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"24 genièr de 2017 a 08.10 Jfblanc (Discussion | contribucions) a restablit la pagina Fichièr:Olivetta San Michele-Stemma.png (2 revisions e 1 fichièr restablit : no free license but Occitan wikipedia policies for fair use for COAs)"

Please read the requirements for EDP at wmf:Licensing policy. There is no fair use for unused files. 85.180.90.118 (d) 24 genièr de 2017 a 12.59 (UTC)

qìgōng

Adieu. Coma l'auràs devinhat, ai pas una bona idèa del nom que calriá causir per totes aquestes articles. Te daissi cambiar lo nom coma melhor te sembla, vertadièirament es pas important per ieu, simplament amb las redireccion cal permetre que lo legeire tròbe çò que cerca. Creses que deuriam tanben suprimir las indicacions "chi" dels articles ? Aviái fargat "chi gong" en seguir "tai chi" (un francisme fins finala ?), qu'ai trobat sul diccionari de Josiana Ubaud (mas tanben ai escrich qì...). Sonque çò que me geina un pauc amb lo pinyin es qu'aital nos trobariem amb un fum de títols d'articles plens de signes diacritics que degun picarà pas jamai, pensi. Mas benlèu i a pas de melhor biais de far... Chicaire (d) 24 genièr de 2017 a 17.05 (UTC)

M'acabi de mainar que lo "chi" de tai chi a pas res a veire amb lo qi de qì e "qi gong"... Ai renomenat en qìgōng coma lo conselhava, mercés ! Chicaire (d) 28 genièr de 2017 a 07.33 (UTC)

Espèri que te geinan pas mas questions... Mas i a pauc de monde aquí... A ton vejaire cossí deuriam nomenar "fr:Rachi" emperaicí ? Chicaire (d) 29 genièr de 2017 a 08.49 (UTC)

Adieu, en catalan es Raixí, mas me sembla que Rachi va plan, lo sol problèma es l'accentuacion (s'es prononciat accentuat sus la darrièra es Rachí, mas coneissi pas l'ebrieu). Mercé pel trabalh, me desrengas pas, es dins l'escambi qu'òm se melhora... — Joan Francés Blanc (me´n parlar) 29 genièr de 2017 a 09.24 (UTC)

Mercés, ai creat un esbòç (Rachi), acabi de veire qu'i a dejà quatre ligams sus la pagina. Chicaire (d) 30 genièr de 2017 a 05.14 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-05

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

Recent changes

• The OAuth management interfaces now look slightly different. [1]

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. [2]
• 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. [3][4]
• The Wikimedia technical community is doing a Developer Wishlist survey. Developers can propose ideas before 31 January 23:59 UTC. This is soon.

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30 genièr de 2017 a 18.45 (UTC)

Maurizio Milani

Adieu Jfblanc, comment va tu?

je pense que tu es très occupé, eh? Ou bien, tu n'est pas faché avec moi... pardon se j'ensiste, mais tu m'avait dit de re-lire cette page et de traduire pour moi les 2-3 lignes du Français. Tu sais bien que je t'aiderà en Italien ou bien en Portugais.

Merci encore pour ton aide precieux!

Rei Momo (d) 2 febrièr de 2017 a 23.07 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-06

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

Problems

• The block log sometimes showed blocks as being much longer than they were. This has now been fixed. [5]

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. [6]
• 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. [7]
• 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. [8][9]

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6 febrièr de 2017 a 19.45 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-07

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

Recent 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. [10]

Problems

• The Firefox add-on Firefogg 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. [11]
• 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. [12]

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. [13]
• 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. [14]
• The Developer Wishlist is a list where developers prioritize tools they need. The voting closes at 14 February 23:59 (UTC). This process is only for developers.

Review

• You can read the 2016 product summary from the Wikimedia Foundation Product group to see what they did with things they said they would work on in the annual plan.

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13 febrièr de 2017 a 18.06 (UTC)

Edicion tradicionala dels articles

Adiu
De mon costat, tot fonciona coma cal... Auriás pas un gadget d'activat que t'impausariá quicòm ?
--Cedric31 (d) 15 febrièr de 2017 a 09.42 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-08

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

Recent changes

• The edit summary box is now a little bit bigger. This is to make it follow the Wikimedia design guide. [15]

Changes this week

• Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards. [16]
• 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. [17]
• OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way. [18]
• 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.

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20 febrièr de 2017 a 19.25 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-09

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

Problems

• On 22 February the wikipedia.org portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file. [19]

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. [20]
• 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. [21]
• 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. [22][23]

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27 febrièr de 2017 a 19.55 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-10

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. [24]
• 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. [25]

Problems

• Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed. [26]
• 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. [27]

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. [28]
• 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. [29]
• 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.

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6 març de 2017 a 23.23 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-11

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

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. [30][31]
• 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. [32]
• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. [33][34]

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13 març de 2017 a 15.25 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-12

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

Recent changes

• The 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. [35]
• DMOZ no longer works. Templates that use DMOZ can be redirected to archive.org or another mirror. DMOZ has been removed from the RelatedSites extension on Wikivoyage. [36]
• 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. [37]
• 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. [38]
• 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. [39]

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. [40]

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. [41]
• 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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20 març de 2017 a 22.03 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-13

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

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. [42]

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. [43][44]

Changes this week

• New filters for Recent changes will be released on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias and MediaWikiwiki on March 28. Other wikis will get it progressively. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and, on certain wikis, user intent prediction.
• 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).

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27 març de 2017 a 14.46 (UTC)

Cassini

Adiu e mercés per tas precisions. I pensarai quand m'ocuparai d'aquela comuna. Aviái dejà trobat e senhalat una error al site Cassini-EHESS a prepaus de Mairaguet (veire Pinçac). Pels dos primièrs toponimes, Saint-Gervais, Saint-Capraisy, rai. Cal precisar que Cassini coneis Caprasi/Grapasi, etc, jos son nom oficial en 1793 e 1801, mès en 1839 deviá èsser tornat a St-Capraisy. Pels autres dos, sembla una error. En fasent "lieux-dits (nom de la comuna)", òm arriba generalament a trobar lo nom o pas, o lo nom sense lo determinant. E sovent gaiti la mapa o quitament Google Earth. Saint-Sulpice (-Rivelède) es al mens a mitat dins la comuna de La Salvetat e i a un autre St-Sulpice a Vilanuèva (St-Sulpice-Rivelot, que s'opausa a Rivelède). E a prepaus, i a pas de sant en Agenés, solament sent (evolucionat sovent en sint recentament, mès benlèu es pas necessari d'o notar).Sivadon 1949 (d) 31 març de 2017 a 11.19 (UTC)

Se vòls pòdes escriure a Cassini-EHESS sus aquelas errors. O faguèri per Mairac e aprèp verificacion, me respondèron plan onèstament. A prepaus, escrives "Sant > Sent". Supausi que o sabes, mès aquò rai, servirà a d'autres... Es pas atal que se passèt, a çò que cresi. Sanctus > Saint e coma -ain- es de mal prononciar, se simplifiquèt sovent en Sant; o alavetz, donèt (probablament) *Seint > Sent. Son doás direccions diferentas, dempuèi quicòm coma mila ans... En mai de las errors de Cassini, i a tanben çò que sabon pas. Per exemple per Aineça, entre 1793 e 1800, i a probablament una enòrma modificacion del territòri comunal, mès cap d'informacion dessús, se vei a l'evolucion de la populacion. Cal enquestar, gaitar las comunas a costat... De còps, ai l'impression de me cambiar en inspector Derrick o en comissari Maigret (o eventualament en Kommissar Rex perqué cal aver lo nas). Sivadon 1949 (d) 31 març de 2017 a 12.11 (UTC)

Per Senta Crotz des Aigrons, probable que jamai foguèt comuna e que foguèt annexat a Riucau dempuèi lo començament de la Revolucion. Res a veire ambe Aineça, qu'es plan pus luènh. La solucion, cresi que l'ai trobada. Lo deficit a Aineça es l'excedent dei (prononciacion vertadièra) Luèvias. Coralament.Sivadon 1949 (d) 31 març de 2017 a 16.37 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-14

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

Recent changes

• 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. [45]
• 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. [46]
• 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. [47]

Problems

• Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed. [48]

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.
• You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on 5 April at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech and Hebrew Wikipedia on 11 April. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and user intent prediction. User intent prediction means the filter tries to help editors determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [49]

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3 abril de 2017 a 17.53 (UTC)

Utilizaire:Teooc

Bonjour, per informacion, Teooc crèa d'articles gràcias a una aplicacion de traduccion automatica. Pasmens, aquelei traduccions presentan un nombre fòrça important de fautas e son de còps impossible de comprendre. Coma la wikipèdia nòstra a pas lei ressorsas per lei corregir, aquò a tendància de desorganizar l'espaci enciclopedic e i laissa d'articles que son impossibles de legir. Aquel utilizaire foguèt avertit un premier còp en octòbre de 2016 qu'aqueu metòde èra apropriat mai continua – e sembla accelerar. En consequéncia, ai laissat un avertiment sus sa pagina de discussion per li demandar d'arrestar (ò de corregir sei fautas). Coralament, --Nicolas Eynaud (d) 6 abril de 2017 a 12.36 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-15

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

Recent changes

• Tidy is going to be replaced with an HTML5 parsing algorithm. Bad HTML in wikitext would cause problems on a number of wikis. There is now a ParserMigration extension on all wikis that you can use to help clean this up. You can read more about how you can use it. [50]

Changes this week

• 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. [51]
• 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. [52]
• The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters. [53]
• 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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10 abril de 2017 a 18.34 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-16

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

Recent changes

• You can 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. [54]
• You can now see a list of all autoblocks on Special:AutoblockList. [55]
• 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. [56]

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.

Future changes

• stats.wikimedia.org will be replaced. You can see the new prototype. You can leave feedback on this change.
• 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. [57]
• 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. [58][59]

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17 abril de 2017 a 19.32 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-17

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

Recent changes

• New filters for recent changes are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can turn it on in your preferences. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May. [60]
• 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. [61]

Problems

• Since the data centre test last week the content translation tool has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved. [62]

Changes this week

• The GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit. [63]
• 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. [64]
• 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.

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24 abril de 2017 a 16.40 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-18

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

Recent changes

• The content translation tool works again. It was turned off because of a database problem. [65]
• 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 add mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ) block for your scripts also, or add mediawiki.util dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. [66][67]

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. [68]
• 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. [69]

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1 mai de 2017 a 19.49 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-19

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

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. [70]
• 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. [71]

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. [72]
• 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. [73][74]
• 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. [75][76]

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9 mai de 2017 a 02.25 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-20

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

Recent changes

• You can now use ISBNs to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that have enabled Citoid. [77]
• The Two Column Edit Conflict View is available as a beta feature on all wikis. It is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. [78]

Problems

• 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. [79]

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. [80]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages. [81][82]
• Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. 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. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find false positives. You can read more about what to fix. [83][84]

Older unreported changes

• 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. [85][86]

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15 mai de 2017 a 21.48 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-21

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

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. [87]

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22 mai de 2017 a 22.02 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-22

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

Problems

• Last week’s MediaWiki version was rolled back from some wikis because of a problem. This means planned changes did not happen. [88]

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.

Future changes

• You will be able to control who can notify you on the Wikimedia wikis. You will have a user blacklist. When you add a user to the blacklist you will not get a notification when they mention you. You can test this on Beta Wikipedia. You can read more and give feedback on Meta. [89]

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30 mai de 2017 a 12.18 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-23

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

Recent changes

• You can see new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from. [90]
• When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox. [91]
• 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. [92]
• 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. [93]

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. [94]

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. [95]
• You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions. [96]
• 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. [97]
• 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. [98]

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. [99][100]
• 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. [101]
• 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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5 de junh de de 2017 a 19.04 (UTC)

Vigariá/Vegueria

L'article Vigariá es associat a d'articles dins d'autras lengas, mès pas a Vegueria (catalan). Es impossible de ligar los articles, perqué dins d'autras lengas coma l'anglés, i a un article sus las vigariás occitanas e un autre sus las catalanas... es atal. Coma se se fasiá un article sus las patanas francesas, un autre sus las patanas alemandas, puèi un autre sus las patanas russas, e pr'aquò serián las meteissas patanas. Voliái almens far un remandadís a l'article catalan dins lo genre que faguèri un còp en francés sus l'article Lantosque « Modèl:Lien », quand i aviá pas d'article en francés sus aquel òme, o en anglés sus l'article The Bartered Bride discography « Modèl:Interlanguage link multi » per remandar a l'article en occitan sus Milada Musilová (lo ligam es estat milhorat aprèp per qualqu'un mai). Amai vesi que per legir çò que vòli dire, te caldrà modificar la font, siquenon se legís Model, etc. Mercés. Sivadon 1949 (d) 9 de junh de de 2017 a 06.58 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-24

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

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. [102]
• 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. [103]

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. [104]
• 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. [105]
• 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. [106][107]

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12 de junh de de 2017 a 15.29 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-25

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

Problems

• ORES had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40 UTC. It has now been fixed. [108]

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. [109]
• Special:PageData will be an entry point for machine-readable page data. [110]
• 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.

Future changes

• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. You can now see how the TemplateStyles extension works on Beta Labs.

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19 de junh de de 2017 a 15.44 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 22

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 22, April-May 2017

• New and expanded research accounts
• Global branches update
• Spotlight: OCLC Partnership
• Bytes in brief

Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (d) 20 de junh de de 2017 a 18.35 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-26

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

Recent changes

• 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. [111]

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. [112]

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. [113]

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26 de junh de de 2017 a 15.38 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-27

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

Recent changes

• 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. [114]

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. [115]

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3 julhet de 2017 a 15.31 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-28

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

Recent changes

• 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. [116]

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. [117]
• We will not use Tidy 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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10 julhet de 2017 a 15.07 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-29

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

Recent changes

• "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. [118]

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. [119]

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. [120] 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. [121]

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17 julhet de 2017 a 22.59 (UTC)

Utilizaire

Oc, va sabi. Eu s'es explicat e me ditz que considera qu'aviá ges d'intencion de sacamandejar. Croncretament a fach 3 causas : escafar la bandiera, cambiar lo mòt religion en religioun e botar una frasa en rafia mistralenca. Lo primier li ai dich que's discutís e que sa vision dei causas probablament s'imposarà pas, au mens sensa ges de docuemnatacion consequenta. Lo segond li ai dich qu'èra lo pus supècte, per èu un accident que s'engatja a evitar e lo tresen (qu'èra emb una citacion de Mistral, li ai dich que malurosamet la grafia mistralenca èra pas compatibla embé la constrencha d'emplegar totei lei diverseis occitans, donc que s'escrivesse en mistralenca que faudriá demandar una relèctura.

A laissat un planh sus wiki en francés contru tu et Haynaut, li ai indicat qu'aquò menava a res, que deviá parlar embé vautrei e qu'Haynaut èra una persona moderada qu'aviá ren a ganhar d'entar dins de conflictes e qu'èra solet au moment de lo bloquejar e donc qu'aviá presa una decision solet e lèu-lèu sansa saupre lei proporcions e les intencion de sei modificacions.

Coma dises, fau veire com pensa contribuir, tecnicament es un dei mantun vielhs illuminats qu'assajan d'imposar sensa evoluir, èu si presenta coma un aprenedís donc veirèm coma continua.

Una darniera causa, çò que jugava en favor de restablir après mai de 24 oras) es que li aviá ges de discussion sus sa pagina. Fau aprlar emb èu, li delandar de respectar certes procedura e lo "castigar" se las trenca. Li ai demandat de comunicar embé nautrei aquí.

Proposi per contre aquí de li reprochar solament lei causas que fague aquí.

A ben lèu. --Lembeye (d) 19 julhet de 2017 a 06.51 (UTC)

Adieu, Lembeye, pensi qu'es una error de desblocar aquel utilizaire. En 2012, escriviá ja "Merci de traduire en PROVENCAL et non en OCCITAN!!!" sus una pagina de discussion : [122], çò qu'entraïnèt una premiera explicacion sus leis usatges de la wikipèdia nòstra. Lo 14 de julhet darrier, escriguèt "Ouccitanio designe principalament la vielho provincia dou lengua doc d'après lou diciounari de Frederi Mistral "Lou tresor dou Feligrige" sus l'article Occitània ([123]) ambé de commentaris de modificacions dau tipe Une grosse blague toulousaine... non officiel... on pourrait même dégager l'autre drapeau.... Ieu pensi qu'es un vandalisme caracterizat ò au mens, una volontat clara de pas respectar lo foncionament normau de la nòstra còla. Per aquelei rasons, seis explicacions son faussas e es de blocar definitivament : demandi donc de restablir lo blocatge (se una majoritat per lo faire apareís entre leis administrators de segur). Coralament. --Nicolas Eynaud (d) 19 julhet de 2017 a 06.57 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-30

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

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. [124][125][126]
• .mw-ui-constructive modifier class is deprecated and has been removed. [127]

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. [128]

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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24 julhet de 2017 a 15.57 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-31

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

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. [129]
• 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. [130]
• 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. [131]

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31 julhet de 2017 a 21.45 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-32

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

Recent changes

• You can now see which Wikipedia language versions are read in a specific country. This tool is called Wikipedia Views Visualized. [132]
• The Architecture Committee is now the Wikimedia Technical Committee. You can read the charter. [133]

Problems

• 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. [134]
• The thanks button sometimes didn't work for mobile users. This was because of a new bug and has now been fixed. [135]

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. [136]
• 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. [137][138]
• 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. [139][140]

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7 agost de 2017 a 21.45 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-33

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

Recent changes

• 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. [141]

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. [142][143]

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).

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14 agost de 2017 a 23.28 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-34

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

Recent changes

• You can now test the new Timeless skin on the test wiki and mediawiki.org. You can turn it on in your preferences. You can report bugs in Phabricator. It will come to more wikis soon. [144][145]
• Your watchlist can now have the option to unwatch pages. You have to turn this on in your preferences. [146]
• 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. [147]
• 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. [148]
• 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. [149]
• 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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21 agost de 2017 a 18.00 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 23

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 23, June-July 2017

• Library card
• User Group update
• Global branches update
• Spotlight: Combating misinformation, fake news, and censorship
• Bytes in brief

Chinese, Arabic and Yoruba versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!

Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (d) 23 agost de 2017 a 02.03 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-35

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

Recent changes

• 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. [150][151]
• 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. [152]

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. [153]

Changes later this week

• You can block users from sending you notifications. [154]
• 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.
• You can join the next meeting with the Technical Committee. The topic this week is Migrate to HTML5 section ids. The meeting will be on 30 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• 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. [155]
• New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [156]
• 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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28 agost de 2017 a 22.09 (UTC)

Virac / Birac + Bausiac

Adissiatz. Vos ai pas respondut còp-sec perqué èri sul terrenh en Gironda. Voliái tanben modificar lo títol, mès a cada còp que o fau aimi mai me daissar lo temps de la reflexion. Vesi talament de títols qu'an creats a vista de nas e de monde que tiran pus viste que lor ombra que mon intencion es de far exactament lo contrari. Virac (de Trec), cresi qu'es quicòm d'equilibrat. D'acòrdi. Mès i a mai. Èri a Puybarban (nom francés), escrit Pui Barban per Bénédicte Boyrie-Fénié, e coneissi pro los parlars vasadeses e bordaleses per pensar que lo resultat de podium es pas pui (a l'extrème-nòrd, benlèu que se pòt trobar de finalas en -i). Ai trobat Putbarban (foneticament), que correspond a Pugbarban en grafia classica. Meteissa causa per Margueiron, escrit Margueron per B. Boyrie-Fénié segon una sola fòrma medievala. E aquí, ai d'informators tant que ne vòli. Dins un cas, una logica lingüistica, verificabla, dins l'autre 100% de certitud. Lo sol problèma (mès sabi que n'i a qu'aquò arrestariá pas) es que ambe mos informators sèm una font purament orala. Me diretz çò que ne pensatz, mès cresi en consciéncia que cal modificar los títols. Podèm pas demorar dins aquela manca de credibilitat (quitament se l'interior de l'article dona las bonas informacions). E i a pus complicat. Veni de descobrir auèi (2 informatritz) que Savinhac (Gironda) se pronóncia en realitat coma se foguèsse Sevinhac : [seßi'ɲak]. I a d'autres Sevinhac, en Bearn per exemple. La diferéncia es que las fòrmas ancianas son en Savinhac pel vilatge vasadés e en Sevinhac pels vilatges bearneses. Donc, per Sevinhac, cresi que cal pacientar abans de càmbiar lo títol. Dins d'autres cases coma Ligüers, espèri las verificacions. Bénédicte Boyrie-Fénié, aquò se verifica a cada còp, benlèu perqué li caliá trabalhar tròp viste, a pas trobat ni benlèu cercat las fòrmas oralas que ieu tròbi sense dificultats, e pr'aquò lo nombre de locutors a baissat dramaticament dempuèi que son libre sus la Gironda es sortit. Es qualqu'un qu'a plan de coneissenças, disi pas lo contrari. Coralament. Sivadon 1949 (d)

Adissiatz. Mercés per vòstre càmbiament per Virac (de Trec). Vau modificar Pugbarban e Margueiron (se qualqu'un es pas d'acòrdi, annularà). Per vòstra question sus Bausiac/Veusiac, lo problèma es puslèu perqué Boulaur creèt l'article ambe'l títol de Veusiac. Benlèu per la meteissa rason que faguèt de Combronde (Combronita al sègle VIII) una Combaronda ! S'èra imaginat, probable, que Beauziac èra la francizacion de veusa o de veuse... I a de monde que veson de francismes pertot, es una mena de paranòia. Avèm escapat a Bèthziac. B. Boyrie-Fénié, que dispausa d'una sola atestacion curiosa, al sègle XIV, Bosyk (!), escriu, dins lo dobte, Bausiac, en supausant Balaesius (varianta de Valaesius !) + -acum. Cresi que jamai se saurà pas de manièra segura se lo nom deu començar per un V o un B. Mès aqueste còp, B. Boyrie-Fénié, qu'a qualque còp un esperit complicat, a causida la solucion de la prudéncia e del sen. Quand se sap pas grand causa, seriá d'infantilisme, quand i a un B- en francés, de voler a tota fòrça que siá un V-. Sabètz, quand los mainatjons de 3 ans vos dison non perqué avètz dit òc (e après o faràn al revèrs). Cal totjorn prene la solucion pus simpla, quand i a pas de rasons objectivas de far autrament. Coralament. 2 setembre de 2017 a 11.23 (UTC)

Sai pas per InÒc. Coneissi pas. Mès sul siti de Top'Òc recèrca, siti de pur recopiatge de las òbras de B. Boyrie-Fénié, i a : Bausiac / Lo Boishet de Bausiac (perqué lo borg es al Boishet e que lo mot Bouchet es utilizat localament coma nom concurrent de la comuna (mès « Le Bouchet de Beauziac », non). I a benlèu un Veusiac endacòm (en tot cas i a un Veuzac (nom francés) en Avairon), a Vilafranca de Roergue. Coralament. Sivadon 1949 (d) 2 setembre de 2017 a 18.31 (UTC)

Ieu tanben, ai d'aujòls que venián de las regions pauras pus a l'èst (lo Perigòrd) e que se maridèron ambe de joventas vasadesas o agenesas. Bon, ai ajustat la toponimia e qualques detalhs a la comuna de vòstres rèires. Se i a d'errors, corregiretz... Plan coralament. Sivadon 1949 (d) 4 setembre de 2017 a 11.38 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-36

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

Tech News

• We are asking Tech News readers five questions to make the newsletter better. You can answer the questions here. We are grateful for every reply we get.

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. [157][158]

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. [159]

Changes later this week

• New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [160]
• 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.
• You can see a presentation about and discuss the new Technical Committee on 5 September at 17:30 (UTC). There will be a presentation on YouTube and a discussion in #wikimedia-office on Freenode. You can use the web chat. [161]

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4 setembre de 2017 a 22.15 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-37

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

Recent changes

• You can 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. [162]
• 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. [163]
• 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. [164]

Problems

• Tech News 2017/36 reported about new filters for edit review coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead. [165]

Changes later this week

• 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).
• OOjs UI will be updated. This could affect some icons. You can read more about the changes.

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 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.
• New filters for edit review are available now on recent changes as a beta feature. Some of those filters and other features will be deployed as default features in the coming weeks. Users will be able to opt out in their preferences. [166]

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11 setembre de 2017 a 19.15 (UTC)

Sent Pèir (de Lengon ?)

Adissiatz. Ai vist qu'avètz cambiat Sent Pèir de Mons (font : B. Boyrie-Fénié) en Sent Pèir de Lengon. Mons, vilatjòt situat a 2 km del borg en direccion de l'ENE, seriá graficament autre en occitan : caldriá escriure Monts (Mons deu èsser una latinizacion o una grafia fonetica, mès lo latin Mons auriá donat Mos). Aquò rai, empacha pas que Mons, lo lòc, a lo meriti d'existir e qu'èra benlèu la parròquia d'origina. Çò que me tafura, es vòstra explicacion : lo monde dison "Sent Pèir". Aquò, solide... òc ! Mès aquò justifica pas mai Sent Pèir de Lengon que Sent Pèir *de Vasadés, *de Garòna, de *Ribèira, de *Las Vinhas, de *Las Mongetas o de *Las Rabas... Localament tot determinant es inutil. Empacha pas que i a al mens 3 Sent Pèir dins las comunas a l'entorn de Lengon, dont un a 5 o 6 km, Sent Pèir d'Aurilhac. Quand i a besonh de precisar, lo determinant tòrna, eventualament prononciat a la francesa. Avètz vertadièrament ausit "Sent Pèir de Lengon" ? Perqué ne disètz pas ren dins l'article, aquí lo problèma. De còr e d'òc. Sivadon 1949 (d) 13 setembre de 2017 a 20.38 (UTC)

Alavetz, es diferent. E volguèretz pas escriure çò qu'èra un testimoniatge personal, pas "fontat". Òc-ben, mès cresi que lo que legís l'article se pausa la meteissa question que ieu. Bon, vau adobar tot aquò. Pel moment, soi absent dos o tres jorns (e sens ezmartfòne !). O farai quand tornarai. Preni la responsabilitat de las informacions pas fontadas, amai ajustarai referéncia necessària ! De còr e d'òc. Sivadon 1949 (d) 14 setembre de 2017 a 08.59 (UTC)

Mercés per aquelas referéncias. Las ai integradas dins l'article. Espèri que serà clar atal. Sivadon 1949 (d) 17 setembre de 2017 a 03.07 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-38

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

Recent changes

• You can now 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. [167][168]
• Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions and the development has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed. [169]

Changes later this week

• 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.

Future changes

• We are replacing Tidy on Wikimedia wikis. Editors need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors. Some wikis have already switched. If your wiki would like to switch to the new format now, you can file a task.

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18 setembre de 2017 a 15.31 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-39

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

Recent changes

• 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. [170][171]
• Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions as a beta feature or by default can now create and move Structured Discussions boards. Structured Discussions was previously called Flow. [172]

Changes later this week

• 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. [173]
• 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. [174]
• 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.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department has proposed changing the mobile website. You can read more on mediawiki.org. This would be a big change.
• 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.

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25 setembre de 2017 a 16.00 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-40

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

Recent changes

• 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. [175]

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. [176]
• Special:Block and Special:Unblock will get the OOUI look. [177]
• 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. [178]
• 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. [179]
• 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.

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2 octobre de 2017 a 23.25 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-41

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

Recent changes

• The 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. [180]
• Previously you could create wiki links starting with two colons. Now you need to use one colon. [[::File:X.jpg]] now has to be [[:File:X.jpg]]. There is now a new Linter category. You can see a list on Special:Linterrors/multi-colon-escape. The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. You can read more about using Linter. [181]

Problems

• 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. [182]

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. [183]
• 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.

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9 octobre de 2017 a 14.21 (UTC)

Garòna/Garona

Adiu. A prepaus d'aquera comuna de Horcas (de Garòna/Garona ?), se i a pas d'omonimia, escriure simplament Horcas dens lo títol sense determinant es una possibilitat. Mès per Caumont de Garona, escaparem pas a la dificultat (quand passèri per l'article, cambièri pas lo títol perqué tot simplament soi d'una prudéncia extrèma sus aquel sicut... de còps tròp, mas d'evitar la precipitacion empacha sovent de far d'errors). Lo trabalh de Bénédicte Boyrie-Fénié es inegal, e per exemple per Senta Marta (Òut e Garona) explica remarcablament plan l'atestacion Miozidz, mas curiosament se pausa pas lo problèma de las atestacions Sancta Marsa, Sancta Marsam. Cossí que siá, se pòt pas evitar de téner compte de çò qu'escriu. Coma as pas lo libre, te vau citar çò qu'escriu de La Garonne dins l'article Caumont-sur-Garonne : « La prononciation occitane est, dans la vallée elle-même, [ga'rɔnɔ], [ga'rɔnə]; c'est la forme qu'on trouve chez les auteurs occitans du XVIIe siècle : Larade (Montréjeau), Goudouli (Toulouse), Cortètes [sic] de Prades (Agen). On dit [ga'runɔ], [ga'runə] dans les zones les plus éloignées du fleuve, et [ga'runa] en occitan du Val d'Aran. Astor cite les formes anciennes Garumna, Garunna (Jules César, Ièr s.), et Garunda (IVe s.). Son interprétation est la suivante : racine préceltique gar-, au sens de « rocher » + suffixe gaulois -onna, cours d'eau. Le résultat attendu serait en occitan Garona, prononcé [ga'runɔ], [ga'runə]. Nous constatons que, pour des raisons qui ne sont pas élucidées, la voyelle notée o a évolué vers ò prononcé [ɔ]. La forme orale avec [u] résulte probablement, sauf dans le Val d'Aran, d'une attraction par la correspondance qu'il y a habituellement entre -onne en français et -ona en occitan (dans lequel le o se prononce [u]. Au français baronne, par exemple, correspond l'occitan barona [ba'runɔ], [ba'runə]; les populations éloignées du fleuve, en contact par des sources écrites avec la forme française Garonne, mais sans relation avec les locuteurs prononçant [ga'rɔnɔ], [ga'rɔnə], ont transposé en occitan la forme française en Garona ([ga'runɔ], [ga'runə]). La forme écrite retenue se base sur la prononciation des populations les plus proches du fleuve : Garòna. Ce nom est utilisé sans article en occitan; il le reste dans le français régional. ». Apondrai que lo nom es misteriós tanlèu lo començament. Perqué Cesar escriguèt Garumna, Garunna se lo sufixe èra -onna ? Benlèu perqué son aurelha, expèrta sus las oposicions de quantitat (de longor), èra sorda sus las oposicions de timbre (mès los Galleses avián tanben d'oposicions de quantitat, que normalament se combinan pas, dins las lengas, a las oposicions de timbre; empacha pas que o gallés, en supausant un timbre unic, podiá èsser realizat pus barrat que o latin, çò qu'explica l'error eventuala de Cesar, represa per tradicion dins tota la latinitat, indiferenta a las realizacions « patoesas » e localas. Cossí que siá, tant -onna, ambe o long, que unna, ambe u brèu, convergisson en o barrat en romanic, puèi en [u] en occitan modèrne. La realizacion [ɔ] dins los parlars ribairencs es benlèu una innovacion, espandida long del flume sus 500 km, a l'excepcion notabla de la Val d'Aran. Se sap que las innovacions concernisson en primièr los lòcs pus concernits : coma a Pompunha, del latin Pomponia, mas i auriá d'autres exemples. Empacha pas que totas las interrogacions devon passar darrèr los faits; e lo fait es aicí la prononciacion Garòna dins las comunas que pòdon portar eventualament un determinant qu'es lo nom d'aquel flume, çò qu'empacha benlèu pas d'escriure Garona dins un usatge larg, mès que defend d'impausar als abitants locals una prononciacion que sentirián, a bon dret, coma forastièra, coloniala, centralista, artificiala o corrompuda. Es pas defendut de normativizar una lenga, mès la prudéncia e lo respècte devon s'impausar quand se tracta de donadas localas, se son pas d'alteracions recentas. Me diràs ton idèia. De còr e d'òc. Sivadon 1949 (d) 12 octobre de 2017 a 08.51 (UTC)

Fòrt plan per Horcas. E per Caumont, me sembla que la solucion logica es Caumont de Garòna. Se pòt pas far coma se n'i aviá pas qu'un. De segur, dins un usatge locau, Caumont sufís. Dins mon vilatge, tot lo monde ditz en francés Pessac e digun precisa pas -sur-Dordogne. Et quand se tracta de l'autre Pessac, dison Pessac-de-Bordeaux. Mès se devián escriure a qualqu'un, farián al revèrs, metrián respectivement Pessac-sur-Dordogne, per la comuna prèpa, e Pessac per la vila de la banlèga bordalesa. Quand escrivèm sus Wikipèdia, devèm al còp pensar al monde de la comuna concernida e als autres. Coralament. Sivadon 1949 (d) 12 octobre de 2017 a 09.39 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-42

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

Recent changes

• 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. [184][185]
• 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. [186]
• 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. [187]
• Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed. [188]

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. [189]
• 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.

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16 octobre de 2017 a 15.31 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 24

The Wikipedia Library

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Issue 24, August-September 2017

• User Group update
• Global branches update
  • Star Coordinator Award - last quarter's star coordinator: User:Csisc
• Wikimania Birds of a Feather session roundup
• Spotlight: Wiki Loves Archives
• Bytes in brief

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Tech News: 2017-43

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

Recent changes

• 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. [190]

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. [191]
• 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.

Future changes

• There is a Structured Commons community focus group for Commons and Wikidata contributors who want to give input on structured data on Wikimedia Commons. You can sign up to join it. [192]

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23 octobre de 2017 a 18.18 (UTC)

Admin needed

Dear Jfblanc,

could you please have a look at Vicky Kadian. Spam article that should be deleted.

Thank you, Taketa (d) 30 octobre de 2017 a 13.15 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-44

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

Recent changes

• You can now block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis. [193]

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.

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31 octobre de 2017 a 00.20 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-45

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

Recent changes

• You will no longer see the patrol log on Special:Log unless you specifically select it. [194]

Changes later this week

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 6 November. You can post proposals from 19:00 UTC and until November 19.
• 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.

Future changes

• URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F instead of https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История. This will soon be fixed. Old links will still work. [195][196]

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6 novembre de 2017 a 18.45 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-46

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

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. [197]
• A new user group on Commons will be able to upload MP3 files. The plan is to have this user group from 17 November. [198]
• 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. [199]
• 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. [200]

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13 novembre de 2017 a 19.19 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-47

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

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. [201]
• 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. [202][203][204]

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. [205][206]

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20 novembre de 2017 a 19.18 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-48

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

Recent changes

• 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. [207]
• You can now upload large files with the Internet Archive upload tool. Previously you could not upload files larger than 100 MB. [208]
• You can now use the Timeless skin on all wikis. You can choose skins in Special:Preferences#Appearance. [209]

Changes later this week

• 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.

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27 novembre de 2017 a 20.30 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-49

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

Recent changes

• It is now possible to upload MP3 files to Commons. Only users with MP3 file upload rights can upload MP3 files. [210]
• 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. [211]
• There is an experimental onion service for Wikimedia projects. [212]

Changes later this week

• 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. [213]
• 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. [214][215]

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.

Future changes

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You can vote for wishes on the survey page until 10 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2016 results page.
• 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. [216]

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4 decembre de 2017 a 17.50 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-50

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

Recent changes

• URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F instead of https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История. This has now been fixed on all wikis. Old links will still work. [217]
• 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. [218]
• If you use Chrome on Android, you can now use the print to PDF button to create a PDF of an article. [219]
• 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. [220]
• 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. [221]

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.

Future changes

• You can discuss new or improved blocking tools with the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team. They will work on building better blocking tools. Leave comments on the talk page.

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11 decembre de 2017 a 17.58 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 25

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 25, October – November 2017

• OAWiki & #1Lib1Ref
• User Group update
• Global branches update
• Spotlight: Research libraries and Wikimedia
• Bytes in brief

Arabic, Korean and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!

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Tech News: 2017-51

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

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. [222]
• 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.
• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey has now ended. You can see the results. They decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year.

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18 decembre de 2017 a 15.27 (UTC)

Bona annada plan granada e acompanhada

Adieu Joan Francés, te desiri una bona annada 2018 !Jiròni (d) 2 genièr de 2018 a 11.19 (UTC)

E ieu tanben te desiri la bona annada e mai que mai la santat (parli coma un vièlh, amai ne soi). Sivadon 1949 (d) 2 genièr de 2018 a 17.54 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-02

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. [223][224]
• 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. [225]
• 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. [226]
• Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated. [227][228]

Problems

• 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. [229]
• 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. [230]
• 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). [231]
• 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. [232]

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. [233]
• 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. [234][235]
• 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. [236]

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.

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8 genièr de 2018 a 16.19 (UTC)