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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Izinguquko ezikhishwe manje
Uma iWiki yakho isebenzisa uphawu <div class="mw-content-ltr">noma<div class="mw-content-rtl">ngaphandle kwediredingekayo, makunjalo- ke iWiki yakho ngeke izisebenze emasontweni amabili azayo. Kukhona into ezofakwa kwikhasi lakho leWiki common elichaziwe ku T287701. Kusukela manje sekuzobakhona ama attributes abhalwe ngokugcwele, isibonelo:<div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="en">noma<div class="mw-content-rtl" dir="rtl" lang="he">. Lokhu kuzotholakala nakwamanye ama HTML tags, njengespannomacode. Ungazithola ezinye zezibonelo kwi Wiki yakho edingeka ukuthi ithole izinto ezintsha, uma usebenzisa lemiyalelo ku T287701.- Reminder: Wikimedia has migrated to the Libera Chat IRC network, from the old Freenode network. Local documentation should be updated.
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- Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 30 minutes. There was a problem with generating dynamic lists of articles on the Russian Wikinews, due to the bulk import of 200,000+ new articles over 3 days, which led to database problems. The problematic feature has been disabled on that wiki and developers are discussing if it can be fixed properly. [1][2]
Izinguquko ekupheleni kwalelisonto
- When adding links to a page using VisualEditor or the 2017 wikitext editor, disambiguation pages will now only appear at the bottom of search results. This is because users do not often want to link to disambiguation pages. [3]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 August. It will be on all wikis from 5 August (calendar).
Izinguquko esisazokwenziwa
- The team of the Wikipedia app for Android is working on communication in the app. The developers are working on how to talk to other editors and get notifications. You can read more. They are looking for users who want to test the plans. Any editor who has an Android phone and is willing to download the app can do this.
- The Beta Feature for Discussion tools will be updated in the coming weeks. You will be able to subscribe to individual sections on a talk page at more wikis. You can test this now by adding
?dtenable=1to the end of the talk page's URL (example).
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