your watchlist forever. It now works on mediawiki.org and will come to more wikis later. You can read more and see when it will come to other wikis.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
There is a new tool where you can see which home wiki users have in discussions on Meta. This can help show which communities are not part of the discussion on wikis where we make decisions that affect many other wikis.
You can now thank users for file uploads or for changing the language of a page. [138]
Problems
There were many errors with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new version was rolled back. Updates that should have happened last week are late. [139]
Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [140]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 October. It will be on all wikis from 8 October (calendar).
Letters immediately after a link are shown as part of the link. For example the entire word in [[Child]]ren is linked. On Arabic wikis this works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic letters will extend links on Arabic wikis. [141]
Future changes
You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [142]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last week's updates are also late. [143][144][145]
Changes later this week
Live previews didn't show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This has now been fixed. You can also test CSS and JavaScript pages even if you have the live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well. [146][147]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (calendar).
O evento acontece mensalmente, sempre na terceira quarta-feira do mês, com o intuito de orientar educadores que queiram realizar projetos educacionais nas plataformas Wikimedia.
Esta quinta oficina acontecerá no dia 21 de outubro, das 14h às 16h, numa sala do Google Meet. É necessário fazer inscrição prévia. Para participar, envie um email para giofontenellewmnobrasil.org ou wmnobrasilwmnobrasil.org com seu nome, email ou usuário wiki e instituição de ensino (se tiver).
Também montamos um grupo no Slack para educadores terem um local de contato e uma rede de apoio direto com outros educadores, wikipedistas e o WMB. Caso realize atividades educacionais e queira participar do grupo, entre em contato por email.
Programação da quinta oficina, sobre Outreach dashboard e outras ferramentas nos contextos de educação, pesquisa e difusão de conhecimento:
14h00 às 14h20: Introdução e apresentação geral
14h20 às 14h45: Thais C. Morata - Wikimedista e pesquisadora do Instituto Nacional de Segurança e Saúde Ocupacional
14h45 às 15h10: Alexandre Montilha - Wikimedista e doutorando da Universidade de São Paulo
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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.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 October. It will be on all wikis from 22 October (calendar).
Future changes
You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [149]
In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [150]
Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID #jump-to-nav. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either #siteSub or #mw-content-text. A list of affected scripts is at the top of phab:T265373.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on October 27 around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [151]
Last week, links to "diffs" from mobile watchlists and recentchanges were linking to page-revisions instead of diffs. This has now been fixed. [152]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
Since the introduction of the interface administrators user group in 2018, administrators couldn’t view the deleted history of CSS/JS pages. Now they can. [153]
There was a problem with the Change Tags. The software would apply the "Revertida" tag to any page actions such as page-protection changes if they came directly after a reverted edit. This has now been fixed for new edits. [154]
The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias in November. Another announcement will be made once the date is finalized. [155]
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Recent changes
You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser uses very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It could lead to downgrade attacks. Since October 29, 2020, users who use old TLS versions will not be able to connect to Wikimedia projects. A list of browser recommendations is available. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [156]
There is a new automatic tracking category available: Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments. It collects pages which use the {{formatnum}} parser function with invalid (non-numeric) input, e.g.{{formatnum:TECHNEWS}}. Note that {{formatnum:123,456}} is also invalid input: as described in the documentation, the argument should be unformatted so that it can be reliably and correctly localised. The tracking category will help identify problematic usage and double-formatting. The new tracking category's name can be translated at translatewiki. [157]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 4. It will be on all wikis from November 5 (calendar).
Administrators and stewards will be able to use a special page (Special:CreateLocalAccount) to force local account creation for a global account. This is useful when account creation is blocked for that user (by a block or a filter). [158]
The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias on November 4. This change excludes the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias, plus a few smaller Wikipedias with special circumstances. You can read the help page and the troubleshooting guide for more information. [159]
Future changes
A discussion has been restarted about using a Unicode minus sign (− U+2212) in the output of {{formatnum}} when it is given a negative argument. [160]
In the future IP addresses of unregistered users will not be shown for everyone. They will get an alias instead. There will be a new user right or an opt-in function for more vandal fighters to see the IPs of unregistered users. There would be some criteria for who gets the user right or opt-in. There will also be other new tools to help handle vandalism. This is early in the process and the developers are still collecting information from the communities before they suggest solutions.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
You can see reference previews. This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been a beta feature. It will move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be the first ones. You can let them know if your wiki is interested. [161]
From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the internationalisation library. They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [162][163]
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O evento acontece mensalmente, sempre na terceira quarta-feira do mês, com o intuito de orientar educadores que queiram realizar projetos educacionais nas plataformas Wikimedia.
Esta sexta oficina acontecerá no dia 18 de novembro, das 14h às 16h, numa sala do Google Meet. É necessário fazer inscrição prévia. Para participar, envie um email para giofontenellewmnobrasil.org ou wmnobrasilwmnobrasil.org com seu nome, email ou usuário wiki e instituição de ensino (se tiver).
Também montamos um grupo no Slack para educadores terem um local de contato e uma rede de apoio direto com outros educadores, wikipedistas e o WMB. Caso realize atividades educacionais e queira participar do grupo, entre em contato por email.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [164][165]
Changes later this week
If you merged two pages in a namespace where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed. [166]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 November. It will be on all wikis from 19 November (calendar).
Future changes
The Community Wishlist Survey is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Timestamps in Special:Log are now links. They go to Special:Log for only that entry. This is how timestamps work on for example the history page. [167]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from 1 December. Unclaimed projects can be deleted from 1 January. [168]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 December. It will be on all wikis from 3 December (calendar).
Future changes
The iOS Wikipedia app will show readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will first be shown only to some iOS app users as a test. [169][170]
The Wiki Replicas can be used for SQL queries. You can use Quarry, PAWS or other ways to do this. To make the Wiki Replicas stable there will be two changes. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. [171]
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Recent changes
You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [172][173]
Changes later this week
Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [174][175]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all wikis from 10 December (calendar).
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Recent changes
There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too. [176]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all wikis from 17 December (calendar).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2021.
Recent changes
The {{citation needed}} template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added. [177]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Future changes
You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a <langconvert> tag that can convert a piece of text on a page. [178]
Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January. [179]
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