User talk:Techman224/Archive 1

Re: Hi

Replied to your message on my talk page.  — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 17:24, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Err

This site looks like spam to me? --Herby ^{talk thyme} 15:12, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

As does the one here. Please stop closing these. Thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 15:13, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll revert them. Techman224^Talk 15:17, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

IRC

Please de-register #wikimedia-spam ASAP. Thanks  — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 19:33, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Done. Techman224^Talk 22:01, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Televisa (México)

I notice that you've been removing links to an individual Mexican TV station, per User:COIBot/XWiki/golfo.televisa.com.mx#Discussion, but see one issue - many edits look like this (Radiotelevisora de México Norte becomes just de México Norte once the 'bot pulls the links out). If this is a bug, you may want to look into why this is happening in order to avoid subtly vandalising large numbers of pages by deleting random bits of text. --66.102.80.212 00:46, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes, please do be careful with the script. As you know, it makes errors and it is 100% your responsibility to check the diff before submitting. Thanks.  — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 04:21, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Another red link

Hi. The templates like "ru", "en", "sv", etc are standard for language names in the project language in most Wiktionaries. Anyway, what did it make you think that only Skabelon:ru was another red link and not, for example, wiktionary:kl:Skabelon:en, wiktionary:kl:Skabelon:sv or wiktionary:kl:Skabelon:fr? . Regards. --86.172.33.214 14:57, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: About Steward_requests/Permissions/2009-10#Masterches.40htwiki

Acknowledged your message. Using ISO 8601 date format, 2010-01-12 means 12 January 2010. Your English Wikipedia page shows you in Canada, so ISO 8601 date format is used there for language-independent dates, isn't it? Leinad asked me to make temporary duplicate of temporary approval, so that request would appear twice for a moment, then archived after a few (but how many) days.--Jusjih 20:07, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Deletion request

[1] I will not delete this page because I think it's fine to have a category if it's in other categories. Since the category ("2012 deaths") was in two other categories ("Death" and "2012") it wasn't a blank/empty category. I've also added interwiki links to the page and created d:Q1706791. πr² (t • c) 01:40, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

It also isn't blank; there is a page on Neil Armstrong in it, who is someone that did die in 2012. Ajraddatz (Talk) 02:12, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

I see that I added the {{delete}} tag at 05:12, 24 December 2012, then Neal Armstrong was added to it at at the same time. He must have added it seconds after I placed the tag. I'll wait a few minutes next time before I tag. Techman224^Talk 02:33, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Oh, you're right, it was 5 seconds after you tagged it. But maybe you should give people some time to populate a category before tagging it. (Not everyone puts pages in a category before creating the category) Thanks for the fast response, πr² (t • c) 02:37, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Did you block my account?

I see I cannot login but it doesn't appear as though my account is blocked. I also notice you aren't a steward so I wonder if you just changed the password.108.28.162.125 04:08, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

No, you posted your password, so I notified the stewards on IRC. Techman224^Talk 04:10, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Here's the log. Techman224^Talk 04:11, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Perfect thanks. 108.28.162.125 04:19, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

equals

Unlike Java, JavaScript strings with the same content are equal with ==, so mw.config.get("wgDBname") == "metawiki" is true here. Three equals is sometimes better (===). PiRSquared17 (talk) 01:28, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-07

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 (1.23wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 13 (calendar).
• The Vector search box was changed to fix old display and accessibility issues; for example, you can now use full-text search even if you have disabled JavaScript. Please report any problems you see. The option to disable the "simplified search bar" on Vector will also be removed. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
• You are now notified when someone adds a link to your user page on wikis where it didn't work before (wikis with dates in the year-month-day order, including Hungarian, Japanese, Korean and some variants of Chinese). [7]

VisualEditor news

• You can now set media items' alt text and position, and directly set their size, in the media tool. [8] [9]
• The gallery tool was improved and several issues were fixed. [10] [11] [12]

Problems

• On February 3, all wikis were broken for about an hour due to a traffic balancing issue. [13]
• On February 6, some wikis were broken for about half an hour in total due to a problem with the Math extension.

Future software changes

• Some methods from Scribunto's mw.message library will be removed after February 18. If you use them in your templates or modules, please check to make sure that things will not break. [14] [15]
• You will soon be able to use GettingStarted on 23 new Wikipedias. It helps new users by listing possible tasks and giving help. The new version was also added to the English Wikipedia on February 7th. [16]
• You will soon see results from other wikis when you use the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [17] [18]
• The WikiLove tool was redesigned and should also load faster. [19]
• Edits made with WikiLove or after a GettingStarted suggestion will be tagged. [20] [21]
• It will soon no longer be possible to hide section editing links in your preferences. [22]
• You will soon be able to use the revision deletion feature via the API. [23]
• You will soon be able to choose mobile view on non-mobile devices using a Beta Feature option. [24] [25]
• If you have questions about Universal Language Selector, you can join an IRC meeting on February 12 at 17:00 UTC, in the #wikimedia-office channel on Freenode. [26]
• Developers are preparing for Google Summer of Code 2014. You can propose ideas. [27]
• bugzilla.wikimedia.org will be updated this week. You won't be able to access it from 22:00 UTC on February 12 until 01:00 UTC on February 13 at the latest. [28]
• The <poem> tag will be renamed to <lines>. The old tag will still work. [29]

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09:30, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-08

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 (1.23wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 13. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 18, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 20 (calendar).
• You can now use the list of active users again. [30] [31]
• The new search tool (CirrusSearch) now gives more importance to content namespaces if you search in several namespaces. [32]
• You can now directly link to files viewed with MultimediaViewer, the new tool for viewing media files. [33]
• You can read the summary of the Wikimedia technical report for January 2014. [34]

Problems

• On February 9, Wikimedia Labs was broken for about 2 hours due to an XFS file system problem. [35]
• On February 11, there were problems with VisualEditor for about 20 minutes due to a server logging issue. [36]
• On the same day, for about 20 minutes there were issues with page loading due to database problems.
• There were issues with page loading between 21:00 UTC on February 13 and 11:00 UTC on February 14 for users in Europe. It was due to a cache server problem.
• On February 14, all sites were broken for about 15 minutes for users in Southeast Asia, Oceania and the western part of North America. It was due to problems with cache servers.

VisualEditor news

• The link tool now tells you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. [37]
• You can now change image display (like thumbnail, frame and frameless) with VisualEditor. [38]
• Wikitext warnings will now hide when you remove wikitext from paragraphs you are editing. [39]
• You will soon be able to create and edit redirect pages with VisualEditor. [40] [41] [42]

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08:38, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-09

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 (1.23wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 20. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 25, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 27 (calendar).
• The new search tool (CirrusSearch) was added to the Italian Wikiquote and all Wikiversity projects. Users can now enable it in their Beta options. [43] [44]
• The Universal Language Selector was enabled on all Wikimedia wikis again. You can enable web fonts in your ULS options (see how).

VisualEditor news

• You will soon be able to add and edit __STATICREDIRECT__, __[NO]INDEX__ and __[NO]NEWEDITSECTION__ in the page settings menu. [45] [46] [47]
• You will soon be able to use the Ctrl+Alt+S or ⌘+Opt+S shortcuts to open the save window in VisualEditor. [48] [49]
• You will soon be able to preview your edit summary when checking your changes in the save window. [50] [51]

Future software changes

• You will soon be able to use the <categorytree> tag again. [52]
• You will soon be able to post messages with the MassMessage tool in all talk namespaces. [53] [54]
• Notifications will soon work in all namespaces. [55][56][57]

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10:18, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-10

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 (1.23wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 6 (calendar).
• When users enable web fonts by default, Universal Language Selector will now log if they don't have fonts to display pages correctly. This information will be used by developers to improve font support in the future. Read more about missing fonts. [58]
• You can now use Guided tours on the Czech and Japanese Wikipedia. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [59] [60]
• You can now use information from Wikidata in all Wikisource wikis. [61]
• The multimedia team is now posting weekly updates on their mailing list. [62]

VisualEditor news

• You can now change image size to default for your wiki. If you add new images to pages, they will also be default size. [63] [64] [65]
• If you switch from VisualEditor to wikitext editing, your edit will now be tagged. [66]
• Template parameters now have a bigger, auto-sizing input box for easier editing. [67]
• VisualEditor now has Arabic, Finnish and Kölsch icons for text styling. If you want icons for your language, ask in Bugzilla. [68] [69] [70]

Future software changes

• The new tool for viewing media files will soon show a progress bar and a thumbnail while loading full images. [71] [72]
• You will soon be able to make user contributions show only page creations. [73] [74]
• Article Feedback Tool will be removed from the English and French Wikipedias on March 3. It will also no longer be possible to add this tool to any Wikimedia wiki. [75] [76]
• Wikis using the new search tool will come back to the old tool for a few hours starting at 00:00 UTC on March 6. [77]

Problems

• For about an hour on February 23, there were problems with page loading due to a MediaWiki bug. [78]

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09:30, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Global rollback

Welcome to this global group.--Jusjih (talk) 07:18, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-11

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 (1.23wmf17) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 13 (calendar).
• You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch) on all Wikiquote projects. You can now enable it in your Beta options. [79] [80]

VisualEditor news

• It is now easier to edit templates. Complex tools are now in the "advanced" mode. [81] [82]
• It is also easier to edit images. You now have more options and they are explained better. [83]
• VisualEditor adds fake blank lines so you can put your cursor there. They are now smaller and animated to be different from actual blank lines. [84]
• We have improved the tool to add special characters. The buttons are now larger. More changes are coming. [85]
• You can now use new keyboard shortcuts to undo the last action, clear formatting, and show the shortcut help window. [86] [87] [88]

Future software changes

• You will soon be able to use a Beta option to show a shorter list of language links. That way, Universal Language Selector will only show languages that are relevant to you. You will still be able to search for other languages. [89]
• CirrusSearch will soon automatically index newly imported pages. [90] [91]
• It will soon be possible to use CSS to style buttons in templates on all Wikimedia wikis, without needing JavaScript. [92]
• An IRC discussion with the Wikimedia Foundation Language Engineering team will take place on March 12 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [93]

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09:10, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-12

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 (1.23wmf18) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 13. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 18, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 20 (calendar).
• You can now view smaller versions of PNG images bigger than 20 megapixels. [94]
• You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch) on all small wikis. You can now enable it in your Beta options. [95] [96]
• You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for February 2014. [97]

VisualEditor news

• Searching for template parameters in now case-insensitive. [98] [99]
• Required template parameters now have an asterisk (*) next to their edit boxes. [100]
• Several template dialogs are now smaller, and their insert buttons have changed wording. [101]

Future software changes

• You will soon see an error message if you try to log-in or register with an invalid or taken username. [102]
• You can now test first version of a tool that includes OpenStreetMap maps inside the UploadWizard. Comments are welcome. [103]
• You will soon be able to use the Hovercards tool as a beta feature. [104]

Problems

• VisualEditor was slow to load on March 13 because of an API issue. [105]

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07:14, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-13

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 (1.23wmf19) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 20. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 25, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 27 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

• You can now double-click or press the ↲ Enter key on an image or template to change its settings. [106] [107]
• Pages that don't exist will now show as red links in the edit mode. [108]
• You will no longer be able to try to use VisualEditor on pages translated using the Translate extension, and you will see a warning if you try to edit pages marked for translation. [109]
• You will now see a full warning, including the most recent log entry, when you try to edit protected pages with VisualEditor. [110]

Future software changes

• Typography Refresh will be enabled for test wiki and MediaWiki.org users who use the Vector skin on March 27. For users on non-Wikipedia wikis, it will be enabled on April 1, and for Wikipedia users on April 3. If you don't use Vector as your skin, you will not be affected.
• You will be able to use the Hovercards tool as a beta feature on all wikis from March 26.
• You will soon be able to include the Whatlinkshere special page in other pages. [111] [112]

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18:56, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-14

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 (1.23wmf20) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 1, and all Wikipedia wikis on April 3 (calendar).
• Typography Refresh was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 27. You'll only see it if you use the Vector skin. For users on non-Wikipedia wikis, it will be enabled on April 1, and for Wikipedia users on April 3.
• CirrusSearch, the new search tool, was enabled as a beta feature on over 30 new wikis on March 27. [113] [114]

VisualEditor news

• Blocked users now see the same messages in VisualEditor as in the wikitext editor. [115] [116]
• The search box for re-using a reference in VisualEditor is now cleared after each use. [117]
• New links on sub-pages no longer point to the wrong location in VisualEditor. [118]
• VisualEditor's media dialog no longer breaks when opening some types of images. [119]

Future software changes

• You will not be able to use the Wikitech wiki for a short period around 16:00 UTC on April 1 due to a server change. [120]
• CirrusSearch will become the main search engine for all non-Wikipedia wikis except Commons, Meta and Incubator on April 2.
• You will soon be able to use a new special page listing duplicate files. [121]
• Deleting a version of a file or a version of its description page will soon be shown differently in the logs. [122]

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09:20, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-15

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 (1.23wmf21) was scheduled to be deployed to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 3, however it was temporarily put on hold due to localization issues. (calendar).
• Typography Refresh was enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on April 1, and on all Wikipedias on April 3. You'll only see it if you use the Vector skin.
• CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on over 400 non-Wikipedia wikis on April 2. [123]

Future software changes

• A new special page (Special:TrackingCategories) will soon list all the tracking categories on a wiki. [124] [125]
• All Wikiquote projects will start using language links from Wikidata on April 8. [126]
• The Hovercards feature will soon work with right-to-left languages. [127] [128]
• You will soon be able to download files directly from MediaViewer, the new multimedia tool. [129]
• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on MediaWiki.org on April 10. Comments are welcome.
• You can help check that users can read CAPTCHAs in your language. [130]

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08:00, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-16

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

We are looking for contributors to help write new issues every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf22) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and all Wikipedias on April 17 (calendar).
• MediaViewer was enabled for all users on MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be enabled for all users on the Catalan (ca), Hungarian (hu) and Korean (ko) Wikipedias and English Wikivoyage on April 17. Comments are welcome. [131] [132] [133]
• Font issues caused by Typography refresh for Windows users were fixed on April 7. [134] [135]

VisualEditor news

• You will now see only three options when you try to add a template parameter in VisualEditor; you will see other options after a click. [136]
• The size changing controls in VisualEditor media editing dialog were simplified further.
• The wikitext editor tab will now fold into a drop-down menu in the Vector skin if there is not enough space on your screen. [137] [138]

Future software changes

• The font used for body text on Wikimedia wikis will change to your system default sans-serif font. This temporary change will be enabled on all non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and on all Wikipedias on April 17. [139] [140]
• Files from Commons seen on another wiki will soon have a tab saying "View on Wikimedia Commons". The create tab will change to "Add local description" (see screenshot). [141]
• You will soon be able to hide Notification and Hovercards pop-ups by pressing the Esc key. [142] [143] [144] [145]
• Shorter lists of language links will soon work in right-to-left languages. Languages that you have used before will be shown in the list. [146]
• You will soon be able to send messages with the MassMessage tool to all pages in a given category. [147] [148]
• The date format user preference will soon be moved to the appearance tab. [149] [150]
• An IRC discussion with the Wikimedia Foundation Multimedia team will take place on April 16 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [151]

Problems

• Wikimedia Foundation servers were updated after a security bug called Heartbleed was discovered last week. You should change your password as an extra precaution. [152]

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07:18, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-17

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

Tech News updates

• You can now subscribe to an Atom or RSS feed to read Tech News in your news aggregator. The newsletter will now also show on the English Planet Wikimedia every Monday. [153]
• We are looking for contributors to help write a new issue every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf1) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 22, and all Wikipedias on April 24 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was enabled as a beta feature on 27 new wikis on April 18. [154] [155]
• Problems with various fonts in SVG files were fixed last week. Files that use DejaVu Sans Condensed, DejaVu Serif Condensed, DejaVu Sans Light, Kochi Gothic and Kochi Mincho fonts now show correctly. [156] [157] [158] [159]
• The page view statistics site developed by Henrik (stats.grok.se) should now work faster. [160]
• You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for March 2014. [161]

VisualEditor news

• If you try to add a category which redirects to another category, VisualEditor will now suggest adding the target category directly. [162] [163]
• VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear on Education Program pages. [164] [165]
• You can now use VisualEditor on Meta-Wiki and the French Wikinews by enabling it in your preferences. [166] [167] [168]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Czech (cs), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), Hebrew (he), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Thai (th) and Vietnamese (vi) Wikipedias on April 24. Feedback is welcome. [169]
• Edits by anonymous users will now be marked with a new CSS class (mw-anonuserlink). This way, you can easily make those edits use a different color, font or background. [170] [171]
• The user preference to remember login will soon be removed from all wikis. The edit review preferences will be moved to the recent changes tab, and the preference for the WikiLove tool will be moved to the editing tab. [172] [173] [174] [175]
• You will soon be able to give parameters to preloaded templates. [176] [177]
• You will soon be able to use CodeEditor in read-only mode on pages that you cannot edit. [178] [179]
• It is now proposed to replace Bugzilla, Gerrit and other tools by a single tool called Phabricator. You can test Phabricator and add your opinion on MediaWiki.org. [180]
• An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on April 22 at 03:30 AM UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [181]

Problems

• For about 40 minutes on April 17, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.
• There is a problem with the rendering of formulas with MathJax. If you enabled MathJax in your preferences, you might need to turn it off and on again. [182]

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08:34, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-18

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 (1.24wmf2) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 29, and all Wikipedias on May 1 (calendar).
• You can now use interwiki prefix c: to link to pages on Wikimedia Commons. [183]

VisualEditor news

• You will soon be able to set content language and direction with VisualEditor. [184]
• VisualEditor now works on all Wikipedias after broken MediaWiki:Common.js pages (and similar) were fixed last week. [185]
• VisualEditor dialogs now use an animation of moving lines rather than animated GIF images.

Future software changes

• CirrusSearch will be enabled as a beta feature on 41 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and the Swedish (sv), Russian (ru), Polish (pl), Japanese (ja) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias next week. This change means that CirrusSearch will now be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis.
• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the French (fr) and Dutch (nl) Wikipedias on May 1. Feedback is welcome. [186]
• The mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will soon include filters to limit the number of uploaded files that are copyright violations. [187]
• CodeEditor will soon have a status bar about errors and warnings. [188] [189]
• You can test a new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. Comments are welcome. [190]

Problems

• For about 30 minutes on April 21, there were problems with image scaling due to a high server load. [191] [192]
• On April 22, it was not possible to use the Collection extension for about 90 minutes due to a server move. [193] [194]

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07:22, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-19

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 (1.24wmf3) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and all Wikipedias on May 8 (calendar).
• The Compact Personal Bar was added as a beta feature to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added as a beta feature to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and to all Wikipedias on May 8. To test it, you can enable it now in your preferences on MediaWiki.org. [195]
• It is now easier to disable the CodeEditor tool. [196]

VisualEditor news

• External links in VisualEditor are now in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki. [197]
• The template tool now tells you if a parameter is obsolete. [198]
• You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData; VisualEditor will add them like required ones. [199]
• There is a new type for TemplateData parameters: wiki-file-name for file names. [200][201]
• Editing formulae in VisualEditor will soon be enabled for all users. [202] [203]
• You will soon be able to try a new beta feature to edit text in another language. [204] [205]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Japanese (ja), Portuguese (pt), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 8. Feedback is welcome. [206]
• You can help translate about 100 new language names that have been added to our data source. They are used, for example, as hover text for interwiki links. Send an e-mail to Nemo if you want to help.
• If you click on a redirect page in your watchlist, you will soon access the redirect itself. [207] [208]

Problems

• For about 40 minutes around 00:20 UTC on April 29, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.

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07:29, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-20

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 (1.24wmf4) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 8. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and all Wikipedias on May 15 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

• A new citation system in VisualEditor was enabled on the English Wikipedia. It will soon be enabled on more wikis. [209]
• Templates that were previously broken in VisualEditor should now appear correctly. [210]

Future software changes

• It will soon be possible to move category description pages. Pages in changed categories will still have to be moved independently. [211] [212]
• You will soon be able to clear your watchlist with one click or through the API. [213] [214] [215] [216]
• You will soon be able to link to Flow posts and workflows with Special:Flow. [217] [218]
• The jQuery JavaScript library will soon be updated. Please check that your gadgets and scripts will still work. [219]
• The Vector skin will work faster, as the sidebar will no longer collapse partly after being loaded. [220] [221] [222]
• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on Wikimedia Commons on May 15. Feedback is welcome.
• An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on May 14 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [223]
• Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead. [224]

Problems

• There were problems with generating file thumbnails for all wikis between May 3 and May 6 due to a configuration error. [225] [226]

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06:00, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-21

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

Tech News updates

• Tech News is one year old this week; thank you for being with us!

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf5) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendar).
• The jQuery JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work. [227] [228] [229]
• MediaViewer was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22. Feedback is welcome. [230] [231]
• VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferences. [232] [233]
• You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014.

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys. [234] [235]
• VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like {{cite_web}} and not just {{Cite web}}. [236] [237]
• VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it. [238] [239]
• VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit. [240]
• The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. [241] [242]

Future software changes

• User ID number will no longer be visible in preferences. [243] [244]

Problems

• For several hours on May 16, there were problems with loading gadgets on some wikis due to a server problem. [245]

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07:18, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-22

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 (1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar).
• MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them. [246] [247] [248] [249]
• A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the File: namespace was fixed last week. [250] [251]
• VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled. [252] [253]
• It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed. [254]
• VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names. [255]

Future software changes

• Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade. [256]
• It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard tool. [257] [258]
• Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax [[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]] will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear. [259] [260] [261]
• You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki. [262] [263]

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08:29, 26 May 2014 (UTC)