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Tech News: 2015-14

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

Recent changes

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

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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

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15:18, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-15

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

Recent changes

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

Problems

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

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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

Future changes

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

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15:42, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

RE:Signature

A kitten for you!

For keeping a level-head at Talk:Shooting of Walter Scott.

Ian.thomson (talk) 15:53, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Just another day at the orifice. Thanks for the comments, and the kitty. ―Mandruss ☎ 16:05, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

RD

Thanks for that explanation -- as a matter of fact I wasn't sure what point you were making! But it's clear now. —Steve Summit (talk) 13:25, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Why...

... did you do this? The Banner talk 10:56, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

@The Banner: Already self-reverted. I can give a more thorough explanation than my edit summary, if you want it. ―Mandruss ☎ 10:58, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

No, this was good enough. The Banner talk 11:02, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-16

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

Recent changes

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

Problems

• Some wikis had issues on Wednesday.

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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

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Sorry about the massive delete

... at WP:RD/M. What happened was that my Firefox crashed. When I restarted it, I was amazed that it remembered everything I had entered, but I didn't notice that it must have forgotten that I only was editing a section. — Sebastian 18:14, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

From my limited experience with you, I trusted you were not a vandal, and therefore it was either an honest mistake or a case of software temporary insanity, which does happen occasionally. No worries. ―Mandruss ☎ 18:15, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Invitation

I'd like to invite you to join the WikiProject R&B and Soul Music. We are currently on demand for new members, the project was dying, but with your help we can revive it and make it one of the best WikiProjects. Make me sure that you'll think about this and remember cooperative works can do amazing things. Regards Dfrr (talk) 20:55, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Misplaced Pages:Village pump (proposals)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Misplaced Pages:Village pump (proposals). Legobot (talk) 00:08, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Hello

Why did you make those reverts?

@43.224.156.79: What reverts are you referring to? ―Mandruss ☎ 08:57, 14 April 2015 (UTC)