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Tech News: 2015-39
 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
 * There is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here.
 * Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong.
 * More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article.
 * The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users.

Problems
 * Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time.
 * Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week.
 * UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
 * The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms.
 * You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it.
 * Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata.

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 22 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on September 23 at 17:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can register to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 in San Francisco 4–6 January 2016. Gadget, template, bot, and tool developers are welcome as well. Call for participation and travel sponsorship requests are open until 2 October.

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Tech News: 2015-40
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes
 * In UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them.
 * UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look.
 * You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one.
 * When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well.
 * You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50.
 * The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded.
 * MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in Gerrit. The goal was to clean up the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers.

Problems
 * Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar).
 * There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide if they want to enable it.
 * The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan.

Meetings
 * You can join the strategy process of the Reading department of Wikimedia Engineering.
 * 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 29 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The Wikimedia Foundation developers want the community to decide who can use OAuth in the future. You can discuss it on Meta.

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Tech News: 2015-41
 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 link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile.
 * The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar).
 * UploadWizard will remind users to add a category.
 * UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use.
 * A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article.

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 6 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Wikidata requests your input on how to improve the editing of Wikidata's data in other locations, such as Wikipedias.

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VisualEditor update

 * This note is only delivered to English Wikipedia subscribers of the visual editor's newsletter.

The location of the visual editor's preference has been changed from the "Beta" tab to the "Editing" section of your preferences on this wiki. The setting now says Temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta. This aligns en.wiki with almost all the other WMF wikis; it doesn’t mean the visual editor is complete, or that it is no longer “in beta phase” though.

This action has not changed anything else for editors: it still honours editors’ previous choices about having it on or off; logged-out users continue to only have access to wikitext; the “Edit” tab is still after the “Edit source” one. You can learn more at the visual editor’s talk page.

We don’t expect this to cause any glitches, but in case your account no longer has the settings that you want, please accept our apologies and correct it in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences. Thank you for your attention, Elitre (WMF) -16:32, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-42
 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 database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar).
 * You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing.
 * Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category.

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 * 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 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Seal of Uttar Pradesh.png


A tag has been placed on File:Seal of Uttar Pradesh.png requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an image page for a missing or corrupt image or an empty image description page for a Commons-hosted image.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 09:45, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-43
 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 Problems
 * Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The Octicons-sync.svg icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Advanced.svg icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback on this change.
 * Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
 * A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed.
 * Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week.
 * The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen.

Changes this week
 * Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week.
 * Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks.

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

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Tech News: 2015-44
 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 October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
 * The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools.
 * You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor.
 * When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted.
 * VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Advanced.svg Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in.

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