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I used to be HMSSolent before I lost access to my old account, having changed my password in April but I've forgotten it since. As the login was saved for a month or more I was able to continue editing until yesterday when I was logged out of the HMSSolent account. This was exacerbated by the lack of an email address, and I spent those months trying to figure out the last digits of my password prior to the log out. How do I prove that I owned the old HMSSolent account? lavender|(formerlyHMSSolent|lambast 12:53, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Can you not do something with the committed identity? Thanks, Mat ty.007 13:11, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

~~This looks dodgy: you are likely an imposter, see [1] HMSSolent's contributions.~~ Mat ty.007 13:12, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies, misread message. Mat ty.007 13:14, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. It's just an idea and I don't know if it leads somewhere, but could it be that STiki (which I saw on your old user page you use) saves your password, or saves some other data that you could retrieve? Or maybe a password hash that a high-permission user could use to compare? ~ | twsx | ^talk_cont | ~ 13:39, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Twsx: I asked Nick, who said that the committed identity was a dead end. Thanks, Mat ty.007 13:42, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nah, STiki won't save any of my login details - once closed, you're automatically logged out, and you will need to re-enter your password (although your username is saved). Same goes for HG, although again the username is saved for the next login. lavender|(formerlyHMSSolent|lambast 14:44, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

HMSLavender, you are invited to the Teahouse[edit]

Hi HMSLavender! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia.
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ANZ Tech Ltd[edit]

I withdrew the speedy deletion tag that I placed on the article, leaving your refimprove tag in place. I am not sure that the article should remain but it may be enough for now to note its deficiencies. Also, I was having trouble with the links but I think that was my mistake and did not give me a basis for the tag. I am advising you in the event you saw the later tag. I have made two definite mistakes tonight and do not want to leave any additional wrong impressions if possible. Donner60 (talk) 05:13, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No worries - I apologise for the late response, been busy with college work lately. lavender|(formerlyHMSSolent|lambast 16:48, 2 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for your ongoing work in performing deletion sorting for AfD discussions, an oft-unnoticed contribution area that helps to keep things running smoothly. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:40, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-21[edit]

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

You can watch a video about the new graph tool.

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page. [2]
You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [3]
The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [4]
You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [5] [6]
UploadWizard now shows better matches when you add a category to your file. [7]
A test about VisualEditor will start on the English Wikipedia on Thursday. [8]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 21 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join a technical meeting in France this week.

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15:38, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-22[edit]

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

VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [9]
Some Labs tools had issues last week. [10] [11]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You can add your ideas of new tools to help active users like you. [12]

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16:30, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-23[edit]

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

Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [13]
Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [14]
Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [15] [16]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [17]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:46, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-24[edit]

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

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar). [18] [19]
If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [20]
When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [21]
The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [22]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on June 10 at 14:30 (UTC). [23]

Future changes

If you have a bot, you may need to fix it. The default continuation mode of the API for action=query will change at the end of June. [24]

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18:18, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-25[edit]

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

Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool. [25]
Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [26]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on June 19 at 16:00 (UTC). [27]

Future changes

Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas about it. [28]
If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use compat anymore. [29] [30] [31]

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15:04, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-26[edit]

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

Some wikis can now be used only with HTTPS. This includes the English, Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only HTTPS for all users. [32] [33]
You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [34]

Problems

On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [35] [36] [37]
On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons. [38] [39] [40]
Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days. [41] [42] [43]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 25 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 23 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:24, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-27[edit]

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

Long lines in code blocks now look better. [44]
You can now see graphs in VisualEditor. [45]
When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [46]
The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [47] [48] [49]
You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [50]

Problems

JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [51]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar).
You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color. [52]
When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them. [53]
If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password. [54]
Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for action=query doesn't work any more. [55]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 30 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future

When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org. [56]

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15:56, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-28[edit]

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

On the mobile site, you now see more information when you search for a page. It now shows the description from Wikidata. [57]

Problems

The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets. [58]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 8. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 9 (calendar).
The "Page information" tool shows how many users watch the page. You can now see how many are active. [59] [60]
You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool. [61]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 7 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:13, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Rollback[edit]

I have granted the "rollbacker" permission to your account. After a review of some of your contributions, I believe you can be trusted to use rollback for its intended usage of reverting vandalism, and that you will not abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback and Wikipedia:Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, contact me and I will remove it. Good luck and thanks. – Gilliam (talk) 02:22, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to STiki![edit]

Hello, HMSLavender, and welcome to STiki! Thank you for your recent contributions using our tool. We at STiki hope you like using the tool and decide to continue using it in the future. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

Information about STiki, including:
- Using STiki and its hotkeys
- Comparison with other tools
Information about vandalism on Wikipedia

Here are some pages which are a little more fun:

The STiki leaderboard - See how you are faring against other STiki users!
Userboxes - Do not hesitate to wear the STiki label with pride by choosing from a selection of userboxes!

We hope you enjoy maintaining Wikipedia with STiki! If you have any questions, problems, or suggestions don't hesitate to drop a note over at the STiki talk page and we'll be more than happy to help. Again, welcome, and thanks! West.andrew.g (developer) and Ugog Nizdast (talk) 08:25, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-29[edit]

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

You can now see a list of pages with errors in code coloring. [62]

Problems

There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes. [63]
There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes. [64]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 15. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 16 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join a technical meeting at Wikimania in Mexico City this week. [65]

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15:06, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-30[edit]

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

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 22. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 23 (calendar).
You now see more warnings in the image viewer. They tell you to be careful when using the image, for example if it shows a person. [66]

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 July 21 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Soon you won't be able to use MathJax to display math. [67]

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03:06, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-31[edit]

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

You can now use redirects to link to JavaScript pages. [68]
You cannot use the compact user bar any more. [69]
You can change your options to see bigger images. [70]
You can watch short videos about how to use VisualEditor. [71]
You can now edit pages linked in "what links here" more easily. [72]

Problems

There was a problem with some Lua modules on July 22 and 23. Some pages using them did not list them in "what links here". You can fix those pages with a null edit: edit and save the page without making any change.
There was a problem with the abuse filter page on big wikis on July 23. It was due to a code error. [73]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 29. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 30 (calendar).
JavaScript authors: You cannot use wgNoticeUserData to get edit counts anymore. [74]

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 July 28 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:05, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Congratulations from STiki![edit]

	The Anti-Vandalism + STiki Barnstar
	Congratulations, HMSLavender! You're receiving this barnstar because you recently crossed the 1,000 classification threshold using STiki. We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool. We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g (developer) and Ugog Nizdast (talk) 08:31, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-32[edit]

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 ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
- You can now type in list paragraphs on wikis with right-to-left scripts. [75]
- Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look. [76] [77] [78] [79]
The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [80]
MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [81]
Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [82]

Problems

There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [83]
We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now. [84]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 6 (calendar).

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 August 4 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

big boy kev[edit]

Why did you edit kevin owens back MrLimehouse (talk) 02:07, 4 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your edits added Captain America and the like as trainers, changed Mr. Owens' birth date and place, amongst other forms of misinformation. lavender|^{(formerly HMSSolent)}|lambast 02:16, 4 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Metropolitan Fresno[edit]

I added the ??? on Metropolitan Fresno because I could not find a tag to use that would refer to this kind of problem. I meant to refer to the sentence, " Fresno County is the largest agricultural county and has the largest concentration of agriculture than any other county in the United States." I understand what this means but it is unclear and not grammatically correct.2601:640:4001:266C:8A63:DFFF:FEA6:9C8D (talk) 15:45, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well, there's the {{clarify}} inline template, which helps in informing other editors if the text is confusing and requires clarifying. lavender|^{(formerly HMSSolent)}|lambast 15:54, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Ministry of Finance (Indonesia)[edit]

Hi Lavender, In regards to your message I wasn't making a test, It was sent to this user because his/her's article Ministry_of_Finance_Indonesia does not have any reliable sources to them please see Reliable_sources . If I made an error in what I have done then I apologize. please let me know if this is the case. yours Sincerely --Fruit Nd Nut (talk) 10:50, 9 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You accidentally sent the template to the article instead of the intended editor's talk page. Was the template inteded for Xbypass (talk · contribs), the article's creator? lavender|^{(formerly HMSSolent)}|lambast 11:08, 9 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-33[edit]

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

MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page. [85]
The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [86]
You can now play Ogg video files in some browsers that don't support this format. This solution uses JavaScript and works on desktop browsers only for now. It will work on mobile later. [87]
You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [88]
It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [89]
JavaScript authors:
- You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix. [90] [91]
- You can no longer use document.write on Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix. [92] [93]
The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [94]

Problems

More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [95]
Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [96]
Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [97]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 13 (calendar).
UploadWizard is getting a new look. The look of buttons and checkboxes has already changed. This week, UploadWizard gets a new date picker. The other text fields will change soon. [98]
You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [99]

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 August 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Some things in the watchlist will get a new look. [100]

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14:58, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

My error[edit]

Hi lavender, yes it would seem I did in fact make n error by sending the warning message to the article and not the user, I thank you for pulling me on this. yours sincerely--Fruit Nd Nut (talk) 13:17, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I Am No Longer Swaggy[edit]

Apology

Dear HMSLavender,

My name is Swaggy Craig2, the Wikipedia vandal whose "contributions" to the page Swag (TV Show) you recently undid. As you will have noticed, I retaliated by vandalizing your user page and describing you as being "un-swaggy". However, while I was reviewing the changes I made, I saw an earlier edit that you had made, stating that you recently suffered a significant loss. I am therefore taking this opportunity to express my sincere condolences for the loss of your grandfather, and to apologize for my actions. What I did went against the principles of the Swag Code, and even by Wikipedia vandals' standards, targeting someone who is in a period of grief is supremely un-swaggy. From this point on I will cease my vandalism, because it is unfair of me to waste the time of you and other Wikipedia users with my asinine behaviour. Thank you for continuing to be truly swaggy, even during these hard times. Swaggy Craig2 (talk) 07:45, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wrongful edit deletion[edit]

	Wrongful edit deletion
	How is that edit not helpful to the article? Its a link to the original audio file spoken by a butanese citizen Xaneks (talk) 03:38, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It was basically an earlier recording of the spoken version of the spoken article, and as such, it isn't appropriate for this article - it also ended up becoming a meme; it fits more into Bhutanese passport (meme) as an external link. lavender|^{(formerly HMSSolent)}|lambast 03:46, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-34[edit]

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

Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [101] [102] [103]
Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems. [104]

Problems

Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [105] [106]
On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [107]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category. [108]

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 August 18 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:17, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-35[edit]

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

Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function. [109]

Problems

There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed. [110]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar).

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 August 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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13:02, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-36[edit]

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

VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC. [111][112]
The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [113]
VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead. [114]
Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [115]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (calendar).

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 September 1 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9. [116]

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21:37, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Darwin_OP[edit]

I just would like to add more two applications to Darwin_OP page, because I worked on those. They are:

Darwin Carrying Buckets of water - UNLV(University of Nevada Las Vegas) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s7_nPoTLMI

Darwin operating a forklift - UNLV(University of Nevada Las Vegas) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl5pMTLg6gU

I have two dedicated pages for those projects

http://dasl.mem.drexel.edu/wiki/index.php/Driving_Version_1

http://dasl.mem.drexel.edu/wiki/index.php/Carrying_Buckets_of_water

Could you please add these two concluded projects in that table? I will appreciate if you could add some references in the Darwin OP page... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARwIn-OP

 — Preceding unsigned comment added by JeanVaz2.0 (talk • contribs) 00:51, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-37[edit]

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

You can now mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users. [117]
A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [118]
You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [119]

Problems

There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed. [120]
The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [121][122]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters. [123]
The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page. [124][125]

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 September 8 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the Wikitech ambassadors mailing list. The list is for Wikimedians interested in spreading information about Wikimedia technology news. See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours. [126]
Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [127][128]

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17:29, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Congratulations from STiki![edit]

The Bronze STiki Barnstar of Merit

Congratulations, HMSLavender! You're receiving this barnstar of merit because you recently crossed the 5,000 classification threshold using STiki.

We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool.

We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g (developer) and Ugog Nizdast (talk) 08:41, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-38[edit]

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Recent changes

You can now use the Wikidata query service. [129]
Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [130]
Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [131][132]

Problems

There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [133]
The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [134]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (calendar).

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 September 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [135]
The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [136]

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16:18, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-39[edit]

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. [137][138]
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. [139][140][141][142]
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. [143]
The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [144]

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. [145]
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. [146][147]
UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [148]

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. [149]
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. [150]
Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [151]

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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18:29, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you![edit]

Nothing alleviates stress better than a calming beverage, I've seen you around and enjoy your presence and wish you the best here and offwiki.

The tea bags from this tea have been cyber-composted SwisterTwister talk 06:06, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-40[edit]

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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. [152]
UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [153]
You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [154]
When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [155]
You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [156]
The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [157]
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. [158]

Problems

Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [159][160]

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. [161]
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. [162]

Meetings

You can join the strategy process of the Reading department of Wikimedia Engineering. [163]
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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15:15, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-41[edit]

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. [164]
The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [165]

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. [166]
UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [167]
A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [168]

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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18:33, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Do better[edit]

HMS Slavender - please stop your vandalism on sites with which you have no connection nor no knowledge. kk (talk) 08:02, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please provide diffs of the problematic edits that you are referring to. lavender|^{(formerly HMSSolent)}|lambast 16:36, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-42[edit]

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. [169]

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. [170]
Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [171]

Meetings

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.

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16:29, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

How[edit]

I need some help on what to edit. I want to be able to help with the Wiki. Brodie Flynn (talk) 03:02, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If you wish to make improvements to Wikipedia, look for a topic that you have an interest in (i.e., pop music), and see if any article needs improving - you can help out with correcting spelling errors and/or adding new information as a start. lavender|^{(formerly HMSSolent)}|lambast 03:31, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You would also find this cheatsheet useful for all other wikitext. lavender|^{(formerly HMSSolent)}|lambast 03:36, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-43[edit]

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Recent changes

Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The 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). [172]

Problems

A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [173]
Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [174]
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. [175]

Changes this week

Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [176]
Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [177][178][179][180]

Meetings

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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16:02, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Congratulations![edit]

The Silver STiki Barnstar of Merit

Congratulations, HMSLavender! You're receiving this barnstar of merit because you recently crossed the 10,000 classification threshold using STiki.

We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool.

We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g (developer) and Widr (talk) 10:51, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Of course you have already reached this under your previous name. Widr (talk) 10:51, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-44[edit]

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

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. [181]
You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "Insert file" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor. [182][183]
When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [184][185]
Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [186]

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18:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-45[edit]

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

You can now see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [187]
If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [188]
Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [189]

Problems

On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [190]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).

Meetings

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 3 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can also read the latest VisualEditor newsletter.

Future changes

A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links. [191]
Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [192]

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16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

New Companies delsort category[edit]

Hi HMSLavender: Just a heads up that a new deletion sorting page was created on 16 October 2015 for companies, located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Companies. Thanks for your work in performing deletion sorting on Wikipedia. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:55, 3 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

New Disability delsort category[edit]

Hi: Just a heads up that a new deletion sorting page was created on 19 October 2015 for Disability-related articles, located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Disability. Thanks for your work in performing deletion sorting on Wikipedia. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 18:06, 5 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-46[edit]

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

Superprotect has been removed. [193]
You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [194]
JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [195]

Problems

Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [196]

Changes this week

Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [197]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).

Meetings

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

Future changes

A new tool to navigate through diff pages is being developed. You can test it out and give feedback. [198]
The options on Special:Watchlist will look slightly different. [199]

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17:19, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-47[edit]

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

You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information. [200]
Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [201]
The Community Tech team is doing a community wishlist survey to understand what they should be working on. They are now accepting proposals in all languages. You can create your proposal in the small box above the blue button and click it when you're done.
Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [202]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).

Meetings

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

Future changes

Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. The change will happen in January 2016. [203][204]

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19:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-48[edit]

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

A new Pageview API has been announced. Feedback is requested to help decide which data to add to it next.

Changes this week

There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Language Engineering team. The topic is: Content Translation updates and Questions & Answers. The meeting will be on 25 November at 13:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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 24 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: Raise MediaWiki's PHP version requirement and update coding standards". The meeting will be on 25 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats. [205]

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20:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:07, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Camera[edit]

Hi HMSLavender. I received notice that my post was not "constructive". It is not constructive to build something other than what a human naturally builds inside the body. If the majority thought like your comment, it would be like Battlestar Galactica, that being, everyone searching for a new home because their planet was destroyed. Jondeanmack (talk) 03:28, 29 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please explain why this is not nonsensical. lavender|^{(formerly HMSSolent)}|lambast 03:35, 29 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-49[edit]

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

The symbol for advanced news items has been changed. This is because the symbols were too similar. If a news item is for more technical readers it now looks like this: . You can give feedback on this change.

Problems

On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015. [206]
Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed. [207]

Changes this week

Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [208][209]
There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

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 1 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is using the <figure> tag for media. The meeting will be on 2 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [210]
Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified. [211]

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16:16, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Courtesy titles in the United Kingdom[edit]

HMS Lavender, Hi I am Ethanchuicy. and I see that you undid my changes on Courtsey Titles of Britain. I am sorry for that because some of my classmates that silly change that I was not aware of. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ethanchuicy (talk • contribs) 13:47, 5 December 2015 (UTC) Ethanchuicy (talk) 13:52, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

While I accept your apology, you really should not leave your computer unnoticed, lest your classmates end up using your account for vandalism (I assume that this is the case, since you mentioned your classmates as a guilty party). lavender|^{(formerly HMSSolent)}|lambast 04:17, 7 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-50[edit]

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Recent changes

Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias. [212]

Problems

Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [213]

Changes this week

You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [214]
IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [215]
You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be. [216]
It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [217]
You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor. [218]
UploadWizard will look a bit different. [219]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays. [220]

Meetings

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 8 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Graph/Graphoid/Kartographer – data storage architecture" and "Parametric JSON builder". The meeting will be on 9 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default. [221]

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17:53, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-51[edit]

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

Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [222]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 17 December. (calendar).

Meetings

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 15 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is talking about the agenda for the Wikimedia Developer Summit. The meeting will be on 16 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join. [223]

Future changes

A new gadget manager will come next year. The new gadget system is called Gadgets 2.0. [224]

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17:42, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

ANI Notice[edit]

Failed to do so? [225] duffbeerforme (talk) 07:37, 15 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, sorry, didn't notice. I've been accustomed to seeing other reportees receiving the templated message instead. lavender|^{(formerly HMSSolent)}|lambast 13:35, 15 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-52[edit]

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

Tech News

Because of the holidays, the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2016.
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Recent changes

CompletionSuggester is a new suggestions algorithm for Search. It is available as a Beta feature since 17 December. (more information)
The Multimedia team is running an A/B test for the cross-wiki upload tool. They are testing four different interfaces. The test is running from 16-23 December. (more information)

Changes this week

There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 (calendar).

Meetings

Should administrators and other users with advanced tools need stronger passwords? You can discuss about it in a Request for Comments.
No meeting with the VisualEditor team on 22 and 29 December, and 5 January.

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18:29, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-02[edit]

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 no longer uses visitor statistics from comScore. [226]
You can make interactive graphs with the Graph extension. There is now a tutorial for how to do this. [227]

Problems

Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated. [228]

Changes this week

The Nuke extension will work with Flow. This will make it easier to handle spam in Flow. [229]
New file uploads will now be patrollable. [230]
Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia if you use Internet Explorer 8, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. [231][232]

Meetings

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 12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. [233]
The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab. [234][235]
There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [236][237]
The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.

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16:59, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-03[edit]

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

You will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [238]
Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis. [239]

Changes this week

The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving. [240]
MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change. [241]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (calendar).

Meetings

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 19 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is governance model. The meeting will be on 20 January at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-04[edit]

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

You can now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [242][243]
Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [244]

Changes this week

You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [245]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

Meetings

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 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [246]
The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [247]
Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [248]

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16:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-05[edit]

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

Sites with a wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [249]
Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [250][251]
Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [252]

Changes this week

The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [253]
Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [254][255]
The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [256]
The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [257][258][259]
The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [260][261]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Meetings

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 2 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is expiring watch list entries. The meeting will be on 3 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead. [262]

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21:02, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-06[edit]

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

Syntax highlighting support is now available for 53 more computer languages. [263]
When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [264]
RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [265]

Changes this week

Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [266][267]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Meetings

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 9 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is per-language URLs for pages of multilingual wikis. The meeting will be on 10 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [268][269]
Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [270][271][272]

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18:58, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-07[edit]

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

You can now edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [273]
You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas. [274]

Problems

A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [275][276]

Changes this week

There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [277][278]
Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [279]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).

Meetings

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 16 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [280]

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16:16, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-08[edit]

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

Phabricator has been upgraded. [281][282]

Problems

There was no new MediaWiki version last week. Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week instead. This is because of a bug that made saving pages take longer time. [283][284]

Changes this week

After February 23, you can use Wikidata for inter-language links on Wikiversity. [285]

Meetings

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 23 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is Assign RFCs to ArchCom shepherds. The meeting will be on 24 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:22, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-09[edit]

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

Thanks to the Graph extension and Pageview API, we now have {{Graph:PageViews}} templates that can show pageviews for any wiki page for any of the wikis. See the examples.
The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
The visual editor now follows the TemplateData format setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [286][287]
The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [288][289]

Changes this week

On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences. [290]
Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [291]
Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [292]

Meetings

Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project. [293]
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 1 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:12, 29 February 2016 (UTC)