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Tech news: 2013-22

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.

Recent software changes

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• The Translate extension and Universal Language Selector were enabled on Wikimedia Commons on May 20. Commons users can now easily change languages, and translate pages with a friendly interface. [1]
• The Notifications feature, active on the English Wikipedia, now supports local blacklists and whitelists. It is possible to hide users (for example certain bots) from all notifications on the wiki. Also, e-mail notifications are now grouped. [2] [3]
• The first stable release of MediaWiki 1.21 for sites outside Wikimedia was published on May 25. [4]
• The tool storing information about languages (CLDR) was updated to the latest version (23.1). [5]
• Due to a software issue, users couldn't enable or disable Gadgets. The issue is now fixed.

Future software changes

• MediaWiki will stop supporting XHTML 1.0 and HTML versions lower than version 5. HTML5 will now be the default language for pages created by the software. [6] [7]
• The software will check if all uploaded files are secure and match their type. [8]
• The Wikimedia Commons Android app will come out of the beta phase on its next release. [9]
• Account creation by manual log-in will now be recorded in the account creation log (bug 42434). [10]
• Links to file description pages will again be accessible directly from within videos (bug 43747). [11]
• The software behind recent changes patrolling was re-written; the change fixes issues related to patrolling new pages, among other things. [12]
• During a meeting, developers agreed on rules about making big changes to the software. [13]
• There is now a category to list pages with invalid music code. [14]

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Tech news: 2013-23

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.

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• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf5) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 29. It will be enabled on the English Wikipedia on June 3, and on all other Wikipedias on June 5. [15]
• The Tamil Wikipedia shared a Lua module they created to automate their Main Page. [16]
• There is now a test wiki to test new features in right-to-left languages. [17]
• The Thanks feature was added to the English Wikipedia; users can now thank others for individual edits. [18]
• The new interface for account creation and log-in is now the default on 30 wikis, including the English Wikipedia, Commons, Meta, and Wikidata. The feature will be added to all wikis after June 5. Users can return to the old look by adding ?useNew=0 to the web address. [19]
• Videos are now played in pop-up windows if their size on the page is smaller than 200 pixels (800 pixels on the English Wikipedia). [20]
• Opening your talk page now marks notifications as read, for wikis using the Notifications feature. (bug 47912) [21].
• All autoconfirmed users can now reset transcoding of video files; previously only administrators could do this. [22]
• The Nearby feature allows people who use mobile devices to see Wikipedia articles about objects and places around them. [23]

Future software changes

• The PostEdit feature is now part of MediaWiki, and will work on all wikis. (bug 48726) [24]
• The Narayam and WebFonts extensions will be replaced by the Universal Language Selector extension. [25]
• MediaWiki will now be updated every week, starting on June 6. Thanks to this, bugs will be fixed and features will be added faster than they are now. [26]

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Tech news: 2013-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.

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• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 6, and to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10. It will be enabled on all Wikipedias on June 13. [27]
• An alpha version of the VisualEditor was enabled on all Wikipedias on June 6. Please test it and report problems. [28]
• Several VisualEditor bugs have been fixed; users can now add, edit and remove categories using the editor's "Page settings" menu.
• Wikimedia error messages will no longer link to the #wikipedia [[<tvar|meta-irc-chans>:m:IRC/Channels</>|IRC channel]] on Freenode. [29]
• The logo of 16 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a fourth group of updates. [30]
• A test instance of Wikidata is now available at test.wikidata.org. [31]
• Users can now patrol the first version of a newly created page if they visit it from Special:NewPages or Special:RecentChanges. [32]
• Translation pages will no longer include edit section links (bug #40713). [33]

Future software changes

• A report on mobile upload errors was published, and software changes to reduce their number will come soon. [34]
• A request for comments on updating MediaWiki to use RDFa version 1.1 was started on MediaWiki.org (Gerrit change #67608).

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Tech News: 2013-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

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• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 13. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 17, and on all Wikipedias on June 20. [35]
• The Narayam and WebFonts extensions were successfully replaced by Universal Language Selector on June 11. [36]
• VisualEditor news:
  • VisualEditor was temporarily disabled on Wikipedia sites on June 14 due to an issue that inserted a lot of HTML code. The issue is now fixed and VisualEditor works as before.
  • Users can now use VisualEditor to add images and other media items from their local wikis and Wikimedia Commons. [37].
  • VisualEditor also allows editing references. [38]
• The new Disambiguator extension, which was previously part of MediaWiki itself, was enabled on test wikis. It adds the magic word __DISAMBIG__ to mark disambiguation pages. [39]
• The newly enabled Campaigns extension allows Wikimedia Foundation data analysts to track account creations that result from a specific outreach campaign.

Future software changes

• Universal Language Selector will be added to the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias on June 18. [40]
• Starting on June 18, VisualEditor will be randomly enabled by default for half of newly created accounts on the English Wikipedia to test stability, performance and features. [41]
• Two new webfonts (UnifrakturMaguntia and Linux Libertine) will be added to wikis that use Universal Language Selector. [42] [43]
• It will now be possible to hide the sidebar while using the Translate extension to reduce distractions (bug #45836). [44]
• A patrolling link will now be visible for un-patrolled pages, even if users don't visit it from Special:NewPages or Special:RecentChanges (bug #49123). [45]
• A request for comments on enabling a new search engine for MediaWiki was started.

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Tech news: 2013-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

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• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 20. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 24, and on all Wikipedias on June 27. [46]
• Universal Language Selector was successfully enabled on the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias. [47]
• The new interface for account creation and log–in is now the default on all Wikimedia wikis. The old look is no longer available (bug #46333). [48]
• The TimedMediaHandler extension now supports native FLAC files. A discussion to allow this file type is taking place on Commons (bug #49505). [49]
• After a test period, the Disambiguator extension was enabled on the English Wikipedia on June 18. [50]
• VisualEditor news:
  • A VisualEditor bug temporarily made all new accounts unusable. The issue is now fixed and account creation works as before (bug #49727).
  • A high importance file insertion bug has been fixed, but the feature does not work perfectly yet. [51]
• It is now possible to synchronise local CSS and JavaScript files with the beta cluster. This should make it easier to test software features before they are enabled on live wikis. [52]

Future software changes

• The default link to a help page on editing, visible below the editing window, will change on almost 600 Wikimedia wikis and will now link to MediaWiki.org (bug #45977). [53]
• Universal Language Selector will be enabled on wikis without language versions (such as Wikisource and Wikispecies) on June 25. [54]
• The AbuseFilter extension will allow filtering links and HTML code for page creations. [55]
• The related changes special page will now include upload log entries. [56]
• It will soon be possible to choose the language of SVG files that contain translations. [57]
• MediaWiki will now allow converting audio files from one format to another. [58]
• The Wikidata technical team has started a discussion about how Wikidata can support Wiktionary. [59]
• The search feature on Wikimedia sites is planned to be modified to use Solr on all wikis by the end of 2013. [60]

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Tech news: 2013-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

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• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf9) was added to test wikis on June 27. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 8, and on all Wikipedias on July 11.
• On Wikisource, the canonical names of the "Index" and "Page" namespaces in the Proofread Page extension are no longer localized (bug #47596). Please check scripts that depend on $wgCanonicalNamespace. [61]
• A JavaScript problem caused the "View history" and "New section" tabs in the Vector skin to be moved into the drop-down menu on right-to-left wikis. The issue is now fixed and links are visible as before (bug #50196). [62]
• There was a short site outage on June 28.
• The automated Category:Pages with missing files now includes broken file links inserted inside the <gallery /> tag (bug #50119). [63]
• The Nearby feature is now enabled on Commons and shows images in a user's area. [64]
• There is now a special page listing disambiguation pages for wikis that use the Disambiguator extension (bug #44040). [65]
• The old version of the Article feedback tool (version 4) was removed from wikis that still used it. [66]
• VisualEditor news:
  • Many bugs that caused text to be removed or damaged have been fixed, including one related to copy-paste (bug #49816).
  • VisualEditor now offers a visual interface to edit references.
  • In preparation for enabling the VisualEditor on a wider scale, new documentation has been created, including a list of frequently-asked questions and a user guide with many images. Please help with translations.
  • Several problems related to overlapping of elements with the VisualEditor toolbar have been fixed (bug #50096, #50159, #50324).
  • TemplateData information is now displayed for templates that are added to a page (bug #49778).
  • Section edit links now show links to both VisualEditor and the old (source) editor (bug #49666).
  • Images are now loaded securely when using HTTPS (bug #43015). [67]

Future software changes

• VisualEditor will be enabled for all logged-in English Wikipedia users on July 1, and for all users on July 8.
• From July 8, it will be possible to upload WAV and native FLAC files to Commons, and use them directly on wiki pages ([[<tvar|bug-49505>bugzilla:49505</>|bug #49505]]). [68]
• The Universal Language Selector will be added to the English Wikipedia on July 2, and to remaining wikis on July 9. [69]

Erratum

• Tech news #26 incorrectly reported that audio transcoding was added to TimedMediaHandler; it was actually statistics about audio transcoding that were added. [70]

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14:21, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Consensus on how to split article Senran Kagura

Hello, you're invited to express your views about this topic on the discussion topic. Jotamide (talk) 04:49, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

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Brasileños en Japón

I'll be happy to help with es:Brasileños en Japón! What I'll do in en:Brazilians in Japan is try to find Google Books pages of any of the books cited. That will help with verifiability. WhisperToMe (talk) 18:50, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Archiving tips

As I'm getting to work I'd like to share some tips on archiving. 1. Try to find alternate locations of content if archiving one version fails.

• The "Lula ouve de brasileiros queixas sobre vida no Japão." article on Folha de S. Paulo can't be archived on either webcitation.org, nor on web.archive.org. However the page told me it was a BBC article, so I ran a search and I found: BBC version

2. If you can't directly archive to webcitation.org, you can try archiving to web.archive.org and then try to archive that one to webcitation.org.

• I wasn't able to do this to the Lula article, but there are others I've done where the trick worked.

WhisperToMe (talk) 19:38, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Okay, here's one example: web.archive.org is step 1, step 2 is webcitation.org. If directly using webcitation fails, you can do it indirectly WhisperToMe (talk) 20:24, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

AFAIK the English Wikipedia does not allow placement of archive today/archive is links. However it's still good to archive stuff there on your own (they may be put on other Wikipedias). Some links:

• Wikipedia:Archive.is RFC
• Wikipedia:Archive.is RFC 2
• Wikipedia:Archive.is RFC 3
• MediaWiki talk:Abusefilter-warning-archiveis

WhisperToMe (talk) 16:21, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Wow! Thank you so much for finding that! WhisperToMe (talk) 20:58, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Photo requests for Liceo Mexicano Japonés

Hi! I'm looking for people in Mexico City to photograph the main entrance of Liceo Mexicano Japonés (it would be very good for many articles). Do you know many Mexico City-based editors who are interested? WhisperToMe (talk) 15:20, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll look through the list and see what I find WhisperToMe (talk) 20:18, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

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Berberis book index

Hi, I can send you a pdf of the index of:

• Ahrendt, Leslie Walter Allam (1961). "Berberis and Mahonia: A taxonomic revision". Journ. Linn. Soc. (Botany). 57 (369). OCLC 492197023.

in relation to your request at Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request#Sources for Berberis koreana. If, after studying the index, you need copies of a small number of additional pages, I will be able to supply them. Please use Special:EmailUser to email me so that I can reply with the index as an attachment. Regards, Worldbruce (talk) 16:22, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

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Silly threats

Please feel free to report me to an administrator, my comments were accurate. The Spanish Wikipedia's coverage of the topic is a disgrace. WCM_email 07:03, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Please refrain from posting on my talk page. WCM_email 23:01, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

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May Ying Welsh

This was a worthless stub: it was about 450 characters with spelling errors, an IMDB citation, a link to articles she's written on al Jazeera, and a dead link to this site. I wouldn't mind restoring it if it were potentially useful, but you'd have to rewrite it all, so there's no point. Nyttend (talk) 20:09, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

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Micronations

I removed the additional citations label because I think the article has enough citations.

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A source you might want to back up: "Assimilation to American Life vs. Maintenance of Mother Culture : Japanese and Korean Children in New York"

Hi, Zerabat!

I found "Assimilation to American Life vs. Maintenance of Mother Culture : Japanese and Korean Children in New York" by Mari Kunieda is only available in one place https://www.webcitation.org/6XfufE6Jb?url=http://ci.nii.ac.jp/els/110000469807.pdf?id=ART0000851255&type=pdf&lang=en&host=cinii&order_no=&ppv_type=0&lang_sw=&no=1428634639&cp= as CiNii had pulled the link. It was not saved anywhere else other than Webcitation.org. While I have a copy on my hard drive it might be a good idea to for you to download and preserve this one too.

I use it as a source for Japanese Americans in New York City, Korean Americans in New York City, and several others. WhisperToMe (talk) 05:15, 5 May 2021 (UTC)