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Recent software changes
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The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf9) was added to test wikis on June 27. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 8, and on all Wikipedias on July 11.
On Wikisource, the canonical names of the "Index" and "Page" namespaces in the Proofread Page extension are no longer localized (bug #47596). Please check scripts that depend on $wgCanonicalNamespace.
A JavaScript problem caused the "Cronologia" and "Aggiungi argomento" tabs in the Vector skin to be moved into the drop-down menu on right-to-left wikis. The issue is now fixed and links are visible as before (bug #50196).
Several problems related to overlapping of elements with the VisualEditor toolbar have been fixed (bug #50096, #50159, #50324).
TemplateData information is now displayed for templates that are added to a page (bug #49778).
Section edit links now show links to both VisualEditor and the old (source) editor (bug #49666).
Images are now loaded securely when using HTTPS (bug #43015).
Future software changes
VisualEditor will be enabled for all logged-in English Wikipedia users on July 1, and for all users on July 8.
From July 8, it will be possible to upload WAV and native FLAC files to Commons, and use them directly on wiki pages ([[<tvar|bug-49505>bugzilla:49505</>|bug #49505]]).
The Universal Language Selector will be added to the English Wikipedia on July 2, and to remaining wikis on July 9.
Erratum
Tech news #26 incorrectly reported that audio transcoding was added to TimedMediaHandler; it was actually statistics about audio transcoding that were added.
Continued work on validation and handling of partially invalid data
Breaking change for 'wbeditentity' in the API fixing (bugzilla:49526) - when creating new items the 'new' parameter must now be given
Improved handling of broken UTF-8 encoding
Made it possible to enter the direction in a geocoordinate also at the beginning now (for example 52°31′N 13°23′E can soon also be entered as N 52°31′ E 13°23′)
Introduced PropertyInfoStore for quick access to meta-info about properties
Deserialization of Description objects in Ask
Lots of bugfixing
Open Tasks for You
Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
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Recent software changes(Not all changes will affect you.)
VisualEditor deployment has been delayed by a week. It is now planned to enable the editor for logged–in editors on chosen Wikipedias on July 22, and on all Wikipedias on July 29.
A bug that made it impossible to save VisualEditor edits that triggered a CAPTCHA has been fixed.
Uploading files has been restricted on Meta Wiki to administrators and the newly created uploader group. An exemption doctrine policy is being developed (bug #50287).
Emergency priority CentralNotice banners will always be shown unless users have hidden them, ignoring cookies set for lower priority banners.
Future software changes
MediaWiki will allow choosing a specific page of a PDF document or a thumbnail of a video file to show up inside the
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.
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The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf10) was added to test wikis on July 11. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 15, and on all Wikipedias on July 18.
The Disambiguator extension was enabled on all Wikimedia wikis on July 9 (bug #50174). To use it, add the __DISAMBIG__ code to disambiguation templates (see example).
A new version of the Single User Login system for global accounts will be enabled on July 17. Users will now automatically go back to the previous page instead of seeing the "Login success" page with logos.
The software that resizes images on all wikis will change on July 18. Resizing of big images will be faster and more reliable, and the resolution limit for GIF, PNG and TIFF files (currently set at 50 megapixels) will be removed.
Edit tags (mostly used by AbuseFilter) will now also be on diff pages. They include a link to Special:Tags before the edit summary. Wikis that use links in tag messages should remove them.
Global edit filters are currently in testing and will be added to wikis later.
Wikivoyage wikis will start to use Wikidata for interwiki links on July 22.
A new image gallery design has been proposed by Brian Wolff; comments and feedback are welcome.
An IRC discussion about Bugzilla is planned for July 16, at 16:00 (UTC) on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion).
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.
Recent software changes(Not all changes will affect you.)
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 18. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 22, and on all Wikipedias on July 25.
The schedule to add VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias has been changed: the new editor will be available for logged-in users on the German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) and Swedish (sv) Wikipedias on July 24, and for all users on those wikis on July 29.
A warning is now displayed if an edit made with VisualEditor matches an edit filter (bug #50472).
Top 20 items on Wikidata that are covered in a lot of Wikipedias? Here you go.
Did you know?
Newest properties: Dodis (P701), encoded by (P702), found in taxon (P703), Ensembl Transcript ID (P704), Ensembl Protein ID (P705), located on terrain feature (P706), Satellite bus (P707), diocese (P708), Historic Scotland ID (P709), participant (P710), Strunz 8 (P711), Strunz 9 (P712), Strunz 10 (P713), Dana 8th edition (P714), Drugbank ID (P715), JPL Small-Body Database identifier (P716), Minor Planet Center observatory code (P717), Canmore ID (P718), Notable Incident (P719)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes; not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 25. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 29, and on all Wikipedias on August 1.
Wikivoyage was offline for around 40 minutes on July 24.
The Notifications and Thanks extensions were added to Meta-Wiki on July 26; other wikis will get them soon.
It is now possible to add edit summaries on Wikidata using the API; the feature will be added to user interface soon.
The software that resizes large PNG images on all wikis was changed on July 25. Resizing of PNG files bigger than 35 megapixels should be faster and more reliable now.
Three new webfonts (Gentium, Old Persian and Shapour) will be added to Universal Language Selector. , ,
Special:MIMESearch, which gives a list of files by type, will be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis with MediaWiki version 1.22/wmf12 (bug #13438).
A mailing list to discuss multimedia features was started; users are encouraged to sign up.
On July 24, VisualEditor was added for logged-in users on the German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) and Swedish (sv) Wikipedias; it will be added for all users on those wikis on July 29.
A preference to completely disable VisualEditor while it is in beta phase was added on July 24.
Many bugs were fixed in right-to-left languages.
It is possible again to scroll down in the template editing window (bug #51739).
The d:Wikidata:Global Economic Map task force is starting its property list. Please go there to propose important properties about economics for countries, regions or companies.
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Wikimania continues! If you are around make sure you come and say Hi!
Wikidata meetup in the chapters village on Saturday at 1 PM at Wikimania.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Following numerous discussions we are happy to present the new version of the proposal that would lead to Wikidata supporting structured data for the Wiktionaries.
There are now only an estimated 1,000,000 articles remaining with inter language links, down from the previous 26,000,000!
Frequently used for cities and other places, P17 ("country") indicates the sovereign state an item relates to. There now at least 100 items for most present day sovereign states. Leading is China (Q148) with 607,817 items, followed by Iran (!794) with 105,875 items and the United States of America (Q30) with 99,243 items. China rose from just 5266 items a month ago.
Development
Changeops implemented for all Api modules
All Api modules now have better auto comments and custom summaries
To support the inclusion of geographical coordinates in Wikidata, just about two months a new data type came available and d:Property:P625 "coordinate location" was created. Already 565,000 pairs of coordinates are now available on WikiData. Compare this to 870,000 coordinates on English Wikipedia or 1,500,000 items with d:Property:P17 "country", likely to have coordinates. Have a look at them on a map.
Did you know?
Newest properties: approved by (P790), ISIL ID (P791), chapter (P792), Key event (P793), as (P794), distance along (P795), geo datum (P796), executing authority (P797), mission design series designation (P798), air ministry specification (P799), work (P800), notable work (P801), student (P802), professorship (P803), GNIS Antarctica ID (P804), subject of (P805). Italian cadastre code (P806) In Addition new properties to describe mushrooms were created: hymenium type (P783), mushroom cap shape (P784), hymenium attachment (P785), stipe character (P786), spore print color (P787), mushroom ecological type (P789), edibility (P789). These will allow to build the data for a mushroom infobox (as w:Template:Mycomorphbox).
Check if some of the items on this and this list can be merged. But be careful to only merge if they are really about the same topic! Help about merging is at d:Help:Merge.
Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
Wikivoyage is still scheduled to get access to data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on August 26.
Developers are working hard to also make the URL datatype available by August 26 but there are factors that are not in their hands so it might have to be delayed until the next deployment in 2 weeks. URL as a datatype will soon be available on test.wikidata.org. Please give it some thorough testing and report bugs.
Newest properties: separated from (P807), code Bien de Interés Cultural (P808), WPDA id (P809), academic minor (P811), academic major (P812), date retrieved (P813), IUCN protected areas category (P814), ITIS TSN (P815), decays to (P816), decay mode (P817)
Development
Prepared deployment of phase 2 on Wikivoyage
Worked on ability to sort qualifiers and references inside a statement
Started work on an api module to merge items
Worked on special page to query for items with one specific property and value
Cleaned up code for handling recent change entries from Wikidata in the clients (Wikipedia/Wikivoyage)
Worked on generic script for populating sites table and better integration with WMF process for creating new wikis
Setup new git repo for WikibaseMobile skin and extension
Fixed SetClaim api module to properly mark bot edits in recent changes and advised pywikipedia maintainers about adding support for the module. SetClaim can be used to create claims with references in a single edit.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
New features
The previous version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 15. It was enabled on non-Wikipedia sites on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 22.
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 22. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia sites on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 29.
You can now use the <wbr> HTML5 tag to say where a word can be cut. (52468)
Gadget authors: you can now use the wikipage.content hook, so that your scripts are re-run when a page is changed after the document-ready event (for example using Ajax). (30713)
Problems fixed
There was a bug where file redirects didn't work when a file was renamed; it is now fixed. There is still an issue with purging, but it should be fixed soon. (52200)
Resoconti di manutenzione provided by special pages will now all be updated on each wiki every six months. This will for example give you recent information on uncategorized pages, unused templates and most wanted pages (see details).
There was a bug that caused false positives for anti-blanking edit filters; it is now fixed. (52077)
The "edit" and "edit source" tabs and section edit links can now be changed more easily; for example, some wikis are using "edit source" for wikitext editing, and "edit beta" for VisualEditor. You can ask for the same change in bugzilla.
You can now edit references that are added inside a <references> block. (51741)
You can now test on mediawiki.org new basic tools to add and edit struck text (with the button for the <s> tag), lower text ( for <sub>), upper text ( for <sup>), underlined text ( for <u>), computer code ( for <code> and <tt>), math text ( for <math>), Egyptian hieroglyphs ( for <hiero>), and to say that text is in another language ( for lang="ar" dir="rtl"). (51609, 51612, 51611, 51590, 51610, 52352)
You can now use VisualEditor with the Opera browser.
Future
Starting on August 26, you will be able to use data from Wikidata on Wikivoyage sites.
Starting on August 27, you will also get notifications on the mobile site if you're logged in to a wiki using notifications.
Starting on August 28, all users with an account will be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. Some countries (like China) will not use HTTPS. If HTTPS causes problems for you, tell us on meta.
Starting on August 29, you will get the code editor interface to edit JavaScript and CSS pages on all wikis.
The plan to use Solr for search in MediaWiki was changed; instead, Elasticsearch is now planned.
Mò ed che pèrti èt ed Chèrp? Tè an tè mia nasida a Chèrp tè a tè furastèra!
Mè a 'm piaśrèv te mitìs la fìrma quand te me dmànd quel, pió che èter perchè la srèv bòuna educasiòun.. (pèinsa sōl la mē pusisiòun: me a 'nn sò gnanc ed dû t' vìn fòra, mo a gh' ò da difènder la me parlèda.. perchè, po'?!? - o-j-a sbagliè quel? Curégel tè, ch' a 'nn gh' è mìa problema!). Te prèv avér ragiòun sōl s' te te't riferìs a la diferèinsa ch' a pàsa tra un ch' a sta in del campàgni, ch' j trìden dimòndi de pió al dialèt che mè.. perchè (a n' so mìa s' al te dispièsa) me a sun ed Cherp da almeno tri generasiòun, e i bisnòn però j éren ed Fòsel e dintóren.. La bastardisasiòun, s' la gh' è, mo però cichìna, la desvìn casomài, da aver duvù tridèr in dal scòli, chegli ètri lìngui, prima ed tùt l' itagliàn, po' l' francés, po' l' latèin, po' l' inglés.. po' però dòp a-j-ò mis su famìja e a m' à turnè a piasér al nòster dialèt.. Spér però d' a 'nn avéret mìa delùs in nisùna manéra, Salùt, --Glôria (discussioni) 17:40, 27 ago 2013 (UTC)
Alora mè an son mènga registrè et deg al nom me em ciam Fabio e stàg in vèia Manicardi, vala bèi acsè? O vòt anca al nòmer ed cà e cul dal telèfon. Se tè tè ed Chèrp alora t'an se menga al dialàt ed Chèrp perchè as dis menga "impinidi" mò as dis" impidi" da "impir" et capè cum etri tanti paròli an t'sè menga. Tè studiè tropi lèngui et fè confusiòun. Mè ho curèt mo tè èt lè cambie incora. Mè an ho dèt che sò screvar al dialat mo al sò lezar e cul che te screv tè lè menga carpsan pò èt pò andar avanti mè ho fat sol un uservasiòn e lè cula che tè t'an sè menga al carpsan. Va mò là blèina.
Chèr al mē Fabio, te 'n pō mìa imaginèr al piasér sincér te m' api scrìt cuma in sìma!! Perché (da 'na quelch' ètra pèrt al gh' è già scrìt, mo al vòj scrīver n' ètra vòlta chè) quand te 'n vèd mìa, u t' en scôlt mìa, la persòuna ch' la t' ciacàra, j fraintendimèint j crèsen dimòndi de piò... A n' gh' éra mìa bisògn sicuramèint t' em gìs la strèda, mo adèsa te m' l' ê dìt, andrà a finìr ch' a s' catòm parèint: 'nn éla mìa la Cagnōla, in dū t' stê? Mè a gh' fèva j śōg da cichìna a cà daj mé nòn, e a t' giùr che per mè l' è tut sacher quel ch' a sucèd eśvèin a la cà dj mé nòn, brùt o bel ch' a sìa... Ansi, virtualmèint la srèv mìnim 'na strèta ed man, tégh! Pō-t imaginèr che int sul lavôr l' è alméno vèint àn ch' a 'm tòca ciacarèr furastér?
Prima 'd tùt a t' edmànd escùsa s' a sùn andèda a curéger quel t' îv scrìt cun tanta devusiòun (e an gh' è nisun sarcaś'm: la padlèina d' fèr chi s' la ricurdèva piò? Un baśòun per la tō presiōsa curesiòun) mo, te prè cunvgnìr anca tè ch' a éra arméś un quèlc bistìs gramatichèl e dòunca a 'ndèva giustè al tīr; digh-j-a bèin? Mèinter ch' a liméva el scrìti (pinsènd ch' a éra stē un scritôr da 'n ètra pruvìncia) a 'n gh' ò mìa pinsè tròp a scrìver cum' a digh me: impinir ch' al me dvèinta impinìdi, mo a capìs (n' avèndegh mìa 'na gramàtica) ch' al pòsa andèr bèin anca al tō impīr ch' al dvèinta impìdi. Al prìm agiurnamèint 'd cla vòś lè ch' andrò a fèr a 'nn gh' arò nisùn problēma a giustèrla cuma t' vō tè, mo eventualmèint te 'l prarè fer tè che mè a 'nn dirò 'bao'...
L' è sicuramèint véra che al me dialèt l' è imbastardī, mo a t' pregarèv ed tòrla piò dōlsa perché un purìs'm linguìstic l' è già difìcil in dal lingui cul disiunàri, figuròmes in 'na lingua ch' l' an gh' l' à brîśa.. e mè a pòs pinsèr anca che el cuntaminasiòun degli ètri lingui j sìen inevitàbil..
A ogni manéra, un baśòun! E tùti el vòlti che te vrè jutèrem a scrìver quèl - anca a dù man, perché no? - Te srè al bèinv'gnù! --Glôria (discussioni) 11:59, 28 ago 2013 (UTC)
Dù man a vrèv dìr ch' a gh' òm 'na man pr' òun: a vlìva dìr quater man, s' intènd!:-)) Gloria
Deployment! Wikivoyage now has access to the wikidata dataset and various other bugs have also been fixed (including the copyright warning)!
Did you know?
Newest properties: interchange station (P833), public holiday (P832), parent club (P831), Encyclopedia of Life (P830), OEIS ID (P829), possible causes (P828), BBC programme identifier (P827), tonality (P826), dedicated to (P825), Meteoritical Bulletin Database ID (P824)
Newest properties: GSS code (2011) (P836), BioLib ID (P838), IMSLP ID (P839), narrative set in (P840), Paleobiology Database Identifier (P842), SIRUTA code (P843), UBIGEO code (P844). A set of properties to build calenders: public holiday (P832), day in year for periodic occurrence (P837) and feast day (P841). A proposal for "reoccurring date in machine readable format" is still under review.
Development
mlazowik has put in more work to getting support for batches (featured article and so on) to Wikidata
DIZIONARIO DEL DIALETTO CARPIGIANO
Anno 2011 - Editore Mc Offset Modena - Pagine 383 - Edito sotto gli auspici della Fondazione Cassa di Carpi e del Rotary Club.
Mo che meravìja!! Al vàg a tôr subìt prima ch' un quelcdùn al gh' àpia da sighèrem... --Glôria (discussioni) 17:27, 11 set 2013 (UTC)
Sourcerer gadget by Magnus to help you add URLs from Wikipedia articles for claims
Wikimedia Commons is scheduled to get interwiki links via Wikidata on 23rd of September
Did you know?
Newest properties: Saskatchewan Register of Heritage Property identifier (P845), Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (P846), United States Navy aircraft designation (P847), Japanese military aircraft designation (P849), World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850), ESRB rating (P852), CERO rating (P853), URL (P854), Sandbox-URL (P855), official website (P856), CNKI (P857), ESPN SCRUM ID (P858), sponsor (P859), e-archiv.li ID (P860), premiershiprugby.com ID (P861), Operational Requirement of the UK Air Ministry (P862), InPhO identifier (P863), ACM Digital Library author identifier (P864), BMLO (P865), Perlentaucher (P866), ROME Occupation Code (P867), foods traditionally associated (P868), instrumentation (P870), printed by (P872), phase point (P873), UN class (P874), UN code classification (P875), UN packaging group (P876), NFPA Other (P877), avionics (P878), pennant number (P879), CPU (P880), Variable type (P881), FIPS 6-4 (US counties) (P882), FIPS 5-2 (code for US states) (P883), State Water Register Code (Russia) (P884), origin of the watercourse (P885), LIR (P886), based on heuristic (P887), JSTOR (P888), Mathematical Reviews identifier (P889), Request for Comments number (IETF) (P892), Social Science Research Network (P893)
Cara Gloria, gh'è mìa prublema, at pöl mëtt tütt i zùnt ch'att völ, parchè la Wikipedia all'è n'Ensiclupedia Lìbra. S'att völl, ascrëvum pür in d'la Wiki Italiana, gh'arëss pròpi güst!
30 percent of all items are categorized in 6 large groups (main type (GND) (P107)). Most are items about geographic features (1.7 million items), some of these already have coordinates (0.5 million). Items about persons are fairly frequent too (1.3 million), many already with gender (0.9 million), a few with DOB (0.05 million) or DOD (0.04 million). Other groups include: creative works (305,000), terms, organizations, and events.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
New features
Special:Listfiles can now display old versions of files a user has uploaded. A new link was also added (Special:AllMyFiles) that gives a list of all files the current user has ever uploaded (that haven't been deleted).
There is now an Android application to contribute to translatewiki.net from mobile devices.
Finished initial version of the build tool (= tool that creates one tarball/git repository from all our extensions and their dependencies for deployment)
Continued work on numbers data type
Continued work on Formatters (for autosummaries, diffs, etc)
Fixed RDF serialization issue
Merged merge API module
Finished up database schema updating code
Added validation for precision in globe coordinate value
Note from Lydia about the future of the weekly summaries
I've been compiling the weekly summaries for Wikidata for the past 1.5 years. It is time to give this into the hands of a few capable community members now that I have moved on to product management. Starting next week I will not be compiling the weekly summaries anymore. I am happy to help anyone who wants to take over get up to speed of course. Please contact me if you'd like to take this over.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
You can now create and edit references inside media captions.
You now need to press the "delete" key twice to delete a template, reference or image; the first time, they only become selected, to avoid accidental deletion of infoboxes and similar content.
When you resize images, you will now still see them, and their size will also be seen in the center.
MediaWiki 1.22wmf22 was added to test wikis on October 17. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 21 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 24 (calendar).
A sùm mìa mòrt, vè! L'è che a vëss atìu in 8 Wikipedie, a vòti sücëd ca pàr ca sparìss, ma ag sòn sëimpar. A l'è par cullè ca t'ava dìtt sa t'amm dava al tò e-mail: scrëvum in sal sìtt www.reimomo.it eh?
Merci bien pour ton message. Ton Framçais c'est parfait!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
New features
The "Toolbox" section in the site sidebar is now called "Tools" in English. You can do the same in your language by editing the interface text on translatewiki.net. Someone else may have already done it.
On wikis with VisualEditor, you can now use it on pages in the File, Aiuto and Categoria spaces.
Problems
On October 22 (UTC), an error in the site settings caused *.wikimedia.org sites (like Meta-Wiki and Commons) to redirect to wikimediafoundation.org for a few hours.
Future
MediaWiki 1.23wmf1 was added to test wikis on October 24. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 28 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 31 (calendar).
In the next days, servers in San Francisco will start providing (cached) content to users located in Oceania. If you are in that area and notice problems, please tell us.
You will soon be able to test new features easily using the "Beta Features" view. VisualEditor will be in the list on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. Another example is a set of changes in the article text style.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
New features
The style and colors for warning boxes, error messages, and success messages in all skins of MediaWiki has been changed.
You will soon be able to switch from editing in VisualEditor to editing wikitext directly without having to save the page. You can't yet switch from wikitext to VisualEditor but developers hope to make it possible in the future.
Problems
There was a problem on October 31 during the activation of MediaWiki 1.22wmf2 on test wikis. mediawiki.org was also broken, and if you had problems logging in, it was probably because of this as well.
Future
Because of the problem with MediaWiki 1.22wmf2, the calendar has changed. It will be added to mediawiki.org and non-Wikipedia sites on November 4, and all Wikipedia sites on November 7.
JavaScript / Gadget developers
Due to a recent change, gadgets and user scripts that use jQuery UI should explicitly load the appropriate modules, as they may not be loaded by default.
Developers have started to remove long-deprecated methods. You should check the JavaScript console (in debug=true mode) and look for deprecation warnings and their stack trace.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
New features
You can now use the "Autonym" font of the Universal Language Selector (ULS) to display the name of languages (for example in navigation templates) in their correct script. To do this, add the CSS class "autonym" to the elements that include language names. Note that this font only works for the name of languages, not for any other text.
Problems
There was a problem with Parsoid (the program used by VisualEditor to convert wikitext to annotated HTML) on November 4, between 19:40 and 20:40 (UTC). Encoding issues caused non-ASCII characters (including those with diacritics, like "é") to be broken when converted to wikitext and saved to the page.
Future
The Beta Features tool is now available on Commons and Meta-Wiki. With it, you can test new features before they're added for everyone. The plan is to add this tool to all wikis on November 21.
MediaWiki 1.23wmf3 was added to test wikis on November 7. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on November 12 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 14 (calendar).
The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis.
The button of the Search page will soon be changed to be blue and bigger (see the difference).
You will soon be able to add a page name as parameter for {{REVISIONID}}, {{REVISIONUSER}} and {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} and similar functions, by writing for example {{REVISIONID:Apple}}.
In the future, when you hide a CentralNotice banner on a wiki, it will also be hidden on other Wikimedia sites.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
There was a problem caused by too many requests to the database on November 14.
Future
MediaWiki 1.23wmf4 was added to test wikis on November 14. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on November 19 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 21 (calendar).
The new Search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added to *.wikimedia.org, Wikimania and Wikisource wikis on November 19, and Wiktionary wikis on November 21 (except where it's already available). Once it is added, you can test it by adding &srbackend=CirrusSearch to the address of the search results page. It will become the main search engine on Wikivoyage wikis on November 21.
The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 19 instead of November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis.
Grasia ad cor (u furs a sarès mèi di "dimondi") par al to şentil mesag in dla pàgina dli mè discusiuni. Par adès a preferisi partì pian pianèn. Par prema cuşa parchè al dialèt mantuan a'l so mia tant bèn e a vöi èsar sicür ad scrivar sinsa eror tròp gròs (a cerchi ad stagh atent ma a li vòlti a gh la cavi mia), e po' parché a son adré a studià a l'università e a gh ho pogh temp. Quanda aró bişogn ad savì qualcuşa at dumandaró na man sins'àtar.:) Ciao e grasia amò! --Itikar (discussioni) 18:57, 20 nov 2013 (UTC)
Fixed dependency injection issue in Wikibase Query
Started work on providing a new serialization library that does not have the design issues of the current data model serialization code and can be used as standalone PHP library
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
New features
The Beta Features announced before are now available on all Wikimedia wikis. You can test new features easily by changing your Beta preferences. VisualEditor is one of those features on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. There is also a new media viewer and changes in the article text style.
Tools developers can now create tools that use the OAuth protocol to connect to accounts on Wikimedia sites. As a user, you can use those tools to make edits and other changes with your account without giving the tool your password.
Quantities got some more love (improved diff, added scientific notation and simple localisation and made it possible to show/not show + for positive values - bugzilla:54318)
Ordering of statement groups is nearing completion
Avoid loading all referenced items in EntityView to improve loading time of items
Finalizing the inclusion of data types in JSON output
Fixed 2 XML errors on test.wikidata.org ready for deployment
Started work on a Wikibase-independent serialization component for DataValues
Worked on making Lua arrays start with 1 instead of 0 (bugzilla:54324)
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La pagina Grants:Index/Eligibility requirements è disponibile per la traduzione. Visita questo collegamento per iniziare a tradurla:
I have updated the Eligibility Requirements page for the Project and Event Grants program, and re-organized the information to be more readable, as well as easier to translate.
Your help in bringing this information to different language communities has tremendous value: many people are timid about grants, and having to digest all this relatively-formal information in English makes it even more scary.
Your translations can help more Wikimedians apply for funding, and thereby enable more awesome work to take place around the world. Thank you for your valuable efforts!
Asaf Bartov, Grantmaking team, WMF
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Grazie!
I coordinatori delle traduzioni su Meta, 22:01, 2 dic 2013 (UTC)
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I have updated the Eligibility Requirements page for the Project and Event Grants program, and re-organized the information to be more readable, as well as easier to translate.
Your help in bringing this information to different language communities has tremendous value: many people are timid about grants, and having to digest all this relatively-formal information in English makes it even more scary.
Your translations can help more Wikimedians apply for funding, and thereby enable more awesome work to take place around the world. Thank you for your valuable efforts!
Asaf Bartov, Grantmaking team, WMF
Il tuo aiuto è molto apprezzato. I traduttori come te aiutano Meta a essere una reale comunità multilingua.
Grazie!
I coordinatori delle traduzioni su Meta, 22:03, 2 dic 2013 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The CommonsMetadata feature was added to all wikis. It creates metadata information about multimedia files (like their license) that can be read automatically by computer programs. It not only works for Commons, but for all wikis, and you can use it for files on your wiki by editing templates used to describe metadata.
JavaScript code used on Wikimedia sites is now saved locally on your computer to load faster.
You can now paste formatted content copied from external sources (not just as plain text) into VisualEditor; this includes copy/pasting from other VisualEditor windows.
You can now open VisualEditor by adding ?veaction=edit to the page URL, regardless of your user preferences.
Many bugs have been fixed, and VisualEditor should also look faster, for example when you save a page.
Problems
Due to issues, the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") was recently removed from wikis where it was enabled, then added again.
Future
MediaWiki 1.23wmf6 was added to test wikis on December 5. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on December 10 and all Wikipedia wikis on December 12 (calendar).
The old Etherpad tool (replaced by a new version) will be removed on December 30, 2013. You can still save old pads before that date using the old address: https://etherpad-old.wikimedia.org.
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Il tuo aiuto è molto apprezzato. I traduttori come te aiutano Meta a essere una reale comunità multilingua.
Grazie!
I coordinatori delle traduzioni su Meta, 02:35, 12 dic 2013 (UTC)
Notifica di traduzione: Fundraising/Translation/Thank you email 20131202
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Deployed ordering, ranks and a table of contents and fixed issues with those after deployment (mainly performance-related)
Worked on preventing import of wikitext into item and property namespace
Started working on a new DataModel serialization component which will be usable loose from Wikibase. Both authors and people analysing dumps will thus finally have the deserialization task solved for them.
Started working on a version of DataModel that works with the new DataValues components
Open Tasks for You
Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The toolbar is now simpler; all text styles (bold, italics, underline, subscript, etc.) are in the same menu, and the "More" menu is called "Insert".
You can now use a basic tool to add special characters to your text. You can add more characters (useful in your language) by editing the MediaWiki interface on translatewiki.net.
The tool to add and edit mathematical text is now called "formula".
Problems
There was a problem with the "Crea un libro" tool (Collection); books could only be exported to PDF format. The change has been undone.
The log-in system for external tools ("OAuth") was broken on wikis that tested the new search tool. It was fixed last week.
Because of a bug, this newsletter is delivered to users using the new MediaWiki message delivery, and to community pages using the old EdwardsBot.
Future
MediaWiki 1.23wmf7 was added to test wikis on December 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on December 17 and all Wikipedia wikis on December 19 (calendar).
You will soon be able to select the language of SVG images that have translations using a drop-down menu on the image page. (see example)
GLAMToolset, a tool to help GLAM groups (like museums) upload many pictures to Commons, will be added to Commons on December 17.
A Draft namespace will be added to the English Wikipedia to make it easier to create new pages. You will be able to use VisualEditor for drafts if you have enabled it.
Other
You can read the summary of the technical report for November 2013 to learn more about VisualEditor, Mobile and other features.
Fun Fact: The Mayan calendar (Q2012) did not correctly predict the end of the world nor the end of Q items as Wikidata (Q2013) went on to host Wikipedia links this year.
Development
Happy Holidays from the dev team! Have a great time and continue being awesome;-)
Improved and added a lot of tests
Worked on displaying qualifiers in the non-JavaScript UI
No longer displaying the table of contents from item/property pages if there would be less than 3 entries in it
Caching and database improvements
Worked on preventing the import of wikitext into the main and property namespace
More work on quantities UI
Open Tasks for You
Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on December 19. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on December 31 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 2, 2014 (calendar).
You can now test the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") on all Wikisource, Wiktionary and Wikimedia chapter wikis hosted on Foundation servers. Enable "New search" in your Beta features preferences.
There was a bug where notifications were not sent when the signature of the user leaving the message linked to a translated namespace. The problem was fixed in the software and will soon be fixed on Wikimedia sites.
You can now use the log-in system for external tools (OAuth) on all Wikimedia wikis that use the unified login.
If your wiki adds stars or other icons to interwiki links for featured articles in other languages, you may need to change the JavaScript code.
You can thank other users for their edits even if your browser does not have JavaScript.
All edits made through Flow, the new discussion system for MediaWiki, are now visible in user's contributions. You can test it on the Flow talk page on MediaWiki.org.
De sicur l'è nò milanes... pensi che 'l sia cremones (donca semper lombard), però bell messedaa con l'italian. Tì te 'l seet, quasi tutt i canzon popolar del Vottcent-Noeuvcent (cant de l'ostaria, di mondinn, di alpin) hinn on messedozz de lengua local con l'italian. --Eldomm (discussioni) 09:28, 23 dic 2013 (UTC)
Add the file and translate namespaces to the list of namespaces excluded from Wikibase Client's linking functionality and enable the "Add links" dialog for pages without language links on commons. (#58903)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
You can now see the text of DjVu and PDF files in search results on wikis testing the new search tool (CirrusSearch).
With the new version of the Wikibase DataModel extension, you can install it outside Wikimedia wikis.
Images are now shown inside VisualEditor as HTML5<figure /> elements. Comments are welcome.
You can now test a basic version of VisualEditor on mobile devices; see this article as an example.
Problems
On December 23, Wikimedia Labs was broken for 4 hours due to an NFS problem.
Future software changes
CirrusSearch will be added as the second search method for Spanish (es), French (fr), Portuguese (pt) and Russian (ru) wikis on December 30. Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies and Wikinews users will also be able to enable it in their Beta Features options.
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