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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

• Wikimedia no longer uses visitor statistics from comScore. [१]
• You can make interactive graphs with the Graph extension. There is now a tutorial for how to do this. [२]

Problems

• Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated. [३]

Changes this week

• The Nuke extension will work with Flow. This will make it easier to handle spam in Flow. [४]
• New file uploads will now be patrollable. [५]
• Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia if you use Internet Explorer 8, 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. [६][७]

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. [८]
• 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. [९][१०]
• 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. [११][१२]
• 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 जनवरी 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-03

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 will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [१३]
• 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. [१४]

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. [१५]
• 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. [१६]
• 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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17:55, 18 जनवरी 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-04

नई तकनीकी समाचार के बारे में विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय द्वारा है। कृपया इसके बारे में होने वाले बदलाव आदि का अन्य सदस्यों को भी सूचित करें। अनुवाद उपलब्ध है।

हाल के बदलाव

• अब आप जर्मन विकिपीडिया में श्रेणी में पृष्ठ के जुडने और निकलने के बारे में जान सकते हो। यह इस सप्ताह विकिमीडिया कॉमन और अन्य विकिपीडिया में भी उपलब्ध हो जाएगा। [१७][१८]
• अब प्रबन्धक अवतरण हटाएँ के साथ पृष्ठ का अवतरण हटा सकते हैं। इसमें बटन में "सभी", "कोई नहीं" या "विपरीत" का विशेष:लॉग में होगा। लेख के इतिहास में भी इस तरह का बटन आने वाला है। जो विकि इस तरह का कार्य जावास्क्रिप्ट के द्वारा करते हैं। उससे यह कोड हटा दिया जाएगा। [१९]

इस सप्ताह के बदलाव

• आप तब भी सन्दर्भ डेक सकते हो जब आप अनुभाग का झलक देखते हो। इसके अलावा आप <references /> का टैग न हो तो भी आप अनुभाग में इसे देख सकते हो। [२०]
• मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और मीडियाविकि॰ऑर्ग पर 26 जनवरी को आएगा और गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर यह 27 जनवरी आएगा। इसके अलावा यह सभी विकि पर 28 जनवरी को (दिनांक) आएगा।

बैठक

• आप भी अगले होने वाले बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। यथादृश्य संपादिका के दल के साथ। बैठक के दौरान आप निर्माता के साथ इसके त्रुटि आदि के बारे में या अन्य कोई महत्वपूर्ण जानकारी पर वार्ता कर सकते हैं। बैठक 26 जनवरी को 20:00 बजे (UTC) भारतीय समयानुसार 27 जनवरी रात 1:30 बजे होगा। जुडने हेतु यह देखें।

भविष्य के बदलाव

• यहाँ एक एक्स्टेंसन लेखस्थान स्वतः ही विकिपीडिया की विकिडाटा द्वारा डाटा लेकर उस सामग्री को बना देगा और पढ़ने वाला उस टैग को देख कर यह जान सकेगा कि यह लेख अभी तक नहीं बना है और वह उस लेख को बना सकता है। इसके निर्माता कुछ छोटे विकिपीडिया को देख रहे हैं, जहाँ इसका उपयोग किया जा सके। [२१]
• ओटीआरएस प्रणाली उन्नत होने वाली है। इसके लिए 3 फरवरी को 08:00 बजे (UTC) भारतीय समयानुसार 3 फरवरी रात 12:30 बजे यह सुविधा 6 से 8 घण्टे तक बन्द हो जाएगी। [२२]
• सदस्य जल्द ही योगदान में कुछ नियत सम्पादन करने पर स्वतः ही उन्हें स्वागत सन्देश मिलेगा। [२३]

तकनीकी समाचार तकनीकी प्रचारक द्वारा और प्रकाशन बॉट • योगदान • अनुवाद • सहायता लें • प्रतिक्रिया दें • अनुसरण करें या हटाएँ।

16:39, 25 जनवरी 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. [२४]
• 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. [२५][२६]
• 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. [२७]

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. [२८]
• 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. [२९][३०]
• 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. [३१]
• 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. [३२][३३][३४]
• 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. [३५][३६]
• 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

• 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 2 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is expiring watch list entries. The meeting will be on 3 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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. [३७]

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21:01, 1 फ़रवरी 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. [३८]
• When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [३९]
• RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [४०]

Changes this week

• Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [४१][४२]
• 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

• 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 9 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is per-language URLs for pages of multilingual wikis. The meeting will be on 10 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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. [४३][४४]
• 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. [४५][४६][४७]

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18:58, 8 फ़रवरी 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. [४८]
• You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas. [४९]

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. [५०][५१]

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. [५२][५३]
• Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [५४]
• 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. [५५]

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16:16, 15 फ़रवरी 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-08

नए तकनीकी समाचार विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय द्वारा है। इससे होने वाले बदलावों को अन्य सदस्यों को भी बताएं। इसके सभी परिवर्तन आप पर प्रभाव नहीं डालेंगे। अनुवाद उपलब्ध है।

हाल के बदलाव

• फेब्रिकेटर उन्नत हो चुका है। [५६][५७]

समस्यायें

• पिछले सप्ताह कोई भी नया मीडियाविकि का संस्करण नहीं था। उसके बदलाव भी इस सप्ताह ही लागू होंगे। क्योंकि इसमें पहले एक त्रुटि उत्पन्न हो गई थी, जिसके कारण पृष्ठों को सहेजने में काफी समय लग रहा था। [५८][५९]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

• 23 फरवरी के बाद विकिडाटा का उपयोग विकिविवि के अंतरविकि कड़ी जोड़ने में किया जा सकता है। [६०]

बैठक

• आप सभी अगले बैठक में यथादृश्य संपादिका दल के साथ जुड़ सकते हो। इस बैठक में आप विकासक द्वारा इसके त्रुटि के बारे में चर्चा कर सकते हो। यह बैठक 23 फरवरी को 20:00 (यूटीसी) को होगा। देखें : कैसे जुड़ें
• आप अगली बैठक में वास्तुकला समिति के साथ भी जुड़ सकते हो। इस सप्ताह का विषय Assign RFCs to ArchCom shepherds है। यह बैठक 24 फरवरी को 22:00 (यूटीसी) को होगा। देखें : कैसे जुड़ें

तकनीकी समाचार तकनीकी राजदूतों ने तैयार किये हैं और इन्हें बॉट • योदान • अनुवाद • सहायता प्राप्त करें • प्रतिक्रिया दें • सदस्यता लें अथवा छोड़ें द्वारा भेजा गया।

18:22, 22 फ़रवरी 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-09

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

• Thanks to the Graph extension and Pageview API, we now have {{Graph:PageViews}} templates that can show pageviews for any wiki page for any of the wikis. See the examples.
• The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
• The visual editor now follows the TemplateData format setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [६१][६२]
• The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [६३][६४]

Changes this week

• On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences. [६५]
• Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [६६]
• Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [६७]

Meetings

• Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project. [६८]
• 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 1 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:12, 29 फ़रवरी 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-10

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

• Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB. [६९]
• Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one. [७०]
• The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the Eqiad cluster have now been upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again because of this. [७१]
• It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app. [७२]
• Bare attributes in tags now parse according to the HTML5 specifications. <pages from= to= section=1> will parse as <pages from="to=" section="1"> instead of <pages from="" to="" section="1"> as it used to. Please use <pages from="" to="" section=1> or <pages section=1> instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on Wikisource projects. [७३]

Problems

• Phabricator has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now. [७४]
• The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title. [७५]
• The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource. [७६]
• You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of contents. This should be fixed soon. [७७]
• Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes. [७८]

Changes this week

• Cross-wiki notifications will be enabled as a beta feature on all wikis on 10 March. You will be able to get notifications when something happens on another Wikimedia wiki. [७९]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).
• Wikivoyages will get the Kartographer extension. Kartographer will allow <mapframe> and <maplink> tags in an article to insert an interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas and suggestions to the Maps talk page. If you find any bugs, you can report them in Phabricator. [८०]

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 8 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [८१]
• The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The date for this might change. [८२]

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20:24, 7 मार्च 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-11

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 mobile web interface no longer suggests HiDPI thumbnails. This is to take up less bandwidth on slow or expensive connections. [८३]
• The search engine on wikipedia.org has been updated. [८४]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 22 March and 24 March. This could be postponed to April 18. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. Because of a test, there will also be a couple of minutes where you can't edit the wikis on 15 March starting 07:00 UTC. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
• Administrators and other users with advanced permissions will need to have an 8-byte long passwords. This change takes place on 15 March. Users with too short passwords will be asked to change password the next time they log in. This was decided in a discussion on Meta and is because they can use tools that can hurt the wikis. [८५]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
• The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [८६]

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 15 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are backlog and thumb API. The meeting will be on 16 March at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:37, 14 मार्च 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-12

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

• Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. The Wikimedia Technology department planned to test it this week. This will take place the week of April 18 instead. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
• In Firefox, the visual editor would sometimes just jump down to the bottom of the page when you double-clicked on a table cell. This has now been fixed. [८७]

Changes this week

• It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve CAPTCHAs. [८८]
• You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread. [८९]
• 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 22 March at 19:00 (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. This will happen on May 2. [९०]

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16:04, 21 मार्च 2016 (UTC)

Hi, a minor correction: The MediaWiki deployment dates are March 22–24, not 21–23. My apologies. /Johan (WMF) (वार्ता) 08:38, 22 मार्च 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-13

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

• MediaWiki now supports the semantic web standards of Microdata and RDFa 1.0. On Wikimedia projects, a configuration change must be requested in order to enable RDFa 1.0. [९१] [९२]

Problems

• Adding references with Citoid was broken for approximately 6 hours on 24 March. This was fixed. [९३]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
• You will be able to remove the header and footer style from User language (babel) boxes. This will make it easier to use them with other userboxes. [९४]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with part of the Architecture committee, which will discuss a few topics. The meeting will be on 30 March at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• The Architecture committee has sent a summary of new and ongoing RFC discussions.

Future changes

• Commons will soon have improved access to Wikidata's data. It will then be possible to access data about any concept on any page on Commons. Assistance with testing this on the beta cluster is appreciated. [९५]
• Wikibits.js will not be loaded by default anymore starting April 2016. Gadget and script authors should have already updated their code since the previous announcements, but there is another migration path available if needed. See wikitech-l for details.

Corrections

• Last week Tech News said the new MediaWiki version would come to wikis from 21 March to 23 March. The right dates were 22 March to 24 March.

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19:43, 28 मार्च 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-14

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 filter Special:Log in more detail. [९६]
• Wikimedia wikis have a new way of counting visitors. [९७]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 6. It will be on all wikis from April 7 (calendar).

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22:13, 4 अप्रैल 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-15

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 visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can ask to change to options in your language in Phabricator. [९८][९९]
• Wiktionaries and Wikisources can now use the visual editor. It is an opt-in beta feature. It still needs development to work better with these projects. [१००][१०१]
• ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new API. [१०२]
• The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters. [१०३]

Problems

• There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [१०४]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).
• The wikipedia.org portal will get many small bug fixes and improvements. Most will be for the search box and suggested results that were added in March. [१०५]

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 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are improving transclusion of templates for Parsoid and balanced templates. The meeting will be on 13 April at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [१०६]

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20:44, 11 अप्रैल 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-16

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 filter Special:Log in more detail. You can filter different imports and new users. [१०७][१०८]
• You can use Telnet to read Wikimedia wikis. [१०९]
• MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB. [११०]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [१११]
• There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data center test.

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 April 19 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is shadow namespaces. The meeting will be on 20 April at 21:30 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:40, 18 अप्रैल 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-17

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

• Wikimedia tested a new data center last week. This meant that the wikis could be read but not edited for 45 minutes on April 19 and for 20 minutes on April 21. [११२]
• When the data center was tested, new edits were not shown in the recent changes log for 20 minutes. They are in the logs now. You can read more about how to find the edits.
• Unread notifications were sometimes counted incorrectly. This has now been fixed. [११३]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia Commons will have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Commons. This will happen on April 26. [११४]
• It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard. [११५]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 27. It will be on all wikis from April 28 (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 April 26 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The "पृष्ठ सहेजें" button when you edit will be called "Publish" instead. This is to help new editors understand what it does. It already works like this on some wikis. [११६]

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21:02, 25 अप्रैल 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-18

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 visual editor now works when you use Internet Explorer 9. [११७]

Problems

• There was a security problem with the MobileFrontend extension. It showed information that had been oversighted. This has now been fixed. [११८]

Changes this week

• You can now see which notifications are available on a wiki on Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration. [११९]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 4. It will be on all wikis from May 5 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "PSR-6 Cache interface in Mediawiki core". The meeting will be on May 4 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Pages could be added to new users' watchlists by default when they edit them. New users could also by default get email notifications when pages they watch are edited. This is discussed on Meta. [१२०]

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20:09, 2 मई 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-19

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

• Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May 3. [१२१]
• You can use Wikipedia GapFinder to find missing articles between languages. [१२२]
• Users are invited to try Cross-wiki Notifications on all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default, scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC. [१२३][१२४]
• You can use keyboard shortcuts to open the visual editor (meta+V) or the wikitext editor (meta+E) (on certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor). [१२५]
• Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore. [१२६]
• The UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons. [१२७]
• Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved. [१२८]
• Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org. [१२९]

Problems

• MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue. [१३०]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 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 May 10 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Overhaul Interwiki map, unify with Sites and WikiMap. The meeting will be on May 11 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• 2017 European hackathon will happen on May 19 - 21, in Vienna (Austria).

Future changes

• Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We plan to reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please tell the developers if the change will cause problems. [१३१]

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23:22, 9 मई 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-20

नई तकनीकी समाचार के बारे में विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय द्वारा है। कृपया इसके बारे में होने वाले बदलाव आदि का अन्य सदस्यों को भी सूचित करें। अनुवाद उपलब्ध है।

हाल के बदलाव

• कुछ छवि अब मोबाइल में और भी तेजी से लोड होंगे। साथ ही यह कम डाटा भी लेंगे। [१३२]

समस्यायें

• Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis. [१३३]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

• विशेष:सूचना को अब आप "जाँचा हुआ चिन्हित" कर सकते हो। इसका गैर-जावास्क्रिप्ट संस्करण इस सप्ताह आने वाला है। जावास्क्रिप्ट वाला कुछ समय बाद आएगा। [१३४]
• Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce. [१३५]
• A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users. [१३६]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 18. It will be on all wikis from May 19 (calendar).

बैठक

• आप भी अगले होने वाले बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। स्थापत्य कला के दल के साथ। इस सप्ताह के बैठक का विषय "Requirements for change propagation" है। बैठक 18 मई को 21:00 (UTC) को होगा। जुडने हेतु यह देखें।

भविष्य में परिवर्तन

• Using self-closing tags like <div/> and <span/> to mean <div></div> and <span></span> will not work in the future. Templates and pages that use these tags should be fixed. When Phabricator ticket T134423 is fixed these tags will parse as <div> and <span> instead. This is normal in HTML5. [१३७]

तकनीकी समाचार तकनीकी प्रचारक द्वारा और प्रकाशन बॉट • योगदान • अनुवाद • सहायता लें • प्रतिक्रिया दें • अनुसरण करें या हटाएँ।

16:01, 16 मई 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-21

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 now see a warning message on pages that try to use {{DISPLAYTITLE}} but it doesn't work because it doesn't match the page's actual title. [१३८]

Problems

• Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories. [१३९]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (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 May 24 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12. [१४०]

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18:40, 23 मई 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-22

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 a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module. [१४१]

Problems

• A new way to handle rollback was introduced. It broke some tools and scripts and was reverted. This will be re-planned after review. [१४२][१४३]
• CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed. [१४४]

Changes this week

• When you edit a file or category page with the visual editor the rest of the page will be shown in its normal place. [१४५]
• The Translate extension will get an edit summary field. [१४६]
• A change to the <charinsert> feature could break some user scripts. Contact Bawolff if the "click to insert special characters" links in the edit window break on your wiki. [१४७][१४८]
• Elasticsearch will be upgraded on Wikimedia wikis this week. This should not affect you, but if you have problems with the search function this is probably the reason. [१४९]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (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 31 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:18, 30 मई 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-23

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

• MathML/SVG is now the default <math> rendering mode on Wikimedia projects. [१५०][१५१]

Changes this week

• The history page can tell you if a page on your watchlist was updated since you last visited it. This now works the same way in Vector as in other skins. The change broke local designs on some wikis. This will be fixed this week. [१५२]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).

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20:51, 6 जून 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-24

विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय द्वारा नया तकनीकी समाचार कृपया अन्य सदस्यों को भी इस बदलाव के बारे में बतायें। हर बदलाव आपको प्रभावित नहीं करेगी। अनुवाद उपलब्ध है।

हाल के बदलाव

• विकिमीडिया विकि अब AuthManager का उपयोग कर रहा है। यदि आपको प्रवेश से जुड़ी कोई परेशानी है तो आप बता सकते हैं। [१५३]
• विशेष:सूचना में जाने से अब सारे सूचना पढ़े हुए चिन्हित नहीं होंगे। अब आप विशेष:सूचना में जा कर पढ़े या बिना पढ़े सूचनाओं को देख सकते हैं। विशेष:सूचना में सूचना दिन के समूह के रूप में है। आप किसी पूरे समूह को पढ़ा हुआ चिन्हित कर सकते हैं। [१५४][१५५][१५६][१५७]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

• You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits. [१५८]
• अब यथादृश्य संपादिका से गैलरी को संपादित करना बहुत आसान हो गया है। [१५९]
• नए मीडियाविकि संस्करण का जाँच विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 14 जून से चल रहा है। अ-विकिपीडिया में 15 जून से साथ ही यह सभी विकिपीडिया पर 16 जून से होगा। कालदर्शक

तकनीकी समाचार तकनीकी प्रचारक द्वारा और प्रकाशन बॉट • योगदान • अनुवाद • सहायता लें • प्रतिक्रिया दें • अनुसरण करें या हटाएँ।

18:41, 13 जून 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-25

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

• Notifications were not always marked as read when you followed a link from an email notification. This will now happen. [१६०]

Changes this week

• The list of other languages an article is available in will be shorter on small Wikipedias and non-Wikipedia projects. This is to make it easier to find the most relevant languages for each user. You will still be able to see the other languages. [१६१][१६२]
• Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup. [१६३]
• When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks. [१६४]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is develop Markdown support strategy for MediaWiki. The meeting will be on 22 June at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:14, 20 जून 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-26

नया तकनीकी समाचार विकिमीडिया के तकनीकी समुदाय की ओर से है। कृपया अन्य सदस्यों को भी इस बदलाव के बारे में बतायें। हर बदलाव आपको प्रभावित नहीं करेगा। अनुवाद उपलब्ध है।

हाल के बदलाव

• ओरेस सेवा अब नए स्थान में चले गया है। इससे ओरेस का उपयोग बहुत आसान हो जाएगा। ओरेस समीक्षा सेवा अब विकिडाटा और फारसी विकिपीडिया में बीटा संस्करण के रूप में उपलब्ध है। ओरेस एक कृतिम समझ प्रणाली है जो विकिमीडिया विकि के लेखकों कि सहायता करता है। [१६५]
• सूची को बढ़ाने से जो विकियों का क्रम अलग हो जाता था, अब वह ठीक हो गया है। [१६६]
• गणित वाले त्रुटि पृष्ठों का पता लगाने वाला नया श्रेणी जोड़ा गया: [[:श्रेणी:मीडियाविकि:Math-tracking-category-error]]। [१६७]

समस्यायें

• विकिमीडिया एथरपैड 23 जून को क्रैश हो गया। इस दिन जो भी सम्पादन हुए थे वो गायब हो चुके हैं। यह etherpad-restore.wikimedia.org में कुछ दिनों तक मिलेगा। [१६८][१६९]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

• नए मीडियाविकि संस्करण का जाँच विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 28 जून से चल रहा है। अ-विकिपीडिया में 29 जून से साथ ही यह सभी विकिपीडिया पर 30 जून से होगा। कालदर्शक
• सूचनाओं को पढ़ा या बिना पढ़ा चिन्हित करने का तरीका और भी साफ हो गया है। [१७०]

बैठक

• आप यथादृश्य संपादिका के दल से आगे होने वाले बैठक में मिल सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान आप डेवेलपर को बहुत महत्वपूर्ण त्रुटियों के बारे में बता सकते हैं। बैठक 28 जून को 19:00 बजे (UTC) होगा। देखें: कैसे जुड़ें

भविष्य में परिवर्तन

• विकिमीडिया संस्थान के सहयोगी दल एक और अच्छा लेख समीक्षा वाला साधन बनाना चाह रहे हैं। क्योंकि अनुसंधान से पता लगा है कि हम नए लोगों को जो सहायता के लिए आते हैं, हम उन्हें डरा कर भगा रहे हैं। [१७१]
• भविष्य में जो योजना है उसके तकनीकी कार्य के बारे में लिखने वाला विभाग ईमेल द्वारा बता देगा। इसमें अच्छा विकिपाठ्य, यथादृश्य सम्पादन, लिखने के लिए प्रोत्साहन, भाषा विकास और मेटा-डाटा अलग करना आदि है। [१७२]
• सूचनाओं को दो अलग अलग मेनू के रूप में अलग करने वाला बदलाव 5 से 7 जुलाई को होगा। एक साथ सूचनाओं में से एक एक को पढ़ा हुआ चिन्हित करना और भी आसान होगा। [१७३][१७४][१७५]
• 29 जून को git.wikimedia.org (गिटब्लिट द्वारा चलता है) अपने सभी अनुरोध को फेब्रिकेटर पर भेज देगा। बहुल अनुरोधों को सही तरीके से पुनर्निर्देशित होना चाहिए। [१७६]
• कटलन और पोलिस विकिपीडिया के लिए विकिडाटा विवरण लेखों में मोबाइल द्वारा देखने से मूल रूप से दिखेगा। यह मोबाइल के लिए बीटा संस्करण में है। यह बाद में अन्य विकि के लिए भी आएगा। [१७७]

तकनीकी समाचार तकनीकी प्रचारक द्वारा और प्रकाशन बॉट • योगदान • अनुवाद • सहायता लें • प्रतिक्रिया दें • अनुसरण करें या हटाएँ।

15:42, 27 जून 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-27

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 daily email summary of notifications could be sent even when there were no notifications from the wiki. Now no email will be sent if there is no activity. [१७८]

Changes this week

• The "⧼citoid-citefromidtool-title⧽" button in the visual editor's toolbar will move into the "जोड़ें" menu except for Wikipedias, Wikibookses and Wikiversities. This is to make it less prominent on wikis that don't use it as much. [१७९]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can take part in the next office hour for Wikidata on IRC on July 8 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:45, 4 जुलाई 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-28

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 image scaler fixed a number of bugs for showing SVG files. Some new problems turned up. [१८०][१८१][१८२]
• Notifications are grouped by types. They are now counted by number of notifications and not by unread groups. That change may increase the number of notifications displayed. The earlier way of counting was often incorrect. Unread notifications will also be displayed first. [१८३][१८४][१८५]
• Special:Notifications now has a maximum width for the notifications list on desktop computers. This allows long titles and descriptions to be cut properly. Notifications are now also better parsed. [१८६][१८७][१८८]

Problems

• On 5 July Wikimedia Commons had problems and could not be edited for 20 minutes. For a short while after that the recent changes log and some gadgets were not working properly. It affected administrative actions on other projects too. [१८९]
• Users who have multiple unread notifications can mark them as read by visiting Special:Notifications page on their wiki.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 July. It will be on all wikis from 14 July (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 12 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:14, 11 जुलाई 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-29

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

• Due to the rollback, new sorting of Notifications on the Fly-Out Menus has been deployed with a delay. [१९०]
• Due to the rollback, the daily special patch deployment process has been changed. [१९१]
• In notifications, "Messages" are now called "सूचना". [१९२]

Problems

• On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system. [१९३][१९४]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).
• Special:Log now has a help link. [१९५]
• The RevisionSlider can be tested on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: ⧼Project-localized-name-dewiki⧽, ⧼Project-localized-name-arwiki⧽, ⧼Project-localized-name-hewiki⧽. [१९६][१९७][१९८]

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 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on 20 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [१९९]

Future changes

• User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [२००][२०१]
• Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [२०२]

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20:18, 18 जुलाई 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-30

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

• Interactive maps have been enabled for Meta wiki and the Catalan, Hebrew, and Macedonian Wikipedias. Learn how to add interactive maps to wiki pages.
• Last week's rollback is now documented. [२०३]

Problems

• Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [२०४]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
• It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon. [२०५]
• Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages. [२०६]

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 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on 27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [२०७]

Future changes

• The current icon for Notifications "सूचना" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency. [२०८]
• Special:Notifications page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly. [२०९]

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19:54, 25 जुलाई 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-31

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 prototype for structured data on Commons is available now. [२१०]
• The RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.

Problems

• Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [२११]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 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 2 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• The next CREDIT showcase will be on 3 August at 18:00 (UTC). This is to present and comment on new gadgets, small projects and works in progress. See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "notifications in core". The meeting will be on 3 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:48, 1 अगस्त 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-32

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 notifications, the icon for सूचना has been changed from a speech-bubble icon () to a tray icon () for consistency. The सूचना icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility. [२१२]

Problems

• If you use the wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed. [२१३]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a wildcard. [२१४]
• On Commons, UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images. [२१५]
• When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template. [२१६]
• The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [२१७]
• When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way. [२१८]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (calendar).
• A message on Notifications panel will invite users to try Special:Notifications page. [२१९]

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 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:40, 8 अगस्त 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-33

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. [२२०]
• Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [२२१]
• 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. [२२२][२२३]

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. [२२४]
• Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [२२५]
• 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". [२२६][२२७]
• 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. [२२८]
• 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. [२२९]

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19:36, 15 अगस्त 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-34

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

• 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. [२३०]
• 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. [२३१]
• 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. [२३२]

Problems

• Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [२३३]
• When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [२३४]

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. [२३५][२३६]
• How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [२३७]

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21:18, 22 अगस्त 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-35

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

• 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. [२३८]
• 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. [२३९]

Changes this week

• The name of the "पृष्ठ सहेजें" button will change. The button will say "पृष्ठ प्रकाशित करें" when you create a new page. It will say "परिवर्तन प्रकाशित करें" when you change an existing page. [२४०][२४१]
• 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.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: image and oldimage tables". The meeting will be on 31 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:59, 29 अगस्त 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-36

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

• Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs. [२४२]
• Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta. [२४३]
• When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not. [२४४]

Changes this week

• You will be able to use <maplink> on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [२४५][२४६]
• Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. [२४७][२४८]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 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 6 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The CheckUser extension could work differently in the future. There is a Request for Comments to figure out how. [२४९]

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17:12, 5 सितंबर 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-37

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

• The Wikimedia Commons app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos. [२५०]
• <maplink> and <mapframe> can now use geodata from Open Street Map if Open Street Map has defined a region and given it an ID in Wikidata. You can use this to draw on the map and add information. [२५१][२५२]

Changes this week

• The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history. [२५३]
• A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages. [२५४][२५५]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 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 13 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• When you search on the Wikimedia wikis in the future you could see results from sister projects in your language. You can read more and discuss how this could work.

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18:04, 12 सितंबर 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-38

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

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back because of bugs. Creating new accounts did not work between 15 September 19:10 UTC and 16 September 12:50 UTC. [२५६][२५७]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will hopefully be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar). This is the version that was meant to go out last 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 20 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is multi-content revisions. The meeting will be on 21 September at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will start working on adding support for Wiktionary. The Wikidata development team is now taking one last look at the development plan. [२५८]

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22:08, 19 सितंबर 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-39

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

• If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can request it after a community decision. See how to request it. [२५९]
• When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [२६०]
• Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit. [२६१]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version that was supposed to come to the wikis two weeks ago was put on hold again because of new problems. The MediaWiki version after it is now on all wikis. [२६२][२६३]

Changes this week

• There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [२६४]

Meetings

• You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on September 27 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Abandoned tools on Tool Labs could be taken over by other developers. There is a new discussion on Meta about this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on. [२६५]

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18:07, 26 सितंबर 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-40

विकिमीडिया टेक समुदाय से नवीनतम तकनीक की खबर! कृपया इन परिवर्तनों के बारे में अन्य सदस्यों को भी बतायें। सभी परिवर्तनों आप को प्रभावित नहीं करेंगे।यह खबर दूसरी भाषाओँ में भी उपलब्ध है।

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

• मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण टेस्ट विकिस और MediaWiki.org पर ४ अकटूबर से उपलब्ध होगा । यह कुछ विकिपीडियाओं पर पर ५ अकटूबर से उपलब्ध होगा। यह 6 अक्टूबर से सभी विकिस पर होगा। (कैलेंडर)

बैठक

• आप विसुअल एडिटर टीम के साथ अगली बैठक में शामिल हो सकते है। बैठक के दौरान, आप डेवलपर्स को अपने सुझाव दे सकते हैं । बैठक 4 अक्टूबर को १९:०० बजे (यूटीसी) होएगी । शामिल होने के लिए यहाँ देखें।

भविष्य में परिवर्तन

• “टाडई” की जगह अभ एच.टी.एम.एल ५ पार्सिंग एल्गोरिथ्म का प्रयोग किया जायेगा विकिटेक्सट में गलत एच.टी.एम.एल को ठीक करने के लिए। परंतु इससे कई समस्याएं उत्पन होंगी जिन्हें पहले ठीक करना ज़रूरी होगा। [२६६]

• <slippymap> २४ अक्टूबर के बाद विकिवॉयेज पर काम नहीं करेगा। आप को उसकी जगह <mapframe> का प्रयोग करना होगा। अगर आप इसे २४ अकटूबर से पहले ठीक करना चाहते हैं तो आप को जितनी जल्दी हो सके उतनी जल्दी सहायता मांगनी चाहिए। [२६७]

तकनीकी समाचार तकनीकी प्रचारक द्वारा और प्रकाशन बॉट • योगदान • अनुवाद • सहायता लें • प्रतिक्रिया दें • अनुसरण करें या हटाएँ।

21:30, 3 अक्टूबर 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-41

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

• You can show Special:RecentChanges on a page by using {{Special:RecentChanges}}. You can now use tag filters by using {{Special:RecentChanges/tagfilter=tagname}}. [२६८]
• The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [२६९]
• Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them easier to see for readers and editors with reduced eyesight. [२७०]

Changes this week

• Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor. <!-- You write hidden HTML comments like this. --> [२७१]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (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 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week is CREDITS files. The meeting will be on 12 October at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Language converter syntax will soon no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. [२७२]

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20:29, 10 अक्टूबर 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-42

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

• There is a new newsletter from the Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation. It will have more details about for example Flow and notifications. You can read the first issue.

Problems

• Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning. [२७३]
• Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version. [२७४]

Changes this week

• There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [२७५]

Future changes

• The Editing Department are working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this. This is an early plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.

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16:42, 17 अक्टूबर 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-43

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 abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed. [२७६]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
• The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia". [२७७]
• About a dozen wikis now have numerical sorting in categories. If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can ask for it. [२७८]
• Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.

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17:39, 24 अक्टूबर 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-44

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

Recent changes

• Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only. [२७९]
• Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester. [२८०]
• The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script. [२८१]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1^st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2^nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3^rd (calendar).
• Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "पृष्ठ की झलक इस साँचे के साथ देखें" field when editing templates. [२८२]
• Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size. [२८३]

Future changes

• New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29. [२८४]

Miscellaneous

• The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Collaboration Guideline is available for community review. Any feedback welcome, in any language.

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16:18, 31 अक्टूबर 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-45

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

• Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation. [२८५]
• First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available. [२८६]
• .gitreview for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using track=1. [२८७]
• Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability. [२८८]

Changes this week

• The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 7 November.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 8th. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 9th. It will be on all wikis from November 10th (calendar).
• Special:ActiveUsers will allow users groups selection. [२८९]

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 8 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• RevisionSlider will be enabled by default on all beta wikis, on testwiki, testwiki2, mediawikiwiki and de.wikipedia.org. [२९०][२९१][२९२]
• Upcoming holidays will impact deployments. The schedule has been published.

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23:01, 7 नवम्बर 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-46

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

• When you edit with the visual editor you can use meta + shift + k to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key. [२९३]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar).
• In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation. [२९४]

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 15 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Magic links might not work in the future. [२९५]

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19:17, 14 नवम्बर 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-47

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

Recent changes

• Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone. [२९६]
• You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has. [२९७]
• The latest Collaboration team products newsletter has been published. It has more details about their work than Tech News has.

Problems

• A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication. [२९८]

Changes this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later. [२९९][३००][३०१]

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 22 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this. [३०२]
• Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page. [३०३]

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15:32, 21 नवम्बर 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-48

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

Changes this week

• When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie. This means their browser will be blocked even if they change their IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals. [३०४]
• When you use Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon. [३०५]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
• Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using [rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]. [३०६][३०७]

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 29 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Tool Labs could get two new policies. One would be to be able to adopt tools without an active developer. The other would be a right to fork. There is a request for comment on Meta.

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21:16, 28 नवम्बर 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-49

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

Recent changes

• You can choose to see users from specific user groups in Special:ActiveUsers. [३०८]
• Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [३०९]
• ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES to recognize damaging edits. [३१०]

Changes this week

• You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [३११]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (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 6 December at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You vote for wishes on the survey page until 12 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2015 results page.

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18:06, 5 दिसम्बर 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-50

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

• Users who have Yahoo email addresses could not use Special:EmailUser to send emails. This has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address. Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and be able to see it. [३१२]
• You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention. [३१३]
• Markup colours for reviewed and pending revisions in the page history and recent changes and logs now match Wikimedia standard colours. The "You have a new message on your talk page" notification will have a slightly different colour. [३१४]

Problems

• Because of work on cross-wiki watchlists global renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well. [३१५]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (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 December 13 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:29, 12 दिसम्बर 2016 (UTC)