This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2016)

History of the constellations, Ursa Minor constellation map
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Tech News: 2016-31

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 prototype for structured data on Commons is available now. [1]
  • The RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.

Problems

  • Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [2]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).

Meetings

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21:48, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

User Name Change Stuck

Today is the forth day I can't log in because my username change failed (MB) to complete. Are you sure this hasn't been forgotten? I have no way myself to know what is going on and am totally in the dark. I hope someone is working on resolving this. I am a little surprised it is taking so long. 174.126.250.222 (talk) 17:32, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

I've pinged the sysadmin again, and opened a thread at Phabricator here. Sorry that it's taking so long. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 18:27, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for the help. It's been another 28 hours or so and nothing has happened. I was hoping there would be some immediate intervention to get this fixed like when calling a help desk if you can't log in to your account at a bank or somewhere like that. But I guess that since this is affecting only one user, it's just not a priority issue. At least I can watch the Phabricator thread you opened and see it is still there awaiting action. 199.104.138.6 (talk) 22:05, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
(sorry for the intrusion) I've raised the priority of the task to highest and I hope that someone addresses the issue shortly to finish the rename of your account, letting you log in again. MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:22, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
Fixed, I was able to log on today. MB 20:42, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2016)

One of many icons associated with The Sims
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Tech News: 2016-32

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Recent changes

  • In notifications, the icon for Notices has been changed from a speech-bubble icon () to a tray icon () for consistency. The Alerts icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility. [3]

Problems

  • If you use the wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed. [4]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a wildcard. [5]
  • On Commons, UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images. [6]
  • When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template. [7]
  • The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [8]
  • When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way. [9]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (calendar).
  • A message on Notifications panel will invite users to try Special:Notifications page. [10]

Meetings

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This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2016)

Archaeological record example: a section of the Papyrus of Ani showing cursive hieroglyphs
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Tech News: 2016-33

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

Problems

  • Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [11]
  • Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [12]
  • For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [13][14]

Changes this week

  • The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [15]
  • Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [16]
  • In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [17][18]
  • The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [19]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

  • Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [20]

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19:37, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

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Global rename chase up + query

Hi K6ka, hope you are doing well. I see that the problem with the global renaming process over at meta. However, I just wanted to chase up when my username change would take place, as its gone past the holding date and no objections have been put forward, and what would happen after it takes place. Do I get an email letting me know that I've been renamed? Also, will I be automatically logged out from my computer because of it? Thanks! Class455 (talk) 22:58, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

@Class455fan1: It'll be processed once Cyberpower678 (or another renamer that's willing to do usurpation requests) sees it. When your account is being renamed, you will be logged out of your account, and cannot log in. You can monitor the rename progress at m:Special:GlobalRenameProgress. Once it is complete, you will have to log in to your account using your new username. Lastly, all global renames are logged at m:Special:Log/gblrename. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 23:01, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks for the warm welcome! The Zappaz (talk) 17:52, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2016)

Heraldic Badge of the Spanish West Indies
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User talk pages exist with no corresponding registered uers

(You made some of the page moves alluded to in this comment, so that's why I'm asking you about this.)

There are several user_talk pages on gomwiki that don't correspond to any registered user (for details, please see gom:Topic:T9fhvkd5eobmee0y). Most of them obviously are the result of user renames, since evidence of the renaming can still be seen on the Incubator (where the content of gomwiki was before the standalone wiki was created in June 2015), but two cases are unlike the others: there is no evidence (that I can find) that the usernames "Velipranvindra" and "Velipravindr" ever existed on the Incubator, whereas user_talk pages for both exist on gomwiki (but no registered user accounts). The similar username "Velipravindra" exists on gomwiki and Incubator (with contributions to Meta and Commons, as well), but I have no evidence, beyond mere similarity, that these are all the same user.

So, my two questions for you are:

  1. For most of the cases: Why were the user_talk pages moved on the Incubator (and, in almost every case, also on enwiki) but not on gomwiki? Might this be indicative of a problem that will continue to happen in the future?
  2. For the other two cases: What do you think is going on with "Velipranvindra" and "Velipravindr"?

Unfortunately, the situation has been somewhat "complicated" by the conversion (in March 2016) to "Flow" talk pages, but as you can see from the existence of the "/Archive_1" subpages, user_talk pages for most of these non-users (supposedly) existed before the Flow conversion.

I look forward to any insights you can give me about this. - dcljr (talk) 01:34, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

@Dcljr: Flow definitely seems a bit... effy? I actually know very little about Flow as none of the wikis I frequent use it.
In response to your first question: No idea, really. I don't know the process in which a wiki is moved out of the Incubator. What I do know is that, by default, when we rename users, their user and user talk pages, along with any subpages, are automatically moved to the new username, and a redirect is left behind. The global renames are logged at m:Special:Log/gblrename, while the local rename jobs are logged at the Special:Log/renameuser on the local wiki in question. Wouldn't know if the logs or redirect pages or anything in the mixture of confusion are transferred over. I do know that, if the wiki isn't connected to the SUL system, global accounts aren't automatically created on that wiki, and thus global renames would not affect it. Could that be the case?
As for your second question, I can find no evidence that the user accounts "Velipranvindra" and "Velipravindr" ever existed anywhere in the first place.
If this gets technical, you may want to start a thread at Phabricator where people who know the technical ins-and-outs of the system can give you a more helpful answer. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 01:53, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-34

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Recent changes

  • The ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia. [21]
  • The norm and ccnorm functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore. [22]
  • The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here. This happened on August 5. [23]

Problems

  • Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [24]
  • When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [25]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (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 23 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki. [26][27]
  • How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [28]

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21:18, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Banned on IRC

Hey, k6ka. I was wondering why I (Gestrid-mobile) was banned on IRC. I believe the channel was #wikipedia-en. If I'm not mistaken, you are a Chanop, are you not? -- Gestrid (talk) 23:53, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

@Gestrid: No, I'm not a chanop so I can't help you there. To find a list of chanops for #wikipedia-en, do /msg ChanServ access #wikipedia-en list and look for users with the +o flag. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 01:27, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2016)

The Holy Family with God the Father and the Holy Spirit by Carlo Dolci
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Tech News: 2016-35

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Recent changes

  • Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster. [29]
  • When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing Tab in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing Shift and Tab in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row. [30]

Changes this week

  • The name of the "Save page" button will change. The button will say "Publish page" when you create a new page. It will say "Publish changes" when you change an existing page. [31][32]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).

Meetings

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16:01, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Template:Vandalism information

Sorry about that! I didn't realize that ClueBot NG was down, so I was wondering why we were going to level 1 automatically. Enterprisey (talk!) 03:20, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2016)

Wedding ring being placed on during a wedding ceremony
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Tech News: 2016-36

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

Recent changes

  • Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs. [33]
  • Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta. [34]
  • When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not. [35]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to use <maplink> on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [36][37]
  • Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. [38][39]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).

Meetings

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Guild of Copy Editors September 2016 News

Guild of Copy Editors September 2016 News

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>>> Sign up for the September Drive, already in progress! <<<

July Drive: The July drive was a roaring success. We set out to remove April, May, and June 2015 from our backlog (our 149 oldest articles), and by 23 July, we were done with those months. We added July 2015 (66 articles) and copy-edited 37 of those. We also handled all of the remaining Requests from June 2016. Well done! Overall, we recorded copy edits to 240 articles by 20 editors, reducing our total backlog to 13 months and 1,656 articles, the second-lowest month-end total ever.

August Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 21 through 27 August; the theme was sports-related articles in honor of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Of the eight editors who signed up, five editors removed 11 articles from the backlog. A quiet blitz – everyone must be on vacation. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part.

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A beer for you!

Thanks so much for your help! Totally new at this... Yochifuji (talk) 00:20, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2016)

Adarsha School Narayanganj in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Tech News: 2016-37

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

Recent changes

  • The Wikimedia Commons app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos. [41]
  • <maplink> and <mapframe> can now use geodata from Open Street Map if Open Street Map has defined a region and given it an ID in Wikidata. You can use this to draw on the map and add information. [42][43]

Changes this week

  • The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history. [44]
  • A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages. [45][46]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

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18:04, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Homeless kids

Hello,

I've noticed your interest in street children in the Philippines. I am wondering if you'd like to assist with the homelessness page as well?

Perhaps a homelessness in the Phillipines page or similar?

Thanks I.am.a.qwerty (talk) 09:51, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

@I.am.a.qwerty: Maybe... if I had more time. I am the type of person that likes to jump from topic to topic at will. However, if I feel the motivation to do so, I might work on it... no guarantees though. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 12:28, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
For reverting naughty vandalism at the article Illuminati. Darth Tacker (talk) 17:33, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
@Darth Tacker: Thank you. However, I noticed that you warned the IP on their talk page. That is not necessary - warning messages should only be issued for recent vandalism, and the problematic edits were made a very long time ago. In addition, the IP is a shared IP address, meaning that it belongs to many different users. This makes it even more problematic to warn them, as the person who made the bad edit may longer be using that IP address. I would suggest you have a look at the Counter-Vandalism Unit Academy if you would like to learn more. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 18:08, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-38

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

Problems

Changes this week

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

Meetings

Future changes

  • Wikidata will start working on adding support for Wiktionary. The Wikidata development team is now taking one last look at the development plan. [49]

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22:08, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Is it not important to leave redirects while changing usernames

Hail K6ka! I noticed that a userbox (User:Rosekelleher/Userboxes/Everybody) which I use suddenly went red and found out it was because of a rename. Shouldn't it be important to leave a redirect while doing so? Now what happens to all the signature redlinks wherever the user has posted before? or subpages and templates like this one? WP:CHU doesn't emphasise any such importance. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 13:23, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi Ugog Nizdast. Normally, a redirect is left behind after a rename, so that the old name may be easily linked with the new one. However, we occasionally get requests from users who seek renames due to privacy concerns, such as if someone accidentally used their real name. We can't completely obliterate all traces of the old name, but we can do our best by not leaving a redirect behind. This is only granted for renames concerning privacy and occasionally for those wishing to vanish. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 13:25, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2016)

Albrecht Dürer, famous German painter of the German Renaissance.
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Tech News: 2016-39

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

Recent changes

  • If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can request it after a community decision. See how to request it. [50]
  • When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [51]
  • Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit. [52]

Problems

Changes this week

  • There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [55]

Meetings

Future changes

  • Abandoned tools on Tool Labs could be taken over by other developers. There is a new discussion on Meta about this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on. [56]

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This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2016)

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Math rock

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Tech News: 2016-40

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

Changes this week

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

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 4 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Tidy will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This would cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. [57]
  • <slippymap> will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use <mapframe> instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it as soon as possible. [58]

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21:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

RfC for page patroller qualifications

Following up from the consensus reached here, the community will now establish the user right criteria. You may wish to participate in this discussion. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:01, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2016)

A spelling bee at Jhenidah Cadet College in Bangladesh
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Tech News: 2016-41

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

Recent changes

  • You can show Special:RecentChanges on a page by using ((Special:RecentChanges)). You can now use tag filters by using ((Special:RecentChanges/tagfilter=tagname)). [59]
  • The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [60]
  • Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them easier to see for readers and editors with reduced eyesight. [61]

Changes this week

  • Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor. <!-- You write hidden HTML comments like this. --> [62]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Language converter syntax will soon no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. [63]

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Thanks

Hey K6ka, The Phase Master (Kingstevenrules) here. I noticed you got around to changing my name. I'd like to thank you for that, and so I give you a Special Barnstar.

The Special Barnstar
For allowing my name to be changed. Kingstevenrules (Tell me something...) 14:02, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Editing News #3—2016

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?

Screenshot showing a dropdown menu with options for editing the table structure

Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving language support.

Recent changes

Future changes

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.

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This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2016)

NASA researchers at Glenn Research Center conducting tests on aircraft engine noise in 1967
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Noise

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Tech News: 2016-10

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

The Collaboration team is delighted to publish its first newsletter! Your feedback is welcome.

This quarter the team will focus on improving Special:RecentChanges and create a ReviewStream, a new feed designed to improve the edit-review process. Both are part of the new Edit Review Improvements project.

Notifications [ More information · Help pages ]

Recent changes

  • Documentation concerning Notifications types has been updated. That page is ready for translations. [71]
  • For developers, how to create a new Notification type has been updated. [72]
  • Tools owners will be notified when OAuth app changes state. [73]
  • When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [74]
  • Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit. [75]
  • Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. Now you can get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This is an opt-in option in your preferences. [76][77]
  • On Notifications, the badge is colored if you have some notifications. If you see these notifications, the badge will turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [78]

Problems

  • For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. It has been fixed. [79][80]
  • When a title was created with some wikitext inside of it, Notifications were not linking that title when they were mentioned. This is now fixed. [81]
  • Some Notifications messages were not supporting ((GENDER:)). This is now fixed. [82]

Future changes

  • On Special:Notifications, pages and counts related to disabled notification types will not be shown anymore. [83]

Flow [ More information · Help pages ]

Recent changes

  • Flow is available as a Beta feature on Greek Wikipedia. [84]
  • A satisfaction survey was conducted concerning Flow in September 2016. Results will be published in December 2016. [85]
  • Wikitext interface for Flow is now using a monospaced font. [86]
  • It is now possible to moderate a Flow topic that have been resolved without re-opening it. [87]
  • It is now possible to watch and unwatch topics directly from the Notification panel. [88]

Problems

  • It is not possible to enable or disable Flow as a Beta feature on wikis where that option is available. This is under investigation. [89]
  • Some Flow messages were not supporting ((GENDER:)). This is now fixed. [90]

Future changes

  • Communities that have Flow enabled manually on user talk pages will be asked to move on to a Beta feature activation to simplify the process. [91]
  • Notifications related to Flow will be grouped on your Notifications preferences. It will be easier to choose which Notifications you want to have from Flow. [92]

Edit Review Improvements [ More information ]

Recent changes

  • Informations about Edit Review Improvements project have been published. That page is ready for translations. [93]
  • ReviewStream feed product description is available. ReviewStream is a machine-readable feed that’s designed to be used by a variety of edit-review tools.

Future changes

Miscellaneous

  • On that newsletter, some particular items are highlighted by an icon, to ease reading. The For translators icon highlights items that may interest volunteer translators and the Advanced item icon highlights items that are relevant for readers with technical knowledge.

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Tech News: 2016-42

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning. [96]
  • Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version. [97]

Changes this week

  • There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [98]

Future changes

  • The Editing Department are working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this. This is an early plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.

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16:42, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Global renamer userbox

Just in case you're interested, I have created ((User global renamer)). Ks0stm (T•C•G•E) 21:58, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

@Ks0stm: Ooh, shiny! Thanks for showing your support! —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 22:01, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2016)

The attic at a factory
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Attic

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Tech News: 2016-43

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

Problems

  • The abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed. [99]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
  • The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia". [100]
  • About a dozen wikis now have numerical sorting in categories. If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can ask for it. [101]
  • Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.

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This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2016)

Street food vendors at a roadside market just outside of Hua Hin District, Thailand
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Tech News: 2016-44

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

Recent changes

  • Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only. [102]
  • Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester. [103]
  • The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script. [104]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3rd (calendar).
  • Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" field when editing templates. [105]
  • Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size. [106]

Future changes

  • New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29. [107]

Miscellaneous

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16:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2016 November newsletter: Final results

The final round of the 2016 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2016 WikiCup top three finalists:

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:

Over the course of the 2016 WikiCup the following content was added to Wikipedia (only reporting on fixed value categories): 17 Featured Articles, 183 Good Articles, 8 Featured Lists, 87 Featured Pictures, 40 In The News, and 321 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:53, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2017 WikiCup is just around the corner! Many thanks from all the judges. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email)

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup

Greetings, all!

We would like to announce the start of the 4th GA Cup, a competition that seeks to encourage the reviewing of Good article nominations! Thus far, there have been three GA Cups, which were successful in reaching our goals of significantly reducing the traditionally long queue at GAN, so we're doing it again. Currently, there are over 400 nominations listed. We hope that we can again make an impact this time.

The 4th GA Cup will begin on November 1, 2016. Four rounds are currently scheduled (which will bring the competition to a close on February 28, 2017), but this may change based on participant numbers. We may take a break in December for the holidays, depending on the results of a poll of our participants taken shortly after the competition begins. The sign-up and submissions process will remain the same, as will the scoring.

Sign-ups for the upcoming competition are currently open and will close on November 14, 2016. Everyone is welcome to join; new and old editors, so sign-up now!

If you have any questions, take a look at the FAQ page and/or contact one of the judges.

Cheers from 3family6, Figureskatingfan, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. We apologize for the delay in sending out this message until after the competition has started. Thank you to Krishna Chaitanya Velaga for aiding in getting this message out.

To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.

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This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2016)

A sword dance performance
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Tech News: 2016-45

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

  • Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation. [108]
  • First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available. [109]
  • .gitreview for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using track=1. [110]
  • Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability. [111]

Changes this week

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 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2016)

A woman wearing a dress
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Dress

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Tech News: 2016-46

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

  • When you edit with the visual editor you can use meta + shift + k to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key. [116]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar).
  • In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation. [117]

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

Future changes

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19:17, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Collaboration products newsletter: 2016-11

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

Our quarterly goal is to add filters to the Recent Changes page, that show ORES good-faith and damaging tests and filters around new users. The work on this is proceeding mostly as planned. We hope it shall be available as a Beta feature (only on wikis where ORES is available as a Beta feature) before the end of the quarter.

Edit Review Improvements [More information]

Recent changes

Flow [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • Notifications concerning Flow are no longer all grouped together in your preferences. The "Edits to my user talk page" category will now include Flow notifications about your user talk page (if your user talk page uses Flow), and the "Mentions" category will now include mentions on Flow pages. Previously, all notifications related to Flow were grouped together in the "Structured Discussion" category. [121]
  • The orange bar will now also be displayed when a message is posted on a your user talk page if your talk page uses Flow; previously, it was only displayed if you had a wikitext talk page. [122]

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16:32, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Salt

Salt

You are welcome. -- A Certain White Cat chi? 22:23, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2016)

A cleaning sponge
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Sponge (material)

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Tech News: 2016-47

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

  • Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone. [123]
  • You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has. [124]
  • The latest Collaboration team products newsletter has been published. It has more details about their work than Tech News has.

Problems

  • A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication. [125]

Changes this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
  • RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later. [126][127][128]

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

Future changes

  • It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this. [129]
  • Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page. [130]

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15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, K6ka. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority 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 in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer - RfC

Hi K6ka. You are invited to comment at a further discussion on the implementation of this user right to patrol and review new pages that is taking place at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/RfC on patrolling without user right. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:02, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2016)

Hello, K6ka.

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Homework

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Tech News: 2016-48

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

  • When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie. This means their browser will be blocked even if they change their IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals. [131]
  • When you use Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon. [132]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
  • Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using [rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]. [133][134]

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

Future changes

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21:17, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

May-be you have an idea..

Have you got any idea when rename requests can again be proceeded as usual?The phabricator project, after the 2nd delay, now displays no definite end date.Aru@baska❯❯❯ Vanguard 15:58, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

@ARUNEEK: Unfortunately I don't have any ideas as to when global renames will become available again. I can tell you that global renamers are about as anxious as you are, since we have mountains of requests that need to be processed. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 17:27, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2016)

Three Martinis
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Three-martini lunch

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Tech News: 2016-49

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 choose to see users from specific user groups in Special:ActiveUsers. [135]
  • Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [136]
  • ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES to recognize damaging edits. [137]

Changes this week

  • You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [138]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 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 6 December at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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18:07, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Because you asked so nicely. — Gestrid (talk) 17:32, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
@Gestrid: —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 17:33, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

You also deserve a cup of coffee to power through your day!!! -- Dane talk 18:03, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
Well, I guess they're getting two cups of coffee. — Gestrid (talk) 18:12, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News

Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News

Hello everyone, and welcome to the December 2016 GOCE newsletter. We had an October newsletter all set to go, but it looks like we never pushed the button to deliver it, so this one contains a few months of updates. We have been busy and successful!

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Coordinator elections for the first half of 2017: Nominations are open for election of Coordinators for the first half of 2017. Please visit the election page to nominate yourself or another editor, and then return after December 15 to vote. Thanks for participating!

September Drive: The September drive was fruitful. We set out to remove July through October 2015 from our backlog (an ambitious 269 articles), and by the end of the month, we had cut that pile of oldest articles to just 83. We reduced our overall backlog by 97 articles, even with new copyedit tags being added to articles every day. We also handled 75% of the remaining Requests from August 2016. Overall, 19 editors recorded copy edits to 233 articles (over 378,000 words).

October Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 16 through 22 October; the theme was Requests, since the backlog was getting a bit long. Of the 16 editors who signed up, 10 editors completed 29 requests. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part.

November Drive: The November drive was a record-breaker! We set out to remove September through December 2015 from our backlog (239 articles), and by the end of the month, we had cut that pile of old articles to just 66, eliminating the two oldest months! We reduced our overall backlog by 523 articles, to a new record low of 1,414 articles, even with new tags being added to articles every day, which means we removed copy-editing tags from over 800 articles. We also handled all of the remaining Requests from October 2016. Officially, 14 editors recorded copy edits to 200 articles (over 312,000 words), but over 600 articles, usually quick fixes and short articles, were not recorded on the drive page.

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Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdslk.

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Precious

fighting vandalism with music

Thank you for fighting vandalism, with constructive messages about unconstructive editing, for renaming users, for encouraging thoughts, - proud user from Toronto listening to music while fighting vandalism, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:14, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2016)

The Dreadnought hoaxers in Abyssinian regalia; the bearded figure on the far left is in fact the writer Virginia Woolf.
Hello, K6ka.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Hoax

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Three-martini lunch • Homework

Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations

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Tech News: 2016-50

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 who have Yahoo email addresses could not use Special:EmailUser to send emails. This has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address. Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and be able to see it. [139]
  • You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention. [140]
  • Markup colours for reviewed and pending revisions in the page history and recent changes and logs now match Wikimedia standard colours. The "You have a new message on your talk page" notification will have a slightly different colour. [141]

Problems

  • Because of work on cross-wiki watchlists global renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well. [142]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 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 December 13 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

19:29, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup December newsletter: WikiCup 2017

On 1 January 2017, WikiCup 2017 (the 10th Annual WikiCup) will begin. This year we are trying something a little different – monetary prizes.

For the WC2017 the prizes will be as follows (amounts are based in US$ and will be awarded in the form of an online Amazon gift certificate):

Note: Monetary prizes are a one-year experiment for 2017 and may or may not be continued in the future. In order to be eligible to receive any of the prizes above, the competing Wikipedia account must have a valid/active email address.

After two years as a WikiCup judge, Figureskatingfan is stepping down. We thank her for her contributions as a WikiCup judge. We are pleased to announce that our newest judge is two-time WikiCup champion Cwmhiraeth.

The judges for the 2017 WikiCup are Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email).

Signups are open now and will remain open until 5 February 2017. You can sign up here.

If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:02, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Hello K6ka: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Class455 (Merry Christmas!) 17:09, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

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