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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [1]
Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [2]
For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [3][4]
Changes this week
The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [5]
Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [6]
In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [7][8]
The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [9]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [10]
I have created a new page of Dr. Sanjay Singh Negi (My Maternal Uncle). Request you to please review the same and let me know what all changes need to be done.
Dear Friends & Wikipedians, Celebrate the world's biggest sporting festival on Wikipedia. The Rio Olympics Edit-a-thon aims to pay tribute to Indian athletes and sportsperson who represent India at Olympics. Please find more details here. The Athlete who represent their country at Olympics, often fail to attain their due recognition. They bring glory to the nation. Let's write articles on them, as a mark of tribute.
For every 20 articles created collectively, a tree will be planted. Similarly, when an editor completes 20 articles, a book will be awarded to him/her. Check the main page for more details. Thank you. Abhinav619 (sent using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:54, 16 August 2016 (UTC), subscribe/unsubscribe)
Issue regarding contribution to Tivandrum Lodge
Hello, I am Lujo Joseph. I just corrected the name of "Krishna Praba". Her wiki page name is "Krishna Praba" and in the page of Trivandrum Lodge it is given as Krishnaprabha. That's why i edited and corrected it. You can check the wiki page of Krishna Praba here. Please verify it and correct it.
(talk page watcher) @Lujojoseph: You got it wrong, because you linked to Krishna praba, which doesn't exist. I've now corrected your link so it goes to Krishna Praba. Capital letters make a big difference. And, Captain RAJU, please WP:AGF. PamD 07:19, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello this is just by mistake, as I am new on IT.I just want to know how it work. My intention is not to distort the facts although all the information there are without references and information may not be correct too. If you have references, it would be useful to cite them. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.195.192.125 (talk) 16:47, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
August 2016
Hello CAPTAIN RAJU. Thanks for patrolling new pages – it's a very important task! I'm just letting you know, however, that you shouldn't tag pages as lacking context (CSD A1) and/or content (CSD A3) moments after they are created. It is also suggested that pages that might meet CSD A7 criteria not be tagged for deletion immediately after they are created. It's usually best to wait at least 10–15 minutes for more content to be added if the page is very short, and the articles should not be marked as patrolled. Tagging such pages in a very short space of time may drive away well-meaning contributors, which is not good for Wikipedia. Attack pages (G10), blatant nonsense (G1), copyright violations (G12) and pure vandalism/blatant hoaxes (G3) should of course be tagged and deleted immediately. Thanks. KGirlTrucker81talkwhat I'm been doing 18:23, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
Notification about a removed edit
Hi Captain Raju, I received a notification about a removal of an edit made. The edit was made by someone of a different IP address than me and I'm not sure why I received the message; looking at the edits that were made, I can assure you they were not made by me. Just wanted to let you know! Thanks for your work.
107.77.194.24 (talk) 20:24, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
How was my edit not constructive? If you click on the attribution, you'd see I corrected the wrong information! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.71.137.83 (talk) 20:05, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello Captain, I'm the guy from 3 Thieves, I kinda agree with your edits, but whats wrong with doubling the D in Redd, that can be verified from the official website? Here is the link to the 3 Thieves talk page, Talk:Three_Thieves_(graphic_novel_series)we should talk there instead of back and forth on each other's individual pages. 68.229.212.158 (talk) 02:19, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia. [11]
The norm and ccnorm functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore. [12]
The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here. This happened on August 5. [13]
Problems
Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [14]
When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [15]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 23 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki. [16][17]
How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [18]
WikiShootMe has a lot of new updates: OAuth-based image upload button, uploads to Commons and adds to Wikidata item with one click, right-click on the map to add a missing item, build-in Wikidata search, free images search (example for Central Cambridge)
A famous Italian song, Tanti Auguri by Raffaella Carrà, states "Com'è bello far l'amore da Trieste in giù" (literally, in English: "How great it is to make love from Trieste to below"). This is a query to find out where you shouldn't make love.
Fair play, Guv'nor - it was vandalism. Well done for reversing it. Best wishes, Me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.157.42.54 (talk) 21:38, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
RE:
The Reason I Removed The Huge Section Was Because The Show Was Not Relevant Enough To Machinima To Be Considered A "Main Show." It's Views Were Never THAT Large (With The Most Views On One Being 600k). If We Were To Add Every Show By Creators On The Page It Would Be Endless And Too Excessively Detailed. —Jman98 20:23, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
LE SUEUR POLICE
Well I think this is an important part of both Le Sueur history also the police in Le Sueur I know people that where therein the school along with cops
That where there but thank you for your opion Djfeeney123 (talk) 01:14, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
Why?
Hi there,
Thank you for your message, but I'm wondering why the change I made was deleted.
I had included actress Miriam Margolyes on the list of LGBT Jews, and this is factually correct as she is a Jewish lesbian, according to her own wikipedia page.
So please tell me why my contribution was removed.
Hi, CAPTAIN RAJU! How you been? Thanks for stopping by and being so kind and friendly. Hope you are very happy, healthy and fullfilled. I love meeting people myself. OK, see ya. God bless you. Goodbye!
sir sorry to say wikipedia is a full encyclopedia for a great person here i`m gonna write every single detail for a great child who starts work for fame in his playing age. sorry sir i didnt mean to hurt you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Syed Aawaiz (talk • contribs) 20:58, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
Planet to Earth: this tool uses data from Wikidata to visualise the links between places on an astronomical body named after a place on planet Earth.
WikiDataScape is a Cytoscape app for interactive browsing of Wikidata.
The property "KML file" was created last week (see list below) and has already a full list of values, sample LUA module and property documentation page available (Property talk:P3096)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster. [19]
When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing Tab in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing Shift and Tab in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row. [20]
Changes this week
The name of the "Save page" button will change. The button will say "Publish page" when you create a new page. It will say "Publish changes" when you change an existing page. [21][22]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 30 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Hi Harry Mitchell, I understood your advice.I'll keep this my mind in the next time using javascript programming.Many many thanks.CAPTAIN RAJU (✉) 18:21, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
