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Tech News: 2014-37
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This Month in GLAM: August 2014
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Wikidata weekly summary #125
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 * [//blog.wikimedia.de/2014/09/02/why-wikidata-is-so-important-to-histropedia Why Wikidata is so important to Histropedia]
 * [//blog.wikimedia.de/2014/09/08/outreach-program-for-women-at-wikidata Wikidata Outreach: What happened?]
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 * The new main page can now be translated.
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 * Newest properties: reporting mark, maximum glide ratio, FIFA player code, WALS family code, WALS genus code, WALS lect code, category for people died here, category for people born here, PRDL Author ID
 * Development
 * Performance improvements for "in other projects sidebar" beta feature and bug fixes in the feature on wikis with sidebar cache enabled (e.g. zhwiki, commons)
 * Worked on performance improvements to badges feature
 * Fixing bug with xml format in the API, and added tests for it so hopefully this does not break again!
 * Worked more on enabling statements on properties
 * Further work on new user interface design groundwork - mostly refactoring and enabling editing of multiple sitelinks and label/alias/description at once
 * First pokes at usage tracking
 * Drafted an RfC to improve recent changes so we can show Wikidata changes also when enhanced recent changes is enabled
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Duplicate journalists
I saw you conversation on User talk:Charles Matthews so I went ahead and merged the two articles (well spotted). I chose to place all the text into Marchamont Needham because that was the older of the two articles even though it was the more poorly sourced. I then moved it from Marchamont Needham to Marchamont Nedham because the former is the name used by the DNB while the latter is the name used by the ODNB (per Charles's advise). I have not been particularly diligent in the merger and I have not cross checked it with the DNB or the ODNB. So there is still plenty of work to do if others choose to do it &#9786; -- PBS (talk) 19:26, 14 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks! He's a bit out of my comfort zone in terms of period and topic, so was procrastinating on actually doing the merge :-)
 * The project CM and I have been working on is this, trying to match up ODNB entries and Wikipedia/Wikidata entries. (Currently on 23800 matches, a bit over 40% - please do have a go if it looks interesting! The little [G] link next to unmatched is the auto-suggest game mode). It's quite good at highlighting possible merge cases like this, though there's reassuringly few - I've only spotted a handful so far. Andrew Gray (talk) 22:52, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the invitation. I am busy on articles relating to the Waterloo Campaign as the 200 anniversary is approaching, so that is my main focus when not fire-fighting. When I have finished (which will not be for months), I'll wander over as see if I can help. -- PBS (talk) 13:11, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-38
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Recent software changes
 * You can now change the style of links to disambiguation pages. This is done with the  CSS class.
 * There was a problem on right-to-left wikis with Wikidata log entries. The text was messy in watchlists and recent changes. The problem is now fixed. The same problem will be fixed soon for user names.
 * New users are randomly chosen for a test on 12 Wikipedias. They get messages with ideas of articles to edit. The ideas come from what they have already edited.

Problems
 * There was a problem with loading images on September 10.

VisualEditor news
 * If you don't select text when you add a link, the link now shows a number.
 * The citation tool no longer offers to reuse a citation if there are none on the page yet.
 * You can now use help buttons in the "" menu to see what the options are for.

Future software changes
 * The latest version of MediaWiki ( 1.24wmf21 ) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 16, and on all Wikipedias on September 18 (calendar).
 * These changes are coming with the new version:
 * If you use Internet Explorer 7, JavaScript will no longer work. JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work in that browser. You should update to a newer browser. [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Grade_C]

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Stub contest
Hey Andrew, thanks for keeping on assessing entries. Can I ask a favour in that you're welcome to adjust the scoreboard if you give something a tick? Cheers, Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:14, 18 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Apologies - will do! Andrew Gray (talk) 20:50, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-39
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 * You can test a new Beta Feature called HHVM. It should make editing faster. Please report bugs if you see them.

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 * There was a problem on the English Wikipedia on September 19. It was due to edits on a template used on many pages.
 * Sites were down for users in the Pacific area around 7:00 UTC on September 20. It was due to a problem in the San Francisco data center.
 * There were two bad bugs messing up articles in some browsers in VisualEditor. We fixed the bugs and updated the sites.

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 * If you have more than 2000 notifications, the oldest ones will be removed.
 * In the "Vector" skin, the icon used for users will show a neutral gender.
 * The VisualEditor template tool now tells you if a required field is missing.
 * The "Cancel" button of the VisualEditor save window is now called "Resume editing". This shows that you can still edit and you won't lose your changes.
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