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Tech News: 2016-19
 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
 * Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May 3.
 * You can use Wikipedia GapFinder to find missing articles between languages.
 * Users are invited to try Cross-wiki Notifications on all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default, scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC.
 * You can use keyboard shortcuts to open the visual editor (meta+V) or the wikitext editor (meta+E) (on certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor).
 * Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore.
 * The UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons.
 * Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved.
 * Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org.

Problems
 * MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 12 (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg 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 May 10 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Overhaul Interwiki map, unify with Sites and WikiMap. The meeting will be on May 11 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * 2017 European hackathon will happen on May 19 - 21, in Vienna (Austria).

Future changes
 * Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We plan to reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please tell the developers if the change will cause problems.

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Template messages/User talk namespace
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Tech News: 2016-20
 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
 * Some image thumbnails now load faster on mobile. They also take up less bandwidth.

Problems
 * Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis.

Changes this week
 * Special:Notifications will have "mark as read" buttons for each day. The non-JavaScript version will get it this week. A JavaScript version will come later.
 * Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce.
 * A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 18. It will be on all wikis from May 19 (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Requirements for change propagation". The meeting will be on May 18 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Using self-closing tags like  and   to mean   and   will not work in the future. Templates and pages that use these tags should be fixed. When Phabricator ticket T134423 is fixed these tags will parse as   and   instead. This is normal in HTML5.

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The Signpost: 17 May 2016
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Tech News: 2016-21
 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 now see a warning message on pages that try to use but it doesn't work because it doesn't match the page's actual title.

Problems
 * Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg 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 May 24 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12.

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:In the news/2016 RD proposal
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username privacy
Hi 5. Following my username change to obscure my real name, I have been using AWB to find and replace my old username with my new (so that I am still accountable for all my edits but my RL privacy is improved.) I think I was vaguely thinking that the find-and-replace edits could then be redacted afterwards... Am I barking up the right sort of tree? The right general forest? DBD 20:00, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello I believe that is right 5 albert square (talk) 17:42, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
 * And what's the process for redaction? Should I continue to make >1000 edits then ask for a batch redaction? Or ask first? Where/how? DBD 11:29, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, I suggest you read WP:CRD will try post more when I have a chance 5 albert square (talk) 19:07, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 May 2016
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Tech News: 2016-22
 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is now a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module.

Problems
 * A new way to handle rollback was introduced. It broke some tools and scripts and was reverted. This will be re-planned after review.
 * CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * When you edit a file or category page with the visual editor the rest of the page will be shown in its normal place.
 * The Translate extension will get an edit summary field.
 * A change to the  feature could break some user scripts. Contact Bawolff if the "click to insert special characters" links in the edit window break on your wiki.
 * Elasticsearch will be upgraded on Wikimedia wikis this week. This should not affect you, but if you have problems with the search function this is probably the reason.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg 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 31 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Regarding Claudette Hubbard
Like you mentioned before, I'd be more than happy to write my own article about Claudette so it can be made into its very own page, but I don't see how characters like Paul Coker have their own page when he has only had one storyline while Claudette has been made into quite a major character for the past year and has had one of the biggest storylines in early 2016, so is there a way you could simply make her own page? She quite well deserves it and is worthy of it.

--ForeverBoriSeddie187 (talk) 20:55, 29 May 2016 (UTC)


 * I think said that the list article would need working on first. I'll create the userspace article when I'm at my laptop ☺ 5 albert square (talk)


 * Yeah we need a page for Claudette but it needs improvement as it currently stands. I've noticed some people have created development sections for characters in order to give them separate articles, but these development sections have been entirely plot-based with no actual real-world information. So that's what we definitely don't need to see :-) anemone  projectors  20:47, 30 May 2016 (UTC)


 * I'll create it in userspace for you in a bit ForeverBoriSeddie. Had a bit of a manic day so far.  Alternatively, you could create it in userspace :)--5 albert square (talk) 13:57, 31 May 2016 (UTC)


 * User:ForeverBoriSeddie187/Claudette Hubbard--5 albert square (talk) 13:31, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 05 June 2016
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Tech News: 2016-23
 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
 * MathML/SVG is now the default  rendering mode on Wikimedia projects.

Changes this week
 * The history page can tell you if a page on your watchlist was updated since you last visited it. This now works the same way in Vector as in other skins. The change broke local designs on some wikis. This will be fixed this week.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Page mover
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Braybrayfitz97
I noticed you recently blocked for disruptive behavior. His block expired, and he's back at it with his unsourced "notable works" drive-bys like this and this; the second example is clearly against consensus, yet he continues to edit war (albeit at a slow pace) for it. Perhaps another clue-block is in order? Thanks. Rebb ing  17:48, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, sorry I just noticed this message. He's actually not edited since the 8th so I'll keep an eye on him.   please let me know if you see him do anything, you can also report him to WP:AIV.  Thanks!--5 albert square (talk) 12:56, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-24
 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
 * Wikimedia wikis now use AuthManager. If you have new problems related to logging in or being logged in, report them.
 * Visiting Special:Notifications doesn't automatically mark notifications as read anymore. You can go between read, unread or all notifications on Special:Notifications. Notifications on Special:Notifications are grouped by day. You can mark every daily group as read individually. Notifications are displayed by groups of 50 on Special:Notifications and you can find former notifications by using navigation arrows.

Changes this week
 * You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits.
 * It will be easier to edit galleries with the visual editor.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).

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