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The Signpost: 28 May 2014[brontekst bewerken]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Interview: Casliber reaches one hundred featured articles
Wikipedia's second featured article centurion - News and notes: The English Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion; wiki inventor interviewed on video
- Recent research: Overview of research on Wikipedia's readers; predicting which article you will edit next
- Featured content: Zombie fight in the saloon
- Traffic report: Get fitted for flipflops and floppy hats
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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 (1.24wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar).
- CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30. [1]
VisualEditor news
- Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target. [2]
- The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [3] [4]
- VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons. [5]
- There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters:
datefor dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. [6]
Future software changes
- MediaViewer will be enabled on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.
- You will soon see a warning if you visit a contributions page for a user that does not exist. [7] [8]
- The search tab will soon be removed from user preferences. You will be able to set your search preferences on Special:Search. [9] [10]
- You will soon see a label next to the little triangle arrow for the Actions menu in the Vector skin (screenshot). [11] [12]
Problems
- For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error. [13]
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The Signpost: 04 June 2014[brontekst bewerken]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Special report: IEG funding for women's stories—a new approach to the gender gap
- Op-ed: "Hospitality, jerks, and what I learned"—the amazing keynote at WikiConference USA
- News and notes: Two new affiliate-selected trustees
- In the media: Reliable or not, doctors use Wikipedia
- Traffic report: Autumn in summer
- Featured content: Ye stately homes of England
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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 (1.24wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar).
- You can now use guided tours on the Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [14] [15]
VisualEditor news
- You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor. [16] [17]
- The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content. [18] [19] [20]
- You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor. [21] [22]
Future software changes
- MediaViewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback is welcome. [23]
- You will be able to use information from Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10. [24]
- On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page migration tool to import existing translations to the new system. [25] [26]
- You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (example video, example audio). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly. [27] [28]
- Templates containing
<ref>or<references>tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching. [29] [30] [31] - You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it. [32] [33]
- Hovercards will no longer flicker. [34]
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This Month in GLAM: May 2014[brontekst bewerken]
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The Signpost: 11 June 2014[brontekst bewerken]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Moderator: William Beutler
- Special report: Questions raised over secret voting for WMF trustees
- News and notes: PR agencies commit to ethical interactions with Wikipedia
- Traffic report: The week the wired went weird
- Featured content: Politics, Ships, Art, and Cyclones
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Reminder
- You can subscribe to the wikitech-ambassadors mailing list to get news more quickly and to send feedback or report problems.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 17, and to all Wikipedias on June 19 (calendar).
- You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for May 2014.
VisualEditor news
- You can now easily see the target of a link or other information using the context menu. [35]
- When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to switch it to re-use another reference. [36] [37]
- You can now add and edit
{{DISPLAYTITLE}}and__DISAMBIG__in the page settings menu. [38] [39] [40] [41] - The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler; the order of mathematical symbols is now correct. [42] [43] [44]
Future software changes
- Media Viewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 19. Feedback is welcome. [45]
- You will no longer be able to use navigation popups and Hovercards at the same time. [46]
- You will no longer see image thumbnails on search results pages on Wikibooks and Wikisource wikis. [47] [48]
- It will soon be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [49] [50]
- Tablet users will be redirected to the mobile view of Wikimedia wikis starting on June 17. [51]
- The special page that lists most linked-to templates will soon include pages from all namespaces; it will also be renamed to
Special:MostTranscludedPages. [52] - An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on June 17 at 17:30 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). You can also read a blog post about the upcoming switch to Phabricator.
- You can now comment on the draft 2014-15 goals of the Wikimedia Foundation engineering department. [53]
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The Signpost: 18 June 2014[brontekst bewerken]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: With paid advocacy in its sights, the Wikimedia Foundation amends their terms of use
- Special report: Wikimedia Bangladesh: a chapter's five-year journey
- Traffic report: You can't dethrone Thrones
- WikiProject report: Visiting the city
- Featured content: Worming our way to featured picture
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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 (1.24wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 19. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 24, and to all Wikipedias on June 26 (calendar).
VisualEditor news
- You can now drag-and-drop selections of content, not just files and templates. [54] [55]
- When dragging an item, you will now see a line that helps you to drop it. [56] [57]
- You can now only move an image to the start of a paragraph, not to the middle of it, so you don't accidentally split it. [58] [59]
- You will now be warned if you add wikitext to file captions and references. [60] [61]
Future software changes
- You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [62] [63]
- CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on additional 70 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and Wikimedia Incubator, during the next week. [64]
- CirrusSearch results will soon take into account categories, the first paragraph and the wikitext of a page. You will also be able to use regular expressions to search the wikitext. It will take a few days for the changes to be enabled on all wikis. [65]
- You will soon be able to watch translations for e-mail notifications without receiving an e-mail when they are reviewed by another translator. [66] [67]
- An IRC meeting to organize old high priority MediaWiki bug reports will take place on June 24 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [68]
Problems
- On June 19, all wikis were broken for about 15 minutes due to a high server load.
- Between June 13 and June 15 there were problems with the scaling of video files due to a configuration error. [69]
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Blobvis[brontekst bewerken]
Het mag al weer een aantal jaren geleden zijn, toch wil ik je bedanken voor dit interessante artikel over de blobvis. Zo zie je maar weer wat een bijzondere vissen er zijn. --Avertje (overleg) 24 jun 2014 18:54 (CEST)
The Signpost: 25 June 2014[brontekst bewerken]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Exclusive: Foundation's new executive director speaks to the Signpost
- News and notes: US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan, plans to upload all holdings to Commons
- Featured content: Showing our Wörth
- WikiProject report: The world where dreams come true
- Discussion report: Media Viewer, old HTML tags
- Traffic report: Fake war, or real sport?
- Recent research: Power users and diversity in WikiProjects, the "network of cultures" in multilingual Wikipedia biographies
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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 (1.24wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 26. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 1, and to all Wikipedias on July 3 (calendar).
VisualEditor news
- Context menus in VisualEditor will no longer flicker and disappear when you insert a new reference, formula, image, etc. [70] [71]
- A bug that prevented relocating items due to cache was fixed last week. [72] [73]
- VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the bottom of the page when you try to edit section 0. When you try to add a formula, VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the top of the page. [74] [75] [76] [77]
- Links to category pages or file pages added with VisualEditor will now work correctly. [78] [79]
Future software changes
- You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [80] [81]
- Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead.
- CirrusSearch will be enabled on June 30 as the primary search method on 34 new wikis, including the Czech (cs), Danish (da), Finnish (fi) and Hebrew (he) Wikipedias. [82]
- All Wikimedia wikis will be using a security method called perfect forward secrecy starting on July 1. If you see a problem, please report it. [83] [84]
- Starting on July 1, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [85]
- You will soon see block information when you visit the contributions page or try to edit the user page or user talk page of a user who is affected by an IP range block. [86] [87]
- You will soon be able to use
{{!}}as a magic word to produce the pipe character, for instance for use in tables. [88]
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