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Tech News: 2016-35
 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 mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster.
 * When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing  in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing   and   in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row.

Changes this week
 * The name of the " " button will change. The button will say "  " when you create a new page. It will say "  " when you change an existing page.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (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 30 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: image and oldimage tables". The meeting will be on 31 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Question
Meno, it's so nice to meet you. Since I just entered wikipedia and thought of adding contents in wikipedia. Would you please tell me how to add topics on any page.?? Would feel grateful if you helped me. Thanks... ☺ Sushanta.nepal (talk) 11:38, 1 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi. If you need to create a new article, please see WP:YFA. Also see: H:EDIT and WP:CHEAT for an overview about how to edit in general. --Meno25 (talk) 11:43, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 September 2016
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Tech News: 2016-36
 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
 * Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs.
 * Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta.
 * Octicons-tools.svg When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not.

Changes this week
 * You will be able to use  on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map.
 * Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (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 6 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The CheckUser extension could work differently in the future. There is a Request for Comments to figure out how.

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Just been skipping through the article on Wikipedia. It says VirtualEditor was turned off soon after being turned on. I use VE, and by the way it works just fine for me. Foucault (talk) 11:44, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-37
 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
 * The Wikimedia Commons app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos.
 * and  can now use geodata from Open Street Map if Open Street Map has defined a region and given it an ID in Wikidata. You can use this to draw on the map and add information.

Changes this week
 * The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history.
 * Octicons-tools.svg A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (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 13 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * When you search on the Wikimedia wikis in the future you could see results from sister projects in your language. You can read more and discuss how this could work.

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Tech News: 2016-38
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back because of bugs. Creating new accounts did not work between 15 September 19:10 UTC and 16 September 12:50 UTC.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will hopefully be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar). This is the version that was meant to go out last week.

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 20 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is multi-content revisions. The meeting will be on 21 September at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Wikidata will start working on adding support for Wiktionary. The Wikidata development team is now taking one last look at the development plan.

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Pallache family: thanks
Thank you for the class "B" as initial rating on Pallache family! --Aboudaqn (talk) 13:28, 22 September 2016 (UTC)


 * You're welcome. --Meno25 (talk) 17:19, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

Help with translating a message about a cross-wiki vandal active on Arabic Wikipedia
Hi. I'm sorry to bother you with this request, but I've been tracking a cross-wiki vandal for a while now. It's a real pain, but I can usually spot and clean up his edits on English Wikipedia and Wikidata. The problem is that I don't know how to clean up his edits on Arabic Wikipedia. The interface is too confusing for me, and I can't even tell which buttons revert an edit. I'm afraid that I'm going to make a complete mess of things if I try to edit over there. I saw your user page in, and I was hoping that maybe I could recruit you to post a message on Arabic Wikipedia about this guy so they know there's a long-term vandal active over there.

At first, I reported the vandal to en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Aliabbashiraqi79. Some of these accounts made edits to Arabic Wikipedia, but I was too overwhelmed by the interface to revert his edits. After trying to makes sense of it in Google Translate, I gave up and hoped that maybe there was someone on Arabic Wikipedia who would spot his edits, like I did on en.wiki. My past few reports have gone to Steward requests/Global:, ,. I suggest that anti-vandals report him to a steward, as he engages in too much cross-wiki vandalism now to waste time blocking on just one project.

If it's of any help, these are the accounts that I've found so far:, , , , , , , ,. The IP addresses I suspect are:, , , , and. Accounts are usually written in a Latin script and include a two-digit number at the end. Early user names were usually variations of "Ali", but newer ones reference United States pop culture. WWEfans79, for example, apparently references World Wrestling Entertainment (ar:دبليو دبليو إي), and Robert Patrick (ar:روبرت باتريك) is an American actor.

Basically, what this guy does is run through the same few biographies and change the birth dates. You can see some of his handiwork at en:Bassim Abbas, a favorite target of his. About half the edits since April 2016 have been vandalism from one of his socks. I suspect, but can't confirm, that the same is true of the Arabic Wikipedia article, ar:باسم عباس. The best I can do for a list of commonly targeted articles is the following:, ,. These are links from the WMF's Editor Interaction Analyzer. If you could translate this message and post it somewhere on Arabic Wikipedia, I would be very grateful. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:05, 23 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi and thank you for your message. I posted a message about this issue on the Administrators' Noticeboard Miscellaneous section on Arabic Wikipedia for other admins to review the accounts' contributions. I also did a quick review of the accounts' contributions on arwiki and found that some of the accounts were already blocked. Cheers. --Meno25 (talk) 15:06, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-39
 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
 * If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can request it after a community decision. See how to request it.
 * When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions.
 * Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit.

Problems
 * The MediaWiki version that was supposed to come to the wikis two weeks ago was put on hold again because of new problems. The MediaWiki version after it is now on all wikis.

Changes this week
 * There will be no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings
 * You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on September 27 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Abandoned tools on Tool Labs could be taken over by other developers. There is a new discussion on Meta about this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on.

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The Signpost: 29 September 2016
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Tech News: 2016-40
 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
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (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 4 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Tidy will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This would cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first.


 * will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use  instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it as soon as possible.

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Edward A Geary assessment

 * I see you rated article on Edward A. Geary as a .  What needs to be added to get it up to  level?  I've been through ~50 years of newspaper articles plus available state legislative records.  Before I go back to look for more info, I'd like to know what I need to look for.--Orygun (talk) 17:28, 8 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Nothing. It was a mistake. I do hundreds of article assements every week, so, it is quite natural to make a mistake every now and then. I reassessed the article. Thank you for your work. Best wishes. --Meno25 (talk) 12:46, 10 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Appreciate second look!--Orygun (talk) 17:54, 10 October 2016 (UTC)