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Tech News: 2015-28

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

Recent changes

• On the mobile site, you now see more information when you search for a page. It now shows the description from Wikidata. [1]

Problems

• The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets. [2]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 8. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 9 (calendar).
• The "Page information" tool shows how many users watch the page. You can now see how many are active. [3] [4]
• You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool. [5]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 7 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:13, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Notificación de traducción: Wikimedia Highlights, June 2015

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Please consider helping non-English-language Wikimedia communities to stay updated about the Wikimedia blog's most notable posts from June, covering Wikimedia Foundation activities and other important events from across the Wikimedia movement. Completed translations will be announced on social media, project village pumps and (for some languages) mailing lists.

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Los coordinadores de traducción de Meta‎, 01:38, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from June 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in June 2015.

• These Texans are on a quest to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of their state’s revolution
• Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS
• 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia
• Record featured article author recommends five Wikipedia articles
• How English Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition
• Preserving Wikipedia citations for the future: Geoffrey Bilder

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Tech News: 2015-29

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

Recent changes

• You can now see a list of pages with errors in code coloring. [6]

Problems

• There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes. [7]
• There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes. [8]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 15. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 16 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join a technical meeting at Wikimania in Mexico City this week. [9]

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15:06, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-30

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

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 22. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 23 (calendar).
• You now see more warnings in the image viewer. They tell you to be careful when using the image, for example if it shows a person. [10]

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 July 21 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Soon you won't be able to use MathJax to display math. [11]

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03:05, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Notificación de traducción: Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information

Hola, LlamaAl:

Has recibido esta notificación porque te inscribiste como traductor de español en Meta. La página Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information está disponible para su traducción. Puedes traducirla aquí:

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La prioridad de esta página es media. La fecha límite para la traducción de esta página es 2015-08-15.

This is the agreement that will be agreed to by all holders of advanced rights such as Oversight or Checkuser. Having it translated to as many languages as possible is incredibly useful do that everyone can understand, fully, what they are agreeing too.

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Los coordinadores de traducción de Meta‎, 00:43, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-31

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

Recent changes

• You can now use redirects to link to JavaScript pages. [12]
• You cannot use the compact user bar any more. [13]
• You can change your options to see bigger images. [14]
• You can watch short videos about how to use VisualEditor. [15]
• You can now edit pages linked in "what links here" more easily. [16]

Problems

• There was a problem with some Lua modules on July 22 and 23. Some pages using them did not list them in "what links here". You can fix those pages with a null edit: edit and save the page without making any change.
• There was a problem with the abuse filter page on big wikis on July 23. It was due to a code error. [17]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 29. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 30 (calendar).
• JavaScript authors: You cannot use wgNoticeUserData to get edit counts anymore. [18]

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 July 28 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:05, 27 July 2015 (UTC)