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Tech News: 2017-22

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Problems

  • Last week’s MediaWiki version was rolled back from some wikis because of a problem. This means planned changes did not happen.

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

Future changes

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20 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Six Degrees of Everything (talk) Expand
29 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Patriotic Union (Colombia) (talk) Expand
231 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Anti-terrorism legislation (talk) Unencyclopaedic
286 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Type 95 Ha-Go (talk) Unencyclopaedic
28 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B HMS Baralong (talk) Unencyclopaedic
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136 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Dingle Peninsula (talk) Merge
207 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA Network science (talk) Merge
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41 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA Spantax (talk) Wikify
51 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start American armored fighting vehicle production during World War II (talk) Wikify
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3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub John Johnson, 8th Seigneur of Sark (talk) Stub
4 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start William Shaw (Quebec politician) (talk) Stub
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10 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Télécoms Sans Frontières (talk) Stub
62 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: C Britain Stronger in Europe (talk) Stub
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Ice core at PR

Andrew, if you're still interested, ice core is now at peer review, here. Thanks. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 19:26, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-23

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 see new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from.
  • When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox.
  • You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article.
  • New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June.

Problems

  • The MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen.

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links will see languages they have in their Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences.
  • You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions.
  • When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead.
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
  • String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules.

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

Future changes

  • The 2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all.
  • Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too.
  • The Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft that describes the new committee.

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217 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Southampton Test (UK Parliament constituency) (talk) Add sources
90 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Socialist heraldry (talk) Add sources
33 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Asha Gill (talk) Add sources
34 Quality: High, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: FA British Eagle (talk) Cleanup
486 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: FA Social network analysis (talk) Cleanup
15 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start British Airline Pilots' Association (talk) Cleanup
5 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: B Flint Boroughs (UK Parliament constituency) (talk) Expand
6 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Los Cerrillos Airport (talk) Expand
6 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Afripedia Project (talk) Expand
2,157 Quality: High, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: GA The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror (talk) Unencyclopaedic
128 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Sloped armour (talk) Unencyclopaedic
96 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C São Paulo–Congonhas Airport (talk) Unencyclopaedic
74 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: C Lords of Chaos (group) (talk) Merge
139 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: C Collaborative consumption (talk) Merge
115 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Social graph (talk) Merge
169 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: C M2 Half Track Car (talk) Wikify
54 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Selly Oak (talk) Wikify
181 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C M29 Weasel (talk) Wikify
9 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Oilgear (talk) Orphan
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Start King political family (talk) Orphan
9 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Myddelton College (talk) Orphan
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones (talk) Stub
9 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub William Villiers, 3rd Earl of Jersey (talk) Stub
6 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Gray's Inn (talk) Stub
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45 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: C Grouser (talk) Stub
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Tech News: 2017-24

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 have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long.
  • When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results.

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the test wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account.
  • Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects.
  • Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding &fuzzy=1 to the end of the web address when looking at Special:Undelete.

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Facto Post – Issue 1 – 14 June 2017

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152 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Íngrid Betancourt (talk) Cleanup
190 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Field officer (talk) Cleanup
16 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Jean Hardouin (talk) Expand
31 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: GA Colombia–Venezuela relations (talk) Expand
7 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C National security of Colombia (talk) Expand
20 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Cubbington (talk) Unencyclopaedic
20 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Swaythling (talk) Unencyclopaedic
17 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Whitnash (talk) Unencyclopaedic
444 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Era (talk) Merge
420 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Periodization (talk) Merge
134 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Imprisonment (talk) Merge
40 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Benjamin Grierson (talk) Wikify
308 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: GA Jet airliner (talk) Wikify
27 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Varsity (Cambridge) (talk) Wikify
4 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: C Hug A Brit (talk) Orphan
63 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Structural holes (talk) Orphan
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Agonum variolatum (talk) Orphan
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Arthur Boyer (talk) Stub
4 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Elphège Marier (talk) Stub
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Anatole Carignan (talk) Stub
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Noël Saint-Germain (talk) Stub
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Richard Myddelton (1764–1796) (talk) Stub
12 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Llewellyn Woodward (talk) Stub
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    • Improvements to Wikidata Query Service UI
    • Continued work on importing property constraints from statements (phab:T102759)
    • Started to add support for Senses of Lexeme entities (phab:T160053)
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    • Added RDF mapping for "tabular data" data type (phab:T167951)

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Tech News: 2017-25

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

  • ORES had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40 UTC. It has now been fixed.

Changes this week

  • irc.wikimedia.org has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down.
  • Special:PageData will be an entry point for machine-readable page data.
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

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