Per signar tos messatges (unicament sus las paginas de discussion), pòdes picar ~~~ ;
amb un quatren tilde, en mai de ta « signatura », seràn afichadas la data e l'ora (~~~~). Cal pas signar los articles enciclopedics. Es possible de trobar la lista dels autors en visitant lor istoric.
Utilizam de siglas de còps misteriosas: poiràs trobar lor explicacion sus la pagina girgon.
Se vòles, pòdes tanben nos dire d'ont venes e tos centres d'interès. Pòdes per aquò modificar ta pagina personala.
Se venes d'una autra Wikipèdia, doblides pas de metre los ligams vèrs tas autras paginas perso.
Pòdes tanben te venir presentar sul jornal dels novèls venguts.
Per facilitar la comunicacion interlingüistica entre utilizaires, pòdes indicar las lengas que practicas — e a quin nivèl — en inclusent dins ta pagina personala un dels modèls que trobaràs sus Wikipèdia:Babel.
Pòdes aisidament decorar ta pagina d'utilizaire en i indicant quinas lengas parlas, d'ont venes, quins son tos centres d'interès e tas activitats sus Wikipèdia, e d'autras causas encara amb las bóstias d'utilizaire: Ajustar de boitas d'utilizaire a sa pagina personala
E s'as de questions de pausar, esites sustot pas a me contactar, a consultar Ajuda:Pausar una question. Per seguir la vida de la comunautat, pòdes donar una ulhada als anoncis o far un torn a la tavèrna.
Adieu, se vòls ai creat un esplech que permet de transformar lo modèl infobox de la wikipèdia francesa dins lo modèl "Infobox vila occatana", es aquí : [1]. Cal copiar/empegar la partida del còde puèi clicar sus "!". Coralament Mertyl (d) 1 de junh de 2009 a 09:38 (UTC)
Es un pichon esplech fach en qualques minutas, es fòrça simple de comprene lo còde, çò meteis se siás pas programaire :
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$text .= "\n|ist=\n|parçan=\n|gentilici=\n}}";
}
?>
Modèl de la Wikipèdia francesa -> Modèl Infobox vila occitana
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<textarea name="text" COLS="80" ROWS="30" onclick="this.select()"><?php echo $text; ?></textarea><input type="submit" value="!">
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Mertyl (d) 1 de junh de 2009 a 12:41 (UTC)
Adieu Boulaur, òsca pels tieunas contribucions, dins los tieus articles utilizas "deu Gers" e non pas "de Gers", sembla qu'es melhor en occitan d'utilizar "Gers" e non pas "Lo Gers" segon la nòrma classica. Coralament Mertyl (d) 2 de junh de 2009 a 22:50 (UTC)
Adieu, non desolat sabi pas perqué, mas ai trobat aquò dins lo document del CLO :
S’accèpta una grafia non etimologica solament quand s’es socializada de manièra indefugibla: Caors, Marsan, Suire, (fr. “Issoire”), Gers, Nissa d’Ausseruna... es benlèu per aquò mas soi pas segur ! Per çò qu'es de questions lingüisticas te conselhi de contactar Vivarés qu'es de segur lo melhor actiu dins aqueste domeni de la wikipèdia nòstra. Ai trobat pas res dins Alibèrt o Laus.. Mertyl (d) 3 de junh de 2009 a 17:01 (UTC)
Gers es la soleta forma utilizada dins lei documents dau CLO. L'emplec es intencionau, e es estat représ de lònga aicí. Se vòles conóisser la rason precisa, la poiriás demandar a Nil Blau. Vivarés (d) 3 de junh de 2009 a 18:15 (UTC)
Una autra remarca: lei formas "extèrn", "extèrns" son catalanas. En occitan s'emplega "extèrne", "extèrnes" (cf. lei preconizacions dau CLO, e de tot biais dins fòrça parlars, "extèrn" se prononciariá coma lo nom pròpri "Estèr", seriá sentit coma una forma estrània). Coralament, Vivarés (d) 3 de junh de 2009 a 22:04 (UTC)
Que farèi las modificaccions. Boulaur (d) 4 de junh de 2009 a 06:57 (UTC)
Adieu Boulaur. Sembla qu'utilizes (per teis articles subre lei comunas) de tròç de tèxte que còpies. Mai lei faudriá corregir (per exemple: "Personalitats ligadas..." o "Institut geografic nacionau"). Remarca: compreni pas perqué as creat dos articles: Ansan e Ansan (Gers) subre la meteissa comuna. Coralament. -Vivarés (d) 4 de junh de 2009 a 07:37 (UTC)
Que farèi las modificacions. Que me soi trompat : Ansan es una pagina d'omonimia. Boulaur (d) 4 de junh de 2009 a 10:11 (UTC)
Geografica es un femenin: Institut geografic nacionau. -Vivarés (d) 4 de junh de 2009 a 16:09 (UTC)
Adieu, ai mandat un corrièr al conselh general e vaquí la responsa :
Adishatz,
Sembla qu'avètz çaquelà rason ! Qu'ei ua causida qu'estoc hèita i a tres ans, e qu'avèm ç'am par estats influenciats peu francés...
Mercés de la vòsta remarca e deu vòste interès...
Plan coraument,
Maria-Francesa RIVAIL
Encargada de mission tà la cultura e la lenga
occitanas de Gasconha
CONSELH GENERAU DEU GERS
Tel.: 05.62.67.31.31
Objet : deu Gers / de Gers
Adieusiatz, espèri que comprenes lo lengadocian, ai vist sul site vòstre :
"CONSELH GENERAU DEU GERS " (deu = de lo)
Mas segon la nòrma classica s'utiliza pas d'article davant los noms de país, Roergue e non Lo Roergue etc...
Mas i a benlèu una explicacion a aquela causida ?
Coralament, Tòni Galhard
Coralament Mertyl (d) 4 de junh de 2009 a 09:46 (UTC)
Que farèi las modificacions per totas las paginas qu'ei heit... podetz tornar nomenar aqueras paginas. Boulaur (d) 4 de junh de 2009 a 10:17 (UTC)
Adieu, vesi que fas de ligams fins a d'autras wikipèdia dins tos articles, dins l'introduccion per exemple, mas en fach es pas quicòm que se fa sus Wikipèdia, que siá la wikipèdia occitana o anglesa trobaràs pas de ligams subretot dins lo començament de l'article. En fach i a ja los "ligams interwikis" que son los ligams cap als autras wikipedias del meteis article en bas a esquèrra.
Per exemple per una vila francesa cal escriure "nom_occitan (nom_francés en francés) es una". Aquò permet d'aver lo nom oficial, e se lo mond vòlon legir l'article dins una autra lenga, pòdon clicar en bas a esquèrra dins la lenga que vòlon. Coralement
Mertyl (d) 4 de junh de 2009 a 23:57 (UTC)
Plan notat Boulaur (d) 5 de junh de 2009 a 05:14 (UTC)
Adieu Boulaur. En nòrma classica, i a de règlas d'accentuacion grafica ben conegudas (cf. lei Preconizacions dau CLO (pp. 27 e seguentas), que sus aqueu subjècte, son simplament una sintèsi dei bònei practicas). En nòrma classica, se pòt pas escriure Haulías* o Baísa*. S'escriu Haulias coma acrobacia, acrobacias e Baïsa coma Soïssa o païsan (mai s'escriu país). Ai d'alhors trobat una autra error de grafia dins lo document citat, es Montesquíu* que se deu escriure Montesquiu sens accent. Coralament, Vivarés (d) 12 de junh de 2009 a 22:54 (UTC)
Bon dia, que vedi que i a ua discussion suber la forma de Gers/Gèrs.
En generau, que cau utilizar dab prudéncia los documents en occitan gessits deu Conselh Generau de Gers, que contienen hèra d'errors d'ortografia. Vivarés qu'ac a plan explicat.
Lo diccionari gascon de Palai, qu'es ua de las granas referéncias deu gascon, que horneish duas formas: Gers e Gèrs. Entre las duas formas, Gers que sembla la mei segura e la mei autentica pr'amor que s'explica normalament per l'evolucion fonetica regulara de la forma latina Ægĭrcĭus o Egĭrtĭus cap a la forma occitana Gers. Ua ĭ latina brèva que da ua e estreita en occitan, non pas una è larga. Donc la forma Gèrs qu'ei irregulara: non sabi pas se se pòt explicar per un petit accident fonetic intèrne de l'occitan o per ua influéncia deu francés (lo francés que pronóncia tostemps "è" [ɛ] dens aquera posicion). La prudéncia que demandaré de preferir la forma fonetica regulara Gers en occitan.
Coralament.--Nil Blau (d) 13 de junh de 2009 a 08:35 (UTC)
Adieu, t'escrivi solament per te dire qu'es la region de Mieidia-Pirenèus e non la region Mieidia-Pirenèus sens de ! Contunha ton trabalh polit que fas aicí ! Mertyl (d) 24 de junh de de 2009 a 22.42 (UTC)///Voliái corregir d'unas causòtas e quand salvèri, l'article i èra pas mai, qu'èra estat remplaçat per un borrolhon... Me pensi que lo poiretz tornar botar coma cal... com cau!!! Desencusatz tornar... e se me volètz contactar, o podètz far sus Discussion Utilizaire:Patric SANS... a pro lèu... adieu-siatz (qu'escrich atal... escrit atau, s' "englòba" la prononciacion gascona "adishatz"...)... I do apologize... tornarmai... per la miá maladreiça, lo miu sempitèrne malbiais... ciao--Patric SANS 5 octobre de 2009 a 09.55 (UTC)///
Adieu, nos coneissèm pas e avèm pas jamai agut l'escasença de nos parlar mas espèri que tot te va plan. T'escrivi sonque per te dire que se fa una campanha per donar supòrt al Chapter Wikimedia CAT e que se te sentisses concernit pòdes apondre lo pegasolet a ta pagina Modèl:Wikimedia CAT. Te desiri una bona setmana e un bon estiu, mercés, amistats e a lèu, Capsot (d) 8 de junh de de 2010 a 21.08 (UTC)
Adieu, compreni pas perqué apondre lo bendèl "los 1000 fondamentals" : es lag, e se fa pas enlòc sus wikipèdia (levat sus la wp catalana, e d'un biais plan mai discrèt. Seriatz brave d'arrestar. --— J. F. B.(me´n parlar)11 octobre de 2010 a 20.50 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu Boulaur,
Ai pas léser de verificar ara - sulpic - de tira - immediatament... mas t'aconselhi de remplaçar pas sistematicament Auvèrnhe per Barbonés sus las paginas de las comunas d'Alèir : la termièra entre los dus correspond pas al limit departamental...
Coralament,
--— Joan Francés B.(me´n parlar)25 novembre de 2010 a 18.08 (UTC)[respon]
Adiu,
Mercé a tu descobrigoi gèr l'iso 639-6. Totun la loa classificacion ei drin estranha e hèra alunhada de la linguistica seriosa. Soi a har lo recensament deus còdis ligats a l'occitan ende lor har un corrièr...
Corauments,
--— Joan Francés B.(me´n parlar)9 decembre de 2010 a 21.55 (UTC)[respon]
Que'ns hè hrèita ajuda contra lo vandalisme de l'IBG sus la wp francesa. Si'ns pòdes aidar (articles Béarnais, Xavier Navarrot e autes) que serà dab plaser.
Good day to you! Could you, please, translate into Occitan the article, containing two-three sentences, about this city in Russia? I’d like to thank you in advance :)--Переход Артур (d) 15 febrièr de 2011 a 10.19 (UTC)[respon]
e't poderi demandar quin e marcha lo model de densitat, per'mor be sembla qui i aja quauquarren qu'ei pas compres (que'm credevi que caleva sonque hornir lo numero Insee ; qu'ei aquo lo numero seguent ?).
Adieu, espèri que tot te va plan. Aviái escrich en prioritat a d'autres wikipedians que coneissi dempuèi mai de temps per veire se podián venir mas per ara dels que m'an respondut i a pas que Lembeye que pòt venir... T'escrivi, e escriurai probablament a d'autres mai tard, per veire se pòdes, e t'interèssa, de participar a una amassada que capitaneja l'Associacion catalana Amical sus las lengas e que se farà a Perpinhan lo 19 de març: [[2]]. Totes los fraisses de desplaçament, manjar e dormir son pagats per l'Associacion, pòdes arribar lo divendres de vèspre que començarem cap a 9h30 l'endeman se te fa tròp justet (pensi qu'as de camin se venes de Gers). Aquí, normalament i deuriá participar lo Síndic de la Val d'Aran e benlèu almens un autre responsable regional occitan. Me diràs quicòm sus aquò, te laissi tanben mon adreça e-mail: ratapenada@yahoo.com. A lèu, amistats, Claudi/Capsot (d) 8 març de 2011 a 16.22 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu. Per lei noms de categorias geograficas occitanas, fau s'avisar de respectar lei formas regionalas cada còp que la situacion es clara: per exemple Comuna dau Comtat Venaicin, e non pas Comuna *del Comtat Venaicin. Parierament: Comuna deu Baish Armanhac (onte l'article deu es obligatòri coma cada còp qu'un toponim es determinat per un adjectiu). Coralament, Vivarés (d) 18 març de 2011 a 17.26 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu mai, Boulaur. Siás a faire un gròs trabalh, en particular de categorizacion. Aviáu ja un pauc trabalhat sus aquò, e trobat en particular aquesta pagina; un paragraf i parla dei cadenas d'inclusion. Se i explica qu'un article se deu totjorn inclure dins una categoria qu'es just«en dessús»; per exemple l'article Camarga se met dins la Categoria:Parçan de Provença, mai pas dins la Categoria:Parçan occitan, qu'es redondanta perqué la Categoria:Parçan de Provença es una soscategoria de la Categoria:Parçan occitan. Autrament dich, segon lo principi dei cadenas d'inclusions, dins lei categorias marcadas a la fin d'un meteis article, se pòt pas trobar normalament doas categorias E e D talei que E siá contenguda dins D: dins aqueu cas, fau suprimir la mencion de la categoria D (per exemple, an un moment, l'article Camarga èra categorizat dins la Categoria:Parçan occitan; se quauqu'un apond la mencion d'una categoria pus precisa coma Categoria:Parçan de Provença, deu suprimir la mencion de la Categoria:Parçan occitan). Faudrà clarificar l'aplicacion d'aquò; en particular, per ara, la Categoria:Parçan occitan contèn 81 articles qu'una bòna part i deurián pas èsser. Coralament, Vivarés (d) 18 març de 2011 a 23.41 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu Boulaur: Manchoria a pas d'estatut administratiu, donc la categoria "comuna de Manchoria" sembla inutila. Las categorias "comuna de Liaoning", "comuna de Heilongjiang" e "comuna de Jilin" deurián descendre de la Categoria:Comuna de China. Coralament, Tuc negre (d) 24 març de 2011 a 12.06 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu, te voliái felicitar per aquesta iniciativa de crear los articles essencials de la cultura occitana. Ai començat de completar aquò. Se me permetes, pensi que serà interessant de ne sortir puèi los 100 essencials per ensajar de los far passar a las autras wikipèdias. Senon, te vòli informar qu'ensajam de crear una associacion [3] per promòure la wikipèdia e que nos fariá plaser de t'i comptar coma membre. A lèu, amistats. Claudi/Capsot (d) 15 abril de 2011 a 07.28 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu,
Los modèls {{PopfrXX}} son tots hèits dab lo medish format tau com ei explicat dens la part documentacion (vededera directament a Modèl:Popfrdoc. L'annada se horneish sonque quand i a agut ua mesa a jorn.
Atau {{Popfr03}} contien las donadas 2008 de l'INSEE (las darrèras pareishudas), e {{Popfr032007}} l'ancian contengut 2007. Quand auram las donadas 2009, arquivarèi {{Popfr03}} en {{Popfr032008}} e hicarèi las donadas 2009 en {{Popfr03}}.
Com as ja creat {{Popfr312008}} e {{Popfr322008}} l'arquivatge èi hèit, mes ei restablit lo contengut de {{Popfr31}} e {{Popfr32}}.
Coraument,
--— Joan Francés B.(me´n parlar)4 mai de 2011 a 04.51 (UTC)[respon]
endeu modèl comuna d'occitània, véder mas proposicions alternativas:
Infobox vila occitana2
Infobox vila occitana3
los dus ende tirar l'encap qui èi dehòra de la carta grafica deus infobox (qui deven començar dab lo hons e la bosòla). Qué ne pensas?
suus Aups Maritims, cambièi lo modèl ende aver un blason "transparent" (shens lo blanc deus dus costats de la punta) e remplacèi la banèra de Mieidia Pirenèus (o de Lengadòc, shens estela) per la d'Occitània
sus las pajas comunaus, avèvam decidit de tostemp hornir en l'introduccion de l'article lo nom oficiau (francés o italian) de la comuna en italic). Sonque ende har arrepè a la practica discriminatòria de la wp francesa...
Ai vist amb la pagina Bòst (Alèir) que l'infobox a de problèmas amb l'afichatge de la densitat. Deu venir del parametra insee, que deu èsser passat coma tèxte (s'ai plan comprés los paramètres marchant plan sonque se son de nombres).
I a tanben dedins lo modèl Popfrdata qu'utilizi pas mai (que cada modèl popfrquicom a una valor 0=annada de las donadas).
Cresi qu'abans de generalizar lo modèl cal testar mai.
Adieu,
Soi pas segur que sia una bona idèa d'apialocar las donadas demograficas. Abans lo "recensament permanent", aviam un recensament cada 10 ans, lo darrièr es de 1999, dempuèi avèm de recensaments parcials cada an.
Après, rai, s'as léser...
--— Joan Francés B.(me´n parlar)10 mai de 2011 a 08.09 (UTC)[respon]
Vesi que sias vengut mèstre dins la reparacion de modèls. Encara sus la pagina de Bòst d'Alèir, ai vist que i a de |- parasits dins la seccion "Evolucion demografica". Se pòdes...
Coralament, --— Joan Francés B.(me´n parlar)10 mai de 2011 a 08.11 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu,
Abans 1956 los dus vilatges se disèvan "Lo Pian". Me pensi que caleré hicar parentèsis aus noms Lo Pian (de Garona) e Lo Pian (de Medòc) pr'amor lo nom en lenga nosta qu'ei sonque lo Pian; --— Joan Francés B.(me´n parlar)12 mai de 2011 a 12.02 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu,
Soi pas tròp per la multiplicacion dels escuts, subretot "los de departament" que son d'invencions de Robert et Mireille Louis, d'eraldistas francés, dins las annadas 1940-1950, e qu'an en general pas cap de reconeissença oficiala.
En mai d'aquò los ligams blaus sus roge son illisibles.
Coralament,
--— Joan Francés B.(me´n parlar)27 mai de 2011 a 15.24 (UTC)[respon]
Adiu,
I a un problèma amb aquel modèl o, probable, amb un modèl ligat. Ensagèri de desfar ta darrièra modificacion mas aquò i càmbia pas res. Se pòdes investigar... mercé d'avança.
--— Joan Francés B.(me´n parlar) 2 de junh de de 2011 a 21.03 (UTC)
Adieu, t'escrivi tornarmai a mai se generalament ai pas cap de responsa! Personalament aprecii fòrça ton trabalh constant, considerable e important. Soi Claudi Balaguer, l'utilizaire Capsot (un dels candidats per las eleccions), t'escrivi per te dire que i a d'eleccions al Board e que pensi que cal votar (a mai siá pas per ieu...) que lo futur de las comunitats de lengas minorizadas se va jogar aprèp las eleccions. Espèri que votaràs per mostrar que i a una comunitat occitana e que participam activament a l'ensems del projècte. Mercés e a lèu, de còr e d'òc, Claudi/Capsot (d) 5 de junh de de 2011 a 15.35 (UTC)
me eprmeti de t'escriver au subjecte de l'infobox de las comunas. Quauque temps a avem agudas devis au cop unteresssants e penible per'mor aquo qu'ei un subjecte sensible. i a de monde autaplan occitan de lenga e de cor qui considera Frackreich uber alle e d'aute qui volen denegar a la Derridar (ço que la vertadera democracia e la realiatta virtuala permet) la republmica francesa. Enta arrespectar ambs, que eprusei de diferencia lo pais (Bearn, Gasconha, Provença) e l'administratiu. Atau se pot pas denegar que lo pais istoric, cultuau o revendicat qu'ei Bearn mentre que dens los heit l'administracion qu'ei assegurada epr França, un estat arreconegut.
Tot aquo enta diser, que m'estimi mei de tornar a la desseparacion anteriora (mei que mei enta demorar sus ço d'objectiu e factuau e atau evitar los conflictes, debats e votes un cop mei sus ua question qui es estada ja devisada (per mantuns qui son partits - oficiosament - desempuish, qu'ac cau reconeisher).
e merces. Que'm vau encara har ens.hastiant mes, entà tornar sus l'egaliatat de las posicions ideologicas, adara ço de plna qu'ei la separacion.
A partir d'aqui que m'estimari :
1) Prioriatat a l'institucion occitana e mei anciana (pais, parçan) e, 2) mei simplament pais/parçan per aqueth paragraf per'mor :
--> Istoric que he pensar qu'ei passat, preterit e acabat (ço qui da un avantatge a la posicion frankreichista).En mei d'aquo qu'ei faus : Bearn b'ei a l'origina pas ua division administrativa mes un feu (un parçan teoricament creat e hidat per Diu a un omi). Aquo qu'ei hera primitiu, be soi d'acordi, mes b'ei pas natla medisha causa.
Dilheu, s'aquo te convenguesse pas, be demorare la possibilitata (totstemps enta pegar a ua certa mena de rigor objectiva) har ua grana categoria Geografia politica dab pais/parçan e après Administracion.
A beth leu,
--Lembeye (d) 7 de junh de de 2011 a 14.09 (UTC)
Adieu,
Faguèri qualques cambis dins lo modèl de las Comarcas (qu'après una campanha de protèstas la generalitat sortiguèt Aran de las vigarias: constituis una entitat del meteis nivèl que las vigarias e immediatament en dejos de Catalonha, coma previst per la lei d'Aran de 1990).
M'embestia que i aja las comarcas de "Catalonha Nòrd" sens Fenolheda (qu'es occitana) mas que de l'autre costat i aja Aran. La solucion seria benlèu de far dos modèls: un de "Comarcas de la Comunautat autonòma de Catalonha" (sens Catalonha Nòrd), l'autre "Comarcas de Catalonha" que s'i apondria las comarcas de Cat Nòrd amb Fenolheda ?
Senon, dins los tablèus demografics Aut Camp i a la mencion 'INSEE' qu'apareis mai d'un còp... Seria de corregir.
Coralament,
--— Joan Francés B.(me´n parlar) 8 de junh de de 2011 a 07.03 (UTC)
Adieu, encara de problèmas d'afichatge. Benlèu deurias trabalhar sus un borrolhon, perque siquenon tot es cambavirat... --— Joan Francés B.(me´n parlar) 9 de junh de de 2011 a 22.57 (UTC)
Adieu,
Avèvi remplaçat 2a per 20 e 2b per 200 dins los modèls pr'amor que la sintaxi n'accèpta pas de cadenas alfanumericas en paramètre. As verificat ?
--— Joan Francés B.(me´n parlar) 20 de junh de de 2011 a 09.00 (UTC)
Adieu. As creat un Modèl:Jostítol Infobox; per de rasons de coeréncia de la terminologia (i aviá ja un Modèl:Sostítol espècia), e lo fach que "sos" es lo prefixe normau, puslèu que "jos", ai renomenat lo modèl en Modèl:Sostítol Infobox e fach la substitucion dins totei lei modèls onte lo "Modèl:Jostítol Infobox" èra utilizat. Pòdes verificar que la redireccion es ara inutilizada, e que se pòt escafar l'ancian nom. Coralament, Vivarés (d) 24 de junh de de 2011 a 18.44 (UTC)
Adieu,
I a de decas dins de modèls que fan que las paginas de las comunas son pas mai legiblas: l'infobox a de camps en roge, e se i a pas totas las donadas fa pas bon legir, e es çò meteis per la lista dels consols o l'evolucion demografica: aver de polidas boitas... sens informacion dedins, a pas de sens.
Se podias primier corregir los models e apres far las paginas...
Coralament,
--— Joan Francés B.(me´n parlar)13 julhet de 2011 a 21.43 (UTC)[respon]
Adiu,
Que vieni per escadena d'anar véder a la paja Houldizy qui ei plea d'errors e qui n'ei pas mei legedera: ligams arrois en los modèls, lista de las comunas deu Pas de Calais mes Houldizy ei en las Ardenas, lista deus consols vueita, esquema demografic dab messatges d'error.
E poderés purmèr estabilizar los modèls ? Mercé d'avança.
Coraument,
--— Joan Francés B.(me´n parlar)16 julhet de 2011 a 07.09 (UTC)[respon]
Adiu,
Me gèina hèra l'empec deu titol "Vilatge de França" dab l'escut de las flors de liri, qui n'ei pas cap oficiau en l'estat francés de uei, e qui non l'èra pas tanpauc abans (que representava la familha reiau e non pas lo país). Ne gausi pas mei tocar aus modèls, mes si ac podèvas tirar...
Coraument,
--— Joan Francés B.(me´n parlar)16 julhet de 2011 a 07.14 (UTC)[respon]
D'ont tiras aqueth "Bussiéra" dab "é" ? En lemosin l'opausicion e/è qu'ei neutralizada e las "e" ne pòrtan pas d'accent. As ua lista oficiau deus toponims ?
Parièr ende "Lòs Seujaus". En la wp catalana qu'ei "Lòs Cheusaus" e que dona com sit http://www.lemosin.net/87074.htm qui a a l,un còp "Lòs Cheusaus" e "Lòs Cheujaus" (suu panèu). Ne'm sembla pas briga coërent.
Adieu Bonlaur. Seriás capable d'adobar l'infobox Montanha? I a la geolocalizacion que se passeja al mitan dels articles, e l'infobox Volcan qu'es empegada a la de Montanha. Es un brave rambalh!Jiròni (d) 23 julhet de 2011 a 14.53 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu Bonlaur. Mercé per las entresenhas, l'automatizacion es fòrça practica, mas demora un empachament: arondiment, canton e intercomunalitat apareisson en francés. Cossí far per adobar aquò? Jiròni (d) 26 julhet de 2011 a 14.17 (UTC)[respon]
Mercé Bonlaur per ton ajuda. Se me pòdi permetre, doas autras questions tecnicas:
Totjorn per Barcelona, capiti pas de dispausar correctament l'escut e la bandièra dins l'infobox, n'i a un pegat completament a senèstra e l'autre amont dins lo canton a drecha.
Aimariái de saber cossí far per aver las referéncias (per exemple dins l'article Jerusalèm que comença de n'aver un brave molon) dins de caractèrs pus pichons que los del tèxte de l'article, coma çò que se fa dins las wiki anglesa o francesa; aquò permetriá d'aleujar e d'airejar los articles e balha una presentacion plan melhora. Granmercé per avança . Coralament.Jiròni (d) 9 octobre de 2011 a 17.57 (UTC)[respon]
About [4]: whatever rocks your boat; I won't insist on messing with your project here. Just thought I'd clean up some of the mess created a few years ago by the "Wikinger" vandal. I find it a bit strange that the article (quite correctly) says the alphabet consists of 24 letters, and then the only illustration given contains half a dozen more, without any comment or explanation. And these additional 6 symbols are really so marginal historically, and such a heterogeneous and open-ended group, that it is seriously wrong to suggest to the reader they are anywhere on a par with the canonical 24, or otherwise members of a fixed set. If I may make one more recommendation, I would at the very least remove "stigma". It was most certainly never a letter of the alphabet. Listing it as part of the alphabet is as if you were to list the symbols "6" or "ſt" as letter of the Latin alphabet. Best regards (and sorry for writing in English) Fut.Perf.☼10 octobre de 2011 a 10.15 (UTC)[respon]
Finalament, après un periòde d'observacion d'un mes, ai prepausat l'article Uranus (planeta) a l'estatut d'article de qualitat. Podètz, se vos platz un còp d'uelh au vòte o/e m'adreiçar vòstrei remarcas per correccions.
Bonjour Boulaur,
il y a encore un problème avec ton bot: En créant des pages sur les communes des Bouches-du-Rhône, il a fait des défauts avec les liens interwiki. Sois prudent avec ce bot et! --SuperZebra 30 octobre de 2011 a 08:46 (CET)
Pour corriger les interwikis il va falloir aller plus loin : là ils sont bloqués et les interwikis maintenant générés sur FR est faux et ne revient pas correctement.:/ Loreleil (d) 2 novembre de 2011 a 15.54 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu Boulaur. La forma d'occitan predominanta dins leis Aups Maritims es lo niçard (lo provençau stricto sensu i apareis tanben, dins l'oèst dau departament). Vau mai, per una categoria coma Categoria:Arrondiment dei Aups Maritims, que son nom siá en niçard (dei Aups Maritims) puslèu qu'en provençau (deis Aups Maritims). Se i a d'autrei categorias pertocant aqueu departament, pensi que faudrà faire parier. Coralament, Vivarés (d) 19 decembre de 2011 a 14.56 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu,
"Milion" pòt pas dar [mi'ʎu] (que s'escriveré milhon) mas [mi'lju]. I a globaument un problèma de nivèu de lenga ce'm sembla. "Milion" ei la fòrma parlada locau, end'ua enciclopèdia cau restablir la fòrma literària Emilion (o Emilhon).
--— Joan Francés B.(me´n parlar)20 decembre de 2011 a 10.30 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu e bona annada
Ende jo lo modèl popfrdata ei obsolèt pr'amor qu'ei hornit en tots los modèls la valor 0=Data (per ex. {{popfr03|0}}=2019 mès {{popfr47|0}}=2018 - pas enquèra hèit - o {{popit078|0}}=2022 - data diferenta en Itàlia).
Lo guardèi las annadas precedentas, mès lo cambièi sonque a la fin.
--— Joan Francés B.(me´n parlar)1 genièr de 2012 a 10.42 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu Boulaur,
Sèi pas si as lejut çò que Vivarés escrigot en La Tavèrna. La mia responsa ei que lo 'timeout' e vien deus fiquèrs tròp gròs (36000 linhas) ende las infoboitas. Tot aquò multiplicat per ne sèi pas quantas recèrcas e calculacions. E aurés mejan d'ac corregir? --— Joan Francés B.(me´n parlar)21 genièr de 2012 a 08.20 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu, m'es de grèu çò qu'es a passar e me còsta un chic de comprendre. Te vòli dire que cal pas partir, que cal avançar amassa e que vau ensajar de far passar un messatge a la Tavèrna e se arribam pas a far res, ieu tanben me'n vau de las wikis occitanas. A lèu, coratge, Capsot (d) 23 genièr de 2012 a 08.28 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu a totes, vos escrivi que pensi que la situacion es mai complicada, enfuocada en realitat qu'o foguèt pas jamai e que se contunham aital, la wikipèdia i subreviurà pas.
Aparentament dempuèi ièr avèm un utilizaire exterior a la wikipèdia occitana, Midom, que s'es fach un plaser a escafar una part del trabalh enòrme e meritós que fa Boulaur dempuèi un brave brieu. Boulaur segur s'es enfuriat e compreni plan sa decision. Personalament pòdi comprendre que i aja d'errors e que degan èsser rectificadas pasmens 1) cal pas se fotre dels que trabalhan aicí (podètz legir la tièra de comentaris qu'amassarai sus ma pagina) 2) cal respectar la burocracia occitana (question de respècte e de territorialitat a l'encòp) e pas intervenir coma un dictador omnipotent e omniscient a mai se la persona es una autoritat de la Fondacion Wikimedia (sembla que siá Domas Mituzas..., pensi pas que siá qualqu'un mai qu'emplegue lo nom...).
Per aquestas rasons, pensi que nos cal respondre rapidament e efectivament a aqueste vandalisme (es un vandalisme, venga d'ont venga! Lo fach d'èsser en naut d'una ierarquia implica pas d'actituds dictatorialas ni mai una manca de respècte, al contrari...) e que se se fan pas d'accions consequentas, coma Boulaur me n'anirai d'aquesta wikipèdia e probablament del Wikiccionari tanben. Pasmens es pas de chantatge (es a vosautres de veire se cal contunhar de pèrdre de gents e s'avèm lo coratge de defensar nòstre projècte, Boulaur a fach e fa un brave trabalh e nos podèm pas permetre de lo veire atacat sus de conariás...) mas pensi que nos cal arribar un jorn a manifestar una unitat d'accion e subretot de defensa del trabalh d'un de nòstres membres que jamai es pas estat polemic (contràriament a ieu per exemple...). I aviá d'autres biaisses de far, constructius segurs e son pas estats emplegats...
La basa del problèma ven tanben de nòstra manca inerenta d'administracion mai articulada e espèri que Cedric respondrà lèu a la demanda que li faguèri de votar per almens un burocrata (el es pas pro present malastrosament) e un administrador de mai per poder gerir l'evolucion de la wiki e los problèmas coma aqueste.
Demandi doncas a nòstra administracion una presa de decision per desfar los escafaments comols d'arrogància de Midom, en considerar qu'es estat un vandal e doncas de lo blocar sus aquesta wikipèdia e/o de metre en plaça una cauma per denonciar aquesta situacion d'invasion de competéncias e de manca de respècte envèrs la comunitat occitana.
Mercés de vòstra atencion e bon coratge per tot. Amistats, Claudi/Capsot (d) 23 genièr de 2012 a 09.24 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu, Ai comprés lo problèma: ai annuladas las supressions, blocat Midom 1 setmana e li ai demandat de s'explicar. Pasmens me pensi que te cal veire cossi optimizar las requestas. Coralament, --— Joan Francés B.(me´n parlar)23 genièr de 2012 a 13.49 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu Boulaur. Lei redireccions entre articles que tractan de comunas an pas de justificacion; fau esperar que lei liames interwiki se restabligan, puei lei suprimir (cf. ma respònsa a Vargenau aicí. Aviam previst aquò dins la Carta lingüistica). Coralament, Vivarés (d) 27 genièr de 2012 a 09.54 (UTC)[respon]
Excusa-me d'intervenir un còp de mai. Aviáu cercat lei règlas d'omonimia sus lei títols d'articles, e un títol coma Concas (d'Orbièl) amb una preposicion d' dins la parentèsi es incorrècte (non conforme ai règlas de la wikipèdia); en mai es tipograficament tròp complicat. Lo nom deuriá èsser simplament Concas d'Orbièl. En fach, la parentèsi en cas d'omonimia es facha per precisar un nom de domeni, per exemple Barri (arquitectura), Barri (urbanisme). Vivarés (d) 27 genièr de 2012 a 10.22 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu Boulaur. Ton bòt es a modificar d'articles consagrats ai Comunas d'Òlt e Garona, en apondent cada còp lo parçan, amb la forma Agenes qu'es faussa (correspònd a una prononciacion amb l'accent tonic sus la segonda sillaba...). Que i ague una redireccion vèrs la forma corrècta Agenés càmbia ren. Esperavi que i auriá un modèl, mai n'i a pas e se pòt pas rectificar manualament cada article. Avans de faire de modificacions identicas e nombrosas, seriá pas possible de verificar que i a pas d'errors ? Coralament, Vivarés (d) 3 febrièr de 2012 a 16.52 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu Boulaur. Mandi aquest messatge en tu e a Joan-Francés Blanc. Siáu a faire de correccions linguisticas (ortograficas e/o sintaxicas) en utilizant lo logiciau AutoWikiBrowser (AWB). Voliáu corregir region Nòrd-Pas de Calais en region del Nòrd-Pas de Calais, çò qu'a ben foncionat per quauquei comunas; per d'autrei, a aumentat lo volum dau fichier non pas de 2 o 3 octets, mai de ... 732 553 octets, per inclusion de fichier (en fach, AWB rectifica automaticament certanei causas en defòra de çò que li es explicitament demandat, e me'n siáu pas avisat aicí). Ai anullat aquelei correccions, que pertòcan Bondues, Brunémont, Bois-Grenier, Beaufort (Nòrd), Bailleul (Nòrd), Bavay, Beaucamps-Ligny, Boulogne-sur-Helpe, Boursies, Brouckerque, Bruay-sur-l'Escaut, Bruille-Saint-Amand, Bugnicourt, Bollezeele, Blécourt (Nòrd) e Bruille-lez-Marchiennes. Auriáu poscut faire lei correccions manualament, mai es fastidiós. Podètz verificar que tot es en òrdre ? (curiosament, l'anullacion fa baissar lo volum dei fichiers ren que de 2 octets). Per tot dire, compreni pas ben (vesi pas sus la pagina d'AWB d'autra modificacion que region... en region de...). Coralament, Vivarés (d) 12 febrièr de 2012 a 13.09 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu Boulaur. Ai mes una remarca sus la pagina de discussion de Fontainebleau. De ne faire una pagina d'omonimia es pas naturau, complica lei causas, causarà d'errors e va còntra lei règlas d'omonimia de la wikipèdia (principi de mendre suspresa). Coralament, Vivarés (d) 5 abril de 2012 a 14.10 (UTC)[respon]
Vèni de crear la pagina Fontainebleau (omonimia) e de tornar a la situacion precedenta onte Fontainebleau es l'article consacrat a la comuna de Sèina e Marna. I a 17 paginas qu'an un liame vèrs Fontainebleau: auriá faugut corregir totei aquelei liames, e aquò auriá pas empachat leis errors futuras nombrosas. Ara, i a un doblon e l'article que deuriá disparéisser es Fontainebleau (Sèina e Marna) (i a pas de rason de precisar; as que de veire leis autrei wikipèdias). Coralament, Vivarés (d) 5 abril de 2012 a 15.41 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu Boulaur. Sembla que i aja un problèma amb lo bòt; apond sistematicament doas mencions "imatge mancant" en tot apondre un imatge (qu'es doncas pas pus mancanta); quora l'infobox comporta un imatge de la vila e son escut demòra encara una mencion ""imatge mancant". En mai nos retrobam amb totas las legendas dels imatges aponduts en francés e que cal ara traduire! Benlèu caldriá reglar tot aquò abans de daissar lo bòt acabar son trabalh, que i caldrà tornar passar après per tot corregir. Que ne'n pensas?Jiròni (d) 7 mai de 2012 a 19.36 (UTC)[respon]
Pensi que la tresena mencion "imatge mancant" concernís lo lògo de la vila; mas vist que la màger part dels vilatges an pas de lògo (ja ben quora an un blason), pensi que fa pas mestièr de sistematizar aquò. Senon nos anam retrobar amb de mencions "imatge mancant" dins totas las infoboxes, per de lògos qu'existisson quitament pas. Jiròni (d) 7 mai de 2012 a 19.45 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu Boulaur. Lo nom complet de la província es Lo Daufinat e non pas Daufinat (cf. l'article Daufinat); es un cas que l'article definit es obligatòri davant lo nom pròpri ; per exemple «Grenòble es una vila dau Daufinat» (e non pas: «una vila de Daufinat»).
Consequéncia : tres categorias son mau nomenadas
De mai, i a d'articles coma Diá ansin redigits : «Diá es una comuna occitana de Daufinat situada dins lo departament de Droma e la region de Ròse-Aups.»
Faudriá : «Diá es una comuna occitana dau Daufinat situada dins lo departament de Droma e la region de Ròse-Aups.»
Coralament, Vivarés (d) 28 mai de 2012 a 18.32 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu Boulaur. Aussie Oc a importat una version novèla de son fichièr: Diagram ombròtermic Esperance.jpg, mas capita pas de l'afichar dins son article (es sempre la version anciana qu'apareis). Ieu sabi pas l'ajudar, benlèu sauriás la solucion tu ?. Coralament. Jiròni (d) 7 de junh de de 2012 a 14.23 (UTC)
Cresi que Infobox AFI dèu pas seguir lo meteis modèl que las autras infobox. S'agachatz los modèls correspondent dins las autras lengas dins wikipèdia, veiretz que cap emplegan un modèl d'infobox seguissent lo modèl classic d'infobox. Totes fan quicòm semblant a çò qu'aviái fach per lo modèl Infobox AFI. Aprèp, se sètz capable de modificar lo modèl infobox per que semble lo mai possible al modèl anglés, seriá çò melhor, perqué lo modèl anglés de Infobox AFI (Infobox IPA en anglés) es lo mai complet, polit e aisit de manejar.
Aprèp per la color e la resta, fasètz çò que volètz.
Per la pagina Vocala barrada anteriora non arredonida, avètz rason, lo modèl Vocala paleta es mai adaptat. Coneissiái pas aqueste modèl, senon l'auriái ja emplegat.
Adieu Boulaur. Lei comunas occitanas dau departament de Char se restacan a la region istorica de Borbonés, son pas dins la region istorica de Lemosin. Ai adobat un exemple per Espinuelh de Flurièt. Quand aurai léser, assajarai de m'ocupar de la lista dei comunas que son ai limits d'Occitània. Ara per ara, per lo departament de Char, grandmercé se pòdes corregir pertot "Lemosin" (inexacte) per "Borbonés".--Nil Blau (d) 19 agost de 2012 a 15.18 (UTC)[respon]
Ai acabat lei rectificacions de l'atribucion lingüistica per lei departaments d'Isèra, Droma, Ardecha, Léger, Endre (Indre) e Char. Per còntra, ai pas finit per Gironda, Charanta e Alèir.
Cresi que quand coneissèm pas lo nom occitan d'una comuna, o cau dire clarament qu'utilizam lo nom francés. Es çò qu'ai fach dins pron de correccions recentas, per ex., au començament d'un article, ansin: «'Mouhet' (nom francés; lo nom occitan es pas documentat) es una comuna...».
Adieu l'òme !
En visitant la pagina Marselha, me siau avisat que l'article, qu'èra pron clar e ben presentat s'en tot d'un atrovat mesclat de curiós bandèus. Nil Blau me diguèt que vendria dau BouloaurBot. Pensas qu'es pas possible de modificar aquò per tornar l'article coma èra abans ?
Sabi pas se te n'ocupas, mai benlèu sabes coma far, que siás un especialista de la programacion.
Dins leis infobox sus lei comunas occitanas, i a, au començament, la formula automatica "vilatge d'Occitània" o ben "vila d'Occitània". Segon una convencion correnta en estatistica (de l'INSEE) e en geografia, se considèra que 2000 abitants es lo limit entre "vilatge" e "vila".
Dins lei mapas de localizacion dei comunas, ai remarcat que totei lei ponchs roges de localizacion s'escartan un pauc vèrs lo sud e s'aluenhan de la localizacion exacta. Aquò se pòt veire en comparant amb lei mapas de localizacion dins l'estat francés, que podèm veire dins lei Wikipèdias en anglés, en francés o en catalan...
Hola Boulaur, he vist el teu missatge a la wikipedia aragonesa. Et volia dir que també estic present a la wikipedia occitana, i pel que fa al meu treball sobre localitats aragoneses (uns mesos anterior al bon treball que va fer lo vostre BOT), em pots respondre a la meua pàgina de discussió d'usuari EBRE, ací a la wikipedia occitana... i unicament en occità, que no ens cal l'anglés com a llengua auxiliar :). Entenc l'occità pero no l'escric espontàniament. Ara cal corregir coses pel que fa a les localitats catalanoparlants d'Aragó, desprès ja tractariem lo tema de les localitats castellanoparlants d'Aragó pero antigament aragonesoparlants.--EBRE (d) 18 novembre de 2012 a 14.44 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu Boulaur,
Sembla que BoulaurBot met lo pati dins las paginas... tirèri çò qu'avèva hornit sus la paja d'arcuelh, compreni pas çò que hè. E'm poderés explicar ?
Mercés d'avança,
--— Joan Francés B.(me´n parlar)16 mai de 2013 a 15.18 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu tornar,
Non va pas. Las pajas son lèdas, ne podem pas honrir enqüèra causas mei lèdas. N'ei pas possible d'amagar aquera boita en baish de paja ?
Adieu Boulaur , i a una fauta d'ortografia dins la novèla infobox: actor de cinèma (e non pas cinemà).
NB:Sabi pas cossí corregir, aquelas infobox semblan inaccessiblas.Jiròni (d) 26 mai de 2013 a 12.15 (UTC)[respon]
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The Translate extension and Universal Language Selector were enabled on Wikimedia Commons on May 20. Commons users can now easily change languages, and translate pages with a friendly interface. [6]
The Notifications feature, active on the English Wikipedia, now supports local blacklists and whitelists. It is possible to hide users (for example certain bots) from all notifications on the wiki. Also, e-mail notifications are now grouped. [7][8]
The first stable release of MediaWiki 1.21 for sites outside Wikimedia was published on May 25. [9]
The tool storing information about languages (CLDR) was updated to the latest version (23.1). [10]
Due to a software issue, users couldn't enable or disable Gadgets. The issue is now fixed.
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MediaWiki will stop supporting XHTML 1.0 and HTML versions lower than version 5. HTML5 will now be the default language for pages created by the software. [11][12]
The software will check if all uploaded files are secure and match their type. [13]
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The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf5) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 29. It will be enabled on the English Wikipedia on June 3, and on all other Wikipedias on June 5. [20]
The Tamil Wikipedia shared a Lua module they created to automate their Main Page. [21]
There is now a test wiki to test new features in right-to-left languages. [22]
The Thanks feature was added to the English Wikipedia; users can now thank others for individual edits. [23]
The new interface for account creation and log-in is now the default on 30 wikis, including the English Wikipedia, Commons, Meta, and Wikidata. The feature will be added to all wikis after June 5. Users can return to the old look by adding ?useNew=0 to the web address. [24]
Videos are now played in pop-up windows if their size on the page is smaller than 200 pixels (800 pixels on the English Wikipedia). [25]
Opening your talk page now marks notifications as read, for wikis using the Notifications feature. (bug 47912) [26].
All autoconfirmed users can now reset transcoding of video files; previously only administrators could do this. [27]
The Nearby feature allows people who use mobile devices to see Wikipedia articles about objects and places around them. [28]
Future software changes
The PostEdit feature is now part of MediaWiki, and will work on all wikis. (bug 48726) [29]
MediaWiki will now be updated every week, starting on June 6. Thanks to this, bugs will be fixed and features will be added faster than they are now. [31]
Compreni pas perqué podem pas auer fotos en es dintrades dera Wikipedia. Aguestes fotos les ac auut dera Wikipedia Commons. Se supausa que les podem utilisar. Perqué doncas avuer d'articles shens fotos ?
Adieu Boulaur. Las colors de las infobox son, a mon vejaire mal causidas. Pensi que las colors vivas son de defugir. Per exemple las letras blavas sus fons roge son de fòrça mal legir. Cresi que las colors roge o blau viu per lo fons son pas adaptadas e que nos caldriá causir de colors pus neutras e mens agressivas a l'uelh de tal biais que lo tèxte e las fòtos sián melhor més en valor.
Nos podèm inspirar de las colors de la wikipèdia anglosaxona per exemple. Que ne'n pensas tu? Jiròni (d) 7 de junh de de 2013 a 17.25 (UTC)
Adishatz,
qu'ei botat las colors dels bendèls dels país... que son pas totjorn bonas tà legir los títols.
Podèm cambiar quauques colors tà melhorar la lectura. Esitatz pas a me diser quinas colors son pas bonas.
Caldriá per exemple evitar aquò: Gideon Mantell e preferir aquò Henry Fairfield Osborn. Pensi que podriám causir de colors dins la mòstra seguenta, ont i a de colors que son pas tròp vivas:
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The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 6, and to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10. It will be enabled on all Wikipedias on June 13. [32]
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The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 13. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 17, and on all Wikipedias on June 20. [40]
VisualEditor was temporarily disabled on Wikipedia sites on June 14 due to an issue that inserted a lot of HTML code. The issue is now fixed and VisualEditor works as before.
Users can now use VisualEditor to add images and other media items from their local wikis and Wikimedia Commons. [42].
The new Disambiguator extension, which was previously part of MediaWiki itself, was enabled on test wikis. It adds the magic word __DISAMBIG__ to mark disambiguation pages. [44]
The newly enabled Campaigns extension allows Wikimedia Foundation data analysts to track account creations that result from a specific outreach campaign.
Future software changes
Universal Language Selector will be added to the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias on June 18. [45]
Starting on June 18, VisualEditor will be randomly enabled by default for half of newly created accounts on the English Wikipedia to test stability, performance and features. [46]
Two new webfonts (UnifrakturMaguntia and Linux Libertine) will be added to wikis that use Universal Language Selector. [47][48]
It will now be possible to hide the sidebar while using the Translate extension to reduce distractions (bug #45836). [49]
e's voleri demandar una ajuda entà saber quin e's hè entà completar la ficha deus autors entà que's posque har pareisher las informacions, com per xexmple entà Desanat.
Merces per avança.
--Lembeye (d) 17 de junh de de 2013 a 12.59 (UTC)
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Recent software changes
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The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 20. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 24, and on all Wikipedias on June 27. [51]
Universal Language Selectorwas successfully enabled on the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias. [52]
The new interface for account creation and log–in is now the default on all Wikimedia wikis. The old look is no longer available (bug #46333). [53]
It is now possible to synchronise local CSS and JavaScript files with the beta cluster. This should make it easier to test software features before they are enabled on live wikis. [57]
Future software changes
The default link to a help page on editing, visible below the editing window, will change on almost 600 Wikimedia wikis and will now link to MediaWiki.org (bug #45977). [58]
Universal Language Selector will be enabled on wikis without language versions (such as Wikisource and Wikispecies) on June 25. [59]
The AbuseFilter extension will allow filtering links and HTML code for page creations. [60]
Adiu,
alavetz vejam un pauc, ensagi de completar la ficha de Corteta, mes qu'arribi sus ua pagina on sabi pas quin e hornir que que sia. E'm pos diser com e s'inicia la pagina de donadas ?
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Recent software changes
(Not all changes will affect you.)
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf9) was added to test wikis on June 27. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 8, and on all Wikipedias on July 11.
On Wikisource, the canonical names of the "Index" and "Page" namespaces in the Proofread Page extension are no longer localized (bug #47596). Please check scripts that depend on $wgCanonicalNamespace. [66]
A JavaScript problem caused the "Mostrar l'istoric" and "Apondre un subjècte" tabs in the Vector skin to be moved into the drop-down menu on right-to-left wikis. The issue is now fixed and links are visible as before (bug #50196). [67]
VisualEditor will be enabled for all logged-in English Wikipedia users on July 1, and for all users on July 8.
From July 8, it will be possible to upload WAV and native FLAC files to Commons, and use them directly on wiki pages ([[<tvar|bug-49505>bugzilla:49505</>|bug #49505]]). [73]
Tech news #26 incorrectly reported that audio transcoding was added to TimedMediaHandler; it was actually statistics about audio transcoding that were added. [75]
Hello Boulaur, thanks for adding the Occitan label "Universitat de Tübingen" (d:Q153978). I like the work of your bot. What is your selection criteria? Why are items like d:Q60166, that already have a label in Occitan language, are left out? Would it help, if I add labels? --Martssnail (d) 6 julhet de 2013 a 15.48 (UTC)[respon]
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Recent software changes(Not all changes will affect you.)
VisualEditor deployment has been delayed by a week. It is now planned to enable the editor for logged–in editors on chosen Wikipedias on July 22, and on all Wikipedias on July 29.
A bug that made it impossible to save VisualEditor edits that triggered a CAPTCHA has been fixed. [76]
Uploading files has been restricted on Meta Wiki to administrators and the newly created uploader group. An exemption doctrine policy is being developed (bug #50287). [77]
Emergency priority CentralNotice banners will always be shown unless users have hidden them, ignoring cookies set for lower priority banners. [78]
Future software changes
MediaWiki will allow choosing a specific page of a PDF document or a thumbnail of a video file to show up inside the
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.
Recent software changes(Not all changes will affect you.)
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf10) was added to test wikis on July 11. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 15, and on all Wikipedias on July 18. [85]
The Disambiguator extension was enabled on all Wikimedia wikis on July 9 (bug #50174). To use it, add the __DISAMBIG__ code to disambiguation templates (see example). [86]
A new version of the Single User Login system for global accounts will be enabled on July 17. Users will now automatically go back to the previous page instead of seeing the "Login success" page with logos. [88]
The software that resizes images on all wikis will change on July 18. Resizing of big images will be faster and more reliable, and the resolution limit for GIF, PNG and TIFF files (currently set at 50 megapixels) will be removed. [89]
Edit tags (mostly used by AbuseFilter) will now also be on diff pages. They include a link to Special:Tags before the edit summary. Wikis that use links in tag messages should remove them. [90][91]
Global edit filters are currently in testing and will be added to wikis later. [92]
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Recent software changes(Not all changes will affect you.)
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 18. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 22, and on all Wikipedias on July 25. [95]
The schedule to add VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias has been changed: the new editor will be available for logged-in users on the German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) and Swedish (sv) Wikipedias on July 24, and for all users on those wikis on July 29. [97]
A warning is now displayed if an edit made with VisualEditor matches an edit filter (bug #50472).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes; not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 25. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 29, and on all Wikipedias on August 1. [102]
Wikivoyage was offline for around 40 minutes on July 24. [103]
The Notifications and Thanks extensions were added to Meta-Wiki on July 26; other wikis will get them soon. [105]
It is now possible to add edit summaries on Wikidata using the API; the feature will be added to user interface soon. [106]
The software that resizes large PNG images on all wikis was changed on July 25. Resizing of PNG files bigger than 35 megapixels should be faster and more reliable now. [107]
Three new webfonts (Gentium, Old Persian and Shapour) will be added to Universal Language Selector. [108], [109], [110]
Special:MIMESearch, which gives a list of files by type, will be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis with MediaWiki version 1.22/wmf12 (bug #13438). [111]
A mailing list to discuss multimedia features was started; users are encouraged to sign up.
On July 24, VisualEditor was added for logged-in users on the German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) and Swedish (sv) Wikipedias; it will be added for all users on those wikis on July 29. [112]
A preference to completely disable VisualEditor while it is in beta phase was added on July 24. [113]
Bonjour. Puis-je vous demander un service? J'ai constaté que le Boularbot a créé un nouvel article qui crée confusion, à savoir le suivant: Brussèlas (agglomeracion). Alors je ne sais pas pourquoi il a été créé, mais cet article est factuellement incorrect car il n'y a pas de "ville d'un million d'habitants s'appellant Bruxelles". Par contre, le vrai sens de Bruxelles est délivré par les deux articles Brussèlas et Region de Brussèlas Capitala. Serait-il alors possible de supprimer cet article et le sujet Wikidata qui va avec (Q9005)? Merci, --Midas02 (d) 19 agost de 2013 a 02.25 (UTC)[respon]
Bonjour, désolé de ne parler pas l'occitan, même si je suis catalan et nos langues sont pareilles. J'ai trouvé un problème avec ton bot ici, c'est pas grave et je vais le corriger mais il faudrait réviser s'il a mis autres étiquettes en occitan au lieu d'en catalan. Salut!--Quico (d) 20 agost de 2013 a 17.26 (UTC)[respon]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
New features
The previous version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 15. It was enabled on non-Wikipedia sites on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 22. [120]
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 22. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia sites on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 29. [121]
You can now use the <wbr> HTML5 tag to say where a word can be cut. (52468) [124]
Gadget authors: you can now use the wikipage.content hook, so that your scripts are re-run when a page is changed after the document-ready event (for example using Ajax). (30713) [125]
Problems fixed
There was a bug where file redirects didn't work when a file was renamed; it is now fixed. There is still an issue with purging, but it should be fixed soon. (52200)
Rapòrts de mantenença provided by special pages will now all be updated on each wiki every six months. This will for example give you recent information on uncategorized pages, unused templates and most wanted pages (see details).
There was a bug that caused false positives for anti-blanking edit filters; it is now fixed. (52077) [126]
The "edit" and "edit source" tabs and section edit links can now be changed more easily; for example, some wikis are using "edit source" for wikitext editing, and "edit beta" for VisualEditor. You can ask for the same change in bugzilla.
You can now edit references that are added inside a <references> block. (51741)
You can now test on mediawiki.org new basic tools to add and edit struck text (with the button for the <s> tag), lower text ( for <sub>), upper text ( for <sup>), underlined text ( for <u>), computer code ( for <code> and <tt>), math text ( for <math>), Egyptian hieroglyphs ( for <hiero>), and to say that text is in another language ( for lang="ar" dir="rtl"). (51609, 51612, 51611, 51590, 51610, 52352)
You can now use VisualEditor with the Opera browser. [127]
Future
Starting on August 26, you will be able to use data from Wikidata on Wikivoyage sites. [128]
Starting on August 27, you will also get notifications on the mobile site if you're logged in to a wiki using notifications. [129]
Starting on August 28, all users with an account will be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. Some countries (like China) will not use HTTPS. If HTTPS causes problems for you, tell us on meta. [130]
Starting on August 29, you will get the code editor interface to edit JavaScript and CSS pages on all wikis. [131]
The plan to use Solr for search in MediaWiki was changed; instead, Elasticsearch is now planned. [132]
Adissiatz. Ai creat la màger part dels articles suls animals e las plantas, mai que mai, al començament de la wikipèdia occitana, i a 7 o 8 ans. Las taxoboxes, d'aquel temps èran basicas e complicadas ; amai, a mesura, de monde diferents an apondut de modèls d'infoboxes novèls e disparrièrs. Al moment que vos escrivi, n'i a 4 o 5 de distinctes.
Profièchi d'aquela novetat del Wikidata per omogeneïzar tot aquò. Espèri atal que se qualqu'un vòl modificar l'aparéncia o la natura del contengut d'aquelas bóstias, atal lo poirà far pus aisidament e d'un biais generalizat en modificant sonque lo modèl.
Mas vos tracassetz pas, prendrai lo temps de completar los esbòsses quand la plaça serà pus neta ; fasiá un momenton qu'aviái pas tròp participat mas vos garantissi mon implicacion per aquò far.
Bona serada. --Cedric31 (d) 12 setembre de 2013 a 20.37 (UTC)[respon]
Adissiatz. Ai restablit la màger part dels bendèls de portals e restablit lo Tnavbar. S'avètz l'occitan coma lenga d'interfàcia, veiretz tanben qu'ai començat d'occitanizar lo projècte Wikidata. Grand mercé per vòstra vigilància en repassant çò que fau, m'es plan utile. Coralament --Cedric31 (d) 15 setembre de 2013 a 16.04 (UTC)
ː Agachi tot aquò sulpic. Felicitacions per tot lo trabalh qu'avètz fach ǃ[respon] M'a calgut modificar lo nom de la pagina de las proprietats en Wikidata:List of properties/Summary table/oc, que siá compatibla amb lo demai del site. --Cedric31 (d) 15 setembre de 2013 a 17.16 (UTC)[respon]
ː Adieu ; las proprietats son repassadas. I aviá qualques mots en armanhagués, los me calguèt lengadocianizar per la coeréncia generala, autra solucion, podèm tot metre en gascon ː coma volètz. Bona serada. --Cedric31 (d) 16 setembre de 2013 a 17.11 (UTC)[respon]
ː Mineralogia fach ǃ Contunhi la traduccion de l'interfàcia. --Cedric31 (d) 17 setembre de 2013 a 06.31 (UTC)[respon]
ː Es çò que voliái verificar... Perdon per la "brutalitat" --Cedric31 (d) 17 setembre de 2013 a 17.17 (UTC)[respon]
Adieu Boulaur. Sabi pas cossí corregir de fautas d'ortografia dins las infobox. Per exemple dins l'article petal, l'infobox aficha "corola" çò qu'es incorrècte. Doncas ai creat l'article coròlla, l'ai enregistrat a Wikidata, mas l'infobox aficha sempre la forma eronèa "corola" . Cossí far svp?Jiròni (d) 23 setembre de 2013 a 17.33 (UTC)[respon]
Adieusiatz Boulaur. Perdon de vos tornar embestiar tal un tavan, mas encara un problèma que capiti pas de resòlvre a Wikidata. Avètz creat lo ligam "caliz" a Wikidata, la forma corrècta en òc es calici. Veni doncas de crear l'article calici (botanica) e de lo ligar a Wikidata. Pasmens l'infobox de sepal contunha d'afichar "caliz". Se podètz far quicòm, mercé per avança.Jiròni (d) 24 setembre de 2013 a 10.34 (UTC)[respon]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
New features
Special:Listfiles can now display old versions of files a user has uploaded. A new link was also added (Special:AllMyFiles) that gives a list of all files the current user has ever uploaded (that haven't been deleted).
There is now an Android application to contribute to translatewiki.net from mobile devices. [133]
Adieu! Espèri que tot te va plan. Fa un brave brieu que te vesi pas per aquí e doncas comenci de me far un pauc de lagui. Benlèu que diguèri de causas que t'agradèron pas e te devi dire qu'èra pas mon intencion de te vexar, ofensar o insolentar mas simplament voliái dire que la creacion robotizada a sos limits e que sens organizacion e mans qu'emplenen los articles al costat pòt venir rapidament contraproductiu; se mon messatge es estat percebut coma ofensi, te presenti mas excusas mai sincèras... Autrament, te devi dire que pensi a debon qu'as fach un brave trabalh amb constància e dedicacion quasiben totala al projècte dins l'implantacion de Wikidata e totes los afars tecnics e te ne mercegi e pensi que los autres, a mai t'o digan pas, pensan coma ieu qu'as fach un trabalh enòrme per aquesta wikipèdia, e mai totes nosautres. Tot aquò per te dire qu'espèri que tornaràs lèu, qu'avèm (e la wikipèdia tanben) besonh de tu e de tas competéncias per melhorar tot aquò en ensajar totes de comunicar melhor e de crear una comunitat mai eficaça e aculhidora. A lèu, amistats, Claudi/Capsot (d) 12 octobre de 2013 a 19.42 (UTC)[respon]
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You can now create and edit references inside media captions. [141]
You now need to press the "delete" key twice to delete a template, reference or image; the first time, they only become selected, to avoid accidental deletion of infoboxes and similar content. [142]
When you resize images, you will now still see them, and their size will also be seen in the center. [143][144]
MediaWiki 1.22wmf22 was added to test wikis on October 17. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 21 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 24 (calendar).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
New features
The "Toolbox" section in the site sidebar is now called "Tools" in English. You can do the same in your language by editing the interface text on translatewiki.net. Someone else may have already done it. [147]
On wikis with VisualEditor, you can now use it on pages in the Fichièr, Ajuda and Categoria spaces. [148]
Problems
On October 22 (UTC), an error in the site settings caused *.wikimedia.org sites (like Meta-Wiki and Commons) to redirect to wikimediafoundation.org for a few hours. [149]
Future
MediaWiki 1.23wmf1 was added to test wikis on October 24. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 28 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 31 (calendar).
In the next days, servers in San Francisco will start providing (cached) content to users located in Oceania. If you are in that area and notice problems, please tell us. [150]
You will soon be able to test new features easily using the "Beta Features" view. VisualEditor will be in the list on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. Another example is a set of changes in the article text style.
Bonjour, la propriété type principal (p107) est en train d'être supprimée de Wikidata (elle avait divers problèmes). Il faudrait la remplacer dans les modèles comme Modèl:Intro. "type principal : personne", qui était la plus utilisable, est remplacée par "nature : être humain. Pour les autres valeurs, c'est moins clair pour le moment.
Par ailleurs, les modules Wikidata semblent bugger un peu, tu peux peut-être les remplacer par ceux de Wikidata en français, qui sont loin d'être parfaits mais ont l'air de fonctionner et ont plus de fonctionnalité que ceux en anglais. Par exemple, on peut s'en servir pour faire des résumés chronologiques simples, ce qui parait rentrer assez bien dans l'esprit de ce qui tu as fait (on peut par exemple faire un test en prévisualisant {{#invoke: Chronologie|maketimeline}} sur fr:Titanic). --Zolo (d) 1 novembre de 2013 a 21.11 (UTC)[respon]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
New features
The style and colors for warning boxes, error messages, and success messages in all skins of MediaWiki has been changed. [151]
You will soon be able to switch from editing in VisualEditor to editing wikitext directly without having to save the page. You can't yet switch from wikitext to VisualEditor but developers hope to make it possible in the future. [152]
Problems
There was a problem on October 31 during the activation of MediaWiki 1.22wmf2 on test wikis. mediawiki.org was also broken, and if you had problems logging in, it was probably because of this as well.
Future
Because of the problem with MediaWiki 1.22wmf2, the calendar has changed. It will be added to mediawiki.org and non-Wikipedia sites on November 4, and all Wikipedia sites on November 7.
JavaScript / Gadget developers
Due to a recent change, gadgets and user scripts that use jQuery UI should explicitly load the appropriate modules, as they may not be loaded by default. [153]
Developers have started to remove long-deprecated methods. You should check the JavaScript console (in debug=true mode) and look for deprecation warnings and their stack trace. [154]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
New features
You can now use the "Autonym" font of the Universal Language Selector (ULS) to display the name of languages (for example in navigation templates) in their correct script. To do this, add the CSS class "autonym" to the elements that include language names. Note that this font only works for the name of languages, not for any other text. [155]
Problems
There was a problem with Parsoid (the program used by VisualEditor to convert wikitext to annotated HTML) on November 4, between 19:40 and 20:40 (UTC). Encoding issues caused non-ASCII characters (including those with diacritics, like "é") to be broken when converted to wikitext and saved to the page. [156]
Future
The Beta Features tool is now available on Commons and Meta-Wiki. With it, you can test new features before they're added for everyone. The plan is to add this tool to all wikis on November 21. [157]
MediaWiki 1.23wmf3 was added to test wikis on November 7. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on November 12 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 14 (calendar). [158]
The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis. [159]
The button of the Search page will soon be changed to be blue and bigger (see the difference). [160]
You will soon be able to add a page name as parameter for {{REVISIONID}}, {{REVISIONUSER}} and {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} and similar functions, by writing for example {{REVISIONID:Apple}}. [161]
In the future, when you hide a CentralNotice banner on a wiki, it will also be hidden on other Wikimedia sites. [162]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
There was a problem caused by too many requests to the database on November 14. [163]
Future
MediaWiki 1.23wmf4 was added to test wikis on November 14. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on November 19 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 21 (calendar).
The new Search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added to *.wikimedia.org, Wikimania and Wikisource wikis on November 19, and Wiktionary wikis on November 21 (except where it's already available). Once it is added, you can test it by adding &srbackend=CirrusSearch to the address of the search results page. It will become the main search engine on Wikivoyage wikis on November 21. [164]
The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 19 instead of November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis. [165]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
New features
The Beta Features announced before are now available on all Wikimedia wikis. You can test new features easily by changing your Beta preferences. VisualEditor is one of those features on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. There is also a new media viewer and changes in the article text style. [166]
Tools developers can now create tools that use the OAuth protocol to connect to accounts on Wikimedia sites. As a user, you can use those tools to make edits and other changes with your account without giving the tool your password. [167]
un problema que vedi dab data es que la nacionalitat es un criteri subjectiu segond lo contexte (Verdi es oficialament vadut en França per exemple). Un cas que'm hè pausar la question de ça que cau har enta ac adobar : Palamède Tronc de Codolet, en premier entà jo sa nacionalitat es provençala (Provença que ho integrada dens lo reiaume dab un estatut teoric d'associacion "egau a egau" - de tot biais aquo cambiava arren, lo sobeiran èra la medisha persona -). De tot biais en lo considerant francès, son pais èra lo reiaume de França e son drapèu, lo blanc. Coma e s'ac pot adobar, e pensas que calera imaginar de conflictes dab las autas evrsion de wiki (per exemple, se marqui qu'èra de provença au loc de frança ?
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The CommonsMetadata feature was added to all wikis. It creates metadata information about multimedia files (like their license) that can be read automatically by computer programs. It not only works for Commons, but for all wikis, and you can use it for files on your wiki by editing templates used to describe metadata. [169]
You can now paste formatted content copied from external sources (not just as plain text) into VisualEditor; this includes copy/pasting from other VisualEditor windows. [171]
You can now open VisualEditor by adding ?veaction=edit to the page URL, regardless of your user preferences. [172]
Many bugs have been fixed, and VisualEditor should also look faster, for example when you save a page. [173]
Problems
Due to issues, the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") was recently removed from wikis where it was enabled, then added again. [174]
Future
MediaWiki 1.23wmf6 was added to test wikis on December 5. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on December 10 and all Wikipedia wikis on December 12 (calendar).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The toolbar is now simpler; all text styles (bold, italics, underline, subscript, etc.) are in the same menu, and the "More" menu is called "Insert". [178]
You can now use a basic tool to add special characters to your text. You can add more characters (useful in your language) by editing the MediaWiki interface on translatewiki.net.
The tool to add and edit mathematical text is now called "formula". [179]
Problems
There was a problem with the "Crear un libre" tool (Collection); books could only be exported to PDF format. The change has been undone. [180]
The log-in system for external tools ("OAuth") was broken on wikis that tested the new search tool. It was fixed last week. [181][182]
MediaWiki 1.23wmf7 was added to test wikis on December 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on December 17 and all Wikipedia wikis on December 19 (calendar).
You will soon be able to select the language of SVG images that have translations using a drop-down menu on the image page. (see example) [184]
GLAMToolset, a tool to help GLAM groups (like museums) upload many pictures to Commons, will be added to Commons on December 17. [185]
A Draft namespace will be added to the English Wikipedia to make it easier to create new pages. You will be able to use VisualEditor for drafts if you have enabled it. [186][187]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on December 19. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on December 31 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 2, 2014 (calendar).
You can now test the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") on all Wikisource, Wiktionary and Wikimedia chapter wikis hosted on Foundation servers. Enable "New search" in your Beta features preferences. [189]
There was a bug where notifications were not sent when the signature of the user leaving the message linked to a translated namespace. The problem was fixed in the software and will soon be fixed on Wikimedia sites. [190][191]
You can now use the log-in system for external tools (OAuth) on all Wikimedia wikis that use the unified login. [192]
If your wiki adds stars or other icons to interwiki links for featured articles in other languages, you may need to change the JavaScript code. [193]
You can thank other users for their edits even if your browser does not have JavaScript. [194][195]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
You can now see the text of DjVu and PDF files in search results on wikis testing the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [209][210]
With the new version of the Wikibase DataModel extension, you can install it outside Wikimedia wikis. [211]
CirrusSearch will be added as the second search method for Spanish (es), French (fr), Portuguese (pt) and Russian (ru) wikis on December 30. Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies and Wikinews users will also be able to enable it in their Beta Features options.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 2. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on January 7 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 9 (calendar).
On January 2, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage projects were broken for 2 hours due to language cache update issues.
On the same day, it was not possible to edit most wikis for about 30 minutes, due to a database replication problem.
Future software changes
The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added as the default search method for Italian Wikipedia, French Wikisource, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage sites, and as a second search method for the German Wikipedia and all Wikibooks sites on January 6. [221]
Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian Wikipedia users will also be able to enable CirrusSearch in their Beta Features options. [222]
Plural form rules for some languages will be changed. Many translations of the user interface for Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian and other languages will need to be changed. [223][224][225]
You will see a warning when you try to delete a page linked to from other pages. [226][227]
You will be able to use keyboard shortcuts in the Translate tool, by pressing Alt+1 and similar key groups. [230][231]
E-mails sent by MediaWiki will include the name of the site in their From: line. You will be able to change this name on your wiki by editing the MediaWiki:Emailsender page. [232][233]
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 9. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 14, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 16 (calendar).
Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons may be slow due to a search engine issue. [236]
VisualEditor news
VisualEditor will be added for all users on several Wikipedias on January 13. [237]
You can now add and remove __NOTOC__, __FORCETOC__ and __NOEDITSECTION__ in the page metadata menu. [238][239][240]
Problems
For a few hours on January 6, it was not possible to edit pages using the Translate tool on Wikimedia Commons and the Wikimania 2013 wiki, due to a settings error. [241][242]
For about 20 minutes on January 9, there were problems with CSS and JavaScript due to high server load.
Future software changes
Wikidata will be added to all Wikisource wikis on January 14. [243]
The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added as the second search method for the English Wikipedia on January 13. On Wikibooks and the German Wikipedia, you will also be able to test it by adding it in your Beta Features options.
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 (calendar).
As of January 16, you can make and use guided tours on the Asturian, Farsi and Russian Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [249][250]
You can give comments on an idea to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [251]
You can watch a video to learn how to report problems in Bugzilla. [252]
VisualEditor news
In the toolbar, the menu to edit the styles (like bold, italic, etc.) now has a down arrow (). The order of the Insert menu has also changed a little.
You can now edit <gallery /> tags with a very basic tool. [253]
You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu. [254]
When you change categories, you will now see them when you save the page. [255]
When you edit templates, you will now see the parameters in the right order. The ones that you must add have a star (*). [256][257]
The page will now be saved faster, thanks to a new way of coding the text that sends 40% less text to the servers. [258]
There was a problem with search on the English and German Wikipedias between January 6 and January 14. You could not see new pages and changes in search results. [260]
There were "pool timeouts" errors on several wikis on January 13; it was caused by a code change that was made to fix another problem. [261]
On January 17, Bugzilla and Wikimedia Labs were broken for about 20 minutes due to network problems. IRC channels with recent changes (irc.wikimedia.org) were broken for about two hours. [262]
Future software changes
Orange bar with new messages
If you have removed JavaScript in your web browser, you will soon be able to see the orange bar saying that you have new messages. If you have changed how the bar looks with a gadget, you may need to change the gadget again. [263][264]
You will soon be able to add a given Flickr user to a blacklist so that their files can't be uploaded using UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons and other wikis. [265]
You will see a warning when you try to delete a page included in at least one other page. [266]
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Recent software changes
Pages from Wikimedia sites now load faster in your browser thanks to "module storage", a way for your browser to save data like JavaScript and CSS on your computer to avoid downloading them again. See video. [269]
The code used to show videos has changed. You should be able to play the video on the page, with the play button on top of the video. If you see the play button on the right of the video, or if clicking on the video leads you to the original file, please file a bug or tell User:Bawolff. [270]
The Special:ActiveUsers page will be removed because it's too slow. [271]
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 (calendar).
Problems
On January 21, Universal Language Selector was turned off on all Wikimedia sites because it makes pages load slowly. If you want to use web fonts, or write in scripts that aren't on your keyboard, you need to add it as an option in your preferences. It will be turned back on when the issues are resolved. [272]
For about 20 minutes on the same day, there were problems with CSS and JavaScript due to high server load.
Future software changes
You can give comments about the new version of "Winter", a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [273]
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 30. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 6 (calendar).
You can now link to diffs using [[Special:Diff/12345]] and similar links. [278]
There is no longer an option to hide tables of contents on all pages. [279]
Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons is now faster, after a bug was fixed on January 29. [280]
All Wikimedia wikis now have high-resolution favicons. [281]
VisualEditor news
You can now see a list of keyboard shortcuts by pressing Ctrl+/ inside VisualEditor. [282]
Future software changes
Edits and files hidden with the Oversight tool will be moved to the RevisionDelete system. The Oversight tool will then be removed from Wikimedia wikis. [283][284][285]
For languages where not all sister projects exist, you will be able to link to other language projects using double interwikis (:ko:v, :v:ko, etc.). [286]
It will soon be possible to use the GettingStarted tool on other wikis than the English Wikipedia. You can translate it on Translatewiki.net. [287]
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 13 (calendar).
The Vector search box was changed to fix old display and accessibility issues; for example, you can now use full-text search even if you have disabled JavaScript. Please report any problems you see. The option to disable the "simplified search bar" on Vector will also be removed. [293][294][295][296][297]
You are now notified when someone adds a link to your user page on wikis where it didn't work before (wikis with dates in the year-month-day order, including Hungarian, Japanese, Korean and some variants of Chinese). [298]
VisualEditor news
You can now set media items' alt text and position, and directly set their size, in the media tool. [299][300]
The gallery tool was improved and several issues were fixed. [301][302][303]
Problems
On February 3, all wikis were broken for about an hour due to a traffic balancing issue. [304]
On February 6, some wikis were broken for about half an hour in total due to a problem with the Math extension.
Future software changes
Some methods from Scribunto's mw.message library will be removed after February 18. If you use them in your templates or modules, please check to make sure that things will not break. [305][306]
You will soon be able to use GettingStarted on 23 new Wikipedias. It helps new users by listing possible tasks and giving help. The new version was also added to the English Wikipedia on February 7th. [307]
You will soon see results from other wikis when you use the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [308][309]
The WikiLove tool was redesigned and should also load faster. [310]
bugzilla.wikimedia.org will be updated this week. You won't be able to access it from 22:00 UTC on February 12 until 01:00 UTC on February 13 at the latest. [319]
The <poem> tag will be renamed to <lines>. The old tag will still work. [320]
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 13. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 18, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 20 (calendar).
The new search tool (CirrusSearch) now gives more importance to content namespaces if you search in several namespaces. [323]
You can now directly link to files viewed with MultimediaViewer, the new tool for viewing media files. [324]
You can read the summary of the Wikimedia technical report for January 2014. [325]
Problems
On February 9, Wikimedia Labs was broken for about 2 hours due to an XFS file system problem. [326]
On February 11, there were problems with VisualEditor for about 20 minutes due to a server logging issue. [327]
On the same day, for about 20 minutes there were issues with page loading due to database problems.
There were issues with page loading between 21:00 UTC on February 13 and 11:00 UTC on February 14 for users in Europe. It was due to a cache server problem.
On February 14, all sites were broken for about 15 minutes for users in Southeast Asia, Oceania and the western part of North America. It was due to problems with cache servers.
VisualEditor news
The link tool now tells you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. [328]
You can now change image display (like thumbnail, frame and frameless) with VisualEditor. [329]
Wikitext warnings will now hide when you remove wikitext from paragraphs you are editing. [330]
You will soon be able to create and edit redirect pages with VisualEditor. [331][332][333]
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 20. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 25, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 27 (calendar).
The new search tool (CirrusSearch) was added to the Italian Wikiquote and all Wikiversity projects. Users can now enable it in their Beta options. [334][335]
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 6 (calendar).
When users enable web fonts by default, Universal Language Selector will now log if they don't have fonts to display pages correctly. This information will be used by developers to improve font support in the future. Read more about missing fonts. [349]
Article Feedback Tool will be removed from the English and French Wikipedias on March 3. It will also no longer be possible to add this tool to any Wikimedia wiki. [366][367]
Wikis using the new search tool will come back to the old tool for a few hours starting at 00:00 UTC on March 6. [368]
Problems
For about an hour on February 23, there were problems with page loading due to a MediaWiki bug. [369]
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf17) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 13 (calendar).
It is now easier to edit templates. Complex tools are now in the "advanced" mode. [372][373]
It is also easier to edit images. You now have more options and they are explained better. [374]
VisualEditor adds fake blank lines so you can put your cursor there. They are now smaller and animated to be different from actual blank lines. [375]
We have improved the tool to add special characters. The buttons are now larger. More changes are coming. [376]
You can now use new keyboard shortcuts to undo the last action, clear formatting, and show the shortcut help window. [377][378][379]
Future software changes
You will soon be able to use a Beta option to show a shorter list of language links. That way, Universal Language Selector will only show languages that are relevant to you. You will still be able to search for other languages. [380]
An IRC discussion with the Wikimedia Foundation Language Engineering team will take place on March 12 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [384]
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf18) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 13. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 18, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 20 (calendar).
You can now view smaller versions of PNG images bigger than 20 megapixels. [385]
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf19) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 20. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 25, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 27 (calendar).
VisualEditor news
You can now double-click or press the ↲ Enter key on an image or template to change its settings. [397][398]
Pages that don't exist will now show as red links in the edit mode. [399]
You will no longer be able to try to use VisualEditor on pages translated using the Translate extension, and you will see a warning if you try to edit pages marked for translation. [400]
You will now see a full warning, including the most recent log entry, when you try to edit protected pages with VisualEditor. [401]
Future software changes
Typography Refresh will be enabled for test wiki and MediaWiki.org users who use the Vector skin on March 27. For users on non-Wikipedia wikis, it will be enabled on April 1, and for Wikipedia users on April 3. If you don't use Vector as your skin, you will not be affected.
You will be able to use the Hovercards tool as a beta feature on all wikis from March 26.
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf20) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 1, and all Wikipedia wikis on April 3 (calendar).
Typography Refresh was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 27. You'll only see it if you use the Vector skin. For users on non-Wikipedia wikis, it will be enabled on April 1, and for Wikipedia users on April 3.
CirrusSearch, the new search tool, was enabled as a beta feature on over 30 new wikis on March 27. [404][405]
VisualEditor news
Blocked users now see the same messages in VisualEditor as in the wikitext editor. [406][407]
The search box for re-using a reference in VisualEditor is now cleared after each use. [408]
New links on sub-pages no longer point to the wrong location in VisualEditor. [409]
VisualEditor's media dialog no longer breaks when opening some types of images. [410]
Future software changes
You will not be able to use the Wikitech wiki for a short period around 16:00 UTC on April 1 due to a server change. [411]
CirrusSearch will become the main search engine for all non-Wikipedia wikis except Commons, Meta and Incubator on April 2.
You will soon be able to use a new special page listing duplicate files. [412]
Deleting a version of a file or a version of its description page will soon be shown differently in the logs. [413]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf21) was scheduled to be deployed to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 3, however it was temporarily put on hold due to localization issues. (calendar).
Typography Refresh was enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on April 1, and on all Wikipedias on April 3. You'll only see it if you use the Vector skin.
CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on over 400 non-Wikipedia wikis on April 2. [414]
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf22) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and all Wikipedias on April 17 (calendar).
MediaViewer was enabled for all users on MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be enabled for all users on the Catalan (ca), Hungarian (hu) and Korean (ko) Wikipedias and English Wikivoyage on April 17. Comments are welcome. [422][423][424]
You will now see only three options when you try to add a template parameter in VisualEditor; you will see other options after a click. [427]
The size changing controls in VisualEditor media editing dialog were simplified further.
The wikitext editor tab will now fold into a drop-down menu in the Vector skin if there is not enough space on your screen. [428][429]
Future software changes
The font used for body text on Wikimedia wikis will change to your system default sans-serif font. This temporary change will be enabled on all non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and on all Wikipedias on April 17. [430][431]
Files from Commons seen on another wiki will soon have a tab saying "View on Wikimedia Commons". The create tab will change to "Add local description" (see screenshot). [432]
An IRC discussion with the Wikimedia Foundation Multimedia team will take place on April 16 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [442]
Problems
Wikimedia Foundation servers were updated after a security bug called Heartbleed was discovered last week. You should change your password as an extra precaution. [443]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
We are looking for contributors to help write a new issue every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.
Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf1) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 22, and all Wikipedias on April 24 (calendar).
Problems with various fonts in SVG files were fixed last week. Files that use DejaVu Sans Condensed, DejaVu Serif Condensed, DejaVu Sans Light, Kochi Gothic and Kochi Mincho fonts now show correctly. [447][448][449][450]
You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for March 2014. [452]
VisualEditor news
If you try to add a category which redirects to another category, VisualEditor will now suggest adding the target category directly. [453][454]
VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear on Education Program pages. [455][456]
You can now use VisualEditor on Meta-Wiki and the French Wikinews by enabling it in your preferences. [457][458][459]
Future software changes
MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Czech (cs), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), Hebrew (he), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Thai (th) and Vietnamese (vi) Wikipedias on April 24. Feedback is welcome. [460]
Edits by anonymous users will now be marked with a new CSS class (mw-anonuserlink). This way, you can easily make those edits use a different color, font or background. [461][462]
An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on April 22 at 03:30 AM UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [472]
Problems
For about 40 minutes on April 17, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.
There is a problem with the rendering of formulas with MathJax. If you enabled MathJax in your preferences, you might need to turn it off and on again. [473]
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf2) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 29, and all Wikipedias on May 1 (calendar).
You can now use interwiki prefix c: to link to pages on Wikimedia Commons. [474]
VisualEditor news
You will soon be able to set content language and direction with VisualEditor. [475]
VisualEditor now works on all Wikipedias after broken MediaWiki:Common.js pages (and similar) were fixed last week. [476]
VisualEditor dialogs now use an animation of moving lines rather than animated GIF images.
Future software changes
CirrusSearch will be enabled as a beta feature on 41 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and the Swedish (sv), Russian (ru), Polish (pl), Japanese (ja) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias next week. This change means that CirrusSearch will now be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis.
MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the French (fr) and Dutch (nl) Wikipedias on May 1. Feedback is welcome. [477]
The mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will soon include filters to limit the number of uploaded files that are copyright violations. [478]
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf3) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and all Wikipedias on May 8 (calendar).
The Compact Personal Bar was added as a beta feature to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added as a beta feature to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and to all Wikipedias on May 8. To test it, you can enable it now in your preferences on MediaWiki.org. [486]
External links in VisualEditor are now in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki. [488]
The template tool now tells you if a parameter is obsolete. [489]
You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData; VisualEditor will add them like required ones. [490]
There is a new type for TemplateData parameters: wiki-file-name for file names. [491][492]
Editing formulae in VisualEditor will soon be enabled for all users. [493][494]
You will soon be able to try a new beta feature to edit text in another language. [495][496]
Future software changes
MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Japanese (ja), Portuguese (pt), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 8. Feedback is welcome. [497]
You can help translate about 100 new language names that have been added to our data source. They are used, for example, as hover text for interwiki links. Send an e-mail to Nemo if you want to help.
If you click on a redirect page in your watchlist, you will soon access the redirect itself. [498][499]
Problems
For about 40 minutes around 00:20 UTC on April 29, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf4) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 8. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and all Wikipedias on May 15 (calendar).
VisualEditor news
A new citation system in VisualEditor was enabled on the English Wikipedia. It will soon be enabled on more wikis. [500]
Templates that were previously broken in VisualEditor should now appear correctly. [501]
Future software changes
It will soon be possible to move category description pages. Pages in changed categories will still have to be moved independently. [502][503]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News updates
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf5) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendar).
The jQuery JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work. [518][519][520]
MediaViewer was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22. Feedback is welcome. [521][522]
VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferences. [523][524]
You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014.
VisualEditor news
VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys. [525][526]
VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like {{cite_web}} and not just {{Cite web}}. [527][528]
VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it. [529][530]
VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit. [531]
The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. [532][533]
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar).
MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.
VisualEditor news
VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them. [537][538][539][540]
A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the File: namespace was fixed last week. [541][542]
VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled. [543][544]
It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed. [545]
VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names. [546]
Future software changes
Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade. [547]
It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard tool. [548][549]
Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax [[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]] will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear. [550][551][552]
You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki. [553][554]
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar).
CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30. [555]
VisualEditor news
Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target. [556]
The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [557][558]
VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons. [559]
There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters: date for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. [560]
Future software changes
MediaViewer will be enabled on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.
You will soon see a warning if you visit a contributions page for a user that does not exist. [561][562]
The search tab will soon be removed from user preferences. You will be able to set your search preferences on Special:Search. [563][564]
You will soon see a label next to the little triangle arrow for the Actions menu in the Vector skin (screenshot). [565][566]
Problems
For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error. [567]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar).
You can now use guided tours on the Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [568][569]
VisualEditor news
You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor. [570][571]
The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content. [572][573][574]
You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor. [575][576]
You will be able to use information from Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10. [578]
On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page migration tool to import existing translations to the new system. [579][580]
You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (example video, example audio). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly. [581][582]
Templates containing <ref> or <references> tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching. [583][584][585]
You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it. [586][587]
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 17, and to all Wikipedias on June 19 (calendar).
You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for May 2014.
VisualEditor news
You can now easily see the target of a link or other information using the context menu. [589]
When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to switch it to re-use another reference. [590][591]
You can now add and edit {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and __DISAMBIG__ in the page settings menu. [592][593][594][595]
The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler; the order of mathematical symbols is now correct. [596][597][598]
You will no longer see image thumbnails on search results pages on Wikibooks and Wikisource wikis. [601][602]
It will soon be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [603][604]
Tablet users will be redirected to the mobile view of Wikimedia wikis starting on June 17. [605]
The special page that lists most linked-to templates will soon include pages from all namespaces; it will also be renamed to Special:MostTranscludedPages. [606]
An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on June 17 at 17:30 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). You can also read a blog post about the upcoming switch to Phabricator.
You can now comment on the draft 2014-15 goals of the Wikimedia Foundation engineering department. [607]
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 19. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 24, and to all Wikipedias on June 26 (calendar).
VisualEditor news
You can now drag-and-drop selections of content, not just files and templates. [608][609]
When dragging an item, you will now see a line that helps you to drop it. [610][611]
You can now only move an image to the start of a paragraph, not to the middle of it, so you don't accidentally split it. [612][613]
You will now be warned if you add wikitext to file captions and references. [614][615]
Future software changes
You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [616][617]
CirrusSearch results will soon take into account categories, the first paragraph and the wikitext of a page. You will also be able to use regular expressions to search the wikitext. It will take a few days for the changes to be enabled on all wikis. [619]
An IRC meeting to organize old high priority MediaWiki bug reports will take place on June 24 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [622]
Problems
On June 19, all wikis were broken for about 15 minutes due to a high server load.
Between June 13 and June 15 there were problems with the scaling of video files due to a configuration error. [623]
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 26. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 1, and to all Wikipedias on July 3 (calendar).
VisualEditor news
Context menus in VisualEditor will no longer flicker and disappear when you insert a new reference, formula, image, etc. [624][625]
A bug that prevented relocating items due to cache was fixed last week. [626][627]
VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the bottom of the page when you try to edit section 0. When you try to add a formula, VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the top of the page. [628][629][630][631]
Links to category pages or file pages added with VisualEditor will now work correctly. [632][633]
Future software changes
You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [634][635]
Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead.
CirrusSearch will be enabled on June 30 as the primary search method on 34 new wikis, including the Czech (cs), Danish (da), Finnish (fi) and Hebrew (he) Wikipedias. [636]
All Wikimedia wikis will be using a security method called perfect forward secrecy starting on July 1. If you see a problem, please report it. [637][638]
Starting on July 1, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [639]
You will soon see block information when you visit the contributions page or try to edit the user page or user talk page of a user who is affected by an IP range block. [640][641]
You will soon be able to use {{!}} as a magic word to produce the pipe character, for instance for use in tables. [642]
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 3. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 8, and to all Wikipedias on July 10 (calendar).
CirrusSearch was enabled on July 1 as the primary search method on 36 new wikis, including the Norwegian (no), Portuguese (pt) and Ukrainian (uk) Wikipedias. [643]
It is now possible to create Atom or RSS feeds for Word of the Day, Word of the Week and similar entries on Wiktionary wikis. [644][645]
Saving an edit with VisualEditor will now be much faster. [648][649]
You can now add a caption when you add a file to a page with VisualEditor. You can also change the file to a different one and keep the existing caption. [650][651][652]
When you switch to the Edit source tab, you are now asked to keep your changes. You no longer need to find the option in the menus. [653][654][655]
The reference tool that adds empty <ref></ref> tags is now at the bottom of the Cite menu, below references that use templates like {{Cite web}}. [656]
Context menus will no longer be shown over items that you can edit directly, for example formulæ. [657][658][659]
Future software changes
Starting on July 9, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. The feature was first scheduled for July 1, but was delayed due to bugs.
A plan to enable CirrusSearch as the primary search method on the 11 largest Wikimedia wikis has now been prepared. [660]
If you use references on a page, you will soon always see them at the bottom of the page, even if you forget to add the <references /> tag (or a template). [661][662]
Black-and-white XCF images will soon display correctly. [663][664]
Description pages of SVG files will soon always show download links for multiple resolutions (example). The links were previously shown only for SVG files in large original resolutions. [665][666]
Problems
Between July 2-3, there were problems with loading pages on multiple wikis due to a configuration issue. [667][668]
For a few hours on July 1, there were problems with uploading new files on Wikimedia Commons due to a configuration error. [669][670]
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 15, and to all Wikipedias on July 17 (calendar).
The tool to add templates and citations will now work for templates that include HTML comments or templates in their titles. [673][674]
The button to make images full size should now work correctly. [675][676][677]
References will now be shown in the default font size again. [678]
Future software changes
CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on the Dutch (nl) and Japanese (ja) Wikipedias on July 14, and on the Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias on July 16. [679]
The Special:Version page will soon show the exact version of MediaWiki and all extensions installed on your wiki (example). [680][681]
It will soon no longer be possible to order printed books of wiki articles via PediaPress. You will still be able to create PDF files. [682]
Pages that use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''}} more than once will soon show a warning. You can use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''|noerror}} to hide it. [683][684]
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 22, and to all Wikipedias on July 24 (calendar).
CirrusSearch was removed as the primary search method from Wikimedia Commons and the Spanish (es) Wikipedia due to a high server load. The plan to enable it on the Dutch (nl), Japanese (ja), Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias was also postponed to a later date. [690][691][692]
The tool that stores information about languages (CLDR) was updated to its latest version. You can still help translate language names into your own language so they can be used in the sidebar and other places. [693]
Tablet users visiting the mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will be able to use a special version of VisualEditor starting on July 31. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu. Feedback is welcome. [697]
All windows in VisualEditor have now a new design. Main action buttons will always be located in the top bar and will use simple words rather than icons. [698]
You can now easily open links inside the link editor, for example to see their target. [699]
Several bugs related to the positioning of the cursor around some items (like images and references) were fixed last week. [700][701][702][703][704][705]
Future software changes
It will soon be possible to watch individual discussions in the Topic namespace rather than whole pages for talk pages using Flow. [706]
You can give comments about the new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [707]
An IRC meeting to organize Pywikibot bugs will take place from July 24 to July 27 on the channel #pywikibot on freenode. [708]
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 29, and to all Wikipedias on July 31 (calendar).
You can now download the latest version of the anti-vandalism tool Huggle.
The cancel button in VisualEditor toolbar has been removed. You can still use the Read tab and the Back button in your browser to cancel your edit. [712]
If you try to use a template which has no suggested or required parameters in TemplateData, you will now be asked to add the parameters. [713][714]
You will no longer be able to edit a page if you can't create it, for example on pages protected against recreation. [715][716]
Wikidata will soon be able to store data about article status, for example "good article" or "featured article". If your wiki has highlighted content, please make sure it is on Wikidata's list. [719]
It will soon be possible to directly create empty pages, for example in the user namespace. [720][721]
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Tech News updates
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 31. Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, it will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [722]
You can now test a new tool to render wiki pages as PDF files. [723][724][725]
You can now download an update to the archive of Wikimedia Commons files (uploaded up to December 31, 2013). If you have free space on your computer, please help preserve the files. [726]
New users using the mobile Commons site now need to make 75 edits before they can upload a file. [727][728]
VisualEditor news
You will no longer see an edit confirmation message after making a null edit with VisualEditor. [729][730]
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Recent software changes
Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, there were no MediaWiki changes this week. The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [746]
Bureaucrats on all Wikivoyage wikis are no longer able to merge two accounts into one. [747]
VisualEditor news
Tablet users visiting the mobile version of non-Wikipedia wikis will be able to use VisualEditor starting on August 12. The feature will also be enabled on all Wikipedias on August 14. [748]
Future software changes
Internet Explorer 6 users will soon see a JavaScript-free version of Wikimedia wikis; JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work on that browser. If you use Internet Explorer 6, make sure to update to a newer browser! [749][750][751]
If you visit a special page that requires you to be logged-in, you will soon be automatically redirected to the log-in page instead of seeing a warning. [752][753]
You will now always see recent changes to the source language text when editing a translation with the Translate extension. [754][755]
An IRC meeting to discuss VisualEditor will take place on August 14 at 09:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [756]
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf17) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 21 (calendar).
There is a new protection level called superprotection. At the moment, only some Wikimedia Foundation employees have access to it. Administrators can't edit "superprotected" pages. [757][758][759]
You can now create empty pages directly. A message asks you to confirm that you want to create an empty page. [760][761]
You can watch the first videos from Wikimania 2014. Some of them are about technical topics. More videos will come later.
Wikidata
After August 19, you can use Wikidata for inter language links on Wikinews. [763]
After August 19, you can use Wikidata for badges like "good" or "featured" articles. Next week, you will be able to show the badges in the article sidebar on Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikiquote. [764]
Problems
There was an issue with ProofreadPage and WikiEditor on Wikisource wikis. It is now fixed. [765][766]
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VisualEditor news
There was a error when you put your cursor directly after a reference list. It is now fixed. [767]
You can now add colors to links in the editor using gadgets. You can do this to see links to redirects or disambiguation pages. [768]
If you use Internet Explorer, you will soon be able to use VisualEditor. [769][770][771]
Future software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf18) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 28 (calendar).
After August 26, you will have a central JavaScript and CSS page. They will be on Meta-Wiki and will work on all wikis. Read more on the help page. [772]
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Recent software changes
You can now test a new Beta Feature to see links to other wikis in the sidebar. The links come from Wikidata. [773][774]
You can now search pages that link to a page. Use the linksto: keyword in your search. [775][776]
A redirect to a section now changes the URL in the address bar of your browser. If "Dog" redirects to "Animals#Dog", you now see "Animals#Dog" instead of "Dog#Dog". [777][778]
If you are testing Flow, you now have a Flow tab in your Notifications. It is called "Messages". [779]
VisualEditor news
You can no longer delete required fields in templates. [780]
We fixed many Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 11, you will get VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [781][782][783]
We fixed a bug where some of your typing could be undone when you used "cut" (Ctrl+X). [785]
You will no longer see empty or deleted categories among the suggestions when you add a category. [786]
Future software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf19) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 2, and on all Wikipedias on September 4 (calendar).
There is a proposal to build a database on Commons for file data. It will make it easier to see the author, license and topics. You can give feedback on this idea. You can also come to the IRC chat on September 3 at 18:00 (UTC) in #wikimedia-office at freenode. [787]
You can give feedback on Media Viewer until September 7. You can say what needs to be improved and ask other people to give feedback too. [788]
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VisualEditor news
From Thursday, Internet Explorer 11 users will get VisualEditor. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [790][791][792]
Future software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf20) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 9, and on all Wikipedias on September 11 (calendar).
You will soon confirm a "Thanks" inline instead of in a dialog. [793]
You can read more about the plan to move to Phabricator, a tool that will help people develop the MediaWiki software and report bugs. [794]
Problems
There were problems with JavaScript and CSS on Friday, September 5 because of a code error.
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Recent software changes
You can now change the style of links to disambiguation pages. This is done with the mw-disambigCSS class. [795][796]
There was a problem on right-to-left wikis with Wikidata log entries. The text was messy in watchlists and recent changes. The problem is now fixed. The same problem will be fixed soon for user names. [797][798][799]
New users are randomly chosen for a test on 12 Wikipedias. They get messages with ideas of articles to edit. The ideas come from what they have already edited. [800]
Problems
There was a problem with loading images on September 10. [801]
VisualEditor news
If you don't select text when you add a link, the link now shows a number. [802]
The citation tool no longer offers to reuse a citation if there are none on the page yet. [803][804]
You can now use help buttons in the "Paramètres de la pagina" menu to see what the options are for. [805]
Future software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf21) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 16, and on all Wikipedias on September 18 (calendar).
These changes are coming with the new version:
If you use Internet Explorer 7, JavaScript will no longer work. JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work in that browser. You should update to a newer browser. [806][807][808]
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Recent software changes
You can test a new Beta Feature called HHVM. It should make editing faster. Please report bugs if you see them. [809]
Problems
There was a problem on the English Wikipedia on September 19. It was due to edits on a template used on many pages.
Sites were down for users in the Pacific area around 7:00 UTC on September 20. It was due to a problem in the San Francisco data center.
There were two bad bugs messing up articles in some browsers in VisualEditor. We fixed the bugs and updated the sites. [810][811]
Software changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf22) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 23, and on all Wikipedias on September 25 (calendar).
If you have more than 2000 notifications, the oldest ones will be removed.[812][813]
In the "Vector" skin, the icon used for users will show a neutral gender. [814][815]
The VisualEditor template tool now tells you if a required field is missing. [816]
The "Cancel" button of the VisualEditor save window is now called "Resume editing". This shows that you can still edit and you won't lose your changes. [817]
There are new keyboard shortcuts in VisualEditor. Use Ctrl+Shift+6 for code and Ctrl+Shift+5 for strikethrough. [818][819]
In VisualEditor, you can now see that you are switching to the source editing mode. Before, it was not clear it was happening. [820]
Future site changes
You can see a plan for the move to Phabricator. It's the new tool to track bugs. A guided tour will be done via video on September 24. [821]
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There are now many more translations for language names. [824]
Software changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf1) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 30, and on all Wikipedias on October 2 (calendar).
Errors from Scribunto (Lua) are now shown on the page. Before, you had to click on "Script error" to see them. [825][826]
You can add an "autovalue" for a field in TemplateData. When users add the template to a page, the value will be added automatically. An example is when a clean-up template shows the date it was added. [827]
If you change a user preference but don't save it, it now asks if you want to save it. [828][829]
The PDF export tool has changed. The new one has better language support but it doesn't offer ZIM and EPUB formats. [830]
JavaScript authors: Many old methods will be removed soon. Please check your scripts and gadgets and replace the old methods by the new ones if needed. [831]
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Some wikis have a template to track bugs in Bugzilla. You should update it to work with Phabricator. You can look at the one on mediawiki.org to see how. [834][835]
A new tool can now create thumbnails of large TIFF images. This concerns files larger than 50 megapixels. These thumbnails are also sharpened. You can comment on Commons. [837]
The Media Viewer tool has a clearer link to the file page. It also has buttons to download, share and embed the file. You can enlarge images by clicking on them. [838]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf2) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 7 October, and on all Wikipedias from 9 October (calendar).
If you make a code mistake when editing a Lua script, you won't be able to save your edit. [839][840]
We fixed some more Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 10, you will be able to use VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [841]
On Thursday, the tool to edit TemplateData will come to 30 more wikis. [842][843]
You can help sort bugs in the Book and PDF export tool on October 8. [844]
1% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [845]
Future changes
You can look at the plan of the Mobile team for their future work. [846]
More changes to Media Viewer are coming. It will be easier to disable it, and you will see the caption below the image. [847][848]
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The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf3) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 9 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 14 October, and on all Wikipedias from 16 October (calendar).
5% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [853]
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Recent changes
You can test a new system to see math using MathML. Go to your display options and choose "MathML".
You can add badges in Wikidata for quality articles and featured lists. [857][858]
File information cleanup
You can join a wiki project to help tools read file information. It will help people reuse files.
See how to fix metadata. You can fix it by adding markers to templates and adding templates to files.
You can see a list of files missing machine-readable information on your wiki.
Developers fixed a security problem. If you use Internet Explorer 6, you won't be able to log in any more. You should use a newer browser. [860]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf4) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 21, and on all Wikipedias from October 23 (calendar).
10% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [861]
If you add the same parameter twice in a template, it now puts the page in a tracking category. [862][863]
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Problems
There was an issue with files from Commons on October 21. You could only see those with names between 140 and 159 characters by visiting Commons itself. [864]
There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It was fixed quickly. [865]
There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [866]
Software changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every Wednesday, instead of every Thursday. [867]
The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
VisualEditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them. [871]
VisualEditor now opens faster when you click "edit". [872]
The rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages. Interface translations are currently not being updated from translatewiki.net; this process will start again on November 6. [873]
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There was a bug in VisualEditor with Internet Explorer. It hid tools like the link editor when you opened them. The bug was fixed on Monday. [877]
Issues with the new search tool caused geo data code to show up on pages on Monday and Friday. The mobile "nearby" tool was also broken. The problem is now fixed. [878][879][880]
HHVM caused server issues on Thursday. They are now fixed.
Software changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4, and on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).
Some wikis have icons at the top of a page to show if it is protected or featured. Icons show up using CSS. You can now use the <indicator> tag in these templates instead to add the icons. [881][882]
VisualEditor now tells you if you're editing a re-used reference. This helps you avoid changing it if you just want to add a new one. [883]
The icons in VisualEditor's template editor tool for adding more fields are back, along with other fixes. [884][885][886][887][888]
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Recent software changes
You may see a new tool on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [893][894]
You can join two IRC chats this week to learn more about the file cleanup project. One will be on Wednesday at 18:00 (UTC) and the other on Thursday at 04:00 (UTC). You can ask questions during the chat if you need help to fix files on your wiki.
You can see a list of files to fix on the Labs tool. You can report bugs and ask questions on the talk page.
Problems
Wikimedia Labs was broken for a few hours on Thursday. It was due to a hardware problem. [896]
Software changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf7) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11, and on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).
You can now use more editing tools for tables in VisualEditor. You can add rows and columns, merge cells, and edit table captions. [897][898]
The style and insert menus in the toolbar of VisualEditor now show fewer tools. This helps you see the most common tasks. You can see all items by clicking "More". [899]
The way windows inside VisualEditor work has changed. VisualEditor should be faster and have fewer bugs. [900]
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Software changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf8) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 12. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18, and on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).
The new search tool ("CirrusSearch") will be on the English Wikipedia from November 19. [901]
Move from Bugzilla to Phabricator
The tool to track bugs will change on November 21.
You won't be able to add or edit bugs between November 21 and November 24.
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Recent changes
The move from Bugzilla to Phabricator is done. You can now report bugs in Phabricator. [903]
Problems
There was a problem when editing tables in VisualEditor. VisualEditor was trying to fix bad values for the colspan or rowspan option. VisualEditor now leaves the bad values to avoid making things worse. This was fixed on November 17. [904]
Software changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf9) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 19. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 25, and on all Wikipedias from November 26 (calendar).
You will be able to try VisualEditor on many new wikis for the first time. After November 26, VisualEditor will become available on Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews wikis. You can find it in your Beta options. [905]
VisualEditor now tells you if your edit needs to be approved. [906]
You can now use VisualEditor's tools directly when you resume editing after closing the save window. [907]
VisualEditor's table editing tools now work better in right-to-left languages. [908][909]
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Recent software changes
All users are now getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [910]
You can join a video chat about Phabricator on December 11 at 18:00 (UTC). Phabricator is the new tool to report issues. [911]
Problems
There was a problem with Phabricator on November 29. It was due to a network issue. [912]
Software changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf11) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 10 (calendar). [913]
You can now exit VisualEditor by pressing the "Esc" key. [914]
It is now easier to use VisualEditor with IMEs. Typing in Malayalam now works better. [915][916]
The new version of OOjs UI fixed many issues with the size and layout of buttons in dialogs. [917][918][919]
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Recent software changes
You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [923]
You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects. [924]
You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.
Software changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf12) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar). [925]
You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu, Ctrl+F or Cmd+F. [926]
VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold. [927]
The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change. [928]
Future changes
The star image of the watchlist may change soon. [929][930]
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Recent software changes
The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private. [933]
Software changes this week
There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6. [934]
Future changes
The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations. [935]
A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis. [936]
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Software changes
There are no technical changes this week.
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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 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. [937]
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. [938]
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. [939]
The search and replace tool in VisualEditor is now much faster in long pages. [940]
The TemplateData editor now uses the same design as VisualEditor. [941][942][943]
The thumb option is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar. [944]
Future changes
You can sign up to answer questions from designers. It will help them make editing easier. [945]
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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.[946][947]
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. [948]
Software changes this week
There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings. [949]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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. [954]
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. [955]
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. [956][957]
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MediaWiki was reverted to the previous version on February 4. It was because of a performance issue. It was restored later. [959]
UploadWizard was broken on February 4 because of the revert of MediaWiki. [960]
All sites were broken for 30 minutes on February 5. It was due to a network problem. [961]
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. [962][963][964]
You can search for media files in VisualEditor more easily. Images are bigger and you see the size and license. [965][966]
It is easier to review your changes when you save the page in VisualEditor. The window is wider. [967]
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. [968]
In the future you will be able to have personal lists of articles on the mobile site. [969]
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).
You can now change the order of categories in VisualEditor using drag-and-drop. [973]
In VisualEditor, you now need to make a change before you can "Apply Changes" to citations and templates. [974]
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. [975]
Meetings
The VisualEditor Team had their first public bug triage meeting on February 11. They will post the results on the meeting page. [976]
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. [977]
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 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. [983]
It is now easier to see when a button is disabled in VisualEditor. [984]
Sometimes when you copy-pasted a template in VisualEditor, it was replaced by HTML. This problem is now fixed. [985]
Tools in Labs will stop working for a few hours on February 24. [986]
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. [987]
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Recent software changes
A Lua function to use Wikidata has changed. You need to update the pages that use it. [988]
You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Uzbek and Minangkabau. You need to enable it in your Beta options.
You can now hide banners if you don't have an account. [989][990]
Software changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 4 (calendar).
You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Punjabi and Kyrgyz. You can ask for the tool in other languages.
Editing the fake blank line in VisualEditor is now simpler. This change also fixed a few bugs. [991][992][993][994]
The TemplateData editor now warns you if a related page already has TemplateData. [995]
The TemplateData table now tells you if a template doesn't take any parameters. [996]
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 4 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join technical meetings in France and Mexico this year. You will be able to ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [997]
Future changes
You will be able to get a direct link for a section of a page. [998]
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Recent changes
You can now create books on almost all wikis. It doesn't work yet on wikis using the language converter. [999][1 000]
VisualEditor had problems with categories in Safari. It sometimes moved or removed the categories. The issue is now fixed. [1 001][1 002][1 003]
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. [1 004][1 005]
The feedback tool in VisualEditor now looks like the other tools. It also asks for information about your browser to help fix bugs. [1 006][1 007]
You now see the VisualEditor toolbar even if the rest of the page is still loading. [1 008][1 009]
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. [1 010][1 011]
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. [1 012]
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Recent changes
The servers that resize images are using new software. You should report new problems that you notice with images. [1 015]
It is now easier to add special characters in VisualEditor. You can edit the list of characters for your wiki. [1 017][1 018]
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. [1 019][1 020]
You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in TemplateData. [1 021][1 022]
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. [1 023][1 024]
You can comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [1 025]
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. [1 027]
VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor. [1 028][1 029][1 030]
When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it. [1 031]
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. [1 032]
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Recent changes
You can now hide site banners even if you don't have an account. [1 033]
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. [1 034][1 035][1 036]
All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser. [1 037]
You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [1 038]
VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly. [1 039]
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. [1 040]
You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account. [1 041]
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. [1 042]
You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page. [1 043]
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.
Latest tech 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. [1 049]
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. [1 059]
Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [1 060][1 061]
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. [1 062]
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. [1 063]
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You can now use the new translation tool on 22 Wikipedias. You now see the tool the first time you create a new page. [1 064]
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. [1 065][1 066]
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. [1 069][1 070]
All users can now test link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias. [1 071]
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.
Latest tech 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. [1 072]
VisualEditor sometimes showed empty warnings for wikis using Flagged Revisions. This is now fixed on all wikis. [1 073]
You can get the new version of the Wikipedia app for iOS. With it you can share facts with your friends. [1 074]
If you write JavaScript, you should stop using importScript and importStylesheet. [1 075]
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. [1 077][1 078][1 079]
If your wiki has the auto-fill tool for citations, you can now use it when you edit a reference. [1 080]
You can now give examples for template options in TemplateData. [1 081]
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.
Latest tech 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. [1 084][1 085]
You can read a report from experts who tested the security of MediaWiki. [1 086]
There was a problem between VisualEditor and an antivirus software. It is now fixed. [1 087]
You can help test VisualEditor to see if it works in your language. [1 088]
Problems
Some Labs tools had problems due to a software bug. [1 089]
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. [1 090]
You now see more information when you search for a template in VisualEditor. [1 091]
You can now cancel when you add citations on desktop, or edit links on mobile, in VisualEditor. [1 092]
You can now see the list of other formats for videos only after they're ready. [1 093]
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.
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.
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There was a rare problem with VisualEditor. The text of another wiki could be added to your edit. The issue is now fixed. [1 095][1 096]
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. [1 097]
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. [1 099]
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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. [1 100][1 101][1 102]
You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community. [1 103]
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. [1 104][1 105]
Problems
There was a problem that caused slow editing. [1 106]
Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed. [1 107]
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. [1 108][1 109]
You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons. [1 110]
When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link. [1 111]
When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match. [1 112]
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.
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 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. [1 113]
You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [1 114]
The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [1 115]
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.
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. [1 120]
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.
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. [1 124]
Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [1 125]
Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [1 126][1 127]
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. [1 128]
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.
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). [1 129][1 130]
If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [1 131]
When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [1 132]
The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [1 133]
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.
Latest tech 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. [1 136]
Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [1 137]
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.
Latest tech 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. [1 143][1 144]
You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [1 145]
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. [1 152][1 153][1 154]
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.
Latest tech 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. [1 155]
When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [1 157]
The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [1 158][1 159][1 160]
You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [1 161]
Problems
JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [1 162]
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. [1 163]
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. [1 164]
If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password. [1 165]
Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for action=query doesn't work any more. [1 166]
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. [1 167]
Latest tech 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. [1 168]
Problems
The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets. [1 169]
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. [1 170][1 171]
You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool. [1 172]
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.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes. [1 174]
There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes. [1 175]
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. [1 176]
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. [1 177]
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. [1 178]
Latest tech 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. [1 179]
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. [1 184]
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. [1 185]
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.
Latest tech 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. [1 186]
Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look. [1 187][1 188][1 189][1 190]
The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [1 191]
MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [1 192]
Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [1 193]
Problems
There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [1 194]
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.
Latest tech 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. [1 196]
The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [1 197]
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. [1 198]
You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [1 199]
It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [1 200]
You can no longer use document.write on Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix. [1 203][1 204]
The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [1 205]
Problems
More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [1 206]
Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [1 207]
Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [1 208]
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. [1 209]
You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [1 210]
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. [1 211]
Latest tech 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. [1 212][1 213][1 214]
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. [1 215]
Problems
Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [1 216][1 217]
On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [1 218]
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. [1 219]
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.
Latest tech 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. [1 220]
Problems
There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed. [1 221]
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.
Latest tech 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. [1 222][1 223]
The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [1 224]
VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead. [1 225]
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. [1 227]
Latest tech 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. [1 228]
A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [1 229]
You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [1 230]
The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [1 232][1 233]
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. [1 234]
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. [1 235][1 236]
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. [1 237]
Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [1 238][1 239]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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. [1 241]
Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [1 242][1 243]
The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [1 245]
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. [1 246]
The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [1 247]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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. [1 250][1 251][1 252][1 253]
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. [1 254]
The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [1 255]
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. [1 256]
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. [1 257][1 258]
UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [1 259]
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. [1 260]
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. [1 261]
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 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.
Latest tech 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. [1 263]
UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [1 264]
You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [1 265]
When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [1 266]
You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [1 267]
The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [1 268]
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. [1 269]
Problems
Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [1 270][1 271]
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. [1 272]
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. [1 273]
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.
Latest tech 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. [1 275]
The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [1 276]
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. [1 277]
UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [1 278]
A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [1 279]
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.
Latest tech 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. [1 280]
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. [1 281]
Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [1 282]
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.
Latest tech 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). [1 283]
Problems
A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [1 284]
Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [1 285]
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. [1 286]
Changes this week
Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [1 287]
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.
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. [1 292]
You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "Importar un fichièr" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor. [1 293][1 294]
When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [1 295][1 296]
Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [1 297]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [1 299]
Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [1 300]
Problems
On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [1 301]
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.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [1 305]
JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [1 306]
Problems
Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [1 307]
Changes this week
Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [1 308]
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.
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. [1 311]
Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [1 312]
Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [1 313]
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. [1 314][1 315]
Latest tech 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.
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. [1 317]
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. [1 318]
Changes this week
Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [1 319][1 320]
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.
Latest tech 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. [1 323]
Problems
Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [1 324]
Changes this week
You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [1 325]
IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [1 326]
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. [1 327]
It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [1 328]
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. [1 331]
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.
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. [1 333]
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.
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.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Wikimedia no longer uses visitor statistics from comScore. [1 336]
Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia if you use Internet Explorer 8, 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. [1 341][1 342]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. [1 343]
The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab. [1 344][1 345]
There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [1 346][1 347]
The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [1 348]
Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis. [1 349]
Changes this week
The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving. [1 350]
MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change. [1 351]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is governance model. The meeting will be on 20 January at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech 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 follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [1 352][1 353]
Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [1 354]
Changes this week
You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [1 355]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [1 356]
The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [1 357]
Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [1 358]
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
Sites with a wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [1 359]
Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [1 360][1 361]
Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [1 362]
Changes this week
The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [1 363]
Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [1 364][1 365]
The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [1 366]
The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [1 367][1 368][1 369]
The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [1 370][1 371]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead. [1 372]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [1 374]
RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [1 375]
Changes this week
Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [1 376][1 377]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [1 378][1 379]
Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [1 380][1 381][1 382]
Latest tech 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 edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [1 383]
A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [1 385][1 386]
Changes this week
There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [1 387][1 388]
Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [1 389]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).
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 16 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [1 390]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
There was no new MediaWiki version last week. Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week instead. This is because of a bug that made saving pages take longer time. [1 393][1 394]
Changes this week
After February 23, you can use Wikidata for inter-language links on Wikiversity. [1 395]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 23 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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 Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
The visual editor now follows the TemplateData format setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [1 396][1 397]
The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [1 398][1 399]
Changes this week
On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences. [1 400]
Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [1 401]
Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [1 402]
Meetings
Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project. [1 403]
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 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB. [1 404]
Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one. [1 405]
The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the Eqiad cluster have now been upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again because of this. [1 406]
It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app. [1 407]
Bare attributes in tags now parse according to the HTML5 specifications. <pages from= to= section=1> will parse as <pages from="to=" section="1"> instead of <pages from="" to="" section="1"> as it used to. Please use <pages from="" to="" section=1> or <pages section=1> instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on Wikisource projects. [1 408]
Problems
Phabricator has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now. [1 409]
The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title. [1 410]
The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource. [1 411]
You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of contents. This should be fixed soon. [1 412]
Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes. [1 413]
Changes this week
Cross-wiki notifications will be enabled as a beta feature on all wikis on 10 March. You will be able to get notifications when something happens on another Wikimedia wiki. [1 414]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).
Wikivoyages will get the Kartographer extension. Kartographer will allow <mapframe> and <maplink> tags in an article to insert an interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas and suggestions to the Maps talk page. If you find any bugs, you can report them in Phabricator. [1 415]
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 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [1 416]
The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The date for this might change. [1 417]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The mobile web interface no longer suggests HiDPI thumbnails. This is to take up less bandwidth on slow or expensive connections. [1 418]
Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 22 March and 24 March. This could be postponed to April 18. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. Because of a test, there will also be a couple of minutes where you can't edit the wikis on 15 March starting 07:00 UTC. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
Administrators and other users with advanced permissions will need to have an 8-byte long passwords. This change takes place on 15 March. Users with too short passwords will be asked to change password the next time they log in. This was decided in a discussion on Meta and is because they can use tools that can hurt the wikis. [1 420]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [1 421]
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 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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
Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. The Wikimedia Technology department planned to test it this week. This will take place the week of April 18 instead. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
In Firefox, the visual editor would sometimes just jump down to the bottom of the page when you double-clicked on a table cell. This has now been fixed. [1 422]
Changes this week
It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve CAPTCHAs. [1 423]
You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread. [1 424]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. This will happen on May 2. [1 425]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Adding references with Citoid was broken for approximately 6 hours on 24 March. This was fixed. [1 428]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
You will be able to remove the header and footer style from User language (babel) boxes. This will make it easier to use them with other userboxes. [1 429]
Commons will soon have improved access to Wikidata's data. It will then be possible to access data about any concept on any page on Commons. Assistance with testing this on the beta cluster is appreciated. [1 430]
Wikibits.js will not be loaded by default anymore starting April 2016. Gadget and script authors should have already updated their code since the previous announcements, but there is another migration path available if needed. See wikitech-l for details.
Corrections
Last week Tech News said the new MediaWiki version would come to wikis from 21 March to 23 March. The right dates were 22 March to 24 March.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Wikimedia wikis have a new way of counting visitors. [1 432]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 6. It will be on all wikis from April 7 (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
The visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can ask to change to options in your language in Phabricator. [1 433][1 434]
Wiktionaries and Wikisources can now use the visual editor. It is an opt-in beta feature. It still needs development to work better with these projects. [1 435][1 436]
ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new API. [1 437]
The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters. [1 438]
Problems
There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [1 439]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).
The wikipedia.org portal will get many small bug fixes and improvements. Most will be for the search box and suggested results that were added in March. [1 440]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [1 441]
Latest tech 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 filter Special:Log in more detail. You can filter different imports and new users. [1 442][1 443]
MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB. [1 445]
Changes this week
Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [1 446]
There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data center test.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on April 19 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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
Wikimedia tested a new data center last week. This meant that the wikis could be read but not edited for 45 minutes on April 19 and for 20 minutes on April 21. [1 447]
When the data center was tested, new edits were not shown in the recent changes log for 20 minutes. They are in the logs now. You can read more about how to find the edits.
Unread notifications were sometimes counted incorrectly. This has now been fixed. [1 448]
Changes this week
Wikimedia Commons will have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Commons. This will happen on April 26. [1 449]
It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard. [1 450]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 27. It will be on all wikis from April 28 (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 April 26 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The "Salvar" button when you edit will be called "Publish" instead. This is to help new editors understand what it does. It already works like this on some wikis. [1 451]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The visual editor now works when you use Internet Explorer 9. [1 452]
Problems
There was a security problem with the MobileFrontend extension. It showed information that had been oversighted. This has now been fixed. [1 453]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 4. It will be on all wikis from May 5 (calendar).
Pages could be added to new users' watchlists by default when they edit them. New users could also by default get email notifications when pages they watch are edited. This is discussed on Meta. [1 455]
Latest tech 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. [1 456]
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. [1 458][1 459]
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). [1 460]
Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore. [1 461]
The UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons. [1 462]
Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved. [1 463]
Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org. [1 464]
Problems
MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue. [1 465]
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. [1 466]
Latest tech 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. [1 467]
Problems
Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis. [1 468]
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. [1 469]
Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce. [1 470]
A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users. [1 471]
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. [1 472]
Latest tech 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. [1 473]
Problems
Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories. [1 474]
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. [1 475]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
There is now a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module. [1 476]
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. [1 477][1 478]
CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed. [1 479]
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. [1 480]
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. [1 482][1 483]
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. [1 484]
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.
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 history page can tell you if a page on your watchlist was updated since you last visited it. This now works the same way in Vector as in other skins. The change broke local designs on some wikis. This will be fixed this week. [1 487]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Wikimedia wikis now use AuthManager. If you have new problems related to logging in or being logged in, report them. [1 488]
You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits. [1 493]
It will be easier to edit galleries with the visual editor. [1 494]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Notifications were not always marked as read when you followed a link from an email notification. This will now happen. [1 495]
Changes this week
The list of other languages an article is available in will be shorter on small Wikipedias and non-Wikipedia projects. This is to make it easier to find the most relevant languages for each user. You will still be able to see the other languages. [1 496][1 497]
Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup. [1 498]
When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks. [1 499]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The ORES service has now moved to a new location. This should make it easier to use ORES. The ORES review service is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia. ORES is an artificial intelligence system for Wikimedia wikis to help editors. [1 500]
The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed. [1 501]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be more clear. [1 505]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation will look at developing better tools for edit review. This is because research suggests we scare away newcomers who want to help. [1 506]
An e-mail from the Editing Department explains the technical work that is planned and being researched for the future. Items include better wikitext and visual editing, prompts for edits, language improvements, annotations, and meta-data separation. [1 507]
The sorting of Notifications into the two fly-out menus is going to change on July 5 to 7. Bundled notifications should be easier to explore and mark as read individually. [1 508][1 509][1 510]
From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected. [1 511]
Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later. [1 512]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
A daily email summary of notifications could be sent even when there were no notifications from the wiki. Now no email will be sent if there is no activity. [1 513]
Changes this week
The "⧼citoid-citefromidtool-title⧽" button in the visual editor's toolbar will move into the "Inserir" menu except for Wikipedias, Wikibookses and Wikiversities. This is to make it less prominent on wikis that don't use it as much. [1 514]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).
Meetings
You can take part in the next office hour for Wikidata on IRC on July 8 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
A new image scaler fixed a number of bugs for showing SVG files. Some new problems turned up. [1 515][1 516][1 517]
Notifications are grouped by types. They are now counted by number of notifications and not by unread groups. That change may increase the number of notifications displayed. The earlier way of counting was often incorrect. Unread notifications will also be displayed first. [1 518][1 519][1 520]
Special:Notifications now has a maximum width for the notifications list on desktop computers. This allows long titles and descriptions to be cut properly. Notifications are now also better parsed. [1 521][1 522][1 523]
Problems
On 5 July Wikimedia Commons had problems and could not be edited for 20 minutes. For a short while after that the recent changes log and some gadgets were not working properly. It affected administrative actions on other projects too. [1 524]
Users who have multiple unread notifications can mark them as read by visiting Special:Notifications page on their wiki.
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 July. It will be on all wikis from 14 July (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Due to the rollback, new sorting of Notifications on the Fly-Out Menus has been deployed with a delay. [1 525]
In notifications, "Messages" are now called "Notificacions". [1 527]
Problems
On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system. [1 528][1 529]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).
The RevisionSlider can be tested on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: Viquipèdia en alemany, Viquipèdia en àrab, Wikipèdia en ebrieu
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on 20 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [1 531]
Future changes
User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [1 532][1 533]
Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [1 534]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [1 536]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon. [1 537]
Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages. [1 538]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on 27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [1 539]
Future changes
The current icon for Notifications "Notificacions" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency. [1 540]
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 RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.
Problems
Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [1 543]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
In notifications, the icon for Notificacions has been changed from a speech-bubble icon () to a tray icon () for consistency. The Alèrtas icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility. [1 544]
Problems
If you use the wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed. [1 545]
Changes this week
Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a wildcard. [1 546]
On Commons, UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images. [1 547]
When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template. [1 548]
The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [1 549]
When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way. [1 550]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (calendar).
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on August 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [1 552]
Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [1 553]
For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [1 554][1 555]
Changes this week
The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [1 556]
Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [1 557]
In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [1 558][1 559]
The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [1 560]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [1 561]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia. [1 562]
The norm and ccnorm functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore. [1 563]
The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here. This happened on August 5. [1 564]
Problems
Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [1 565]
When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [1 566]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 23 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki. [1 567][1 568]
How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [1 569]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster. [1 570]
When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing Tab in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing Shift and Tab in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row. [1 571]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 30 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs. [1 574]
Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta. [1 575]
When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not. [1 576]
Changes this week
You will be able to use <maplink> on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [1 577][1 578]
Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. [1 579][1 580]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The Wikimedia Commons app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos. [1 582]
The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history. [1 585]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
When you search on the Wikimedia wikis in the future you could see results from sister projects in your language. You can read more and discuss how this could work.
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 new version of MediaWiki will hopefully be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar). This is the version that was meant to go out last week.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Wikidata will start working on adding support for Wiktionary. The Wikidata development team is now taking one last look at the development plan. [1 590]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [1 592]
Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit. [1 593]
Abandoned tools on Tool Labs could be taken over by other developers. There is a new discussion on Meta about this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on. [1 597]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 4 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Tidy will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This would cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. [1 598]
<slippymap> will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use <mapframe> instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it as soon as possible. [1 599]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can show Special:RecentChanges on a page by using {{Special:RecentChanges}}. You can now use tag filters by using {{Special:RecentChanges/tagfilter=tagname}}. [1 600]
The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [1 601]
Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them easier to see for readers and editors with reduced eyesight. [1 602]
Changes this week
Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor. <!-- You write hidden HTML comments like this. -->[1 603]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Language converter syntax will soon no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. [1 604]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning. [1 605]
Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version. [1 606]
Changes this week
There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [1 607]
Future changes
The Editing Department are working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this. This is an early plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
The abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed. [1 608]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia". [1 609]
Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only. [1 611]
The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script. [1 613]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3rd (calendar).
Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "Previsualització d'una pàgina amb aquesta plantilla" field when editing templates. [1 614]
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 new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 8th. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 9th. It will be on all wikis from November 10th (calendar).
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
RevisionSlider will be enabled by default on all beta wikis, on testwiki, testwiki2, mediawikiwiki and de.wikipedia.org. [1 622][1 623][1 624]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
When you edit with the visual editor you can use meta + shift + k to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key. [1 625]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar).
In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation. [1 626]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone. [1 628]
You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has. [1 629]
A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication. [1 630]
Changes this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later. [1 631][1 632][1 633]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this. [1 634]
Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page. [1 635]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes this week
When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie. This means their browser will be blocked even if they change their IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals. [1 636]
When you use Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon. [1 637]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using [rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]. [1 638][1 639]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [1 641]
ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES to recognize damaging edits. [1 642]
Changes this week
You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [1 643]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 December at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Recent changes
Users who have Yahoo email addresses could not use Special:EmailUser to send emails. This has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address. Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and be able to see it. [1 644]
You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention. [1 645]
Because of work on cross-wiki watchlistsglobal renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well. [1 647]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on December 13 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2017.
The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2016? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!
Recent changes
Administrators and translation administrators can now use Special:PageLanguage on wikis with the Translate extension. This means you can say what language a page is in. The Translate extension will use that language as the source language when you translate. Previously this was always the wiki's default language. This was usually English. [1 648]
Wikis connected to Wikidata can now use the parser function {{#statements: }} to get formatted data. You can also use {{#property: }} to get raw data. You can see the difference between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua. [1 649]
Problems
Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should. We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the wikis. MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October. Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been affected since 17 November. [1 650]
Changes this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.
Meetings
The next meeting with the VisualEditor team will be on 3 January at 20:00 (UTC). During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
When you update a page with translations on wikis with the Translate extension the existing translations will be marked as outdated instead of removed. [1 652]
The new version of MediaWiki was released to all wikis last week (calendar).
MoodBar has been removed from the Wikimedia wikis. [1 653]
The live option for the Tipsy notice tool has been removed. Gadgets and user scripts which use it need to be updated. [1 654]
Problems
Editors who use Firefox 50 might get logged out or fail to save their edits. This is because of a browser bug. Until this is fixed you can enter about:config in the address bar and set network.cookie.maxPerHost to 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox. [1 655]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
video2commons was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up. [1 657]
Changes this week
There is a new magic word called {{PAGELANGUAGE}}. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators. [1 658]
When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu. [1 659]
You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas. Before you could use <ce>. <ce> should be replaced by <chem>. [1 660]
The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to your personal CSS: #wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; } You can change the number 50 to make it look like you want to. [1 662]
Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs, including Tool Labs will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in. [1 663]
When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu. [1 664]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on January 17 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can see a list of the templates on a page you edit with the visual editor. [1 665]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The OAuth management interfaces now look slightly different. [1 666]
Changes this week
ElectronPdfService will be enabled by default on Meta and German Wikipedia. This is a new way to get articles as PDF files you can download. It will come to more wikis later. [1 667]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 31. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from February 1. It will be on all wikis from February 2 (calendar).
Future changes
The Community Tech team will develop more tools to handle harassment of Wikimedia editors. The goal is to give the communities better tools to find, report and evaluate harassment. They will also work on more effective blocking tools. [1 668][1 669]
The Wikimedia technical community is doing a Developer Wishlist survey. Developers can propose ideas before 31 January 23:59 UTC. This is soon.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
The block log sometimes showed blocks as being much longer than they were. This has now been fixed. [1 670]
Changes this week
Wikimedia pages will now be better at showing pictures when you share them on social media. The descriptions will be different too. You can see an example of before and after. [1 671]
There are some changes to the OOjs UI. Some old functions will not work anymore or not work as they used to. This could be a breaking change. [1 672]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Tidy will be replaced later this year. Instead, the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This will cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. You can see if your wiki still has something to fix here for one of the HTML problems. This list does not cover all problems. You can read about more problems. [1 673][1 674]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. For now it works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. [1 675]
Problems
The Firefox add-onFirefogg can cause problems with the Upload Wizard. This will not be fixed, because Firefox will not support Firefogg in the future. The Upload Wizard will no longer work with Firefogg. [1 676]
Tool Labs and Wikimedia Labs databases will be under maintenance on 15 February. This will start at 17:00 (UTC) and last for about six hours. Some tools could have problems during or after this. [1 677]
Changes this week
The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It will come to Meta and German Wikipedia this week. It is already available on MediaWiki.org. It will come to more wikis later. [1 678]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on the Catalan, Greek, Russian, and Italian Wikipedias in the middle of February. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. It will come to more wikis later this spring. [1 679]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards. [1 681]
There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options: type and peers. The type option solves this problem. You can use peers to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers. [1 682]
OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way. [1 683]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
On 22 February the wikipedia.org portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file. [1 684]
Changes this week
You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor. [1 685]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You can soon upload 3D files to Commons. The file formats are AMF and STL. The plan is for this to work later this week but it could be later. [1 686]
The name "Wikipedia" will be more obvious at the top of the page when you read Wikipedia in the mobile view. This is because many readers don't realize they are on Wikipedia. [1 687][1 688]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can now search on English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis and find words even if you forget the diacritics. It also works if you use diacritics in your search but the wiki doesn't. [1 689]
When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view. [1 690]
Problems
Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed. [1 691]
Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user's Special:Contributions will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately. [1 692]
Changes this week
The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view. [1 693]
The "flag the edit in the abuse log" checkbox will be removed from the abuse filter interface. This is because the edits are always flagged in the abuse log. [1 694]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Clarification
The 2017/09 issue of Tech News mentioned 3D file formats you can soon upload to Commons. The AMF format will be available later.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes this week
You will be able to show references from <references /> tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use <references /> tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists. [1 695][1 696]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Some old web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis in the future. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [1 697]
CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. [1 698][1 699]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page. [1 700]
You can see monthly page views when you click on Page information in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API. [1 702]
The Linter extension is now on smaller Wikimedia wikis. It helps editors find some wikitext errors so they can be fixed. It will come to other Wikimedia wikis later. The extension will be able to find more errors later. [1 703]
The MediaWiki-Vagrant portable development environment has been updated to use Debian Jessie. This means local development and testing will be more like on the majority of Wikimedia production servers. [1 704]
Problems
On 15 March some interwiki links to other languages were not correctly sorted. This has been fixed. If you still see pages where the interwiki links are not sorted as they should be, they should be fixed automatically with time or you can edit the page and save it without changing anything. If this doesn't work, please report it. [1 705]
Changes this week
When you edit with the visual editor, you will be able to switch the direction you write in from right-to-left to left-to-right as you are editing. This is especially important for editors who edit in languages that write from right to left. You can do this with a tool in the editing menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+X on PCs or Cmd+Shift+X on Macs. [1 706]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 de març at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Recent changes
When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes. [1 707]
Problems
Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed. [1 708][1 709]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from March 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from March 29. It will be on all wikis from March 30 (calendar).
Latest tech 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 Salvar button now says Publicar la pagina or Publicar las modificacions on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publicar la pagina is when you save a new page and Publicar las modificacions when you edit an existing page. [1 710]
The tracking category Categoria:Paginas amb boclas de patron is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template. [1 711]
English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [1 712]
Problems
Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed. [1 713]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 4 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [1 716]
New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [1 717]
The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters. [1 718]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.
RevisionSlider will change how you move between revisions. This will be available on the test wiki from 11 April. It will come to other wikis later if users like the change. You can test it and give feedback.
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Recent changes
You can add ?safemode=1 to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature?safemode=1. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them. [1 719]
The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from [[File:Wiki.png]]. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way. [1 721]
Problems
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this. This will also happen on 3 May.
Changes this week
There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 18 d'abril at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature can give feedback. [1 722]
From next week, user scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. [1 723][1 724]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
When administrators, bureaucrats and stewards make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time. Special:UserRights will have new options for this. You can read more about user groups.[1 726]
The GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit. [1 728]
Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read more about this. [1 729]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 25 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. This is the same thing as Tech News wrote about in issue 2017/16. You need to addmw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ) block for your scripts also, or add mediawiki.util dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. [1 731][1 732]
Problems
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.
Changes this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
All Wikimedia wikis will have cookie blocks from May 8. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [1 733]
The Publicar las modificacions, Previsualizar and Cambiaments en cors buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding &ooui=1 to the URL. [1 734]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Some users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn on Amagar la categorizacion de las paginas in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off Espandir la lista de seguit per afichar totas las modificacions e non pas solament las mai recentas in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from Special:EditWatchlist/raw. [1 735]
There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered a CAPTCHA. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May. [1 736]
Changes this week
When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now say Visual editing and Source editing instead of Switch to visual editing and Switch to code editing. This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using. [1 737]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users. [1 738][1 739]
Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If -{ is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use -{ in a template: {{1x| sad :-{ face }}. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. [1 740][1 741]
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Recent changes
You can now use ISBNs to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that have enabled Citoid. [1 742]
The mediawiki.util library does not load automatically any more. Your Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding mw.loader.using('mediawiki.util').done(function(){ as the first line in the file and }); as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/18 issue. [1 744]
Changes this week
The RevisionSlider extension will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences. [1 745]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages. [1 746][1 747]
Your Meta user page is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word __NOGLOBAL__ to your Meta user page to stop this. [1 750][1 751]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).
There will be a <div> tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can report new problems you think are related to this. [1 752]
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Problems
Last week’s MediaWiki version was rolled back from some wikis because of a problem. This means planned changes did not happen. [1 753]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 30 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Recent changes
You can see new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from. [1 755]
When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox. [1 756]
You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article. [1 757]
New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June. [1 758]
Problems
The MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen. [1 759]
Changes this week
Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links will see languages they have in their Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences. [1 760]
You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions. [1 761]
When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead. [1 762]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules. [1 763]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The 2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all. [1 764][1 765]
Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too. [1 766]
The Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft that describes the new committee.
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Recent changes
Some wikis have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long. [1 767]
When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results. [1 768]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the test wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account. [1 769]
Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects. [1 770]
Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding &fuzzy=1 to the end of the web address when looking at Special:Undelete. [1 771][1 772]
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Problems
ORES had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40 UTC. It has now been fixed. [1 773]
Changes this week
irc.wikimedia.org has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down. [1 774]
Special:PageData will be an entry point for machine-readable page data. [1 775]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Recent changes
The <inputbox> has a new searchfilter parameter. You can add values like searchfilter=insource:foo. It will add that to the user's search query. [1 776]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
Users will be able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in enhanced watchlist/recent changes. Previously, this was disabled for everyone. [1 777]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next WMF Language team office hour, an open session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects. The meeting will be on 27 June at 13:00 UTC. [1 778]
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Recent changes
There was a problem with maps on Wikimedia wikis that used <mapframe> when you clicked on the link to another map service. Open Street Map or Google Maps are examples of other map services. If you had marked a place on the map the marker would not be in the same place on the other map service. It was in the middle of the map. This has now been fixed. [1 779]
Changes this week
Very old and inactive unpublished translations in the Content Translation database will be removed. This is because of technical maintenance. If you have not worked on a translation after 1 January 2016 you will lose it after 6 July. If you want to keep the unfinished translation you need to open it before 6 July with the Content Translation tool. You can continue working on it later. Translations that were started or have been worked on after 1 January 2016 will not be affected.
There is no new Mediawiki version this week.
EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. It works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/07 issue. [1 780]
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Recent changes
There are sometimes links to pages about the same thing on other Wikimedia projects. A Wikipedia article about Berlin can link to the Wikivoyage guide or Wiktionary entry about Berlin. You can now see when that page has a badge. A badge could be the star that shows that an article is a featured article. [1 781]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 de julhet. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 de julhet. It will be on all wikis from 13 de julhet (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 de julhet at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Mobile users will be able to edit Wikipedia without JavaScript. This will make it possible to edit the wikis from older mobile phones. This will probably happen on 18 July for most wikis. [1 782]
We will not useTidy on Wikimedia wikis in the future. It will be replaced by June 2018. It could be earlier. Editors will need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors.
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Recent changes
"Wikimedia Labs" is now called "Cloud VPS". "Wikimedia Tool Labs" is now called "Wikimedia Toolforge". This is to help clarify the purpose of these services. [1 783]
Problems
On some pages, the Table of Contents is not being shown. It will normally appear if you edit the page again. Investigation is currently ongoing. [1 784]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 18 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is: Migrate to HTML5 section ids. [1 785] The meeting will be on 19 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Page Previews, currently a Beta Feature, will be enabled for logged-out users for all remaining Wikipedias (with the exception of English and German) the week of 24 July. An A/B test will be run on English Wikipedia to collect data before approaching the community for further discussion. [1 786]
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Recent changes
CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. This will make it easier to make templates look good on mobile devices. This now works on mediawiki.org and Wikitech. It will come to more wikis later. [1 787][1 788][1 789]
.mw-ui-constructive modifier class is deprecated and has been removed. [1 790]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 de julhet. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 de julhet. It will be on all wikis from 27 de julhet (calendar).
It will be possible to restrict who can send you notifications on a wiki. This new feature will accessible in your preferences, in the Notifications tab, on Wednesday, July 26. Please see the documentation. [1 791]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 25 de julhet at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the Wikimedia Foundation July 2017 Metrics & Activities Meeting. The meeting is about how Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement are perceived and understood by the world. The meeting will be on 27 de julhet at 19:00 (UTC). See the agenda and how to join.
Future changes
New Filters for Edit Review, at the moment available as a Beta feature, will be released by default for the Recent Changes in September.
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Problems
Some pages show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that uses Wikidata. The developers are working on fixing the problem. You can fix a page by opening it for editing and then saving without changing anything. [1 792]
Wikidata and German Wikipedia could not be edited for an hour on 28 July. You can read why and how we could avoid it in the future in the incident report.
Changes later this week
Some wikis already have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. All remaining wikis except Commons will have these from 1 August. [1 793]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The default font in the edit window will soon change for some users. Instead of using the browser default it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [1 794]
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Recent changes
You can now see which Wikipedia language versions are read in a specific country. This tool is called Wikipedia Views Visualized. [1 795]
You can get an email when a page on your watchlist was edited. You can choose not to get emails for minor edits. There is a bug that means that you then don't get an email when someone does a normal edit after a minor edit. The developers are working on fixing this. Until it has been fixed you can activate "M’avertir per corrièr electronic quitament en cas de modificacions menoras" at the bottom of "Entresenhas personalas" in your preferences if you want to. [1 797]
The thanks button sometimes didn't work for mobile users. This was because of a new bug and has now been fixed. [1 798]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 August. It will be on all wikis from 10 August (calendar).
Future changes
Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [1 799]
Links to sections on Wikipedia don't work well in languages that don't use the Latin script. The URL in the address bar in your browser shows Latin characters like .D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8 instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months. [1 800][1 801]
Wiki pages printed by the web browser "Print" function will have an updated style. This new style will be similar to the when you download a page as PDF. It will be better at showing tables, infoboxes and headings. [1 802][1 803]
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Recent changes
Bureaucrats can now set users as confirmed. Previously only stewards could do this on most wikis. Nothing will change for wikis that have previously decided to let administrators set users as confirmed. [1 804]
Problems
The symbols in the language list that show that an article is good or featured in that language doesn't work. Links to the Commons category in the sidebar doesn't work either. The developers are working on fixing it. [1 805][1 806]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Your watchlist can now have the option to unwatch pages. You have to turn this on in your preferences. [1 809]
If a table has several columns you can often choose which column you want to use to sort the table. This has not worked for some columns for readers who have used Firefox or Safari. This has now been fixed. [1 810]
The RelatedArticles extension has shown related pages on Wikivoyages. You will now see the related pages at the end of the article together with an image. Previously the links were in the sidebar. Wikis that want this extension can request it on Phabricator.
Changes later this week
Videos will now be played in the WebM format in all browsers. Previously some browsers used Ogg Theora (.ogv). If you use Safari, Internet Explorer or Edge you may see slower playback speed at high resolutions. Instead we will get better quality and smaller file size. You can still upload video as Ogg files. They are automatically converted to WebM. This doesn't affect Ogg audio files. [1 811]
The default font in the edit window will change for some users this week. Instead of using the browser default, it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [1 812]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Recent changes
Syntax highlighting is now a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It will come to right-to-left wikis later. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. [1 813][1 814]
You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can turn this off or choose to get an email notification in your preferences. You can also turn on to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. [1 815]
Problems
Some pages show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that use Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this problem. You still need to fix pages that were broken before and still show the error message. You can see how on this page. [1 816]
Changes later this week
You can block users from sending you notifications. [1 817]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
In the future you will have global preferences. This means you could set something in your preferences to work in the same way on all wikis. You will not be forced to use global preferences. The developers are now asking if editors need exceptions. This is where you want to use global settings on almost all wikis, but have some wikis where you want it to work in a different way. If you want this you need to tell the developers now. You can do so on the talk page. [1 818]
The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 in September 2017. Wikis can ask on Phabricator to get it early, so they can help find and solve problems now.
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Tech News
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Recent changes
The RevisionSlider user interface has changed. You can now select revisions by clicking on the bars. You can move the blue knob past the yellow one and the yellow one will move along, and the other way around. [1 820][1 821]
Problems
Some users have problems loading very large watchlists. It is working better than earlier but the problem has not been solved. The developers are working on fixing it. Until it has been fixed you can turn on "Espandir la lista de seguit per afichar totas las modificacions e non pas solament las mai recentas" in your preferences and see if it helps. [1 822]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Recent changes
You can get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis. [1 825]
The Newsletter extension is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later. [1 826]
The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category: tidy-whitespace-bug. This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more about using Linter and the Tidy whitespace bug. [1 827]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
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Recent changes
You can now see contributions from an IP range at Special:Contributions. Before you could only see contributions from single IP addresses. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them. [1 830][1 831]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 September at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Recent changes
Wikitext syntax highlighting is a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. You can now search through the entire article with CTRL+F or cmd+F when you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs. [1 833][1 834]
You now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences. [1 836]
Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser. [1 837]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September. (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can still create PDFs. Tech News 2017/37 said the function to create PDFs from books would still work. It is now clear it will not work for the next few months. The developers are working on fixing this. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can now use preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it. [1 838]
Changes later this week
If you have turned on "Activar automaticament totas las novèlas foncionalitats en bèta" you will now get the 2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature. [1 839]
The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October. [1 841]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can give feedback on this feature. [1 842]
The search function has used fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can read more and give feedback.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The number of active users listed by {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}} and on Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too. [1 843]
You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at 06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models. [1 845]
Changes later this week
The font in the edit window is monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week. [1 846]
If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
When you edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's format configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in more powerful ways if your wiki wants it. [1 847][1 848]
The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can give feedback to the developers.
Problems
There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis. [1 849]
Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this. [1 850]
Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed. [1 851]
Changes later this week
Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [1 852]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can use ccnorm_contains_any when you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more in the documentation. [1 853]
Changes later this week
When you search in some languages the search function could use specific other languages if the first language didn't work. This is called a fallback language. This didn't work properly and created bad searches. The search index is being fixed to work better. [1 854]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can now block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis. [1 856]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You will no longer see the patrol log on Special:Log unless you specifically select it. [1 857]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The diff you see when you compare two different versions of a page has changed on MediaWiki.org and the test wiki. This is to make it easier to find a text change in a moved paragraph. It will hopefully soon come to more wikis. You can report bugs in Phabricator. [1 860]
A new user group on Commons will be able to upload MP3 files. The plan is to have this user group from 17 November. [1 861]
Wikis using Flagged Revisions will get the New filters for Edit Review by default on the recent changes pages. It will be possible to opt-out in user preferences. [1 862]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Support for uploading and viewing 3D models is coming soon to Wikimedia Commons. The feature will support the .STL file format. You can see an example on the test wiki. [1 863]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
If you use the Chrome web browser on Android you can see a download icon on the mobile website. You can download a formatted PDF. It will work in other mobile browsers in the future. [1 864]
The abuse filter now has a function called get_matches. You can use it to store matches from regular expressions – one of each capturing group. You can read more in Phabricator.
Problems
Last week's MediaWiki version didn't come to all Wikipedias because of a database crash. It will be on all wikis on 20 November. [1 865][1 866][1 867]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Language converter syntax will no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week. [1 868][1 869]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can now test the new advanced search function beta feature on mediawiki.org. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It will come to German and Arabic Wikipedia this week. It will come to more wikis later. [1 870]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
You can now use live updates for recent changes if you use the new filters. This feature updates the filtered recent changes every three seconds when you activate it. [1 874]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 December. It will be on all wikis from 7 December (calendar).
Very old versions of the Opera Web browser are no longer supported. This means that technical development will not be tested to make sure it works with those Opera versions. Use Opera 15 or above or another browser if you have problems. [1 876]
Almost 170 wikis with no high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. A few larger wikis such as German and Italian Wikipedia will also make this switch. It will happen on 5 December. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [1 877][1 878]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
The Community Liaisons team at the Wikimedia Foundation is looking for active tech ambassadors. This is to make sure the Wikimedia communities get all the information they need about new features and can be involved in the technical development. [1 879]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
A new tag marks edits where a redirect was created or removed. This still works when the editor writes something else in the edit summary. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. [1 881]
If you use Chrome on Android, you can now use the print to PDF button to create a PDF of an article. [1 882]
Filter by number of edits or filter by time range have been grouped on a same menu on the recent changes page if you use the new filters. The "Veire los cambiaments los mai recents" link is now more prominent. [1 883]
Some of the web fonts that were provided by the Universal Language Selector extension are being removed. This is to reduce the load time on pages. The web fonts were added many years ago to help users read text in scripts which did not have fonts or had broken fonts. This is not the case any more. You can check the status page for a list of all web fonts and whether they are currently being used and especially for special requirements. [1 884]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2018.
Problems
When you import a page from another wiki the usernames of the users who edited the article on the wiki you imported it from are shown in the article history. This should link to the users on the original wiki. A script to fix this caused problems for Wikidata and German Wikipedia. It also created a large number of SUL accounts on wikis where editors had never edited. [1 885]
Some bot owners got email about their bots logging in from a new computer. If this is from one or a couple of wikis, you can turn these messages off in your preferences on those wikis until the problem has been solved. If not, you can report more about the problem in Phabricator.
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 de decembre at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Files on Commons will have structured metadata in the future. The developers are now looking for examples of different kinds of metadata to make sure they are aware of them when they build prototypes for structured data on Commons. You can read more and help by giving examples of interesting media files.
The Structured Commons team are making sure Commons work with structured data. If you regularly contribute to Commons and Wikidata you can answer a survey that helps the team prioritise the tools that are important for the Commons and Wikidata communities. The survey ends on 22 December. You can read more on Commons. You can also help the team decide on better names for "captions" and "descriptions". This ends on 3 January 2018.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
On Wikidata, the "enregistrar" button when you edit is now called "publica". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "Salvar" to "Publicar las modificacions". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [1 886][1 887]
Some edits will get an automatic tag on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways. [1 888]
Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [1 889]
Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem. [1 892]
With the new filters in the recent changes, "Exclure los seleccionats" in "Espacis de noms" did not work for "Filtres salvats" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [1 893]
The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 instead of #Résumé even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March). [1 894]
Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [1 895]
Changes later this week
Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this you will be able to read but not edit Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis. [1 896]
The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems. [1 897][1 898]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).
WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: ext.wikiEditor. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed. [1 899]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [1 900]
There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [1 901]
Problems
Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [1 902][1 903]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [1 904][1 905]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Filters on Special:RecentChangesLinked will get the new look similar to on the recent changes page. Special:RecentChangesLinked will also get some new features. [1 906][1 907]
Problems
With the new OOUI look menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed. [1 908]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
irc.wikimedia.org will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically. [1 909]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [1 911]
The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [1 912]
Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [1 913]
Problems
Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [1 914]
Changes later this week
When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [1 915]
When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [1 916]
The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of Òc or Non it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [1 917]
Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [1 918]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [1 921][1 922][1 923]
You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [1 924]
The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [1 925]
The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [1 926]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 February at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [1 928][1 929]
You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [1 930]
Problems
Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [1 931]
Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [1 932][1 933]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible. [1 934]
Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [1 935]
Problems
Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [1 936][1 937]
Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [1 938]
Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [1 939][1 940][1 941]
Changes later this week
Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [1 942]
The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [1 943][1 944]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [1 947][1 948]
Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [1 949]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
In the future you will be able to use global preferences. This means you could change a preference for all wikis instead of having to change it every time for each wiki. You can now test global preferences and give feedback.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [1 951]
Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [1 952]
Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [1 953]
Problems
The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [1 954]
Changes later this week
You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [1 955]
It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [1 956][1 957]
A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [1 958][1 959][1 960]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [1 961]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 de març. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 de març. It will be on all wikis from 22 de març (calendar).
Meetings
There is no Editing team meeting this week.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 de març at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [1 962][1 963]
In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [1 964][1 965]
The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [1 966]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [1 968]
Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.
Problems
MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [1 969][1 970][1 971]
The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [1 972]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns. [1 973]
Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [1 974][1 975][1 976]
AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [1 977][1 978]
In Special:Preferences, the preference "Recargar automaticament la lista de seguiment quand las opcions de filtratge son modificadas (JavaScript requesit)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [1 979]
You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [1 980]
You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [1 981]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [1 982][1 983]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it. [1 984]
The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details. [1 986]
Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left). [1 987]
Problems
The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [1 988]
For a week in March rollbacks got both the rollback and the undo tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed. [1 989]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits. [1 990]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [1 991]
Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [1 992][1 993]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The new PDF renderer could not create PDFs from books. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki. PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function. [1 994]
Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3. [1 995]
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 iOS and Android apps now have synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press Publish. This button now also shows an ellipsis. This is to show that pressing Publish is not the last step. [1 997]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 April. It will be on all wikis from 26 April (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
<mapframe> will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of flagged revisions will not get this feature in May. [1 998]
The rollback function could change. This was a German community request. All editors with rollback rights can leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links. [1 999]
Problems
We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator. [2 000]
When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date. [2 002]
You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the Fenèstra de modificacion section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly. [2 003]
There is a new abuse filter function called equals_to_any. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jhareModèl:@wikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [2 004][2 005][2 006]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones. [2 007]
Problems
The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed. [2 008]
Changes later this week
The advanced search function beta feature will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. [2 009]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [2 010][2 011]
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 new Advanced Search interface is now available as a Beta Feature on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated. [2 012]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 May. It will be on all wikis from 17 May (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can give feedback and suggestions.
The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it. Read more on mediawiki.org[2 013]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 May. It will be on all wikis from 24 May (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
It could become easier to reference different pages of a book in an article. You can give feedback. The last day for feedback is 27 May.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki. Global preferences will come to the Wikipedias later this week. [2 014][2 015]
It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked. [2 016]
There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups. [2 017]
Some rare invisible Unicode characters have recently been banned from page titles. This includes soft hyphens (U+00AD) and left-to-right (U+2066) and right-to-left (U+2067) isolate markers. Existing pages with these characters will soon be moved by a script. [2 018]
There's a new Wikimedia Foundation team to support the Wikimedia technical communities. It's called the Technical Engagement team. Most of the team members did similar work in other teams before this. [2 019]
Problems
Some translatable pages are showing old translations instead of latest ones. The cause of this issue has been fixed. We will update all pages automatically to show the latest translations. [2 020]
Changes later this week
There will be a new special page named PasswordPolicies. This page gives information about the password rules for each user group on that wiki. [2 021]
A new way to see moved paragraphs in diffs is coming to most wikis. This is to make it easier to find the moved paragraphs and the changes in them. [2 022]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 May. It will be on all wikis from 31 May (calendar).
Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. This is complex. The tool will now disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. It has warned about this in the JavaScript console since February. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [2 023]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Content Translation drafts which have not been updated in over a year will be removed. This allows other users to translate those articles. [2 024]
A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development. [2 025]
Some wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 30 May and 13 June. Wikis with fewer than 100 linter issues in the main namespace in all high-priority linter categories will switch. This includes Wikidata. Tidy will probably be removed on all wikis in the first week of July. [2 026][2 027]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The MonoBook skin has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different. [2 028]
Redirect links in Special:WhatLinksHere now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again. [2 031]
Problems
You will not be able to edit some wikis between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. You can see if your wiki is one of them.
MassMessage did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late. [2 032]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 June. It will be on all wikis from 7 June (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
In the Wikipedia app for Android or iOS users can create reading lists. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome. [2 035]
There is a new version of Pywikibot. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis. [2 036]
Problems
The MonoBook skin was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design. [2 037]
Changes later this week
The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. For most wikis this will happen on 18 June. For the rest it will happen on 25 June. [2 038][2 039]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 June. It will be on all wikis from 14 June (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the Readers Web team IRC office hour. There you can discuss tools to contribute on the mobile web for the existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on 18 June at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Syntax highlighting has been a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It is now a normal feature. It is based on CodeMirror. [2 040]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3. [2 041][2 042]
The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [2 043][2 044]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
When a link text was in italics or had other formatting you could sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [2 046][2 047]
Changes later this week
Content translation users who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create better tools for translating articles. [2 048]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 June. It will be on all wikis from 28 June (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The database for tags will be changed. This will happen on 2 July on French Wikipedia and 9 July on all other wikis. Please report if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge. [2 049]
Problems
Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem. [2 050]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
WebM video files have smaller file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take longer time. [2 051]
The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July. [2 052]
When you rolled back an edit it could get both the Rollback and Undo tags. This has been fixed. [2 054]
Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed. [2 055]
Changes later this week
When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label). [2 056][2 057]
On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page. [2 058]
When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures. [2 059]
When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening. [2 061]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Today all administrators can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can read more. [2 062]
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You can now see a new log of pages being created at Special:Log/create. It includes pages which are later deleted. It is now available on all Wikimedia wikis except Commons and Wikidata. [2 065]
You can see how many pageviews a wiki had from specific countries. The Wikistats2 maps have now been updated. [2 066]
Changes later this week
Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change. [2 067]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on July 17 at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on July 18 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Some articles have messages to readers about problems with the article. For example that it does not cite sources or might not be neutral. Readers do not see these messages on the mobile version. The developers now want to show them. You can read more and leave feedback.
You can use <inputbox> to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead of prefix:Page name you will see a text that explains which pages are being searched. You can read more and leave feedback.
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Recent changes
When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [2 068]
Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [2 069]
Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [2 070]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 de julhet. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 de julhet. It will be on all wikis from 26 de julhet (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 de julhet at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Recent changes
The design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [2 071]
Problems
Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [2 072][2 073]
Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [2 074][2 075]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 de julhet. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 Agost. It will be on all wikis from 2 Agost (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 de julhet at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 Agost at 15:00 (UTC) as well as at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [2 077][2 078]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Recent changes
CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [2 079]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [2 080]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
Legacy JavaScript global variables have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia or mediawiki.org. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide to fix old scripts. [2 081]
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Recent changes
You can now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [2 082]
Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [2 083]
Problems
Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [2 084]
Changes later this week
The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [2 085]
AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [2 086]
Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title. [2 087]
Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [2 088]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
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Recent changes
There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [2 089][2 090]
There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [2 091][2 092]
You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [2 093]
wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [2 094]
When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [2 095]
You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [2 097]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation.
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Recent changes
When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [2 099]
Problems
Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [2 100]
Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [2 101]
<maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [2 102]
{{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [2 103]
When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [2 104]
Changes later this week
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 Septmber at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Recent changes
The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [2 105]
MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [2 106]
Problems
You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [2 107]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Recent changes
Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [2 110][2 111]
Problems
New and updated translations from translatewiki.net will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [2 112][2 113]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 October (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.
Future changes
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
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There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [2 115]
Changes later this week
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Problems
Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [2 116]
Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [2 117]
Changes later this week
When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [2 118]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).
Meetings
There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [2 119]
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 October. It will be on all wikis from 25 October (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [2 120]
Problems
Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [2 121]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Recent changes
You can now use TemplateWizard to edit templates. This works only with the 2010 wikitext editor and not in the visual editor or the 2017 wikitext editor. If you click on you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences. [2 124]
Changes later this week
You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [2 125]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Recent changes
Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [2 126]
Problems
You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [2 127][2 128][2 129]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [2 130]
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There is an A/B test for sameAs data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [2 131]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [2 132]
The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [2 133]
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Recent changes
On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [2 134]
Changes later this week
The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [2 135]
Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word__EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [2 136]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warningUse of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [2 137]
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Recent changes
Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [2 138]
You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow. [2 140]
When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back. [2 141][2 142]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 December. It will be on all wikis from 13 December (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [2 143][2 144]
When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [2 145]
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Tech News
Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.
Recent changes
Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [2 146][2 147]
Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [2 148]
The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.
Problems
<ref> tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example <ref name="adams" group="books">. If a <ref> tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [2 149]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 December. It will be on all wikis from 20 December (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [2 150]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.
Recent changes
RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [2 151]
MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [2 152]
codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [2 153]
On several wikis, an account named "Filtre dels abuses" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.
Problems
In AbuseFilter, the "Regulacion" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [2 154]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from January 9. It will be on all wikis from January 10 (calendar).
Meetings
Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. [2 157][2 158]
Templates with <templatestyles> could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. <templatestyles> has a new wrapper parameter now. You can use it for selectors like .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [2 159]
Problems
When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed. [2 160]
Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage. [2 161]
The AbuseFilter variable minor_edit has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15 14 genièr de 2019 a 17.55 (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.
Tech News
Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was because of a problem with MassMessage. If you did not get last week's issue, you can read it on Meta. [2 162]
Recent changes
The content translation tool can now use version 2 as the default version for users who turned on the beta feature. For example it adds the tracking category Pàgines amb traduccions sense revisar to translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category in Special:TrackingCategories on Wikipedias.
When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17 January and is now fixed. [2 163]
MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone. [2 164][2 165]
Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This has now been fixed. [2 166]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all wikis from 24 January (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
When someone moves a page to a name that already exists that page that had the name the article is moved to is deleted. For a couple of months this didn't always work. Some users saw an error message instead. This has now been fixed. [2 168]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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 new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 February. It will be on all wikis from 7 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can use the amboxCSS class to show page issues to mobile readers. When you use ambox there are classes you can use.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 February. It will be on all wikis from 14 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
When you thank someone on the mobile web you will now have two seconds to cancel the thank. This is in case you clicked on the thank button by accident. [2 170]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 February. It will be on all wikis from 21 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
There is a proposal to add a red link to mobile search results if there is no page with that name. This is how it works on desktop. You can leave feedback. [2 171]
The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.
We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.
We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.
We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.
We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.
You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:
Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group. This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
Then ask people what they think about communication processes. We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki. Please consider asking these five questions:
When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.
Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell us how your group communicates.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
When you look at your watchlist or the recent changes page you can use the new filters for edit review. There you can choose tags to filter different edits. Empty tags will no longer be shown. [2 173]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 February. It will be on all wikis from 28 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
The mobile website will use the standard fonts on your computer or phone instead of a generic font. This will make it easier to read text in many scripts. [2 174][2 175]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Pages can use geocoordinates from Wikidata with the mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatementsLua function or the #statementsparser function. If they do, they will now be shown using a Kartographer <maplink> if the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on Phabricator.
Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (UTC). This will start at 15:00 UTC. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed. [2 176]
Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed. [2 177][2 178]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March. [2 179][2 180]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers. [2 181]
Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version. [2 182]
Problems
There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed. [2 183]
The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon. [2 184]
Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them. [2 185]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
Notifications tell you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications about new links to pages you created. For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this. [2 186]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can read more.
A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [2 190]
Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [2 191]
Changes later this week
When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site. [2 192]
The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return "" (empty string). When you read a page it will return "-" (dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces. [2 194]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. [2 195][2 196]
The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
All wikis now have the TemplateWizard for the wikitext editor.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook. [2 199][2 200][2 201]
The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [2 202]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Wikipedia articles will have the sameAsmeta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test. [2 203][2 204]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [2 205][2 206]
Problems
Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [2 207]
Changes later this week
You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [2 208]
When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in local storage instead of session storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [2 209]
You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [2 210]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Wikidata wb_terms table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more. You can ask for help if you need it.
Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [2 211]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem. [2 212]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [2 213][2 214]
Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments. [2 215][2 216]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 de mai. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 de mai. It will be on all wikis from 23 de mai (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 de mai at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The content translation tool on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team. [2 217]
The Wikidata wbeditentityAPI endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June. [2 218]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [2 219][2 220]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can now write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version. [2 221]
There is now a field called depicts on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development. [2 222]
Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema. [2 223][2 224]
Problems
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [2 225]
Changes later this week
Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited. [2 226]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
When you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton. Before this we used Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them. [2 227][2 228]
The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [2 229]
Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [2 230]
Problems
Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it. [2 231]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [2 232]
Changes later this week
MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with [[File:Filename.midi]]. Later override_midi and override_audio will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score. [2 233]
A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [2 234]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old wgEnableAPI and wgEnableWriteAPI values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values. [2 235]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
The new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday. [2 236]
Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced. [2 237]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar).
Meetings
You can watch or join the next Wikimedia Language showcase. It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects. The showcase will be on 26 June at 13:00 (UTC). A recording will be kept for later viewing
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The development of Wikidata Bridge has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia. [2 238]
Problems
Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress. [2 239]
Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed. [2 240]
Changes later this week
You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database. [2 241]
There is no deployment of a new version of MediaWiki on the wikis this week (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
For event organizers, if you request a temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation, this will now also raise the edit rate limit for those new accounts at the event, which will prevent another bottleneck. [2 242]
Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new partial blocks feature. [2 243]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 July. It will be on all wikis from 11 July (calendar).
The design of MediaWiki's software windows will change for desktop users. Layout will be simpler, buttons will be bolder and clearer, and close buttons will be just icons. This is like the mobile design. This will affect ContentTranslation, VisualEditor, TemplateWizard, and other tools. [2 244]
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [2 245]
There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July. [2 246]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the mobile web and give feedback. [2 247]
Changes later this week
The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called Filtre dels abuses and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical problems. It will not do any other changes. You can read more.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all wikis from 18 July (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback. [2 248]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Communities interested by easing newcomers' first steps can now benefit from the Growth team experiments on their wikis. Check the conditions and the request process.
The Coolest Tool Award 2019 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools by July 29. The awarded tools will be presented at Wikimania. [2 249]
Problems
The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2. [2 250]
Changes later this week
Phabricator database will be moved to a different server. Writes will be blocked on Thursday 25 July, between 05:30 and 06:00 AM UTC. Reads will remain unaffected. [2 251]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 July. It will be on all wikis from 25 July (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [2 256]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 August (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 August. It will be on all wikis from 8 August (calendar).
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Today everyone can see IP addresses if someone edits without an account. In the future this could be more hidden. This is to protect unregistered editors so fewer can see their IP address. This would only happen after we make sure the tools for vandal fighting can still be effective. You can read more and comment.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools. Feedback on the discussion page is appreciated. [2 259]
Due to the absence of volunteer maintenance of Cologne Blue skin, the link to activate it will be hidden. The skin will still work, but editors using it are encouraged to switch to another skin. [2 260]
Changes later this week
Due to Wikimania, there is no deployment this week. [2 261]
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The "Wikidata item" link will be moved from "Tools" to "In other projects" section on all Wikimedia projects, starting on August 21. Full announcement, Phabricator task.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
There will be no Tech News issue next week. The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 2 September 2019.
Problems
Some abuse filters stopped working because of a code change. Only variables for the current action will work. Variables defined inside a branch may not work outside of that branch. You can read more to see how to fix the filters.
Only six accounts can be created from one IP address per day. Between 12 August and August 15 this was two accounts per day. This was because of a security issue. It is now six accounts per day again. [2 262]
Changes later this week
Only a limited number of accounts can be created from one IP address. An IP address can be whitelisted so that it can create as many accounts as needed. This is useful at events where many new persons learn to edit. IP addresses that are whitelisted for this reason will also not show CAPTCHAs when you create accounts. This will happen on Wednesday. [2 263]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 August. It will be on all wikis from 22 August (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
There is an RFC about creating a new global user group with the right to edit abuse filters. This will be used to fix broken filters and make sure all filters will still work when software changes happen. You can read more and comment.
Special:Contributions/newbies will no longer be working. This is because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the recent changes feed instead. [2 264]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can use the new termbox interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages. [2 265]
The new version of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week.
The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues. [2 266]
The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute. [2 267]
The advanced version of the edit review pages (Recent Changes, Watchlist, and Related Changes) now include two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces. However the "All discussions" filter does not include pseudo talk pages, like discussions that are in the Project: or Wikipedia: namespaces. But it will include changes happening on Project talk: or the Wikipedia talk:. [2 268]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 de setembre. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 de setembre. It will be on all wikis from 5 de setembre (calendar).
When you log in, the software checks your password to see if it follows the Password policy. From this week, it will also complain if your password is one of the most common passwords in the world. If your password is not strong enough, please consider to change your password for a stronger password. [2 269]
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 de setembre at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Last week's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The problem where some pages got it three times should now be fixed. [2 274]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 d'octobre. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 d'octobre. It will be on all wikis from 3 d'octobre (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 d'octobre at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Special:Contributions will get the standard OOUI look. This makes it easier to use on mobile and makes it look like other Special: pages. There is a script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to. [2 275]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text with footnotes. It will be fixed soon. [2 277]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 October. It will be on all wikis from 10 October (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Community Wishlist Survey has a new format. It will focus on wikis that typically get less support. It will probably go back to the normal format next year. It is not decided exactly how it will work this year. You can leave feedback.
There is a new technical community newsletter. You can read more about the work of Wikimedia's technical community. Subscribe to get the information in the future.
Outreachy is an internship program for groups who are underrepresented in free and open-source software. There are seven Wikimedia projects about coding, documentation and quality assurance in the next round. Persons who fit the criteria can apply. The last day to apply is 5 November.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can now use more advanced editing tools on the mobile web. You can turn them on and off in your preferences in the mobile version. [2 278]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 October. It will be on all wikis from 17 October (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are no longer supported. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They will not get security support. You can't read Wikimedia wikis in Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows versions that are older than Windows XP. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them made the wikis less secure for everyone else. [2 279]
In the future section headings might have a share link. This is to make it easier to link to the section. You can read more and discuss.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as internal. API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives. [2 280]
Problems
There is a translation tool we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed. [2 281]
The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed. [2 282]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (calendar).
Reference Previews will be a beta feature on all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 October. See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist. [2 283][2 284]
You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
OOUI now allows using px (pixels) instead of em (em) for some specific cases. [2 285][2 286]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 d'octobre. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 d'octobre. It will be on all wikis from 31 d'octobre (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 d'octobre at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January. [2 287]
Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named wg* to mw.config. The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites. [2 288]
Changes later this week
MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip to set a different default block length for IP editors. [2 289]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the centralauth database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames. [2 290]
Changes later this week
You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them. [2 292]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view. [2 293]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work. [2 294]
The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns "" (empty string). When you read a page it returns "-" (dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces. [2 295]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language. [2 296]
There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article. [2 297]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again. [2 298]
Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem. [2 299]
Changes later this week
You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki. [2 300]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now. [2 301]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.
Recent changes
All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "advanced mode".
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Future changes
You can use setlang in the URL to change the user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript is not working in your browser. [2 302]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [2 303]
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).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade attacks. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the browser recommendations. [2 304]
Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are Blocar los utilizaires novèls e los utilizaires anonims and Administrators unicament. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see. [2 306]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all wikis from 16 January (calendar).
Future changes
Deepcat and Catgraph will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead. [2 307]
You can use <ref follow="…"> to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead. [2 308]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 January. It will be on all wikis from 23 January (calendar).
Future changes
There is a new suggestion for what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work go faster. You can give feedback.
Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will no longer support Python 2. Use the python2 tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so. [2 309]
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. [2 310]
You can read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Some mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown. Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working on fixing it. [2 311][2 312]
Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions can't move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing it. [2 313]
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.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 February. It will be on all wikis from 6 February (calendar).
Latest tech 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. [2 314]
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. [2 315]
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. [2 316]
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).
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 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).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be on all wikis from 27 February (calendar).
Future changes
There will be a reply button after each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later. You can test the reply button. It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first wikis last week.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug. [2 319]
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. [2 320]
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. [2 321]
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. [2 322]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 de març. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 de març. It will be on all wikis from 5 de març (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. [2 324]
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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. [2 325][2 326][2 327]
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. [2 328]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org. [2 329]
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. [2 330][2 331]
You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed. [2 332][2 333]
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.
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 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. [2 335]
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. [2 336]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [2 337]
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. [2 338]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can now use the articletopic search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic. [2 339]
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. [2 343][2 344][2 345]
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. [2 346]
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.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.
Recent changes
The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills. [2 347]
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. [2 348]
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. [2 349]
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).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 5 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [2 351]
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. [2 352]
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. [2 353]
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).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr. [2 354]
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. [2 355]
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. [2 358]
Latest tech 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. [2 359][2 360]
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. [2 361]
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. [2 365]
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. [2 366]
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.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The visual editor will now work in the Modern skin. The changes that needed to happen for this to work could cause problems for some scripts or gadgets. [2 367]
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).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos. [2 368]
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. [2 369][2 370][2 371]
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. [2 372]
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. [2 373]
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. [2 374]
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 />. [2 375]
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. [2 376][2 377]
Changes later this week
You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets. [2 378]
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. [2 379]
Latest tech 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. [2 380]
Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed. [2 381]
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. [2 382]
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. [2 383]
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. [2 384]
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. [2 385]
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. [2 386]
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. [2 387]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [2 388]
Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed. [2 389]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).
Future changes
The Modern and Monobook skins use the ID searchGoButton for the go button. This is searchButton for Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change to searchButton in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use searchButton. You can read more and see a list of affected scripts.
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. [2 390]
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. [2 391]
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.
Latest tech 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. [2 392]
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. [2 393][2 394]
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. [2 395]
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).
Latest tech 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. [2 400]
Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events. [2 401]
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. [2 402]
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 Version imprimibla link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway. [2 403]
Latest tech 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. [2 404]
The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck Usa la versió antiga de Vector in your local or global preferences in section Preferéncias de l'aparéncia. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week. [2 405][2 406]
Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed. [2 407]
Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed. [2 408]
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).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period. [2 409]
Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago. The problem is now fixed. [2 410]
There is a problem with the global preferences for the "Usa la versió antiga de Vector" option. Developers are working on fixing it. [2 411]
A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed. [2 412]
Changes later this week
The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed. [2 413]
Users' global.js and global.css pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin. [2 414]
In the MonoBook skin, the searchGoButton identifier is now searchButton. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27.
Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses counter to prevent large archives was changed. [2 415]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 5. It will be on all wikis from August 6 (calendar).
Latest tech 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. [2 416]
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. [2 417]
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. [2 418][2 419]
Latest tech 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. [2 420]
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. [2 421]
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. [2 422][2 423]
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. [2 424][2 425]
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. [2 426]
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. [2 427]
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. [2 428]
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. [2 429][2 430]
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.
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. [2 431][2 432]
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. [2 433][2 434]
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. [2 435]
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. [2 437]
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. [2 438]
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. [2 439]
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.
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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. [2 440]
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. [2 441]
Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [2 442]
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. [2 443]
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. [2 444]
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. [2 445][2 446][2 447]
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. [2 448][2 449]
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).
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. [2 451]
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. [2 452]
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. [2 453]
Last week, links to "diffs" from mobile watchlists and recentchanges were linking to page-revisions instead of diffs. This has now been fixed. [2 454]
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. [2 455]
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. [2 456]
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. [2 457]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser uses very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It could lead to downgrade attacks. Since October 29, 2020, users who use old TLS versions will not be able to connect to Wikimedia projects. A list of browser recommendations is available. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [2 458]
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. [2 459]
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). [2 460]
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. [2 461]
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. [2 462]
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.
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. [2 463]
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. [2 464][2 465]
Latest tech 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. [2 466][2 467]
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. [2 468]
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. [2 469]
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. [2 470]
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. [2 471][2 472]
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. [2 473]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [2 474][2 475]
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. [2 476][2 477]
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).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too. [2 478]
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. [2 479]
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. [2 480]
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. [2 481]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed. [2 482]
You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [2 483]
Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [2 484]
Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [2 485]
When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the watchlist to watch will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [2 487]
There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all wikis from 14 January (calendar).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all wikis from 21 January (calendar).
MassMessage posts could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be timestamped you can let the developers know.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [2 493]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed. [2 494]
Changes later this week
You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [2 495]
Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [2 496][2 497]
Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55 as well as the 1.2.3.4/27 syntax for IP ranges. [2 498]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).
Future changes
Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more. [2 499][2 500]
Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be 185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [2 501]
Changes later this week
You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [2 502]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).
Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [2 505]
Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [2 506]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned. [2 507][2 508]
Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [2 509]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
L’éditeur visuel utilisera dorénavant MediaSearch pour rechercher des images. Vous pouvez chercher des images sur Commons dans l’éditeur visuel lorsque vous souhaitez ajouter une illustration. Ce changement devrait permettre aux contributeurs de trouver de meilleures images. [2 510]
Modifier une frise chronologique pouvait faire disparaitre tout son contenu, en raison d’un bogue qui a été corrigé. Il se peut que vous deviez modifier à nouveau la frise chronologique pour qu’elle s’affiche correctement. [2 512]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 23 février. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 24 février et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 25 février (calendrier).
Futurs changements
Il existe un groupe d’utilisateurs de développeurs et d’utilisateurs qui ont envie de travailler sur les wikis Wikimedia avec le langage de programmation Rust. Vous pouvez participer à ce groupe ou en parler aux autres qui veulent améliorer votre wiki.
Celles-ci sont les dernières nouvelles de technologie de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. Veuillez informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Tous les changements ne vous toucheront pas. Des traductions sont disponibles.
Modifications récentes
Les wikis utilisant les outils de l'équipe de croissance peuvent désormais afficher le nom du mentor d'un nouveau venu n'importe où par un mot magique. Cela peut être utilisé pour les messages de bienvenue ou les userboxes.
Une nouvelle version de l'outil VideoCutTool est maintenant disponible. Il permet le recadrage, le rognage, la désactivation audio et la rotation du contenu vidéo. Il est créé dans le cadre des programmes de sensibilisation des développeurs.
Problèmes
Un problème est survenu avec la queue de travaux. Cela signifiait que certaines fonctions ne sauvegardaient pas les modifications et que les messages en masse étaient retardés. Cela n'a pas affecté les modifications du wiki. [2 513]
Certains éditeurs peuvent ne pas être connectés automatiquement à leurs comptes dans les dernières versions de Firefox et Safari. [2 514]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 2 mars. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 3 mars et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 4 mars (calendrier).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Section translation now works on Bengali Wikipedia. It helps mobile editors translate sections of articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis with a smaller number of articles. You can test it and leave feedback.
When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article. [2 516]
Problems
Many graphs have JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing. [2 517]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 March. It will be on all wikis from 11 March (calendar).
The New Discussion tool will soon be a new discussion tools beta feature for on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new discussions. [2 518]
Future changes
There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates and those who create or maintain them. You can read more.
Reference Previews will become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a setting with Page Previews. If you prefer the Reference Tooltips or Navigation-Popups gadget you can keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown. [2 519][2 520]
New JavaScript-based functions will not work in Internet Explorer 11. This is because Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can read more.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Wikis that are part of the desktop improvements project can now use a new search function. The desktop improvements and the new search will come to more wikis later. You can also test it early.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 March. It will be on all wikis from 18 March (calendar).
Future changes
You can add a newline or carriage return character to a custom signature if you use a template. There is a proposal to not allow them in the future. This is because they can cause formatting problems. [2 522][2 523]
You will be able to read but not edit 12 wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
You can use Quarry for SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. PAWS and other ways to do SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later. [2 524]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. They don't have a touch screen so readers navigate with the phone keys. There is now a simulator so you can see what it looks like.
You will be able to read but not edit twelve wikis for a short period of time on 23 de març at 06:00 (UTC). This can also affect password changes, logging in to new wikis, global renames and changing or confirming emails. This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 March. It will be on all wikis from 25 March (calendar).
Flagged revisions will no longer have multiple tags like "tone" or "depth". It will also only have one tier. This was changed because very few wikis used these features and they make the tool difficult to maintain. [2 526][2 527]
Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015 this was moved from wg* to mw.config. wg* will soon no longer work. [2 528]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Certains très vieux fr:navigateur webne fonctionnent pas bien avec les wikis Wikimedia. Du vieux code pour les navigateurs qui étaient pris en charge va être retiré. Cela peut poser souci dans ces navigateurs. [2 529]
Les flux IRC des changements récents ont été déplacés vers un nouveau serveur. Assurez-vous que tous les outils se reconnectent automatiquement à irc.wikimedia.org et pas à un serveur spécifique. Les utilisateurs devraient aussi envisager de passer à EventStreams qui est plus moderne. [2 530]
Problèmes
Lorsque vous déplacez une page que beaucoup de contributeurs ont dans leur liste de suivi, l’historique peut être divisée. Parfois, il devient également impossible de déplacer la page à nouveau pendant un moment. Cela vient d’un problème dans la file d’attente des travaux. [2 531]
Certaines pages traductibles sur Meta ne pouvaient pas être modifiées. Cela était dû à un bogue dans l’outil de traduction. La nouvelle version de MediaWiki a été retardée à cause de problèmes tels que celui-ci. [2 532][2 533]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 30 mars. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 31 mars et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 1 avril (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Les rédacteurs peuvent réduire une partie d'un article afin que vous deviez cliquer dessus pour la voir. Lorsque vous cliquez sur un lien vers une section à l'intérieur d'un contenu réduit, celui-ci se développe pour afficher la section. Le navigateur fera défiler l'article jusqu'à la section. Auparavant, ces liens ne fonctionnaient pas si vous ne développiez pas d'abord manuellement le contenu. [2 534]
Changements à venir cette semaine
L’API de Citoid utilisera, par exemple, 2010-12-XX à la place de 2010-12 pour les dates avec un mois mais pas de jour. Le but est d’éviter que 2010-12, qui désigne Décembre 2010, soit confondu avec 2010-2012. Ce format est dit « de niveau 1 », par rapport au « niveau 0 », dans la norme sur le format étendu des dates et heures. [2 535]
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 6 avril. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 7 avril et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 8 avril (calendrier).
Changements à venir
PAWS peut maintenant se connecter aux nouvelles répliques de wiki. Les requêtes JOINS entre bases de données ne fonctionneront plus à partir du 28 avril. Une nouvelle façon de connecter les base de données existe. Jusqu’au 28 avril, les deux manières de lier les bases de données fonctionneront. Si vous pensez que cela vous affecte et que vous avez besoin d’aide, publiez sur Phabricator ou sur Wikitech.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Les courriels adressés aux wikis de Wikimedia sont traités par des groupes de contributeurs de Wikimedia. Ces équipes de réponse bénévoles utilisent désormais le logiciel Znuny au lieu d’OTRS. Les fonctions et l’interface restent les mêmes. Les administrateurs bénévoles donneront bientôt plus de détails sur les prochaines étapes. [2 536][2 537]
Si vous utilisez la coloration syntaxique, vous pouvez voir les numéros de ligne dans les éditeurs de wikicode 2010 et 2017 lorsque vous modifiez des modèles. Cela permet de voir plus facilement les sauts de ligne et de mentionner des lignes spécifiques. Les numéros de ligne seront bientôt disponibles dans tous les espaces de noms. [2 538][2 539][2 540]
En raison d’un changement technique, il pourrait y avoir des problèmes avec les gadgets et scripts qui ont une zone de résumé des modifications similaire à celle-ci. Si des bizarreries apparaissent, ces scripts doivent utiliser mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.edit.styles') pour retrouver leur aspect antérieur. [2 541]
La dernière version de MediaWiki est arrivée sur les wikis Wikimedia la semaine dernière (il n’y a pas eu d’édition des Actualités techniques la semaine dernière).
Changements à venir cette semaine
Il n’y aura pas de nouvelle version de MediaWiki cette semaine.
Futurs changements
Le nom technique du groupe utilisateur oversight va être renommé en suppress, pour des raisons techniques. Cela ne changera pas la manière dont ces contributeurs sont appelés sur votre wiki. Cela devrait arriver dans deux semaines. Vous pouvez ajouter un commentaire sur Phabricator si vous avez des objections.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Certains paramètres de modèles prennent habituellement des valeurs spécifiques. Il est possible de suggérer des valeurs aux contributeurs dans les TemplateData. Vous pourrez bientôt les voir sous forme de liste déroulante dans l’éditeur visuel. Ceci a pour but d'aider les utilisateurs de modèles à trouver les bonnes valeurs plus rapidement. [2 542][2 543][2 544]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 27 avril. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 28 avril et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 29 avril (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Certaines choses ne fonctionneront plus pendant environ 1 minute le 5 mai vers 6 h (UTC). Cela va notamment concerner l’outil de traduction de contenu et les notifications. Cela est dû à une mise à jour nécessaire pour éviter des plantages. [2 546]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La Prévisualisation des références va devenir une fonctionnalité par défaut le 5 mai sur de nombreux wikis. Cela a été repoussé en raison de certains changements. Vous pouvez l’utilisez sans utiliser la Prévisualisation des pages si vous le souhaitez. Il était initialement prévu que l’activation de ces fonctionnalités irait de paire. [2 547][2 548]
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 4 mai. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 5 mai et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 6 mai (calendrier).
Changements à venir
Les classes CSS.error, .warning et .success ne fonctionnent pas pour les lecteurs sur mobile si elles ne sont pas spécifiquement définies sur votre wiki. À partir de juin, elles ne fonctionneront plus pour les lecteurs sur ordinateur non plus. Cela peut impacter des gadgets et modèles. En remplacement, il est possible de définir ces classes dans MediaWiki:Common.css ou dans les styles de modèle. [2 549]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 11 mai. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 12 mai et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 13 mai (calendrier).
Futurs changements
Vous pouvez voir sur quoi les participants prévoient de travailler lors du hackathon Wikimédia en ligne qui se tiendra les 22 et 23 mai.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Une édition précédente des Actualités techniques disait que l’API de Citoid gèrerait les dates mentionnant un mois mais pas de jour d’une nouvelle façon ; mais ce changement a pour le moment été annulé. Nous devons d’abord discuter davantage de la façon dont cela risque d’affecter les différents wikis. [2 555]
Changements à venir cette semaine
MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist va être renommé en MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist. La liste peut être copiée vers le nouveau nom. Cela se passera le 19 mai pour certains wikis et le 20 mai pour d’autres wikis. La plupart des wikis ne l’utilisent pas. Ce message liste les images qui ne devraient jamais afficher de vignettes sur les articles. [2 556]
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 18 mai. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 19 mai et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 20 mai (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Le mouvement Wikimedia utilisait IRC sur un réseau appelé Freenode. Il y a eu des changements sur qui a le contrôle du réseau. Les contacts de groupe IRC Wikimedia ont décidé de migrer vers le nouveau réseau Libera Chat. Ce n'est pas une décision formelle pour le mouvement de déplacer tous les canaux mais la plupart des canaux IRC de Wikimedia vont probablement quitter Freenode. Il y a un guide de migration et des discussions en cours sur Wikimedia à ce sujet.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 25 mai. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 26 mai et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 27 mai (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Problèmes
Un problème a eu lieu avec l’habillage Vector, dans la taille du texte des catégories et des informations sous le titre de la page. Cela a été corrigé mardi dernier. [2 557]
Changements à venir cette semaine
Il n’y aura pas de nouvelle version de MediaWiki cette semaine.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 8 juin. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 9 juin et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 10 juin (calendrier).
Futurs changements
Le mouvement Wikimedia utilise Phabricator pour des tâches techniques. C'est là que nous recueillons les suggestions techniques, les bogues et sur quoi travaillent les développeurs. L'entreprise derrière Phabricator va cesser de travailler dessus. Cela ne changera rien pour le mouvement Wikimedia pour le moment, mais pourrait entraîner des changements dans le futur. [2 558][2 559][2 560]
Pour certaines langues, la recherche sur Wikipédia donnera bientôt davantage de résultats, notamment pour les cas où l’utilisateur effectuant la recherche n’a pas saisi correctement les fr:diacritiques quand elles ne sont pas considérées comme nécessaires dans sa langue. Par exemple, rechercher Bedusz ne trouve pas Będusz sur la Wikipédia en allemand. Le caractère ę n’est pas utilisé en allemand, donc beaucoup d’utilisateurs écrivent e à la place. Cela fonctionnera mieux à l’avenir dans certaines langues. [2 561]
Les paramètres des jetons CSRF dans l’API action ont changé en 2014. Les anciens paramètres d’avant 2014 vont bientôt cesser de fonctionner. Cela peut affecter les robots, gadgets et scripts utilisateur qui les utilisent encore. [2 562][2 563]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Les utilisateurs non connectés utilisant l’interface web mobile peuvent choisir d’utiliser le mode mobile avancé. Ils voient dorénavant les catégories d’une manière similaire aux utilisateurs sur ordinateur. Par conséquent, certaines gadgets conçus pour ordinateur pourraient maintenant fonctionner sur mobile aussi. Si votre wiki est doté de tels gadgets, vous pouvez décider de les activer maintenant sur le site mobile aussi. Certains gadgets doivent peut-être être corrigés pour fonctionner correctement sur mobile. [2 564]
La Wikipédia en allemand, Wikivoyage en anglais et 29 wikis plus petits ne pourront pas être modifiés pendant quelques minutes le 22 juin, normalement entre 5 h et 5 h 30. [2 566]
Toutes les wikis seront en lecture-seule le 28 juin. Davantage d’informations seront publiées dans les Actualités techniques et également sur chaque wiki dans les prochaines semaines. [2 567][2 568]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Le nom du groupe otrs-member est maintenant vrt-permissions. Ce changement peut affecter les filtres antiabus. [2 569]
Problèmes
Vous pourrez lire, mais pas modifier Wikipédia en allemand, Wikivoyage en anglais et 29 petits wikis pendant quelques minutes le 22 juin, entre 5 h et 5 h 30 UTC. [2 570]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 22 juin. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 23 juin et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 24 juin (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Wikisource est doté d’un nouvel outil de ROC. Si vous voulez voir le bouton « extraire le texte » sur Wikisource, vous pouvez ajouter .ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; } à votre page common.css. [2 572]
Problèmes
Vous pourrez lire, mais pas modifier les wikis Wikimedia pendant quelques minutes le 29 juin à partir de 14 h UTC. [2 573][2 574]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 29 juin. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 30 juin et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 1 juillet (calendrier).
Futurs changements
Le Seuil pour le formatage des liens d’ébauche, la Taille de la vignette et Numéroter automatiquement les titres de section peuvent être définis dans les préférences. La maintenance de ces paramètres est couteuse, et peu d’utilisateurs les utilisent. Les développeurs prévoient de les retirer, ce qui rendra le chargement des pages plus rapide. Vous pouvez en savoir plus et donner votre avis.
Une barre d’outils va être ajoutée au mode source wikicode de l’outil Répondre. Cela rendra plus facile l’insertion de lien vers des pages et la notification d’autres utilisateurs. [2 575][2 576]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Actualités techniques
Le prochain numéro des Actualités techniques sera envoyé le 19 juillet.
Changements récents
AutoWikiBrowser est un outil pour faire des tâches répétitives plus facilement. Il utilise maintenant JSON. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has été déplacé vers Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON et Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version a été déplacé vers Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. L’outil sera configuré sur le wiki afin que vous n’ayez pas à attendre la parution d’une nouvelle version pour que des modèles ou expressions régulières soient corrigés, par exemple. [2 577]
Problèmes
InternetArchiveBot aide à conserver les sources en ligne sur certains wikis en les ajoutant à la Wayback Machine puis en insérant un lien vers l’archive créé. Cela permet que la source ne disparaisse pas si la page web liée venait à être supprimée. Actuellement, ce robot insère un lien vers une mauvaise date d’archive quand il déplace une page depuis archive.is vers web.archive.org. [2 578]
Changements à venir cette semaine
L’outil pour trouver, ajouter et supprimer des modèles va être mis à jour, afin de rendre plus facile la recherche de modèle et leur utilisation. Les premiers wikis seront mis à jour le 7 juillet, les autres wikis auront cette mise à jour plus tard dans l’année. [2 579][2 580]
Il n’y aura pas de nouvelle version de MediaWiki cette semaine.
Futurs changements
Certains wikis Wikimedia utilisent les Versions visées ou les Changements en attentes. Cela empêche que les modifications des utilisateurs récemment ou non enregistrées soient visibles avant qu’elles soient relues. L’action de relecture automatique (auto review) ne sera plus journalisée, et tous les anciens journaux des relectures auto seront supprimés, parce que cela crée de larges journaux qui ne sont pas vraiment utiles. [2 581]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Modifications récentes
L'outil permettant de trouver, d'ajouter et de supprimer des modèles a été mis à jour. Il s'agit de faciliter la recherche et l'utilisation des modèles corrects. Il était censé arriver sur les premiers wikis le 7 juillet mais a été reporté au 12 juillet. Il sera disponible pour d'autres wikis plus tard dans l'année. [2 582][2 583]
Special:UnconnectedPages liste les pages qui ne sont pas connectées à Wikidata. Cela vous aide à trouver des pages qui peuvent être connectées à des éléments Wikidata. Certaines pages ne doivent pas être connectées à Wikidata. Vous pouvez utiliser le mot magique __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ sur les pages qui ne devraient pas être listées sur la page spéciale. [2 584]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 20 juillet. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 21 juillet et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 22 juillet (calendrier).
Changements à venir
La façon dont les supports sont structurés dans la sortie HTML de l'analyseur syntaxique va bientôt changer. Cela peut affecter les bots, les gadgets, les scripts d'utilisateur et les extensions. Vous pouvez en savoir plus. Vous pouvez le tester sur Testwiki ou Testwiki 2.
Les paramètres concernant la manière d'obtenir des jetons dans l'API MediaWiki ont été modifiés en 2014. L'ancienne méthode ne fonctionnera plus à partir du 1er septembre. Les scripts, bots et outils qui utilisent les paramètres d'avant le changement de 2014 doivent être mis à jour. Vous pouvez en savoir plus.
Latest tech 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 version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis the week before last week. This was not in Tech News because there was no newsletter that week.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 July. It will be on all wikis from 29 July (calendar).
Future changes
If you use the Monobook skin you can choose to switch off responsive design on mobile. This will now work for more skins. If ⧼monobook-responsive-label⧽ is unticked you need to also untick the new preferenceActiva el mode responsiu. Otherwise it will stop working. Interface admins can automate this process on your wiki. You can read more.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Si votre wiki utilises des balises telles que <div class="mw-content-ltr"> ou <div class="mw-content-rtl"> sans l’attribut dir obligatoire, alors elles cesseront de fonctionner dans deux semaines. Un correctif à court terme peut être ajouté à la page Common.css de votre wiki local, cela est expliqué sur la tâche T287701. Désormais, toutes les utilisations doivent inclure tous les attributs, par exemple <div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="en"> ou <div class="mw-content-rtl" dir="rtl" lang="he">. Ceci s'applique également à certaines autres balises HTML, telles que span ou code. Vous pouvez voir des exemples de pages de votre wiki qui doivent être mises à jour en suivant les instructions sur la tâche T287701.
La semaine dernière, tous les wikis ont été ralentis voire bloqués pendant 30 minutes, en raison d’un problème de génération de listes dynamiques d’articles sur Wikinews en russe, après un import massif de plus de 200 000 articles pendant 3 jours, ce qui a conduit à un problème de base de données. La fonctionnalité problématique a été désactivée sur ce wiki et les développeurs réfléchissent à la manière de corriger cela proprement. [2 585][2 586]
Changements à venir cette semaine
Lors de l’ajout de lien depuis l’éditeur visuel ou l’éditeur de wikicode 2017, les pages d’homonymie apparaitront désormais en fin des résultats de recherche, parce que la plupart des utilisateurs ne désirent pas créer de lien vers les pages d’homonymie. [2 587]
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 3 août. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 4 août et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 5 août (calendrier).
Futurs changements
L’équipe responsable de l’appli Wikipédia pour Android travaille sur la communication avec l’appli. Les développeurs travaillent sur la façon de communiquer avec les autres contributeurs et de recevoir des notifications. Vous pouvez en savoir plus. Ils recherchent des utilisateurs qui veulent tester les projets. Tout contributeur qui a un téléphone Android et qui a envie de télécharger l’appli peut le faire.
La Fonctionnalité bêta pour Eines de Discussió sera mise à jour dans les semaines à venir. Vous pourrez vous abonner à des sections individuelles sur une page de discussion dans davantage de wikis. Vous pouvez la tester dès maintenant en ajoutant ?dtenable=1 à la fin de l'URL de la page de discussion (exemple).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Problèmes
Vous pourrez lire, mais pas modifier 17 wikis Wikimedia pendant quelques minutes le 10 août à partir de 05 h UTC. Cette interruption est causée par le travail sur la base de données. [2 588]
Changements à venir cette semaine
Le Hackathon Wikimania se déroulera à distance le 13 août à partir de 5:00 UTC, pendant 24 heures. Vous pourrez participer de plusieurs manières. Vous pouvez encore proposer des projets et des sessions.
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 10 août. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 11 août et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 12 août (calendrier).
L'ancien CSS <div class="visualClear"></div> ne sera plus pris en charge après le 12 août. Les modèles et les pages devront utiliser <div style="clear:both;"></div>. Votre aide est la bienvenue pour remplacer toute utilisation existante sur votre wiki. Des liens de recherche globale sont disponibles dans la tâche T287962.
Futurs changements
La Bibliothèque Wikipédia est un site permettant aux rédacteurs de Wikipédia d'accéder à des sources. Il existe une extension qui a une nouvelle fonctionnalité permettant d'indiquer aux utilisateurs quand ils peuvent y accéder. Elle utilisera les notifications. Elle commencera à envoyer des messages aux premiers utilisateurs en septembre. D'autres utilisateurs seront contactés plus tard. [2 589]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Vous pouvez à nouveau ajouter des liens interlangues dans la barre latérale de la nouvelle apparence de Vector. Pour ce faire, vous devez connecter la page à un élément Wikidata. Dans la nouvelle apparence de Vector, les liens interlangues sont déplacés, mais le nouveau sélecteur de langue ne permet pas encore d’en ajouter. [2 591]
Problèmes
Il y a eu un problème sur les wikis qui utilisent l'extension Traduction. Les traductions n'étaient pas mises à jour ou étaient remplacées par le texte anglais. Les problèmes ont été corrigés. [2 592][2 593][2 594]
Changements à venir cette semaine
Une balise de révision sera bientôt ajoutée aux modifications qui créent des liens vers des pages d'homonymie, parce que ces liens sont généralement générés par accident. La balise permettra aux rédacteurs de trouver facilement les liens erronés et de les corriger. Si votre wiki n'aime pas cette fonctionnalité, elle peut être cachée. [2 595]
Vous avez envie d’aider à enrichir les informations disponibles sur les outils ? Cela vous plairait-il d’assiter ou d’aider à l’organisation d’une petite réunion virtuelle avec votre communauté pour discuter de la liste d’outils ? Alors dites-le sur la page de discussion des Sessions d’évaluation de la qualité de Toolhub. Nous avons aussi besoin d’un retour des mainteneurs d’outils sur certains points.
Auparavant, la liste d’utilisateurs ignorés ne fonctionnait pas pour les modifications sur les pages de votre espace de discussion utilisateur (page de discussion et ses sous-pages). À partir de cette semaine, ce sera vrai uniquement pour votre page de discussion. [2 596]
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 17 août. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 18 août et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 19 août (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
L'extension Score (notation <score>) a été réactivée sur les wikis publics et mise à niveau vers une version plus récente. Certaines fonctionnalités de la notation musicale peuvent ne plus fonctionner car elles ne sont activées qu'en « mode sécuritaire ». Le problème de sécurité a été corrigé et un avis a été publié.
Problèmes
Vous pourrez lire mais pas modifier certains wikis pendant quelques minutes le 25 août vers 06:00 UTC. Cela est lié à la maintenance de la base de données. Pendant la maintenance, les opérations sur CentralAuth ne seront pas non plus possibles.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 24 août. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 25 août et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 26 août (calendrier).
Une opération de maintenance aura lieu le mercredi août 25 06:00 UTC. Cela ne devrait durer que quelques minutes.
Cela affectera votre wiki ainsi que $nombre autres wikis. Pendant l’opération, il ne sera pas possible d’enregistrer des modifications.
De plus, pendant cette période, les opérations sur CentralAuth ne seront pas possibles (GlobalRenames, modification/confirmation des adresses e-mail, connexion à de nouveaux wikis, changements de mot de passe).
Pour plus d’informations sur cette opération et les services impactés, vous pouvez consulter la tâche dédiée sur Phabricator.
Une bannière sera affichée 30 minutes avant l’opération.
Une aide serait la bienvenue pour informer votre communauté de cette opération de maintenance. Mercés !
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Changements récents
Certaines syntaxes de partitions musicales ne fonctionnent plus et ont peut-être besoin d'être mises à jour. Vous pouvez vérifier Category:Paginas amb d'errors de rendut de particion sur votre wiki pour obtenir une liste des pages comportant des erreurs.
Problèmes
Les partitions musicales étaient incapables de restituer les paroles dans certaines langues en raison de l'absence de polices de caractères. Ce problème a été corrigé. Si votre langue préfère une police différente, veuillez déposer une demande sur Phabricator. [2 597]
Changements à venir cette semaine
Les paramètres d'obtention des jetons dans l'API MediaWiki ont été modifiés en 2014. L'ancienne méthode ne fonctionnera plus à partir du 1er septembre. Les scripts, les bots et les outils qui utilisent les paramètres d'avant le changement de 2014 doivent être mis à jour. Vous pouvez en lire plus.
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 31 août. Elle sera présente sur les wikis non-Wikipedia et sur quelques Wikipédias le 1 septembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis le 2 septembre. (calendrier).
Changements à venir
Vous pourrez lire mais pas modifier Commons pendant quelques minutes le 6 septembre. Cela se produira vers 05:00 UTC. Cela est lié à la maintenance de la base de données.
Tous les wikis seront en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes le 13 septembre. Davantage d’informations seront publiées dans les Actualités techniques et également sur chaque wiki dans les prochaines semaines. [2 598]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Les wikis dotés des fonctionnalités de Croissance participaient à un test A/B depuis leur mise en place, ce qui impliquait que certains nouveaux ne bénéficiaient pas de ces fonctionnalités. Maintenant, tous les nouveaux de 21 des plus petits de ces wikis bénéficieront de ces fonctionnalités. [2 599]
Changements à venir cette semaine
Il n’y aura pas de nouvelle version de MediaWiki cette semaine.
Futurs changements
En 2017, la bibliothèque jQuery intégrée a été mise à jour de la version 1 à la version 3, avec une couche de compatibilité. Cette phase de migration va bientôt s’achever, pour rendre le site plus rapide à charger pour tout le monde. Si vous maintenez un gadget ou script utilisateur, vérifiez si vous avez des erreurs JQMIGRATE et corrigez-les le cas échéant, sinon elles feront échouer le script. [2 600][2 601]
L’an dernier, la Wikipédia en portugais commençait une expérimentation pour rendre obligatoire la connexion pour modifier des pages. Le rapport d’impact de cet essai est achevé. Pour poursuivre l’étude, l’équipe des Outils anti-harcèlement recherche des projets qui voudraient expérimenter la restriction de la modification des pages par les IP sur leur wiki pendant une courte période. En savoir plus.
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Une majorité de Wikipédias a maintenant accès aux fonctionnalités de Croissance. L’équipe Croissance a publié une page de FAQ sur ces fonctionnalités. Cette FAQ, traduisible, décrit les fonctionnalités, comment les utiliser, comment les configurer…
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 14 septembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 15 septembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 16 septembre (calendrier).
À partir de cette semaine, la Wikipédia en italien recevra les mises à jour du logiciel le mercredi, au lieu du jeudi. Avec ce changement, les bogues seront remarqués et corrigés plus tôt. [2 604]
Vous pouvez à nouveau ajouter des liens interlangues dans la barre latérale de la nouvelle apparence de Vector. Pour ce faire, vous devez connecter la page à un élément Wikidata. Dans la nouvelle apparence de Vector, les liens interlangues sont déplacés, mais le nouveau sélecteur de langue ne permet pas encore d’en ajouter. [2 605]
L’outil de coloration syntaxique met en forme le code avec différentes couleurs. Il prend maintenant en charge 3 nouveaux langages. De plus, golang peut maintenant être utilisé comme alias pour le langage de programmation Go et un mode spécial output a été ajouté pour montrer la sortie d’un programme. [2 606][2 607]
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Changements récents
Les fonctionnalités de croissance sont maintenant déployées sur presque toutes les Wikipédias. Pour la majorité des petites Wikipedias, les fonctionnalités ne sont disponibles que pour les utilisateurs expérimentés, pour tester les fonctionnalités et les configurer. Les fonctionnalités seront disponibles pour les nouveaux arrivants à partir du 20 septembre 2021.
MediaWiki avait une fonction qui mettait en forme les liens locaux vers des articles courts dans un style différent. Chaque utilisateur pouvait choisir la taille à partir de laquelle les pages étaient considérées comme des « ébauches » à mettre en évidence. Cette fonctionnalité avait de très mauvaises performances, et suite à une consultation, elle a été supprimée. [2 608]
Une modification technique a été apportée à l’habillage MonoBook afin d'en faciliter la maintenance et l'entretien. Cela a entraîné quelques modifications mineures du HTML qui rendent le HTML de MonoBook cohérent avec les autres habillages. Des efforts ont été faits pour minimiser l'impact sur les contributeurs, mais vous pouvez contacter Jon (WMF) sur le wiki ou sur Phabricator si des problèmes sont signalés.
Problèmes
Il y a eu un problème avec la recherche la semaine dernière. De nombreuses demandes de recherche n'ont pas fonctionné pendant deux heures en raison d'un redémarrage accidentel des serveurs de recherche. [2 609]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 21 septembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 22 septembre et enfin sur tous les Wikis restants le 23 septembre (calendrier).
L’API meta=proofreadpage a été modifiée. Le paramètre piprop a été renommé en prpiprop. Les utilisateurs de l'API doivent mettre à jour leur code pour éviter les avertissements de paramètres non reconnus. Les utilisateurs de Pywikibot doivent effectuer une mise à jour vers la version 6.6.0. [2 610]
Le changement précédemment annoncé concernant la façon d'obtenir des jetons de l'API a été reporté au 21 septembre en raison d'une incompatibilité avec Pywikibot. Les dresseurs de robots utilisant Pywikibot peuvent suivre T291202 pour connaître l'état d'avancement de la correction, et doivent prévoir de passer à la version 6.6.1 lorsqu'elle sera publiée.
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Changements récents
iOS 15 dispose d'une nouvelle fonction appelée Private Relay (site Web d'Apple). Elle permet de masquer l'adresse IP de l'utilisateur lorsqu'il utilise le navigateur Safari. C'est comme utiliser un VPN dans la mesure où nous voyons une autre adresse IP à la place. Il s'agit d'une fonctionnalité optionnelle, réservée à ceux qui paient un supplément pour iCloud. Elle sera proposée plus tard aux utilisateurs de Safari sur macOS. Il y a une discussion technique sur ce que cela signifie pour les wikis Wikimédia.
Problèmes
Certains gadgets et scripts utilisateur ajoutent des éléments à la partie portlets (outils d'articles) de l'habillage. Une modification récente de l'HTML peut avoir donné à ces liens une taille de police différente. Cela peut être corrigé en ajoutant la classe CSS .vector-menu-dropdown-noicon. [2 612]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 28 septembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 29 septembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikis restants le 30 septembre (calendrier).
L'extension GettingStarted a été développée en 2013 et fournit un processus de démarrage pour les nouveaux propriétaires de compte dans quelques versions de Wikipédia. Cependant, les fonctionnalités de Croissance récemment développées offrent une meilleure expérience de démarrage. Puisque la grande majorité des Wikipédias ont maintenant accès aux fonctionnalités de Croissance, GettingStarted sera désactivé à partir du 4 octobre. [2 613]
Un petit nombre d'utilisateurs ne pourront pas se connecter aux wikis de Wikimedia après le 30 septembre. Cela est dû au fait qu'un ancien certificat racine ne fonctionnera plus. Ils auront également des problèmes avec de nombreux autres sites web. Les utilisateurs qui ont mis à jour leur logiciel au cours des cinq dernières années ne devraient pas rencontrer de problèmes. Les utilisateurs d'Europe, d'Afrique et d'Asie sont moins susceptibles d'avoir des problèmes immédiats, même si leur logiciel est trop ancien. Vous pouvez en savoir plus.
Vous pouvez recevoir des notifications lorsque quelqu'un laisse un message sur votre page de discussion utilisateur ou vous mentionne dans un message sur une page de discussion. En cliquant sur le lien de notification, vous accéderez désormais au message qui sera mis en évidence. Auparavant, cela vous amenait en haut de la section qui contenait le message. Vous pouvez trouver plus d'informations dans la tâche T282029.
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Changements récents
Une méthode plus efficace pour envoyer les modifications de Wikidata aux wikis Wikimedia qui les affichent a été activée pour les 10 wikis suivants : mediawiki.org, les Wikipedias en italien, en catalan, en hébreu et en vietnamien, la Wikisource en français, et les Wikivoygage, Wikibooks, Wiktionary et Wikinews en anglais. Si vous remarquez quelque chose d'étrange dans la façon dont les modifications de Wikidata apparaissent dans les modifications récentes ou dans votre liste de surveillance sur ces wikis, vous pouvez le faire savoir aux développeurs.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 5 octobre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 6 octobre et enfin sur toutes les Wikis restants le 7 octobre (calendrier).
Certains gadgets et bots qui utilisent l'API pour lire le journal d'AbuseFilter pourraient ne pas fonctionner. La propriété hidden ne dira plus qu'une entrée est implicit pour les entrées de journal non supprimées concernant les modifications supprimées. Si votre robot a besoin de le savoir, faites une requête de vérification séparée. De plus, la propriété aura la valeur false pour les entrées visibles ; auparavant, elle n'était pas incluse dans la réponse. [2 615]
Un moyen plus efficace d'envoyer les modifications de Wikidata aux wikis Wikimedia qui les affichent sera activé pour tous les wikis en production. Si vous remarquez quelque chose d'étrange dans la façon dont les modifications de Wikidata apparaissent dans les modifications récentes ou dans votre liste de suivi, vous pouvez le faire savoir aux développeurs.
Futurs changements
Vous pourrez bientôt recevoir des notifications inter-wiki dans l'application Wikipédia iOS. Vous pourrez également recevoir des notifications sous forme de notifications poussées. D'autres mises à jour pour les notifications suivront dans les versions ultérieures. [2 616]
Les variables JavaScript wgExtraSignatureNamespaces, wgLegalTitleChars, et wgIllegalFileChars seront bientôt retirées de mw.config. Elles ne font pas partie des variables « stables » disponibles pour une utilisation dans un wiki avec JavaScript. [2 617]
Les variables JavaScript wgCookiePrefix, wgCookieDomain, wgCookiePath, et wgCookieExpiration seront bientôt supprimées de mw.config. Les scripts devront utiliser à la place mw.cookie du module « mediawiki.cookie ». [2 618]
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Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 12 octobre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 13 octobre et enfin sur toutes les Wikis restants le 14 octobre (calendrier).
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Changements récents
Toolhub est un catalogue qui permet de trouver plus facilement des outils logiciel qui peuvent être utilisés pour travailler sur les projets Wikimedia. En savoir plus.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 19 octobre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 20 octobre et enfin sur toutes les Wikis restants le 21 octobre (calendrier).
De 3 à 5 % des contributeurs pourraient être bloqués dans les prochains mois, en raison d’un nouveau service dans Safari, similaire à un serveur mandataire (proxy) ou à un VPN, dénommé « Relais privé iCloud ». Une discussion sur ce problème a actuellement lieu sur Méta-Wiki. Le but est de déterminer ce que le Relais privé iCloud implique pour les communautés.
Wikimedia Enterprise est une nouvelle API pour ceux qui utilisent beaucoup d’informations des projets Wikimedia sur d’autres sites. C’est une façon de faire payer les données aux gros utilisateurs commerciaux. Une copie du jeu de données Wikimedia Enterprise sera bientôt disponible. En savoir plus. Vous pouvez aussi poser vos questions à l’équipe sur Zoom le 22 octobre à 15 h UTC.
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La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 26 octobre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 27 octobre et enfin sur toutes les Wikis restants le 28 octobre (calendrier).
Futurs changements
Les pages de différences vont offrir une expérience de copier-coller améliorée. Les changements permettront de sélectionner le wikicode précédant ou suivant la modification distinctement et sans les informations additionnelles. [2 619]
La version des polices d'écriture Liberation utilisée dans les fichiers SVG sera mise à jour. Seules les nouvelles vignettes seront affectées. La police Liberation Sans Narrow ne changera pas. [2 620]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Le nombre de courriels pouvant être envoyé chaque jour par un même utilisateur est limité. Cette limite est dorénavant globale et non plus propre à chaque wiki. Ce changement a pour but d’éviter les abus. [2 621]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 2 novembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 3 novembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 4 novembre (calendrier).
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Changements récents
Les contributeurs sous IP utilisant un mobile seront désormais avertis lors de la réception de message sur leur page de discussion (un peu comme la bannière orange affichée sur ordinateur). Cela prendra la forme d’indications sur toutes les pages hors espace principal et à chaque fois que l’utilisateur essayera de modifier une page. Sur ordinateur, l’indication a désormais une couleur légèrement différente. [2 622][2 623]
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Parfois, les modifications réalisées depuis iOS en utilisant l’éditeur visuel enregistrent les suites de chiffres comme des liens vers des numéro de téléphone, en raison d’une fonctionnalité du système d’exploitation. Ce problème est en cours d’analyse. [2 625]
Il y a eu un problème avec la recherche la semaine dernière. Pendant deux heures, de nombreuses recherches n’ont pas abouti en raison d’une erreur de configuration. [2 626]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 16 novembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 17 novembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 18 novembre (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements à venir cette semaine
Il n’y aura pas de nouvelle version de MediaWiki cette semaine.
Últim notícies de tecnologia de la comunitat tècnica de Wikimedia. Informeu altres usuaris sobre aquests canvis. No tots els canvis t'afecten. Les traduccions estan disponibles.
Canvis a finals d'aquesta setmana
La nova versió de MediaWiki estarà en wikis de prova i MediaWiki.org de 30 de novembre. Serà en wikis que no són de la Viquipèdia i algunes Viquipèquies de 1 de desembre. Serà a tots els wikis de 2 de desembre (calendari).
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Problèmes
MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 devait être déployé sur certains wikis la semaine dernière. Le déploiement a été repoussé en raison de certains problèmes inattendus.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 7 décembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 8 décembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 9 décembre (calendrier).
Sur toutes les Wikipédia, un tableau de bord des tuteurs est dorénavant disponible sur Special:MentorDashboard. Il permet aux tuteurs enregistrés, qui s’occupent des premiers pas des débutants, de suivre l’activité des débutants qui leur sont attribués. Il fait partie des fonctionnalités de Croissance. Vous pouvez en savoir plus sur l’activation de la liste de tuteurs sur votre wiki, et sur le projet de tableau de bord des tuteurs.
Le prédécesseur de l’actuelle API Action de MediaWiki (qui a été créée en 2008), action=ajax, va être désactivé cette semaine. Tous les scripts ou robots qui l’utilisent vont devoir passer au module correspondant de l’API. [2 627]
Un ancien module de ResourceLoader (le chargeur de ressources), jquery.jStorage, déprécié en 2016, va être retiré cette semaine. Tous les scripts et robots qui l’utilisent vont devoir utiliser mediawiki.storage à la place. [2 628]
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Changements récents
Il y a désormais des alias courts pour l’espace de nom « Project: » sur la plupart des wikis. Par exemple, sur les Wikibooks, [[WB:]] mènera vers la page par défaut pour l’espace de nom [[Project:]] dans la langue locale. Ce changement a pour but d’aider les petites communautés à accéder facilement à cette fonctionnalité. D’autres alias locaux peuvent toujours être demandés en suivant le processus habituel. [2 629]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 14 décembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 15 décembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 16 décembre (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Actualités techniques
En raison du temps des fêtes, le prochain numéro des Actualités techniques sera publié le 10 janvier 2022.
Changements récents
Les requêtes effectuées par l'extension DynamicPageList (<DynamicPageList>) ne sont désormais autorisées à s'exécuter que pendant 10 secondes, avec une erreur si elles durent plus longtemps. Ceci est une réponse à de multiples pannes où des requêtes longues ont causé une panne sur tous les wikis. [2 630]
Changements à venir cette semaine
Il n’y aura pas de nouvelle version de MediaWiki cette semaine ni la semaine prochaine.
Le Cloud VPS de Wikimédia héberge des projets techniques pour le mouvement Wikimédia. Les développeurs doivent revendiquer les projets qu'ils utilisent. En effet, les projets anciens et inutilisés sont supprimés une fois par an. Les projets non réclamés peuvent être fermés à partir de février. [2 631]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Une variable oauth_consumer a été ajoutée à AbuseFilter pour permettre d'identifier les modifications effectuées par des outils spécifiques. [2 632]
Les gadgets sont maintenant capables d'inclure directement des pages JSON. Cela signifie que certains gadgets peuvent maintenant être configurés par les administrateurs sans avoir besoin de la autorisation d'un administrateur d'interface, comme le gadget Geonotice. [2 633]
Les gadgets peuvent désormais spécifier les actions de page pour lesquelles ils seront utilisables. Par exemple, |actions=edit,history chargera un gadget uniquement pendant la modification d’une page ou la consultation de son historique. [2 634]
Les gadgets peuvent désormais être chargés avec le paramètre d'URL withgadget. Ceci peut être utilisé pour remplacer un morceau de code qui ressemble généralement à withJS ou withCSS. [2 635]
Le titre de la page d’accueil peut désormais être configuré en utilisant MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin pour les utilisateurs connectés et MediaWiki:Mainpage-title pour les utilisateurs non connectés. Tout CSS qui était utilisé pour masquer le titre devrait être supprimé. [2 637][2 638]
Quatre pages spéciales (et leurs équivalents API) ont désormais un temps d'exécution maximal de 30 secondes pour les requêtes à la base de données. Ces pages spéciales sont : Modifications récentes, Liste de suivi, Contributions et Journal. Ce changement contribuera à améliorer les performances et la stabilité du site. Vous pouvez lire plus de détails sur ce changement, y compris quelques solutions potentielles si cela affecte vos activités. [2 639]
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 11 janvier. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 12 janvier et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 13 janvier (calendrier).
Événements
La consultation des souhaits de la communauté pour 2022 commence. Tous les contributeurs des projets Wikimédia peuvent proposer des outils et des améliorations de la plateforme. La phase de proposition se déroule du 10 janvier 18:00 UTC au 23 janvier 18:00 UTC. En savoir plus.
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Changements récents
Dans WikiEditor (l’éditeur 2010 de wikicode), les contributeurs seront désormais avertis s’ils insèrent un lien vers une page d’homonymie. Si vous cliquez sur « Vérifier le lien » dans l’avertissement, il vous sera demandé de corriger le lien vers une page plus spécifique. En savoir plus sur la réalisation de ce souhait issue de la consultation des souhaits de la communauté pour 2021.
Quand il est demandé de créer une nouvelle page ou une nouvelle section de page de discussion, les champs de saisie peuvent être pré-remplis (preloaded). Cette fonctionnalité est maintenant limitée aux pages de wikicode, afin que les utilisateurs ne soient pas manipulés pour réaliser des modifications malveillantes. Une discussion a lieu pour déterminer si cette fonctionnalité doit être réactivée pour certains types de contenu.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 18 janvier. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 19 janvier et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 20 janvier (calendrier).
Évènements
La consultation des souhaits de la communauté pour 2022 continue. Tous les contributeurs des projets Wikimédia peuvent proposer des outils et des améliorations de la plateforme. La phase de proposition se déroule du 10 janvier 18:00 UTC au 23 janvier 18:00 UTC. En savoir plus.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 25 janvier. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 26 janvier et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 27 janvier (calendrier).
Les langages suivants peuvent maintenant être utilisés avec la coloration syntaxique : BDD, Elpi, LilyPond, Maxima, Rita, Savi, Sed, Sophia, Spice, .SRCINFO.
Vous pouvez désormais accéder à votre liste de suivi en dehors du menu utilisateur dans la nouvelle apparence de Vector. Le lien vers la liste de suivi apparaît à côté des icônes de notification si vous êtes au sommet de la page. [2 641]
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Changements récents
Si un gadget devrait prendre en charge le nouveau paramètre d’URL ?withgadgetannoncé il y a 3 semaines, alors il doit désormais aussi spécifier supportsUrlLoad dans la définition du gadget (documentation). [2 642]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 1 février. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 2 février et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 3 février (calendrier).
Futurs changements
Un changement annoncé l’an passé a été repoussé. Il est maintenant prêt à être mis en place :
Le nom technique du groupe utilisateur oversight va être renommé en suppress, pour des raisons techniques. Cela ne changera pas la manière dont ces contributeurs sont appelés sur votre wiki. Cela devrait arriver dans trois semaines. Vous pouvez ajouter un commentaire sur Phabricator si vous avez des objections. Comme d’habitude, ces noms peuvent être traduits sur Translatewiki.net (des liens directs sont disponibles) ou par les administrateurs sur votre wiki.
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Le décompte des catégories est parfois erroné. Ils seront désormais entièrement recomptés au début de chaque mois. [2 643]
Problèmes
Un changement de code la semaine dernière pour corriger un bug avec Live Preview peut avoir causé des problèmes avec certains gadgets locaux et scripts utilisateurs. Tout code ayant un comportement spécifique au skin pour vector doit être mis à jour pour vérifier également vector-2022. Un extrait de code, une recherche globale et un exemple sont disponibles.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 8 février. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 9 février et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 10 février (calendrier).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Purging a category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely. This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong.[2 644]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 February. It will be on all wikis from 17 February (calendar).
In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function has been updated 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.[2 645]
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Sur Wikipédia, tous les nouveaux comptes obtiennent désormais les Fonctionnalités de croissance par défaut lors de la création d'un compte. Les communautés sont encouragées à mettre à jour leurs ressources d'aide. Auparavant, seuls 80 % des nouveaux comptes obtenaient les fonctionnalités de croissance. Quelques Wikipédias ne sont pas affectées par ce changement. [2 647]
Vous pouvez à présent empêcher que des images spécifiques utilisées sur une page apparaissent à d'autres endroits, tels que la prévisualisation des pages (PagePreviews) ou les résultats de recherche. Cela est effectué grâce au code class=notpageimage. Par example, [[Fichier:Exemple.png|class=notpageimage]]. [2 648]
Une modification a été apportée au HTML des pages Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory et aux pages d'historique, afin de prendre en charge le regroupement des modifications par date dans l'apparence mobile. Bien que peu probable, cela pourrait affecter les gadgets et les scripts des utilisateurs. Une liste de tous les changements HTML est disponible sur Phabricator.
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 22 février. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 23 février et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 24 février (calendrier).
Changements à venir
Le logiciel permettant de lire les vidéos et les fichiers audio sur les pages va bientôt changer sur tous les wikis. L'ancien lecteur sera supprimé. L'affichage de certains lecteurs audio deviendra plus large après ce changement. Le nouveau lecteur a été une fonctionnalité bêta pendant plus de quatre ans. [2 649][2 650]
Le système d'exploitation sous-jacent de Toolforge est en cours de mise à jour. Si vous y maintenez des outils, il existe deux options pour migrer vos outils vers le nouveau système. Vous trouverez les détails, délais et instructions sur Wikitech. [2 651]
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Les tuteurs utilisant le tableau de bord des tuteurs du projet Croissance verront désormais les nouveaux qui leur sont assignés s’ils ont entre 1 et 200 contributions. Auparavant, tous les nouveaux assignés au tuteur étaient visibles sur le tableau de bord, même ceux ayant réalisé des centaines de modifications. Les tuteurs peuvent toujours changer ces valeurs en utilisant les filtres du tableau de bord ; les derniers filtres utilisés sont enregistrés. [2 653][2 654]
Le groupe utilisateur oversight a été renommé en suppress, pour des raisons techniques. Vous allez devoir mettre à jour les utilisations locales de l’ancien nom, par exemple dans les gadgets, liens vers Spécial:Liste_des_utilisateurs ou utilisations de NUMBERINGROUP.
Problèmes
Les changements récents dans le code HTML des pages de suivi des modifications a causé certains problèmes aux lecteurs d’écrans. Cela est maintenant résolu. [2 655]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 1 mars. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 2 mars et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 3 mars (calendrier).
Futurs changements
Travailler avec les modèles va devenir plus facile : plusieurs améliorations sont prévues pour le 9 mars pour la plupart des wikis, et le 16 mars pour la Wikipédia en anglais. Parmi les améliorations : l’appairage des accolades, la colorisation syntaxique, la recherche et l’insertion de modèles et des fonctionnalités de l’éditeur visuel liées.
Si vous êtes développeur de modèle ou administrateur d’interface, et que vous utilisez ou remplacez les CSS par défaut des boites de retour des utilisateurs (les classes successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox), sachez que ces classes et CSS associées seront bientôt supprimée du cœur de MediaWiki, pour éviter les problèmes lorsque les mêmes noms de classe sont aussi utilisés sur un wiki. N’hésitez pas à nous faire savoir par un commentaire sur phab:T300314 si vous pensez être touché par ce changement.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Problèmes
Il y a, depuis la semaine dernière, un problème avec certains intitulés de l’interface. Il sera corrigé cette semaine. Ce changement fait partie du travail en cours pour simplifier la prise en charge des habillages qui n’ont pas de mainteneurs actifs. [2 656]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 8 mars. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 9 mars et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 10 mars (calendrier).
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Changements récents
Dans l’application Wikipédia sur Android, il est maintenant possible de changer la barre d’outils en bas afin que les outils que vous utilisez le plus souvent soient plus faciles à atteindre. L’application dispose maintenant également d’un mode de lecture focalisé, c’est-à-dire centré sur le contenu de la page lue. [2 657][2 658]
Problèmes
Un problème est survenu lors de la collecte de certaines données sur les visualisations de pages entre juin 2021 et janvier 2022 sur tous les wikis. Cela signifie que les statistiques sont incomplètes. Pour aider à calculer quels projets ou régions ont été les plus affectés, les jeux de données correspondants sont conservés durant 30 jours supplémentaires. Vous pouvez en savoir plus sur Méta-Wiki.
Il y a eu un problème avec la base de données le 10 mars : tous les wikis ont été inaccessibles aux utilisateurs connectés pendant 12 minutes. Les utilisateurs déconnectés pouvaient lire les pages mais pas les modifier ni accéder à du contenu non mis en cache. [2 659]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 15 mars. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 16 mars et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 17 mars (calendrier).
L’accès à Especial:Versions suprimidas a été étendu pour inclure les utilisateurs qui disposent des droits deletelogentry et deletedhistory par l’intermédiaire des groupes dont ils sont membres. Auparavant, seuls ceux qui disposaient du droit deleterevision pouvaient accéder à cette page spéciale. [2 661]
Sur les pages Especial:Restablir qui montrent les différences et révisions, il y aura un lien de retour à la page principale « Restaurer une page » avec la liste des révisions. [2 662]
Futurs changements
La Fondation Wikimedia a annoncé la stratégie de mise en œuvre du masquage des adresses IP, ainsi que les étapes suivantes. L’annonce peut être lue ici.
L’Hackathon Wikimedia 2022 aura lieu sous forme hybride du 20 au 22 mai 2022. Il se tiendra en ligne mais l’organisation de rencontres en présentiel autour du monde sera subventionnée. Les subventions peuvent être demandées jusqu’au 20 mars.
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Nouveau rythme de sortie du code pour cette semaine
Il y aura 4 nouvelles versions successives de MediaWiki cette semaine, au lieu d’une seule. Il s’agit d’une expérimentation pour limiter les problèmes et accélérer le déploiement des fonctionnalités. Les versions seront déployées sur tous les wikis, à des moments différents, lundi, mardi et mercredi. Vous pouvez en savoir plus sur ce projet.
L’outil de carnet Jupyter PAWS a été mis à jour avec une nouvelle interface. [2 665]
Futurs changements
Les cartes interactives utilisant Kartographer fonctionneront bientôt sur les wikis qui utilisent les révisions étiquetées (l’extension FlaggedRevision). Dites-nous quelles améliorations vous aimeriez dans Kartographer. Vous pouvez utiliser un anglais élémentaire pour répondre à l’enquête. [2 666]
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Changements récents
Un nouvel outil d’importation de fichier sur Wikimedia Commons est disponible pour les utilisateurs de MacOS : Sunflower.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 29 mars. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 30 mars et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 31 mars (calendrier).
Certains wikis seront en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes en raison d’une opération classique sur la base de donnée, le 29 mars à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés) et le 31 mars à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés). [2 667][2 668]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Problèmes
Pendant quelques jours, la semaine dernière, les modifications qui étaient suggérées aux nouveaux n’étaient pas étiquetées dans le flux de Especial:Darrièrs cambiaments. Cela a été corrigé. [2 669]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 5 avril. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 6 avril et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 7 avril (calendrier).
Certains wikis vont passer en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes en raison d’une interversion de leur base de données principale. Cela aura lieu le 7 avril à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés).
Futurs changements
À partir de la semaine prochaine, le titre des actualités technique sera traduisible. Lors de la distribution de l’infolettre, son titre ne sera plus « Tech News: 2022-14 ». Cela peut affecter certains filtres définis par les communautés. [2 670]
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Changements récents
Une nouvelle page publique d’état des serveurs est disponible sur www.wikimediastatus.net. Ce site affiche cinq statistiques de haut niveau donnant le niveau de fonctionnement et de performance de l’environnement technique de nos wikis. Elle contient aussi des rapports manuels pour expliquer les incidents aussi rapidement que possible, que les ingénieurs écrivent tout en corrigeant le problème. Le site est séparée de notre infrastructure de production et hébergée par un service externe pour rester accessible même quand les wikis sont brièvement indisponibles. Vous pouvez en savoir plus sur ce projet.
Sur les Wiktionnaires, le logiciel permettant de lire les vidéos et les fichiers audio sur les pages a changé. L’ancien lecteur a été supprimé. L'affichage de certains lecteurs audio va devenir plus large avec ce changement. Le nouveau lecteur a été une fonctionnalité bêta pendant plus de quatre ans. [2 671][2 672]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 12 avril. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 13 avril et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 14 avril (calendrier).
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Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 19 avril. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 20 avril et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 21 avril (calendrier).
Certains wikis seront en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes en raison d’une opération classique sur la base de donnée, le 19 avril à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés) et le 21 avril à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés).
Les boites de message produites par le code de MediaWiki n’auront plus les classes CSS successbox, errorbox, warningbox. Les styles pour ces classes et messagebox seront retirées du cœur de MediaWiki. Cela n’affecte que les wikis qui utilisent ces classes dans le wikicode, ou changent leur apparence à l’aide de CSS s’appliquant à tout le site. Vérifiez si votre wiki les utilise. Cela a été précédemment annoncé dans le numéro du 28 février des actualités techniques.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Sur de nombreux wikis (le groupe 1), le logiciel permettant de lire les vidéos et les fichiers audio sur les pages a changé. L’ancien lecteur a été retiré. Avec ce changement, certains lecteurs audio vont devenir plus larges. Le nouveau lecteur a été une fonctionnalité bêta pendant plus de quatre ans. [2 678][2 679]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 26 avril. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 27 avril et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 28 avril (calendrier).
Certains wikis vont passer en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes en raison d’une interversion de leur base de données principale. Cela aura lieu le 26 avril à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés).
Certains très vieux navigateurs et systèmes d’exploitation ne sont plus pris en charge. Sur les wikis, des choses peuvent paraitre étranges voire ne pas fonctionner du tout sur les très vieux navigateurs tels qu’Internet Explorer 9 ou 10, Android 4 ou Firefox 38 et précédents. [2 680]
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Changements récents
Sur tous les wikis restants (ceux du groupe 2), le logiciel permettant de lire les vidéos et les fichiers audio sur les pages a changé. L’ancien lecteur a été retiré. Avec ce changement, certains lecteurs audio vont devenir plus larges. Le nouveau lecteur a été une fonctionnalité bêta pendant plus de quatre ans. [2 681][2 682]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 3 mai. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 4 mai et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 5 mai (calendrier).
Futurs changements
Les développeurs travaillent sur les pages de discussion dans l’appli Wikipédia pour iOS. Vous pouvez faire vos retours, en répondant en anglais, allemand, hébreu ou chinois.
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Cette semaine, il y a eu un problème avec l’autocomplétion des recherches de Wikidata. Cela a été corrigé. [2 687]
Cette semaine, l’accès à tous les wikis a été ralenti voire bloqué pendant 20 minutes pour les utilisateurs connectés et les pages non mises en cache. Un problème dans un changement de la base de données était en cause. [2 688]
Changements à venir cette semaine
Il n’y aura pas de nouvelle version de MediaWiki cette semaine. [2 689]
L’habillage Vector (2022) va être défini par défaut sur plusieurs autres wikis, dont les Wikipédia en arabe et en catalan. Les utilisateurs connectés pourront toujours revenir à l’ancien Vector (2010). Voir les dernières actualités concernant Vector (2022).
Prochaines réunions
La prochaine réunion publique avec l’équipe Web concernant Vector (2022) aura lieu le 17 mai. Les dates de réunion suivantes sont prévues : 7 juin, 21 juin, 5 juillet et 19 juillet.
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Le Marathon de codage Wikimedia 2022 aura lieu en ligne du 20 au 22 mai, en anglais. Des rassemblements locaux de programmeurs auront lieu en Allemagne, au Ghana, en Grèce, en Inde, au Nigéria et aux États-Unis. Les Wikimédiens intéressés par la technique peuvent découvrir et travailler sur les projets logiciels. Vous pouvez aussi organiser une session ou publier un projet sur lequel vous voudriez travailler.
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 17 mai. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 18 mai et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 19 mai (calendrier).
Futurs changements
Vous pourrez bientôt modifier des pages traductibles dans l’éditeur visuel. Les pages traductibles existent, par exemple, sur Méta-Wiki et Commons. [2 691]
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Changements récents
Les administrateurs qui utilisent l’interface web mobile peuvent dorénavant accéder à Spécial:Block directement depuis leur page utilisateur. [2 692]
La page du portail www.wiktionary.org utilise dorénavant un système de mise à jour automatisé. Les portails des autres projets vont être mise à jour dans les prochains mois. [2 693]
Problèmes
L’équipe Croissance s’occupe d’un programme de tutorat pour les nouveaux. Auparavant, les nouveaux ne pouvaient pas désactiver ce programme. À partir du 19 mai 2022, les nouveaux pourront quitter entièrement le système de tutorat pour la Croissance, s’ils souhaitent ne pas avoir de tuteur. [2 694]
Certains contributeurs ne peuvent pas accéder à l’outil de traduction de contenu s’ils y accèdent par un clic dans le menu Contributions. Le problème est en train d’être résolu. En y accédant directement via Spécial:ContentTranslation, cela devrait fonctionner en attendant. [2 695]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 24 mai. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 25 mai et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 26 mai (calendrier).
Futurs changements
Les développeurs de gadgets et de scripts utilisateur sont invités à donner leur avis sur une proposition de règlement technique qui vise à améliorer l’assistance des développeurs MediaWiki. [2 696]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Dans l’extension AbuseFilter (filtres antiabus), une fonction ip_in_ranges() a été introduite pour vérifier si une IP est dans un des intervalles. Il est recommandé aux wikis de combiner plusieurs expressions ip_in_range() séparées par | dans une unique expression pour de meilleures performances. Vous pouvez utiliser la fonction de recherche de Spécial:Filtre_antiabus pour retrouver où elle est utilisée. [2 697]
La fonctionnalité IP Info, qui aide les contributeurs luttant contre les abus à accéder aux informations concernant les IP, a été déployée sur tous les wikis comme fonctionnalité bêta. Cela arrive après plusieurs semaines de test en bêta sur test.wikipedia.org.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 31 mai. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 1 juin et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 2 juin (calendrier).
Certains wikis vont passer en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes en raison d’une interversion de leur base de données principale. Cela aura lieu le 31 mai à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés).
Le terminal d’API list=usercontribs permettra bientôt d’obtenir les contributions d’un intervalle d’IP. Les utilisateurs de l’API peuvent définir le paramètre uciprange pour obtenir les contributions de tout intervalle d’IP, en respectant la limite. [2 700]
Une nouvelle fonction d’analyse syntaxique va être introduite : {{=}}. Cela remplacera les modèles « = » actuels, en insérant un signe égal. Cela peut être utilisé pour échapper le signe égal dans les valeurs des paramètres des modèles. [2 701]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 7 juin. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 8 juin et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 9 juin (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 14 juin. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 15 juin et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 16 juin (calendrier).
Certains wikis vont passer en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes en raison d’une interversion de leur base de données principale. Cela aura lieu le 14 juin à 6 h UTC (wikis concernés). [2 705]
À partir de mercredi, un nouvel ensemble de wikis pourront utiliser la fonctionnalité « Ajouter un lien » (Wikipédia en abkhaze, Wikipédia en achinais, Wikipédia en adyguéen, Wikipédia en afrikaans, Wikipédia en akan, Wikipédia en alémanique, Wikipédia en amharique, Wikipédia en aragonais, Wikipédia en anglo-saxon, Wikipédia en araméen impérial, Wikipédia en arabe égyptien, Wikipédia en asturien, Wikipédia en atikamekw, Wikipédia en avar, Wikipédia en aymara, Wikipédia en azéri, Wikipédia en azéri du sud). Il s’agit d’un déploiement progressif de cet outil à d’autres éditions de Wikipédia. Les communautés peuvent configurer localement cette fonctionnalité. [2 706]
The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences.[2 707][2 708]
Future meetings
The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place today (13 June). The following meetings will take place on: 28 June, 12 July, 26 July.
Future changes
By the end of July, the Vector 2022 skin should be ready to become the default across all wikis. Discussions on how to adjust it to the communities' needs will begin in the next weeks. It will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual basis. Learn more.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
L'appli Wikipédia pour Android a dorénavant une option pour modifier la page entière en une fois. Elle est située dans le menu de dépassement (menu trois-points ). [2 709]
Certains changements récents dans la base de données peuvent affecter les requêtes utilisant l'outil Quarry. Les requêtes utilisant site_stats sur Wikipédia en anglais, Commons et Wikidata doivent être mises à jour. En savoir plus.
Une nouvelle variable user_global_editcount peut être utilisé dans les filtres antiabus pour ne pas affecter les utilisateurs actifs globalement. [2 710]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 21 juin. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 22 juin et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 23 juin (calendrier).
Les utilisateurs d'habillages non réactifs (tels que MonoBook ou Vector) sur appareil mobile peuvent remarquer un léger changement du niveau de zoom par défaut. Le but est d'optimiser le zoom et de garantir que tous les éléments d'interface sont présents sur la page (par exemple le sommaire sur Vector 2022). Dans le cas peu probable où cela poserait problème dans votre utilisation du site, nous aimerions avoir plus d'informations, donc n'hésitez pas à notifier Jon (WMF) sur toute discussion relative sur les wikis. [2 711]
La sortie HTML de Parsoid arrêtera bientôt d'annoter les liens vers les fichiers avec des valeurs différentes pour l'attribut typeof, et utilisera mw:File pour tous les types. Les auteurs d'outils doivent modifier tout code qui attendrait les valeurs mw:Image, mw:Audio ou mw:Video. [2 712]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 28 juin. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 29 juin et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 30 juin (calendrier).
Certains wikis vont passer en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes en raison d’une interversion de leur base de données principale. Cela aura lieu le 28 juin à 6 h UTC (wikis concernés). [2 713]
Certains services globaux et inter-wikis passeront en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes en raison d'une interversion de leur base de données principale. Cela aura lieu le 30 juin à 6 h UTC. Cela va affecter l'outil Traduction de contenu, les notifications Echo, les Discussions structurées, les expérimentations Croissance et quelques autres services. [2 714]
Les utilisateurs pourront trier les colonnes des tableaux triables dans l'apparence mobile. [2 715]
Prochaines réunions
La prochaine réunion publique avec l’équipe Web concernant Vector (2022) aura lieu demain, le 28 juin. Les réunions suivantes auront lieu les 12 juillet et 19 juillet.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 5 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 7 July at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
This change only affects pages in the main namespace in Wikisource. The Javascript config variable proofreadpage_source_href will be removed from mw.config and be replaced with the variable prpSourceIndexPage. [2 716]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
In the Vector 2022 skin, the page title is now displayed above the tabs such as Discussion, Read, Edit, View history, or More. Learn more.[2 717]
The Anti-Harassment Tools team recently deployed the IP Info Feature as a Beta Feature at all wikis. This feature allows abuse fighters to access information about IP addresses. Please check our update on how to find and use the tool. Please share your feedback using a link you will be given within the tool itself.
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 12 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Problèmes
La fonctionnalité « pages à proximité » sur la version web mobile était indisponible la semaine dernière. Ce sera corrigé cette semaine. [2 719]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 19 juillet. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 20 juillet et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 21 juillet (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Les portails www.wikibooks.org et www.wikiquote.org utilisent dorénavant un système de mise à jour automatisé. Les portails des autres projets vont être mise à jour dans les prochains mois. [2 720]
Problèmes
La semaine dernière, certains wikis étaient en mode lecture seule pour quelques minutes en raison d’un basculement d’urgence de la base de données principale (wikis concernés). [2 721]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 26 juillet. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 27 juillet et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 28 juillet (calendrier).
L'icône de lien externe changera légèrement dans les habillages Vector (ancienne version) et Vector 2022. La nouvelle icône utilise des formes plus simples pour être plus reconnaissable sur les écrans à basse fidélité. [2 722]
Les administrateurs verront désormais sur les pages utilisateur les boutons « Modificar lo blocatge » et « Desblocar un utilizaire o una adreça IP » au lieu de « Blocar en escritura » si l'utilisateur est déjà bloqué. [2 723]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 2 août. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 3 août et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 4 août (calendrier).
Cette semaine, trois réunions sur l’habillage Vector (nouvelle version 2022) avec interprétation en direct auront lieu. Le mardi, l'interprétation en russe sera assurée. Le jeudi, des réunions pour les arabophones et les hispanophones auront lieu. Voir comment participer.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Il n’y aura pas de nouvelle version de MediaWiki cette semaine.
Certains wikis seront en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes en raison d’un changement de base de données principale, le 9 août à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés) et le 11 août à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
La communauté de Wikipédia en persan a décidé de bloquer la contribution sous IP d’octobre 2021 à avril 2022. L’équipe d’analyse produit de Wikimedia Foundation a étudié les impacts de ce changement. Un rapport est disponible.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 16 août. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 17 août et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 18 août (calendrier).
Certains wikis seront en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes en raison d’un changement de base de données principale, le 16 août à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés) et le 18 août à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Deux problèmes avec les cartes Kartographer ont été corrigés. Les cartes ne sont plus affichées comme vides quand une géoligne a été créé avec l’éditeur visuel. Les géolignes uniquement composées de points avec des QID (par exemple, les lignes de métro) ne sont plus affichées avec des punaises. [2 728][2 729]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 23 août. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 24 août et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 25 août (calendrier).
Certains wikis vont passer en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes en raison d’une interversion de leur base de données principale. Cela aura lieu le 25 août à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés).
La couleur des liens visités et non-visités va changer, afin de rendre plus visible la différence entre les liens et le reste du texte. [2 730]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Au cours des derniers mois, des chiffres inexacts ont été affichés sur Especial:Estatisticas sur Commons, Wikidata et la Wikipédia en anglais. Ce problème a été corrigé. [2 732]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 30 août. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 31 août et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 1 septembre (calendrier).
Certains wikis seront en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes en raison d’un changement de base de données principale, le 30 août à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés) et le 1 septembre à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés).
Futurs changements
La Wikimedia Foundation souhaite améliorer la manière dont les communautés Wikimedia signalent les incidents préjudiciables en créant le système de signalement confidentiel des incidents (Private Incident Reporting System, PIRS) afin de permettre aux utilisateurs de faire des signalements de manière sûre et sécurisée. Vous pouvez laisser des commentaires sur la page de discussion, en répondant aux questions fournies. Si vous avez déjà été confronté à une situation préjudiciable que vous vouliez signaler ou que vous avez déjà signalé, rejoignez un entretien PIRS pour partager votre expérience. Pour vous inscrire, envoyez un courriel à Madalina Ana.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 6 septembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 7 septembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 8 septembre (calendrier).
Certains wikis seront en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes en raison d’un changement de base de données principale, le 6 septembre à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés) et le 8 septembre à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés).
Sur les pages spéciales composées d’un seul onglet, la barre des onglets sera masquée dans l’habillage Vector-2022 pour économiser de la place. Elle continuera de s’afficher si des gadgets l’utilisent. Les gadgets qui ajoutent du contenu directement à l’Id CSS #p-namespaces doivent être mis à jour pour utiliser la fonction mw.util.addPortletLink à la place. Les gadgets qui stylisent cet Id devraient envisager de styliser #p-associated-pages également, le nouvel Id de cette ligne. Des exemples sont disponibles. [2 733][2 734]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Les serveurs de recherche ont été mis à jour vers une nouvelle version majeure. Si vous remarquez un quelconque problème, vous pouvez le signaler sur Phabricator. [2 735]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 13 septembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 14 septembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 15 septembre (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Deux champs de base de données dans la table templatelinks ont été supprimés : tl_namespace et tl_title. Toute requête utilisant ces champs devra être modifiée pour utiliser le champ de normalisation « tl_target_id » à la place. Consultez T299417 pour plus d’informations. Cela fait partie du travail de normalisation des tables de liens. [2 737][2 738]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 20 septembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 21 septembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 22 septembre (calendrier).
Dans les cartes Karographer, vous pouvez utiliser des icônes pour marquer des points d’intérêt. Mardi, le jeu d’icônes actuel va être mis à jour vers la version maki 7.2. Cela signifie qu’environ 100 nouvelles icônes seront disponibles. De plus, toutes les icônes existantes ont été mises à jour pour les clarifier et améliorer leur compréhension dans des contextes internationaux. [2 739][2 740]
Changements à venir
Dans un groupe de discussion à Wikimania, plus de 30 personnes ont parlé de la manière de réaliser des logiciels de partenariats pour les contenus au sein du mouvement Wikimedia plus durables. Quelle forme d’assistance est attendue par les développeurs bénévoles ? Lisez le résumé et donnez votre avis.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Les clients de Parsoid doivent être mis à jour pour permettre les valeurs multiples séparées par des espaces dans l’attribut rel des liens. Vous trouverez plus d’informations sur T315209.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 27 septembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 28 septembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 29 septembre (calendrier).
Les diffs visuels vont être rendus disponibles pour tous les utilisateurs, sauf sur les Wiktionnaires et Wikipédias. [2 741]
Les pages de discussion sur le site mobile vont changer sur les Wikipédias en arabe, en bengali, en chinois, en français, en créole haïtien, en hébreux, en coréen et en vietnamien. Elles devraient être plus faciles à utiliser et fournir plus d’informations. [2 742][2 743]
Dans l’espaces de noms Mòdul, les pages finissant par .json seront considérées comme du JSON, comme dans les espaces de noms Utilizaire et MediaWiki. [2 744]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Les cartes Kartographer peuvent dorénavant afficher des géopoints depuis Wikidata à l’aide de requêtes QID ou SPARQL. Auparavant, cela n’était possible qu’avec les géoformes et géolignes. [2 745][2 746]
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 4 octobre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 5 octobre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 6 octobre (calendrier).
Les pages de discussion sur le site mobile vont changer sur les Wikipédias en arabe, en bengali, en chinois, en français, en créole haïtien, en hébreux, en coréen et en vietnamien. Elles devraient être plus faciles à utiliser et fournir plus d’informations. (La publication de la semaine dernière a été repoussée.) [2 747][2 748]
Le module scribunto-console de l’API nécessitera un jeton CSRF. Ce module est documenté comme interne, son utilisation n’est pas prise en charge. [5]
L’habillage Vector 2022 va devenir celui par défaut sur les plus petits projets Wikimedia. En savoir plus.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 11 octobre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 12 octobre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 13 octobre (calendrier).
Sur certains wikis, les cartes Kartographer dans la vue en taille entière pourront afficher les articles liés à des lieux proches. Après une période d’évaluation, d’autres wikis suivront. [2 749][2 750]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Un bogue qui gênait le chargement des vignettes d’article dans Spécial:Recherche a été corrigé. Vous trouverez plus d’informations sur la tâche T320406.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 18 octobre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 19 octobre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 20 octobre (calendrier).
Les auteurs de modules Lua peuvent utiliser mw.loadJsonData() pour charger les données depuis des pages JSON. [2 752]
Les auteurs de modules Lua peuvent activer require( "strict" ) pour ajouter des erreurs pour certains problèmes de code. Cela remplace « Module:No globals » sur la plupart des wikis. [2 753]
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Changements récents
Il y a eu quelques corrections visuelles mineures sur Spécial:Recherche, concernant l’alignement du lecteur audio et la hauteur de l’image de substitution. Vous trouverez plus d’informations sur la tâche T319230.
Sur les Wikipédias, une nouvelle préférence a été ajoutée pour cacher les vignette d’articles sur Spécial:Recherche. Vous trouverez plus d’informations dans la tâche T320337.
Problèmes
La semaine dernière, trois wikis (Wikipédia en français, Wikipédia en japonais, Wikipédia en russe) ont été en lecture seule pendant 25 minutes, à cause d’un problème matériel. [2 755]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 25 octobre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 26 octobre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 27 octobre (calendrier).
Certains wikis seront en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes en raison d’une interversion de leur base de données principale, le 25 octobre à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés) et le 27 octobre à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés).
À partir de mercredi, un nouvel ensemble de wikis pourront utiliser la fonctionnalité « Ajouter un lien » (Wikipédia en assamais, Wikipédia en bachkir, Wikipédia en balinais, Wikipédia en bavarois, Wikipédia en samogitien, Wikipédia en bicolano central, Wikipédia en biélorusse, Wikipédia en biélorusse (orthographe taraškievica), Wikipédia en bulgare, Wikipédia en bhodjpouri, Wikipédia en bichelamar, Wikipédia en banjar, Wikipédia en bambara, Wikipédia en bishnupriya, Wikipédia en breton, Wikipédia en bosniaque, Wikipédia en bouguinais, Wikipédia en bouriate russe, Wikipédia en indonésien). Il s’agit d’un déploiement progressif de cet outil à d’autres éditions de Wikipédia. Les communautés peuvent configurer localement cette fonctionnalité. [2 756]
Les pages avec des titres qui commencent avec une lettre minuscule selon Unicode 11 seront renommées ou supprimées. Une liste des pages concernées sont sur m:Unicode 11 case map migration. Vous trouverez plus d’informations sur la tâche T292552.
L’habillage Vector 2022 va devenir celui par défaut sur les plus petites Wikipedias. En savoir plus.
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Changements récents
En naviguant avec le clavier sur une carte Kartographer, l’élément ciblé sera plus visible. [2 761]
Dans Especial:Darrièrs cambiaments, vous pouvez dorénavant cacher les éléments de journal concernant les créations de nouveaux utilisateurs avec le filtre « ⧼rcfilters-filter-newuserlogactions-label⧽ ». [2 762]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 1 novembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 2 novembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 3 novembre (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Par deux fois la semaine dernière, pendant 45 minutes environ, certains fichiers et vignettes n’ont pas été correctement chargés et des téléversements ont échoué, principalement pour les utilisateurs connectés. Les raisons sont en cours d’investigation, un rapport d’incident sera bientôt disponible.
Changements à venir cette semaine
Il n’y aura pas de nouvelle version de MediaWiki cette semaine.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Sur Wikidata, un lien interwiki peut dorénavant mener vers une page de redirections sous certaines conditions. Il s’agit des « liens des sites vers des redirections ». Cela est nécessaire quand un wiki utilise une même page pour couvrir plusieurs concepts alors qu’un autre wiki utilise différentes pages. Vos retours sur la page de discussion des nouvelles recommandations proposées sont les bienvenus. [2 768]
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 15 novembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 16 novembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 17 novembre (calendrier).
Un nouveau lien va être ajouté pour « Modifier les données du modèle » directement sur les pages des modèles. [2 770]
Futurs changements
Les wikis qui ont les Outils de discussion pour mobile activés utiliseront bientôt une mise en forme CSS complète pour afficher les modèles placés en haut des pages de discussion. Pour adapter ces « boites de pages de discussion » pour les petits appareils mobiles, vous pouvez utiliser des requêtes média, comme dans cet exemple. [2 771]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
L’affichage des fichiers multimédias non libres dans la barre de recherche et dans les résultats de Spécial:Recherche a été désactivé. Plus de détails sont disponibles dans la tâche Phabricator T320661.
Changements à venir cette semaine
Il n’y a pas de nouvelle version de MediaWiki cette semaine.
Certains wikis seront en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes en raison d’un changement de base de données principal, le 22 novembre à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés) et le 24 novembre à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Une nouvelle préférence, « Activer le mode largeur réduite » a été ajoutée à l’habillage Vector 2022. La préférence est aussi activable sur chaque page si votre écran a plus de 1 600 pixels de large. Cela permet d’augmenter la taille de la page pour les utilisateurs connectés ou non. [2 772]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 29 novembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 30 novembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 1 décembre (calendrier).
Certains wikis seront en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes en raison d’une interversion de leur base de données principale, le 29 novembre à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés) et le 1 décembre à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés).
Les formules mathématiques en format SVG n’auront plus d’alternative PNG pour les navigateurs qui ne les prennent pas en charge. Ce changement fait partie de la modernisation en cours du système qui les génère. N’afficher que la version PNG était l’option par défaut depuis février 2018. [2 773][2 774][2 775]
La manière dont les médias sont structurées dans la sortie HTML de l’analyseur syntaxique va changer en début de semaine prochaine sur les wikis du groupe 1 (exceptés Wikimedia Commons et Meta-Wiki). Cela va améliorer l’accessibilité des contenus et rendre plus facile l’écriture de CSS dédié. Vous devrez peut-être mettre à jour les CSS du site, scripts utilisateur et gadgets. Vous pouvez voir quel code vérifier, comment le mettre à jour et où signaler tout problème lié. [2 777]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Sur Wikisource, l’outil ProofreadPage (relecture de pages) utilise l’outil open source OpenSeadragon. L’API Javascript de ce dernier a été significativement réécrite pour permettre le chargement dynamique des images. La fonctionnalité fournie par l’ancienne version de l’API fonctionne normalement encore, mais n’est plus maintenue. Les scripts utilisateur et gadgets doivent migrer vers la nouvelle version de l’API. La fonctionnalité fournie par la nouvelle version de l’API est documentée sur MediaWiki.org. [2 778][2 779]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 6 décembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 7 décembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 8 décembre (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
La caractère = ne peut plus être utilisé dans les noms utilisateur pour améliorer leur fonctionnement avec les modèles. Les noms utilisateur existants ne sont pas concernés. [2 781]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 13 décembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 14 décembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 15 décembre (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Tech News
En raison des vacances, la prochaine édition des Actualités techniques sera diffusée le 9 janvier 2023.
Changements récents
Sur la page des contributions d’un utilisateur, on peut filtrer les modifications ayant une balise telle que « révoquée ». Dorénavant, l’on pourra aussi n’afficher que les modifications n’ayant pas une telle balise. Il s’agit d’une demande issue de la consultation des souhaits de la communauté pour 2022. [2 783]
Une nouvelle fonction est utilisée par les développeurs de gadgets pour ajouter du contenu en dessous du titre sur les pages des articles. Cette fonction de l’API est dorénavant stable et devrait fonctionner sur tous les habillages. Une documentation est disponible. [2 784]
Un de nos wikis de test est maintenant hébergé sur une nouvelle infrastructure gérée par Kubernetes (en savoir plus). D’autres wikis seront migrés vers cette nouvelle infrastructure début 2023. N’hésitez pas à effectuer des tests et à nous faire part de tout problème rencontré. [2 785]
Problèmes
La semaine dernière, tous les wikis ont été en lecture seule pendant 9 minutes, en raison d’un problème avec la base de données. [2 786]
Changements à venir cette semaine
Il n’y aura pas de nouvelle version de MediaWiki cette semaine ni la semaine prochaine.
Le mot « Respon » est très court dans certaines langues, par exemple en arabe (« ردّ »). Cela rend difficile l’utilisation du bouton Eines de Discussió sur les pages de discussions. Une icône de flèche va être ajoutée pour ces langues. Cela ne sera visible que pour les contributeurs ayant activé la fonctionnalité bêta. [2 787][2 788]
Futurs changements
Les modifications peuvent être automatiquement « balisées » par le logiciel principal ou le système Gestion del filtre dels abuses. Ces balises sont liées à une page d’aide concernant les balises. Bientôt, un lien vers les Modifications récentes sera ajouté pour voir les autres modifications balisées ainsi. Il s’agit d’une demande de la consultation des souhaits de la communauté pour 2022. [2 789]
L’équipe des outils Confiance et Sécurité ont présenté de nouveaux projets pour le système de signalement confidentiel d’incidents. Ce système permettra aux contributeurs de demander de l’aide plus facilement s’ils sont harcelés ou injuriés.
L’Aperçu en temps réel pour le wikicode va quitter son statut de bêta pour être activé pour tous les utilisateurs de l’éditeur de wikicode 2010, dans la semaine du 9 janvier 2023. Il sera activable depuis la barre d’outil de l’éditeur. La fonctionnalité était le 4e souhait le plus populaire lors de la consultation communautaire pour 2021.
Évènements
Vous pouvez maintenant vous inscrire au Hackathon Wikimedia 2023 qui aura lieu du 19 au 21 mai à Athènes, en Grèce. Vous pouvez aussi demander une subvention jusqu’au 14 janvier.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Vous pouvez utiliser les balises pour filtrer des modifications dans la page des modifications récentes, ou sur votre liste de suivi. Vous pouvez dorénavant utiliser des balises pour masquer des modifications. Auparavant, on pouvait afficher uniquement les modifications ayant une certaine balise, mais pas afficher uniquement les modifications n’ayant pas une certaine balise. [2 790]
Spécial:Pages liées affiche toutes les pages qui insère un lien vers une page donnée. Un prototype a été créé qui permettrait de trier ces pages par ordre alphabétique. Vous pouvez voir la discussion sur la tâche Phabricator.
Vous pouvez dorénavant utiliser la fonction Remercier sur votre liste de suivi et sur la page des contributions d’un utilisateur. [2 791]
Une page de wiki peut être déplacée vers un nouveau nom. Vous pouvez dorénavant utiliser un menu déroulant avec des motifs courants pour le déplacement d’une page, afin de ne pas avoir à récrire la même explication à chaque fois. [2 792]
Matrix est un outil de discussion instantané. Vous pouvez dorénavant utiliser matrix: pour créer des liens Matrix sur les pages de wiki. [2 793]
Vous pouvez masquer les traductions dans la liste des modifications récentes sur les wikis multilingues. Cela ne masquait pas les pages des traductions. Vous pouvez dorénavant masquer les sous-pages qui forment les pages des traductions. [2 794]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La prévisulation du wikicode en temps réel est un outil qui permet aux contributeurs de prévisualiser la page dont ils modifient le wikicode. Cet outil var être activé pour tous les utilisateurs de l’éditeur de wikicode 2010. Vous le trouverez dans la barre d’outils de l’éditeur.
Certains wikis seront en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes en raison d’une interversion de leur base de données principale, le 10 janvier à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés) et le 12 janvier à 7 h UTC (wikis concernés).
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 10 janvier. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 11 janvier et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 12 janvier (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Problèmes
Les URL dans les liens « darr » sur les pages d’historique contiennent dorénavant diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID] au lieu de diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]. Cela corrige un problème avec les liens qui menaient vers des diffs incorrects lorsque l’historique était filtré par une balise. Certains scripts utilisateur peuvent ne plus fonctionner à cause de ce changement. [2 795]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 17 janvier. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 18 janvier et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 19 janvier (calendrier).
Certains changements dans l’apparence des pages de discussion n’étaient jusque là uniquement disponibles sur les espaces de noms Discutir: et Discussion Utilizaire:. Ils seront maintenant sur d’autres espaces de noms, tels que Discussion Wikipèdia:, mais ils resteront absents des espaces de noms hors discussion, tels que Wikipèdia: (par exemple pour certains bistros). Vous pouvez modifier vos préférences (fonctionnalité bête). [2 796]
Sur Wikisource, lorsqu’une image est agrandie ou réduite dans l’espace de noms Page, les paramètres de zoom seront mémorisés pour toutes les pages de l’espace de noms Page liées à une même page de l’espace de noms Livre. [2 797]
L’habillage Vector 2022 va devenir celui par défaut sur la Wikipédia en anglais pour les utilisateurs sur ordinateur. Le changement aura lieu le 18 janvier à 15 h UTC. En savoir plus.
Futurs changements
L’édition 2023 de la consultation des souhaits de la communauté qui invite les contributeurs à réaliser des propositions techniques et à voter pour des outils et améliorations commencera la semaine prochaine, le 23 janvier 2023 à 18 h UTC. Vous pouvez déjà ébaucher des propositions dans l’espace de brouillon de la consultation.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Problèmes
La semaine dernière, pendant 15 minutes environ, tous les wikis ont été inaccessibles pour les utilisateurs connectés sur les pages non mises en cache, en raison d’un problème d’horloge. [2 798]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 24 janvier. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 25 janvier et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 26 janvier (calendrier).
Si vous avez activé la fonctionnalité bêta des Outils de discussion, l’apparence des pages de discussion va changer pour afficher plus d’informations sur l’activité des discussions. [2 799][2 800]
L’édition 2023 de la Consultation des souhaits de la communauté (CWS), qui invite les contributeurs à faire des propositions techniques et à voter pour des outils et améliorations, commencera le 23 janvier 2023 à 18 h UTC.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Problèmes
La semaine dernière, pendant 15 minutes, certains utilisateurs n’ont pas pu se connecter ni modifier de page, en raison d’un problème avec le stockage des sessions. [2 801]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 31 janvier. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 1 février et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 2 février (calendrier).
Futurs changements
Les wikis qui utilisent une numérotation régionalisée des références doivent ajouter du CSS. Ce changement permettra d’afficher les numéros des références de manière identique en lecture et lors de la modification. Si votre wiki préfère s’occuper de ce changement, lisez les détails et exemples de CSS à copier, et ajoutez votre wiki à la liste. Sinon, les développeurs s’en occuperont à partir de la semaine du 5 février.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Dans l’habillage Vector 2022, les utilisateurs non connectés qui utilisent le bouton pour passer en pleine-largeur peuvent désormais voir les paramètres de leur choix même après rafraichissement de la page ou après avoir changé de page. Cela ne s’applique qu’aux wikis où Vector 2022 est l’habillage par défaut. [2 802]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 7 février. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 8 février et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 9 février (calendrier).
Auparavant, nous annoncions lorsque certains wikis passaient en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes en raisons d’une interversion de leur base de données principale. Ces interversions ne seront plus annoncées, car le temps de lecture seule est devenu insignifiant. Les interversions auront toujours lieu les mardis et jeudis à 7 h UTC. [2 803]
Sur tous les wikis, avec l’habillage Vector 2022, les utilisateurs connectés voient désormais les liens concernant la page, tel que le lien « Pages liées », dans un nouveau menu latéral. Celui-ci s’affiche de l’autre côté de l’écran. Ce changement avait déjà eu lieu sur les Wikipédia en tchèque, anglais et vietnamien. [2 804]
Les gadgets et scripts utilisateur vont changer pour être chargés sur les sites pour ordinateur et mobile. Auparavant, ils ne se chargeaient que sur le site pour ordinateur. Il est recommandé que les administrateurs des wikis contrôlent la définition des gadgets avant ce changement, et ajoutent skins=… pour tout gadget qui ne devrait pas être chargé sur mobile. Voir plus d’informations.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Problèmes
Sur les wikis où la relecture des modifications est activée, les modifications réalisées sur la liste des tuteurs par des tuteurs autopatrolled ne sont pas correctement marqués comme relues. Cela va être corrigé cette semaine. [2 805]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 14 février. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 15 février et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 16 février (calendrier).
Toutes les wikis seront en lecture-seule le 1er mars pendant quelques minutes à partir de 14 h UTC. Davantage d’informations seront publiées dans les Actualités techniques et également sur chaque wiki dans les prochaines semaines. [2 807][2 808][2 809]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Problèmes
La semaine dernière, pendant la maintenance prévue des Services infonuagiques, des complications ont forcé l’équipe à désactiver tous les outils de l’infonuage pendant 2 à 3 heures pour éviter une altération des données. Un travail est en cours pour éviter des problèmes similaires à l’avenir. [2 810]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 21 février. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 22 février et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 23 février (calendrier).
Toutes les wikis seront en lecture-seule le 1er mars pendant quelques minutes à partir de 14 h UTC. Davantage d’informations seront publiées dans les Actualités techniques et également sur chaque wiki dans les prochaines semaines. [2 811][2 812][2 813]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Problèmes
La semaine dernière, dans certaines régions du monde, il y a eu des problèmes de chargement des pages pendant 20 minutes et de sauvegarde des modifications pendant 55 minutes. Ces incidents ont été causés par un problème avec nos serveurs de cache dû à des événements imprévus lors d'une tâche de maintenance de routine. [2 814][2 815]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 28 février. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 1 mars et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 2 mars (calendrier).
Tous les wikis seront en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes le 1er mars, à partir de 14 h UTC. [2 816]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
L’édition 2023 de la consultation des souhaits de la communauté s’est achevée. L’équipe Technologies communautaires a publié les résultats de la consultation et va fournir une note pour présenter les suites prévues en avril 2023.
Sur les wikis qui utilisent le convertisseur de langue pour gérer plusieurs systèmes d’écritures, les règles de conversion sur mesure dans le wikicode (principalement sur Wikipédia en chinois) étaient appliquées de manière incohérente dans le sommaire des articles qui les utilisent, notamment avec l’habillage Vector 2022. [2 817]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 7 mars. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 8 mars et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 9 mars (calendrier).
Un système de recherche a été ajouté à la page des préférences, pour trouver plus facilement les options. Il fonctionnera bientôt sur mobile également. [2 818]
Dernières tech news' de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. Veuillez informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Tous les changements ne vous affecteront pas. Translations sont disponibles.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 14 mars. Il portera sur des wikis non Wikipédia et sur certaines Wikipédias de 15 mars. Il sera présent sur tous les wikis à partir du 16 mars (calendrier).
À partir de mercredi, un nouvel ensemble de wikis pourront utiliser la fonctionnalité « Ajouter un lien » (Wikipédia en chavacano de Zamboanga, Wikipédia en chinois Min Dong, Wikipédia en tchétchène, Wikipédia en cebuano, Wikipédia en chamorro, Wikipédia en cherokee, Wikipédia en cheyenne, Wikipédia en sorani, Wikipédia en corse, Wikipédia en kachoube, Wikipédia en slavon d’église, Wikipédia en tchouvache, Wikipédia en gallois, Wikipédia en italien). Il s’agit d’un déploiement progressif de cet outil à d’autres éditions de Wikipédia. Les communautés peuvent configurer localement cette fonctionnalité. [2 819][2 820]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Problèmes
Cette semaine, certains utilisateurs ont rencontré des problèmes de chargement des vignettes d’images. Cela venait d’images mal mises en cache. [2 821]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 21 mars. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 22 mars et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 23 mars (calendrier).
Une nouvelle option va être proposée aux administrateurs lors du déblocage de quelqu’un pour ajouter la page utilisateur de cette personne à leur liste de suivi. Cela fonctionnera depuis Especial:Desbloca comme depuis l’API. [2 822]
Réunions
Vous pouvez participer à la prochaine réunion avec les équipes de l’appli Wikipédia pour mobile. Pendant la réunion, nous discuterons des fonctionnalités actuelles et de la feuille de route pour la suite. La réunion aura lieu le 24 mars à 17 h (UTC). Vous pouvez lire les détails et voir comment participer.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Le nombre maximum de conditions des filtres antiabus a été augmenté de 1 000 à 2 000. [2 823]
Les utilisateurs sur ordinateur peuvent désormais s’abonner aux pages de discussion en cliquant sur le lien M'inscriure dans le menu Bóstia d'aisinas. Si vous vous abonnez à une page de discussion, vous recevrez des notifications lorsque de nouveaux sujets sont lancés sur cette page de discussion. C’est une fonction différente de l’ajout à la liste de suivi et de l’abonnement à une unique discussion. [2 825]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 28 mars. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 29 mars et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 30 mars (calendrier).
L'ancien service de contenu mobile disparaîtra en juillet 2023. Les développeurs sont encouragés à passer à Parsoid ou à une autre API avant cette date pour assurer la continuité du service. [2 827]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Le système de création automatique de catégories pour l'extension Babel a subi plusieurs modifications et corrections importantes. L'une d'entre elles vous permet d'insérer des modèles de description automatique des catégories lors de leur création, ce qui vous permet de catégoriser les nouvelles catégories. [2 828][2 829][2 830][2 831][2 832]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 4 avril. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 5 avril et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 6 avril (calendrier).
Certains navigateurs web anciens ne vont plus pouvoir exécuter JavaScript sur les wikis Wikimédia à partir de cette semaine. Cela concerne notamment Internet Explorer 11. Si vous utilisez un vieux navigateur sur votre ordinateur, vous pouvez essayer de le mettre à jour. [2 833]
Le module jquery.hoverIntent, obsolète, a été retiré. Ce module pouvait être utilisé par les gadgets et les scripts utilisateur pour créer un délai artificiel dans la manière dont JavaScript répondait à un événement de survol. Les gadgets et les scripts utilisateur doivent désormais utiliser hover() ou on() de jQuery à la place. Des exemples peuvent être trouvés dans le guide de migration. [2 834]
Certains liens dans Especial:Paginas especialas seront réorganisés. Il y aura une séparation plus claire entre les liens qui concernent tous les utilisateurs et les liens liés à votre propre compte d'utilisateur. [2 835]
Vous pourrez masquer le bouton Répondre dans les pages de discussion archivées grâce à un nouveau mot magique __ARCHIVEDTALK__. Il y aura également une nouvelle classe CSS .mw-archivedtalk pour cacher le bouton Répondre dans une section particulière d’une page. [2 836][2 837][2 838]
Futurs changements
Le logiciel Vega qui permet de créer des visualisations de données dans les pages, telles que des graphiques, sera mis à niveau vers la version la plus récente à l'avenir. Les graphiques qui utilisent encore la très ancienne syntaxe de la version 1.5 risquent de ne plus fonctionner correctement. La plupart des utilisations existantes ont été trouvées et mises à jour, mais vous pouvez aider à vérifier et à mettre à jour toute documentation locale. Des exemples de la manière de trouver et de corriger ces graphiques sont disponibles.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Il y avait un problème avec tous les types de bannières de CentralNotice qui restaient affichés aux utilisateurs connectés même s'ils avaient désactivé des types de bannières spécifiques. Ce problème a été corrigé [2 841]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 11 avril. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 12 avril et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 13 avril (calendrier).
À partir de mercredi, un nouvel ensemble de Wikipédias va être doté de la fonctionnalité « Ajouter un lien » (Wikipédia en arabe marocain, Wiipédia en danois, Wikipédia en dinka, Wikipédia en bas-sorabe, Wikipédia en éwé, Wikipédia en grec, Wikipédia en émilien-romagnol, Wikipédia en espéranto, Wikipédia en estonien, Wikipédia en basque, Wikipédia en estrémègne, Wikipédia en tumbuka, Wikipédia en peul, Wikipédia en finnois, Wikipédia en võro, Wikipédia en fidjien, Wikipédia en féroïen, Wikipédia en francoprovençal, Wikipédia en frison septentrional, Wikipédia en frioulan, Wikipédia en irlandais, Wikipédia en créole guyanais, Wikipédia en gaélique écossais, Wikipédia en galicien, Wikipédia en gilaki, Wikipédia en guarani, Wikipédia en konkani de Goa, Wikipédia en gotique, Wikipédia en goudjerati, Wikipédia en mannois). Cela fait partie du déploiement progressif de cet outil. Les communautés peuvent configurer localement cette fonctionnalité. [2 842][2 843]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Sur Wikimedia Commons, certaines vignettes ne sont plus remplacées correctement lorsqu’une nouvelle version d’une image est mise en ligne. Cela devrait être corrigé cette semaine. [2 847][2 848]
Depuis quelques semaines, certains outils externes rencontraient quelques difficultés à se connecter avec OAuth. Cela a été corrigé. [2 849]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 18 avril. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 19 avril et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 20 avril (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
En raison de problèmes de sécurité avec l’extension Graph, les graphiques ont été désactivés sur tous les projets Wikimedia. Les équipes de Wikimedia Foundation travaillent sur un projet pour solutionner ces vulnérabilités. [2 851]
Depuis quelques jours, il n’était plus possible d’enregistrer certains types de modifications sur la version mobile du wiki. Cela a été corrigé. [2 852][2 853][2 854]
Changements à venir cette semaine
Tous les wikis seront en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes le 26 avril, à partir de 14 h UTC. [2 855]
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 25 avril. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 26 avril et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 27 avril (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
L’outil Video2commons a été mis à jour. Cela corrige plusieurs problèmes avec l’importation depuis YouTube. [2 859]
La page Especial:Preferéncias a été redessinée pour le web mobile. Le nouveau design rend plus facile la navigation entre les différentes catégories et paramètres sur les petits écrans. Vous pouvez aussi désormais accéder à la page depuis un lien dans le menu Paramètres de la barre latérale sur mobile. [2 860]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 2 mai. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 3 mai et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 4 mai (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
La semaine dernière, le département Technologies communautaires a publié un premier changement concernant l’amélioration des diffs, le premier souhait de la consultation 2022 de la communauté. Ce changement ajoute des légendes et infobulles aux diffs linéaires. Cela clarifie la signification du surlignage bleu ou jaune.
Lorsque vous fermez l’aperçu d’une image dans MediaViewer, vous retournerez sur la page wiki au lieu de revenir à la page précédente de l’historique de navigation. Cette fonctionnalité était le 65e souhait de la consultation 2023 de la communauté. [2 861]
L’extension SyntaxHighlight prend désormais en charge le wikicode, sous le nom « wikitext ». Les anciennes alternatives (html5, moin, html+handlebars…) peuvent être remplacés. [2 862]
Mise à jour de l’extension Graph : les développeurs de Wikimedia ont fait évolué le logiciel de visualisation vers Vega5. Les graphiques utilisant Vega2 ne sont plus compatibles. Les communautés doivent mettre à jour leurs graphiques et modèles locaux, ainsi que les modules partagées tels que de:Modul:Graph. Le guide de portage de Vega fournit les informations les plus complètes pour migrer depuis Vega2, et voici un exemple de migration. Vega5 n’a, pour le moment, été activé que sur Mediawiki.org pour fournir un environnement de test aux communautés. [2 864]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 9 mai. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 10 mai et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 11 mai (calendrier).
Jusqu’à maintenant, toutes les nouvelles applis OAuth nécessitaient un examen manuel. À partir de cette semaine, les applis utilisant uniquement l’identification ou des autorisations basiques n’auront plus besoin d’être examinées. [2 865]
Un test A/B va avoir lieu sur 10 Wikipédia où l’habillage Vector 2022 est activé par défaut. La moitié des utilisateurs d’ordinateur connectés verront une interface où les différentes parties de la page sont plus clairement séparées. En savoir plus. [2 867][2 868]
jquery.tipsy va être retiré du cœur de MediaWiki. Cela concerne certains scripts utilisateur. De nombreuses lignes avec .tipsy( peuvent être commentées. OO.ui.PopupWidget peut être utilisé pour le même fonctionnement. Vous pouvez en savoir plus et voir comment trouver les scripts cassés. [2 869]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Problèmes
Les références générées automatiquement depuis un ISBN ne fonctionnent plus. Cela concerne les références ajoutées depuis l’onglet « automatique » de l’éditeur visuel et l’utilisation de l’API de Citoid dans les gadgets et scripts utilisateur. Un travail est en cours pour restaurer cette fonctionnalité. [2 870]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 16 mai. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 17 mai et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 18 mai (calendrier).
À partir de mercredi, un nouvel ensemble de Wikipédias va être doté de la fonctionnalité « Ajouter un lien » (Wikipédia en gorontalo, Wikipédia en haoussa, Wikipedia en hakka, Wikipédia en hawaïen, Wikipédia en hindi des Fidji, Wikipédia en croate, Wikipédia en haut-sorabe, Wikipédia en créole haïtien, Wikipédia en interlingua, Wikipédia en interlingue, Wikipédia en igbo, Wikipédia en ilocano, Wikipédia en ingouche, Wikipédia en ido, Wikipédia en islandais, Wikipédia en inuktitut, Wikipédia en créole jamaïcain, Wikipédia en javanais). Cela fait partie du déploiement progressif de cet outil. Les communautés peuvent configurer localement cette fonctionnalité. [2 871]
Les développeurs de gadgets scripts utilisateur doivent remplacer jquery.cookie par mediawiki.cookie. La bibliothèque jquery.cookie sera supprimé dans un mois environ. Les développeurs de l’équipe lanceront un script pour remplacer toute utilisation restante. [2 872]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Une amélioration du module d’impact sera disponible sur les Wikipédia. Le module d’impact est une fonctionnalité disponible aux nouveaux sur leur page d’accueil personnelle. Il affichera, entre autres, le nombre de modifications, le nombre de personnes ayant lu les pages modifiés, le nombre de remerciements reçus. Il est aussi accessible depuis Special:Impact. [2 874]
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 23 mai. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 24 mai et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 25 mai (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Il est de nouveau possible de générer des références à partir d’ISBN grâce à la recherche d’ISBN de Zotero. Les sources de données actuelles sont la Bibliothèque du Congrès (États-Unis), la Bibliothèque nationale de France et K10plus ISBN (répertoire allemand). D’autres sources peuvent être proposés à Zotero. Les intitulés ISBN de l’onglet automatique de l’éditeur visuel réapparaitront cette semaine. [2 875]
Depuis quelques jours, le lien « Ajouter un lien interlangue » dans le menu Outils ne fonctionnait plus correctement. Cela a maintenant été corrigé. [2 877]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 30 mai. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 31 mai et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 1 juin (calendrier).
L’éditeur visuel va utiliser une nouvelle application dorsale sur les wikis petits et moyens à partir de cette semaine. Les gros wikis suivront dans les prochaines semaines. Cela fait partie du travail pour intégrer Parsoid dans le cœur de MediaWiki. Le changement ne devrait pas être visible, mais si vous rencontrez un ralentissement du chargement ou d’autres bizarreries dans l’éditeur visuel, n’hésitez pas à le signaler sur le ticket Phabricator suivant : [2 878]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
L’extension RealMe vous permet de marquer des URL sur votre page utilisateur comme vérifiée pour Mastodon et les logiciels similaires.
Auparavant, cliquer sur le lien Modifications récentes de quelqu’un d’autre avec des filtres appliqués dans l’URL pouvait non-intentionnellement modifier vos préférences pour « Agropar los resultats per pagina ». Cela a été corrigé. [2 880]
Problèmes
Pendant quelques jours la semaine dernière, certains outils et robots retournaient des informations obsolètes en raison de problèmes de réplication de la base de données. Ils ont parfois été mis hors-service pendant la correction du problème. Tout est rentré dans l’ordre. [2 881]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 6 juin. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 7 juin et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 8 juin (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Le panneau de prévisualisation de la recherche a été déployé sur quatre Wikipédia (en catalan, néerlandais, hongrois et norvégien). Le panneau affichera une image en lien avec l’article (s’il y en a une), les premières sections de l’article, les images connexes (depuis la recherche de médias sur Commons) et éventuellement les projets frères associés à l’article. [2 884]
L’extension RealMe permet désormais aux administrateurs de vérifier les URL depuis n’importe quelle page pour Mastodon et autres logiciels similaires. [2 885]
La licence par défaut du projet a été officiellement passée à la CC By-SA 4.0. Les messages d’interface du logiciel ont été mis à jour. Les communautés peuvent commencer à mettre à jour toute mention de la précédente licence CC By-SA 3.0 dans les règles et pages de documentation. [2 886]
Problèmes
Pendant trois jours le mois dernier, certaines pages de Wikipédia modifiées avec l’éditeur visuel ou les outils de discussion se voyaient ajouter inopinément un __TOC__ (ou sa forme régionalisée) pendant une modification. Une liste des pages affectées par wiki a été dressée, il faut peut-être encore les corriger. [2 887]
Actuellement, la fonctionnalité « Classar aquela pagina per manca coma » de l’éditeur visuel est cassé. Les mots clés {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} apparaissent improprement comme des modèles manquant dans l’éditeur visuel. Les développeurs étudient comment corriger cela. En attendant, il est conseillé de passer en mode source pour modifier la clé de tri par défaut. [2 888]
La semaine dernière, une mise à jour du formulaire de suppression peut avoir cassé des gadgets ou scripts utilisateur. Si vous avez besoin de manipuler (ou vider) le champ du motif, remplacez #wpReason par #wpReason > input. Regardez cet exemple de correctif. [2 889]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 13 juin. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 14 juin et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 15 juin (calendrier).
Mardi, l’éditeur visuel va utiliser une nouvelle application dorsale sur Wikipédia en anglais et tous les autres gros wiki. Le changement ne devrait pas être visible, mais si vous rencontrez un ralentissement du chargement ou d’autres bizarreries dans l’éditeur visuel, n’hésitez pas à le signaler sur le ticket Phabricator suivant : [2 890]
Changements à venir
Du 5 juin au 17 juillet, l’équipe Sécurité de Wikimedia consultera les contributeurs quant l’élaboration d’un règlement pour l’utilisation de tierces ressources dans les gadgets et scripts développés par des bénévoles. Vos retours sont précieux sur le règlement des ressources tierces sur Meta-Wiki.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Les graphiques en flamme sont désormais disponible dans WikimediaDebug. [2 891][2 892]
Changements à venir cette semaine
Il n’y aura pas de nouvelle version de MediaWiki cette semaine.
Il y a maintenant une barre de recherche d’outils surgissante dans l’éditeur visuel. Vous pouvez la solliciter en saisissant \ ou en appuyant sur ctrl + shift + p. Elle vous permet d’accéder rapidement à la plupart des outils de l’éditeur. [2 893][2 894]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Les modules de l’API d’action et Spécial:Recherche_de_lien ajouteront dorénavant une / finale à toutes les réponses de prop=extlinks pour les domaines bruts. Cela fait partie du travail de suppression des doublons dans la table externallinks (liens externes) de la base de données. [2 895]
Problèmes
La semaine dernière, la recherche a cessé de fonctionner sur Commons et Wikidata pendant 23 heures. [2 896][2 897]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 27 juin. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 28 juin et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 29 juin (calendrier).
L’habillage Minerva appliquera désormais plus de styles prédéfinis pour la classe CSS .mbox-text. Cela permet la prise en charge des modèles mbox qui utilisent des div plutôt que des tableaux. Pouvez-vous vérifier que les nouveaux styles n’affectent pas les autres modèles de votre wiki ? [2 898][2 899]
Les gadgets seront désormais chargés à la fois sur ordinateur et sur mobile par défaut. Auparavant les gadgets n’étaient chargés par défaut que sur ordinateur. Changer la valeur par défaut en utilisant le paramètre |targets= est par ailleurs déprécié et ne devrait pas être utilisé. Vous devriez faire fonctionner le gadget sur mobile, ou le désactiver selon l’habillage (avec le paramètre |skins= dans MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition) plutôt que de vérifier le site utilisé. Les gadgets populaires qui créent des erreurs sur mobile seront désactivés par les développeurs sur l’habillage Minerva comme solution temporaire. [2 900]
Tous les espaces de noms auront désormais la même touche d’accès du navigateur par défaut. Auparavant, les espaces de noms personnalisés ou définis par une extension devaient définir leur touches d’accès manuellement sur le wiki ; ce n’est plus nécessaire. [2 901]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Depuis cette semaine, tous les gadgets se chargent automatiquement sur mobile comme sur ordinateur. Si vous voyez un problème de gadget sur votre wiki, vous pouvez ajuster les options des gadgets dans votre fichier de définition des gadgets. [2 905]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 4 juillet. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 5 juillet et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 6 juillet (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
La fonctionnalité de suggestion d’images pour une section a été déployée sur sept Wikipédia (en portugais, russe, indonésien, catalan, hongrois, finnois et norvégien bokmål). Cette fonctionnalité affiche des recommandations d’images pour les articles sur la liste de suivi des contributeurs, adaptées à chaque section.
Especial:BlockedExternalDomains est un nouvel outil pour aider les administrateurs à combattre le pollupostage. Il fournit une interface plus claire pour bloquer des noms de domaines (et sous-domaines), plus facilement interrogeable, et plus rapide à utiliser par le logiciel pour chaque modification sur le wiki. Il ne prend pas en charge les expressions rationnelles (pour les cas complexes), la correspondance de chemin des URL, ni la liste de blocage du pollupostage. Un script Python permet de migrer tous les domaines simples dans cet outil ; d’autres fonctionnalités sont présentés dans la documentation de l’outil. Il est disponible pour tous les wikis, sauf Meta-Wiki, Commons et Wikidata. [2 907]
L’extension WikiEditor a été mise à jour. Elle comprend certains des outils les plus utilisés lors de la modification en wikicode. Auparavant, beaucoup de ses messages pouvaient uniquement être traduits par les administrateurs, mais dorénavant, tous les traducteurs habituels de Translatewiki.net peuvent les traduire. Vous pouvez consulter l’état de la régionalisation de WikiEditor dans votre langue : si le taux de complétion est inférieur à 100 %, n’hésitez pas à compléter la traduction. Voir une explication plus approfondie.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 11 juillet. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 12 juillet et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 13 juillet (calendrier).
Le protocole par défaut de Especial:Recèrca de ligams et de l’API des contreparties est passé de http seul aux deux http et https. [2 908]
Especial:Recèrca de ligams et son API de contreparties rechercheront désormais dans toutes les URL fournie dans la requête, contre les 60 premiers caractères auparavant. Cette fonctionnalité a été demandée il y a 15 ans. [2 909]
Futurs changements
Une expérimentation d’un plugiciel pour ChatGPT est en cours. Celui permet d’afficher quand les informations viennent de Wikipédia. Il a été testé par le personnel de Wikimedia Foundation et d’autres Wikimédiens. Bientôt, tous les utilisateurs du plugiciel pour ChatGPT pourront utiliser le plugiciel Wikipédia. Ce plugiciel avait déjà été mentionné dans le 20e numéro des Actualités techniques de 2023. [2 910]
Une discussion est en cours sur une proposition de règlement sur les ressources tierces. Cette-ci concerne l’utilisation de ressources provenant de tiers dans les gadgets et scripts utilisateur. Fondé sur les idées relevées jusqu’ici, le règlement inclut certains des risques relatifs au chargement de ressources tierces, des bonnes pratiques, et des exigences pour l’utilisation telles que la transparence et l’inspectabilité du code. Vos retours et suggestions sont les bienvenus jusqu’au 17 juillet 2023 sur la page de discussion du règlement.
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 new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (calendar).
MediaWiki system messages will now look for available local fallbacks, instead of always using the default fallback defined by software. This means wikis no longer need to override each language on the fallback chain separately. For example, English Wikipedia doesn't have to create en-ca and en-gb subpages with a transclusion of the base pages anymore. This makes it easier to maintain local overrides.[2 911]
The action=growthsetmentorstatus API will be deprecated with the new MediaWiki version. Bots or scripts calling that API should use the action=growthmanagementorlist API now.[2 912]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 25 juillet. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 26 juillet et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 27 juillet (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
L’outil Synchronizer est désormais disponible pour garder les modules Lua synchronisés entre les wikis Wikimedia pour développer les modules et modèles globaux. La documentation a été mise à jour.
Le filtrage de balises sur Especial:Paginas novèlas et les pages d’historique peut désormais être inversé. Par exemple, vous pouvez cacher les modifications faites par un outil automatisé. [2 913][2 914]
L’expérimentation du plugiciel Wikipédia pour ChatGPT peut désormais être utilisé par les utilisateurs de ChatGPT qui peuvent utiliser des plugiciels. Vous pouvez participer à une vidéoconférence si vous voulez discuter de cette expérimentation ou des travaux similaires. [2 915]
Problèmes
Il n’était pas possible de générer des PDF pour les pages avec des caractères non latins dans le titre depuis deux semaines. Cela a été corrigé. [2 916]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 1 août. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 2 août et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 3 août (calendrier).
À partir de mardi, un nouvel ensemble de Wikipédias va être doté de la fonctionnalité « Ajouter un lien » (Wikipédia en géorgien, Wikipédia en karakalpak, Wikipédia en kabyle, Wikipédia en kabarde, Wikipédia en kabiyè, Wikipédia en kikuyu, Wikipédia en kazakh, Wikipédia en khmer, Wikipédia en kannara, Wikipédia en cachemiri, Wikipédia en francique ripuaire, Wikipédia en kurde, Wikipédia en cornique). Cela fait partie du déploiement progressif de cet outil. Les communautés peuvent configurer localement cette fonctionnalité. [2 917]
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informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Tous les changements ne vous affecteront pas. Traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Mobile Web editors can now edit a whole page at once. To use this feature, turn on "⧼Mobile-frontend-mobile-option-amc⧽" in your settings and use the "Modificar tota la pagina" button in the "Més" menu.[2 918]
Changements à venir cette semaine
Il n’y a pas de nouvelle version de MediaWiki cette semaine.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Le système de traduction de contenu n’utilise plus le service de traduction automatique de Youdao. Celui-ci était disponible depuis plusieurs années, mais comme il n’était pas utilisé et que des alternatives sont disponibles, il a été déprécié pour limiter le travail de maintenance. D’autres services qui couvrent les mêmes langues sont encore disponibles. [2 919]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 15 août. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 16 août et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 17 août (calendrier).
À partir de mercredi, un nouvel ensemble de Wikipédia va être doté de la fonctionnalité « Ajouter un lien » (Wikipédia en latin, Wikipédia en ladino, Wikipédia en luxembourgeois, Wikipédia en laki, Wikipédia en lezguien, Wikipédia en lingua franca nova, Wikipédia en ganda, Wikipédia en limbourgeois, Wikipédia en ligure, Wikipédia en lombard, Wikipédia en lingala, Wikipédia en latgalien, Wikipédia en letton, Wikipédia en maïthili, Wikipédia en banyumasan, Wikipédia en mokcha, Wikipédia en malgache, Wikipédia en arménien, Wikipédia en kirghize). Cela fait partie du déploiement progressif de cet outil. Les communautés peuvent configurer localement cette fonctionnalité. [2 920]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
À partir de maintenant, nous allons annoncer les nouveaux wikis Wikimedia dans les Actualités Techniques, afin que vous puissiez mettre à jour les outils et les différentes pages.
Depuis la précédente édition, deux nouveaux wikis ont été créés :
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 22 août. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 23 août et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 24 août (calendrier).
Futurs changements
Il existe une politique d'interface stable pour le code backend de MediaWiki. Il existe une proposition de politique d'interface stable pour le code frontend. Cela concerne tous quiconque qui travaille sur les gadgets ou le code frontend de Wikimedia. Vous pouvez la lire, en discuter, et faire savoir à l'auteur s'il y a des problèmes. [2 930]
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Changements récents
Dans le cadre de l’amélioration des diffs de scission de paragraphes, l’amélioration de la détection des scissions a été mise en œuvre. Durant les deux dernières semaines, nous avons déployé de système aux wikis du groupe 0 et du groupe 1. Cette semaine, le déploiement aura lieu sur les wikis du groupe 2. [2 931]
Toutes les pages Especial:Contribucions affichent désormais le nombre de modifications locales de l’utilisateur ou utilisatrice et la date de création du compte. [2 932]
Les utilisateurs de Wikisource peuvent désormais utiliser « prpbengalicurrency » pour indiquer des caractères de devise bengali comme numéro de page dans la balise <pagelist>. [2 933]
Deux préférences ont changé de places. « Activer l’éditeur visuel » est désormais dans l’onglet « Fenèstra de modificacion » sur tous les wikis (auparavant, c’était dans l’onglet « Foncionalitats bèta » pour certains wikis). La préférence « Utiliser le mode wikicode dans l’éditeur visuel, au lieu d’un éditeur de wikicode distinct » est désormais affiché dans l’onglet « Utiliser le mode wikicode dans l’éditeur visuel, au lieu d’un éditeur de wikicode distinct » sur tous les wikis, au lieu de l’onglet « Foncionalitats bèta ». [2 934][2 935]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 29 août. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 30 août et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 31 août (calendrier).
Les éditions de Wikipédia dans toutes les langues écrites de droite à gauche, plus celles en coréen, arménien, ukrainien, russe et bulgare auront un lien dans la barre latérale pour fournir une URL courte de la page à l’aide du raccourcisseur d’URL Wikimedia. Cette fonctionnalité viendra sur d’autres wikis dans les prochaines semaines. [2 936]
Futurs changements
Le retrait de l’extension DoubleWiki est en cours de discussion. Celle-ci permet actuellement aux utilisateurs de Wikisource de voir des articles de plusieurs versions linguistiques côte à côte en choisissant le symbole <=> à côté d’une édition linguistique spécifique. Les commentaires concernant cela sont les bienvenus sur la tâche Phabricator.
Une proposition a été faite pour fusionner la seconde liste de catégories cachées (qui apparait sous le formulaire de modification du wikicode) avec la liste principale de catégories (qui est plus bas dans dans la page). D’autres informations sont sur Phabricator ; vos commentaires sont les bienvenus !
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Une nouvelle option va être proposée aux admin’s lorsqu’ils changent les groupes utilisateur de quelqu’un : l’ajout de la page utilisateur de cette personne à leur liste de suivi. Cela fonctionnera depuis Especial:Dreches comme depuis l’API. [2 939]
L’extension LoginNotify n’envoyait plus de notifications depuis janvier. Cela a désormais été corrigé : vous recevrez des notifications lors de tentatives infructueuse de connexions à votre compte, et lors de connexions réussies depuis un nouvel appareil. [2 941]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 5 septembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 6 septembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 7 septembre (calendrier).
À partir de mercredi, un nouvel ensemble d’éditions de Wikipédia va être doté de la fonctionnalité « Ajouter un lien » (Wikipédia en mari oriental (des plaines), Wikipédia en maori, Wikipédia en minangkabau, Wikipédia en macédonien, Wikipédia en malayalam, Wikipédia en mongol, Wikipédia en marathe, Wikipédia en mari occidental (des collines), Wikipédia en malais, Wikipédia en maltais, Wikipédia en mirandais, Wikipédia en erzya, Wikipédia en mazandérani, Wikipédia en nahuatl, Wikipédia en napolitain, Wikipédia en bas-allemand, Wikipédia en bas-saxon néerlandais, Wikipédia en népalais, Wikipédia en néwari, Wikipédia en norvégien nynorsk, Wikipédia en novial, Wikipédia en n’ko, Wikipédia en normand, Wikipédia en sotho du Nord, Wikipédia en navajo, Wikipédia en chewa, Wikipédia en occitan, Wikipédia en livvi-carélien, Wikipédia en oromo, Wikipédia en odia, Wikipédia en ossète, Wikipédia en pendjabi, Wikipédia en pangasinan, Wikipédia en pampangan, Wikipédia en papiamento, Wikipédia en picard, Wikipédia en allemand de Pennsylvanie, Wikipédia en palatin, Wikipédia en norfolk / pitcairnais, Wikipédia en piémontais, Wikipédia en pendjabi occidental, Wikipédia en pontique, Wikipédia en pachto). Cela fait partie du déploiement progressif de cet outil. Les communautés peuvent configurer localement cette fonctionnalité. [2 942][2 943]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
ORES, le service d’évaluation des révisions, utilise désormais une nouvelle infrastructure à code source ouvert sur tous les wikis, sauf Wikipédia en anglais et Wikidata qui seront traités cette semaine. Si vous remarquez un quelconque résultat inhabituel dans les filtres des modifications récentes lié à ORES (par exemple « Prediccions de la qualitat de les contribucions » ou « Prediccions de la intenció de l'usuari »), merci de le signaler. [2 944]
Lorsque vous êtes connecté à un wiki Wikimedia et que vous visitez un autre wiki Wikimedia, le système essaie de vous connecter automatiquement. Cette fonctionnalité n’est plus très fiable depuis longtemps. Vous pouvez désormais visiter la page de connexion pour essayer de forcer la connexion automatique. Si vous avez l’impression que cela a changé l’efficacité de la connexion, n’hésitez pas à nous faire un retour. [2 945]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 12 septembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 13 septembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 14 septembre (calendrier).
Dans le cadre du souhait d’amélioration des diffs de scission de paragraphes, le gadget de commutation du mode linéaire dans les pages de diff va être ajouté cette semaine sur tous les wikis. Le commutateur du mode linéaire permettra de passer du format linéaire unifié au format à deux colonnes pour les diff de wikicode. [2 946]
Futurs changements
Tous les wikis seront en lecture seules pendant quelques minutes le 20 septembre, vers 14 h UTC. Plus d’informations seront publiées dans les Actualités techniques et sur chaque wiki dans les prochaines semaines. [2 947]
L’API d’entreprise va lancer une nouvelle fonctionnalité intitulée « Actus de dernière minute » (breaking news). Actuellement en bêta, le but est d’identifier les sujets d’intérêt médiatique qui sont en train d’être traités dans les articles Wikipédia. Votre aide est sollicitée pour améliorer la précision du modèle de détection, notamment pour les éditions linguistiques plus petites, en pointant les modèles wiki et les schémas type de rédaction. Vous trouverez d’autres informations dans la page de documentation sur MediaWiki.org et dans les questions fréquentes sur Meta-Wiki.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
MediaWiki a désormais une convention de stabilité d’interface pour le code frontal qui définit plus clairement comment nous déprécions le code de MediaWiki et le code conçu pour wiki (par exemple les gadgets et scripts utilisateur). Merci à tous les contributeurs et contributrices à cette convention et aux discussions qui y ont mené. [2 948][2 949]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 19 septembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 20 septembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 21 septembre (calendrier).
Tous les wikis seront en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes le 20 septembre, à partir de 14 h UTC. [2 950]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
L’habillage Vector 2022 se souviendra désormais de l’état d’ancrage du sommaire pour tous les utilisateurs non connectés. [2 952]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 26 septembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 27 septembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 28 septembre (calendrier).
Les modules mediawiki.ui du ResourceLoader sont désormais dépréciés, dans le cadre du passage à Vue.js et Codex. Un guide pour migrer de MediaWiki UI à Codex est disponible, pour les outils qui l’utilisent. D’autres détails sont dans la tâche, et vos questions y sont les bienvenues.
Les définitions de gadgets auront une nouvelle option « espaces de noms ». L’option prend pour valeur une liste d’ID d’espaces de noms. Les gadgets qui utilisent cette option ne se chargeront que sur les pages dans les espaces de noms indiqués.
Futurs changements
De nouvelles variables vont être ajoutées aux filtres anti-abus : global_account_groups et global_account_editcount. Ils ne seront disponibles que pour la création d’un compte. Vous pourrez les utiliser pour bloquer la création automatique de comptes lorsque les utilisateurs avec de nombreuses contributions visitent votre wiki pour la première fois. [2 953][2 954]
Meetings
Vous pouvez participer à la prochaine réunion avec les équipes travaillant sur les applis Wikipédia mobile. Pendant la réunion, nous discuterons des fonctionnalités actuelles et de la feuille de route prévue. Elle aura lieu le 27 octobre à 17 h (UTC). Ordre du jour | Comment participer
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
L’habillage Vector 2022 se souviendra désormais de l’état d’ancrage du sommaire pour tous les utilisateurs non connectés. [2 955]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 26 septembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 27 septembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 28 septembre (calendrier).
Les modules mediawiki.ui du ResourceLoader sont désormais dépréciés, dans le cadre du passage à Vue.js et Codex. Un guide pour migrer de MediaWiki UI à Codex est disponible, pour les outils qui l’utilisent. D’autres détails sont dans la tâche, et vos questions y sont les bienvenues.
Les définitions de gadgets auront une nouvelle option « espaces de noms ». L’option prend pour valeur une liste d’ID d’espaces de noms. Les gadgets qui utilisent cette option ne se chargeront que sur les pages dans les espaces de noms indiqués.
Futurs changements
De nouvelles variables vont être ajoutées aux filtres anti-abus : global_account_groups et global_account_editcount. Ils ne seront disponibles que pour la création d’un compte. Vous pourrez les utiliser pour bloquer la création automatique de comptes lorsque les utilisateurs avec de nombreuses contributions visitent votre wiki pour la première fois. [2 956][2 957]
Réunions
Vous pouvez participer à la prochaine réunion avec les équipes travaillant sur les applis Wikipédia mobile. Pendant la réunion, nous discuterons des fonctionnalités actuelles et de la feuille de route prévue. Elle aura lieu le 27 octobre à 17 h (UTC). Ordre du jour | Comment participer
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Une nouvelle préférence utilisateur « Totjorn activar lo mòde segur » permet de charger les pages sans inclure aucun Javascript ni feuille de style du wiki. Cela peut être utile pour débeuguer des gadgets Javascript. [2 958]
Les définitions de gadgets ont désormais une nouvelle option « contentModels » qui prend pour valeur une liste de modèles de contenu de page, tel que wikitext ou css. Les gadgets qui utilisent cette option ne seront chargés que sur les pages ayant un des modèles de contenu donnés.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 3 octobre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 4 octobre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 5 octobre (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 10 octobre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 11 octobre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 12 octobre (calendrier).
À partir de mercredi, un nouvel ensemble de wikis pourront utiliser la fonctionnalité « Ajouter un lien » (Wikipédia en swahili, Wikipédia en wallon, Wikipédia en waray, Wikipédia en wolof, Wikipédia en kalmouk, Wikipédia en xhosa, Wikipédia en mingrélien, Wikipédia en yiddish, Wikipédia en yoruba, Wikipédia en zhuang, Wikipédia en zélandais, Wikipédia en minnan, Wikipédia en zoulou). Il s’agit d’un déploiement progressif de cet outil à d’autres éditions de Wikipédia. Les communautés peuvent configurer localement cette fonctionnalité. [2 961]
Sur certains wikis, les novices sont invités à ajouter des images de Commons à des articles sans aucune image. À partir de mardi, les novices sur ces wikis pourront ajouter des images aux sections d'articles sans illustration. Les wikis sont répertoriés sous « Recommandations d'images » dans le tableau de déploiement de l'équipe Croissance. Vous pouvez en savoir plus sur cette fonctionnalité.[2 962]
Sur l'affichage mobile (Minerva), l'ID CSS #page-actions sera remplacé par #p-views. Ce changement vise à le rendre cohérent avec d'autres affichages et à améliorer le support des gadgets et des extensions sur mobile. Il peut être nécessaire de mettre à jour quelques gadgets ; vous trouverez les détails et les liens de recherche dans la tâche Phabricator.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
La connexion par voisinage du système de connexion unifiée devrait désormais fonctionner correctement sur certains navigateurs (Chrome, Edge, Opera). Ainsi, si vous visitez un nouveau projet frère, vous devriez être connecté automatiquement sans avoir à cliquer sur « Connexion » ou recharger la page. Vos retours pour dire si cela fonctionne pour vous sont les bienvenus. [2 963]
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 17 octobre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 18 octobre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 19 octobre (calendrier).
Futurs changements
Dans l’habillage Vector 2022, le code lié à addPortletLink et #p-namespaces qui avait été déprécié il y a un an sera supprimé dans trois semaines. Si vous remarquez que des outils qui devraient apparaitre à côte de l’onglet « Discussion » sont manquants, indiquez à la maintenance du gadget de regarder les instructions de la tâche Phabricator.
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Changements récents
Une nouvelle infolettre sur les langues et l’internationalisation va paraitre trimestriellement. Elle contiendra des actualités concernant le développement de nouvelles fonctionnalités, les améliorations dans les divers projets relatifs aux langues et le travail d’assistance lié.
Un fichier de sourçage est désormais disponible sur tous les wikis. Ainsi, quand vous ouvrez le débeugueur des outils de développements du navigateur, vous devriez pouvoir voir le source code JavaScript non minifié. [2 964]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 24 octobre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 25 octobre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 26 octobre (calendrier).
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
L’équipe Contenu structuré, dans le cadre de son projet d’amélioration de l’assistant au téléversement sur Commons, a amélioré l’expérience utilisateur dans le téléversement lors du choix entre œuvre personnelle ou non (T 347 590) et lors du choix de la license pour les œuvres personnelles (T 347 756).
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 31 octobre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 1 novembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 2 novembre (calendrier).
Les listes sur les pages de catégorie sont triées sur chaque wiki selon la langue, grâce à une bibliothèque. Pendant un court moment, le 2 novembre, les changements dans les catégories ne seront plus triées correctement pour de nombreuses langues, parce que les développeurs vont mettre à jour cette bibliothèque. Un script sera ensuite utilisé pour corriger les catégories existantes. Cela prendre quelques heures, voire quelques jours selon la taille du wiki. En savoir plus. [2 965][2 966]
À partir du 1er novembre, le module d’impact (Special:Impact) sera mis à jour par l’équipe Croissance. Le nouveau module affichera aux nouveaux plus de données concernant leur impact sur le wiki. Il a été testé sur plusieurs wikis durant les derniers mois. [2 967]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Dans l’habillage Vector 2022, la taille de police par défaut de plusieurs éléments de navigation (slogan, menu Outils, liens de navigation…) a été augmentée légèrement pour correspondre à la taille utilisée dans le contenu des pages. [2 968]
Problèmes
La semaine dernière, il y a eu un problème d’affichage de certaines modifications récentes sur quelques wikis, pendant 1 à 6 heures. Les modifications étaient enregistrées, mais immédiatement montrées, en raison d’un problème de base de données. [2 969]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 7 novembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 8 novembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 9 novembre (calendrier).
L’équipe Croissance va réaffecter les novices à des tuteurs actifs si ce n’était plus le cas. Elle a aussi changé le texte des notifications pour le rendre plus convivial. [2 970][2 971]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
La semaine dernière, les utilisateurs qui avaient visité Meta-Wiki ou Wikimedia Commons avant d’être déconnectés de ces wikis ne pouvaient plus se reconnecter. Le problème est maintenant résolu. [2 976]
La semaine dernière, certaines boites et menus surgissants s’affichaient avec une taille de police incorrecte. C’est maintenant résolu. [2 977]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 14 novembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 15 novembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 16 novembre (calendrier).
Futurs changements
Les aperçus de référence vont être installés par défaut sur de nombreux wikis. Il s’agit d’encadrés surgissants pour les références, de manière similaire à la fonctionnalité d’aperçu des pages. Vous pouvez les désactiver pour ne plus les voir. Si vous utilisez les gadgets « Reference Tooltips » ou « Navigation Popups », l’aperçu des références ne fonctionnera pas. Le déploiement est prévu pour le 22 novembre 2023.
Des évènements battement de cœur (canary, hearbeat) vont être ajoutés aux flux des évènements Wikimedia à partir du 11 décembre. Il est conseillé aux utilisateurs des flux de filtrer ces évènements en rejetant les évènements où meta.domain == "canary". Les mises à jour de Pywikibot et de wikimedia-streams rejetteront ces évènements par défaut. [2 978]
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Changements à venir cette semaine
Il n’y aura pas de nouvelle version de MediaWiki cette semaine. [2 979][2 980]
À partir de mercredi, un nouvel ensemble de wikis pourront utiliser la fonctionnalité « Ajouter un lien » (Wikipédia en quechua, Wikipédia en romanche, Wikipédia en vlax romani, Wikipédia en roundi, Wikipédia en aroumain, Wikipédia en tarentin, Wikipédia en ruthène, Wikipédia en kinyarwanda, Wikipédia en sanskrit, Wikipédia en iakoute, Wikipédia en santali, Wikipédia en sarde, Wikipédia en sicilien, Wikipédia en écossais, Wikipédia en sindhi, Wikipédia en same du Nord, Wikipédia en sango, Wikipédia en serbo-croate, Wikipédia en cingalais, Wikipédia en slovaque, Wikipédia en slovène, Wikipédia en samoan, Wikipédia en somali, Wikipédia en albanais, Wikipédia en serbe, Wikipédia en sranan tongo, Wikipédia en swati, Wikipédia en sotho du Sud, Wikipédia en frison oriental, Wikipédia en soundanais, Wikipédia en silésien, Wikipédia en tamoul, Wikipédia en toulou, Wikipédia en télougou, Wikipédia en tétoum, Wikipédia en tadjik, Wikipédia en thaï, Wikipédia en turkmène, Wikipédia en tagalog, Wikipédia en tswana, Wikipédia en tongien, Wikipédia en tok pisin, Wikipédia en turc, Wikipédia en tsonga, Wikipédia en tatar, Wikipédia en twi, Wikipédia en tahitien, Wikipédia en touvain, Wikipédia en oudmourte, Wikipédia en ouïghour, Wikipédia en ouzbek, Wikipédia en venda, Wikipédia en vénitien, Wikipédia en vepse, Wikipédia en flamand occidental, Wikipédia en volapük). Il s’agit d’un déploiement progressif de cet outil à d’autres éditions de Wikipédia. Les communautés peuvent configurer localement cette fonctionnalité. [2 981][2 982][2 983]
Plusieurs petits changements visuels vont avoir lieu dans l’habillage Vector 2022 pour les menus déroulants, la largeur des colonnes… Ils ont déjà eu lieu sur quatre Wikipédia la semaine dernière ; si aucun problème n’est relevé, ils auront lieu sur tous les wikis cette semaine. Ces changements rendront possible l’ajout de nouveaux menus pour la lisibilité et le mode sombre. [2 984]
Futurs changements
Concernant la réactivation de l’extension Graph, pour accélérer le processus, Vega 2 ne sera pas pris en charge et seuls certains protocoles seront disponibles au départ. Votre opinion concernant ce projet est la bienvenue.
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Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 28 novembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 29 novembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 30 novembre (calendrier). Il n’y aura pas de nouvelle version de MediaWiki la semaine prochaine. [2 985][2 986]
Le système de Javascript de MediaWiki autorise désormais la syntaxe async/await dans les gadgets et scripts utilisateur. Cependant, les navigateurs des utilisateurs ne la prennent pas forcément en charge, elle doit donc être utilisée avec précaution. [2 987]
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Changements récents
L’espace entre les paragraphe avec Vector 2022 est passé de 7 px à 14 px pour correspondre à la taille du texte. Cela va rendre plus facile de distinguer les paragraphes des lignes. [2 988]
La fonctionnalité « Classar aquela pagina per manca coma » de l’éditeur visuel fonctionne à nouveau. Il n’est plus nécessaire de passer en mode source pour modifier la balise {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} ({{CLEDETRI:}} en français). [2 989]
Changements à venir cette semaine
Il n’y aura pas de nouvelle version de MediaWiki cette semaine. [2 990][2 991]
Les inscriptions et demandes de subventions sont ouvertes pour le Hackathon Wikimedia 2024 qui aura lieu du 3 au 5 mai à Tallinn, en Estonie. Les demandes de subvention sont ouvertes jusqu’au 5 janvier 2024.
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Changements récents
Sur Wikimedia Commons, quelques petites améliorations de l’interface utilisateur ont eu lieu pour l’étape du « choix entre travail personnel ou non » dans l’assistant au téléversement. Cela fait partie du projet d’amélioration de l’assistant au téléversement de Commons réalisé par l’équipe Contenu structuré. [2 993][2 994]
Problèmes
Il y a eu un problème dans l’affichage de la Page d’accueil des nouveaux avec le « module d’impact » et ses graphiques de pages vues. Cela a duré quelques jours début décembre, mais c’est maintenant corrigé. [2 995][2 996]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 12 décembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 13 décembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 14 décembre (calendrier). [2 997][2 998]
Futurs changements
L’enquête 2023 sur la satisfaction des développeurs étudie les opinions de la communauté de développement de Wikimedia. Si vous avez un rôle dans le développement de logiciels pour l’écosystème Wikimedia, votre participation à l’enquête est souhaitée. Elle sera ouverte jusqu’au 5 janvier 2024 et s’appuie sur une déclaration de confidentialité spécifique.
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Actualités techniques
Le prochain numéro des Actualités techniques ne sera publié que le 8 janvier 2024 en raison de la période des fêtes.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 19 décembre. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 20 décembre et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 21 décembre (calendrier). Il n’y aura pas de nouvelle version de MediaWiki la semaine prochaine. [2 999][3 000]
À partir du 18 décembre, il ne sera plus possible d’activer les Discussions structurées sur une page de discussion utilisateur avec la fonctionnalité bêta. Celle-ci reste disponible pour les utilisateurs qui souhaitent au contraire désactiver les discussions structurées. Ceci fait partie du travail de dépréciation des Discussions structurées. [3 001]
Les redirections vont être pleinement prises en charge dans l’espace de noms Module. La fonctionnalité « Renommer une page » va laisser une redirection correctement reconnue par le logiciel (par exemple, invisible dans Especial:UnconnectedPages). Les redirections manuelles vont aussi être prises en charge. [3 002]
Futurs changements
La documentation JavaScript de MediaWiki va passer à un nouveau format. Pendant le changement, l’ancienne documentation sera accessible sur la version 1.41. Vos retours concernant le nouveau site sont les bienvenus sur la page de discussion du projet.
Le Souhaithon (Wishathon) est une nouvelle initiative qui encourage la collaboration dans la communauté Wikimedia afin de développer des solutions pour les souhaits recueillis lors de la consultation des souhaits de la communauté. Le premier Souhaithon aura lieu du 15 au 17 mars. Si vous êtes intéressée·e par une proposition de projet — pour l’utiliser, le développer, le concevoir ou diriger sa conception — vous pouvez vous inscrire à l’évènement et consulter les détails sur celui-ci.
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Changements récents
mediawiki2latex est un outil qui convertit le contenu wiki en format LaTeX, PDF, ODT ou EPub. Le code s’exécute désormais bien plus rapidement grâce à de récentes améliorations. Un conteneur Docker est aussi disponible à l’installation pour votre machine locale.
La façon dont les pages aléatoires sont sélectionnées a été mise à jour, réduisant un peu le problème qui réduit la probabilité de certaines pages d’apparaitre. [3 003]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 9 janvier. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 10 janvier et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 11 janvier (calendrier). [3 004][3 005]
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Changements récents
Les pages qui utilisent le modèle de contenu JSON utiliseront désormais des tabulations au lieu d’espaces pour l’indentation automatique, ce qui réduira significativement la taille des pages. [3 006]
Les gadgets et scripts utilisateur personnels peuvent désormais la syntaxe JavaScript d’ES6 (aussi appelé « ES2015 ») et d’ES7 (« ES2016 »). MediaWiki doit valider le code source pour protéger les autres fonctionnalités du site contre les erreurs de syntaxe et vérifier que les scripts sont valides dans tous les navigateurs pris en charge. Auparavant, les gadgets pouvaient utiliser l’option requiresES6. Cette option n’est plus nécessaire et sera donc supprimée à l’avenir. [3 007]
Vous pouvez désormais remercier les robots pour des contributions spécifiques. [3 009]
Une actualité concernant l’état de la consultation des souhaits de la communauté pour 2024 a été publiée. Vous êtes invités à la lire et à y réagir.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 16 janvier. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 17 janvier et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 18 janvier (calendrier). [3 010][3 011]
À partir du 17 janvier, il ne sera plus possible de se connecter aux wikis Wikimedia depuis certaines versions spécifiques du navigateur Chrome (versions 51 à 66, sorties entre 2016 et 2018). De plus, les utilisateurs d’iOS 12 ou de Safari sur Mac OS 10.14 devront peut-être se connecter séparément à chaque wiki. [3 012]
Le module jquery.cookie a été déprécié et remplacé par le module mediawiki.cookie l’an dernier. Un script a été lancé pour remplacer toutes les utilisations restantes. Les alias temporaires seront retirés cette semaine. [3 013]
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Problèmes
À cause d’un beugue dans l’assistant au téléversement, le nom utilisateur de la personne téléversant un fichier n’était plus un lien vers sa page utilisateur. Cela a été corrigé. [3 014]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 23 janvier. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 24 janvier et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 25 janvier (calendrier). [3 015][3 016]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
À partir de lundi 29 janvier, tous les horodatages des messages dans les pages de discussion deviendront des liens. Chaque lien est un permalien vers le message. Il permet aux utilisateurs de retrouver le message qu’ils recherchent, même si celui-ci a été déplacé ailleurs. Cela va concerner tous les wikis, sauf la Wikipédia en anglais. Vous pouvez en savoir plus sur ce changement sur Diff ou sur MediaWiki.org. [3 017]
Quelques améliorations ont eu lieu sur le Captcha pour le rendre plus efficace contre les robots polluposteurs et les scripts. Vos commentaires peuvent être publiés sur la tâche de développement. L’équipe va surveiller les statistiques liées au Captcha et celles secondaires telles que la création de comptes et le nombre de modifications.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 30 janvier. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 31 janvier et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 1 février (calendrier). [3 018][3 019]
Les gadgets qui ne fonctionnent que sur certains habillages utilisent parfois l’option targets pour limiter les pages où vous pouvez les utiliser. Cela va cesser de fonctionner cette semaine. Vous devez sans doute utiliser l’option skins à la place. [3 021]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
À partir de lundi 29 janvier, tous les horodatages des messages dans les pages de discussion deviendront des liens. Chaque lien est un permalien vers le message. Il permet aux utilisateurs de retrouver le message qu’ils recherchent, même si celui-ci a été déplacé ailleurs. Cela va concerner tous les wikis, sauf la Wikipédia en anglais. Vous pouvez en savoir plus sur ce changement sur Diff ou sur MediaWiki.org. [3 022]
Quelques améliorations ont eu lieu sur le Captcha pour le rendre plus efficace contre les robots polluposteurs et les scripts. Vos commentaires peuvent être publiés sur la tâche de développement. L’équipe va surveiller les statistiques liées au Captcha et celles secondaires telles que la création de comptes et le nombre de modifications.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 30 janvier. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 31 janvier et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 1 février (calendrier). [3 023][3 024]
Les gadgets qui ne fonctionnent que sur certains habillages utilisent parfois l’option targets pour limiter les pages où vous pouvez les utiliser. Cela va cesser de fonctionner cette semaine. Vous devez sans doute utiliser l’option skins à la place. [3 026]
Dernières nouvelles techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. Veuillez informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Tous les changements ne vous concerneront pas. Des traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Les pages d'historique du site mobile utilisent désormais le même HTML que les pages d'historique du bureau. Si vous rencontrez des problèmes liés à l'utilisation de l'historique sur mobile, veuillez les signaler sur Phabricator.
Sur la plupart des wikis, les administrateurs peuvent désormais bloquer les utilisateurs pour des actions spécifiques. Ces actions sont : téléverser des fichiers, créer de nouvelles pages, déplacer (renommer) des pages et envoyer des remerciements. Le but de cette fonctionnalité est de permettre aux administrateurs d'appliquer des blocages adaptés à l'activité des utilisateurs bloqués. En savoir plus sur les "blocages d'actions"[3 027][3 028]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera disponible sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 6 février. Elle sera disponible sur les wikis non-Wikipédia et sur certaines Wikipédias à partir du 7 février. Elle sera disponible sur tous les wikis à partir du 8 février (calendrier) [3 029][3 030]
Les liens permanents des pages de discussion qui incluaient des diacritiques et des scripts non latins ne fonctionnaient pas correctement. Ce problème est corrigé. [3 031]
Changements à venir
24 Wikipédias avec Info-bulles de référence en tant que gadget par défaut sont encouragées à supprimer ce marqueur par défaut. Cela ferait des aperçus de références le nouveau paramètre par défaut pour les popups de références, offrant ainsi une expérience plus cohérente à travers les wikis. Pour 46 Wikipedias avec moins de 4 administrateurs d'interface, le changement est déjà prévu pour mi-février, sauf en cas de soucis. L'ancien gadget Info-bulles de référence restera toujours utilisable et remplacera cette fonctionnalité, s'il est disponible sur votre wiki et que vous l'avez activé dans vos paramètres. [3 032][3 033]
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Un beugue a modifié l’apparence des liens visités sur mobile : ils apparaissaient en noir, mais cela est maintenant corrigé.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 13 février. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 14 février et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 15 février (calendrier). [3 039][3 040]
Dans le cadre de l’extinction progressive du moteur de grille (Grid Engine)[3 041], les outils sur la grille seront arrêtés à partir du 14 février 2024. Si vous avez des outils qui sont en train d’être migrés, vous pouvez demander un délai supplémentaire afin qu'ils ne soient pas arrêtés. [3 042]
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Changements récents
Si vous avez l’option « M’avertir per corrièr electronic quand una pagina de ma lista de seguit es modificada » activée, les modifications des robots ne déclencheront plus l’envoi de notifications par courriel. Auparavant, seules les modifications mineures ne déclenchaient pas l’envoi de courriel de notification. [3 043]
Des changements dans la manières dont les scripts des sites et ceux utilisateur se chargent dans Vector 2022 sur certains wikis ont eu lieu. Ces changements concernent tous les wikis ayant l’ancien Vector comme habillage par défaut, les Wikivoyage et les Wikibooks. Les autres wikis seront aussi concernés dans les trois prochains mois. Les gadgets ne sont pas impactés. Si cela vous impacte ou que vous souhaitez réduire les conséquences sur votre projet, voyez ce ticket. N’hésitez pas à vous coordonner et à prendre des initiatives.
Les comptes nouvellement créés automatiquement (les comptes qui se créent lorsque vous visitez un wiki pour la première fois) ont désormais les mêmes préférences de notification que les utilisateurs qui viennent de s’inscrire sur ce wiki, pour quatre types de notification listés dans la description de la tâche.
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 20 février. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 21 février et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 22 février (calendrier). [3 045][3 046]
Les outils actifs sur le moteur de grille ont été arrêtés, puisque nous préparons l’arrêt de la grille le 14 mars 2024. Le code des outils et les données n’ont pas été supprimés. Si vous maintenez un outil et souhaitez réactiver celui-ci, contactez l’équipe. Seuls les outils qui ont sollicité un délai supplémentaires s’exécutent encore sur la grille.
La propriété CSS filter peut désormais être utilisée dans l’attribut HTML style en wikicode. [3 047]
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Changements récents
L’éditeur visuel sur mobile est maintenant l’éditeur par défaut pour les utilisateurs qui n’ont jamais contribué auparavant, sur un petit groupe de wikis. Des études montrent que les utilisateurs qui utilisent cet éditeur réussissent un peu mieux à publier les modifications qu’ils ont commencées, et un peu moins à publier des modifications qui ne sont pas annulées ensuite. Les utilisateurs qui ont défini l’éditeur de wikicode comme leur éditeur de wikicode par défaut sur ordinateur obtiendront également l’éditeur de wikicode sur mobile pour leur première modification sur mobile. [3 048]
La valeur wgGlobalGroups de mw.config contient désormais uniquement des groupes actifs du wiki. Les scripts n’ont plus besoin de vérifier si le groupe est actif sur le wiki à l’aide d’une requête auprès de l’API. Voici un exemple de code illustratif : if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [3 049]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 27 février. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 28 février et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 29 février (calendrier). [3 050][3 051]
Futurs changements
Le droit de modifier les balises des révisions (changetags) sera retiré aux utilisateurs des sites Wikimedia, à l’exception des admins et robots. Votre communauté peut demander à conserver l’ancienne configuration sur votre wiki avant que ce changement ne se produise. Merci d’indiquer dans ce ticket votre demande de conservation pour votre communauté avant la fin du mois de mars 2024.
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Changements récents
La page Special:Book (ainsi que la fonctionnalité « Créer un livre » associée) fournie par l’ancienne extension Collection a été supprimée de tous les wikis Wikisource, car elle était cassée. Cela n’affecte pas la possibilité de télécharger des livres normaux, qui est fournie par l’extension Wikisource. [3 052]
La maintenance d’Etherpad est terminée. Si vous rencontrez des problèmes, veuillez l’indiquer dans ce billet.
Les gadgets permettent aux administrateurs d’interface de créer des fonctionnalités personnalisées avec CSS et JavaScript. Les espaces de noms Gadget et Gadget_definition et le droit utilisateur gadgets-definition-edit avaient été réservés pour expérimentation en 2015, mais n’ont jamais été utilisés. Ceux-ci étaient visibles sur Spécial:Rechercher et Spécial:Liste_des_droits_de_groupe. Ces espaces de noms et droits utilisateur non-utilisés sont désormais supprimés. Aucune page n’est déplacée et aucune modification n’est nécessaire. [3 053]
Une amélioration a été apportée pour faciliter l’usage de la fonctionnalité « Ajouter une citation » sur Wikipédia : le bouton d’insertion a été déplacé vers le haut de la boite surgissante. [3 054]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 5 mars. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 6 mars et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 7 mars (calendrier). [3 055][3 056]
Futurs changements
Tous les wikis seront uniquement lisibles pendant quelques minutes le 20 mars, 14 h UTC. Plus d'informations seront publiées dans les Actualités techniques, mais aussi individuellement sur chaque wiki dans les prochaines semaines. [3 057]
Le code HTML des titres de sections et liens de modifications de celles-ci va changer cette année pour en améliorer l’accessibilité. Consultez les changements du HTML des titres pour plus de détails. Le nouveau balisage sera identique à celui produit par l’analyseur de wikicode Parsoid. Vous pouvez tester votre gadget ou votre feuille de style avec le nouveau balisage en ajoutant ?useparsoid=1 à l’URL (plus d’infos), ou activez Parsoid en lecture dans vos options utilisateur (plus d’infos).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar). [3 058][3 059]
After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed. [3 060]
The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [3 061]
Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost. [3 062]
Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [3 063][3 064]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
L’indication « Les liens vers d’autres langues sont en haut de page » qui apparaissait dans le menu principal l’habillage Vector 2022 a été retirée, maintenant que tout les visiteurs connaissent le nouvel emplacement du sélecteur de langue. [3 065]
La fonctionnalité IP info affiche désormais des données de Spur, une base de données d’adresses IP. Auparavant, cette fonctionnalité ne se basait que sur la source MaxMind. IP info est donc désormais plus complet pour la patrouille. [3 066]
Le service de moteur de grille de Toolforge a été éteint après les dernières migrations depuis le moteur de grille vers Kubernetes. [3 067][3 068][3 069]
RevisionSlider est une interface de navigation interactive dans l’historique d’une page. Des utilisateurs de langues écrites de droite à gauche avaient signalé que la glissière réagissait mal aux clics de souris. Cela devrait être corrigé désormais. [3 071]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 19 mars. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 20 mars et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 21 mars (calendrier). [3 072][3 073]
Tous les wikis seront en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes le 20 mars, à partir de 14 h UTC. [3 074][3 075]
Dernières nouvelles techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. Veuillez informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Tous les changements ne vous affecteront pas. Des traductions sont disponibles.
Modifications récentes
Une mise à jour a été effectuée le 18 mars 2024 pour savoir comment différents projets chargent le site, les scripts JavaScript et le CSS utilisateur dans le thème Vector 2022. Une liste de suivi est fournie pour que les administrateurs de site la suivent.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera sur les wikis de test et MediaWiki.org à partir du 26 mars. Elle sera sur les wikis non-Wikipédia et sur certains Wikipédias à partir du 27 mars. Elle sera sur tous les wikis à partir du 28 mars (calendrier). [3 076][3 077]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Les utilisateurs de la fonctionnalité bêta accessibilité de la lecture vont voir la taille de ligne par défaut changer pour les choix de textes normal ou large. [3 078]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 2 avril. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 3 avril et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 4 avril (calendrier). [3 079][3 080]
Futurs changements
Wikimedia Foundation s’organise autour d’un projet annuel qui détermine ce sur quoi l’organisation va travailler. Vous pouvez dès à présent lire les premiers principaux résultats pour le département Produit et Technologie. Ce sont des suggestions de ce que l’organisation veut comme résultat pour les gros changements techniques entre juillet 2024 et juin 2025. Vous pouvez commenter ce sujet sur la page de discussion.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique Wikimédia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Les navigateurs web peuvent utiliser des outils appelés « extensions ». Une nouvelle extension a été créé pour Chrome : Citation Needed (« référence nécessaire ») ; elle permet de voir si une affirmation sur le web est traitée dans un article Wikipédia. Il s’agit d’une petite expérimentation pour voir si Wikipédia peut être utilisé de cette manière. En raison du caractère expérimental, l’outil n’est disponible que pour Chrome en anglais.
Une nouvelle fonctionnalité Récupération des modifications a été ajoutées sur tous les wikis, disponible dans les préférences utilisateur. Une fois activée, vos modifications en cours sont enregistrées dans votre navigateur web : si vous fermez accidentellement un onglet de modification ou le navigateur, ou subissez un plantage de l’ordinateur, il vous sera proposé de récupéré le texte non publié. Vos commentaires sont les bienvenus sur la page de discussion du projet. Il s’agissait du 8e souhait de la consultation 2023 de la communauté.
Le lectorat qui utilise l’habillage Minerva sur mobile remarqueront une amélioration de la hauteur de ligne pour les divers paramétrages typographiques. [3 083]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 9 avril. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédias le 10 avril et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédias restantes le 11 avril (calendrier). [3 084][3 085]
Pour les nouveaux comptes et personnes non-connectées, l’éditeur visuel sera désormais activé par défaut sur mobile. Ce déploiement aura lieu pour tous les wikis, à l’exception de la Wikipédia en anglais. [3 086]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Problèmes
Entre le 2 avril et le 8 avril, sur les wikis utilisant l’approbation des révisions (avec FlaggedRevs), la balise « Revertida » n’était plus appliquées aux modifications défaites. De plus, les renommages, protections et importations de pages n’étaient plus marquées automatiquement comme relues. Ce problèmes est désormais corrigé. [3 087][3 088]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 16 avril. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédia le 17 avril et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédia restantes le 18 avril (calendrier). [3 089][3 090]
Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked).[3 091]
A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made.[3 092]
Futurs changements
Il est demandé aux développeurs bénévoles s’ils peuvent mettre à jour le code de leurs outils afin de prendre en charge les comptes temporaires. En savoir plus.
Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the abuse_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated.[3 093]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Vous pouvez désigner vos outils favoris pour la cinquième édition de la Cérémonie des outils les plus cools. Les mises en candidatures sont ouvertes jusqu’au 10 mai.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 23 avril. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédia le 24 avril et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédia restantes le 25 avril (calendrier). [3 095][3 096]
Futurs changements
Dernier avertissement : avant la fin du mois de mai 2024, l’habillage Vector 2022 ne partagera plus les scripts et styles avec l’ancien Vector. Pour les scripts utilisateur que vous voulez conserver avec Vector 2022, copiez le contenu depuis Especial:Ma pagina/vector.js vers Especial:Ma pagina/vector-2022.js. D’autres détails techniques sont disponibles. Les admins d’interface qui prévoient que cela va amener de nombreuses questions techniques voudront peut-être envoyer un message groupé à leur communauté, comme cela a été fait sur la Wikipédia en français. [3 097]
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Changements récents
Exemple d'une page de discussion avec le nouveau design, en français.
L'apparence des pages de discussion a changé pour les wikis suivants : Wikipédia en azéri, Wikipédia en bengali, Wikipédia en allemand, Wikipédia en persan, Wikipédia en hébreu, Wikipédia en hindi, Wikipédia en indonésien, Wikipédia en coréen, Wikipédia en néerlandais, Wikipédia en portugais, Wikipédia en roumain, Wikipédia en thaï, Wikipédia en turc, Wikipédia en ukrainien, Wikipédia en vietnamien. Ces wikis ont participé à un test, où 50% des utilisateurs ont obtenu le nouveau design. Comme ce test a donné des résultats positifs, le nouveau design sera déployé par défaut sur ces wikis. Il est possible de refuser ces modifications dans les préférences utilisateur ("Mostra l'activitat de discussió"). Le déploiement aura lieu sur tous les wikis dans les semaines à venir. [3 098]
Les cartes Kartographer peuvent utiliser un style visuel alternatif sans la nomenclature, en utilisant mapstyle="osm". Cela ne fonctionnait pas dans les aperçus, créant la fausse impression que ce n'était pas pris en charge. Ceci a maintenant été corrigé. [3 107]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 30 avril. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédia le 1 mai et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédia restantes le 2 mai (calendrier). [3 108][3 109]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Exemple d'une page de discussion avec le nouveau design, en français.
L’apparence des pages de discussion a changé pour tous les wikis, excepté pour Commons, Wikidata et la plupart des Wikipédia (certaines sont déjà dotées du nouveau design). Vous pouvez lire les détails de ce changement sur Diff. Il est possible de désactiver ces changements dans les préférences personnelles (« Mostra l'activitat de discussió »). Le déploiement aura lieu sur les wikis restants dans les semaines à venir. [3 110][3 111]
Les administrateurs d'interface disposent désormais d'un plus grand contrôle sur le style des composants d'articles sur mobile grâce à l'introduction de l'extension SiteAdminHelper. De plus amples informations sur la façon dont les styles peuvent être désactivés sont disponibles sur la page de l'extension. [3 112]
Wikimedia Enterprise propose maintenant les sections du corps des articles au format JSON, ainsi qu’un champ de description courte et précise en plus des champs extraits de la boite d’infos (infobox). Cette extension de l’API est aussi proposée sur les Services infonuagiques de Wikimedia. [3 113]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 7 mai. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédia le 8 mai et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédia restantes le 9 mai (calendrier). [3 114][3 115]
Lorsque vous regardez la page Spécial:Journal, la vue par défaut est appelée « Tous les journaux publics », mais n’affiche que certains journaux. Cela va donc être renommé en « Principaux journaux publics ». [3 116]
Futurs changements
Un nouveau service sera construit pour remplacer l’extension Graph. Les détails sont disponibles dans la dernière mise à jour concernant cette extension.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Sur Wikisource, il y a une page spéciale répertoriant les pages d'œuvres sans images de numérisation correspondantes. Maintenant, vous pouvez utiliser le nouveau mot magique __EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__ pour exclure certaines pages (liste des éditions ou traductions d'œuvres) de cette liste. [3 118]
Si vous utilisez la préférence utilisateur « Utilizar l’apercebut rapid (JavaScript) (experimental) », alors la fonctionnalité des pages de modèle « Previsualització d'una pàgina amb aquesta plantilla » fonctionnera désormais également sans recharger la page. [3 119]
Les cartes Kartographer peuvent maintenant spécifier un texte alternatif via l'attribut alt=. Ceci est identique à l'utilisation de l'attribut alt= dans la syntaxe des images et galeries. Une exception pour cette fonctionnalité concerne les wikis tels que Wikivoyage où les mini-cartes sont interactives. [3 120]
L'ancienne Visite guidée de la fonctionnalité « Nouveaux filtres pour la révision des modifications » a été supprimée. Elle avait été créée en 2017 pour montrer aux personnes ayant des comptes plus anciens comment l'interface avait changé, et elle a maintenant été vue par la plupart des personnes concernées. [3 121]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 14 mai. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédia le 15 mai et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédia restantes le 16 mai (calendrier). [3 122][3 123]
La page des résultats de la recherche Especial:Recèrca utilisera désormais les attributs CSS flex, pour une meilleure accessibilité, au lieu d'un tableau. Si vous avez un gadget ou un script qui ajuste les résultats de la recherche, vous devriez adapter votre script à la nouvelle structure HTML. [3 124]
Futurs changements
Avec l’habillage Vector 2022, les pages de l’espace principal seront affichées en pleine largeur (comme pages spéciales). L’objectif est de maintenir un nombre de caractères par ligne suffisamment important. Ceci est lié aux prochains changements de typographie dans Vector 2022. En savoir plus. [3 125]
Deux colonnes de la table de base de données pagelinks (pl_namespace et pl_title) seront bientôt supprimées. Les utilisateurs doivent utiliser deux colonnes de la nouvelle table linktarget (lt_namespace et lt_title) à la place. Dans vos requêtes SQL existantes :
remplacez JOIN pagelinks par JOIN linktarget et pl_ par lt_ dans la clause ON ;
puis ajoutez JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id.
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Changements récents
La fonctionnalité Nuke, qui permet aux administrateurs de supprimer en masse des pages, supprimera désormais correctement les pages qui ont été déplacées vers un autre titre. [3 128]
De nouveaux changements ont été apportés à l'assistant de téléchargement de Wikimedia Commons : la mise en page générale a été améliorée, en suivant une nouvelle mise en forme et espacement pour le formulaire et ses champs ; les en-têtes et les textes d'aide pour chacun des champs ont été modifiés ; le champ Légende est désormais un champ obligatoire, et il y a une option pour que les utilisateurs copient leur légende dans la description du média. [3 129][3 130]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 21 mai. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédia le 22 mai et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédia restantes le 23 mai (calendrier). [3 131][3 132]
Le HTML utilisé pour afficher tous les titres est en train d'être modifié pour améliorer l'accessibilité. Il changera le 22 mai sur certains habillages (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgie et Monobook). Vous pouvez tester les gadgets sur votre wiki avec ces habillages et signaler tout problème lié afin qu'ils puissent être résolus avant que ce changement ne soit apporté à tous les autres habillages. Les développeurs envisagent également d'introduire une API de gadget pour ajouter des boutons aux titres de section si cela peut être utile aux créateurs d'outils, et apprécieraient tout avis que vous pourriez avoir à ce sujet.
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Changements récents
Plusieurs bugs liés aux dernières mises à jour de l’assistant de téléversement sur Wikimedia Commons ont été corrigés. Pour plus d'informations, voir T365107 et T365119.
En mars 2024, une nouvelle API addPortlet a été ajoutée pour permettre aux gadgets de créer de nouveaux portlets (menus) dans l'interface. Dans certains habillages, cela peut être utilisé pour créer des menus déroulants. Les développeurs de gadgets sont invités à l'essayer et à donner leur avis.
Certains CSS sur l’habillage Minerva ont été supprimés pour permettre une configuration communautaire plus facile. Les admins d'interface devraient vérifier le rendu sur les appareils mobiles pour les aspects liés aux classes .collapsible, .multicol, .reflist, .coordinates, .topicon. Des détails supplémentaires sur le remplacement du CSS sont disponibles si nécessaire.
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 28 mai. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédia le 29 mai et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédia restantes le 30 mai (calendrier). [3 133][3 134]
Lorsque vous visitez un wiki où vous n'avez pas encore de compte local, des règles locales telles que les filtres de modification peuvent parfois empêcher la création de votre compte. À partir de cette semaine, MediaWiki prend en compte vos droits globaux pour évaluer si vous pouvez contourner de telles règles locales. [3 135]
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Changements récents
Il est maintenant possible pour les administrateurs locaux d'ajouter de nouveaux liens en bas du menu Outils du site sans utiliser JavaScript. La documentation est disponible. [3 136]
Le nom du message pour la définition de la catégorie de suivi de WikiHiero, « MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category », a changé en « MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category ». [3 137]
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 4 juin. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédia le 5 juin et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédia restantes le 6 juin (calendrier). [3 139][3 140]
Futurs changements
La semaine prochaine, sur les wikis avec l'habillage Vector 2022 par défaut, les utilisateurs sur ordinateur non connectés pourront choisir entre différentes tailles de police. La taille de police par défaut sera également augmentée pour eux. Ceci est destiné à rendre les projets Wikimédia plus faciles à lire. En savoir plus.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Le logiciel utilisé pour afficher les fichiers SVG a été mis à jour vers une nouvelle version, corrigeant de nombreux problèmes de longue date de rendu SVG. [3 141]
Le HTML utilisé pour rendre tous les titres est en train d'être modifié pour améliorer l'accessibilité. Il a été modifié la semaine dernière dans certains habillages (Vector legacy et Minerva). Veuillez tester les gadgets sur votre wiki sur ces habillages et signalez tout problème connexe afin qu'ils puissent être résolus avant que ce changement ne soit apporté à Vector 2022. Par ailleurs, les développeurs envisagent toujours l'introduction d'une API pour gadgets pour ajouter des boutons aux titres de section si cela était utile aux créateurs d'outils, et apprécieraient tout retour que vous pourriez avoir à ce sujet.
La balise HTML utilisée pour les références par Parsoid a changé la semaine dernière. Dans les endroits où Parsoid ajoutait précédemment la classe mw-reference-text, Parsoid ajoute maintenant également la classe reference-text pour une meilleure compatibilité avec l'analyseur historique. Plus de détails sont disponibles. [3 142]
Problèmes
Il y avait un bug avec l'interface de traduction de contenu qui faisait apparaître les menus d'outils au mauvais endroit. Cela a maintenant été corrigé. [3 143]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 11 juin. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédia le 12 juin et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédia restantes le 13 juin (calendrier). [3 144][3 145]
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki inclut une autre modification du balisage HTML utilisé pour les références : Parsoid enveloppera désormais les références nommées et non nommées dans une balise <span class="mw-cite-backlink">, pour une meilleure compatibilité avec l'analyseur historique. Les administrateurs d'interface doivent vérifier que les gadgets qui interagissent avec les références sont compatibles avec le nouveau balisage. Plus de détails sont disponibles. [3 146]
Sur les wikis multilingues qui utilisent le système <translate>, il existe une fonctionnalité qui affiche les traductions potentiellement obsolètes avec un arrière-plan rose jusqu'à ce qu'elles soient mises à jour ou confirmées. À partir de cette semaine, la confirmation d’une traduction sera journalisée et il existera un nouveau droit utilisateur qui peut être requis pour confirmer les traductions si la communauté le demande. [3 147]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Les personnes qui tentent d’ajouter un lien externe via l’éditeur visuel recevront désormais immédiatement un avertissement si le lien mène vers un domaine que le projet a décidé de bloquer. Plus de détails sont sur la page sur la vérification des modifications. [3 148]
La nouvelle extension Configuration communautaire est disponible sur la Wikipédia de test. Cette extension permet aux communautés de personnaliser des fonctionnalités spécifiques pour répondre à leurs besoins locaux. Actuellement, seules les fonctionnalités de croissance sont configurables, mais l’extension prendra en charge d’autres cas d’utilisation à l’avenir. [3 149][3 150]
La fonctionnalité bêta « mode sombre » est désormais disponible sur les pages de catégories et d'aide, ainsi que sur d'autres pages spéciales. Il peut y avoir des problèmes de contraste. Merci de signaler les bogues sur la page de discussion du projet. [3 151]
Problèmes
Les outils des services d'informatique en nuage (Cloud Service tools) n'ont pas été disponibles pendant 25 minutes la semaine dernière. Cela a été causé par un câble défectueux dans le centre de données. [3 152]
La semaine dernière, des changements de mise en forme ont été appliqués à l’habillage Vector 2022. Cela a causé des problèmes imprévus avec des modèles, bandeaux et images. Les changements aux modèles et bandeaux ont été annulés. La plupart des problèmes avec les images ont été corrigés. Si vous en rencontrez encore, signalez-les. [3 153]
Changements à venir cette semaine
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 18 juin. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédia le 19 juin et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédia restantes le 20 juin (calendrier). [3 154][3 155]
À partir du 18 juin, l’outil de vérification du sourçage sera déployé sur un nouvel ensemble de Wikipédia. Cette fonctionnalité a pour but d'aider les nouveaux arrivants et d'assister les patrouilleurs en invitant les nouveaux arrivants qui ajoutent du nouveau contenu à un article de Wikipédia à ajouter une référence lorsqu'ils ne le font pas eux-mêmes. Lors d’un test sur onze wikis, le nombre de références ajoutées a plus que doublé lorsque l’outil était affiché. Le contrôle des références est configurable par la communauté. [3 156]
Les listes de diffusion seront indisponibles pendant deux heures environ mardi de 10 h à 12 h UTC, afin de permettre la migration vers un nouveau serveur et mettre à jour le logiciel. [3 157]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Vous avez remarqué un changement dans les couleurs d’arrière-plan du texte des diffs et celle du différentiel d’octets, la semaine dernière. Ces changements visent à rendre le texte plus lisible, en mode clair comme en mode sombre, dans le cadre d’une amélioration de l’accessibilité. Vos commentaires et questions sont possible sur la page de discussion du projet. [3 158]
Les couleurs de texte utilisées pour les liens visités, survolés ou actifs ont aussi légèrement changé la semaine dernière pour améliorer l’accessibilité dans le mode clair comme dans le mode sombre. [3 159]
La nouvelle version de MediaWiki sera installée sur les wikis de test et sur MediaWiki.org à partir du 25 juin. Elle sera installée sur tous les wikis hormis la majorité des Wikipédia le 26 juin et enfin sur toutes les Wikipédia restantes le 27 juin (calendrier). [3 161][3 162]
À partir du 26 juin, tous les horodatages des messages des pages de discussion deviendront un lien sur Wikipédia en anglais : tous les wikis auront désormais cette fonctionnalité. Ce lien est un lien permanent vers le message. Il permet aux utilisateurs de retrouver le message lié, même s’il a été déplacé entretemps. Vous pouvez en savoir plus sur cette fonctionnalité sur Diff ou sur MediaWiki.org. [3 163]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Changements récents
Au cours des trois prochaines semaines, le mode sombre sera disponible pour tous les utilisateurs, qu'ils soient connectés ou non, en commençant par la version Web mobile. Cela répond à l'un des souhaits communautaires les plus demandés et améliore la lisibilité et l'utilisation en faible contraste dans les environnements peu éclairés. Dans le cadre de ces changements, le mode sombre fonctionnera également sur les pages utilisateur et les portails. Vous trouverez plus d'informations dans la dernière note d’actualité de l'équipe Web. [3 164]
Les utilisateurs connectés peuvent désormais définir leurs préférences globales pour la taille du texte et le mode sombre, grâce à un effort commun entre les équipes de la Fondation. Cela permet aux Wikimédiens utilisant plusieurs wikis de mettre en place facilement une expérience de lecture cohérente, par exemple en passant du mode clair au mode sombre une seule fois pour tous les wikis. [3 165]
Si vous utilisez un navigateur Web très ancien, certaines fonctionnalités pourraient ne pas fonctionner sur les wikis de Wikimedia. Cela concerne Internet Explorer 11 et les versions de Chrome, Firefox et Safari antérieures à 2016. Ce changement permet d'utiliser de nouvelles fonctionnalités en CSS et d'envoyer moins de code à tous les lecteurs. [3 166][3 167]
Les administrateurs de Wikipedia peuvent facilement personnaliser les options de configuration locale du wiki en utilisant la Configuration de la communauté. La Configuration de la communauté a été créée pour permettre aux communautés de personnaliser le fonctionnement de certaines fonctionnalités, car chaque Wiki de langue a des besoins uniques. Pour le moment, les administrateurs peuvent configurer les Fonctionnalités de croissance sur leurs wikis locaux, afin de mieux recruter et retenir les nouveaux éditeurs. D'autres options seront fournies dans les mois à venir. [3 168]
Les éditeurs intéressés par les questions linguistiques liées aux normes Unicode peuvent désormais discuter de ces sujets dans un nouvel espace de discussion sur MediaWiki.org. La Fondation Wikimedia est maintenant un membre du Consortium Unicode, et le groupe de coordination peut examiner de manière collaborative les problèmes discutés et, le cas échéant, les porter à l'attention du Consortium Unicode.
Les contributeurs peuvent à nouveau cliquer sur les liens dans l'aperçu des références de l'éditeur visuel, grâce à une correction de beugue par l'équipe Contribution. [3 170]
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L’extension CampaignEvents (évènements) est désormais disponible sur Meta-Wiki, Wikipédia en igbo et Wikipédia en swahili ; son activation sur votre wiki peut être demandée. Cette extension aide à gérer et rendre les événements plus visibles, en donnant aux organisateurs d'événements la possibilité d'utiliser des outils tels que l'outil d'inscription aux événements. Pour en savoir plus sur l'état du déploiement et comment demander cette extension pour votre wiki, visitez la page CampaignEvents sur Meta-wiki.
Les contributeurs et contributrices qui utilisent l’appli Wikipedia pour iOS qui ont plus de 50 modifications peuvent désormais utiliser la fonction d’ajout d’image. Celle-ci est un atout pour de petites, mais utiles contributions à Wikipédia.
Un problème qui rendait la couleur de l’onglet Discussion toujours bleue dans l’habillage Vector 2022, même quand la page n’existait pas et devait donc être rouge, a été corrigé.
Futurs changements
L’équipe Produits pour la confiance et la sécurité veut introduire des comptes temporaires avec le moins de perturbations possibles pour les outils et le flux de travail. Les développeurs et développeuses bénévoles, y compris dans la maintenance de gadgets et scripts utilisateur, sont invités à mettre à jour le code de leurs outils pour gérer les comptes temporaires. L’équipe a créé une documentation expliquant comment mettre à jour le code. En savoir plus.
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Les développeurs et développeuses Wikimedia peuvent officiellement continuer à utiliser à la fois Gerrit et GitLab, après la décision de Wikimedia Foundation du juin de prendre en charge le développement sur les deux plateformes. Gerrit et GitLab sont deux hébergeurs de code utilisés pour écrire, relire et déployer le code logiciel de MediaWiki (le logiciel central des projets wiki) et des outils annexes pour créer et améliorer le contenu. Cette décision protège la productivité de nos développeurs et évite que des problèmes de relecture du code affectent nos utilisateurs. D’autres détails sont sur la page sur l’état de la migration.
Wikimedia Foundation recherche des candidats au Conseil consultatif Produit et Technologie (PTAC). Ce groupe réunira des contributeurs et contributrices techniques et Wikimedia Foundation pour définir ensemble la plateforme du futur, résiliente. Les membres du Conseil évalueront et consulteront les activités techniques et produits du mouvement, afin de développer des projets multigénérationnels. Nous recherchons une diversité de profil de contribution technique, du monde entier, venant de divers projets Wikimedia. Candidatez ici avant le 10 aout !
Les contributeurs et contributrices avec le droit de révocation qui utilisent l’appli Wikipédia Android peuvent utiliser les nouvelles fonctionnalité de révision des modifications. Cela inclut un nouveau flux des Modifications récentes, avec les liens liés tels que l’annulation et la révocation, et la possibilité de créer et d’enregistrer une collection personnelle de messages pour communiquer lors de la patrouille. Si votre wiki veut rendre ces fonctions disponibles pour les personnes ayant un certains nombres de modification plutôt que le statut de Patrouille, vous pouvez contacter l’équipe. En savoir plus sur ce projet sur le blog Diff.
Si vous mettez en ligne des fichiers entre wikis, ou dites aux autres comment le faire, vous êtes invités à participer à une discussion sur Wikimedia Commons concernant l’éventuelle restriction de qui peut mettre en ligne des fichiers grâce à la boite de dialogue inter-wiki aux personnes autoconfirmées sur Commons. Cette discussion vient du grand nombre de violations du droit d’auteur par ce moyen. Un court résumé est présent sur Commons:Téléversement entre-wikis et les discussions sur le bistro de Commons.
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Feature News
Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers.[3 172]
Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed.[3 173]
Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons.[3 174]
Mises à jour de project
Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.
En savoir plus
Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff.
How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin and Add a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.
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Actualités des fonctionnalités
Les éditeurs utilisant l'Éditeur visuel dans des langues qui utilisent des caractères non latins pour les chiffres, comme le hindi, le manipuri et l'arabe oriental, peuvent remarquer quelques changements dans la mise en forme des numéros de référence. Il s'agit d'un effet secondaire de la préparation d'une nouvelle fonctionnalité de sous-référencement, qui permettra également de corriger certains problèmes de numérotation générale dans l'Éditeur visuel. Si vous constatez des problèmes connexes sur votre wiki, veuillez partager les détails sur la page de discussion du projet.
État des bugs
Certains éditeurs connectés ont brièvement été incapables de modifier ou de charger des pages la semaine dernière. Ces erreurs étaient principalement dues à l'ajout de nouvelles règles de linter qui ont entraîné des problèmes de mise en cache. Des correctifs ont été appliqués et les enquêtes se poursuivent.
Les éditeurs peuvent utiliser l'outil d'informations sur les IP pour obtenir des informations sur les adresses IP. Cet outil est disponible en tant que fonctionnalité bêta dans vos préférences. Pendant quelques jours la semaine dernière, l'outil n'était pas accessible, mais il est de nouveau opérationnel. Un grand merci à Shizhao pour avoir signalé le problème. Vous pouvez en lire plus à ce sujet, et sur les 28 autres tâches soumises par la communauté qui ont été résolues la semaine dernière.
Mises à jour du projet
Il y a de nouvelles fonctionnalités et améliorations apportées sur Phabricator par les équipes d'ingénierie des versions et de services de collaboration, ainsi que par certains volontaires, y compris : les systèmes de recherche, le nouveau système de création de tâches, les systèmes de connexion, la configuration de traduction qui a permis le support de plus de langues (grâce à Pppery), et des corrections pour de nombreuses erreurs spécifiques. Vous pouvez lire les détails concernant ces améliorations et d'autres dans ce résumé.
Il y a une mise à jour sur le projet des graphiques. L'équipe a décidé quelle bibliothèque de visualisation utiliser, sur quels types de graphiques se concentrer en premier et où stocker les définitions de graphiques.
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Actualités des fonctionnalités
Deux nouvelles fonctions de l’analyseur syntaxique seront disponibles cette semaine : {{#dir}} et {{#bcp47}}. Elles permettront de remplacer les modèles Template:Dir et Template:BCP47 sur Commons et ainsi de retirer 100 millions de lignes de la base de données des pages liées. Les contributeurs des wikis qui utilisent ces modèles peuvent aider en remplaçant ces modèles par ces nouvelles fonctions. Les modèles de Commons seront mis à jour pendant le hackathon de Wikimania. [3 176][3 177]
Les communautés peuvent demander l’activation de l’éditeur visuel sur des espaces de noms où des discussions peuvent occasionnement avoir lieu (par exemple Wikipédia: ou Wikisource:) si elles ont compris les limitations connues. Pour les discussions, les utilisateurs peuvent déjà utiliser les outils de discussion dans ces espaces de noms.
La catégorie de suivi "Pages utilisant une chronologie" a été renommée en "Pages utilisant l'extension EasyTimeline" dans TranslateWiki. Les wikis qui ont créé la catégorie localement doivent renommer leur création locale pour correspondre.
Actualités des projets
Les contributeurs qui participent à l’organisation de wikiprojets et d’espace de collaboration similaires sur les wikis sont invités à faire part de leurs idées et exemple de collaborations réussies avec les équipes Campagnes et Programmes. Vous pouvez répondre à une courte enquête ou faire part de vos idées sur la page de discussion Les équipes recherchent notamment des collaborations fructueuses sur des wikis non-anglophones.
Le nouvel analyseur syntaxique va être progressivement déployé sur les wikis Wikivoyage dans les prochains mois. Wikiviatge en anglés et Wikivoyage en hebreu sont déjà passé à Parsoid la semaine dernière.Vous pouvez en apprendre davantage sur l’unification de Parsoid et de l’analyseur syntaxique.
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Les stewards peuvent désormais spécifier si un blocage global doit également empêcher la création de compte. Avant ce changement par l’équipe Produits pour la confiance et la sécurité, tous les blocages globaux empêchaient systématiquement la création de compte. Cela permet aux stewards de réduire les effets indésirés des blocages globaux d’adresses IP.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [3 180]
Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the categories property of mw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [3 181][3 182]
Bugs status
Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with Talk:WP: so that their titles start with Wikipedia talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388.
Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.
Learn more
The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.
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Actualités des fonctionnalités
Les administrateurs peuvent désormais tester la fonctionnalité des comptes temporaires sur test2wiki. Cela a été fait pour permettre des tests inter-wikis de comptes temporaires, lorsque ces comptes temporaires passent d'un projet à un autre. La fonctionnalité a été activée sur testwiki il y a quelques semaines. Aucun déploiement supplémentaire de comptes temporaires n'est encore prévu. Les Comptes Temporaires sont un projet visant à créer un nouveau type de compte utilisateur remplaçant les adresses IP des éditeurs non enregistrés qui ne sont plus rendues publiques. Veuillez partager vos opinions et questions sur la page de discussion du projet.
Plus tard cette semaine, les éditeurs des wikis qui utilisent FlaggedRevs (également connu sous le nom de "Modifications en attentes") peuvent remarquer que les indicateurs en haut des articles ont changé. Ce changement rend le système plus cohérent avec le reste de l'interface MediaWiki. [3 183]
État des beugues
Les éditeurs qui utilisent l'éditeur de wikitexte de 2010 et les boutons d'insertion de caractères ne rencontreront plus de problèmes avec les boutons ajoutant du contenu dans le résumé de modification au lieu de la fenêtre de modification. Vous pouvez en savoir plus à ce sujet et sur les 26 autres tâches soumises par la communauté qui ont été résolues la semaine dernière.
Actualités des projets
Allez lire et voter pour les sujets cibles, qui sont des groupes de souhaits pour corriger un même problème. Les sujets cibles ont été créés pour la nouvelle mouture des Souhaits de la communauté qui est désormais ouverte toute l’année. Le premier lot de sujets cibles est spécifique à la routine de modération, à l’accueil des néophytes, à la minimisation des tâches répétitives et à la priorisation des tâches. Une fois que les bénévoles auront relu et voté pour les sujets cibles, Wikimedia examinera et choisira les sujets cibles à prioriser.
Vous avez un projet et avez envie d’assister un stagiaire pour une mission de trois (3) mois ? Outreachy est un programme biannuel permettant à des personnes d’être rémunérées pour un stage débutant en décembre 2024 et finissant en mars 2025 ; et ils ont besoin de tuteurs ou tutrices et de projets sur lesquels travailler. Les projets peuvent cibler du codage ou non (design, documentation, traduction, recherche). Consultez la page Outreachy pour plus d’informations ou pour voir les précédents projets depuis 2013.
Autres notes d’actualité
Si vous êtes curieux des améliorations apportées aux produits et à la technologie par la Fondation Wikimedia l'année dernière, lisez ce résumé récent des points forts sur Diff.
Pour en savoir plus sur la technologie derrière les projets Wikimedia, vous pouvez maintenant regarder les sessions sur la technologique à Wikimania 2024 sur Commons. Cette semaine, regardez :
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Weekly highlight
Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.
Feature news
Editors who use the Especial:Modèls inutilizats page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements.[3 184]
Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header.You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now.[3 185]
Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.
Project updates
A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.
Learn more
To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page. [3 187][3 188]
Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions entity:getSitelink() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [3 189]
Project updates
Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [3 190]
Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new MOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with MOS: (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language code mos). [3 191]
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Améliorations et Maintenance
Les utilisateurs et utilisatrices de modèles peuvent apporter leur aide en lisant le champ d'action issu de la liste de souhaits le plus récent, « Réutilisation et découverte de modèles », et partager leur retours en page de discussion. Ces retours aideront la l'équipe technique de la communauté à déterminer la meilleure approche pour la réalisation de ces souhaits. Tout le monde est encouragé à continuer à proposer de nouveaux souhaits.
Les éditeurs qui veulent comprendre quels espaces de noms existent sur chaque wiki, et quelques détails sur la façon dont ils sont configurés, peuvent utiliser la nouvelle page Especial:NamespaceInfo automatisée. Merci à DannyS712 pour ces améliorations.[3 192]
La vérification des références est une fonctionnalité qui encourage les éditeurs à ajouter une citation lorsqu’ils ajoutent un nouveau paragraphe à un article de Wikipédia. Pendant une courte période de temps, la balise « Modifier la vérification (références) activée » a été appliquée aux modifications en dehors de l’espace de noms principal. Ce problème a été résolu. [3 193]
It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order.[3 194]
Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL.You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes mw-message-box need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer cdx-message group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best.[3 195]
Mises à jour techniques du projet
La semaine prochaine, les utilisateurs de tous les wikis auront accès aux sites Wikimédia en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes. Cela commencera le 25 septembre à 15:00 UTC. Il s’agit d’un basculement de centre de données prévu à des fins de maintenance. Ce processus de maintenance vise également d’autres services.The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible.[3 196]
Technique en profondeur
Le dernier numéro mensuel du bulletin d'informations sur les produits MediaWiki est disponible. This edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
Pour en apprendre plus sur la technologie derrière les projets Wikimedia, vous pouvez maintenant regarder les sessions de le volet technologique à Wikimania 2024 sur Commons. Cette semaine, regardez:
Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are more details and links available in the Phabricator task.
Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.
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En lumière cette semaine
Tous les wikis seront en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes le mercredi 25 septembre à 15 h UTC. La lecture sera toujours possible, mais pas la modification. Ces procédures biannuelles permettent aux équipes de Wikimedia responsables de la fiabilité des sites de rester prêtes à intervenir pour garder les wikis fonctionnels en cas de panne d’un de nos centres de données.
Actualités pour la contribution
Capture d’écran de l’interface de la fonctionnalité de suggestion de modification pour les textes alternatifs (alt).
Les contributeurs et contributrices qui utilisent l’appli Wikipédia pour iOS en espagnol, portugais, français ou chinois peuvent voir l’expérimentation de la suggestion de modification pour les textes alternatifs après la modification d’un article ou la réalisation d’une modification suggérée « Ajoutez une image ». Le texte alternatif aide les personnes malvoyantes à lire les articles Wikipédia. L’équipe cherche à savoir si l’ajout de textes alternatifs aux images est une tâche que des novices peuvent correctement réaliser. Vos retours sont les bienvenus sur la page de discussion.
La palette de couleurs de Codex a été mise à jour avec les changements de couleurs des interfaces utilisateur de MediaWiki. Les changements les plus notables pour la contribution concernent les couleurs du mode sombre pour les liens et pour les boutons de calme (progressifs et destructeurs), les couleurs des liens visités dans les modes sombres et lumineux, et les couleurs d’arrière-plan des messages système dans les modes sombres et lumineux.
Il est désormais possibles d’inclure des liens cliquables internes et externes dans les blocs de code. Cela concerne les liens utilisés dans les balises <syntaxhighlight> sur les pages de code (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto et CSS assaini). L’utilisation de la syntaxe de modèle {{…}} crée aussi un lien vers la page du modèle. Merci à SD0001 pour ces améliorations. [3 197]
Deux beugues ont été corrigés dans le système GlobalVanishRequest en améliorant la journalisation et en supprimant un message de remplacement inapproprié. [3 198][3 199]
L’API permet désormais de soumettre 5 000 requêtes API par mois et de récupérer des images instantanées HTML deux fois par mois gratuitement et librement. D’autres actualités, notamment l’amélioration de la trousse de développement logiciel (SDK) sont présentées sur le billet de blog du projet. Même si les API de Wikimedia Entreprise sont conçues pour des réutilisations commerciales à haut volume, ce changement permet que le service soit utilisé pour de nombreux usages communautaires.
L’API des images instantanées (copies HTML) a été dotée en bêta de points finaux Contenus structurés (article de blog) et de deux jeux de données bêta (Wikipédia en anglais et en français) depuis ce point final vers Hugging Face pour utilisation publique et recueil des retours (article de blog). Ces jeux de données pré-analysés permet de nouvelles options pour la recherche, le développement et l’analyse de données.
En détails
Le Service de requêtes de Wikidata (WDQS) est utilisé pour obtenir des réponses aux questions en utilisant le jeu de données de Wikidata. Comme Wikidata grandissait, nous devions effectuer un changement majeur d’architecture pour que WDQS puissent rester performant. Dans le cadre du projet Séparation des graphes de WDQS, nous avons défini de nouveaux points finaux QPARQL pour servir les sous-graphes « érudit » et « principal » de Wikidata. Le point d’accès terminal query.wikidata.org continuera de servir le graphe Wikidata entier jusqu’à mars 2025. Après cette date, il ne servira plus que le graphe principal. Pour plus d’informations, lisez l’annonce sur Wikidata.
Benvenguda sus Wikipèdia, Boulaur !
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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).
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