വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാല:വിക്കി പഞ്ചായത്ത് (സാങ്കേതികം)/പത്തായം 1

യന്ത്രപദവി

യന്ത്രപദവിക്കുള്ള അപേക്ഷക്ക് പ്രത്യേകം താൾ ഇപ്പോൾ‌ ഇല്ലാത്തതിനാൽ VsBot-ന് യന്ത്രപദവിക്കായി ഇവിടെ അപേക്ഷിക്കുന്നു. നൾ‌ എഡിറ്റ് നടത്താം എന്നു വിചാരിക്കുന്നു. ഒന്നുരണ്ട് ടെസ്റ്റ് എഡിറ്റ് നടത്തിയിട്ടുണ്ട്. --Vssun 11:23, 26 ജൂൺ 2010 (UTC)

സുനിൽ ഓടിച്ചു് കൊള്ളൂ. ഇവിടെ നയമൊന്നും ആയിട്ടില്ല. വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലേ അതേ നയം തന്നെ ഉപയോഗിക്കാം അല്ലെ?--Shijualex 12:46, 26 ജൂൺ 2010 (UTC)

ഓടിക്കാൻ തുടങ്ങി. പുതിയ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ‌ നിറഞ്ഞു കവിയുമെന്ന് തോന്നിയാൽ ബോട്ട് സ്റ്റാറ്റസിട്ടേക്കണം. --Vssun 12:45, 27 ജൂൺ 2010 (UTC)

ബോട്ട് ഓടിച്ചു തുടങ്ങിയതിനു ശേഷമാണ്; പുതിയ ചില്ല് എന്നു പറഞ്ഞ്, ജോട്ടർ ബോട്ട് പല താളുകളിലും ഓടിയിട്ടുള്ളത് ശ്രദ്ധിച്ചത്? അത് മുഴുവൻ താളുകളിലും ഓടിയിട്ടില്ലേ?--Vssun 12:48, 27 ജൂൺ 2010 (UTC)

ജൊട്ടർ പല താളുകളും വിട്ടു് കളഞ്ഞിട്ടുണ്ടു്. തച്ചന്റെ മകൻ അങ്ങനത്തെ പല താളുകളും ചൂണ്ടിക്കാണിച്ചിരുന്നു. --Shijualex 14:17, 27 ജൂൺ 2010 (UTC)

ബോട്ട് പദവി കൊടുത്തിട്ടുണ്ടു്.--Shijualex 14:17, 27 ജൂൺ 2010 (UTC)

Transwiki Import definition

വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിൽ താഴെകാണുന്ന പദ്ധതികളെക്കൂടി ട്രാൻസ്‌വിക്കി ഇമ്പോർട്ട് സോഴ്സുകളായി നിർവചിക്കാൻ ബഗ്ഗ് ഫയൽ ചെയ്യണം എന്നുകരുതുന്നു. എതിർപ്പില്ലെങ്കിൽ ഇവിടെ വോട്ട് രേഖപ്പെടുത്തുക.

• http://en.wikisource.org
• http://en.wikipedia.org
• http://ml.wikipedia.org

--Vssun 06:08, 24 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)

• അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു --Junaidpv 06:55, 24 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)
• അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു --Rameshng 08:47, 24 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)
• അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു--തച്ചന്റെ മകൻ 17:07, 24 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)
• അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു----Shijualex 17:13, 24 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)
• അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു --Sadik Khalid 07:06, 25 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)
• അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു --Anoopan 01:35, 26 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)

Bug

See the bug --Vssun 12:17, 26 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)

ബഗ്ഗ് ഫിക്സി. മേൽ ഇറക്കുമതിയുറവിടങ്ങൾ അനുവദിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു--തച്ചന്റെ മകൻ 03:43, 10 നവംബർ 2010 (UTC)

New Namespaces for Malayalam Wikisource

മലയാളം വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിൽ Author, Portal, Index, Page എന്നീ നാമമേഖലകൾക്ക് ബഗ്ഗ് ഫയൽ ചെയ്യേണ്ടതുണ്ട്. നിലവിൽ Author എന്ന നാമമേഖലയ്ക്കാണ്‌ നിലവിൽ ആവശ്യമെങ്കിലും മറ്റു നാമമേഖലകൾക്കും ഏറെ വൈകാതെ ആവശ്യം വരും. താഴെ പറയുന്ന പേരുകളിലാണ്‌ ബഗ്ഗ് ഫയൽ ചെയ്യാൻ ഉദ്ദേശിക്കുന്നത്:

• Author = രചയിതാവ്
• Author talk = രചയിതാവിന്റെ സംവാദം
• Portal = കവാടം
• Portal talk = കവാടത്തിന്റെ സംവാദം
• Index = സൂചിക
• Index talk = സൂചികയുടെ സംവാദം
• Page = താൾ
• Page talk = താളിന്റെ സംവാദം

പേരുകളിൽ അഭിപ്രായ ഭേദമുണ്ടെങ്കിൽ അറിയിക്കുക. എതിർപ്പില്ലെങ്കിൽ ഇവിടെ വോട്ട് രേഖപ്പെടുത്തുക.--തച്ചന്റെ മകൻ 06:40, 24 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)

• അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു --Junaidpv 06:58, 24 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)
• അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു --Vssun 08:28, 24 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)
• അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു--Rameshng 09:41, 24 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)
• അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു- --Shijualex 14:58, 24 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)
• അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു--Kiran Gopi 05:20, 25 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)
• അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു --Sadik Khalid 07:06, 25 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)

• അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു --192.163.20.232 08:41, 25 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)

ഐപ്പി വോട്ട് അസാധുവാണ്‌. ദയവായി ലോഗിൻ ചെയ്ക--തച്ചന്റെ മകൻ 10:58, 25 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)

Bug

See the bug here--Vssun 03:05, 29 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)

പുതിയ നാമമേഖലകൾ നിലവിൽ വന്നു. --Vssun 01:51, 9 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2010 (UTC)

എഡിറ്റിങ് പെട്ടി

എഡിറ്റിങ് പെട്ടിയിൽ ത്ന, ഗ്മ എന്നീ കൂട്ടക്ഷരങ്ങൾ കൂടി കൂട്ടിച്ചേർക്കാമോ? എസ്.മനു (സംവാദം) 17:27, 28 ഏപ്രിൽ 2012 (UTC)

ഒന്ന് വിശദീകരിക്കാമോ ? സംഭവം മനസ്സിലായില്ല.--മനോജ്‌ .കെ 19:21, 28 ഏപ്രിൽ 2012 (UTC)

ഇപ്പോൾ പ്രശ്ലേഷം ചേർത്തപോലെ കൂട്ടിച്ചേർക്കാനല്ലേ മനു ഉദ്ദേശിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നത്? പൂർത്തിയായി --Vssun (സംവാദം) 19:36, 28 ഏപ്രിൽ 2012 (UTC)

അതെ അതെ... കൂട്ടിചേർക്കലുകൾ ശെരിയാണ്. വളരെ നന്ദി. - എസ്.മനു (സംവാദം) 08:44, 29 ഏപ്രിൽ 2012 (UTC)

mw:Extension:Collection പ്രത്യേകം:പുസ്തകം

വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിൽ പുസ്തകങ്ങൾ അച്ചടിക്കായി സൃഷ്ടിക്കുന്നതിന് പ്രത്യേകം:പുസ്തകം എന്നൊരു സംവിധാനം നിലവിലുണ്ട്. സ്വതവേ pdf ആയി പുസ്തകങ്ങൾ സൃഷ്ടിക്കാവുന്ന ഈ സൗകര്യം, പക്ഷേ ഭാരതീയഭാഷകളുടെ കോപ്ലെക്സ് സ്ക്രിപ്റ്റ് റെന്ററിങ്ങ് പ്രശ്നം കാരണം വികൃതമായിട്ടാണ് ഔട്ട്പുട്ട് ലഭിക്കുന്നത്. ഇത് പരിഹരിക്കാൻ നിലവിൽ ശ്രമങ്ങൾ നടക്കുന്നുണ്ടെങ്കിലും ഉപയോഗത്തിലാവാൻ ഇനിയും കാലം പിടിച്ചേക്കാം. അതിനാൽ ഈ സൗകര്യത്തിൽ pdf ന് പകരം സ്വതന്ത്ര ഡോക്യുമെന്റ് ഫോർമാറ്റ് ആയ odt സ്വതവേയുള്ള ഫോർമാറ്റ് ആയി മലയാളം വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിൽ ചേർക്കുന്നത് നന്നായിരിക്കും.നിങ്ങളുടെ വോട്ടും അഭിപ്രായവും രേഖപ്പെടുത്തുക. --മനോജ്‌ .കെ 18:04, 17 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)

അഭിപ്രായങ്ങൾ

അനുകൂലം

• അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു : പക്ഷേ, odt-യിൽ, നമ്മൾ pdf-ഇൽ നേരിടുന്ന പ്രശ്നം ഉണ്ടാകില്ല എന്ന് ഉറപ്പാണോ? :- എന്ന് സ്വന്തം - എസ്.മനു (സംവാദം) 05:37, 18 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)
• അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു: --പ്രവീൺ:സം‌വാദം 06:56, 18 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)
• അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു: ----റംഷാദ് (സംവാദം) 06:51, 25 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)

bug

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37672

ഫലകങ്ങളിലെ ചൂടൻപൂച്ച

ഫലകങ്ങളിൽ ചൂടൻപൂച്ച(ഹോട്ട്ക്യാറ്റ്) ജോലിചെയ്യാത്തതെന്താണ്? :- എന്ന് സ്വന്തം - എസ്.മനു (സംവാദം) 09:07, 24 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)

ഫലകങ്ങളിൽ ചൂടൻ പൂച്ച ഉപയോഗിക്കുമ്പോൾ അത് ആ ഫലകം ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന താളുകളേയും ബാധിക്കും. അതിനാലാകണം ആ സൗകര്യം ഡിസേബിൽ ചെയ്തിരിക്കുന്നത്. --മനോജ്‌ .കെ 15:14, 27 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)

അതുപോലെ വർഗ്ഗങ്ങളുടെ പേരുമാറ്റാൻ സാധിക്കുകയില്ലേ? :- എന്ന് സ്വന്തം - എസ്.മനു (സംവാദം) 09:07, 24 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)

താളുകൾ പേരുമാറ്റുന്ന പോലെ വർഗ്ഗങ്ങൾ പേരുമാറ്റാനാകില്ല. ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട താളിൽ പോയി പഴയ വർഗ്ഗം നീക്കം ചെയ്ത് പുതിയ വർഗ്ഗം ചേർക്കണം. --മനോജ്‌ .കെ 15:18, 27 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)

BotAdmin

ജനുവരി 24-ലെ തിരുത്തുകൾ ശ്രദ്ധിക്കുക. ഇത്തരം ആവശ്യങ്ങൾക്ക് ബോട്ട്അഡ്മിൻ യൂസർ ഗ്രൂപ്പ് (വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലും നിഘണ്ടുവിലും ഉള്ളതുപോലെ) ഇവിടെ ഉള്ളത് നന്നായിരിക്കും. എതിരഭിപ്രായങ്ങളില്ലെങ്കിൽ ബഗ് സമർപ്പിക്കാം. --Vssun (സംവാദം) 04:18, 25 ജനുവരി 2013 (UTC)

--സിദ്ധാർത്ഥൻ (സംവാദം) 04:43, 25 ജനുവരി 2013 (UTC)

• അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു--തച്ചന്റെ മകൻ (സംവാദം) 06:01, 25 ജനുവരി 2013 (UTC)
• അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു--:- എന്ന് - അരയശ്ശേരിൽ സുബ്രഹ്മണ്യപ്പണിക്കർ മനു✆ 06:27, 25 ജനുവരി 2013 (UTC)
• അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു--ബാലു (സംവാദം) 06:45, 25 ജനുവരി 2013 (UTC)
• അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു--മനോജ്‌ .കെ (സംവാദം) 09:57, 25 ജനുവരി 2013 (UTC)

ഇതിനുവേണ്ടിയുള്ള ബഗ്: bugzilla:44335 --Vssun (സംവാദം) 06:49, 25 ജനുവരി 2013 (UTC)

- ഈ ഉപയോക്തൃവിഭാഗം നിലവിൽവന്നു. --Vssun (സംവാദം) 08:24, 28 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2013 (UTC)

അദ്ധ്യായങ്ങൾ തിരിക്കൽ

ഒരു ഡെജാവു താളിന്റെ പകുതിയിൽ അദ്ധ്യായങ്ങൾ അവസാനിക്കുകയും, മറ്റൊന്നു തുടങ്ങുകയും ചെയ്യുമ്പോൾ, നമ്മൾ സാധാരണയായി, ഉള്ളടക്കത്തെ പകുത്ത് മറ്റൊരു താളിൽ ഉൾക്കൊള്ളിക്കുകയും includeonly, noinclude വെച്ച് ഉൾപ്പെടുത്തലുകൾ നടത്തുകയുമാണല്ലോ ചെയ്യുന്നത്? ഈ രീതിക്ക് ഒന്നുകിൽ താളുകളായി വായിക്കുമ്പോൾ, കുറച്ചു ഉള്ളടക്കം ഒരുതാളിലില്ലാതെ വരുകയോ അല്ലെങ്കിൽ ഒരേ ഉള്ളടക്കം പലതാളുകളിൽ വരുകയോ ചെയ്യില്ലേ? നമുക്ക് ഒരേ ഉള്ളടക്കം ഒരു പ്രാവശ്യം എഴുതിക്കൊണ്ട്, പല താളുകളിൽ ചേർക്കാൻ കഴിയില്ലേ? ഈ ഫലകങ്ങൾ പോലെ എന്തെങ്കിലും? --:- എന്ന് - അരയശ്ശേരിൽ സുബ്രഹ്മണ്യപ്പണിക്കർ മനു✆ 06:58, 15 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2013 (UTC)

1. ഒരു പ്രോഡക്റ്റായി നമ്മൾ അദ്ധ്യായങ്ങളെയാണ് കണക്കാക്കേണ്ടത്. അങ്ങനെ നോക്കുമ്പോൾ ഇപ്പോഴുപയോഗിക്കുന്ന രീതിയിൽ തെറ്റൊന്നുമില്ല. ഒരേ ഉള്ളടക്കം രണ്ടു താളുകളിൽ വരുമെങ്കിലും.
2. താളുകളായി വായിക്കുമ്പോൾ, കുറച്ചുള്ളടക്കം താളിലില്ലാതെ വരുന്ന പ്രശ്നമില്ലല്ലോ. ഉണ്ടെങ്കിൽ അതിനൊരുദാഹരണം കാണിക്കാമോ?
3. ഒരു സൊല്യൂഷനുള്ളത്, പരാമീറ്ററുകൾ ഉപയോഗിച്ച് ചെയ്യാമെന്നാണ്. പക്ഷേ അങ്ങനെയുപയോഗിക്കുമ്പോൾ അദ്ധ്യായം താളുകൾ കുറച്ചുകൂടി സങ്കീർണമാകും. അതായത് ഇത്തരം ത്രിശങ്കുത്താളുകളെ, അദ്ധ്യായം താളിൽ {{താൾ:ഉദാഹരണം.djvu/213|section = 1}} എന്ന് പരാമീറ്റർ കൊടുത്ത് ഉൾപ്പെടുത്തേണ്ടിവരും. താളുകൾക്കകത്തും ഇത്തരം പരാമീറ്ററുകൾ സ്വീകരിക്കാൻ പാകത്തിന് സജ്ജീകരണം നടത്തേണ്ടതായും വരും --Vssun (സംവാദം) 08:03, 15 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2013 (UTC)

സുനിലിപ്പോൾ ചെയ്യുന്ന രീതിയിൽ ചെയ്തിട്ടുള്ള താളുകളല്ല. താൾ:Geography textbook 4th std tranvancore 1936.djvu/14 താൾ:Geography textbook 4th std tranvancore 1936.djvu/15 ഈ താളുകൾ നോക്കിയേ, ഇതിൽ ഒരു ഉള്ളടക്കം മറ്റൊന്നിലേക്കു പകർത്തിയിരിക്കുന്നു. ഇനി സുനിൽ ഇപ്പോൾ ചെയ്യുന്നതുപോലെയാണെങ്കിൽ ഒരേ ഉള്ളടക്കം നമ്മൾ രണ്ടുതാളുകളിലിട്ടിട്ടില്ലേ? എന്തെങ്കിലും തിരുത്തൽ നടത്താൻ നമ്മൾ രണ്ടിടത്തു നടത്തണം. ഒന്നു അദ്ധ്യായത്തിൽ വരുന്നിടത്തും, (includeonly) ഒന്നു താളിൽ വരുന്നിടത്തും (noinclude) കുലസ്ത്രീയിൽ നമ്മൾ ഇതു ഉപയോഗിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ടല്ലോ!. Database ഇന്റെ ഒരു അടിസ്ഥാന concept ആണ് ഒരു വിവരം രണ്ടിടത്ത് സൂക്ഷിക്കരുത്. അതു വിവരത്തെ തെറ്റിക്കും ☺ No data should be stored in multiple locations, that will lead to data being obsolete. --:- എന്ന് - അരയശ്ശേരിൽ സുബ്രഹ്മണ്യപ്പണിക്കർ മനു✆ 09:15, 15 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2013 (UTC)

ഈ ഉള്ളടക്കത്തെ പകുക്കാതെ, വലതുവശത്തെ ചിത്രത്തിൽ ഉള്ള അത്രയും തന്നെ ഒരു താളിൽ മതി എന്ന് തീരുമാനിച്ചാൽ ഇപ്പോ എന്താ പ്രശ്നം? എനിക്ക് മനസ്സിലായില്ല. കൃതിയുടെ താൾ ഉണ്ടാക്കുമ്പോൾ പ്രശ്നം ഒന്നും ഇല്ലല്ലോ?--ബാലു (സംവാദം) 11:17, 15 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2013 (UTC)

തിരുവിതാംകൂർ ഭൂമിശാസ്ത്രം/അദ്ധ്യായം ൨., തിരുവിതാംകൂർ ഭൂമിശാസ്ത്രം/അദ്ധ്യായം ൩. ഇതു രണ്ടുമാണ് പ്രശ്നം. ആ താളുകൾ വരുന്നിടത്ത് നോക്കിയേ! --:- എന്ന് - അരയശ്ശേരിൽ സുബ്രഹ്മണ്യപ്പണിക്കർ മനു✆ 11:20, 15 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2013 (UTC)

ഓ ഇപ്പോളാണ് പിടികിട്ടിയത്. അദ്ധ്യായങ്ങൾ പുതിയ പേജുകൾ ആക്കുമ്പോൾ പ്രശ്നമുണ്ടല്ലേ. അങ്ങനെ ആക്കാതിരുന്നാൽ പോരെ? മുകളിൽ TOC കൊടുത്തിട്ട്, താഴേക്ക് എല്ലാം കൂടി ഒരുമിച്ച് കൊടുത്താൽ പോരേ?--ബാലു (സംവാദം) 11:24, 15 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2013 (UTC)

ഉള്ളടക്കം വളരെ കൂടുതലുണ്ടാകുമ്പോൾ അതു വായിക്കുന്നവർക്കൊരു പാരയാണ്. മഹാഭാരതം മൂലം (വ്യാസൻ)/ആദിപർവം ഇതൊക്കെ നോക്കിയേ, പകുതിവായിച്ചിട്ട് ഒന്നു കണ്ണു തെറ്റിയാൽ, മൊത്തം പരതേണ്ടിവരും. അദ്ധ്യാങ്ങളാക്കിയാൽ വായിക്കാനും മറ്റും എളുപ്പമാണ്. --:- എന്ന് - അരയശ്ശേരിൽ സുബ്രഹ്മണ്യപ്പണിക്കർ മനു✆ 11:38, 15 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2013 (UTC)

എങ്കിൽ <pages index> എന്ന വിന്യാസത്തിന്റെ കൂടെ വരികളുടെ എണ്ണം കുടെ കൊടുക്കാൻ പാകത്തിന് ആക്കണം. <pages index = xyz.djvu;lines=12>--ബാലു (സംവാദം) 11:44, 15 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2013 (UTC)

ചില മാറ്റങ്ങൾ വരുത്തിയിട്ടുണ്ട്. ശരിയായോ എന്ന് പരിശോധിക്കാമോ? --സിദ്ധാർത്ഥൻ (സംവാദം) 11:57, 15 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2013 (UTC)

അതു ഭീകരമായിരുന്നു...( പൊളച്ചു എന്നൊക്കെ പറയുന്ന പോലെ.. ) ☺ --:- എന്ന് - അരയശ്ശേരിൽ സുബ്രഹ്മണ്യപ്പണിക്കർ മനു✆ 12:00, 15 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2013 (UTC)

തകർത്തടുക്കി --ബാലു (സംവാദം) 12:23, 15 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2013 (UTC)

തിരുവിതാംകൂർ ഭൂമിശാസ്ത്രം പൂർത്തിയാക്കിയിട്ടുണ്ട്. പരിശോധിക്കുമല്ലോ. --സിദ്ധാർത്ഥൻ (സംവാദം) 13:08, 15 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2013 (UTC)

വല്യ --Vssun (സംവാദം) 17:25, 15 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2013 (UTC)

ഫലകം:Collaboration

ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് വിക്കിസോഴ്സിലെ പ്രധാനതാളിലുള്ള ഈ ഫലകം ഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിലേയ്ക്ക് ചേർക്കുന്നത് നന്നായിരിക്കും എന്ന് തോന്നുന്നു. ഓരോ സമയത്തെ പദ്ധതികൾ പ്രധാനതാളിൽ കാണിക്കുന്നതും ഇത് വഴി നിയന്ത്രിക്കാനും സാധിക്കും എന്നാന് മനസ്സിലാക്കുന്നത്. http://ml.wikisource.org/wiki/ഫലകം:Collaboration പരീക്ഷണാടിസ്ഥാനത്തിൽ ചേർത്തിട്ടുണ്ട്. പൂമുഖത്ത് ചേർത്തത് Manojk/Lab/പൂമുഖം. ഇതൊന്ന് പൂർണ്ണമാക്കുകയും ഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിലെ പ്രധാനതാളിൽ ചേർക്കാനും അറിയുന്നവർ സഹായിക്കൂ. --മനോജ്‌ .കെ 14:49, 30 ജൂൺ 2011 (UTC)

പ്രധാനതാളിലെ പരീക്ഷണാടിസ്ഥാനത്തിലുള്ള മാറ്റം ശ്രദ്ധിക്കുമല്ലോ.ഇപ്പോഴും അത് പൂർണ്ണമായിട്ടില്ല. Collaboration എന്നതിൽ പ്രൂഫ് റീഡിങ്ങ് പ്രത്യേക പദ്ധതിയായി ചെയ്യാനില്ലാത്തതിനാൽ ആ ഭാഗം ഒഴിവാക്കിയിട്ടുണ്ട്. --മനോജ്‌ .കെ 21:30, 2 ജൂലൈ 2011 (UTC)

'കുലസ്ത്രീയും' 'ചന്തപ്പെണ്ണും' ഉണ്ടായതെങ്ങനെ?

സൂചിക:Kulastreeyum_Chanthapennum_Undayathengane.djvu ഈ പുസ്തകത്തിനാവശ്യമായ ഫലകങ്ങളും മറ്റും ഉണ്ടാക്കാൻ സാങ്കേതിക സഹായം ആവശ്യമുണ്ട്. പുസ്തകത്തിനോട് നീതി പുലർത്തുന്ന രീതിയിൽ ഫോർമാറ്റ് ചെയ്യുക ശ്രമകരമാണ്.--മനോജ്‌ .കെ 07:33, 15 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2011 (UTC)

ഗ്രാഫിക്സെല്ലാം അതേപടി അനുകരിക്കേണ്ടതില്ലെന്ന് കരുതുന്നു. --Junaidpv 07:44, 15 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2011 (UTC)

യന്ത്രപദവി

പരീക്ഷണങ്ങൾക്കായി MkBot ന് താല്ക്കാലിക പ്രവർത്തനാനുമതി തേടുന്നു. ഇപ്പോൾ ഇതിന് പ്രത്യേകലക്ഷ്യങ്ങളൊന്നുമില്ല.--മനോജ്‌ .കെ 16:12, 15 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2011 (UTC)

ഇവിടെ--14.139.45.241 08:57, 16 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2011 (UTC)

കുത്തിട്ട രേഫം

കുത്തിട്ട രേഫം, യൂനികോഡിൽ മാപ്പ് ചെയ്തിട്ടുണ്ടെങ്കിലും ഇതിനെ ഏതെങ്കിലും ഫോണ്ടൂകൾ പിന്തുണക്കുന്നുണ്ടോ? ഇത് നമ്മൾ ഉപയോഗിക്കണോ? --Vssun 01:09, 5 ഒക്ടോബർ 2011 (UTC)

കുത്തിട്ട രേഫം തന്നെ ഉപയോഗിക്കണം എന്ന് കരുതുന്നു. ശരിയായ ഫോണ്ട് ഉപയോഗിക്കാത്തത് നമ്മുടെ കുറ്റമല്ലേ? --Junaidpv 18:27, 5 ഒക്ടോബർ 2011 (UTC)

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വിക്കിമീഡിയ ടെക്നിക്കൽ സമൂഹത്തിൽനിന്നുള്ള ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ ടെൿ വാർത്തകൾ. ദയവുചെയ്ത് മറ്റുള്ളവരെ ഈ മാറ്റങ്ങളെ കുറിച്ച് അറിയിക്കുക. എല്ലാ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ നിങ്ങളെ ബാധിക്കുകയില്ല. മറ്റു വിവർത്തനങ്ങളും ലഭ്യമാണ്.

അടുത്തുകാലത്ത് നടന്ന സോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയർ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

• മീഡിയാവിക്കിയുടെ ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ പതിപ്പ് (1.24wmf4) ടെസ്റ്റ് വിക്കികളിലും MediaWiki.org-ഇലും മേയ് 8-ന് പതിപ്പിച്ചു. വിക്കിപീഡിയ അല്ലാത്ത വിക്കികളിൽ മേയ് 13-നും എല്ലാ വിക്കിപീഡിയകളിലും മേയ് 15-നും പതിപ്പിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും.

വിഷ്വൽഎഡിറ്റർ വാർത്തകൾ

• വിഷ്വൽഎഡിറ്ററിൽ അവലംബങ്ങൾ ചേർത്തേണ്ട പുതിയ സംവിധാനം ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് വിക്കിപീഡിയയിൽ അവതരിപ്പിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു. അടുത്തുതന്നെ കൂടുതൽ വിക്കികളിൽ അവതരിപ്പിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും. [1]
• മുമ്പ് വിഷ്വൽഎഡിറ്ററിൽ ശരിയായി പ്രവൃത്തിക്കാത്ത ഫലകങ്ങൾ ഇപ്പോൾ ശരിയായി പ്രവൃത്തിക്കേണ്ടതാണ്. [2]

ഭാവിയിൽ സോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയറിലുള്ള മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

• അടുത്തുതന്നെ വർഗ്ഗങ്ങളുടെ വിവരണ താളുകളുടെ തലക്കെട്ട് മാറ്റാൻ കഴിയും. പക്ഷെ മാറ്റിയ വർഗ്ഗങ്ങളിലുള്ള താളുകളെ ഒന്നൊന്നായി മാറ്റേണ്ടിവരും. [3] [4]
• അല്പസമയത്തിനുള്ളിൽ നിങ്ങൾ ശ്രദ്ധിക്കുന്നവയുടെ താളിൽ നിന്ന് ഒരു ക്ലിക്ക് കൊണ്ട് അല്ലെങ്കിൽ എപിഐയിൽനിന്ന് എല്ലാം മായ്ക്കാൻ കഴിയും. [5] [6] [7] [8]
• അല്പസമയത്തിനുള്ളിൽ Special:Flow ഉപയോഗിച്ച് ഫ്ലോ പോസ്റ്റുകളോടും വർക്ക്ഫ്ലോകളോടും ലിങ്ക് ചെയ്യാൻ കഴിയും. [9] [10]
• ജെക്വറി ജാവാസ്ക്രിപ്റ്റ് ലൈബ്രറിയെ അടുത്തുതന്നെ നവീകരിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും. അതിനുശേഷം നിങ്ങളുടെ ഗാഡ്ജറ്റുകളും സ്ക്രിപ്റ്റുകളും ശരിയായി പ്രവൃത്തിക്കുന്നുണ്ടെന്ന് ദയവുചെയ്തു പരിശോധിക്കുക. [11]
• വെക്റ്റർ ദൃശ്യരൂപത്തിൽ സൈഡ്ബാർ കുറച്ച് ലോഡ് ചെയ്യുന്നതിനു ശേഷം ചുരുങ്ങുകയില്ല. ഇതുകാരണം ഈ ദൃശ്യരൂപം കൂടുതൽ വേഗത്തിൽ പ്രവൃത്തിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും. [12] [13] [14]
• വിക്കിമീഡിയ കോമൺസിൽ മീഡിയാവ്യൂവർ എല്ലാ ഉപയോക്താക്കൾക്കും മേയ് 15-നു ഉപയോഗിക്കാൻ കഴിയും. പ്രതികരണം അഭ്യർത്ഥിക്കുന്നു.
• മേയ് 14-നു 18:00 അന്താരാഷ്ട്ര സമയക്രമത്തിൽ ഫാബ്രിക്കേറ്ററെ പറ്റി ഐ. ആർ സി.യിൽ #wikimedia-office എന്ന ചാനലിൽ ഫ്രീനോഡിൽ ഉണ്ടാവുന്നതായിരിക്കും (മറ്റു സമയമേഖലകളിൽ). [15]
• ജൂൺ 30-നു ടൂൾസെർവ്വർ ടൂളുകളുടെ പ്രവർത്തനം നിർത്തുന്നതായിരിക്കും. ദയവുചെയ്തു അതിനുമുമ്പെ ടൂൾസെർവരിലേക്ക് ലിങ്ക് ചെയ്യുന്ന ടൂൾസിനെ മാറ്റി ടൂൾ ലാബ്സിലേക്കു ലിങ്ക് ചെയ്യിക്കുക. [16]

പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ

• മേയ് 3-നും 6-നും ഇടയിൽ സോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയർ വിന്യാസപ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ കാരണം തമ്പ്നെയലുകൾ വരുത്തുന്നതിൽ പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു. [17] [18]

ടെക്ക് അംബാസഡർമാർ തയ്യാറക്കുന്ന ടെക്ക് വാർത്തകൾ മീഡിയാവിക്കി മെസേജ് ഡെലിവറി അയക്കുന്നു. •സഹായിക്കുക •വിവർത്തനം തയ്യാറാക്കുക •സഹായം വാങ്ങുക •പ്രതികരിക്കുക •സബ്‌സ്ക്രൈബ് അല്ലെങ്കിൽ അൺസബ്‌സ്ക്രൈബ് ചെയ്യുക.

06:00, 12 മേയ് 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-21

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

Tech News updates

• Tech News is one year old this week; thank you for being with us!

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf5) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendar).
• The jQuery JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work. [19] [20] [21]
• MediaViewer was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22. Feedback is welcome. [22] [23]
• VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferences. [24] [25]
• You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014.

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys. [26] [27]
• VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like {{cite_web}} and not just {{Cite web}}. [28] [29]
• VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it. [30] [31]
• VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit. [32]
• The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. [33] [34]

Future software changes

• User ID number will no longer be visible in preferences. [35] [36]

Problems

• For several hours on May 16, there were problems with loading gadgets on some wikis due to a server problem. [37]

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07:18, 19 മേയ് 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-22

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar).
• MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them. [38] [39] [40] [41]
• A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the File: namespace was fixed last week. [42] [43]
• VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled. [44] [45]
• It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed. [46]
• VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names. [47]

Future software changes

• Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade. [48]
• It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard tool. [49] [50]
• Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax [[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]] will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear. [51] [52] [53]
• You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki. [54] [55]

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08:29, 26 മേയ് 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-23

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30. [56]

VisualEditor news

• Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target. [57]
• The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [58] [59]
• VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons. [60]
• There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters: date for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. [61]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.
• You will soon see a warning if you visit a contributions page for a user that does not exist. [62] [63]
• The search tab will soon be removed from user preferences. You will be able to set your search preferences on Special:Search. [64] [65]
• You will soon see a label next to the little triangle arrow for the Actions menu in the Vector skin (screenshot). [66] [67]

Problems

• For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error. [68]

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08:07, 2 ജൂൺ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-24

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar).
• You can now use guided tours on the Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [69] [70]

VisualEditor news

• You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor. [71] [72]
• The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content. [73] [74] [75]
• You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor. [76] [77]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback is welcome. [78]
• You will be able to use information from Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10. [79]
• On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page migration tool to import existing translations to the new system. [80] [81]
• You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (example video, example audio). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly. [82] [83]
• Templates containing <ref> or <references> tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching. [84] [85] [86]
• You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it. [87] [88]
• Hovercards will no longer flicker. [89]

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07:39, 9 ജൂൺ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-25

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

Reminder

• You can subscribe to the wikitech-ambassadors mailing list to get news more quickly and to send feedback or report problems.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 17, and to all Wikipedias on June 19 (calendar).
• You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for May 2014.

VisualEditor news

• You can now easily see the target of a link or other information using the context menu. [90]
• When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to switch it to re-use another reference. [91] [92]
• You can now add and edit {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and __DISAMBIG__ in the page settings menu. [93] [94] [95] [96]
• The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler; the order of mathematical symbols is now correct. [97] [98] [99]

Future software changes

• Media Viewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 19. Feedback is welcome. [100]
• You will no longer be able to use navigation popups and Hovercards at the same time. [101]
• You will no longer see image thumbnails on search results pages on Wikibooks and Wikisource wikis. [102] [103]
• It will soon be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [104] [105]
• Tablet users will be redirected to the mobile view of Wikimedia wikis starting on June 17. [106]
• The special page that lists most linked-to templates will soon include pages from all namespaces; it will also be renamed to Special:MostTranscludedPages. [107]
• An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on June 17 at 17:30 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). You can also read a blog post about the upcoming switch to Phabricator.
• You can now comment on the draft 2014-15 goals of the Wikimedia Foundation engineering department. [108]

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07:13, 16 ജൂൺ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-26

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 19. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 24, and to all Wikipedias on June 26 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

• You can now drag-and-drop selections of content, not just files and templates. [109] [110]
• When dragging an item, you will now see a line that helps you to drop it. [111] [112]
• You can now only move an image to the start of a paragraph, not to the middle of it, so you don't accidentally split it. [113] [114]
• You will now be warned if you add wikitext to file captions and references. [115] [116]

Future software changes

• You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [117] [118]
• CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on additional 70 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and Wikimedia Incubator, during the next week. [119]
• CirrusSearch results will soon take into account categories, the first paragraph and the wikitext of a page. You will also be able to use regular expressions to search the wikitext. It will take a few days for the changes to be enabled on all wikis. [120]
• You will soon be able to watch translations for e-mail notifications without receiving an e-mail when they are reviewed by another translator. [121] [122]
• An IRC meeting to organize old high priority MediaWiki bug reports will take place on June 24 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [123]

Problems

• On June 19, all wikis were broken for about 15 minutes due to a high server load.
• Between June 13 and June 15 there were problems with the scaling of video files due to a configuration error. [124]

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07:20, 23 ജൂൺ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-27

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 26. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 1, and to all Wikipedias on July 3 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

• Context menus in VisualEditor will no longer flicker and disappear when you insert a new reference, formula, image, etc. [125] [126]
• A bug that prevented relocating items due to cache was fixed last week. [127] [128]
• VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the bottom of the page when you try to edit section 0. When you try to add a formula, VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the top of the page. [129] [130] [131] [132]
• Links to category pages or file pages added with VisualEditor will now work correctly. [133] [134]

Future software changes

• You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [135] [136]
• Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead.
• CirrusSearch will be enabled on June 30 as the primary search method on 34 new wikis, including the Czech (cs), Danish (da), Finnish (fi) and Hebrew (he) Wikipedias. [137]
• All Wikimedia wikis will be using a security method called perfect forward secrecy starting on July 1. If you see a problem, please report it. [138] [139]
• Starting on July 1, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [140]
• You will soon see block information when you visit the contributions page or try to edit the user page or user talk page of a user who is affected by an IP range block. [141] [142]
• You will soon be able to use {{!}} as a magic word to produce the pipe character, for instance for use in tables. [143]

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06:53, 30 ജൂൺ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-28

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

Tech News updates

• We are looking for contributors to help write a new issue every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 3. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 8, and to all Wikipedias on July 10 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was enabled on July 1 as the primary search method on 36 new wikis, including the Norwegian (no), Portuguese (pt) and Ukrainian (uk) Wikipedias. [144]
• It is now possible to create Atom or RSS feeds for Word of the Day, Word of the Week and similar entries on Wiktionary wikis. [145] [146]
• You can now use a graphical interface to edit TemplateData information on the English (en), French (fr) and Italian (it) Wikipedias. [147] [148]

VisualEditor news

• Saving an edit with VisualEditor will now be much faster. [149] [150]
• You can now add a caption when you add a file to a page with VisualEditor. You can also change the file to a different one and keep the existing caption. [151] [152] [153]
• When you switch to the Edit source tab, you are now asked to keep your changes. You no longer need to find the option in the menus. [154] [155] [156]
• The reference tool that adds empty <ref></ref> tags is now at the bottom of the Cite menu, below references that use templates like {{Cite web}}. [157]
• Context menus will no longer be shown over items that you can edit directly, for example formulæ. [158] [159] [160]

Future software changes

• Starting on July 9, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. The feature was first scheduled for July 1, but was delayed due to bugs.
• A plan to enable CirrusSearch as the primary search method on the 11 largest Wikimedia wikis has now been prepared. [161]
• If you use references on a page, you will soon always see them at the bottom of the page, even if you forget to add the <references /> tag (or a template). [162] [163]
• Black-and-white XCF images will soon display correctly. [164] [165]
• Description pages of SVG files will soon always show download links for multiple resolutions (example). The links were previously shown only for SVG files in large original resolutions. [166] [167]

Problems

• Between July 2-3, there were problems with loading pages on multiple wikis due to a configuration issue. [168] [169]
• For a few hours on July 1, there were problems with uploading new files on Wikimedia Commons due to a configuration error. [170] [171]

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07:07, 7 ജൂലൈ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-29

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 15, and to all Wikipedias on July 17 (calendar).
• It is now possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. Please go to the username changes page on Meta if you want to rename your account on all wikis. [172] [173]
• You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for June 2014.
• You can now read the latest issue of the Wikidata newsletter and translate it into your language.

VisualEditor news

• The tool to add templates and citations will now work for templates that include HTML comments or templates in their titles. [174] [175]
• The button to make images full size should now work correctly. [176] [177] [178]
• References will now be shown in the default font size again. [179]

Future software changes

• CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on the Dutch (nl) and Japanese (ja) Wikipedias on July 14, and on the Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias on July 16. [180]
• The Special:Version page will soon show the exact version of MediaWiki and all extensions installed on your wiki (example). [181] [182]
• It will soon no longer be possible to order printed books of wiki articles via PediaPress. You will still be able to create PDF files. [183]
• Pages that use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''}} more than once will soon show a warning. You can use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''|noerror}} to hide it. [184] [185]
• Pages that have the list of references added automatically will soon be added to a tracking category. Administrators will be able to configure the name of the category on their wikis. [186] [187]
• Administrators will soon be able to easily merge histories of two pages using Special:MergeHistory. [188] [189]
• Administrators will soon see links to delete files on Special:ListFiles. [190]

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07:48, 14 ജൂലൈ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-30

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 22, and to all Wikipedias on July 24 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was removed as the primary search method from Wikimedia Commons and the Spanish (es) Wikipedia due to a high server load. The plan to enable it on the Dutch (nl), Japanese (ja), Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias was also postponed to a later date. [191] [192] [193]
• The tool that stores information about languages (CLDR) was updated to its latest version. You can still help translate language names into your own language so they can be used in the sidebar and other places. [194]
• Translation memory for newly translatable pages should now offer more suggestions. [195] [196]
• A tool to convert MediaWiki pages to LaTeX is now available on Tool Labs. [197]

VisualEditor news

• Tablet users visiting the mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will be able to use a special version of VisualEditor starting on July 31. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu. Feedback is welcome. [198]
• All windows in VisualEditor have now a new design. Main action buttons will always be located in the top bar and will use simple words rather than icons. [199]
• You can now easily open links inside the link editor, for example to see their target. [200]
• Several bugs related to the positioning of the cursor around some items (like images and references) were fixed last week. [201] [202] [203] [204] [205] [206]

Future software changes

• It will soon be possible to watch individual discussions in the Topic namespace rather than whole pages for talk pages using Flow. [207]
• You can give comments about the new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [208]
• An IRC meeting to organize Pywikibot bugs will take place from July 24 to July 27 on the channel #pywikibot on freenode. [209]
• A request for comments on how to improve MediaWiki API was re-started on MediaWiki.org. Your feedback is welcome.

Problems

• Mailing lists were broken for about 16 hours between July 14 and July 15 due to a server problem. [210]

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07:41, 21 ജൂലൈ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-31

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 29, and to all Wikipedias on July 31 (calendar).
• You can now download the latest version of the anti-vandalism tool Huggle.

VisualEditor news

• You can now create, edit, and view HTML comments in VisualEditor. [211] [212]
• The cancel button in VisualEditor toolbar has been removed. You can still use the Read tab and the Back button in your browser to cancel your edit. [213]
• If you try to use a template which has no suggested or required parameters in TemplateData, you will now be asked to add the parameters. [214] [215]
• You will no longer be able to edit a page if you can't create it, for example on pages protected against recreation. [216] [217]

Future software changes

• You will soon be able to filter Meta-Wiki's user rights log by wiki and user. [218] [219]
• Wikidata will soon be able to store data about article status, for example "good article" or "featured article". If your wiki has highlighted content, please make sure it is on Wikidata's list. [220]
• It will soon be possible to directly create empty pages, for example in the user namespace. [221] [222]

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08:08, 28 ജൂലൈ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-32

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

Tech News updates

• Tech News will be presented at the Wikimania 2014 conference in London! If you will be attending the conference, please join us in Auditorium 2 at 14:30 local time on Sunday, August 10.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 31. Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, it will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [223]
• You can now test a new tool to render wiki pages as PDF files. [224] [225] [226]
• You can now download an update to the archive of Wikimedia Commons files (uploaded up to December 31, 2013). If you have free space on your computer, please help preserve the files. [227]
• New users using the mobile Commons site now need to make 75 edits before they can upload a file. [228] [229]

VisualEditor news

• You will no longer see an edit confirmation message after making a null edit with VisualEditor. [230] [231]
• VisualEditor will no longer change underscores to spaces in category sort keys. [232]
• Many bugs that resulted in inserting the pawn and snowman symbols were fixed last week. [233] [234] [235] [236]
• Several bugs related to the use of references were also fixed. [237] [238] [239] [240]

Future software changes

• You will soon have a user option to watch pages where you revert edits. [241] [242]
• All Toolserver data will be deleted in September. If you want to back up your data, contact Toolserver administrators before August 31. [243]
• Pages in the Translations: namespace on wikis using the Translate extension will no longer be indexed by search engines. [244]

Problems

• Wikivoyage wikis were broken for about 45 minutes on July 29 due to a configuration problem. [245]
• Some users were not able to log in on test wikis and MediaWiki.org between July 31 and August 1. The problem is now fixed. [246]

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07:37, 4 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-33

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

Recent software changes

• Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, there were no MediaWiki changes this week. The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [247]
• Bureaucrats on all Wikivoyage wikis are no longer able to merge two accounts into one. [248]

VisualEditor news

• Tablet users visiting the mobile version of non-Wikipedia wikis will be able to use VisualEditor starting on August 12. The feature will also be enabled on all Wikipedias on August 14. [249]

Future software changes

• Internet Explorer 6 users will soon see a JavaScript-free version of Wikimedia wikis; JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work on that browser. If you use Internet Explorer 6, make sure to update to a newer browser! [250] [251] [252]
• If you visit a special page that requires you to be logged-in, you will soon be automatically redirected to the log-in page instead of seeing a warning. [253] [254]
• You will now always see recent changes to the source language text when editing a translation with the Translate extension. [255] [256]
• An IRC meeting to discuss VisualEditor will take place on August 14 at 09:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [257]

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07:43, 11 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-34

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf17) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 21 (calendar).
• There is a new protection level called superprotection. At the moment, only some Wikimedia Foundation employees have access to it. Administrators can't edit "superprotected" pages. [258] [259] [260]
• You can now create empty pages directly. A message asks you to confirm that you want to create an empty page. [261] [262]
• You can search for Wikimedia tools using a new list of tools. [263]
• You can watch the first videos from Wikimania 2014. Some of them are about technical topics. More videos will come later.

Wikidata

• After August 19, you can use Wikidata for inter language links on Wikinews. [264]
• After August 19, you can use Wikidata for badges like "good" or "featured" articles. Next week, you will be able to show the badges in the article sidebar on Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikiquote. [265]

Problems

• There was an issue with ProofreadPage and WikiEditor on Wikisource wikis. It is now fixed. [266] [267]

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07:16, 18 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-35

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

VisualEditor news

• There was a error when you put your cursor directly after a reference list. It is now fixed. [268]
• You can now add colors to links in the editor using gadgets. You can do this to see links to redirects or disambiguation pages. [269]
• If you use Internet Explorer, you will soon be able to use VisualEditor. [270] [271] [272]

Future software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf18) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 28 (calendar).
• After August 26, you will have a central JavaScript and CSS page. They will be on Meta-Wiki and will work on all wikis. Read more on the help page. [273]

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09:21, 25 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-36

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

Recent software changes

• You can now test a new Beta Feature to see links to other wikis in the sidebar. The links come from Wikidata. [274] [275]
• You can now search pages that link to a page. Use the linksto: keyword in your search. [276] [277]
• A redirect to a section now changes the URL in the address bar of your browser. If "Dog" redirects to "Animals#Dog", you now see "Animals#Dog" instead of "Dog#Dog". [278] [279]
• If you are testing Flow, you now have a Flow tab in your Notifications. It is called "Messages". [280]

VisualEditor news

• You can no longer delete required fields in templates. [281]
• We fixed many Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 11, you will get VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [282] [283] [284]
• VisualEditor now looks better in Monobook. [285]
• We fixed a bug where some of your typing could be undone when you used "cut" (Ctrl+X). [286]
• You will no longer see empty or deleted categories among the suggestions when you add a category. [287]

Future software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf19) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 2, and on all Wikipedias on September 4 (calendar).
• There is a proposal to build a database on Commons for file data. It will make it easier to see the author, license and topics. You can give feedback on this idea. You can also come to the IRC chat on September 3 at 18:00 (UTC) in #wikimedia-office at freenode. [288]
• You can give feedback on Media Viewer until September 7. You can say what needs to be improved and ask other people to give feedback too. [289]
• You can test a new version of the tool to show math. It uses MathML. Report bugs in bugzilla.
• You will no longer be able to upload images from the mobile site. [290]

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07:48, 1 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-37

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

VisualEditor news

• From Thursday, Internet Explorer 11 users will get VisualEditor. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [291] [292] [293]

Future software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf20) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 9, and on all Wikipedias on September 11 (calendar).
• You will soon confirm a "Thanks" inline instead of in a dialog. [294]
• You can read more about the plan to move to Phabricator, a tool that will help people develop the MediaWiki software and report bugs. [295]

Problems

• There were problems with JavaScript and CSS on Friday, September 5 because of a code error.

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09:33, 8 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-38

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

Recent software changes

• You can now change the style of links to disambiguation pages. This is done with the mw-disambig CSS class. [296] [297]
• There was a problem on right-to-left wikis with Wikidata log entries. The text was messy in watchlists and recent changes. The problem is now fixed. The same problem will be fixed soon for user names. [298] [299] [300]
• New users are randomly chosen for a test on 12 Wikipedias. They get messages with ideas of articles to edit. The ideas come from what they have already edited. [301]

Problems

• There was a problem with loading images on September 10. [302]

VisualEditor news

• If you don't select text when you add a link, the link now shows a number. [303]
• The citation tool no longer offers to reuse a citation if there are none on the page yet. [304] [305]
• You can now use help buttons in the "താളിന്റെ സജ്ജീകരണങ്ങൾ" menu to see what the options are for. [306]

Future software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf21) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 16, and on all Wikipedias on September 18 (calendar).
• These changes are coming with the new version:
  • If you use Internet Explorer 7, JavaScript will no longer work. JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work in that browser. You should update to a newer browser. [307] [308] [309]

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08:34, 15 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-39

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 software changes

• You can test a new Beta Feature called HHVM. It should make editing faster. Please report bugs if you see them. [310]

Problems

• There was a problem on the English Wikipedia on September 19. It was due to edits on a template used on many pages.
• Sites were down for users in the Pacific area around 7:00 UTC on September 20. It was due to a problem in the San Francisco data center.
• There were two bad bugs messing up articles in some browsers in VisualEditor. We fixed the bugs and updated the sites. [311] [312]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf22) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 23, and on all Wikipedias on September 25 (calendar).
• If you have more than 2000 notifications, the oldest ones will be removed.[313] [314]
• In the "Vector" skin, the icon used for users will show a neutral gender. [315] [316]
• The VisualEditor template tool now tells you if a required field is missing. [317]
• The "Cancel" button of the VisualEditor save window is now called "Resume editing". This shows that you can still edit and you won't lose your changes. [318]
• There are new keyboard shortcuts in VisualEditor. Use Ctrl+Shift+6 for code and Ctrl+Shift+5 for strikethrough. [319] [320]
• In VisualEditor, you can now see that you are switching to the source editing mode. Before, it was not clear it was happening. [321]

Future site changes

• You can see a plan for the move to Phabricator. It's the new tool to track bugs. A guided tour will be done via video on September 24. [322]

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09:04, 22 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-40

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 software changes

• On Commons, you can now see what files are most used across all wikis. You can also see the same list for deleted or uncreated files. [323] [324]
• There are now many more translations for language names. [325]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf1) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 30, and on all Wikipedias on October 2 (calendar).
• Errors from Scribunto (Lua) are now shown on the page. Before, you had to click on "Script error" to see them. [326] [327]
• You can add an "autovalue" for a field in TemplateData. When users add the template to a page, the value will be added automatically. An example is when a clean-up template shows the date it was added. [328]
• If you change a user preference but don't save it, it now asks if you want to save it. [329] [330]
• The PDF export tool has changed. The new one has better language support but it doesn't offer ZIM and EPUB formats. [331]

Future changes

• You can watch a video showing Phabricator, the new tool to track bugs. You can also read more about the move from Bugzilla.
• JavaScript authors: Many old methods will be removed soon. Please check your scripts and gadgets and replace the old methods by the new ones if needed. [332]

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09:44, 29 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-41

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 use the phab: and phabricator: interwikis to link to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org. [333] [334]
• Some wikis have a template to track bugs in Bugzilla. You should update it to work with Phabricator. You can look at the one on mediawiki.org to see how. [335] [336]
• You can look at Special:MediaStatistics to see what kind of files are on your wiki. [337]
• A new tool can now create thumbnails of large TIFF images. This concerns files larger than 50 megapixels. These thumbnails are also sharpened. You can comment on Commons. [338]
• The Media Viewer tool has a clearer link to the file page. It also has buttons to download, share and embed the file. You can enlarge images by clicking on them. [339]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf2) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 7 October, and on all Wikipedias from 9 October (calendar).
• If you make a code mistake when editing a Lua script, you won't be able to save your edit. [340] [341]
• We fixed some more Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 10, you will be able to use VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [342]
• On Thursday, the tool to edit TemplateData will come to 30 more wikis. [343] [344]
• You can help sort bugs in the Book and PDF export tool on October 8. [345]
• 1% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [346]

Future changes

• You can look at the plan of the Mobile team for their future work. [347]
• More changes to Media Viewer are coming. It will be easier to disable it, and you will see the caption below the image. [348] [349]

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06:10, 6 ഒക്ടോബർ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-42

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 software changes

• You can now log into Phabricator, the new tool to track bugs. Create your account and add your Bugzilla email address. We are copying the bugs from Bugzilla. Bugzilla is still open. [350] [351]
• You will now get the VisualEditor newsletter in your language if someone has translated it. You can add translations. You can know about the next translations by joining the translators list or asking Elitre (WMF).

Problems

• 10% of Tool Labs was down on October 7. [352]
• Tool Labs was also broken on October 11. [353]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf3) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 9 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 14 October, and on all Wikipedias from 16 October (calendar).
• 5% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [354]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with Language developers on October 15, 2014 at 17:00 (UTC). [355]
• There is a proposal to organize file pages better. It would use the same tools as Wikidata. You can join a meeting about it on October 16, 2014 at 18:00 (UTC). [356]
• You can join a meeting about VisualEditor on October 18, 2014 at 18:00 (UTC). [357]

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08:53, 13 ഒക്ടോബർ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-43

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. You can read translations.

Recent changes

• You can test a new system to see math using MathML. Go to your display options and choose "⧼mw math mathml⧽".
• You can add badges in Wikidata for quality articles and featured lists. [358] [359]

File information cleanup

• You can join a wiki project to help tools read file information. It will help people reuse files.
• See how to fix metadata. You can fix it by adding markers to templates and adding templates to files.
• You can see a list of files missing machine-readable information on your wiki.
• The files missing readable data are also in these categories: no license, no description, no author or no source. [360]

Problems

• Developers fixed a security problem. If you use Internet Explorer 6, you won't be able to log in any more. You should use a newer browser. [361]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf4) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 21, and on all Wikipedias from October 23 (calendar).
• 10% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [362]
• If you add the same parameter twice in a template, it now puts the page in a tracking category. [363] [364]

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13:47, 20 ഒക്ടോബർ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-44

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

Problems

• There was an issue with files from Commons on October 21. You could only see those with names between 140 and 159 characters by visiting Commons itself. [365]
• There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It was fixed quickly. [366]
• There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [367]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every Wednesday, instead of every Thursday. [368]
• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
• VisualEditor now uses autovalues for templates if they are in TemplateData. [369] [370] [371]
• VisualEditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them. [372]
• VisualEditor now opens faster when you click "edit". [373]
• The rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages. Interface translations are currently not being updated from translatewiki.net; this process will start again on November 6. [374]

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05:20, 27 ഒക്ടോബർ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-45

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 software changes

• The "Special:Cite" page is now called "Special:CiteThisPage". That way, you know it's to cite the page, not to add a reference. [375]
• You can no longer use the insource: keyword for text searches. It caused issues with the new search tool. It will come back later. [376] [377]

Problems

• There was a bug in VisualEditor with Internet Explorer. It hid tools like the link editor when you opened them. The bug was fixed on Monday. [378]
• Issues with the new search tool caused geo data code to show up on pages on Monday and Friday. The mobile "nearby" tool was also broken. The problem is now fixed. [379] [380] [381]
• HHVM caused server issues on Thursday. They are now fixed.

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4, and on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).
• Some wikis have icons at the top of a page to show if it is protected or featured. Icons show up using CSS. You can now use the <indicator> tag in these templates instead to add the icons. [382] [383]
• VisualEditor now tells you if you're editing a re-used reference. This helps you avoid changing it if you just want to add a new one. [384]
• The icons in VisualEditor's template editor tool for adding more fields are back, along with other fixes. [385] [386] [387] [388] [389]
• After November 6, all wikis will have the tool to edit TemplateData. [390] [391] [392]

Future changes

• The new search tool will come to the last wikis in the coming weeks. This includes Wikipedia in French, Chinese, German and English. [393]

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17:28, 3 നവംബർ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-46

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 software changes

• You may see a new tool on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [394] [395]
• The MediaWiki API now shows information in a nice format. You can translate it in translatewiki.net. [396]

File information cleanup

• Reminder: You can help fix file information on your wiki. It will help robots understand the information. After that, it will be easier for you to search files and re-use them.
• You can join two IRC chats this week to learn more about the file cleanup project. One will be on Wednesday at 18:00 (UTC) and the other on Thursday at 04:00 (UTC). You can ask questions during the chat if you need help to fix files on your wiki.
• You can see a list of files to fix on the Labs tool. You can report bugs and ask questions on the talk page.

Problems

• Wikimedia Labs was broken for a few hours on Thursday. It was due to a hardware problem. [397]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf7) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11, and on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).
• You can now use more editing tools for tables in VisualEditor. You can add rows and columns, merge cells, and edit table captions. [398] [399]
• The style and insert menus in the toolbar of VisualEditor now show fewer tools. This helps you see the most common tasks. You can see all items by clicking "More". [400]
• The way windows inside VisualEditor work has changed. VisualEditor should be faster and have fewer bugs. [401]

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15:00, 10 നവംബർ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-47

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

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf8) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 12. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18, and on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).
• The new search tool ("CirrusSearch") will be on the English Wikipedia from November 19. [402]

Move from Bugzilla to Phabricator

• The tool to track bugs will change on November 21.
• You won't be able to add or edit bugs between November 21 and November 24.
• You can make the change easier for you by creating your account.
• Bugzilla will be frozen after the change. You will see, edit and report bugs in Phabricator.
• You can join two IRC chats to learn more about the change. The chats will be on Tuesday, November 18 at 16:00 (UTC) and 23:00 UTC. [403]

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18:28, 17 നവംബർ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-48

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

Recent changes

• The move from Bugzilla to Phabricator is done. You can now report bugs in Phabricator. [404]

Problems

• There was a problem when editing tables in VisualEditor. VisualEditor was trying to fix bad values for the colspan or rowspan option. VisualEditor now leaves the bad values to avoid making things worse. This was fixed on November 17. [405]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf9) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 19. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 25, and on all Wikipedias from November 26 (calendar).
• You will be able to try VisualEditor on many new wikis for the first time. After November 26, VisualEditor will become available on Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews wikis. You can find it in your Beta options. [406]
• VisualEditor now tells you if your edit needs to be approved. [407]
• You can now use VisualEditor's tools directly when you resume editing after closing the save window. [408]
• VisualEditor's table editing tools now work better in right-to-left languages. [409] [410]

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19:31, 24 നവംബർ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-50

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 software changes

• All users are now getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [411]
• You can join a video chat about Phabricator on December 11 at 18:00 (UTC). Phabricator is the new tool to report issues. [412]

Problems

• There was a problem with Phabricator on November 29. It was due to a network issue. [413]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf11) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 10 (calendar). [414]
• You can now exit VisualEditor by pressing the "Esc" key. [415]
• It is now easier to use VisualEditor with IMEs. Typing in Malayalam now works better. [416] [417]
• The new version of OOjs UI fixed many issues with the size and layout of buttons in dialogs. [418] [419] [420]
• (Lua) You can no longer use mw.text.unstrip to get the HTML from special page transclusion. You can see a list of scripts to fix. [421] [422]

Future changes

• Starting next week JavaScript tools won't work if they use jQuery Migrate. [423]

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17:10, 8 ഡിസംബർ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-51

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 software changes

• You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [424]
• You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects. [425]
• You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf12) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar). [426]
• You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu, Ctrl+F or Cmd+F. [427]
• VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold. [428]
• The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change. [429]

Future changes

• The star image of the watchlist may change soon. [430] [431]
• You won't be able to use Phabricator on December 18, 2014. It will be down between 00:00 and 08:00 (UTC). [432] [433]

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16:43, 15 ഡിസംബർ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-52

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 software changes

• The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private. [434]

Software changes this week

• There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6. [435]

Future changes

• The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations. [436]
• A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis. [437]

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16:52, 22 ഡിസംബർ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-01

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

Software changes

• There are no technical changes this week.

Feedback about Tech News in 2014

• The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2014? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us at m:Talk:Tech/News. You can write in your language. Thank you!

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16:51, 29 ഡിസംബർ 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-03

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 software changes

• Rotated PDF files in landscape format used to show too small. They will now display correctly. You may need to purge older files. [438]
• You can now use the {{!}} magic word instead of Template:!. Many wikis used the template to create a pipe (|) in tables and templates. You can delete the template. [439]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf14) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from January 13. It will be on all Wikipedias from January 14 (calendar).
• A bug in VisualEditor sometimes added a ☀ (Sun) character. This is now fixed. [440]
• The search and replace tool in VisualEditor is now much faster in long pages. [441]
• The TemplateData editor now uses the same design as VisualEditor. [442] [443] [444]
• The thumb option is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar. [445]

Future changes

• You can sign up to answer questions from designers. It will help them make editing easier. [446]

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16:47, 12 ജനുവരി 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-04

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 download the new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. The new version shows lead images, better galleries and content from Wikidata. It also has many other new features.[447] [448]
• Programs and bots still can't read information about images on many wikis. You can see the list of wikis with the most files to fix. Wikipedia in Italian, Indonesian and Japanese language have the most files to fix. On the biggest wikis you should use bots. Bots can add information templates to groups of files. You can ask other tech users to help you.

Problems

• All JavaScript on Commons was broken for a few minutes on Tuesday. It was because of old code in the HotCat tool. The same problem happened on some Wikipedias on Wednesday. It is now fixed. [449]

Software changes this week

• There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings. [450]

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18:12, 19 ജനുവരി 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-05

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

Recent software changes

• You can now translate articles with the new ContentTranslation tool on several wikis. [451]

This week

• There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings. [452]

Future changes

• You can join a project to improve WikiProjects. [453]
• The Compact Personal Bar will be removed for now. It has a bug that breaks the tool to choose your language. It will come back when the bug is fixed. [454]

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16:08, 26 ജനുവരി 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-06

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

Problems

• There was a security issue on Wikimedia Labs. Many Labs tools were down after the issue was fixed. [455]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 4 (calendar).
• The "Save page" button in the VisualEditor toolbar is now blue rather than green. This is the same as on the mobile site. [456]
• You can now edit pages on the draft namespace with VisualEditor on the Russian Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia. You can ask to get VisualEditor for a namespace on your wiki. When your community agrees, ask in Phabricator. [457] [458]

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16:31, 2 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-07

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 software changes

• You can now use {{#lsth: PageName | SectionName }} to transclude a section with its title. [459]

Problems

• MediaWiki was reverted to the previous version on February 4. It was because of a performance issue. It was restored later. [460]
• UploadWizard was broken on February 4 because of the revert of MediaWiki. [461]
• All sites were broken for 30 minutes on February 5. It was due to a network problem. [462]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 11 (calendar).
• You can have one user page for all wikis. Your Meta user page will show if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can test this tool on test wikis. [463] [464] [465]
• You can search for media files in VisualEditor more easily. Images are bigger and you see the size and license. [466] [467]
• It is easier to review your changes when you save the page in VisualEditor. The window is wider. [468]
• You can read the latest news about VisualEditor. You can now join weekly meetings with developers. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The first meeting is on February 11 at 20:00 (UTC).

Future changes

• Administrators will soon be able to delete change tags used fewer than 5,000 times. [469]
• In the future you will be able to have personal lists of articles on the mobile site. [470]

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16:26, 9 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-08

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

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 18 (calendar).
• On Wednesday your Meta user page will be shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. [471] [472] [473]
• You can now change the order of categories in VisualEditor using drag-and-drop. [474]
• In VisualEditor, you now need to make a change before you can "Apply Changes" to citations and templates. [475]
• The way the cursor moves in VisualEditor is changing. Your browser now handles the cursor directly. Most of you will see no change. In right-to-left text, the cursor now moves in a 'visible' rather than 'logical' way. This is like other sites but you may be surprised at first.​ [476]

Meetings

• The VisualEditor Team had their first public bug triage meeting on February 11. They will post the results on the meeting page. [477]
• You can join the second weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 18 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join. [478]
• You can join a meeting with the developers of the Content Translation tool. It will be on February 18 at 13:00 (UTC). [479]

Future changes

• You can comment on a proposal about abandoned Labs tools.

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17:57, 16 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-09

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 software changes

• All new accounts are now global. [480]
• Your Meta user page is now shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can report problems if you see any. You can ask a bot to delete your old user pages. [481] [482] [483]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 25. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 26 (calendar).
• It is now easier to see template fields in VisualEditor. The fields are bigger. [484]
• It is now easier to see when a button is disabled in VisualEditor. [485]
• Sometimes when you copy-pasted a template in VisualEditor, it was replaced by HTML. This problem is now fixed. [486]
• Tools in Labs will stop working for a few hours on February 24. [487]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 26 at 00:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• At the moment you need to log in to edit Wikimedia wikis on mobile devices. You can say if anyone should be allowed to edit on the mobile sites. The discussion ends on March 15.
• Images in the interface will soon work better in Opera 12. [488]

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16:28, 23 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-10

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 software changes

• A Lua function to use Wikidata has changed. You need to update the pages that use it. [489]
• You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Uzbek and Minangkabau. You need to enable it in your Beta options.
• You can now hide banners if you don't have an account. [490] [491]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 4 (calendar).
• You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Punjabi and Kyrgyz. You can ask for the tool in other languages.
• Editing the fake blank line in VisualEditor is now simpler. This change also fixed a few bugs. [492] [493] [494] [495]
• The TemplateData editor now warns you if a related page already has TemplateData. [496]
• The TemplateData table now tells you if a template doesn't take any parameters. [497]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 4 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join technical meetings in France and Mexico this year. You will be able to ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [498]

Future changes

• You will be able to get a direct link for a section of a page. [499]

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16:41, 2 മാർച്ച് 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-11

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

• You can now create books on almost all wikis. It doesn't work yet on wikis using the language converter. [500] [501]
• VisualEditor had problems with categories in Safari. It sometimes moved or removed the categories. The issue is now fixed. [502] [503] [504]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 11 (calendar).
• In VisualEditor the "Edit ^beta" button is now called "Edit" on the English Wikipedia. [505] [506]
• The feedback tool in VisualEditor now looks like the other tools. It also asks for information about your browser to help fix bugs. [507] [508]
• You now see the VisualEditor toolbar even if the rest of the page is still loading. [509] [510]
• You now see more information when you edit a link, a reference or other items in VisualEditor. You also see a clearer edit button in those tools. [511] [512]
• If you use the ContentTranslation tool you now see red links in the list of articles in other languages. The link is red if the article doesn't exist in the language of your options or of your browser. You can translate the article by clicking on the red link.

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a technical meeting in France in May. You can ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [513]

Future changes

• You can get help to become a developer. You can learn more on the Google Summer of Code and Outreachy pages. [514]
• You will soon be able to read technical reports in Phabricator. [515]

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15:18, 9 മാർച്ച് 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-12

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

Recent changes

• The servers that resize images are using new software. You should report new problems that you notice with images. [516]
• You can now see lists of bugs about Commons, Wikisource and Wiktionary. [517]
• It is now easier to add special characters in VisualEditor. You can edit the list of characters for your wiki. [518] [519]

Problems

• Wikis were broken for a few minutes on Thursday due to a code error.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 18 (calendar).
• A puzzle piece icon () now shows hidden templates in VisualEditor. You can edit the template by clicking the icon. For example, you can now edit anchor templates. [520] [521]
• You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in TemplateData. [522] [523]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 18 at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The list of bad user names on your wiki will no longer work. The global list will replace it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [524] [525]
• You can comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [526]
• The final steps of single user login (SUL) will happen in April. You can see the rules to rename accounts. [527]

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15:14, 16 മാർച്ച് 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-13

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

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 25 (calendar).
• The text of a reference is now more visible when you click on it. It has a blue background. Many wikis already have the blue color. Those wikis can now remove it from their CSS page. [528]
• VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor. [529] [530] [531]
• When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it. [532]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Talk pages using "LiquidThreads" on mediawiki.org will soon use the new system. [533]

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15:09, 23 മാർച്ച് 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-14

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 now hide site banners even if you don't have an account. [534]
• You can now add citations more easily with VisualEditor on the French and Italian Wikipedia. The tool adds the information when you add some types of links. In the future you will be able to add this tool to your wiki. [535] [536] [537]
• All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser. [538]
• You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [539]
• VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly. [540]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 31. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 1 (calendar).
• VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias. [541]
• You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account. [542]
• You can test a new tool on the beta mobile site on the English Wikipedia. With the new tool, you can create lists of articles. [543]
• You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page. [544]
• VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more. [545] [546] [547] [548]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on IRC on March 31 at 16:00 (UTC). [549]
• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 1 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:18, 30 മാർച്ച് 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-15

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

• You can join a new email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs. [550]
• You can read the last monthly report. In the future you can read team reports every three months. You can see current work on the roadmap. [551] [552]
• The number of articles in Special:Statistics is now updated once a month. [553]
• You can use a new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. Using the app, you can now share a fact with your friends. [554]

Problems

• The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary. [555]
• Labs was broken several times this week. [556] [557] [558] [559]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 8 (calendar).
• You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor. [560]
• Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [561] [562]
• You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people. [563]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 8 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can again comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [564]

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15:41, 6 ഏപ്രിൽ 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-16

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 read the latest news about VisualEditor.
• You can now use the new translation tool on 22 Wikipedias. You now see the tool the first time you create a new page. [565]
• The list of bad user names on your wiki no longer works. The global list replaces it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [566] [567]

Problems

• Some wikis had issues on Wednesday. [568] [569]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 15 (calendar).
• Developers will start to rename 1.5 million accounts on Wednesday. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [570] [571]
• All users can now test link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias. [572]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 15 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:40, 13 ഏപ്രിൽ 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-17

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

Recent changes

• There was sometimes a problem when saving a page in VisualEditor. It is now fixed on all wikis. [573]
• VisualEditor sometimes showed empty warnings for wikis using Flagged Revisions. This is now fixed on all wikis. [574]
• You can get the new version of the Wikipedia app for iOS. With it you can share facts with your friends. [575]
• If you write JavaScript, you should stop using importScript and importStylesheet. [576]

Problems

• There was a problem with Labs on Monday. [577]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 21. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 22 (calendar).
• Developers are renaming 1.5 million accounts. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [578] [579] [580]
• If your wiki has the auto-fill tool for citations, you can now use it when you edit a reference. [581]
• You can now give examples for template options in TemplateData. [582]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 22 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will soon be able to add and remove tags on edits. [583] [584]

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15:29, 20 ഏപ്രിൽ 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-18

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

• All accounts are now unique and work on all wikis. [585] [586]
• You can read a report from experts who tested the security of MediaWiki. [587]
• There was a problem between VisualEditor and an antivirus software. It is now fixed. [588]
• You can help test VisualEditor to see if it works in your language. [589]

Problems

• Some Labs tools had problems due to a software bug. [590]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 29 (calendar).
• It is now clearer that you can delete several rows and columns when you edit tables in VisualEditor. [591]
• You now see more information when you search for a template in VisualEditor. [592]
• You can now cancel when you add citations on desktop, or edit links on mobile, in VisualEditor. [593]
• You can now see the list of other formats for videos only after they're ready. [594]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 29 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:10, 27 ഏപ്രിൽ 2015 (UTC)

Support request with team editing experiment project

Dear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Wikipedia about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Wikipedia community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Wikipedia everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta.

Tech News: 2015-19

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

• You can now chat with other users in Phabricator. [595]
• There was a rare problem with VisualEditor. The text of another wiki could be added to your edit. The issue is now fixed. [596] [597]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 6 (calendar).
• It is now easier to add a link in VisualEditor. You can see an image and a description about the page. [598]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on May 5 at 14:30 (UTC). [599]
• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 6 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join an event in France on May 22−25. You need to sign up before May 8. [600]

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15:03, 4 മേയ് 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-20

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 make charts and maps on your wiki with the new "graph" tool. If you have an old browser, you will see images instead. It uses a tool called Vega; you can learn how to use it and write help pages for your wiki. You can use the Vega edit tool to make charts and copy the code to your wiki. Charts and maps use complex code and you should put them into templates. In the future, you will be able to create charts with VisualEditor. [601] [602] [603]
• You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community. [604]
• The logos of all wikis are now in a new place. It will make pages load faster. You can still ask to change the logo. You can also use local CSS for brief changes. [605] [606]

Problems

• There was a problem that caused slow editing. [607]
• Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed. [608]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 13 (calendar).
• You can now use data from Wikidata on more pages. The page doesn't need to be linked to the Wikidata item. It works on a few wikis and more wikis will be added soon. [609] [610]
• You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons. [611]
• When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link. [612]
• When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match. [613]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 13 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:34, 11 മേയ് 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-21

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 can watch a video about the new graph tool.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
• References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page. [614]
• You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [615]
• The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [616]
• You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [617] [618]
• UploadWizard now shows better matches when you add a category to your file. [619]
• A test about VisualEditor will start on the English Wikipedia on Thursday. [620]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 21 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a technical meeting in France this week.

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15:18, 18 മേയ് 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-22

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

Problems

• VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [621]
• Some Labs tools had issues last week. [622] [623]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can add your ideas of new tools to help active users like you. [624]

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16:12, 25 മേയ് 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-23

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

Problems

• Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [625]
• Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [626]
• Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [627] [628]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
• You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [629]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:30, 1 ജൂൺ 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-24

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

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar). [630] [631]
• If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [632]
• When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [633]
• The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [634]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on June 10 at 14:30 (UTC). [635]

Future changes

• If you have a bot, you may need to fix it. The default continuation mode of the API for action=query will change at the end of June. [636]

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15:21, 8 ജൂൺ 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-25

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

• Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool. [637]
• Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [638]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on June 19 at 16:00 (UTC). [639]

Future changes

• Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas about it. [640]
• If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use compat anymore. [641] [642] [643]

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15:04, 15 ജൂൺ 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-26

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

• Some wikis can now be used only with HTTPS. This includes the English, Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only HTTPS for all users. [644] [645]
• You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [646]

Problems

• On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [647] [648] [649]
• On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons. [650] [651] [652]
• Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days. [653] [654] [655]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 25 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 23 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:23, 22 ജൂൺ 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-27

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

• Long lines in code blocks now look better. [656]
• You can now see graphs in VisualEditor. [657]
• When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [658]
• The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [659] [660] [661]
• You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [662]

Problems

• JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [663]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar).
• You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color. [664]
• When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them. [665]
• If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password. [666]
• Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for action=query doesn't work any more. [667]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 30 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future

• When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org. [668]

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15:56, 29 ജൂൺ 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-28

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

• On the mobile site, you now see more information when you search for a page. It now shows the description from Wikidata. [669]

Problems

• The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets. [670]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 8. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 9 (calendar).
• The "Page information" tool shows how many users watch the page. You can now see how many are active. [671] [672]
• You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool. [673]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 7 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:13, 6 ജൂലൈ 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-29

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

• You can now see a list of pages with errors in code coloring. [674]

Problems

• There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes. [675]
• There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes. [676]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 15. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 16 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join a technical meeting at Wikimania in Mexico City this week. [677]

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15:06, 13 ജൂലൈ 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-30

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

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 22. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 23 (calendar).
• You now see more warnings in the image viewer. They tell you to be careful when using the image, for example if it shows a person. [678]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 21 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Soon you won't be able to use MathJax to display math. [679]

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03:05, 21 ജൂലൈ 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-31

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

• You can now use redirects to link to JavaScript pages. [680]
• You cannot use the compact user bar any more. [681]
• You can change your options to see bigger images. [682]
• You can watch short videos about how to use VisualEditor. [683]
• You can now edit pages linked in "what links here" more easily. [684]

Problems

• There was a problem with some Lua modules on July 22 and 23. Some pages using them did not list them in "what links here". You can fix those pages with a null edit: edit and save the page without making any change.
• There was a problem with the abuse filter page on big wikis on July 23. It was due to a code error. [685]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 29. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 30 (calendar).
• JavaScript authors: You cannot use wgNoticeUserData to get edit counts anymore. [686]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 28 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:05, 27 ജൂലൈ 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-32

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

• The ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
  • You can now type in list paragraphs on wikis with right-to-left scripts. [687]
  • Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look. [688] [689] [690] [691]
• The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [692]
• MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [693]
• Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [694]

Problems

• There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [695]
• We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now. [696]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 6 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 4 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:51, 3 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-33

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

Recent changes

• MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page. [697]
• The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [698]
• You can now play Ogg video files in some browsers that don't support this format. This solution uses JavaScript and works on desktop browsers only for now. It will work on mobile later. [699]
• You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [700]
• It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [701]
• JavaScript authors:
  • You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix. [702] [703]
  • You can no longer use document.write on Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix. [704] [705]
• The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [706]

Problems

• More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [707]
• Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [708]
• Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [709]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 13 (calendar).
• UploadWizard is getting a new look. The look of buttons and checkboxes has already changed. This week, UploadWizard gets a new date picker. The other text fields will change soon. [710]
• You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [711]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some things in the watchlist will get a new look. [712]

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14:57, 10 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-34

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

• Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [713] [714] [715]
• Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems. [716]

Problems

• Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [717] [718]
• On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [719]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
• You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category. [720]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 18 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:17, 17 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-35

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

• Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function. [721]

Problems

• There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed. [722]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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13:02, 24 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-36

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

• VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC. [723][724]
• The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [725]
• VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead. [726]
• Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [727]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 1 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9. [728]

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21:36, 31 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-37

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

• You can now mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users. [729]
• A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [730]
• You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [731]

Problems

• There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed. [732]
• The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [733][734]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
• The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters. [735]
• The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page. [736][737]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 8 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the Wikitech ambassadors mailing list. The list is for Wikimedians interested in spreading information about Wikimedia technology news. See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours. [738]
• Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [739][740]

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17:29, 7 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-38

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

Recent changes

• You can now use the Wikidata query service. [741]
• Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [742]
• Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [743][744]

Problems

• There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [745]
• The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [746]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [747]
• The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [748]

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16:17, 14 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-39

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

• There is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here. [749][750]
• Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong. [751][752][753][754]
• More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [755]
• The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [756]

Problems

• Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time. [757]
• Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [758][759]
• UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [760]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
• The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms. [761]
• You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it. [762]
• Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [763]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on September 23 at 17:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can register to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 in San Francisco 4–6 January 2016. Gadget, template, bot, and tool developers are welcome as well. Call for participation and travel sponsorship requests are open until 2 October.

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18:29, 21 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-40

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 UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them. [764]
• UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [765]
• You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [766]
• When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [767]
• You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [768]
• The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [769]
• MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in Gerrit. The goal was to clean up the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers. [770]

Problems

• Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [771][772]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar).
• There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide if they want to enable it. [773]
• The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan. [774]

Meetings

• You can join the strategy process of the Reading department of Wikimedia Engineering. [775]
• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation developers want the community to decide who can use OAuth in the future. You can discuss it on Meta.

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15:15, 28 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-41

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

• The link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile. [776]
• The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [777]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar).
• UploadWizard will remind users to add a category. [778]
• UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [779]
• A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [780]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata requests your input on how to improve the editing of Wikidata's data in other locations, such as Wikipedias.

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18:32, 5 ഒക്ടോബർ 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-42

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

• The database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters. [781]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar).
• You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing. [782]
• Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [783]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:28, 12 ഒക്ടോബർ 2015 (UTC)