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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - October 2015

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Tech News: 2015-41

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

Recent changes

  • The link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile. [1]
  • The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [2]

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. [3]
  • UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [4]
  • A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [5]

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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18:32, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 October 2015

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Tech News: 2015-42

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

Recent changes

  • The database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters. [6]

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. [7]
  • Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [8]

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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16:28, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 October 2015

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Tech News: 2015-43

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

Recent changes

  • Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The   icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The   icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback on this change.
  • Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [9]

Problems

  • A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [10]
  • Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [11]
  • 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. [12]

Changes this week

  • Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [13]
  • Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [14][15][16][17]

Meetings

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

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16:02, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-44

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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.

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
  • The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools. [18]
  • 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. [19][20]
  • When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [21][22]
  •   Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [23]

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18:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - November 2015

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Tech News: 2015-45

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Recent changes

  • You can now see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [24]
  • If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [25]
  • Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [26]

Problems

  • On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [27]

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. [28]
  • Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [29]

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16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 November 2015

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File:Parcelforce.svg

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Hi. Would you be able to upload a new version of the Parcelforce logo without the blue, as they have updated it? Thanks. Cloudbound (talk) 19:10, 8 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Tech News: 2015-46

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

Recent changes

  • Superprotect has been removed. [30]
  • You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [31]
  •   JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [32]

Problems

  • Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [33]

Changes this week

  • Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [34]
  •   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).

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  •   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.

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17:18, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 11 November 2015

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Tech News: 2015-47

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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.

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. [37]
  • Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [38]
  • 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. [39]
  •   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. [40][41]

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19:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

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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. [42]

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20:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-49

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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. [43]
  • 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. [44]

Changes this week

  • Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [45][46]
  • 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. [47]
  • 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. [48]

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16:16, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - December 2015

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Tech News: 2015-50

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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. [49]

Problems

  • Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [50]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [51]
  • IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [52]
  • 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. [53]
  • It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [54]
  • You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor. [55]
  • UploadWizard will look a bit different. [56]
  •   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. [57]

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. [58]

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17:52, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-51

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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.

Changes this week

  • Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [59]
  •   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).

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Future changes

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