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My Stupid Heart
- Hello, there! I've read about the text you sent in my talk page. But here are some things that I need to say to you. I'm sorry if I mess up because English is not my mother language --Androptrnt (talk) 05:19, 29 December 2016 (UTC)androptrnt (talk)
- The "My Stupid Heart" song was submitted to the BMI repertoire in 2015, far before Tini and Confident was released, it said that the performer was Demi Lovato, and started assuming that the song would be included on Confident. People started to use other songs then upload it on YouTube and labelled it "Demi Lovato - My Stupid Heart", because it was like the first information we got from Demi's fifth studio album. The Lovato's "My Stupid Heart" was written by the same writers as Tini's one. So, people started assuming that Lovato rejected the song and gave it to Tini, noted that they were both in the same music label, Hollywood Records. But, it's okay we can just remove it. Thanks! :)
--Androptrnt (talk) 05:19, 29 December 2016 (UTC)androptrnt (talk)
- @Androptrnt: I see. Well, obviously we can't make claims like that without a reliable source. Assuming it's the same song because it has the same writers and such is original research. – nyuszika7h (talk) 11:38, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
Susan Boyle
Szia!
Látom neked van hozzáférésed... :) Szeretnélek megkérni, hogy a
Return to music and A Wonderful World (2016—present)
szakaszhoz is tedd be a linket, ahogy a többi szakasznál is megvan:
{{Main|A Wonderful World (Susan Boyle album)|l1=A Wonderful World}}
Köszönöm, 80.99.208.111 (talk) 20:53, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
Happy New Year!
Nyuszika7H,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Amaury (talk | contribs) 08:28, 1 January 2017 (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
- You can now use datasets on Commons. You can see an example that is using this source. [1]
- There is a new opt-in beta feature of a wikitext mode for the visual editor. You can try it out.
- When you update a page with translations on wikis with the Translate extension the existing translations will be marked as outdated instead of removed. [2]
- The new version of MediaWiki was released to all wikis last week (calendar).
- MoodBar has been removed from the Wikimedia wikis. [3]
- The
live
option for the Tipsy notice tool has been removed. Gadgets and user scripts which use it need to be updated. [4]
Problems
- Editors who use Firefox 50 might get logged out or fail to save their edits. This is because of a browser bug. Until this is fixed you can enter
about:config
in the address bar and setnetwork.cookie.maxPerHost
to 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox. [5]
Changes this week
- There is no new version of MediaWiki this week because of the Wikimedia Developer Summit.
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19:12, 9 January 2017 (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
- You can now upload WebP files to Commons. [6]
Problems
- video2commons was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up. [7]
Changes this week
- There is a new magic word called
{{PAGELANGUAGE}}
. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators. [8] - When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu. [9]
- You will be able to use
<chem>
to write chemical formulas. Before you could use<ce>
.<ce>
should be replaced by<chem>
. [10] - You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown on Special:UncategorizedCategories. The list is at MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist. [11]
- The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to your personal CSS:
#wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; }
You can change the number50
to make it look like you want to. [12] - Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs, including Tool Labs will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in. [13]
- When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu. [14]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on January 17 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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23:24, 16 January 2017 (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
- You can see a list of the templates on a page you edit with the visual editor. [15]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).
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20:15, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
On Ricky Garcia
Nyuszika7H, I know you're not around much these days, but as one of the main authors of Forever in Your Mind, I thought I'd let you know that Draft:Ricky Garcia (actor) just got deleted. It looks like Best Friends Whenever is probably done, so I don't think this will make much a difference in the short term, as the Forever in Your Mind article is probably sufficient for him... Anyway, I just thought you should be made aware. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 01:11, 28 January 2017 (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
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. [17]
- 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. [18][19]
- 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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18:46, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
Liv and Maddie
Did you ever see the discussion I just started? This edit was reverted last year and I decided to get consensus, but only Amaury responded. Did you ever see the edit? The discussion exists at Talk:Liv and Maddie#Duplicate plot summaries. So far there hasn't been another reply from another user and I get the feeling that Amaury just doesn't like me at all. He claims this article doesn't need to follow the guidelines of other articles but I don't see why it shouldn't. I don't get the point of it not being like other Disney Channel and Nickelodeon teen sitcom articles. The lead lacks context and their does not seem to be a point in listing two plot summaries, especially when both lack certain details. Are there any other editors that should be involved in this discussion? Geraldo Perez failed to chime in this time like he usually does (I don't know why). Meanwhile IJBall wasn't interested and MPFitz1968 didn't respond either. Kkjj (talk) 22:00, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
Hey
Just wanted to ask if this IP comment was you editing logged out, perhaps by mistake? It locates to Hungary, so thought it might be you. Amaury (talk | contribs) 19:52, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
- Yeah, thanks for that. The Android app often logs me out for some reason, and it has absolutely no warning that I'm editing while logged out. nyuszika7h (talk) 20:04, 2 February 2017 (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.
Problems
- The block log sometimes showed blocks as being much longer than they were. This has now been fixed. [20]
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. [21]
- 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. [22]
- 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. [23][24]
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19:46, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
Genres for You Don't Know Me (Jax Jones song) and Run Up
Hi User:Nyuszika7H, can you add these sources to You Don't Know Me and Run Up pages please, as you'll be better at citing sources. Just found sources for You Don't Know Me (Jax Jones) genres, here [25] the song is described as house, and here [26] it's called caribbean, R&B and electronic dance. Caribbean usually refers to dancehall songs like Shape of You is described here [27].
And this source for Run Up song page for it's genre(s) please, [28] here it's called dancehall and described as having "island-inspired beats", "rap verses", a "dancehall hook", "deep bass undertones" and a "light, tropical synth topline". Appreciated if you can, thanks.--2A02:C7D:892B:3D00:8112:BFC5:EBD0:6A7B (talk) 12:30, 7 February 2017 (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
- 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. [29]
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. [30]
- 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. [31]
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. [32]
- 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. [33]
- 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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18:06, 13 February 2017 (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 edit summary box is now a little bit bigger. This is to make it follow the Wikimedia design guide. [34]
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. [35]
- There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options:
type
andpeers
. Thetype
option solves this problem. You can usepeers
to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers. [36] - OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way. [37]
- 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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19:26, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
Theme song template
About an hour ago I updated many articles to use the theme song template, except those I haven't gone through yet since I'll just do that when I tidy them, but I'm wondering if the nowrap code can still be used to make those longer ones appear neater? Amaury (talk | contribs) 17:04, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
- @Amaury: Yeah, you should still be able to use {{nowrap}} inside the template, though there's a hard line break before "by", if it's problematic in some cases I'll see what I can do. Can you show me an example? nyuszika7h (talk) 22:32, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
- I think this is one of the good examples. Amaury (talk | contribs) 00:18, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
- @Amaury: Not much we can do about the song title as it's simply too long, and we can't make the text smaller or we'd violate MOS:FONTSIZE. About the ref, I'll try to figure out a way to make it appear next to the last list item without semantically being part of it, which isn't exactly correct. For now you can add it as part of the last list item, it's not exactly logical semantically but better than using
<br />
tags. nyuszika7h (talk) 08:54, 21 February 2017 (UTC)- It doesn't actually look that bad, I was mostly just curious, though I wonder if Best Friends Whenever is a better example. Amaury (talk | contribs) 14:39, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
- @Amaury: That one looks fine to me. (Bizaarvark, Best Friends Whenever) nyuszika7h (talk) 14:42, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
- Interesting. Must be your screen. "Mind" is wrapping for me. Amaury (talk | contribs) 14:43, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
- @Amaury: That one looks fine to me. (Bizaarvark, Best Friends Whenever) nyuszika7h (talk) 14:42, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
- It doesn't actually look that bad, I was mostly just curious, though I wonder if Best Friends Whenever is a better example. Amaury (talk | contribs) 14:39, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
- @Amaury: Not much we can do about the song title as it's simply too long, and we can't make the text smaller or we'd violate MOS:FONTSIZE. About the ref, I'll try to figure out a way to make it appear next to the last list item without semantically being part of it, which isn't exactly correct. For now you can add it as part of the last list item, it's not exactly logical semantically but better than using
- I think this is one of the good examples. Amaury (talk | contribs) 00:18, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Soy Luna and a cast table
Nyuszika7H, what I'm trying to say is that cast tables are basically unneeded for TV series that have run less than about 4 seasons. I'm not finding a super great example, but I guess the one at NCIS: Los Angeles kind of shows why (Chicago Fire (TV series) is a less great example) – cast tables are primarily a visual way to show which seasons various actors have appeared as "main cast" on a show. For 1–3 season shows, you really don't need a cast table to show that – a simple cast list, with character summaries, should suffice. It's only when you get complicated cast changes over multiple seasons that a cast table becomes a good idea. So, what I'm trying to say is, regardless of how many episodes Soy Luna has per season, the fact that it's only run 1–2 seasons means that a cast table is not necessary for it – a simpler cast list should be fine for its article in the near-term. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 20:30, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List of Girl Meets World characters#Morgan Matthews character description. Amaury (talk | contribs) 08:06, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
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Problems
- On 22 February the wikipedia.org portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file. [38]
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. [39] - 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. [40]
- 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. [41][42]
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19:56, 27 February 2017 (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
- 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. [43]
- 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. [44]
Problems
- Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed. [45]
- 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. [46]
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. [47]
- 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. [48]
- 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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23:23, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes 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. [49][50] - 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. [51]
- CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. [52][53]
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15:26, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
Question...
Hi, Nyuszika7H. Can you comment on this edit at Claire Holt? I admit that I also don't care for the "darker color" that ! scope="row" |...
generates, so if | scope="row" |...
can be used instead, without any loss in terms of WP:ACCESSIBILITY, then I'd prefer to start switching to the latter coding format, even at the WP:FILMOGRAPHY example. Do you know anything about this? Is the latter format still OK in terms of WP:ACCESS?... TIA. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 23:33, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
- @IJBall: I remember I was the one who added the row scope guidance to WP:FILMOGRAPHY originally, though I forgot about it. Semantically, it should be a table header (
<tr>
).class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
should be used, which makes it more modest – just a darker background, no bolding or centering. I have no idea whether screen readers actually handle a<td>
with a scope as a header, but that usage is deprecated in HTML5, it should only be used in<tr>
. - (Also, thanks for reminding me about that article, I've watchlisted it now. I've recently re-watched H2O: Just Add Water, as I haven't seen all of it properly back when I watched it.) nyuszika7h (talk) 12:09, 15 March 2017 (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
Save page
button now saysPublish page
orPublish 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 andPublish changes
when you edit an existing page. [54] - 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. [55]
- 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. [56] - 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. [57]
- 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. [58]
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. [59]
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 orCmd
+Shift
+X
on Macs. [60] - 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 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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22:03, 20 March 2017 (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
- When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes. [61]
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. [62][63]
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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14:47, 27 March 2017 (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
Save page
button now saysPublish page
orPublish changes
on most Wikipedias. 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 andPublish changes
when you edit an existing page. [64] - The tracking category Category:Pages with template loops 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. [65]
- 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. [66]
Problems
- Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed. [67]
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. [68]
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17:53, 3 April 2017 (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
- 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. [69]
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. [70]
- 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. [71]
- The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters. [72]
- 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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18:35, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
Watch updates
First, Nyu, once again, welcome back! It's so good to see you again!
Are you still a "watch everything guy"? If so, could you please update your spaces accordingly in my sandbox for main articles, episode lists, and character lists under both current and ended? User:Amaury/sandbox. Same deal with you, Geraldo Perez, MPFitz1968, and IJBall, minus the "watching everything part," because I know you're not those kind of people—which there's nothing wrong with!. If there have been any changes in what you're watching, would you also please make changes accordingly? Anything that's short-term, like is common with IJBall, does not have to be check-marked, obviously. Thank you very much, my friends! It is appreciated! Amaury (talk | contribs) 20:31, 10 April 2017 (UTC)