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Regarding what is allowed and not allowed on Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia projects)

Please read Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not or other similar pages on Wikimedia projects. All of our projects do not allow off-topic material. Thanks. Tropicalkitty (talk) 21:00, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Confusing

I'm afraid to even do anything. I'll just reply to messages because I don't feel like it's very user friendly. I'll read the rules again but I was under the impression that my talk page was for this use. Please send me emails and I'll respond. It's to risky.WP.NICKNAME.22 21:23, 14 August 2015 (UTC) WP.NICKNAME.22 21:23, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-34

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

Recent changes

  • Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [1] [2] [3]
  • Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems. [4]

Problems

  • Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [5] [6]
  • On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [7]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
  • You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category. [8]

Meetings

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

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16:17, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Word press

The one issue I am having with word press is uploading the pictures and everything that they want as I don't have enough room on this computer to upload anything to download it first I'm on a refurbished computer until mine gets fixed they should provide me with the computer if they want me to have all the stipulations for security and down  all the software is there anyway I can get a grant for a computer ? WP.NICKNAME.22 22:21, 17 August 2015 (UTC) WP.NICKNAME.22 22:21, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Free software and opens software

why not do both, I don't see the conflict of interest. At this time I don't have administrative rights. I can learn from Apple software. WP.NICKNAME.22 06:03, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Apple deal

I didn't take It. WP.NICKNAME.22 09:52, 18 August 2015 (UTC) WP.NICKNAME.22 09:52, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-35

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

Recent changes

  • Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function. [9]

Problems

  • There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed. [10]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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

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13:02, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-36

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

Recent changes

  • VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC. [11][12]
  • The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [13]
  • VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead. [14]
  • Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [15]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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

Future changes

  • The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9. [16]

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21:37, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-37

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

Recent changes

  • You can now mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users. [17]
  • A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [18]
  • You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [19]

Problems

  • There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed. [20]
  • The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [21][22]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
  • The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters. [23]
  • The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page. [24][25]

Meetings

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

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours. [26]
  • Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [27][28]

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17:29, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

September 2015

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Tech News: 2015-38

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

Recent changes

  • You can now use the Wikidata query service. [29]
  • Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [30]
  • Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [31][32]

Problems

  • There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [33]
  • The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [34]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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

Future changes

  • ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [35]
  • The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [36]

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16:18, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Editing Wikipedia's property illegally

I could be wrong but I feel as if you're talking about the post I put up on Twitter.  First of all let me apologize if I'm in the wrong place to post this .  Now that article does look a little perfect and it might be one of yours .  I did not edit it nor did I have anything to do with scripting  it .  I took pictures of it on the feet of Twitter .  What looked like Twitter it's a new app I got . I programmed it to stop hacking on Twitter . it started investigating and that's where I got the feeds . Please let me know what I can do to assist if I'm not way off here .  Thank you for yours assistance  WP.NICKNAME.22 04:56, 15 September 2015 (UTC) WP.NICKNAME.22 04:56, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-39

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

Recent changes

  • There is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here. [37][38]
  • Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong. [39][40][41][42]
  • More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [43]
  • The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [44]

Problems

  • Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time. [45]
  • Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [46][47]
  • UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [48]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
  • The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms. [49]
  • You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it. [50]
  • Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [51]

Meetings

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18:29, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-40

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

Recent changes

  • In UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them. [52]
  • UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [53]
  • You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [54]
  • When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [55]
  • You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [56]
  • The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [57]
  • MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in Gerrit. The goal was to clean up the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers. [58]

Problems

  • Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [59][60]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar).
  • There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide if they want to enable it. [61]
  • The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan. [62]

Meetings

Future changes

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

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15:15, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Uploading to Flickr

Uploading to Flickr, Flickr has hacking all over it I'm very reluctant to use Flickr again , if you can guarantee me at safety I will upload my photos to Flickr . WP.NICKNAME.22 06:48, 1 October 2015 (UTC) WP.NICKNAME.22 06:48, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

October 2015

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Tech News: 2015-41

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

Recent changes

  • The link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile. [64]
  • The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [65]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar).
  • UploadWizard will remind users to add a category. [66]
  • UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [67]
  • A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [68]

Meetings

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

Future changes

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18:33, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-42

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

Recent changes

  • The database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters. [69]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar).
  • You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing. [70]
  • Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [71]

Meetings

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

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16:29, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-43

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Recent changes

  • Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The Recurrent item icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The For technical readers icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback on this change.
  • Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [72]

Problems

  • A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [73]
  • Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [74]
  • The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen. [75]

Changes this week

  • Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [76]
  • Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [77][78][79][80]

Meetings

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

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16:02, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-44

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

Changes this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
  • The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools. [81]
  • You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "Insert file" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor. [82][83]
  • When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [84][85]
  • Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [86]

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18:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-45

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

Recent changes

  • You can now see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [87]
  • If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [88]
  • Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [89]

Problems

  • On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [90]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

Future changes

  • A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links. [91]
  • Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [92]

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16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

I'm taking back the Constitution

We the people are taking back the constitution I would like for you to write another go about it please we would like to get some media about it we want to and the  corruption . And we absolutely do not want a racist person like trump in office .  Please support us .   Read my Twitter articles please  WP.NICKNAME.22 00:13, 6 November 2015 (UTC) WP.NICKNAME.22 00:13, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-46

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

Recent changes

  • Superprotect has been removed. [93]
  • You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [94]
  • JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [95]

Problems

  • Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [96]

Changes this week

  • Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [97]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).

Meetings

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

Future changes

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17:19, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-47

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

Changes this week

  • You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information. [100]
  • Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [101]
  • The Community Tech team is doing a community wishlist survey to understand what they should be working on. They are now accepting proposals in all languages. You can create your proposal in the small box above the blue button and click it when you're done.
  • Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [102]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).

Meetings

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

Future changes

  • Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. The change will happen in January 2016. [103][104]

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19:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-48

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

Recent changes

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

Changes this week

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

Meetings

Future changes

  • From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats. [105]

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20:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-49

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

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

Problems

  • On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015. [106]
  • Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed. [107]

Changes this week

  • Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [108][109]
  • There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [110]
  • Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified. [111]

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16:16, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-50

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

Recent changes

  • Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias. [112]

Problems

  • Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [113]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [114]
  • IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [115]
  • You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be. [116]
  • It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [117]
  • You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor. [118]
  • UploadWizard will look a bit different. [119]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
  • New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays. [120]

Meetings

Future changes

  • A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default. [121]

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17:53, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-51

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

Changes this week

  • Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [122]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 17 December. (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

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17:42, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Understanding this conversation

My message was not sent to Wikipedia ,  yet it's a Wikipedia issue ,  and it went global correct ?  No one knows my real name ,correct ?  If this is so how is this an issue and how is this global ? Social media is posting the heir political opinions all over the world.   Correct me if I'm wrong.  I believe I  didn't posted this on Wikipedia if I did I do not remember .  And apologize  but if this is just my social media and it's con global then I'm going to need more understanding on why it's gone global and it's an issue .  Maybe I don't understand what you're speaking about at all .WP.NICKNAME.22 04:21, 16 December 2015 (UTC) WP.NICKNAME.22 04:21, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-52

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

Tech News

  • Because of the holidays, the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2016.
  • The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2015? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes

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

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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

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18:29, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Where is your message

Don't see a message on here . It's in regards  to my feedback . I was being honest  and I still have a lot of trust issues with Wikipedia . You did work with government and corporation against me while acting as an alliance with me .  I just hope that you don't betray my trust again .  People have to be good you must see that please try to be good   It defies the person you are in the company you are I have not let people know that you were working with them .  Want to give you a chance to be good and do the right thing let's hope you do or I will reveal everything and you have no more trust anymore . WP.NICKNAME.22 19:21, 21 December 2015 (UTC) WP.NICKNAME.22 19:21, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-02

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

Problems

  • Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated. [127]

Changes this week

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. [132]
  • The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab. [133][134]
  • There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [135][136]
  • The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.

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16:59, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-03

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Recent changes

  • You will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [137]
  • Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis. [138]

Changes this week

  • The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving. [139]
  • MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change. [140]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is governance model. The meeting will be on 20 January at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-04

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

Recent changes

  • You can now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [141][142]
  • Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [143]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [144]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [145]
  • The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [146]
  • Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [147]

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16:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Not understanding the message

If you sent me a message, I did not get it.  Please clarify the message . WP.NICKNAME.22 02:51, 29 January 2016 (UTC) WP.NICKNAME.22 02:51, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-05

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

Problems

  • Sites with a wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [148]
  • Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [149][150]
  • Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [151]

Changes this week

  • The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [152]
  • Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [153][154]
  • The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [155]
  • The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [156][157][158]
  • The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [159][160]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead. [161]


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21:02, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-06

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

Recent changes

  • Syntax highlighting support is now available for 53 more computer languages. [162]
  • When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [163]
  • RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [164]

Changes this week

  • Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [165][166]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [167][168]
  • Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [169][170][171]

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18:58, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-07

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

  • You can now edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [172]
  • You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas. [173]

Problems

  • A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [174][175]

Changes this week

  • There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [176][177]
  • Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [178]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [179]

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16:16, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-08

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

Problems

  • There was no new MediaWiki version last week. Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week instead. This is because of a bug that made saving pages take longer time. [182][183]

Changes this week

  • After February 23, you can use Wikidata for inter-language links on Wikiversity. [184]

Meetings

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18:22, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Going to have to wait until the first

I can definitely do this on the first I'll come back and pay for this   On the first .  Apple got me to buy a domain name for the documentary ,  they got me to purchase all kinds of things for the documentary not only was I shafted from corporations and government on money but Apple actually got me to purchase things for that documentary .  I'm very broke .  But I will definitely do it on the first .  Will you let them know thank you .. KosikflReference over agreements with Wikipedia 19:11, 22 February 2016 (UTC)  Reference over agreements with Wikipedia 19:11, 22 February 2016 (UTC)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kosikfl (talk • contribs)

I am very broke until the first

I am very broke until the first, I can guarantee you I will be back on the first two or the second or third whenever I get my disability . But I will definitely come back and purchase that . Not only did I get screwed over from the government but and Apple but Apple actually got me to buy a domain name in order to do the documentary and also got me to buy suffer for the documentary . So I am pretty stopped until the first but I will definitely purchase the license for that software for the first I promise . Kosikfl Reference over agreements with Wikipedia 19:13, 22 February 2016 (UTC) Reference over agreements with Wikipedia 19:13, 22 February 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kosikfl (talk • contribs)

Notification about disabling the Wikipedia collections tool

Thank you for using the collections feature in Wikipedia beta! Due to technical and moderation issues, we will be turning off this experimental feature. Your collections will be available for viewing and export until March 1st. If you would like to save your collection as links on a special Wikipedia page, please fill out the following form. If you are interested in giving your feedback about Wikipedia Collections please do so here.

Thanks,

Jon Katz
Product manager, Wikimedia Foundation
Jkatz (WMF) (talk) 00:06, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

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