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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

  • All Wikipedias now have Page Previews.
  • The iOS and Android apps now have synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
  • The icons in the 2010 wikitext editor have changed. [1]
  • The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press Publish. This button now also shows an ellipsis. This is to show that pressing Publish is not the last step. [2]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 April. It will be on all wikis from 26 April (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 24 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • <mapframe> will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of flagged revisions will not get this feature in May. [3]
  • The rollback function could change. This was a German community request. All editors with rollback rights can leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).

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18:17, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

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91   Network mapping (talk) Add sources
28   Rawmarsh (talk) Add sources
159   Priyanka Karki (talk) Add sources
32   Nisha Adhikari (talk) Add sources
558   Miles Jupp (talk) Add sources
926   Cabinet of the United Kingdom (talk) Cleanup
57   TERI School of Advanced Studies (talk) Cleanup
90   Composition C (talk) Cleanup
266   Web hosting control panel (talk) Expand
54   GPS watch (talk) Expand
564   Television network (talk) Expand
16   AnoNet (talk) Unencyclopaedic
558   Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States (talk) Unencyclopaedic
63   Broken Britain (talk) Unencyclopaedic
73   Celebrity Mastermind (talk) Merge
772   Major League Baseball All-Star Game (talk) Merge
48   Off-hook (talk) Merge
13   Anup Baral (talk) Wikify
423   Korean profanity (talk) Wikify
43   CP/CMS (talk) Wikify
2   Rameshwor Karki (talk) Orphan
6   Sutapa Basu (talk) Orphan
3   VEXXHOST (talk) Orphan
22   Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha (talk) Stub
445   Durex (talk) Stub
2   Rajeshwor Devkota (talk) Stub
6   Truck Driver (1994 film) (talk) Stub
177   Henry Onyekuru (talk) Stub
14   Maha Jodi (talk) Stub

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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 parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links. [4]

Problems

  •   We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator. [5]

Changes later this week

  • You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right. [6]
  • When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date. [7]
  •   You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the Editing section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly. [8]
  •   There is a new abuse filter function called equals_to_any. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (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 1 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jhare wikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
  •   All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [9][10][11]

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16:18, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:

  •   Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with three featured articles
  •   Iazyges, with nine good articles and lots of bonus points
  •   Yashthepunisher, a first time contestant, with two featured lists
  •   SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with seventeen good topic articles
  •   Usernameunique, a first time contestant, with fourteen DYKs
  •   Muboshgu, a seasoned competitor, with three ITNs and
  •   Courcelles, another first time contestant, with twenty-seven GARs

So far contestants have achieved twelve featured articles between them and a splendid 124 good articles. Commendably, 326 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2018 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met; most of the GARs are fine, but a few have been a bit skimpy.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:10, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

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5,633   Virtual private network (talk) Add sources
4   Westliche Karwendelspitze (talk) Add sources
17   Thapa Kaji (talk) Add sources
13   Mero Euta Saathi Chha (talk) Add sources
160   English in the Netherlands (talk) Add sources
115   Mausam (1975 film) (talk) Add sources
6   DéjàClick (talk) Cleanup
62   Sky Net (talk) Cleanup
27   Heckmondwike Grammar School (talk) Cleanup
976   Nepali language (talk) Expand
100   Poles in Chicago (talk) Expand
17   Windsor and Maidenhead (UK Parliament constituency) (talk) Expand
857   Authentication (talk) Unencyclopaedic
186   Ioctl (talk) Unencyclopaedic
7,574   Nepal (talk) Unencyclopaedic
6   IRC subculture (talk) Merge
107   Multichannel television in the United States (talk) Merge
111   Pointer (user interface) (talk) Merge
115   VM (operating system) (talk) Wikify
339   Tremors (TV series) (talk) Wikify
166   Response time (technology) (talk) Wikify
5   Deepti Menon (talk) Orphan
2   Jagdish Institute of Industrial Technology (talk) Orphan
145   Murder of Justin Back (talk) Orphan
10   Delhi Pharmaceutical Science and Research University (talk) Stub
124   Niruta Singh (talk) Stub
14   Trevor Kavanagh (talk) Stub
32   Jharana Thapa (talk) Stub
16   Lappan Chhappan (talk) Stub
24   Good Morning with Anne and Nick (talk) Stub

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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 mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones. [12]

Problems

  •   The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed. [13]

Changes later this week

  • The advanced search function beta feature will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. [14]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (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 8 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  •   All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [15][16]

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16:28, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

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342   Computer multitasking (talk) Add sources
63   Alternative media (U.S. political left) (talk) Add sources
3,078   David Cameron (talk) Add sources
63   Operation Trojan Horse (talk) Add sources
3,252   Tony Blair (talk) Add sources
206   Clustered file system (talk) Cleanup
383   Chandni Chowk to China (talk) Cleanup
665   University of Mumbai (talk) Cleanup
307   Polish Americans (talk) Expand
36   Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre (talk) Expand
846   Police officer (talk) Expand
237   Dedicated hosting service (talk) Unencyclopaedic
165   Personal web page (talk) Unencyclopaedic
331   Order of succession (talk) Unencyclopaedic
156   Voice user interface (talk) Merge
870   Open relationship (talk) Merge
6   Cass-Clay (talk) Merge
295   Source lines of code (talk) Wikify
34   Impact (TV programme) (talk) Wikify
369   Freddie Starr (talk) Wikify
3   Wisehost (talk) Orphan
9   Medical deemed universities (talk) Orphan
12   IBM Application Performance Management (talk) Orphan
18   Charles Wooley (talk) Stub
13   Statute of Wills (talk) Stub
13   Michael Schroeder (talk) Stub
12   Piedmont, Portland, Oregon (talk) Stub
5   Dasdhunga (talk) Stub
17   Firefly (key exchange protocol) (talk) Stub

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114   Full virtualization (talk) Add sources
268   Terephthalic acid (talk) Add sources
1,093   Virtual memory (talk) Add sources
30   Minamoto no Sanetomo (talk) Add sources
14   Nassau Family Pact (talk) Add sources
213   21st century in fiction (talk) Add sources
102   School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi (talk) Cleanup
16   Deeya Maskey (talk) Cleanup
154   Jamia Hamdard (talk) Cleanup
1,011   Windows Phone (talk) Expand
46   Scroogled (talk) Expand
64   Microsoft mobile services (talk) Expand
60   Get Your Own Back (talk) Unencyclopaedic
1,633   Simple Network Management Protocol (talk) Unencyclopaedic
91   Hokkien profanity (talk) Unencyclopaedic
899   Spanish profanity (talk) Merge
527   19-inch rack (talk) Merge
319   Philosopher king (talk) Merge
3   Anita Silwal (talk) Wikify
26   Offensive weapon (talk) Wikify
170   MIRC (talk) Wikify
5   Anupama Jain (talk) Orphan
4   Healthy Investment (talk) Orphan
2   Sipservice (talk) Orphan
26   Abraham Silberschatz (talk) Stub
110   Black-banded sea krait (talk) Stub
5   Tika Bhandari (talk) Stub
15   Arpan Thapa (talk) Stub
6   Max & Ivan (talk) Stub
6   Babu Bogati (talk) Stub

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