Vikicitaro:Diskutejo/Arkivo/2020

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. [1]
• 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 jan. 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. [2]
• Special:LinkSearch has been moved from the "Alidirektantaj specialaj paĝoj" section on Special:SpecialPages to the "Listoj de paĝoj" section. [3]

Changes later this week

• Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are Permesi nur aŭtomate konfirmitajn uzantojn and Permesi nur administrantojn. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see. [4]
• 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. [5]
• 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. [6]

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MediaWiki message delivery (diskuto) 18:39, 13 jan. 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 (diskuto) 06:14, 18 jan. 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. [7]
• 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. [8]
• You can read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.

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19:41, 20 jan. 2020 (UTC)

Movement Learning and Leadership Development Project

Hello

The Wikimedia Foundation’s Community Development team is seeking to learn more about the way volunteers learn and develop into the many different roles that exist in the movement. Our goal is to build a movement informed framework that provides shared clarity and outlines accessible pathways on how to grow and develop skills within the movement. To this end, we are looking to speak with you, our community to learn about your journey as a Wikimedia volunteer. Whether you joined yesterday or have been here from the very start, we want to hear about the many ways volunteers join and contribute to our movement.

To learn more about the project, please visit the Meta page. If you are interested in participating in the project, please complete this simple Google form. Although we may not be able to speak to everyone who expresses interest, we encourage you to complete this short form if you are interested in participating!

-- LMiranda (WMF) (talk) 19:01, 22 jan. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-05

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

Problems

• Some mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown. Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working on fixing it. [9][10]
• Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions can't move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing it. [11]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• There is JavaScript code on Special:Undelete for administrators that makes it possible to automatically select multiple checkboxes by holding the "Shift" key and clicking. This code is also loaded by accident on other special pages and on articles. This makes pages slower to load. This will be fixed. If you know of other special pages where this is useful please tell the developers at phab:T232688.

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18:52, 27 jan. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-06

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

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

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20:04, 3 feb. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-07

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

• There is a new version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem. [12]

Problems

• There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things. [13]

Changes later this week

• The MediaWiki action API is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work. [14]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February (calendar).

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19:09, 10 feb. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-08

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

• Pages on Wikidata and Commons now load faster. You can read more about page load performance. [15][16]

Changes later this week

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

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16:16, 17 feb. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-09

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

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• There will be a reply button after each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later. You can test the reply button. It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first wikis last week.

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20:59, 24 feb. 2020 (UTC)

Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages

Sorry, for writing this text in English. If you could help to translate it, it would be appreciated.

You might know the new interface for edit conflicts (currently a beta feature). Now, Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. We are inviting everyone to have a look at the planned feature. Let us know what you think on our central feedback page! -- For the Technical Wishes Team: Max Klemm (WMDE) 14:14, 26 feb. 2020 (UTC)

Esperanto kaj Libera Scio (ELiSo) formale registrita!

Kun granda ĝojo mi oficiale anoncas, ke "Esperanto kaj Libera Scio" (ELiSo), post jaroj de funkciado kiel neformala grupo, nun ekzistas ankaŭ kiel registrita, formala organizo!

La Ministerio de internaj aferoj de Slovakio, kiel la respondeca institucio pri tiaj registroj, nin registris la 23an de Decembro 2019 (pro granda laborŝarĝo de la ministerio tiutempe mi ricevis la konfirmon nur nun).

Tiu ĉi plia sukcesa paŝo provizas ankaŭ momenton por haltiĝi kaj iom rememori unuflanke, kaj rigardi en estontecon duaflanke. (sube estas nur koncizega superrigardo)

Ekde la unuaj pripensoj pri organizita grupo de Esperantlingvaj vikimedianoj elstare agadis precipe Ziko van Dijk (k.a. la unua instigo pri rekono laŭ tiam nova modelo de organizoj), Arno Lagrange (fina puŝo por rekono), Peter Baláž (k.a. morala, organiza kaj aliaj subtenoj), Marek Blahuš, Universero Trio kaj mi (oficialaj subskribintoj por la kontrakto pri rekono).

Specife por formala registriĝo laboris la Prepara komisiono (Michal Matúšov, Leidy Sandoval Galindez, Juan Quintero Santacruz, Ivan Quintero Santacruz, Mathieu Stumpf Guntz, Michel Castelo Branco, Nicolas Maia kaj Václav Zouzalík). Danke al tiuj ĉiuj homoj ni havis pretajn ĉiujn necesajn aferojn. La oficialaj fondintoj estas Michal Matúšov, Peter Baláž kaj Matthieu Desplantes. Mi deziris, ke pli multaj homoj, kiuj laboris pri la fondo povu esti oficialaj fondintoj (ili ja meritus tion), sed pro la koncernaj leĝoj ni bezonis Slovakianojn. Neoficiale ili ĉiuj tamen tenas tiun honoran lokon! Fine, al la fondo finance helpis Václav Zouzalík, efektive ebligante la fondon. Mi dankas al ĉiuj tiuj homoj, kiuj sindoneme laboris por venigi ELiSon al sekva nivelo!

Ne necesas emfazi, ke formala fondo estas nur unu el multaj paŝoj por atingi nian mision pri mondo, en kiu ĉiu homo povas libere partopreni en la tuta sciaro de homaro. Ni jam nun estas en kontakto kun la Komisiono pri aligitaj organizoj de la Fondaĵo Vikimedio kun la celo esti rekonitaj kiel Vikimedia Tema organizo (simila al Esperantaj Fakaj asocioj) en 2020, kun ŝanĝo de nomo supozeble al Vikimedio Esperanto. Post tiu rekono ni iĝos oficialaj reprezentantoj de Esperanto en la Vikimedia mondo. Kun TEJO ni antaŭnelonge planis komunan partoprenon en interkontinenta projekto kun subvencio de la Eŭropkomisiona programo Erasmo+; pro prokrastita fondo ni ne povis aliĝi, sed ni jam havas bazon por sekva partopreno. Estas antaŭ ni multa laboro kaj en certa tempo nin povos helpi ankaŭ pluraj dungitoj. Dum nia agado ni ne nur faros utilan kaj helpan laboron, sed ni ankaŭ disvolviĝos kiel organizo kaj ankaŭ kiel homoj; ni ankaŭ kontribuos al disvolviĝo de la Esperanta kaj la Vikimedia movadoj (kiel niaj "gepatraj"), sed ankaŭ al pli ĝeneralaj movadoj, kiel la liberkultura kaj la eduka - sur kies ŝultroj ni staras kaj kiuj subtenas nin. Fine, ni ankaŭ memoru, ke ni fakte estas pioniroj! Ni piedbatas kaj montras la vojon al aliaj, kiuj venos post ni, fondos siajn proprajn Esperantlingvajn Vikimediajn organizojn, lernos ankaŭ de ni kaj en sia niĉo suksesos espereble eĉ pli rapide ol ni faris.

La estonteco estas granda kaj vi estas bonvena (plu)kun-iri!

nome de la Prepara komisiono --KuboF Hromoslav (diskuto) 16:16, 1 mar. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-10

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

Problemoj

• Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug. [17]

Changes later this week

• If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. [18]
• When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security. [19]
• On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to. [20]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 marto. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 marto. It will be on all wikis from 5 marto (calendar).

Estontaj ŝanĝoj

• The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback. [21]
• There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
• wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list. [22]

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00:35, 3 mar. 2020 (UTC)

Ricevu stipendion por Vikimanio en Tajlando

Vikimanio 2020 okazos en Bankoko, Tajlando

Resumo: Sendu vian stipendipeton al neformala konsultilo ĝis la 14a de Marto. Niaj aktivuloj ĝin konsultos kaj sendos al vi rimarkojn. Poste ĝin sendu al oficiala stipendi-petilo.

Vikimanio 2020, la plej granda konferenco kaj festo de la Vikimedia movado, pli kaj pli proksimiĝas - ĝi laŭplane okazos la 5an-9an de Aŭgusto 2020 en Bankoko, Tajlando.

La Fondaĵo Vikimedio denove provizas stipendiojn por partopreno. Ili kovras partoprenkotizon kaj loĝadon (okaze de parta stipendio) kaj aldone ankaŭ vojaĝon (okaze de plena stipendio). La celo de stipendioj estas igi Vikimanion pli sukcesa konferenco danke al partoprenigo de homoj, kiuj jam pruveble altkvalite kontribuis al la Vikimedia movado, povas siajn spertojn transdoni al aliaj partoprenontoj kaj mem pli spertiĝi.

Limdato por peti stipendion estas la 17a de Marto 2020 enkalkulante. Ĉiuj bezonataj informoj kaj oficiala petilo estas ĉe wikimania:2020:Scholarships/eo

Estas rekomendinde unue atente legi la oficialajn informojn por kompreni kion indas skribi.

La organizo Esperanto kaj Libera Scio (ELiSo) volas, ke pli multaj esperantistoj povu partopreni en Vikimanio. Tial ni provizas amikan konsultadon de stipendipetoj. Pluraj el ni jam plurfoje sukcese ricevis stipendion, do ni havas certan komprenon kion kaj kiel skribi. Kaj ni pretas helpi vin, por plialtigi viajn ŝancojn! Ĉi-jare la konsultistoj estas Ziko van Dijk kaj KuboF Hromoslav.

Ni bezonas sufiĉan tempon por konsulti vian peton, adekvate respondi al ĝi kaj doni al vi sufiĉan tempon por povi adapti ĝin. Tial sendu vian kontribuon kiel eble plej frue, la limdato estas la 14a de Marto 2020.

Klaku al jena ligilo kaj plenigu la informojn: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfcp8kzxpn8Xn2Z2KXSqFUaJv1cQmBgFMy-rAEYY5Jv9UFUdg/viewform

Sukceson al via peto! Ni esperas renkonti vin en Bankoko!

KuboF Hromoslav kaj Ziko van Dijk

PS: Pro la nuntempa situacio pri kronviruso estas diskutata kion fari pri Vikimanio 2020. La fina decido estas planata por fino de Marto; dume validas, ke Vikimanio okazos. --KuboF Hromoslav (diskuto) 19:13, 6 mar. 2020 (UTC)

Do, fine pro la kronviruso la Vikimanio en Bankoko estas oficiale ŝovita al 2021. Tial en 2020 ne okazos Vikimanio (almenaŭ ne kiel ĉeesta renkontiĝo). Dume ne klaras kion fari pri la ĉi-jaraj stipendipetoj, sed la respondeculoj tion traktos en baldaŭa tempo. --KuboF Hromoslav (diskuto) 20:31, 22 mar. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-11

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

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

• There is a new search word called articletopic. You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon. [23][24][25]

Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne

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

Okazontaj ŝanĝoj

• There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
• The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year. [26]

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17:14, 9 mar. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-12

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

Recent changes

• There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org. [27]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).

Future changes

• If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface. [28][29]
• You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.

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21:18, 16 mar. 2020 (UTC)

10 jaraĝa jubileo de Vikinovaĵoj

La 18-an de marto n:eo:Vikinovaĵoj en Esperanto fariĝos dekjara! La unua artikolo estis n:eo:Ĉilio: Tertremo kun magnitudo de 8,8 Mw, necerta la nombro de mortintoj. Hodiaŭ Vikinovaĵoj informas pri la plej rimarkindaj internaciaj eventoj. La 13-an de marto aperis la sepcenta novaĵo kaj la aŭtoroj ne planas ĉesi per tio. Ĉiutage aperas unu, du aŭ eĉ tri novaĵoj, kio estas pli ol en la aglalingva aŭ franclingva sekcioj. Bedaŭrinde inter aktivaj aŭtoroj estas neniu kiu verkas pri la Esperanto-movado kaj tio evidente kaŭzas la maloftan aperon de novaĵoj pri kiel “vivas” Esperanto-mondo. De la alia flanko tio permesas eliri el la kadroj de la Esperanto-komunumo kaj prezenti neŭtralan vidpunkton pri okazaĵoj en la mondo. Estas reprezentantoj de malsamaj landoj inter la aktivaj aŭtoroj de Vikinovaĵoj, kio fakte estas kutima por Esperanto-projekto. Ni sincere gratulas al la aŭtoroj de Vikinovaĵoj pro ilia datreveno kaj invitas ĉiun partopreni en ĉi tiu projekto: Vikinovaĵoj estas la novaĵoj gravaj por ni. --P.Fisxo (diskuto) 12:58, 18 mar. 2020 (UTC)

• en ruslingva parto de Vikinovaĵoj aperis intervjuo okaze de la datreveno: n:ru:Станислав Белов: у эсперантистов совершенно иное образование, окружение и информационный фон. --P.Fisxo (diskuto) 12:58, 18 mar. 2020 (UTC)

Lanĉita konkurso VikiPrintempo COE 2020 - patroprenu, helpu kaj gajnu!

Partoprenu la konkurson en Vikivojaĝo kaj en Vikipedio

Oni diras, ke ni pli bone konas malproksimajn galaksiojn ol proprajn najbarojn. Kaj tio estas bedaŭrinda! Tial EliSo lanĉas la konkurson VikiPrintempo de Centra kaj Orienta Eŭropo 2020 - samtempe en Vikivojaĝo kaj en Vikipedio. Mi invitas vin partopreni la konkurson - verki / traduki artikolojn, tiel helpi esperantistojn per plibonigitaj scioj pri tiu regiono kaj aldone eĉ gajni interesajn premiojn!

La konkursa parto daŭras ĝis la 30a de Aprilo 2020 23:59 UTK. La 3 venkontoj gajnos donackartojn valorajn 20-70 eŭrojn kaj 2 ankaŭ abonon de Vinilkosmo kun (ne nur) Esperanta muziko.

Temas jam pri 4a jaro de la konkurso en Esperantaj viki-projektoj. Kompare kun la antaŭaj jaroj estas precipe 6 gravaj ŝanĝoj:

• vi povas partopreni per artikoloj pri via lando - nur estas malpermesataj landoj, kie estas Esperanto oficiala lingvo (ne validas por landoj kun Esperanto kiel minoritata lingvo aŭ kultura heredaĵo)
• la konkurso okazas ankaŭ ĉi tie, en la Esperanta Vikivojaĝo - por instigi vian partoprenon en Vikivojaĝo vi tie ĉi gajnas 2-oble pli multajn poentojn ol en Vikipedio!
• Estas 2 specialaj kategorioj kun aldonaj premioj - por artikoloj en Vikivojaĝo kaj pri genra egaleco.
• ne estas starigita minimuma kvanto de aldonita enhavo po artikolo, nek minimuma bezonata kvanto de poentoj por venki (do vi povas venki eĉ per malpli ol 5 artikoloj, malsame ol lastjare)
• pli gravas suma kvanto de nova kvalita enhavo ol nombro de artikoloj (vi povas venki ĉu per multaj relative mallongaj artikoloj aŭ per unu tre longa)
• kalkulado de poentoj estas pli facila, do vi ne devas zorgi pri matematikaĵoj

Vi povis rimarki, ke la vorto "Vikivojaĝo" ĉi tie ripetiĝis plurfoje. Tio estas intenca! Ĉi-jare grava celo de la konkurso estas atentigi vin pri tiu projekto kaj helpi al disvolviĝo de ĝia komunumo. Vikivojaĝo nuntempe estas en Vikimedia Kovilo - kvankam ĝi redakteblas, ĝi ne estas memstara projekto sur propra subdomajno, kio alportas plurajn ĝenojn. Por plenkreskiĝi, Vikivojaĝo bezonas pli aktivan komunumon. Sperto de la Novembra evento "Azia monato" klare montras, kiom povas helpi homo veninta pere de tia ĉi konkurso. Vikivojaĝo bezonas vin! Tamen, ni konscias, ke ekredakti en nova projekto povas esti iom defia. Por helpi al vi fari tiun unuan paŝon vi havos 2 avantaĝojn - en Vikivojaĝo vi gajnos poentojn 2-oble pli rapide, kaj aldone povos ricevi specialan premion nur por Vikivojaĝantoj!

Tial mi instigas vin rigardi al Vikivojaĝo kaj partopreni tie. Eble ankaŭ vi post la konkurso ekŝatos la projekton ;-)

Partoprenu en Vikivojaĝo

Partoprenu en Vikipedio

PS1: Por resto de la jaro ni pripensas similajn eventojn pri aliaj kontinentoj. Tamen, dume nur VikiPrintempo COE estas konfirmita kaj provizas sufiĉe grandajn premiojn.

PS2: Se vi volas fari projekton pli celitan al Vikicitaro, kontaktu EliSo-n kaj proponu vian projekton aŭ proponon. Ni estas volontuloj, sed ni provos helpi laŭ niaj ebloj (kaj ankaŭ vi estas bonvena en la teamo ;).

--KuboF Hromoslav (diskuto) 19:15, 22 mar. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-13

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

Problemoj

• Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
• There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed. [30][31]

Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne

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

Okazontaj ŝanĝoj

• There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.

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17:05, 23 mar. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-14

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

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

• The beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts. [32]

Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne

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

Okazontaj ŝanĝoj

• The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed. [33]
• There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback. [34]

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17:24, 30 mar. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-15

Plej novaj teknikaj novaĵoj el la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu sciigi aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos sur vin. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Problemoj

• Ekzistis problemon pri nemontro de uzantopaĝoj en surtablaj komputiloj. Tio okazis pro cimo. Tio estas riparota baldaŭ. [35]

Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne

• La nova versio de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 7 aprilo. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 8 aprilo. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 9 aprilo (kalendaro).

Okazontaj ŝanĝoj

• MediaVikio uzos pli novan version de Unikodo. Kelkaj skribsignoj, kiuj ne havis majusklajn ekvivalentojn antaŭe, nun havas majusklojn. Titoloj komenciĝantaj per tiuj skribsignoj estas movota. Listo de tiuj titoloj estas haveblaj ĉe Phabricator. La titoloj estas movotaj de la uzanto Maintenance script. Tio komencos je la 13a de Aprilo, 2020. Vi povas alinomi ilin antaŭ tio, se vi volas; la nova titolo povas esti alia ol tiu, al kiu la roboto alinomus. [36]

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19:01, 6 apr. 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools

Legi ĉi tion en alia lingvo • Abonlisto de ĉi tiu plurlingva bulteno

La frua versio de la ilo por Respondi aŭtomate subskribas kaj deŝovas komentojn.

La Redaktada teamo laboradas pri la projekto pri diskutpaĝoj. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.

In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools.

The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Bonvolu provi la novan ilon por Respondi.

• Je la 31a de Marto 2020, la nova ilo respondi estis ofertata kiel uzantoj de Beta-Trajto ĉe kvar Vikipedioj: Arablingva, Nederlandlingva, Franclingva, kaj Hungarlingva. Se via komunumo volas fruan atingon al la nova ilo, kontaktu User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
• La teamo planas okazontajn ŝanĝojn. Bonvolu revizii la proponitan dezajnon kaj konigu viajn opiniojn ĉe la diskutpaĝo. La teamo testos la ĉi-subajn trajtojn, ekzemple:
  • facila metodo por mencii alian uzanton ("ping"),
  • opcio por vida riĉteksta redaktado, kaj
  • aliaj trajtoj, trovitaj per uzanto-testado aŭ rekomendado de redaktantoj.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

19:27, 8 apr. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-16

Plej novaj teknikaj novaĵoj el la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu sciigi aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos sur vin. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

• Vi nun povas uzi la serĉvorton articletopic en ĉiuj Vikipedioj. Ĝi serĉas artikolojn laŭteme. [37]
• Vi povas vidi vikiajn ilojn en la nova Galerio de Iloj. [38]
• Oni povas vidi redaktojn el Vikimediaj Nubaj Servoj en nova stirpanelo.
• Kiam oni uzas filtrilojn en historia paĝo, oni kelkfoje ne vidas ajnan redakton. Nun teksto klarigas tion. [39]
• Ekzista nova Vikimedia Teknika Blogo. [40]

Problemoj

• Lastasemajne, ekzistis problemon pri la Vikidatuna datumbanko. Kelkaj vikioj ne funkciis dum 20 minutoj. Vikidatumoj kaj aliaj projektoj montris erarmesaĝojn. Intervikiaj ligiloj ne estis montrataj; kelkaj iloj ne funkciis; kaj aliaj problemoj okazis. Iuj el tiuj estis riparitaj rapide. La evoluigantoj estas riparantaj la restantajn problemojn. [41][42][43]

Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne

• La nova versio de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 14 aprilo. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 15 aprilo. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 16 aprilo (kalendaro).

Okazontaj ŝanĝoj

• Kelkaj grafoj ne funkciis en poŝaparatoj. Tio estas baldaŭ riparota. [44]
• La artikola langeto en diskutpaĝoj aŭ alidirektiloj estas ligita al la celo de la alidirekto. Ĝi povus anstae esti ligita al la alidirektiga paĝo mem. Vi rajtas prikomenti pri tio.
• Pri paĝoj uzantaj sintaksoreliefigon, la uzo de la evitinda etikedo <source> aŭ de la evitinda parametro enclose enmetos spuradan kategorion.

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15:30, 13 apr. 2020 (UTC)

1a Ĝenerala asembleo de ELiSo okazos la 16an de Majo 2020

Saluton.

La 1a Ĝenerala asembleo de Esperanto kaj Libera Scio (ELiSo) okazos la 16an de Majo, ekde 18:00 UTK.

La anonco estas ankaŭ en nia (provizora) retejo: meta:Esperanto_kaj_Libera_Scio

La Ĝenerala asembleo estos virtuala por ebligi partoprenon de la tuta mondo. Precizajn instrukciojn por aliĝi ni dissendos en taŭga tempo antaŭ la Asembleo. Por ke vi certe estu sciigita, aliĝu al subtenantoj de ELiSo en

• meta:Esperanto_kaj_Libera_Scio#People_interested

kaj al jenaj informaj kanaloj:

• retpoŝta dissendolisto (maloftaj gravaj anoncoj pri la organizo kaj foje pri vikimedi-movadaj aferoj)
• Facebook
• Twitter

Se viaj Esperantaj amikoj aŭ kolegoj interesiĝas pri Vikipedio aŭ libera scio, bv. plusendi al ili tiun ĉi mesaĝon! Ili certe aprezos.

Amike, nome de la Prepara Komisiono, --KuboF Hromoslav (diskuto) 15:16, 15 apr. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-17

Plej novaj teknikaj novaĵoj el la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu sciigi aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos sur vin. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Teknikaj Novaĵoj

• La sekva numero de Teknikaj Novaĵo estos publikigita je la 4a de Majo, 2020.

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

• La ilaro por malgrandaj vikioj celas helpi malgrandajn vikiojn, kiuj postulas teknikajn kapablojn. Ili povas lerni kaj dissciigi teknikajn kapablojn. [45]
• Trokvalifikitaj CSS-elektiloj en Vikimediaj etosoj estis forigitaj. div#content estas nun .mw-body. div.portal estas nun .portal. div#footer estas nun #footer. Tio estas por la kapablo de etosoj uzi HTML5-elementojn. Se viaj uzantostiloj aŭ iloj uzis ilin, vi devas ĝisdatigi tiujn. [46]

Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne

• Ne ekzistas nova versio de MediaVikio ĉi-semajne.

Okazontaj ŝanĝoj

• Kelkaĵoj en la vikioj eble misaspektos aŭ ne funkcios en Internet Explorer 8. Internet Explorer 8 estis eksigita je 2011. [47]
• La tiparo en la diferencoj estos ŝanĝita. [48]
• La nova versio de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde la 28a de Aprilo venontsemajne. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde la 29a de Aprilo venontsemajne. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde la 30a de Aprilo venontsemajne (kalendaro).

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18:44, 20 apr. 2020 (UTC)

Technical maintenance planned

(Sorry for using English. Please help translate to your language.)

A maintenance operation will be performed on Thursday 30th April at 05:00 AM UTC.

It impacts all wikis and is supposed to last a few minutes.

During this time, new translations may fail, and Notifications may not be delivered. For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.

A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.

Please help making your community aware of this maintenance operation.

Trizek (WMF), 18:01, 27 apr. 2020 (UTC)

Reminder: Technical maintenance planed

Sorry to use English. Please help translate to your language.

This is a reminder of the message sent on Monday 27th April.

A maintenance operation will be performed on Thursday 30th April at 05:00 AM UTC.

It impacts all wikis and is supposed to last a few minutes.

During this time, new translations may fail, and Notifications may not be delivered. For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.

A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.

Please help making your community aware of this maintenance operation.

Trizek (WMF) 15:13, 29 apr. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-19

Plej novaj teknikaj novaĵoj el la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu sciigi aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos sur vin. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Problemoj

• Kelkaj vikioj estos en nurlega reĝimo dum kelkaj minutoj en la 5a de Majo, Tio okazos ĉirkaŭ 05:00 UTC. Tio estas pro mastrumado de la datenbankoj. [49]
• Kelkaj vikioj estos en nurlega reĝimo dum kelkaj minutoj en la 7a de Majo. Tio efikos ankaŭ pri CentralAuth. Tio povas, ekzemple, kaŭzi problemojn pri mallokaj alinomadoj, ŝanĝado de pasvortoj, ŝanĝado aŭ konfirmado de via retpoŝta adreso, kaj ensalutado en novajn vikiojn. Tio okazos ĉirkaŭ 05:00 UTC. Tio estas pro mastrumado de datenbankoj. [50]

Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne

• Vi povas ricevi sciigon, kiam oni kreas ligilon al paĝo kreita de vi. Vi povas malŝalti tiujn sciigojn por individuaj paĝoj. [51]
• La nova versio de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 5 majo. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 6 majo. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 7 majo (kalendaro).

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16:59, 4 maj. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-20

Plej novaj teknikaj novaĵoj el la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu sciigi aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos sur vin. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

• Ĉiu nun rajtas enporti fotojn el Flickr al Komunejo per la Alŝutilo. Antaŭ tio, nur aŭtomat-patrolantoj en Komunejo rajtis enporti fotojn el Flickr. [52]

Problemoj

• Komunejo estos en nurlega reĝimo dum kelkaj minutoj en la 12a de Majo. Tio okazos ĉirkaŭ 05:00 UTC. Tio estas pro mastrumado de la datenbankoj. [53]
• Pluraj vikioj, inkluzive de Vikidatumoj, estos en nurlega reĝimo dum kelkaj minutoj en la 19a de Majo 05:00 UTC. La anglalingva Vikipedio estos en nurlega reĝimo dum kelkaj minutoj en la 21a de Majo 05:00 UTC. Tio estas pro mastrumado de la datenbankoj. [54][55]

Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne

• La nova versio de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 12 majo. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 13 majo. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 14 majo (kalendaro).

Okazontaj ŝanĝoj

• JavaScript-programetoj kaj akcesoraĵoj ne plu povas kontroli ĉu pluraj ŝlosiloj ekzistas samtemep per mw.config.exists() aŭ mw.user.tokens.exists(). Vi povas uzi la metodojn exists() kaj get() por kontroli ŝlosilojn po unu por metodvoko. [56]

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20:40, 11 maj. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-21

Plej novaj teknikaj novaĵoj el la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu sciigi aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos sur vin. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

• Se vi forgesas vian pasvorton, vi povas peti por nova pasvorto sendotan al via retpoŝta adreso. Vi devas scii vian retpoŝtan adreson aŭ vian uzantnomon. Vi povas permesi, ke vi devos provizi kaj la retpoŝtan adreson kaj la uzantnomon. Tio estas ŝanĝebla prefero. Tio celas ricevon de malpli da pasvorto-restarigaj retmesaĝoj petataj de aliuloj. Tio estas nun havebla en ĉiuj Vikimediaj vikioj. [57][58]

Problemoj

• Ekzistas cimo, kiu ĝenas uzantojn de iPhone kun iOS 13 kaj Safari. Se vi uzas iPhone por legi aŭ redakti Vikipedion kaj spertas cimojn en la poŝaparata retejo, vi povas raporti ilin. [59]
• Pluraj vikioj, inkluzive de Vikidatumoj, estos en nurlega reĝimo dum kelkaj minutoj en la 19a de Majo 05:00 UTC. La anglalingva Vikipedio estos en nurlega reĝimo dum kelkaj minutoj en la 21a de Majo 05:00 UTC. Tio estas pro mastrumado de la datenbankoj. [60][61]

Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne

• La Vikipedia aplikaĵo por Android ebligas uzantojn aldoni montras-asertojn en Komunejo. La beta-versio uzis komputile helpatan etikedfiksadon. Tio estis forigita por pli specifaj montras-assertoj. [62]
• Ne ekzistas nova versio de MediaVikio ĉi-semajne.

Okazontaj ŝanĝoj

• Grafoj estos bildigataj en la TTT-legilo. Tio uzos Javascript. Grafoj, espereble, funkcios pli bone por ĉiuj, tiuj uzas JavaScript. Tio ne funkcios por tiuj, kiuj ne uzas JavaScript. [63]
• Iom da CSS por la etosoj simpliĝis. Tio rilatas al div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction, div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces, div#p-variants, kaj div#footer. Ili ne plu havos la elementon div. Vi devos ĝisdatigi viajn akcesoraĵojn, programetojn, aŭ uzantostilojn. Tio estas pro la uzo de HTML5. [64]
• Iom da CSS por la etoso Vector ŝanĝiĝis. Tio rilatas al #p-variants, #p-namespaces, #p-personal, #p-views and #p-cactions. Tiuj ne plu povas uzi > ul. Vi eble devas ĝisdatigi viajn akcesoraĵo, programetojn, aŭ uzantostilojn. Vidu la kielon.

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17:18, 18 maj. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-22

Plej novaj teknikaj novaĵoj el la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu sciigi aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos sur vin. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne

• La vida redaktilo nun funkcias kun la etoso Modern. La ŝanĝoj postulitaj por ebligi tion eble kaŭzas problemojn por kelkaj programetoj aŭ akcesoraĵoj. [65]
• La nova versio de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 26 majo. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 27 majo. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 28 majo (kalendaro).

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14:17, 25 maj. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-23

Plej novaj teknikaj novaĵoj el la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu sciigi aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos sur vin. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

• Ekzistas nova beta-versio de la aplikaĵo de Vikimedia Komunejo por Android. Ĝi havas novan funkcion por zomado, kiam vi spektas bildojn. Ĝi povas ankaŭ sugesti lokojn, kiam vi alŝutas fotojn kun geografiaj etikedoj. [66]

Problemoj

• Okazis problemo pri la datenbanko de Komunejo en la 27a de Majo. Komunejo ne estis redaktebla dum ok minutoj. Pro tiu problemo, la datenbanko estis movita. Tio kaŭzis alian mallongan nurlegeblan periodon en la 29a de Majo. [67][68][69]
• La etoso Vector havis problemon, ke vi ne povis aldoni ligilojn al la artikolo en aliaj lingvoj. Vi ne povis vidi la paragrafon, se ne jam ekzistis ligiloj al aliaj lingvoj. Tio ankaŭ forigis ligilojn al traduko de enhavo kaj al lingvaj agordoj. Tio estas nun riparita. [70]

Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne

• Vi povas esti sciigata kiam oni kreas ligilon al paĝo kreita de vi. Vi povas malŝalti sciigojn por individuaj paĝoj. Vi povas ankaŭ tuj malŝalti ilin en la sciigoj ricevitaj de vi. [71]
• La nova versio de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 2 junio. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 3 junio. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 4 junio (kalendaro).

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22:30, 1 jun. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-24

Plej novaj teknikaj novaĵoj el la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu sciigi aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos sur vin. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

• Kelkaj artikoloj havas tabelojn ordigeblajn diversmaniere. Ekzemple, listo de landoj povas esti ordigita alfabete, sed vi povas alklaki la kolumnon de grandoj por ordigi laŭ grandoj. Se vi alklakas duafoje, ĝi ordigas la la landojn malaorde. Nun, tria alklako restarigos la originalan ordon. [72]
• Sinfermantaj etikedoj nun funkcias laŭ la specifoj de HTML5. <b/> estas ekzemplo de sinfermanta etikedo. Ĝi estu <b>. Paĝoj kun tiu eraro estis listitaj en spura kategorio ekde 2016. Tiuj estos listitaj en Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. Tio ne efikas sur <references /> aŭ <ref />. [73]
• Ekzistas rubando nomita WikidataPageBanner. Ĝi estas, ekzemple, uzata en Vikivojaĝoj, en la vikio de Vikimedio Rusio, kaj en la Katalunlingva, Eŭsklingva, Galeglingva, kaj Turklingva Vikipedioj. Ĝoi estos nun ankaŭ vidata de vizitantoj vizitantaj per poŝaparatoj. Antaŭ tio, la rubando estis nur videbla per surtablaj komputiloj. La vikioj ĝisdatigu instrukciojn en MediaWiki:Sitenotice, por ke redaktantoj scios kiel testi kaj stiligi por poŝaparatoj ankaŭ. [74][75]

Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne

• Vi povas nun redakti AmasMesaĝo-priskribojn per la API. Tio utilas al iloj kaj akcesoraĵoj. [76]
• La nova versio de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 9 junio. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 10 junio. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 11 junio (kalendaro).

Okazontaj ŝanĝoj

• Portempa riparo helpis vikiojn igi siajn ĉefpaĝojn pli poŝaparate uzeblaj. Tio ne estas rekomendata ekde 2017. Tio ne funkcios post la 13a de Julio. Vikioj uzu Ŝablonajn Stilojn anstataŭe. 118 vikioj devas ripari tion ĉi. Vi povas legi kaj kontroli, ĉu via vikio estas riparenda. [77]

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21:11, 8 jun. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-25

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

• Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.

Problems

• There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed. [78]
• Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed. [79]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help. [80]
• The selectors .menu and .vectorMenu will no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts. .menu should be replaced by ul. .vectorMenu should be replaced by .vector-menu. [81]

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21:37, 15 jun. 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #2

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The new features include a toolbar. What do you think should be in the toolbar?

This issue of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.

• Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature is called "Discussion tools". The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing @. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster now. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
• New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
• New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
• Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

20:36, 17 jun. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-26

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

• There are some new tools to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed. [82]
• Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS selectors. .vectorTabs should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs to fix this. [83]

Changes later this week

• The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback. [84]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (calendar).

Future changes

• A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [85]

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18:48, 22 jun. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-27

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

Problems

• Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [86]
• Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed. [87]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• The Modern and Monobook skins use the ID searchGoButton for the go button. This is searchButton for Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change to searchButton in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use searchButton. You can read more and see a list of affected scripts.

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16:30, 29 jun. 2020 (UTC)

Feedback on movement names

Saluton. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Please help translate to your language if necessary. Dankon!

There are a lot of conversations happening about the future of our movement names. We hope that you are part of these discussions and that your community is represented.

Since 16 June, the Foundation Brand Team has been running a survey in 7 languages about 3 naming options. There are also community members sharing concerns about renaming in a Community Open Letter.

Our goal in this call for feedback is to hear from across the community, so we encourage you to participate in the survey, the open letter, or both. The survey will go through 7 July in all timezones. Input from the survey and discussions will be analyzed and published on Meta-Wiki.

Thanks for thinking about the future of the movement, --The Brand Project team, 19:39, 2 jul. 2020 (UTC)

Note: The survey is conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement.

Tech News: 2020-28

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

Problems

• The Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed. [88]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more. [89]
• The iOS Wikipedia app developers are thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help them by answering the survey.
• Some rules for user signatures will soon be enforced. Lint errors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.

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20:18, 6 jul. 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #3

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More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.

Seven years ago this month, the Editing team offered the visual editor to most Wikipedia editors. Since then, editors have achieved many milestones:

• More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
• More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
• The visual editor is increasingly popular. The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
• In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers (logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage has increased every year.
• Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
• On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor. 🚀 👩‍🚀
• Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

12:55, 9 jul. 2020 (UTC)

Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia

Hi all,

It is my honor to introduce Abstract Wikipedia, a new project that has been unanimously approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Abstract Wikipedia proposes a new way to generate baseline encyclopedic content in a multilingual fashion, allowing more contributors and more readers to share more knowledge in more languages. It is an approach that aims to make cross-lingual cooperation easier on our projects, increase the sustainability of our movement through expanding access to participation, improve the user experience for readers of all languages, and innovate in free knowledge by connecting some of the strengths of our movement to create something new.

This is our first new project in over seven years. Abstract Wikipedia was submitted as a project proposal by Denny Vrandečić in May 2020 after years of preparation and research, leading to a detailed plan and lively discussions in the Wikimedia communities. We know that the energy and the creativity of the community often runs up against language barriers, and information that is available in one language may not make it to other language Wikipedias. Abstract Wikipedia intends to look and feel like a Wikipedia, but build on the powerful, language-independent conceptual models of Wikidata, with the goal of letting volunteers create and maintain Wikipedia articles across our polyglot Wikimedia world.

The project will allow volunteers to assemble the fundamentals of an article using words and entities from Wikidata. Because Wikidata uses conceptual models that are meant to be universal across languages, it should be possible to use and extend these building blocks of knowledge to create models for articles that also have universal value. Using code, volunteers will be able to translate these abstract “articles” into their own languages. If successful, this could eventually allow everyone to read about any topic in Wikidata in their own language.

As you can imagine, this work will require a lot of software development, and a lot of cooperation among Wikimedians. In order to make this effort possible, Denny will join the Foundation as a staff member in July and lead this initiative. You may know Denny as the creator of Wikidata, a long-time community member, a former staff member at Wikimedia Deutschland, and a former Trustee at the Wikimedia Foundation . We are very excited that Denny will bring his skills and expertise to work on this project alongside the Foundation’s product, technology, and community liaison teams.

It is important to acknowledge that this is an experimental project, and that every Wikipedia community has different needs. This project may offer some communities great advantages. Other communities may engage less. Every language Wikipedia community will be free to choose and moderate whether or how they would use content from this project.

We are excited that this new wiki-project has the possibility to advance knowledge equity through increased access to knowledge. It also invites us to consider and engage with critical questions about how and by whom knowledge is constructed. We look forward to working in cooperation with the communities to think through these important questions.

There is much to do as we begin designing a plan for Abstract Wikipedia in close collaboration with our communities. I encourage you to get involved by going to the project page and joining the new mailing list . We recognize that Abstract Wikipedia is ambitious, but we also recognize its potential. We invite you all to join us on a new, unexplored path.

Yours,

Katherine Maher (Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation)

Sent by m:User:Elitre (WMF) 20:10, 9 jul. 2020 (UTC) - m:Special:MyLanguage/Abstract Wikipedia/July 2020 announcement

Tech News: 2020-29

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

• Users can thank others for their edits. Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets who harass others using thanks. [90]

Problems

• Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week. [91][92]

Changes later this week

• Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background. Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using <translate nowrap></translate> on the source page. [93]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (calendar).

Future changes

• Wikimedia code review plans to use GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. [94][95][96][97]

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16:29, 13 jul. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-30

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

• A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help in Phabricator. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News 2020/24 and 2020/26.

Problems

• There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution. [98]
• Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events. [99]
• Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a browser cookie problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details on Phabricator. [100]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• There is a Presebla versio link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway. [101]

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19:13, 20 jul. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-31

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 Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this. [102]
• The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck Uzu Malnovan Vektoron in your local or global preferences in section Etosaj preferoj. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
• On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget directly from mediawiki.org, end users can now choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC.

Problems

• The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week. [103][104]
• Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed. [105]
• Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed. [106]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 (calendar).

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13:51, 27 jul. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-32

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

Problems

• All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period. [107]
• Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago. The problem is now fixed. [108]
• There is a problem with the global preferences for the "Uzu Malnovan Vektoron" option. Developers are working on fixing it. [109]
• A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed. [110]

Changes later this week

• The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed. [111]
• Users' global.js and global.css pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin. [112]
• In the MonoBook skin, the searchGoButton identifier is now searchButton. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27.
• Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses counter to prevent large archives was changed. [113]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 5. It will be on all wikis from August 6 (calendar).

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15:43, 3 aŭg. 2020 (UTC)

Technical Wishes: FileExporter and FileImporter become default features on all Wikis

The FileExporter and FileImporter will become a default features on all wikis until August 7, 2020. They are planned to help you to move files from your local wiki to Wikimedia Commons easier while keeping all original file information (Description, Source, Date, Author, View History) intact. Additionally, the move is documented in the files view history. How does it work?

Step 1: If you are an auto-confirmed user, you will see a link "Move file to Wikimedia Commons" on the local file page.

Step 2: When you click on this link, the FileImporter checks if the file can in fact be moved to Wikimedia Commons. These checks are performed based on the wiki's configuration file which is created and maintained by each local wiki community.

Step 3: If the file is compatible with Wikimedia Commons, you will be taken to an import page, at which you can update or add information regarding the file, such as the description. You can also add the 'Now Commons' template to the file on the local wiki by clicking the corresponding check box in the import form. Admins can delete the file from the local wiki by enabling the corresponding checkbox. By clicking on the 'Import' button at the end of the page, the file is imported to Wikimedia Commons.

If you want to know more about the FileImporter extension or the Technical Wishes Project, follow the links. --For the Technical Wishes Team:

Max Klemm (WMDE) 09:13, 6 aŭg. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-33

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

• FileImporter and FileExporter became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact. [114]

Problems

• The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions and content translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it. [115]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [116][117]

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16:06, 10 aŭg. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-34

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

Recent changes

• If you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an undo tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else. [118]
• The new OOUI version will not work with Internet Explorer 8. This means the wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was reported in Tech/News/2020/17. This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates other problems. [119]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis next week. This is a reminder. You can help by translating the announcement message. [120][121]

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20:41, 17 aŭg. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-35

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

Changes later this week

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

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17:59, 24 aŭg. 2020 (UTC)

Important: maintenance operation on September 1st

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The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data centre. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

They will switch all traffic to the secondary data centre on Tuesday, September 1st 2020.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, September 1st. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday September 2).
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• There will be code freezes for the week of September 1st, 2020. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community.

Trizek (WMF) (talk) 13:49, 26 aŭg. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-36

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

Problems

• This is a reminder. All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 14:00 and 15:00 UTC. Please check on the details on the announcement message. [122][123]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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20:11, 31 aŭg. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-37

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

Changes later this week

• Normally pages can be moved to a title that has no existing page yet or to a page that has only one revision, which is a redirect to the page to be moved. A new user right allows editors to move pages over one-revision pages that redirect to anywhere. [124]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 September. It will be on all wikis from 10 September (calendar).
• All MediaWiki API modules will now use watchlist instead of watch. This was inconsistent before. [125]

Future changes

• The Wikipedia Android app team might work on patrolling tools in the future. You can let them know what tools would be useful for you or for less experienced patrollers. See the page on mediawiki.org.
• OTRS will be updated to a new version. This will probably take around two days. OTRS agents will not have access to the system during these days. Emails that come in during the update will be delivered when the update is done. The plan is to start around 08:00 UTC on 14 September. This could change. [126]
• The Wikipedia Android app will send push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will need Google Play Services to work. It will also be possible to get the app without Google Play Services but push notifications will not work. Google Play Services is also used to make the app work for Android 4.4 users. [127][128]
• Wikimedia code review could move to GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. You can take part in the consultation.
• Dropdown menus in the Vector skin use a .menu class. This will not work in the future. Scripts can use nav ul instead. .vectorTabs and .vectorMenu will also not work. Some scripts need to be updated. You can read more in Phabricator.

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15:59, 7 sep. 2020 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in the conversation

Saluton. Apologies for cross-posting, and that you may not be reading this message in your native language: translations of the following announcement may be available on Meta. Please help translate to your language. Dankon!

We are excited to share a draft of the Universal Code of Conduct, which the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees called for earlier this year, for your review and feedback. The discussion will be open until October 6, 2020.

The UCoC Drafting Committee wants to learn which parts of the draft would present challenges for you or your work. What is missing from this draft? What do you like, and what could be improved?

Please join the conversation and share this invitation with others who may be interested to join, too.

To reduce language barriers during the process, you are welcomed to translate this message and the Universal Code of Conduct/Draft review. You and your community may choose to provide your opinions/feedback using your local languages.

To learn more about the UCoC project, see the Universal Code of Conduct page, and the FAQ, on Meta.

Thanks in advance for your attention and contributions, The Trust and Safety team at Wikimedia Foundation, 17:55, 10 sep. 2020 (UTC) 

Tech News: 2020-38

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

Problems

• The Wikipedia apps briefly showed pages without CSS last week. This meant they looked wrong. It was quickly fixed but cached pages without CSS were shown for a few hours. [129][130]

Changes later this week

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

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16:19, 14 sep. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-39

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

Recent changes

• There is a new tag for reverted edits. For example you can see it in the recent changes feed or in the article history. It is added to edits when they have been undone, rollbacked or manually reverted to an older version of the page. [131][132]

Changes later this week

• The number of times you can do something in a period of time on wiki is limited. This could be the number of edits per minute or the number of users you email in a day. Some users are not affected by all limits because of their user rights. They could soon see the limit even if it does not affect them. [133]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 September. It will be on all wikis from 24 September (calendar).

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21:28, 21 sep. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-40

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

• Admins can now see links to diffs of deleted revisions on Special:AbuseLog. This uses the interface of Special:Undelete. [134]
• Editors are automatically added to some user groups. For example editors are added to autoconfirmed users when they have edited enough times and long enough. Abuse filters can hinder users from automatically getting user rights for a period of time. They can also remove rights user have. Wikis can now ask to change how long this period of time is for their wiki in Phabricator. It is currently five days. [135]

Problems

• Last year some abuse filters stopped working because of a new change. If they tried to use variables that were unavailable for that action they would fail. This has now been fixed. [136]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 September. It will be on all wikis from 1 October (calendar).

Future changes

• You can't see the language links to other language versions from the talk page or history page. They are also not shown when you edit an article. This could change. It is not decided if for example the history page should link to another history page or to the article. You can take part in the discussion in Phabricator.
• The link colours could change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. You can read more in Phabricator.
• In your preferences you can choose to get different notifications on the web or by email. You will see Apps as one of the alternatives later this week. This is because the Android and iOS Wikipedia apps will use push notifications for those who want them. You can see the preferences on the test wiki. The goal is to have push notifications on Android in October and on iOS in early 2021. [137]
• You can soon put pages on your watchlist for a limited time. This could be useful if you want to watch something for a shorter time but don't want it on your watchlist forever. It now works on mediawiki.org and will come to more wikis later. You can read more and see when it will come to other wikis.
• You can see what Wikimedians think are the best new technical tools this year. You can also nominate them.

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21:24, 28 sep. 2020 (UTC)

Wiki of functions naming contest

Please help translate to your language.

Saluton. Please help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki where the community can work together on a library of functions. The community can create new functions, read about them, discuss them, and share them. Some of these functions will be used to help create language-independent Wikipedia articles that can be displayed in any language, as part of the Abstract Wikipedia project. But functions will also be usable in many other situations.

There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with voting beginning on 29 September and 27 October. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on 8 December. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at meta-wiki. Dankon! --Quiddity (WMF)

21:13, 29 sep. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-41

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

• There is a new tool where you can see which home wiki users have in discussions on Meta. This can help show which communities are not part of the discussion on wikis where we make decisions that affect many other wikis.
• You can now thank users for file uploads or for changing the language of a page. [138]

Problems

• There were many errors with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new version was rolled back. Updates that should have happened last week are late. [139]
• Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [140]
• Many pages have JavaScript errors. You can read more and now see a list of user scripts with errors.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 October. It will be on all wikis from 8 October (calendar).
• Letters immediately after a link are shown as part of the link. For example the entire word in [[Child]]ren is linked. On Arabic wikis this works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic letters will extend links on Arabic wikis. [141]

Future changes

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [142]

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16:25, 5 okt. 2020 (UTC)

Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric

Saluton. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Please help translate to your language.

Today the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees starts two calls for feedback. One is about changes to the Bylaws mainly to increase the Board size from 10 to 16 members. The other one is about a trustee candidate rubric to introduce new, more effective ways to evaluate new Board candidates. The Board welcomes your comments through 26 October. For more details, check the full announcement.

Dankon! Qgil-WMF (talk) 17:10, 7 okt. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-42

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

• Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last week's updates are also late. [143][144][145]

Changes later this week

• Live previews didn't show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This has now been fixed. You can also test CSS and JavaScript pages even if you have the live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well. [146][147]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (calendar).

Future changes

• A new stable version of Pywikibot is coming soon. [148]

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15:24, 12 okt. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-43

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 20 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 October. It will be on all wikis from 22 October (calendar).

Future changes

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [149]
• In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [150]
• Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID #jump-to-nav. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either #siteSub or #mw-content-text. A list of affected scripts is at the top of phab:T265373.

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16:31, 19 okt. 2020 (UTC)

Important: maintenance operation on October 27

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The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

They will switch all traffic back to the primary data center on Tuesday, October 27 2020.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, October 27. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (14:00 WET, 15:00 CET, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 03:00 NZDT on Wednesday October 28).
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• There will be code freezes for the week of October 26, 2020. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community.

-- Trizek (WMF) (talk) 17:11, 21 okt. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-44

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

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on October 27 around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [151]
• Last week, links to "diffs" from mobile watchlists and recentchanges were linking to page-revisions instead of diffs. This has now been fixed. [152]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Since the introduction of the interface administrators user group in 2018, administrators couldn’t view the deleted history of CSS/JS pages. Now they can. [153]
• There was a problem with the Change Tags. The software would apply the "Malfarita" tag to any page actions such as page-protection changes if they came directly after a reverted edit. This has now been fixed for new edits. [154]
• The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias in November. Another announcement will be made once the date is finalized. [155]

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17:38, 26 okt. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-45

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 no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser uses very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It could lead to downgrade attacks. Since October 29, 2020, users who use old TLS versions will not be able to connect to Wikimedia projects. A list of browser recommendations is available. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [156]
• There is a new automatic tracking category available: Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments. It collects pages which use the {{formatnum}} parser function with invalid (non-numeric) input, e.g. {{formatnum:TECHNEWS}}. Note that {{formatnum:123,456}} is also invalid input: as described in the documentation, the argument should be unformatted so that it can be reliably and correctly localised. The tracking category will help identify problematic usage and double-formatting. The new tracking category's name can be translated at translatewiki. [157]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 4. It will be on all wikis from November 5 (calendar).
• Administrators and stewards will be able to use a special page (Special:CreateLocalAccount) to force local account creation for a global account. This is useful when account creation is blocked for that user (by a block or a filter). [158]
• The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias on November 4. This change excludes the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias, plus a few smaller Wikipedias with special circumstances. You can read the help page and the troubleshooting guide for more information. [159]

Future changes

• A discussion has been restarted about using a Unicode minus sign (− U+2212) in the output of {{formatnum}} when it is given a negative argument. [160]
• In the future IP addresses of unregistered users will not be shown for everyone. They will get an alias instead. There will be a new user right or an opt-in function for more vandal fighters to see the IPs of unregistered users. There would be some criteria for who gets the user right or opt-in. There will also be other new tools to help handle vandalism. This is early in the process and the developers are still collecting information from the communities before they suggest solutions.

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16:09, 2 nov. 2020 (UTC)

Wiki of functions naming contest - Round 2

Saluton. Reminder: Please help to choose the name for the new Wikimedia wiki project - the library of functions. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are: Wikicode, Wikicodex, Wikifunctions, Wikifusion, Wikilambda, Wikimedia Functions. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at Meta-wiki. Dankon! --Quiddity (WMF)

22:10, 5 nov. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-46

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

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• You can see reference previews. This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been a beta feature. It will move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be the first ones. You can let them know if your wiki is interested. [161]
• From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the internationalisation library. They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [162][163]

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15:50, 9 nov. 2020 (UTC)

Mi kreis Discord-servilon !

Saluton,

mi kreis en:Discord (software)-servilon. Estas babilejo kie ni povas babili, skribe aŭ parolante, pri la vikimediaj projektoj. Vi povas aligi kun tiu ligilo : [164]. Nun, la servilo estas malneto, sed vi povas proponi plibonigojn. Lepticed7 (diskuto) 11:18, 16 nov. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-47

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

• Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [165][166]

Changes later this week

• If you merged two pages in a namespace where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed. [167]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 November. It will be on all wikis from 19 November (calendar).

Future changes

• The Community Wishlist Survey is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.

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15:37, 16 nov. 2020 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021

La Enketo pri Komunumaj Deziroj de 2021 estas nun partoprenebla! Tiu estas la procedo, per kiu komunumoj decidas tion, kion la Komunuma Teknologia teamo prilaboru la venontan jaron. Ni We encourage everyone submeti proponojn ĝis la templimo 30 novembro, aŭ komenti aliajn proponojn por poluri ilin.

The communities will vote on the proposals between 8 decembro and 21 decembro.

La teamo de komunuma teĥnologio zorgas pri iloj por sperta Vikimediaj redaktuloj. Vi povas verki proponon en ajna lingvo, kaj ni tradukos ĝin por vi. Dankon, kaj ni esperas ke ni vidos viajn proponojn!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

18:09, 20 nov. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-48

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

• Timestamps in Special:Log are now links. They go to Special:Log for only that entry. This is how timestamps work on for example the history page. [168]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from 1 December. Unclaimed projects can be deleted from 1 January. [169]

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17:19, 23 nov. 2020 (UTC)

Global bot policy proposal: invitation to a Meta discussion

Saluton!

I apologize for sending a message in English. Please help translate to your language. According to the list, your wiki project currently is opted in to the global bot policy. Under this policy, bots that fix double redirects or maintain interwiki links are allowed to operate under a global bot flag that is assigned directly by the stewards.

As the Wikimedia projects developed, the need for the current global bot policy decreased, and in the past years, no bots were appointed via that policy. That is mainly given Wikidata were estabilished in 2013, and it is no longer necessary to have dozens of bots that maintain interwiki links.

A proposal was made at Meta-Wiki, which proposes that the stewards will be authorized to determine whether an uncontroversial task may be assigned a global bot flag. The stewards already assign permissions that are more impactful on many wikis, namely, global sysops and global renamers, and I do not think that trust should be an issue. The stewards will assign the permission only to time-proven bots that are already approved at a number of projects, like ListeriaBot.

By this message, I would like to invite you to comment in the global RFC, to voice your opinion about this matter.

Thank you for your time.

Best regards,
Martin Urbanec (diskuto) 11:49, 24 nov. 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata descriptions changes to be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist

Sorry for sending this message in English. Translations are available on this page. Feel free to translate it in more languages!

As you may know, you can include changes coming from Wikidata in your Watchlist and Recent Changes (in your preferences). Until now, this feature didn’t always include changes made on Wikidata descriptions due to the way Wikidata tracks the data used in a given article.

Starting on December 3rd, the Watchlist and Recent Changes will include changes on the descriptions of Wikidata Items that are used in the pages that you watch. This will only include descriptions in the language of your wiki to make sure that you’re only seeing changes that are relevant to your wiki.

This improvement was requested by many users from different projects. We hope that it can help you monitor the changes on Wikidata descriptions that affect your wiki and participate in the effort of improving the data quality on Wikidata for all Wikimedia wikis and beyond.

Note: if you didn’t use the Wikidata watchlist integration feature for a long time, feel free to give it another chance! The feature has been improved since the beginning and the content it displays is more precise and useful than at the beginning of the feature in 2015.

If you encounter any issue or want to provide feedback, feel free to use this Phabricator ticket. Thanks!

Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:39, 30 nov. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-49

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

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• The iOS Wikipedia app will show readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will first be shown only to some iOS app users as a test. [170][171]
• The Wiki Replicas can be used for SQL queries. You can use Quarry, PAWS or other ways to do this. To make the Wiki Replicas stable there will be two changes. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. [172]

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17:45, 30 nov. 2020 (UTC)

2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony on December 11th

Hello all,

The ceremony of the 2020 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday, December 11th, at 17:00 GMT. This award is highlighting tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects, and the ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to the tools developers and maybe discover new tools!

You will find more information here about the livestream and the discussions channels. Thanks for your attention, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:55, 7 dec. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-50

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

• You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [173][174]

Changes later this week

• Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [175][176]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all wikis from 10 December (calendar).

Future changes

• You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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16:15, 7 dec. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-51

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

Recent changes

• There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too. [177]

Changes later this week

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

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21:34, 14 dec. 2020 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021

We invite all registered users to vote on the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. You can vote from now until 21 December for as many different wishes as you want.

In the Survey, wishes for new and improved tools for experienced editors are collected. After the voting, we will do our best to grant your wishes. We will start with the most popular ones.

We, the Community Tech, are one of the Wikimedia Foundation teams. We create and improve editing and wiki moderation tools. What we work on is decided based on results of the Community Wishlist Survey. Once a year, you can submit wishes. After two weeks, you can vote on the ones that you're most interested in. Next, we choose wishes from the survey to work on. Some of the wishes may be granted by volunteer developers or other teams.

You can view and vote all proposals here.

We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

00:52, 15 dec. 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-52

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 11 January 2021.

Recent changes

• The {{citation needed}} template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added. [178]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
• Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a <langconvert> tag that can convert a piece of text on a page. [179]
• Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January. [180]

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20:54, 21 dec. 2020 (UTC)