വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാല:വിക്കി പഞ്ചായത്ത് (സാങ്കേതികം)/പത്തായം 3

ഗുണ്ടർട്ട് നിഘണ്ടു

ഗുണ്ടർട്ട് നിഘണ്ടുവിന്റെ സ്കാൻ ഇവിടെയും കണ്ടന്റ് ഈ താളുകളിലായിട്ടും ഉണ്ട്. പക്ഷേ അത് ചുമ്മാ അങ്ങ് കോപ്പി പേസ്റ്റ് ചെയ്തത് കൊണ്ട് ഒരു ഗുണവും ഇല്ല. ഒരു നിഘണ്ടു എന്ന നിലയിൽ അതിന് വലിയ പ്രസക്തി ഇനി ഉണ്ടെന്ന് തോന്നുന്നില്ല. ഭാഷാപരമായ റിസർച്ചുകൾക്ക് ഒക്കെയായിരിക്കും ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നത്. അതിന് സഹായകമാവണമെങ്കിൽ ഇത് ഒരു നല്ല ഫോർമാറ്റിൽ ടൈപ്പ് ചെയ്ത് കേറ്റണം. മലയാളം വാക്ക് ഒരു ഫീൽഡ്, അതിന്റെ ലാറ്റിൻ വാക്ക് മറ്റൊരു ഫീൽഡ്, ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് വാക്ക് അടുത്ത ഫീൽഡ്, ആ വാക്കിന്റെ വിവിധ ഉപയോഗങ്ങൾ വേറൊരു ഫീൽഡ് എന്നിങ്ങനെ. എന്നാലേ sorting, easy content extraction എന്നിവ സാധ്യമാകൂ. തൽകാലത്തേക്ക് ഇത് കോപ്പി പേസ്റ്റ് ചെയ്ത് ഇട്ടാൽ "ഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിൽ നിഘണ്ടു ഉണ്ട്" എന്ന് മേനി പറയാം എന്നല്ലാതെ നമുക്കാർക്കും ഒരു ഗുണവുമില്ല. മാത്രവുമല്ല അങ്ങനെ ചെയ്തിട്ട് പിന്നീട് ശരിയാക്കാം എന്ന് വച്ചാൽ ഇരട്ടിപ്പണിയാകും. എങ്ങനെ ഇത് constructive reuse സാധ്യമാകുന്ന തരത്തിൽ ഒരു ഫോർമാറ്റഡ് രീതിയിൽ ആക്കാൻ എല്ലാവരുടേയും അഭിപ്രായങ്ങൾ ക്ഷണിക്കുന്നു.--ബാലു (സംവാദം) 11:57, 31 മേയ് 2013 (UTC)

ഇതേക്കുറിച്ച് മുമ്പ് ഗൂഗിൾ ഗ്രൂപ്പിൽ നടന്ന ഒരു ഡിസ്കഷൻ. കൂടാതെ ജെറാഡിന്റെ ഒരു ബ്ലോഗ് പോസ്റ്റ് ഇതേ പ്രശ്നത്തിന് വേണ്ടി തോട്ടിങ്ങൽ അന്നുണ്ടാക്കിയ ഒരു സെമാറ്റിക്ക് വിക്കി ഫോം ആണ്. പരീക്ഷിച്ച് നോക്കിയതിൽ നിന്നും നിലവിലെ വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാലാ ആവാസവ്യവസ്ഥയിൽ സൂചികാ തെറ്റുതിരുത്തൽ വായനയുടെ കൂടെ ഇത് ഇന്റഗ്രേറ്റ് ചെയ്യാനാവില്ല. അതിനാൽ ഫോർമാറ്റിങ്ങ് ഒരു പരിധിവരെ മാന്വൽ ആയി ചെയ്യേണ്ടിവരും. എങ്ങനെ ചെയ്യണമെന്നതിന് ഒരു മാർഗ്ഗരേഖയുണ്ടാക്കേണ്ടത് ആവശ്യം തന്നെയാണ്. അനുയോജ്യമായ ഫലകങ്ങളുണ്ടാക്കി ചെയ്താൽ ശരിയാകുമെന്നാണ് പ്രതീക്ഷ. പരീക്ഷിച്ച് നോക്കണം :-| --മനോജ്‌ .കെ (സംവാദം) 12:47, 31 മേയ് 2013 (UTC)

ഇത് ഞാനും കുറേ ആലോചിച്ചിതാണ്. അതിനാലാണ് സംഗതി കിട്ടിയിട്ടും കോപ്പി പേസ്റ്റിനു ശ്രമിക്കാതിരുന്നതും. സെമാന്റിക്ക് വിക്കിയെ കുറിച്ച് കേൾക്കാൻ തുടങ്ങിട്ട് കാലം കുറേ ആയെങ്കിലും ഒന്നും കാണുന്നില്ല.

ഞാൻ ഈ വിഷയം സംസാരിച്ചവർ ഒക്കെയും പറയുന്നത് ഗ്രന്ഥശാല ഉള്ളടക്കം മൂലഗ്രന്ഥത്തിൽ ഉള്ളത് അതേ പോലെ പ്രദർശിപ്പിക്കാൻ ഉള്ള ഇടമാണ്. ബാക്കി നമ്മൾ വിചാരിക്കുന്ന തരത്തിൽ അത് ശാസ്ത്രീയമായി സെമാന്റികായി ചെയ്യാൻ ഉള്ള ഇടം വിക്കിനിഘണ്ടു ആണ് എന്നാണ്. എങ്കിൽ പോലും ഓരോ വാക്കിനും ഒപ്പം ഉള്ളടക്കം ഏതെങ്കിലും വിധത്തിൽ ശാസ്ത്രീയമായി സ്റ്റ്രച്ചർ ചെയ്ത് കൊടുക്കുന്നത് നല്ലതായിരിക്കും എന്നാണ് എന്റെ അഭിപ്രായം. ഒരു ഉദാഹരണം ചൂണ്ടിക്കാൻ ഉള്ളത് സത്യവേദപുസ്തകത്തിന്റെ കാര്യത്തിൽ ആണ്. വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിലും ഈ കണ്ണിയിലും http://malayalambible.in ഉള്ള ഉള്ളടക്കം ഒന്നാണ്. പക്ഷെ കൈപ്പള്ളിയുടെ സൈറ്റിൽ ഉള്ള ഉള്ളടക്കം എത്ര ഡൈനാമിക്ക് ആണെന്ന് നോക്കൂ. ഗ്രന്ഥശാലയ്ക്ക് നല്ല ഒരു ഫ്രന്റ്എൻഡ് വേണമെന്നാണ് തോന്നുന്നത്.

പക്ഷെ ഇതിനൊന്നും നമുക്ക് മാതൃകകൾ ഇല്ല. അതിനാൽ തന്നെ ഉള്ളടക്കം ഒന്നും ചെയ്യാതെ അനന്തമായി വെച്ച് കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നതും ശരിയല്ല. ഗ്രന്ഥശാല ഉള്ളടക്കം മൂലഗ്രന്ഥത്തിൽ ഉള്ളത് അതേ പോലെ പ്രദർശിപ്പിക്കാൻ ഉള്ള ഇടമാണ് എന്ന വാദം പരിഗണിച്ചാൽ സംഗതി കോപ്പി പേസ്റ്റ് ചെയ്യാം. പക്ഷെ എന്ത് ചെയ്യും ഒരു ഊഹവും ഇല്ലാതെ വെറുതെ ഇരിക്കുന്നതും ശരിയല്ല. ഓരോ വാക്കിന്റെയും ഉള്ളടക്കം വിവിധ ടാഗുകൾ ഉപയോഗിച്ച് ചേർക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും ഒരു വഴി എന്ന് തോന്നുന്നു. പക്ഷെ ഇതൊനൊന്നും മാതൃക ഇല്ലാത്തത് ഒരു പ്രശ്നം തന്നെയാണ് --Shijualex (സംവാദം) 13:04, 31 മേയ് 2013 (UTC)

ഒറ്റ ഫലകത്തിൽ തന്നെ ഗ്രന്ഥത്തിന്റെ ദൃശ്യരൂപത്തിനെയും മെറ്റാഡാറ്റായെയും ഉൾക്കൊള്ളിക്കാൻ പറ്റുന്ന ഒരു ഫലകം ഉണ്ടാക്കാൻ പറ്റുമോ?

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എന്നപോലെ. ഇതു കാണിക്കുമ്പോൾ നിഘണ്ടുവിലെപ്പോലെയും അതേസമയം ഒരു പ്രൊഗ്രാമിന് ഇൻപുട്ടായും ഉപയോഗിക്കാൻ പറ്റുമെന്ന് തോന്നുന്നു. --:- എന്ന് - അരയശ്ശേരിൽ.സു.മനു✆ 13:08, 31 മേയ് 2013 (UTC)

ഓരോ വാക്കിന്റേയും ഒപ്പം വരുന്ന പരാമീരറുകൾ ഒരു വാക്കിനുള്ള വിവിധ ഇൻപുട്ട് ബോക്സായി കൊടുക്കാമെന്ന് തോന്നുന്നു. ഉദാ: മൂല വാക്ക്, നാമമാണോ, ക്രിയയാണോ, അർത്ഥം, മറ്റ് ഭാഷയിലുള്ള അർത്ഥം. --Shijualex (സംവാദം) 13:14, 31 മേയ് 2013 (UTC)

സ്പ്രെഡ്ഷീറ്റ് രൂപത്തിൽ പുറത്തെവിടെയെങ്കിലും (ഉദാഹരണം:ഗൂഗിൾ ഡോക്സ്) ഡിജിറ്റൈസ് ചെയ്യുകയാണെങ്കിൽ ഇവിടേക്കെടുക്കാൻ എളുപ്പമാണ്. പക്ഷേ തെറ്റുതിരുത്തൽ പ്രശ്നമാകും. ഫലകരൂപത്തിൽ ചെയ്യുന്നതായിരിക്കും നല്ലതെന്ന് വിചാരിക്കുന്നു.--Vssun (സംവാദം) 15:00, 31 മേയ് 2013 (UTC)

മനു പറഞ്ഞ പോലത്തെ സംഗതിയാണ് നമുക്ക് വേണ്ടതെന്ന് വിശ്വസിക്കുന്നു. പ്രോഗ്രാമിന് ഇൻപുട്ടുമാവണം, ഗ്രന്ഥശാലക്ക് പ്ലെയിൻ ടെക്സ്റ്റും. --ബാലു (സംവാദം) 15:03, 31 മേയ് 2013 (UTC)

വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാലയെ സംബന്ധിച്ചിടത്തോളം, അതിന്റെ ഏറ്റവും ആത്യന്തികമായ ലക്ഷ്യം, എങ്ങനെയായിരുന്നോ ഒരു പുസ്തകം അതിന്റെ n-th പതിപ്പിൽ പ്രസാധനം ചെയ്തിരുന്നതു് അതേപോലെത്തന്നെ (അതിലെ എല്ലാ തെറ്റുകുറ്റങ്ങളും അക്ഷരരൂപങ്ങളും അടക്കം) ഡിജിറ്റൽ ആയും സ്വതന്ത്രമായും ലഭ്യമാക്കുക എന്നതാണു്. ഇതിൽ പിക്സൽ ഇമേജു് രൂപവും ടെക്സ്റ്റ് രൂപവും ഉൾപ്പെടും. ടെക്സ്റ്റ് രൂപം തന്നെ ഏറ്റവും ഒടുവിലെ ഘട്ടം ഇമേജിന്റെ അതേ ദൃശ്യരൂപത്തിൽ എന്നാൽ (ഓപ്പൺ ഓഫീസ്/വേർഡ്/PDF) ഘടനയോടെ ഉപയോക്താവിനു് പേജ് ആയോ അദ്ധ്യായമായോ മുഴുവൻ പുസ്തകമായോ ലഭ്യമാവണം.

ഈ അടിസ്ഥാനലക്ഷ്യം എപ്പോഴും മുമ്പിൽ കണ്ടുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുകയാണെങ്കിൽ ഗ്രന്ഥശാലയ്ക്കു് ആവശ്യമായ മാതൃകകൾ സൃഷ്ടിച്ചെടുക്കാൻ വിഷമമില്ല.

ഇതിനുപരി കൂടുതൽ ഫീച്ചറുകൾ എന്ന നിലയിൽ ഡാറ്റാ വെക്ടറുകൾ ചേർക്കാമോ എന്നു നോക്കാം.

• വാക്കുകൾ -> വിക്ഷണറിയിലേക്കു്
• ശൈലികളും പ്രയോഗങ്ങളും പ്രസിദ്ധ ഉദ്ധരണികളും -> വിക്കി ക്വോട്ടിലേക്കു്
• പ്രത്യേക ആശയങ്ങൾ ->വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലേക്കു്
• ടൈപ്പോഗ്രഫി/ബിബ്ലിയോഗ്രഫി സംബന്ധമായ വിവരങ്ങൾ -> (തൽക്കാലം വിക്കിഡാറ്റയിലേക്കു്)

• എന്നീ തരത്തിലുള്ള വെക്ടറുകൾ അകത്തോട്ടും പുറത്തുനിന്നും വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിൽ embed ചെയ്യാൻ സ്കോപ്പുണ്ടു്. പക്ഷേ, ഇതിനൊക്കെ ഇപ്പോഴുള്ളതിനേക്കാൾ നല്ല സൗകര്യങ്ങൾ വിക്കിഡാറ്റ പുരോഗമിക്കുന്നതോടുകൂടി ഉണ്ടാവും.

നാം ഇപ്പോൾ ചെയ്യുന്നതു ശരിയാണോ?

ഇപ്പോൾ ചെയ്തുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നതിൽ പുനരുപയോഗിക്കാവുന്നതും ആവർത്തിക്കേണ്ടി വരാത്തതും എല്ലാം ശരിയാണു്. ഉദാഹരണം: ടൈപ്പിങ്ങ് / ടെക്സ്റ്റ് കൺവേർഷൻ. അതേ സമയം പല പുസ്തകങ്ങളുടെയും PDF/DjView ഇമേജുകൾ അപ്‌ലോഡ് ചെയ്യുന്നതു് പലപ്പോഴും തൽക്കാലത്തെ ടെക്സ്റ്റ് ടൈപ്പിങ്ങിനെ സഹായിക്കാൻ മാത്രമേ ഉതകൂ. ഇന്നല്ലെങ്കിൽ നാളെ, മൂലപ്രസാധനത്തിന്റെ പതിപ്പു് കൂടുതൽ വ്യക്തതയോടെ സ്കാൻ ചെയ്തു് സൈറ്റിൽ നിക്ഷേപിക്കേണ്ടി വരും. (അല്ലെങ്കിൽ അതേപോലെയിരിക്കുന്ന ഒരു പകർപ്പ് odt/doc/pdf/epub/djview/zim തുടങ്ങിയ ഏതാനും ഫോർമാറ്റുകളിൽ റെൻഡർ ചെയ്യത്തക്ക സൗകര്യം ഉണ്ടാവേണ്ടി വരും). ഇപ്പോൾ നാം സ്കാൻ ചെയ്തു കയറ്റുന്ന ഇമേജ് ഫയലുകളുടെ പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ (1. ഭാഗികമായ പകർപ്പവകാശം 2. അക്ഷരരൂപങ്ങളുടെ വ്യത്യാസവും പിൽക്കാലത്തു നടന്ന അക്ഷരസംശോധനവും. 3. ടൈപ്പ് സെറ്റിങ്ങ് ഫോർമാറ്റിലുള്ള വ്യത്യാസങ്ങൾ) ആ ഘട്ടത്തിലാണു് പ്രകടമായി വരിക.

ഇത്ര സുന്ദരമായ രൂപമൊക്കെ എന്നേക്കു ശരിയാവും?

കുറേ കാലമെടുത്തു എന്നുവരാം. പ്രൊജക്റ്റ് ഗുട്ടൻബർഗ്ഗ് ആണു് നമുക്കു മുമ്പിലുള്ള ഏറ്റവും വിശാലമായ മാതൃക. ആദ്യം പ്ലേയിൻ ടെക്സ്റ്റ് ലഭ്യമാക്കുക, പിന്നീട് ഫോർമാറ്റെഡ് ടെക്സ്റ്റും റെൻഡേർഡ് ടെക്സ്റ്റും റെൻഡേർഡ് ശബ്ദവും മറ്റും ലഭ്യമാക്കുക എന്നതാണു് ഗുട്ടൻബർഗ്ഗിലെ മുൻഗണനാക്രമം. കൂടുതൽ ആളുകളും കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങ് സങ്കേതങ്ങളും വിക്കിഡാറ്റ പോലുള്ള പദ്ധതികലും വരുന്നതോടെ അഞ്ചുപത്തുകൊല്ലത്തിനുള്ളിൽ എന്നാണു് എനിക്കു തോന്നുന്നതു്.

അതുവരേയ്ക്കും വേറെ ഒന്നും ചെയ്യാനില്ലേ?

ഉവ്വുവ്വ്. ടൈപ്പ് ചെയ്തുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നതു് തുടരാം. പ്രൂഫ് റീഡിങ്ങ് പല ഘട്ടങ്ങളായും നിർവചിച്ച് അവയിലെ പ്രാഥമികഘട്ടങ്ങൾ തുടങ്ങിവെക്കാം. ഓപ്പൺ ഡോക്യുമെന്റ് പോലുള്ള സ്റ്റാൻഡാർഡ് ഫോർമാറ്റുകളിലും CSSലും സ്റ്റൈൽ ഷീറ്റുകളുടെ ഒരു ലൈബ്രറിയുണ്ടാക്കിവെക്കാം. Math, SVG ഘടനകളിൽ ജോലി തുടങ്ങാം. പർവ്വങ്ങളുടേയും അദ്ധ്യായങ്ങളുടേയും (ലഭ്യമായാൽ പേജുകളുടെ അടക്കം) മറ്റും ഘടനകൾ ശരിയാക്കിവെക്കാം. പകർപ്പവകാശം കഴിഞ്ഞ ടൈപ്പുകൾ പുതിയ ഫോണ്ടുകളാക്കി (പുറത്തു്) സംഭരിച്ചുവെക്കാം. ഇതുപോലുള്ള ഒരു പാടുജോലികൾ ഇപ്പോഴേ തുടങ്ങാവുന്നവയാണു്.

ആശ്വാസകരമായ ഒരു കാര്യം സ്റ്റൈൽ ഷീറ്റുകളാണു്. പഴയ പുസ്തകങ്ങളിൽ മൊത്തമായി ഉപയോഗിച്ചിട്ടുള്ള സ്റ്റൈലുകളും ടൈപ്പ് ഫേസുകളും ഏതാനും നൂറുകണക്കിനേ വരൂ. ഇവയെല്ലാം ഒരിക്കൽ സജ്ജമാക്കിവെച്ചാൽ ഏതു പുസ്തകത്തിന്റെ ഏതു മൂലരൂപം വേണമെങ്കിലും നമുക്കു് പുനർനിർമ്മിക്കാവുന്നതേയുള്ളൂ.

അപ്പോൾ നിഘണ്ടുവിന്റെ കാര്യം?

നിഘണ്ടു ആയാലും വിക്കി ഗ്രന്ഥശാലയെ സംബന്ധിച്ചിടത്തോളം അടിസ്ഥാനാശയങ്ങളിൽ വ്യത്യാസമൊന്നുമില്ല. അതിൽനിന്നും ടെക്സ്റ്റിന്റെ പുനരുപയോഗം വിക്കിനിഘണ്ടുവിലേക്കു വേണ്ടി നടത്താമെന്ന വ്യത്യസ്ഥതയേ ഉള്ളൂ. ഒരു ഉദാഹരണത്തിനു് ഒരു നിഘണ്ടുവിന്റെ മൂലഗ്രന്ഥത്തിൽ ഒരക്ഷരത്തെറ്റ് (വ്യക്തമായും അച്ചടിപ്പിശാച്) ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു എന്നിരിക്കട്ടെ. വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിൽ ആ അച്ചടിപ്പിശാച് അതേ പോലെത്തന്നെ ഉണ്ടായിരിക്കണം. എന്നാൽ വിക്കിനിഘണ്ടുവിൽ അതു തിരുത്തിയ രൂപമായിരിക്കണം കാണേണ്ടതു്.

അതിനാൽ പൊതുവായ മാനദണ്ഡങ്ങൾ എന്താണോഅതുതന്നെയാണു് നിഘണ്ടുവിനും ബാധകമാവുക.

ചർച്ച തുടരട്ടെ. വിശ്വപ്രഭViswaPrabha^{സംവാദം} 15:17, 31 മേയ് 2013 (UTC)

ഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിൽ കഴിവതും മൂലഗ്രന്ഥം എപ്രകാരമാണോ കാണുന്നതു് അപ്രകാരം തന്നെയാവണം എന്നാണെന്റെ അഭിപ്രായം. (മുകളിലൊരു ചർച്ചയിൽ ഷിജു അലക്സ് പറഞ്ഞപോലെ ഓരോ പുസ്തകത്തിന്റെയും പ്രത്യേകം പ്രത്യേകം ഫോണ്ടിറങ്ങുന്ന സമത്വസുന്ദരമായ നാളെ സ്വപ്നം കാണുന്നു.) വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിൽ ടെക്സ് അപ്രകാരം തന്നെ ചേർത്തു് (വേണമെങ്കിൽ ഫലകമുപയോഗിച്ച് സി.എസ്.വിയായോ മറ്റോ ഇറക്കുമതി ചെയ്യാവുന്ന രീതിയിൽ) ഒപ്പം പദങ്ങൾ വിക്കിനിഘണ്ടുവിൽ കൂടി ചേർക്കുന്നതല്ലേ നല്ലതു്. ഗ്രന്ഥശാല ഒരു നിഘണ്ടുവായി പ്രവർത്തിക്കണം എന്നൊരു ആശയം എനിക്കില്ല. --അഖിലൻ 15:56, 31 മേയ് 2013 (UTC)

ഒരു കാര്യം കൂടി. ഇവിടെ പറഞ്ഞ പല അഭിപ്രായങ്ങളും വായിക്കുമ്പോൾ തോന്നുന്നത്, ഈ ചർച്ച ഗ്രന്ഥശാലയെ നിഘണ്ടു ആക്കുന്നതിനെപ്പറ്റിയാണെന്നാണ്. ഇത് അതല്ല. നമ്മൾ ഗ്രന്ഥശാലക്കുവേണ്ടി എന്തായാലും കഷ്ടപ്പെട്ട് ഈ നിഘണ്ടു ഇവിടെ കയറ്റുന്നുണ്ട്. പിന്നെ എപ്പോഴെങ്കിലും ഈ വാക്കുകളെ വിക്കി നിഘണ്ടുവിലേക്കു കയറ്റുമതി ചെയ്യണമെങ്കിൽ, വീണ്ടും നമ്മൾ നമ്മുടെ ബുദ്ധിഉപയോഗിച്ചു കോപ്പി പേസ്റ്റ് ചെയ്യാതെ ഒരു മാക്രോയോ ഒരു പ്രോഗ്രാമോ ഉപയോഗിച്ചു വാക്കുകളെയും അർത്ഥങ്ങളെയും ഉപയോഗങ്ങളെയും ഒരു രൂപത്തിൽ നിന്നും മറ്റൊരു രൂപത്തിലേക്കു മാറ്റാനും കൂടിയുള്ള ഒരു എളുപ്പത്തിനാണ് ഈ വായിട്ടലക്കുന്നത്. അല്ലെങ്കിൽ "re-inventing the wheel" എന്നതുപോലെ ആകത്തേയുള്ളൂ. പിനൊരിക്കൽ, നമ്മളോ, മറ്റൊരാവശ്യക്കാരനോ ഇതിന്റെ ഒരു പകർപ്പു വേണമെങ്കിൽ, പുള്ളി മൊത്തം ഇരുന്നു സെർച് ചെയ്യാതെ തന്നെ വളരെപ്പെട്ടന്ന് ഇതിനെ ആവശ്യമുള്ള രീതിയിൽ പുനരുപയോഗം നടത്താം. ഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിൽ അച്ചടിച്ച അതേപോലത്തെ രൂപത്തിൽ തന്നെ നിലനിർത്തുകയും ചെയ്യണം. അതു തന്നെയായിരിക്കണം നമ്മുടെ ആദ്യലക്ഷ്യം. പക്ഷേ ഒന്നു ബുദ്ധിയുപയോഗിച്ചാൽ ഈ പുസ്തകം കൊണ്ടു മാലോകർക്കു കടുകുമണിയോളമെങ്കിലും ഉപകാരമുണ്ടാകും.

ഇത്രേ ഓപ്പക്കു പറയാനുള്ളൂ. ബാക്കി നിങ്ങളായി നിങ്ങടെ പാടായി... പിന്നെ ഓപ്പ പറഞ്ഞില്ലാ എന്നു പറയരുത് ☺ --:- എന്ന് - അരയശ്ശേരിൽ.സു.മനു✆ 05:53, 1 ജൂൺ 2013 (UTC)

ഓപ്പയ്ക്ക് --മനോജ്‌ .കെ (സംവാദം) 06:09, 1 ജൂൺ 2013 (UTC)

ഓപ്പ കലക്കി... --ബാലു (സംവാദം) 10:57, 1 ജൂൺ 2013 (UTC)

ഓപ്പയുടെ ഐഡിയ കൊള്ളാം. പക്ഷേ, അതുതന്നെയല്ലേ മുകളിൽ പറഞ്ഞിരിക്കുന്നതു്? ഡിക്ഷണറി എന്നല്ല, ഏതു പുസ്തകമാണെങ്കിലും ഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിൽ ശരിയായ രീതിയിൽ ചേർത്താൽ പിന്നെ എവിടേക്കു് ഏതു രൂപത്തിലേക്കു വേണമെങ്കിലും മാറ്റാവുന്നതേയുള്ളൂ. എല്ലാ പുസ്തകങ്ങൾക്കും അതൊരു സ്റ്റാൻഡേർഡ് വർക്ക് ഫ്ലോ ആണു്. അതിന്റെ ഗുട്ടൻസ് മനസ്സിലായാൽ ഈ ചർച്ച തന്നെ ഉണ്ടാവില്ല. വിശ്വപ്രഭViswaPrabha^{സംവാദം} 11:36, 1 ജൂൺ 2013 (UTC)

വിശ്വേട്ടൻ, പ്രൊജക്റ്റ് ഗുട്ടൻബർഗ്ഗ് മാതൃകയിൽ പറഞ്ഞതനുസരിച്ച് പ്ലെയിൻ ടെക്സ്റ്റിന്റെ ലെവൽ കഴിഞ്ഞ് അത് ഫോർമാറ്റഡ് ടെക്സ്റ്റും റെന്റേഡ് ടെക്സ്റ്റും ആക്കുന്ന ഘട്ടത്തെപ്പറ്റിയാണ് ചർച്ചചെയ്യുന്നത്. ഇത് പരിഗണിക്കുമ്പോൾ ടെക്ക് പോലുള്ള പ്രോഗ്രാമുകളോട് അടുത്ത നിൽക്കുന്ന രീതിയിൽ ഫോർമാറ്റ് ചെയ്യാൻ ശ്രദ്ധിക്കുന്നത് നന്നായിരിക്കുമെന്ന് തോന്നുന്നു. എളുപ്പത്തിൽ ചെയ്യാവുന്ന രീതികളൊന്നും കത്തുന്നില്ല. എന്തങ്കിലുമായാൽ ഞാനുദ്ദ്യേശിക്കുന്ന മാതൃക അവതരിപ്പിക്കാം. :)--മനോജ്‌ .കെ (സംവാദം) 12:04, 1 ജൂൺ 2013 (UTC)

വേണമെങ്കിൽ, നമുക്കഞ്ചാറുപേർക്കു് തൃശ്ശൂരു വെച്ചൊരു ചെറിയ ടെക്കത്തോൺ ആവാം ഇതിന്റെ പേരിൽ. XML, CSS, SIM, ODF, regex, imagemagick, Inkscape, Font issues ഇവയെല്ലാം ഉൾപ്പെടുത്തി ഒരു പരസ്പരാവബോധനം. വിശ്വപ്രഭViswaPrabha^{സംവാദം} 14:09, 1 ജൂൺ 2013 (UTC)

ആലോചിക്കാവുന്നതാണ് --മനോജ്‌ .കെ (സംവാദം) 14:44, 1 ജൂൺ 2013 (UTC)

മുമ്പേ മനോജ് പറഞ്ഞതിൽ ഒന്നു കൂടി. പ്ലെയിൻ റ്റെക്സ്റ്റും രെണ്ഡേർഡ് റ്റെക്സ്റ്റും മാത്രമല്ല, അതിനിടയിൽ സ്ട്രക്ചേർഡ് റ്റെക്സ്റ്റ് എന്നും കൂടി ഒരു രൂപവും അതിലേക്കും കൂടി നമ്മൾ കണ്ണുവെക്കണം, ഇത് അതിനുള്ള പണിയാണ്. --:- എന്ന് - അരയശ്ശേരിൽ.സു.മനു✆ 10:06, 3 ജൂൺ 2013 (UTC)

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

Hello. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc) was recently adopted by global community consensus (your community received a notice about the discussion). According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on smaller wikis. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the new admin activity review here.

We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):

1. Peringz (bureaucrat)

These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, Rschen7754 19:04, 16 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2014 (UTC)

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

Hello. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on smaller wikis. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review.

We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):

1. Sadik Khalid (administrator)

These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, Rschen7754 06:14, 15 ജനുവരി 2015 (UTC)

പുതിയ നാമമേഖല

ആംഗലേയത്തിലെ Translation: എന്നതു പോലെ ഒരു നാമമേഖല മലയാളത്തിലും വേണമെന്ന് നിർദ്ദേശിക്കുന്നു. ഇതിന്റെ മലയാളത്തിലെ പേരായി "പരിഭാഷ" എന്നും നിർദ്ദേശിക്കുന്നു. ആംഗലേയ നാമം Translation അതിന്റെ ഏലിയാസായും Tr എന്നത് ഷോർട്ട് ആലിയാസ്സായും പ എന്നത് മലയാളം കുറുക്കുവഴിയായും നിർദ്ദേശിക്കുന്നു. --:- എന്ന് - അരയശ്ശേരിൽ സുബ്രഹ്മണ്യപ്പണിക്കർ മനു✆ 05:31, 15 ഡിസംബർ 2016 (UTC)

@ഉ:Praveenp, ഉ:Manojk --:- എന്ന് - അരയശ്ശേരിൽ സുബ്രഹ്മണ്യപ്പണിക്കർ മനു✆ 05:31, 15 ഡിസംബർ 2016 (UTC)

നമുക്ക് വേണ്ടത് ഇങ്ങനാണെന്ന് തോന്നുന്നു. ഇല്ലെങ്കിൽ ഇത് തന്നെ തിരുത്തുക :--പ്രവീൺ:സം‌വാദം 09:12, 15 ഡിസംബർ 2016 (UTC)

Required namespace: പരിഭാഷ
Required Namespace Talk: പരിഭാഷയുടെ_സംവാദം

English Alias: Translation
English Alias for talk : Translation_talk

Short Alias: പ
Short Alias for talk: പസം

Create a namespace for Translation on Malayalam Wikisource കാണുക. +ഉപയോക്താവ്:Manuspanicker--പ്രവീൺ:സം‌വാദം 17:02, 24 ഡിസംബർ 2016 (UTC)

ജനുവരി ആദ്യവാരമേ ബഗ് പ്രോസസ് ചെയ്യൂ എന്നറിയിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. കൂടെ Translation extension ആവശ്യമുണ്ടോ എന്നും ചോദിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. എനിക്ക് ഈ എക്സ്റ്റെൻഷനെക്കുറിച്ച് അറിയില്ല. സ്വതേ ഡിപ്ലോയ് ചെയ്യപ്പെടാത്തതിനാൽ അത്ര അത്യന്താപേക്ഷമല്ല എന്നൂഹിക്കാം. യൂസറിന് പൂർണ്ണമായും ഡിസേബിൾ ചെയ്യാൻ പറ്റാത്തവിധത്തിൽ ഓരോന്ന് ലോഡ് ചെയ്ത് വെക്കുന്ന തരം ചടാക്ക് സാധനമാണെങ്കിൽ എടുത്ത് തലയിൽ വെക്കാതിരിക്കുന്നതാവും ഭേദം. ആരെങ്കിലും വിശദമായി നോക്കിയിട്ട് ഈ ആഴ്ച തന്നെ ഒരു മറുപടി ഇടാം.--പ്രവീൺ:സം‌വാദം 17:17, 24 ഡിസംബർ 2016 (UTC)

ഈ എക്സ്റ്റൻഷൻ എന്താണെന്നും എന്തിനാണെന്നും അറിഞ്ഞുകൂടാ, വിശദമായി നോക്കാനും തോന്നത്തക്കവണ്ണം ഉള്ളൊരു സാധനമാണെന്നും ഒറ്റനോട്ടത്തിൽ തോന്നിയില്ല. വേണ്ടതാണെങ്കിൽ പിന്നീട് ചേർക്കാവുന്നതാണോ? ആണെങ്കിൽ ഇതിന്റെ കൂടെ വേണ്ടാന്ന് ഞാൻ വിചാരിക്കുന്നു. --:- എന്ന് - അരയശ്ശേരിൽ സുബ്രഹ്മണ്യപ്പണിക്കർ മനു✆ 09:02, 10 ജനുവരി 2017 (UTC)

ഈ എക്സൻഷനെക്കുറിച്ച് വലിയ ധാരണയില്ല. ഉപകരിക്കുമെങ്കിൽ ചേർത്തോളൂ. സമയം കണ്ടെത്താനാകാത്തതുകൊണ്ട് ഇവിടെ എത്തിനോക്കാനെ സാധിക്കുന്നുള്ളൂ. --മനോജ്‌ .കെ (സംവാദം) 04:23, 13 ജനുവരി 2017 (UTC)

ഫലകം:പഴയ-ഈ

ൟ എന്ന പഴയ ഈ എന്ന അക്ഷരത്തിന് 0D5F കോഡ് വാല്യു യൂണിക്കോഡിൽ കിട്ടിയിട്ടുള്ളതായി കാണുന്നു. വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിൽ ഒരു സമയത്ത്, ഇപ്പോഴും ഇത് നമ്മൾ ഫലകമായിട്ടാണ് ഉപയോഗിച്ച് വരുന്നത്. രണ്ടു കാര്യങ്ങൾ ചെയ്യേണ്ടതുണ്ടെന്ന് തോന്നുന്നു. 1)പുസ്തകങ്ങളിലെ പേജിലുള്ള ഫലകങ്ങളെ ബോട്ടോടിച്ച് റീപ്ലേസ് ചെയ്യണം. 2)വിക്കിയിലേയും മറ്റ് പ്രധാനപ്പെട്ട ടൈപ്പിങ്ങ് ടൂളിലും ഇത് ടൈപ്പ് ചെയ്യാനുള്ള സൗകര്യം ചെയ്യണം.--മനോജ്‌ .കെ (സംവാദം) 03:53, 11 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-23

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

Recent changes

• The MonoBook skin has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different. [1]
• Planet Wikimedia collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the Rawdog feed aggregator to do this instead of Planet. [2][3]
• Redirect links in Special:WhatLinksHere now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again. [4]

Problems

• You will not be able to edit some wikis between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. You can see if your wiki is one of them.
• MassMessage did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late. [5]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This is planned to happen in June or early July. [6][7]

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21:54, 4 ജൂൺ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-24

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

Recent changes

• In the Wikipedia app for Android or iOS users can create reading lists. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome. [8]
• There is a new version of Pywikibot. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis. [9]

Problems

• The MonoBook skin was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design. [10]

Changes later this week

• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. For most wikis this will happen on 18 June. For the rest it will happen on 25 June. [11][12]

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 June. It will be on all wikis from 14 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the Readers Web team IRC office hour. There you can discuss tools to contribute on the mobile web for the existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on 18 June at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to move local wiki files to Commons and keep their original data intact. This is planned to come to the first wikis in June.

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21:55, 11 ജൂൺ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-25

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

• Syntax highlighting has been a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It is now a normal feature. It is based on CodeMirror. [13]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3. [14][15]
• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [16][17]
• All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the Remex parsing library on 5 July. This is to replace Tidy. You can help fix remaining errors. [18]

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21:47, 18 ജൂൺ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-27

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

• The database for tags will be changed. This will happen on 2 July on French Wikipedia and 9 July on all other wikis. Please report if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge. [19]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem. [20]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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00:46, 3 ജൂലൈ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-28

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

• WebM video files have smaller file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take longer time. [21]
• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July. [22]
• All wikis now use the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy. This could cause errors. You can help fix the errors. [23]

Problems

• When you rolled back an edit it could get both the Rollback and Undo tags. This has been fixed. [24]
• Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed. [25]

Changes later this week

• When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label). [26][27]
• On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page. [28]
• When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures. [29]
• Structured discussions toolbars will have more style options. [30]
• When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening. [31]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Today all administrators can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can read more. [32]
• Page previews will be on by default for new accounts. [33]

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23:09, 9 ജൂലൈ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-29

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 use global preferences on Wikimedia wikis. You can set them on the global preferences page. [34]
• You can now see a new log of pages being created at Special:Log/create. It includes pages which are later deleted. It is now available on all Wikimedia wikis except Commons and Wikidata. [35]
• You can see how many pageviews a wiki had from specific countries. The Wikistats2 maps have now been updated. [36]

Changes later this week

• Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change. [37]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on July 17 at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on July 18 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some articles have messages to readers about problems with the article. For example that it does not cite sources or might not be neutral. Readers do not see these messages on the mobile version. The developers now want to show them. You can read more and leave feedback.
• You can use <inputbox> to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead of prefix:Page name you will see a text that explains which pages are being searched. You can read more and leave feedback.

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16:00, 16 ജൂലൈ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-30

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

Recent changes

• When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [38]
• Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [39]
• Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [40]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 ജൂലൈ. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 ജൂലൈ. It will be on all wikis from 26 ജൂലൈ (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 ജൂലൈ at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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09:44, 24 ജൂലൈ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-31

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

• The design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [41]

Problems

• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [42][43]
• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [44][45]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 ജൂലൈ. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 ഓഗസ്റ്റ്. It will be on all wikis from 2 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 ജൂലൈ at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് at 15:00 (UTC) as well as at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• After a community discussion, a new group for users will be created. "Interface administrators" will be the only users allowed to edit interface pages like MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Common.js. This is done to avoid technical issues and improve security. That change will be effective by the end of August 2018.

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14:05, 30 ജൂലൈ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-32

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

• Special:NewPages now has the OOUI look. [46]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [47][48]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:39, 6 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2018 (UTC)

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

Hello. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on smaller wikis. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review.

We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):

1. Thachan.makan (administrator)

These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, Rschen7754 05:15, 10 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-33

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

• CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [49]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [50]

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17:52, 13 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-34

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
• Legacy JavaScript global variables have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia or mediawiki.org. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide to fix old scripts. [51]

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16:46, 20 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-35

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

• You can now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [52]
• Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [53]

Problems

• Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [54]

Changes later this week

• The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [55]
• AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [56]
• Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title. [57]
• Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [58]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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16:15, 27 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-36

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

• There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [59][60]
• There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [61][62]
• You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [63]
• wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [64]
• When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [65]

Problems

• UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [66]
• You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [67]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation.
• The RelatedSites extension will be removed from Wikivoyage.
• Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server will be removed. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used. [68]

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16:47, 3 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-37

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

• When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [69]

Problems

• Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [70]
• Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [71]
• <maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [72]
• {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [73]
• When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [74]

Changes later this week

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
• Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 Septmber at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers work on making the wikis work better on mobile phones. There is a list of common problems when making content easier to read in the mobile view. You can add things to the page and ask others to help.

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22:35, 10 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-38

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

• The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [75]
• MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [76]

Problems

• You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [77]

Changes later this week

• Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [78]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers are testing new mobile web navigation. You can use it and give feedback.

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21:58, 17 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-39

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

Changes later this week

• The preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [79]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:23, 24 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-40

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

• Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [80][81]

Problems

• New and updated translations from will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [82][83]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.

Future changes

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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17:34, 1 ഒക്ടോബർ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-41

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 Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. You can use the Programs and Events Dashboard or the Fountain instead. [84]

Problems

• There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [85]

Changes later this week

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
• Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23:38, 8 ഒക്ടോബർ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-42

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

Problems

• Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [86]
• Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [87]

Changes later this week

• When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [88]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).

Meetings

• There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [89]
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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22:40, 15 ഒക്ടോബർ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-43

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

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.

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23:11, 22 ഒക്ടോബർ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-44

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

Recent changes

• You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
• The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [90]

Problems

• Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [91]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
• The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [92][93]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:08, 29 ഒക്ടോബർ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-45

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

Recent changes

• You can now use TemplateWizard to edit templates. This works only with the 2010 wikitext editor and not in the visual editor or the 2017 wikitext editor. If you click on you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences. [94]

Changes later this week

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
• When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [95]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:29, 5 നവംബർ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-46

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

Recent changes

• Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [96]

Problems

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [97][98][99]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [100]

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19:21, 12 നവംബർ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-47

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

Recent changes

• You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
• There is an A/B test for sameAs data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [101]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [102]
• The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [103]

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23:28, 19 നവംബർ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-48

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

• On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [104]

Changes later this week

• The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [105]
• Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [106]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [107]

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22:21, 26 നവംബർ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-49

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

Recent changes

• Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [108]
• Small SVG images are now bigger when you see them in MediaViewer. [109]
• You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow. [110]
• When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back. [111][112]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 December at 16:00 (UTC) and at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:12, 3 ഡിസംബർ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-50

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 December. It will be on all wikis from 13 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [113][114]
• When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [115]

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17:33, 10 ഡിസംബർ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-51

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.

Recent changes

• Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [116][117]
• Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [118]
• The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.

Problems

• <ref> tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example <ref name="adams" group="books">. If a <ref> tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [119]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 December. It will be on all wikis from 20 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
• tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [120]

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20:34, 17 ഡിസംബർ 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-02

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

Tech News writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.

Recent changes

• RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [121]
• MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [122]
• codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [123]
• On several wikis, an account named "ദുരുപയോഗ അരിപ്പ" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.

Problems

• In AbuseFilter, the "ത്വരണി" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [124]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from January 9. It will be on all wikis from January 10 (calendar).

Meetings

• Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.

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18:29, 7 ജനുവരി 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-03

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

Recent changes

• You can now use Google Translate in the content translation tool. [125][126]
• You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
• Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. [127][128]
• Templates with <templatestyles> could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. <templatestyles> has a new wrapper parameter now. You can use it for selectors like .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [129]

Problems

• When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed. [130]

Changes later this week

• You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new FileExporter. It will be a beta feature on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it and check your wiki's configuration file.
• Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage. [131]
• The AbuseFilter variable minor_edit has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15 17:54, 14 ജനുവരി 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-04

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

Tech News

• Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was because of a problem with MassMessage. If you did not get last week's issue, you can read it on Meta. [132]

Recent changes

• The content translation tool can now use version 2 as the default version for users who turned on the beta feature. For example it adds the tracking category Pages with unreviewed translations to translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category in Special:TrackingCategories on Wikipedias.
• https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org can now convert collects of up to 800 pages to PDF, EPUB or ODT. Previously this was 200 pages.

Problems

• When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17 January and is now fixed. [133]
• MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone. [134][135]
• Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This has now been fixed. [136]

Changes later this week

• You will be able to use template styles in the Module namespace. [137]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all wikis from 24 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:33, 21 ജനുവരി 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-05

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 changes

• The Wikimedia servers use HHVM to run the PHP code. They are going to use PHP7 and stop using HHVM. You can test PHP7 with a new beta feature. That way you can help find and report problems.

Problems

• When someone moves a page to a name that already exists that page that had the name the article is moved to is deleted. For a couple of months this didn't always work. Some users saw an error message instead. This has now been fixed. [138]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:14, 28 ജനുവരി 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-06

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

Changes later this week

• It was easy to untick a box by accident in Special:Preferences. This will now be fixed. [139]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 February. It will be on all wikis from 7 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:11, 4 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-07

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

Recent changes

• You can use the ambox CSS class to show page issues to mobile readers. When you use ambox there are classes you can use.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 February. It will be on all wikis from 14 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:45, 11 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-08

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

Recent changes

• When you thank someone on the mobile web you will now have two seconds to cancel the thank. This is in case you clicked on the thank button by accident. [140]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 February. It will be on all wikis from 21 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is a proposal to add a red link to mobile search results if there is no page with that name. This is how it works on desktop. You can leave feedback. [141]

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23:13, 18 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-09

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

Recent changes

• There is a new version of the iOS Wikipedia app. It has for example syntax highlighting and new toolbars to make it easier to write wikitext. It also has night mode, a find-on-page function and other things. You can give feedback and suggestions. [142]

Changes later this week

• When you look at your watchlist or the recent changes page you can use the new filters for edit review. There you can choose tags to filter different edits. Empty tags will no longer be shown. [143]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 February. It will be on all wikis from 28 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback.

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21:16, 25 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-10

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

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can give feedback on the future of talk pages.
• The mobile website will use the standard fonts on your computer or phone instead of a generic font. This will make it easier to read text in many scripts. [144][145]

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16:37, 4 മാർച്ച് 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-11

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

• Pages can use geocoordinates from Wikidata with the mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements Lua function or the #statements parser function. If they do, they will now be shown using a Kartographer <maplink> if the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on Phabricator.
• There is now an EventStream to see when links are added or removed on Wikimedia wikis. You can read the discussions and plans.

Problems

• Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (UTC). This will start at 15:00 UTC. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
• Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed. [146]
• Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed. [147][148]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:28, 11 മാർച്ച് 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-12

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

Changes later this week

• When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March. [149][150]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers. [151]
• Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.

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19:43, 18 മാർച്ച് 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-13

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

Recent changes

• The new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version. [152]

Problems

• There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed. [153]
• The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon. [154]
• Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them. [155]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:04, 25 മാർച്ച് 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-14

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

Changes later this week

• Notifications tell you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications about new links to pages you created. For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this. [156]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:28, 1 ഏപ്രിൽ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-15

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

• More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can read more.
• Admins on French and Polish Wikipedia can block someone from editing a page or a namespace. If your wiki wants to get these blocks before they are available to all wikis, you can tell the developers. [157][158]

Problems

• You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on 11 April at 05:00 (UTC). This is because of a hardware problem. You can see a list of the affected wikis. [159]
• A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [160]
• Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [161]

Changes later this week

• When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site. [162]
• The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more. [163]
• The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return "" (empty string). When you read a page it will return "-" (dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces. [164]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. [165][166]
• The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.

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18:23, 8 ഏപ്രിൽ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-16

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

• All wikis now have the TemplateWizard for the wikitext editor.

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will get a new constraint status called suggestion. This will change how the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API works. [167][168]
• You can test the depicts property for structured data on Commons.

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22:59, 15 ഏപ്രിൽ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-17

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

• The advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook. [169][170][171]
• The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [172]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikipedia articles will have the sameAs meta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test. [173][174]

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19:07, 23 ഏപ്രിൽ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-18

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

Recent changes

• The Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [175][176]

Problems

• Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [177]

Changes later this week

• You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [178]
• When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in local storage instead of session storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [179]
• You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [180]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikidata wb_terms table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more. You can ask for help if you need it.
• Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [181]

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22:28, 29 ഏപ്രിൽ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-19

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

Problems

• Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem. [182]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:28, 6 മേയ് 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-20

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

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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00:49, 14 മേയ് 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-21

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

• The report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019 has been published. Communities are invited to start phase 2 of the consultation on their wikis.

Problems

• File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [183][184]
• Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments. [185][186]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 മേയ്. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 മേയ്. It will be on all wikis from 23 മേയ് (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 മേയ് at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The content translation tool on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team. [187]
• The Wikidata wbeditentity API endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June. [188]

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13:04, 20 മേയ് 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-22

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

Changes later this week

• Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [189][190]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:34, 27 മേയ് 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-23

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

Recent changes

• You can now write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version. [191]
• There is now a field called depicts on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development. [192]
• Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema. [193][194]

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [195]

Changes later this week

• Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited. [196]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:24, 3 ജൂൺ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-24

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

Recent changes

• When you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton. Before this we used Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them. [197][198]
• The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [199]
• Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [200]

Problems

• Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it. [201]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:07, 10 ജൂൺ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-25

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

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [202]

Changes later this week

• MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with [[File:Filename.midi]]. Later override_midi and override_audio will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score. [203]
• A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [204]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old wgEnableAPI and wgEnableWriteAPI values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values. [205]

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20:38, 17 ജൂൺ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-26

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

Problems

• The new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday. [206]
• Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced. [207]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can watch or join the next Wikimedia Language showcase. It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects. The showcase will be on 26 June at 13:00 (UTC). A recording will be kept for later viewing
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:30, 24 ജൂൺ 2019 (UTC)

Indic Wikimedia Campaigns/Contests Survey

Hello fellow Wikimedians,

Apologies for writing in English. Please help me in translating this message to your language.

I am delighted to share a survey that will help us in the building a comprehensive list of campaigns and contests organized by the Indic communities on various Wikimedia projects like Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, Wikipedia, Wikidata etc. We also want to learn what's working in them and what are the areas that needs more support.

If you have organized or participated in any campaign or contest (such as Wiki Loves Monuments type Commons contest, Wikisource Proofreading Contest, Wikidata labelathons, 1lib1ref campaigns etc.), we would like to hear from you.

You can read the Privacy Policy for the Survey here

Please find the link to the Survey at: forms.gle/eDWQN5UxTBC9TYB1A

P.S. If you have been involved in multiple campaigns/contests, feel free to submit the form multiple times.

Looking forward to hearing and learning from you.

-- SGill (WMF) sent using MediaWiki message delivery (സംവാദം) 06:09, 25 ജൂൺ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-27

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

• The development of Wikidata Bridge has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia. [208]

Problems

• Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress. [209]
• Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed. [210]

Changes later this week

• You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database. [211]
• There is no deployment of a new version of MediaWiki on the wikis this week (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:23, 1 ജൂലൈ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-28

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

• For event organizers, if you request a temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation, this will now also raise the edit rate limit for those new accounts at the event, which will prevent another bottleneck. [212]
• Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new partial blocks feature. [213]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 July. It will be on all wikis from 11 July (calendar).
• The design of MediaWiki's software windows will change for desktop users. Layout will be simpler, buttons will be bolder and clearer, and close buttons will be just icons. This is like the mobile design. This will affect ContentTranslation, VisualEditor, TemplateWizard, and other tools. [214]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [215]
• There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July. [216]

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20:13, 8 ജൂലൈ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-29

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

• The mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the mobile web and give feedback. [217]

Changes later this week

• The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called ദുരുപയോഗ അരിപ്പ and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical problems. It will not do any other changes. You can read more.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all wikis from 18 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback. [218]

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15:30, 15 ജൂലൈ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-30

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

Recent changes

• Communities interested by easing newcomers' first steps can now benefit from the Growth team experiments on their wikis. Check the conditions and the request process.
• The Coolest Tool Award 2019 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools by July 29. The awarded tools will be presented at Wikimania. [219]

Problems

• The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2. [220]

Changes later this week

• Phabricator database will be moved to a different server. Writes will be blocked on Thursday 25 July, between 05:30 and 06:00 AM UTC. Reads will remain unaffected. [221]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 July. It will be on all wikis from 25 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some items in the visual editor will change later this week. This will make it easier to edit links, citations, and templates on both desktop and mobile. [222][223]
• With advanced search turned on you will be able to choose the sorting order of the search results when you do a search. [224][225]
• Users who edit from IP addresses whitelisted on a request for temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation will bypass CAPTCHAs. This will happen in August. If you think this should not happen for some reason, please let us know.
• The variable user_wpzero will be removed from AbuseFilter. A list of filters needing a fix is provided.

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13:07, 22 ജൂലൈ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-31

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

Problems

• Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [226]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:42, 29 ജൂലൈ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-32

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 August. It will be on all wikis from 8 August (calendar).

Problems

• A change in RelatedArticles extension accidentally enabled it for everyone, not just for mobile users. This has been fixed. [227][228]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Today everyone can see IP addresses if someone edits without an account. In the future this could be more hidden. This is to protect unregistered editors so fewer can see their IP address. This would only happen after we make sure the tools for vandal fighting can still be effective. You can read more and comment.

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13:25, 5 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-33

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

• Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools. Feedback on the discussion page is appreciated. [229]
• Due to the absence of volunteer maintenance of Cologne Blue skin, the link to activate it will be hidden. The skin will still work, but editors using it are encouraged to switch to another skin. [230]

Changes later this week

• Due to Wikimania, there is no deployment this week. [231]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The "Wikidata item" link will be moved from "Tools" to "In other projects" section on all Wikimedia projects, starting on August 21. Full announcement, Phabricator task.

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18:19, 12 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2019 (UTC)

Wikisource Advance Training 2019 host for Bid & Application open

Call for bids to host Wikisource Advance Training 2019 & participation of the program.

Apologies for writing in English, please consider translating the message.

Hello everyone,

It gives us great pleasure to inform that the Wikisource Advance Training 2019 programme organised by CIS-A2K is going to be held from 11 October & 13 October 2019.This year CIS-A2K is seeking expressions of interest from interested communities in India for hosting the Wikisource Advance Training 2019.Wikisource Advance Training is a 3 (three) days residential training program for which attempts to aims to groom experienced Wiki-librarians for Indic language Wikisource to proofread even better quality content on Wikisource.

If you're interested in hosting the program, Following are the per-requests to propose a bid:

• Active local community which is willing to support conducting the event.
• At least 4 active Wikimedian ( not specific for Wikisource contributor) community members should come together and propose the city. They should reside in the city/nearby or states.
• Women Wiki-librarian in organizing team is highly recommended.
• City should have at least a national airport.
• Venue and accommodations should be available for the event dates.
• Participants size of Wikisource Advance Training generally will be around 22.
• Needed a venue which will have good internet connectivity and conference space for the above mentioned size of participants.
• Discussions/announcement with the local community by mailing list/village pump.

For participation in this program, you should apply here:

• The selection will be done by each Indic Wikisource community.
• We may select maximum 2 (two) Wiki-librarian from each language community.
• Eligibility criteria for supporting a candidate for a participation: He/she should have a minimum 50 proofread in their languages Wikisource before 15th August 2019.
• The applicant for participation in this program should have a minimum 500 proofread in their languages Wikisource before 15th August 2019.
• Self nomination can be done at with a new section.
• We encourage for female participants.

Please learn more about the Wikisource Advance Training program please visit this page and to submit your bid please visit this page. Feel free to reach to me for more information or email jayanta@cis-india.org.

Best! Jayanta (CIS-A2K) (സംവാദം) 17:23, 14 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-34

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

Tech News

• There will be no Tech News issue next week. The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 2 September 2019.

Problems

• Some abuse filters stopped working because of a code change. Only variables for the current action will work. Variables defined inside a branch may not work outside of that branch. You can read more to see how to fix the filters.
• Only six accounts can be created from one IP address per day. Between 12 August and August 15 this was two accounts per day. This was because of a security issue. It is now six accounts per day again. [232]

Changes later this week

• Only a limited number of accounts can be created from one IP address. An IP address can be whitelisted so that it can create as many accounts as needed. This is useful at events where many new persons learn to edit. IP addresses that are whitelisted for this reason will also not show CAPTCHAs when you create accounts. This will happen on Wednesday. [233]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 August. It will be on all wikis from 22 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is an RFC about creating a new global user group with the right to edit abuse filters. This will be used to fix broken filters and make sure all filters will still work when software changes happen. You can read more and comment.
• Special:Contributions/newbies will no longer be working. This is because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the recent changes feed instead. [234]

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15:21, 19 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2019 (UTC)

New tools and IP masking

Hey everyone,

The Wikimedia Foundation wants to work on two things that affect how we patrol changes and handle vandalism and harassment. We want to make the tools that are used to handle bad edits better. We also want to get better privacy for unregistered users so their IP addresses are no longer shown to everyone in the world. We would not hide IP addresses until we have better tools for patrolling.

We have an idea of what tools could be working better and how a more limited access to IP addresses would change things, but we need to hear from more wikis. You can read more about the project on Meta and post comments and feedback. Now is when we need to hear from you to be able to give you better tools to handle vandalism, spam and harassment.

You can post in your language if you can't write in English.

Johan (WMF)

14:19, 21 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2019 (UTC)

Wikimedia Strategy Draft Recommendation Discussion Salon

Please translate this message to your language if possible.

Greetings,
You know Strategy Working Groups have published draft recommendations at the beginning of August. On 14–15 September we are organising a strategy salon/conference at Bangalore/Delhi (exact venue to be decided) It'll be a 2 days' residential event and it aims to provide a discussion platform for experienced Wikimedians in India to learn, discuss and comment about the draft recommendations. Feedback and discussions will be documented.

If you are a Wikipedian from India, and want to discuss the draft recommendations, or learn more about them, or share your valuable feedback you may apply to participate in the event.

Please have a look at the event page for more details The last date of application is 5 September.

It would be great if you share this information who needs this. For questions, please write on the event talk page, or email me at tito+indiasalon@cis-india.org

Regards. --MediaWiki message delivery (സംവാദം) 07:50, 29 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2019 (UTC)

Event page can be seen for details at Wikimedia movement strategy recommendations India salon--Ananth (CIS-A2K) (സംവാദം) 03:23, 3 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2019 (UTC)

@ഉപയോക്താവ്:Ananth (CIS-A2K) Thanks Ananth for the notification . --മനോജ്‌ .കെ (സംവാദം) 14:04, 3 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-36

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

• You can use the new termbox interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages. [235]
• The new version of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week.
• The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues. [236]
• The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute. [237]
• The advanced version of the edit review pages (Recent Changes, Watchlist, and Related Changes) now include two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces. However the "All discussions" filter does not include pseudo talk pages, like discussions that are in the Project: or Wikipedia: namespaces. But it will include changes happening on Project talk: or the Wikipedia talk:. [238]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 സെപ്റ്റംബർ. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 സെപ്റ്റംബർ. It will be on all wikis from 5 സെപ്റ്റംബർ (calendar).
• When you log in, the software checks your password to see if it follows the Password policy. From this week, it will also complain if your password is one of the most common passwords in the world. If your password is not strong enough, please consider to change your password for a stronger password. [239]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 സെപ്റ്റംബർ at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikidata for up to 30 minutes on September 10 at 05:00 (UTC). [240]
• You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 17 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [241]
• You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 24 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [242]
• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to 30 minutes on September 26 at 05:00 (UTC). [243]

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09:08, 4 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2019 (UTC)

Wikisource Advance Training 2019 Application open

Call for application for participation in Wikisource Advanced Training 2019. Apologies for writing in English, please consider translating the message.

Hello everyone,

It gives us great pleasure to inform that the Wikisource Advance Training 2019 program organized by CIS-A2K is going to be held from 11 October & 13 October 2019 at Pune.

Wikisource Advance Training is a 3 (three) days residential training program for which attempts to aims to groom experienced Wiki-librarians for Indic language Wikisources to proofread even better quality content on Wikisource.

Interested candidates are requested to apply with the following registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Uhab4qpMUZYMnO_VeHRfN0FinbhNiCwiooSxHFPGxpI/edit

Please learn more about the Wikisource Advance Training program and Other details will be updated from time to time on this page. Feel free to reach me for more information or email jayanta@cis-india.org.

Best! Jayanta (CIS-A2K) (സംവാദം) 17:31, 12 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-40

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

Problems

• Last week's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The problem where some pages got it three times should now be fixed. [244]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 ഒക്ടോബർ at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working on a watchlist expiry feature. This means you can put things on your watchlist for a period of time instead of forever. They are looking for feedback on the questions they have.
• Special:Contributions will get the standard OOUI look. This makes it easier to use on mobile and makes it look like other Special: pages. There is a script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to. [245]

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16:49, 30 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2019 (UTC)

The consultation on partial and temporary Foundation bans just started

Hello,

In a recent statement, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees requested that staff hold a consultation to "re-evaluat[e] or add community input to the two new office action policy tools (temporary and partial Foundation bans)".

Accordingly, the Foundation's Trust & Safety team invites all Wikimedians to join this consultation and give their feedback from 30 September to 30 October.

How can you help?

• Suggest how partial and temporary Foundation bans should be used, if they should (eg: On all projects, or only on a subset);

• Give ideas about how partial and temporary Foundation bans should ideally implemented, if they should be; and/or

• Propose changes to the existing Office Actions policy on partial and temporary bans.

We offer our thanks in advance for your contributions, and we hope to get as much input as possible from community members during this consultation!

-- Kbrown (WMF) 17:14, 30 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-41

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 abuse filter function now has a faster parser. This is to shorten the waiting time when you save an edit. [246]

Problems

• There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text with footnotes. It will be fixed soon. [247]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 October. It will be on all wikis from 10 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Community Wishlist Survey has a new format. It will focus on wikis that typically get less support. It will probably go back to the normal format next year. It is not decided exactly how it will work this year. You can leave feedback.
• The URL of the Wikimedia wiki main pages could be changed. This is because the current URLs cause several problems. For example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page would be https://www.wikidata.org/ instead. You can tell the developers if this would cause problems for your wiki.
• There is a new technical community newsletter. You can read more about the work of Wikimedia's technical community. Subscribe to get the information in the future.
• Outreachy is an internship program for groups who are underrepresented in free and open-source software. There are seven Wikimedia projects about coding, documentation and quality assurance in the next round. Persons who fit the criteria can apply. The last day to apply is 5 November.

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15:34, 7 ഒക്ടോബർ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-42

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

• You can now use more advanced editing tools on the mobile web. You can turn them on and off in your preferences in the mobile version. [248]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are no longer supported. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They will not get security support. You can't read Wikimedia wikis in Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows versions that are older than Windows XP. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them made the wikis less secure for everyone else. [249]
• In the future section headings might have a share link. This is to make it easier to link to the section. You can read more and discuss.

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23:32, 14 ഒക്ടോബർ 2019 (UTC)

Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project

Please help translate to your language

Hello. The Readers Web team at the WMF will work on some improvements to the desktop interface over the next couple of years. The goal is to increase usability without removing any functionality. We have been inspired by changes made by volunteers, but that currently only exist as local gadgets and user scripts, prototypes, and volunteer-led skins. We would like to begin the process of bringing some of these changes into the default experience on all Wikimedia projects.

We are currently in the research stage of this project and are looking for ideas for improvements, as well as feedback on our current ideas and mockups. So far, we have performed interviews with community members at Wikimania. We have gathered lists of previous volunteer and WMF work in this area. We are examining possible technical approaches for such changes.

We would like individual feedback on the following:

• Identifying focus areas for the project we have not yet discovered
• Expanding the list of existing gadgets and user scripts that are related to providing a better desktop experience. If you can think of some of these from your wiki, please let us know
• Feedback on the ideas and mockups we have collected so far

We would also like to gather a list of wikis that would be interested in being test wikis for this project - these wikis would be the first to receive the updates once we’re ready to start building.

When giving feedback, please consider the following goals of the project:

• Make it easier for readers to focus on the content
• Provide easier access to everyday actions (e.g. search, language switching, editing)
• Put things in logical and useful places
• Increase consistency in the interface with other platforms - mobile web and the apps
• Eliminate clutter
• Plan for future growth

As well as the following constraints:

• Not touching the content - no work will be done in terms of styling templates or to the structure of page contents themselves
• Not removing any functionality - things might move around, but all navigational items and other functionality currently available by default will remain
• No drastic changes to the layout - we're taking an evolutionary approach to the changes and want the site to continue feeling familiar to readers and editors

Please give all feedback (in any language) at mw:Talk:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements

After this round of feedback, we plan on building a prototype of suggested changes based on the feedback we receive. You’ll hear from us again asking for feedback on this prototype.

നന്ദി! Quiddity (WMF) (talk)

07:15, 16 ഒക്ടോബർ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-43

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

Recent changes

• The API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as internal. API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives. [250]

Problems

• There is a translation tool we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed. [251]
• The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed. [252]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (calendar).
• Reference Previews will be a beta feature on all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 October. See how to join.

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14:18, 21 ഒക്ടോബർ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-44

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

Recent changes

• You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
• Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist. [253][254]
• You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
• OOUI now allows using px (pixels) instead of em (em) for some specific cases. [255][256]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 ഒക്ടോബർ. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 ഒക്ടോബർ. It will be on all wikis from 31 ഒക്ടോബർ (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 ഒക്ടോബർ at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January. [257]
• Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named wg* to mw.config. The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.

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16:09, 28 ഒക്ടോബർ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-45

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

Recent changes

• At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites. [258]

Changes later this week

• MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip to set a different default block length for IP editors. [259]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:47, 4 നവംബർ 2019 (UTC)

Community Wishlist 2020

The 2020 Community Wishlist Survey is now open! This survey is the process where communities decide what the Community Tech team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to submit proposals until the deadline on November 11, 2019, or comment on other proposals to help make them better.

This year, we’re exclusively focusing on smaller projects (i.e., Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews). We want to help these projects and provide meaningful improvements to diverse communities. If you’re a member of any of these projects, please participate in the survey! To submit proposals, see the guidelines on the survey page. You can write proposals in any language, and we will translate them for you. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!

IFried (WMF) 19:30, 4 നവംബർ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-46

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

Recent changes

• MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.

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22:02, 11 നവംബർ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-47

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

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the centralauth database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames. [260]

Changes later this week

• You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:16, 18 നവംബർ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-48

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

Changes later this week

• The mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script. [261]
• Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them. [262]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view. [263]

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16:51, 25 നവംബർ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-49

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

Recent changes

• Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work. [264]
• The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns "" (empty string). When you read a page it returns "-" (dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces. [265]

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16:58, 2 ഡിസംബർ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-50

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

Recent changes

• Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language. [266]
• There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article. [267]

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16:35, 9 ഡിസംബർ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-51

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

Problems

• The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again. [268]
• Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem. [269]

Changes later this week

• You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki. [270]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now. [271]

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00:15, 17 ഡിസംബർ 2019 (UTC)

[WikiConference India 2020] Invitation to participate in the Community Engagement Survey

This is an invitation to participate in the Community Engagement Survey, which is one of the key requirements for drafting the Conference & Event Grant application for WikiConference India 2020 to the Wikimedia Foundation. The survey will have questions regarding a few demographic details, your experience with Wikimedia, challenges and needs, and your expectations for WCI 2020. The responses will help us to form an initial idea of what is expected out of WCI 2020, and draft the grant application accordingly. Please note that this will not directly influence the specificities of the program, there will be a detailed survey to assess the program needs post-funding decision.

• Please fill the survey at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7_hpoIKHxGW31RepX_y4QxVqoodsCFOKatMTzxsJ2Vbkd-Q/viewform
• The survey will be open until 23:59 hrs of 22 December 2019.

MediaWiki message delivery (സംവാദം) 09:06, 18 ഡിസംബർ 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-52

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.

Recent changes

• All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "advanced mode".

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

• You can use setlang in the URL to change the user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript is not working in your browser. [272]

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20:03, 23 ഡിസംബർ 2019 (UTC)

Wikimedia Movement Strategy: 2020 Community Conversations

Dear Wikimedians,

Greetings! Wishing you a very happy new year!

We have an update for the next steps of the Movement Strategy! We're preparing for a final round of community conversations with Wikimedia affiliates and online communities around a synthesized set of draft recommendations to start around late/mid January. In the meantime, recommendations’ writers and strategy team has been working on integrating community ideas and feedback into these recommendations. Thank you, for all of your contributions!

What's New?

The recommendations writers have been working to consolidate the 89 recommendations produced by the working groups. They met in Berlin a few weeks back for an in-person session to produce a synthesized recommendations document which will be shared for public comment around late/mid January. A number of common areas for change were reflected in the recommendations, and the writers assessed and clustered them around these areas. The goal was to outline the overall direction of the change and present one set that is clearly understood, implementable and demonstrates the reasoning behind each.

What's Next?

We will be reaching out to you to help engage your affiliate in discussing this new synthesized version. Your input in helping us refine and advance key ideas will be invaluable, and we are looking forward to engaging with you for a period of thirty days from late/mid January. Our final consultation round is to give communities a chance to "review and discuss" the draft recommendations, highlighting areas of support and concern as well as indicating how your community would be affected.

Please share ideas on how you would like to meet and discuss the final draft recommendations when they are released near Mid January whether through your strategy salons, joining us at global and regional events, joining online conversations, or sending in notes from affiliate discussions. We couldn't do this without you, and hope that you will enjoy seeing your input reflected in the next draft and final recommendations. This will be an opportunity for the movement to review and respond to the recommendations before they are finalized.

If possible, we'd love if you could feature a discussion of the draft recommendations at the next in-person meeting of your affiliate, ideally between the last week of January and the first week of February. If not, please let us know how we can help support you with online conversations and discussing how the draft recommendations fit with the ideas shared at your strategy salon (when applicable).

The input communities have shared so far has been carefully documented, analyzed, and folded into the synthesized draft recommendations. Communities will be able to see footnotes referencing community ideas. What they share again in January/February will be given the same care, seriousness, and transparency.

This final round of community feedback will be presented to the Board of Trustees alongside the final recommendations that will be shared at the Wikimedia Summit.

Warmly -- User:RSharma (WMF) 15:58, 4 ജനുവരി 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-02

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

Changes later this week

• When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [273]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 January. It will be on all wikis from 9 January (calendar).

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21:18, 6 ജനുവരി 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-03

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

Recent changes

• You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade attacks. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the browser recommendations. [274]
• Special:LinkSearch has been moved from the "തിരിച്ചുവിടൽ സംബന്ധിച്ച പ്രത്യേക താളുകൾ" section on Special:SpecialPages to the "താളുകളുടെ പട്ടിക" section. [275]

Changes later this week

• Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are സ്ഥിരീകരിക്കപ്പെട്ട ഉപയോക്താക്കളെ മാത്രം അനുവദിക്കുന്നു and സിസോപ്പുകളെ മാത്രം അനുവദിക്കുന്നു. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see. [276]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all wikis from 16 January (calendar).

Future changes

• Deepcat and Catgraph will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead. [277]
• You can use <ref follow="…"> to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead. [278]

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MediaWiki message delivery (സംവാദം) 18:39, 13 ജനുവരി 2020 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore

Hello Folks,

Wiki Loves Love is back again in 2020 iteration as Wiki Loves Folklore from 1 February, 2020 - 29 February, 2020. Join us to celebrate the local cultural heritage of your region with the theme of folklore in the international photography contest at Wikimedia Commons. Images, videos and audios representing different forms of folk cultures and new forms of heritage that haven’t otherwise been documented so far are welcome submissions in Wiki Loves Folklore. Learn more about the contest at Meta-Wiki and Commons.

Kind regards,
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
— Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk)
sent using MediaWiki message delivery (സംവാദം) 06:14, 18 ജനുവരി 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-04

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 January. It will be on all wikis from 23 January (calendar).

Future changes

• There is a new suggestion for what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work go faster. You can give feedback.
• Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will no longer support Python 2. Use the python2 tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so. [279]
• The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The timing for this cut may change. You can discuss in Phabricator if this affects you. [280]
• You can read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.

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19:41, 20 ജനുവരി 2020 (UTC)