User talk:Davidwr/Archives/Archive 17

Comment by Chowdhary747
I have undone your changes. For jurisdiction check point no 5 on universities website at this link http://mcu.ac.in/about_university.aspx — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chowdhary747 (talk • contribs) 19:09, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I removed the section because a large part of it was a verbatim copy of another web site, which means it was very likely a copyright violation. Copyright violations should be removed from Wikipedia "on sight."  I have edited the text you restored to remove the copyright violation.  Please read Copyrights before making further edits to Wikipedia.  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  21:08, 28 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. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/113876/]
 * You can now use Guided tours on the Czech and Japanese Wikipedia. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to [//translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-guidedtour&filter=&language=&action=translate translate it] and ask in [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org Bugzilla]. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115824/]
 * You can now use information from Wikidata in all Wikisource wikis. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115393/]
 * The multimedia team is now posting weekly updates on their mailing list.

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. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47804] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50379] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/114420/]
 * If you switch from VisualEditor to wikitext editing, your edit will now be tagged. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56465]
 * Template parameters now have a bigger, auto-sizing input box for easier editing. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61289]
 * VisualEditor now has Arabic, Finnish and Kölsch icons for text styling. If you want icons for your language, ask in Bugzilla. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115636/] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115512/] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115424/]

Future software changes  Problems
 * The new tool for viewing media files will soon show a progress bar and a thumbnail while loading full images. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/113963/] [//wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/146]
 * You will soon be able to make user contributions show only page creations. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42026] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115189/]
 * 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. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61163]
 * 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. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61879]
 * For about an hour on February 23, there were problems with page loading due to a MediaWiki bug. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/114994/]

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SPI
I've listed the user at SPI, but given that this was identical to an earlier version by a confirmed sock of Sibtain 007, I didn't really think it was unreasonable to say that the user is a sock. If you look at the previous version by User:Jessionewiki, you'll see that the wording, sources, and everything else is identical. It's pretty unlikely that this was someone re-creating the article with something they pulled from the Internet. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   06:55, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I was unaware that you don't have the ability to check previous versions of articles. The problem here is that declining something because you don't believe it's a sockpuppet is kind of well... that's the sort of thing that would be better declined by someone who could check the previous version of the article and see where the sock suspicion comes from. I've run the SPI at your request, but I will say that I think that it is a big waste of SPI time. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   06:57, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
 * It's not unheard of for someone to copy something out of someone else's sandbox, or to copy something from another page into their own sandbox. Such an act is strong evidence that the two editors are either real-life or on-wiki acquaintances and is not-quite-as-strong evidence but of meat-/sock-puppetry.  The link in Amazon Mist to a now-deleted page strengthens the case but it's not quite conclusive.  If this were all the evidence that was available and a checkuser was inconclusive, I would sit back and provide the editor a long piece of WP:ROPE if they asked for it.  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  07:16, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Deleted content
The person who created the content at User:Robert Henry Nixon/Rhnixon went and took the information to create it at Robert Nixon (filmmaker). This made it redundant to an existing article, so I just deleted it as a redundant copy that also had issues with promotional tones. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   05:24, 9 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. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/116919/] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/116992/]

VisualEditor news
 * It is now easier to edit templates. Complex tools are now in the "advanced" mode. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61822] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55434]
 * It is also easier to edit images. You now have more options and they are explained better. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61059]
 * 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. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47790]
 * We have improved the tool to add special characters. The buttons are now larger. More changes are coming. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/116661/]
 * You can now use new keyboard shortcuts to undo the last action, clear formatting, and show the shortcut help window. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53356] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52140] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56453]

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 * 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. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/116726/]
 * CirrusSearch will soon automatically index newly imported pages. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60053] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/116896/]
 * It will soon be possible to use CSS to style buttons in templates on all Wikimedia wikis, without needing JavaScript. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/114085/]
 * 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).

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Audionutcase
Hi Davidwr...you recently messaged me to say that my article, "Valve Microphones", was not sufficient to be an article on it's own, but that you recommended that I put it in under "Condenser microphones"....which itself is under "Microphone". Well, I did try to do that...but it hasn't gone in! Could you kindly look into it for me...I'm a newbie and don't really know how to do things yet! I really would like to get this in there and would like to be of help in the future. Kind regards, Audionutcase. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Audionutcase (talk • contribs) 00:34, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
 * another editor accepted your submission. It is at Valve microphone.  Because your edit to Microphone wasn't properly formatted, I reverted it.  I added the first sentence back in, in a new section called "valve microphone" as a sub-section of "condenser microphone."  I tagged that section for expansion.  Replacing the single sentence with a short paragraph summarizing the article Valve microphone would be a good thing to do.  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  03:30, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Trying to extend "Valve Microphone" under condenser microphones, by Audionutcase
Hi Davidwr, thank you very much for your kind help with this article. I have done as you suggested and extended the single sentence "valve Microphone" with another paragraph and references, under "condenser microphones" which is under "Microphone". Would you kindly check that I have submitted this correctly? I also want to link it back to the main article "valve microphone" which is an orphan. Kind regards, Audionutcase. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Audionutcase (talk • contribs) 10:02, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Actually, this edit which removed the very short sub-section I added in favor of a single sentence is much more readable than having a sub-section about this type of microphone. So, there is no need to make any further changes to Microphone.  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  01:46, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Discretionary sanctions 2013 review: Draft v3
Hi. You have commented on Draft v1 or v2 in the Arbitration Committee's 2013 review of the discretionary sanctions system. I thought you'd like to know Draft v3 has now been posted to the main review page. You are very welcome to comment on it on the review talk page. Regards, AGK  [•] 00:15, 16 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. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/117809/]
 * You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch) on all [//noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=small.dblist small] wikis. You can now enable it in your Beta options. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/118482/] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/118638/]
 * You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for February 2014.

VisualEditor news
 * Searching for template parameters in now case-insensitive. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51673] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/117305/]
 * Required template parameters now have an asterisk (*) next to their edit boxes. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/117327/]
 * Several template dialogs are now smaller, and their insert buttons have changed wording. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50998]

Future software changes  Problems
 * You will soon see an error message if you try to log-in or register with an invalid or taken username. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/117437/]
 * You can now test first version of a tool that includes OpenStreetMap maps inside the UploadWizard. Comments are welcome.
 * You will soon be able to use the Hovercards tool as a beta feature.
 * VisualEditor was slow to load on March 13 because of an API issue.

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Role username RfC live
Because you participated in the previous mini-RfC: Wikipedia_talk:Username_policy Gigs (talk) 16:03, 24 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. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50996] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54827]
 * Pages that don't exist will now show as red links in the edit mode. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37901]
 * 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. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50284]
 * You will now see a full warning, including the most recent log entry, when you try to edit protected pages with VisualEditor. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51215]

Future software changes  Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2014-W13"/> 18:56, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 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. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35486] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/106625/]

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Michael Grecco
Hi David. The creator sought help at the AfC Help Desk. He was still thinking that he needed to prove that the subject had done the various covers, portraits etc. Typical mistake, thinking all you need to do is verify what he did. Anyhow, I took pity on him and found lots of coverage of Grecco in books and print magazines and newpapers (I have a subscription to HighBeam Research) and added it as references to the article, replacing the poor quality ones. I also found independent verification for the Prix de la Photographie Paris Awards + another award from the International Photographic Council (an NGO of the United Nations) and copyedited out the promotional style in the draft text. I'm quite sure it would easily pass an AfD. If you don't object, I'll move it to article space later today. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 10:30, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
 * That is much better and it would almost certainly get at least "no consensus to delete" at AFD if more than 2-3 people participated in the discussion. It is vulnerable to PROD or falling in a low-discussion AFD if it isn't watchlisted, so consider keeping it on your watchlist indefinitely.  If possible, replace the paywalled references with quality non-paywalled ones.  If that is not possible, consider either using the quote= parameter of the citation templates to include a snippet from the paywalled reference or put the snippet on the article's talk page.  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  15:36, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi David. I don't think it's vulnerable to either a PROD or even an AfD nomination, not with the quality of the references it now has. In the course of finding other articles where he's linked or could be linked, I discovered that he has also received the Hasselblad Masters Award. I've added that plus a reference. Anyhow, I've moved it into article space and put it on my watch list just in case. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 11:04, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

sandbox editing
I apologize if I interrupted your editing at User:Ipalacin/sandbox. When I started there wasn't an "in use" banner and I only noticed it once I hit save. Sorry if that screwed anything up for you. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 21:15, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm done. I reverted you, please go back and make any improvements you intended to make.  I will alert the author that I've made the changes and ask him to confirm that they are correct.  I have some notability concerns about this person due to the "local"-ness of the coverage.  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  21:51, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

March 2014
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Penile Rehabilitation
Why was my article rejected? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Baumgartenadam (talk • contribs) 03:26, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
 * As it says in the pink box at the top of the page, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Penile Rehabilitation was rejected because it was blank. There was nothing there accept the submission template.  Type it in again and re-submit and it will be evaluated on its merits.   Note that there is still a several-week backlog in the submission queue.  This got reviewed early because I was scanning recent submissions for those that were "quick-fails" so the submitters (including you) wouldn't have to go through the several-week wait twice.
 * By the way, I noticed you appear to have a close connection (what Wikipedia calls a "conflict of interest") in a contribution you made last fall, Zonal NePhRO scoring system as your user-name is the same as one of the authors of one or more of the references used in that article. If you have a similar conflict of interest in this topic, please read Conflict of interest.  As a rule, editors with conflicts of interest are welcome, even encouraged, to draft articles about such topics and submit them through the AFC process, but once the article has been accepted, they are strongly discouraged from making direct edits to the articles if those edits change the article in a "substantial" way.  Instead, once the article has been accepted, editors with conflicts of interests should recommend such changes on the article's talk page.  This means if you have a conflict of interest in the topic of of Penile Rehabilitation (for example, if you have written about it professionally in any significant way, or if you have any financial or other "stake" in whether its becomes more or less popular) and your submission is accepted and someone else modifies it, you generally should not undo their changes unless your edit would be allowed under the "conflict of interest" guideline I linked to a few sentences back. Edits to enforce policies such as correcting vandalism and errors which do not affect the "substance" of the article, such as fixing typographical errors, are normally "okay" things for an editor to do even if he has  conflict of interest. davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  15:11, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-14
<section begin="technews-2014-W14"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. <section begin="tech-newsletter-software-news"/> 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. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/121305/] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/121305/]

VisualEditor news
 * Blocked users now see the same messages in VisualEditor as in the wikitext editor. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51454] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52004]
 * The search box for re-using a reference in VisualEditor is now cleared after each use. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61959]
 * New links on sub-pages no longer point to the wrong location in VisualEditor. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58314]
 * VisualEditor's media dialog no longer breaks when opening some types of images. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62024]

Future software changes <section end="tech-newsletter-software-news"/> Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2014-W14"/> 09:20, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 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.
 * 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. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/85446/]
 * Deleting a version of a file or a version of its description page will soon be shown differently in the logs. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115640/]

skilled group
A-holes of the labour market — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.216.98.58 (talk) 07:47, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

AfD Willie Jerome Manning
I am complaining about the behavior of user Smallnslow in this AfD vote. I came back to the vote page to see that this user posted a comment under my vote. Then I see that the user also placed comments beneath other editors' votes. This is not proper. He is essentially asserting ownership of the page (the only one he has ever edited). He gets to cast one vote and it is not his place to rebut the votes of other editors. Before this vote is finalized, the admin in charge needs to make sure not to count the multiple comments from Smallnslow as multiple votes. 12.219.81.130 (talk) 19:04, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I think you may be misunderstanding the nature of AFD discussions and the intelligence of the administrators who close them. It is not uncommon for such back-and-forth discussions to happen in an AFD discussion, and it is expected that the closing administrators will look at the totality of the discussion.   Unlike articles, making comments to others comments, even to the degree that this editor has done, is not WP:OWN in the negative sense of the word.  As a participant in AFD discussions, I would actually welcome someone telling me "you are wrong, and here is why," but only if they made an argument that was so convincing that I actually re-considered my position.  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  03:27, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Asif Ali Leghari (L'e'ghari)
Guess who's back!

This time as recreating Asif Ali Laghari under the slightly different spelling of Asif Ali Leghari. :-\ - 220  of  Borg 07:28, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Note I have CsD'd the page and opened a new SPI. - 220  of  Borg 08:03, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-15
<section begin="technews-2014-W15"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. <section begin="tech-newsletter-software-news"/> 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. [//https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/123246/]

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 * A new special page (Special:TrackingCategories) will soon list all the tracking categories on a wiki. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60333] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/112323/]
 * All Wikiquote projects will start using language links from Wikidata on April 8.
 * The Hovercards feature will soon work with right-to-left languages. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62970] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62970]
 * You will soon be able to download files directly from MediaViewer, the new multimedia tool. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/120738/]
 * 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.

Talkback
Requesting input at the discussion: !Vote requested to clarify matters about awards sent. NorthAmerica1000 00:13, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-16
<section begin="technews-2014-W16"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. <section begin="tech-newsletter-software-news"/> 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.  [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125031/] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125032/]
 * Font issues caused by Typography refresh for Windows users were fixed on April 7. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124387/] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63512]

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.
 * 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. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50255] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/123503/]

Future software changes <section end="tech-newsletter-software-news"/> Problems
 * 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. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124475/] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125447/]
 * 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). [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/104182]
 * You will soon be able to hide Notification and Hovercards pop-ups by pressing the <kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap" style="border:1px solid #AAA;background:#F9F9F9;padding:1px 3px">Esc key. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53588] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62948] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/123638/] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/120343/]
 * 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. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62981]
 * You will soon be able to send messages with the MassMessage tool to all pages in a given category. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57473] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/120334/]
 * The date format user preference will soon be moved to the appearance tab. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63582] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125370/]
 * 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).
 * Wikimedia Foundation servers were updated after a security bug called Heartbleed was discovered last week. You should change your password as an extra precaution. [//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/Heartbleed]

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Tech News: 2014-17
<section begin="technews-2014-W17"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. <section begin="tech-newsletter-software-news"/> Tech News updates
 * You can now subscribe to an [//meta.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=technews&feedformat=atom Atom] or [//meta.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=technews&feedformat=rss RSS] feed to read Tech News in your news aggregator. The newsletter will now also show on the [//en.planet.wikimedia.org/ English Planet Wikimedia] every Monday.
 * 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. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/126671/] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/126806/]
 * 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. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63206] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/126834/] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64002] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/126729/]
 * The page view statistics site developed by Henrik (stats.grok.se) should now work faster.
 * You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for March 2014.

VisualEditor news
 * If you try to add a category which redirects to another category, VisualEditor will now suggest adding the target category directly. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52414] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/118218/]
 * VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear on Education Program pages. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53477] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125233/]
 * You can now use VisualEditor on Meta-Wiki and the French Wikinews by enabling it in your preferences. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125774/] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63841] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125538/]

Future software changes <section end="tech-newsletter-software-news"/> Problems
 * 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. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125033/]
 * Edits by anonymous users will now be marked with a new CSS class . This way, you can easily make those edits use a different color, font or background. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43179] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115095/]
 * 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. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52342] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63576] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52757]
 * You will soon be able to give parameters to preloaded templates. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12853] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/116482/]
 * You will soon be able to use CodeEditor in read-only mode on pages that you cannot edit. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45258] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/120397/]
 * It is now proposed to replace [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org Bugzilla], [//gerrit.wikimedia.org Gerrit] and other tools by a single tool called Phabricator. You can test Phabricator and add your opinion on MediaWiki.org.
 * 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).
 * 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. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63915]

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