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Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decitions
[edit]The Wikimedia Foundation recently created a new feature, "superprotect" status. The purpose is to prevent pages from being edited by elected administrators -- but permitting WMF staff to edit them. It has been put to use in only one case: to protect the deployment of the Media Viewer software on German Wikipedia, in defiance of a clear decision of that community to disable the feature by default, unless users decide to enable it.
If you oppose these actions, please add your name to this letter. If you know non-Wikimedians who support our vision for the free sharing of knowledge, and would like to add their names to the list, please ask them to sign an identical version of the letter on change.org.
I'm notifying you because you participated in one of several relevant discussions. -Pete F (talk) 22:07, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Why did you delete my logo ?
[edit]I've use a logo from an entreprise which give me it to do a page on wikipedia. I don't understand the reason because we have the right to use the picture. Can you explain ? It was a French association called Odcvl. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nicoleon (talk) 10:42, 10 February 2015
- Answered at Commons. Green Giant (talk) 16:43, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
Global user page migration
[edit]Hello Green Giant. I deleted your local user pages on all wikis as you requested via Synchbot. You can see the full log on your archive page. :) —Pathoschild 23:42, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
nonfree wiki
[edit]I just commented in the proposal. It's very obvious to me that what is needed is a structural change, an expansion of the Commons mission. In fact, Commons already hosts many non-free files, both as files with undiscovered copyright problems, and as deleted files. The latter are still hosted there but only visible to administrators.
The present restricted Commons mission causes continual conflict and disruption. What we have found on Wikversity is that by shifting to a concept of organization of content, vs the keep/delete black and white decision process that is common on wikis (and possibly necessary for encyclopedias), we have almost totally eliminated conflict over content. If something seems generally useless or non-neutral, as an example, but might be useful for the education of the user who created it, we will routinely move it to user space. It is very, vary rare that a user becomes upset. The user may improve it and move it back to mainspace, which occasionally happens. Another option is creating "essay" pages in mainspace, but as attributed subpages of a neutral resource.
Deletion gets people upset! Where did my file go? Censorship! We even sometimes will keep problematic material created by anonymous users, if it looks like it might be improved to have possible educational use, and we have ways of handling that. At the same time, we are continually organizing mainspace. So it starts to function much more like the original wiki vision, which, supposedly, would always improve, never slip back for long.
Creating intermediate conclusions, then, reduces conflict, because compromise becomes much more acceptable. Keeping material, but organizing it, improves the wiki, and user energy is not wasted pushing or fighting deletion. When users disagree about content of a standing resource, we often will fork it, as described: top-level neutral resource, linking to attributed subpages. This has, on Wikiversity, created cooperation and collaboration toward deepening resources, where, on enwiki, the same topic led to arbitrations, blocks, and bans. And that cooperation spread to other wikis, which was more than I expected!
So how to accomplish this change? I have this suggestion: a working group is created, in your user space, here or on Commons. Any user may join the group, signing up, but, for process in your user space, you are the "chair," and you may regulate it. I'd be happy to assist, at your request, if it is on Commons, or could host in my own user space there. I used to do this on en.wiki, it was successful, long story, blah, blah. It works. The goal is to create a proposal that already has some substantial support, and that has already incorporated and considered all -- or almost all -- the knee-jerk "impossible" responses, and that is cogently and clearly and simply expressed, before it is presented to the larger community.
That can take a lot of discussion! Doing this in "public space" commonly creates train wrecks that go nowhere. In user space, material can, then, be organized, refactored, and it can go through whatever stages are required to come up with a proposal that has consensus among a hopefully diverse group. That is, if it is your user space, you will not unreasonably exclude participation by anyone who can contribute views from various positions, you would only exclude (or blank) what disrupts the process. This is standard respect for a user to manage their own user space for project purposes. --Abd (talk) 16:42, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
- @Abd:, I've replied to your comments at NonFreeWiki. Thank you for the suggestions here but I genuinely don't think Commoners will ever come round to accepting unfree files. The irony is that Wikimedia as whole hosts hundreds of thousands of useful unfree files but look more closely and there are pockets of unbelievable confusion. There is an entire category tree of potentially free files including en:Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 files (which alone has 120,000+ files although they might not all be correctly licensed). I don't think I'm wrong in believing these files should be hosted on Commons rather than locally, but for various reasons the uploaders and/or other users have requested that they stay on ENWP. Similarly I believe there are potentially thousands of Commons files deleted for licensing or other problems, which could be undeleted and moved to a NonFreeWiki. As I have stated at the proposal page, I genuinely don't think you'll get a positive response if you propose NFW was a Commons project but I would appreciate any and all help getting the proposal to the lift-off stage. A year after proposing it, I'm still unsure what the next step is. Cheers. Green Giant (talk) 13:48, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
- Every day I see issues and problems on Commons that would be resolved if this went forward. On Wikiversity, we have mostly stopped the practice of moving files to Commons (and then deleting local copies) because they are so commonly deleted there, but there are also routine problems where a user takes a file from Commons and uses it and it's then deleted on Commons some years later, and it's a mess to handle. Sometimes we can find the original and re-upload it locally, and just claim fair use. It's a hundred times as much work as would be needed if it were all handled on Commons, with us establishing fair use by actual usage. Today, I saw an engraving taken from an Iraqi banknote being discussed. There was an engraving taken from it that is used on *many* articles in ar.wiki, I think. I think there is no question of fair use there. But deleted on Commons? A huge mess to clean up.
- The way forward is not to butt heads with Commons, but to develop a serious NFW proposal, in detail. That takes a working group, RfC is not the venue for it, it's too complicated. There needs to be a working document that would detail structure and practices. A small group can easily do this. If it's done in your user space, you can moderate it. (That's okay because anyone else can create a "competing" version, in their user space and it all comes out in the wash. In fact, you will find that good-faith participants will cooperate.)
- When the proposal is ready, we can attract some support before proposing it on Commons. The Commons proposal should be skillfully written. It would be offering Commons the opportunity to host NFW, spelling out the benefits to Commons, which are many. If Commons then turns it down (which I cannot predict), this becomes a formal separate project proposal here. By that time, possible kinks with WMF policy will have been worked out. My view is that the WMF policy was poorly designed, but it will take negotiation with the Board to improve it. (Wikiversity feels the impact of that design the most, because on the other wikis, the goal is content (and re-usable content, then); on Wikiversity, the goal is education and educational process, which includes more fair use of content, including fair use in user space (think of student work), than a pure content site would think necessary.) --Abd (talk) 00:21, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
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[edit]I've answered your question on my talk page (I think). I feel like I'm being outed. EChastain (talk) 15:36, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
Agent vs. Volunteer
[edit]Hi, With regards to your change here, I just wanted to let you know that our volunteers are often referred to as OTRS agents, and that is an acceptable "title" for them in their volunteer capacity. Since it's all semantics, I'm going to leave your change as is. However, I just wanted to let you know that you will be seeing "agent" (which is defined as intermediary for certain services, such as for artistic performances or public relations – a fair description of an OTRS agent, I'd say) a lot if you are navigating OTRS-related pages and that is is not inaccurate. (Words are wonderful - Wikimedia has their defined uses for many, such as "bureaucrat" and "oversight"...wtf is a "checkuser"? ;-) Regards, Rjd0060 (talk) 12:25, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
- Rjd0060, thank you for the message. I'm not opposed to people using the words agent or volunteer interchangeably but I'm wary of the fuss that was kicked up on Commons a few months ago. Unfortunately, in the minds of some people (no names needed), the word agent equates to someone hired to act for the "Evil WMF", like an unpaid contractor, rather than someone volunteering to do something. That's why I thought it would be good to change it in a few key places to avoid the suggestion of being "agents of the WMF", although it is technically correct that we act as agents of the Wikimedia community. I'm not sure if it would be more useful to use "volunteer agents" perhaps? :) Green Giant (talk) 12:42, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
- That's why their arguments make no sense. We are the volunteer equivalent of a Customer Service Agent. Immediately below every email our agents send out is a disclaimer which states clearly that we are volunteers. That is often communicated in the email correspondence itself during the course of our discussions with the "customers" (aka anybody who writes us) as well. With regards to documentation that is not on Commons but places where it is actually more official and "meta" (like here at Meta-Wiki) we can of course aim to be accurate. Thoughts? :-) Rjd0060 (talk) 12:47, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
- I agree with you but you know the old phrase "you can only please some of the people..." There will never be 100% agreement. As far as documentation, I have been spending some time recently, looking at documents and methods on Commons and Meta (and now OTRS-wiki because I got side-tracked) to see if they are being communicated clearly. In particular I'm concerned that our Help Pages (including ones that aren't in the Help namespace) have become more technical than necessary, with insider-jargon and overuse of abbreviations. At the moment I have mostly made offline notes but I'm intending on presenting some ideas for the community to look at (which is one of the reasons I was "snooping around in OTRS documents). There won't be anything shocking or earth-moving but just attempts to make some small and some not-so-small adjustments. I'm not yet confident that some of it will be implementable so I don't feel ready to go online with this yet. So to answer your last question, I think there is a case for reviewing the documents, especially on Commons, and this debate about the terminology can be addressed, although it might take some time to filter through. Green Giant (talk) 14:09, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
- That's why their arguments make no sense. We are the volunteer equivalent of a Customer Service Agent. Immediately below every email our agents send out is a disclaimer which states clearly that we are volunteers. That is often communicated in the email correspondence itself during the course of our discussions with the "customers" (aka anybody who writes us) as well. With regards to documentation that is not on Commons but places where it is actually more official and "meta" (like here at Meta-Wiki) we can of course aim to be accurate. Thoughts? :-) Rjd0060 (talk) 12:47, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi, where did the discussion happen on the mass-move to subpages of Category:Categories, which semantically doesn't seem to make any sense? --Nemo 08:22, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
- Hello. I believe @Verdy p: announced it at Meta talk:Babylon/Archives/2014#Why translating categories. I've actually been moving some of these pages manually for a few weeks. I assumed that since nobody seemed to object for over a year since the source categories were changed to category redirects. Green Giant (talk) 20:53, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
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- Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [1] [2] [3]
- Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems. [4]
Problems
- Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [5] [6]
- On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [7]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
- You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category. [8]
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Recent changes
- Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function. [9]
Problems
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar).
Meetings
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Recent changes
- VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC. [11][12]
- The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [13]
- VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module
ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Useext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.initinstead. [14] - Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [15]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 1 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9. [16]
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Recent changes
- You can now mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users. [17]
- A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [18]
- You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [19]
Problems
- There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed. [20]
- The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [21][22]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
- The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters. [23]
- The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page. [24][25]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 8 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Future changes
- The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours. [26]
- Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [27][28]
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Recent changes
- You can now use the Wikidata query service. [29]
- Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [30]
- Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [31][32]
Problems
- There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [33]
- The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [34]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [35]
- The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [36]
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Recent changes
- There is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here. [37][38]
- Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong. [39][40][41][42]
- More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [43]
- The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [44]
Problems
- Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time. [45]
- Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [46][47]
- UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [48]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
- The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms. [49]
- You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it. [50]
- Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [51]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on September 23 at 17:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can register to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 in San Francisco 4–6 January 2016. Gadget, template, bot, and tool developers are welcome as well. Call for participation and travel sponsorship requests are open until 2 October.
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Recent changes
- In UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them. [52]
- UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [53]
- You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [54]
- When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [55]
- You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [56]
- The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [57]
- MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in Gerrit. The goal was to clean up the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers. [58]
Problems
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar).
- There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide if they want to enable it. [61]
- The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan. [62]
Meetings
- You can join the strategy process of the Reading department of Wikimedia Engineering. [63]
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation developers want the community to decide who can use OAuth in the future. You can discuss it on Meta.
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Recent changes
- The link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile. [64]
- The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [65]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar).
- UploadWizard will remind users to add a category. [66]
- UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [67]
- A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [68]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Wikidata requests your input on how to improve the editing of Wikidata's data in other locations, such as Wikipedias.
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Recent changes
- The database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters. [69]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar).
- You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing. [70]
- Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [71]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Recent changes
- Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The
icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The 
icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback on this change. - Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [72]
Problems
- A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [73]
- Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [74]
- The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen. [75]
Changes this week
- Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [76]
- Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [77][78][79][80]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).- The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools. [81]
- You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "Insert file" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor. [82][83]
- When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [84][85]
- Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in
$wgContentNamespaces. [86]
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Cat-A-Lot
[edit]User:Auntof6 said you were able to help her get Cat-A-Lot working in Simple English Wikipedia. Can you help me get it working in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Wikipedia? Thanks. StevenJ81 (talk) 19:08, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
- @StevenJ81: I am not a coder so I can't promise it will work but:
- Copy and paste the code that begins with
window.catALotPrefsand ends withGadget-Cat-a-lot.css');
});from my global.js page to your global.js page (i.e. on Meta and not lad-wiki);
- Save your global.js page and purge your cache;
- Delete the Cat-a-lot lines from your common.js page on lad-wiki and purge your cache there just as a precaution;
- If it doesn't work I can only suggest asking a coder. Best of luck. Green Giant (talk) 00:42, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
- It works when I'm in Commons, but not otherwise. Not sure why. I'll ask around. StevenJ81 (talk) 17:00, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
- Copy and paste the code that begins with
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 see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [87]
- If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [88]
- Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [89]
Problems
- On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [90]
Changes 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 from November 4. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can also read the latest VisualEditor newsletter.
Future changes
- A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links. [91]
- Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [92]
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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.
Recent changes
- Superprotect has been removed. [93]
- You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [94]
- JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [95]
Problems
- Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [96]
Changes this week
- Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [97]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- A new tool to navigate through diff pages is being developed. You can test it out and give feedback. [98]
- The options on Special:Watchlist will look slightly different. [99]
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