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VisualEditor newsletter—December 2014
Did you know?
Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from existing tables at the click of a button.
The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.
VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis as an opt-in beta feature at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with ProofreadPage).
Recent improvements
Basic support for editing tables is available. You can insert new tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid rowspan and colspan elements, instead of trying to repair them.
You can now use find and replace in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing ⌃ Ctrl+F or ⌘ Cmd+F.
You can now create and edit simple <blockquote> paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "Paragraph" into a "Block quote".
Some new keyboard sequences can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "* " will make the line a bullet list; "1. " or "# " will make it a numbered list; "==" will make it a section heading; ": " will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change. There are also two other keyboard sequences: "[[" for opening the link tool, and "{{" for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like ⌃ Ctrl+K to open the link editor, still work.
If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red.
You can again create and edit galleries as wikitext code.
Looking ahead
VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme designed by the User Experience group. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at MediaWiki.org in late December and at other sites early January. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" theme and the new "MediaWiki" one which will replace it.)
The Editing team plans to add auto-fill features for citations in January. Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier.
Help
- Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
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Thank you! WhatamIdoing (WMF) (talk) 23:37, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
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Recent software changes
- The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private. [1]
Software changes this week
- There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6. [2]
Future changes
- The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations. [3]
- A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis. [4]
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16:52, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
User Blocked
Greetings,
I was reading your notes from earlier today regarding my IP address. I went to the link provided [5]. I'm not sure what I'm reading, old and not computer lit. I think this a link to my actual IP address so that when I post when on the VPN it will automatically revert to the actual IP address. If that is so wouldn't the block on me when using the VPN have been cleared? Also if that is correct is this data for internal use for Wikipedia and will not be published elsewhere? Sure would appreciate any help. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by NigelCovington85 (talk • contribs) 21:16, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
Greetings,
Regarding supporting citations I am working on those next and will be happy to provide them asap. Thank you again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NigelCovington85 (talk • contribs) 21:23, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
- @NigelCovington85: I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're asking as far as IPs and VPNs. You don't appear to be blocked, nor does the IP that made the edit you're claiming as yours. If you have another account or IP that has been blocked, I have no way of knowing what it is or why it was blocked unless you tell me what the account or IP is - you should know, however, that if you have been blocked under an account or IP, you are not allowed to edit Wikipedia using any other account or IP in order to evade the block placed on the original one. If you have been blocked, you should appeal that block on the talk page of the IP/account that is blocked, not create a new account to keep posting.
To answer what I can make sense of from your question: if you edit using your IP address rather than using your account, that IP address is publicly recorded in the history of the page you edited, and will be available for anyone who wishes to look there. If you were the person who made this edit, then yes, your IP is now public information.
Please also read Wikipedia's neutrality policy and its policy on coverage of living people. Looking at the edits you have made using your IP and your account, almost none of them were neutral edits that could be allowed to stand on Wikipedia, no matter who made them. Wikipedia is not the place to act out your interpersonal disputes or get revenge or "speak truth to power" about someone you feel has wronged you or your company. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that writes neutral, sourced content about notable topics. It doesn't accuse people of crimes they haven't been convicted of, or call them liars, or generally do anything that would indicate that Wikipedia's article has an opinion of its own. What you have to say is more suited to a newspaper editorial or blog post than to an encyclopedia, and while I can understand that you're frustrated, the abusive language you're employing against other users and against the person who you are trying to write about is highly unprofessional and not at all helpful to your cause. If you cannot moderate your approach and write neutral text that doesn't attack others, you are likely to find your editing privileges here revoked. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 22:45, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
GOCE holiday 2014 newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors Late December 2014 Newsletter
 Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the December Blitz. Of the 14 editors who signed up for the blitz, 11 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. January drive: The January backlog-reduction drive is just around the corner; sign up here! Election time again: The election of coordinators to serve from January 1 to June 30, 2015 is now underway. The voting period runs from December 16, 00:01 (UTC), until December 31, 23:59. Please cast your vote—it's your Guild, and it doesn't run itself! Happy holidays from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978 and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Please block this sockpuppet
Hi Fluffernutter,
Could you please block Elvisiofficial? It's quite obviously a sock of Elvisgashi5, a user you recently blocked for oversight issues. Thanks, --Biblioworm 03:06, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
- Looks like someone else got to this before I wandered round again. I'll keep an eye on the userpage just in case, though. Thanks for letting me know. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 03:08, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
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16:52, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
A cookie for you!
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2015 already
Hi Fluff. No frills - just a quiet ‘’all the best’’ to you for 2015 and I hope you’ll continue to be around on Wikipedia for a long time to come. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 15:03, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
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GOCE 2014 report
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Beautiful
[6] Seriously, I was about to give you a barnstar for it. --AmaryllisGardener talk 03:29, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
FYI, I have unblocked this user to change username, following fairly prolonged discussion on their talk page. I will keep an eye on them. JohnCD (talk) 21:56, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Draft:Kesh Malek (checkmate)
Hi. I made a few changes to Draft:Kesh Malek (checkmate). Also left a message for the creator but with no response I can only assume that he has more important things to tend to, especially considering what he may be going through just now if he's living in that part of the world. Please let me know what you think. I can spend some more time on it if needed; it seems a worthwhile article so I hope it doesn't get dumped through lack of interest. Jodosma (talk) 22:38, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
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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 software changes
- Rotated PDF files in landscape format used to show too small. They will now display correctly. You may need to purge older files. [7]
- You can now use the
{{!}}magic word instead of Template:!. Many wikis used the template to create a pipe (|) in tables and templates. You can delete the template. [8]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf14) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from January 13. It will be on all Wikipedias from January 14 (calendar).
- A bug in VisualEditor sometimes added a
☀(Sun) character. This is now fixed. [9] - The search and replace tool in VisualEditor is now much faster in long pages. [10]
- The TemplateData editor now uses the same design as VisualEditor. [11] [12] [13]
- The
thumboption is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar. [14]
Future changes
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16:47, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Would you have any suggestions?
A few months ago during the eventually unsuccessful Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Piotrus_3 you voted "oppose". I wonder if you'd like to discuss any concerns of yours, or if you would have any suggestions in the event I'd decide to run again (which I am not planning to do anytime soon, but might consider in the future). For a better sense of my work and activities around the project, I invite you to consider reviewing my userpage, my talk page archives (which are not redacted), to watchlist my talk page, or use edit analysis tools like Wikichecker, content.paragr, dewkin, xtools-pages or xtools-ec (which in theory should work as of late 2014...). I would be more than happy to talk about your concerns over the 2009 ArbCom case, my hopefully improved understanding of WP:CANVASS, and what have I learned / how my editing/views have changed in the recent years. Thank you for your time, (PS. If you reply here, I'd appreciate a WP:ECHO or {{talkback}} ping). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 12:33, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
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Recent changes
- You can download the new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. The new version shows lead images, better galleries and content from Wikidata. It also has many other new features.[16] [17]
- Programs and bots still can't read information about images on many wikis. You can see the list of wikis with the most files to fix. Wikipedia in Italian, Indonesian and Japanese language have the most files to fix. On the biggest wikis you should use bots. Bots can add information templates to groups of files. You can ask other tech users to help you.
Problems
- All JavaScript on Commons was broken for a few minutes on Tuesday. It was because of old code in the HotCat tool. The same problem happened on some Wikipedias on Wednesday. It is now fixed. [18]
Software changes this week
- There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings. [19]
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18:13, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
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ANI
Hi! I wanted to ask if it's appropriate or permissible for me to comment on the BLP discussion on ANI? I'm still fairly new here and I wanted to begin a discussion on the BLP Noticeboard addressing the BLP violations but I didn't know how to go about doing that. Anyway, please let me know if it's ok for me to comment there. I'm not sure of the policy regarding ANI discussions. I haven't read anything either way on he subject of ANI discussions. Thanks.🐍shark310 20:07, 22 January 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shark310 (talk • contribs)
- @Shark310: Yes, you definitely can comment there! Please do if you have something relevant to say; even though it's called an "Administrator's" noticeboard, anyone can comment in discussions on it, especially if they're involved in what's being discussed. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 20:18, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
Thank you so much. I just did and attempted to sincerely explain my position based on my understanding of policy. I would like to ask, if you feel its appropriate, what you might suggest I would have done differently. In an attempt to learn from any mistakes I may have made. IN other words, is there perhaps a more appropriate approach I could have taken in this matter? Thanks again.Shark310 07:21, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
Help with Batyr move
Hey, so, I was attempting to undo a move, and I made a complete mess of it. I was trying to move the Batyr (animal) article back to Batyr (as Batyr is just a redirect now), and failed miserably. I was wondering if you would be willing to help fix the issue. Thank you very much. Charwinger21 (talk) 14:06, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
- @Charwinger21: Yeah, page moves can be ridiculously convoluted, especially when you discover halfway through that hey, turns out you need to be an administrator! I've moved the article and its talk page back to Batyr, and left Batyr (animal) as a redirect to it. Just take a second to double-check and let me know if that fixed everything you needed fixed, if you don't mind. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 15:04, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
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Recent software changes
- You can now translate articles with the new ContentTranslation tool on several wikis. [20]
This week
- There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings. [21]
Future changes
- You can join a project to improve WikiProjects. [22]
- The Compact Personal Bar will be removed for now. It has a bug that breaks the tool to choose your language. It will come back when the bug is fixed. [23]
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16:08, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Saturday February 7 in NYC: Black Life Matters Editathon
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Epiphany
Hi Fluffernutter, I had a bit of an epiphany about the whole Shark310/Nate Moore debacle and one that I wish I'd had sooner as it would have cleared up the whole matter for me. Granted, I was over focusing on Shark's efforts (being a Sockmaster and such), but it occurred to me that I was adding content that (among other things) drew attention to a criminal for their crime which in this case was murder. Even Shark seemed to establish that Moore's acting career was non-notable and I should have realized far sooner that his heinous act was just as non-notable. Shark's efforts were the first time that I had dealt with such an extensive Sock and admittedly I was inexperienced in dealing with that kind and level of deception. But that should not have deterred me from seeing the bigger picture which was that all of it was fairly useless information, sourced or not. I'm sorry that it took an ANI to make me realize that. Best Regards, --Scalhotrod (Talk) ☮ღ☺ 18:29, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
- Hey, you don't need to apologize, Scalhotrod. We were all trying to do what we thought was best for the encyclopedia at the time, and just going at it from different angles. I'm glad that at the end of the day, we both ended up in the same place. :) A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 18:45, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
Well, I felt like I did, but I also wanted you to know that I'm not one of these hardcore types that holds an indefinte grudge. I constantly "evolve" my thinking about Wikipedia. That said, I really felt like a "lost ship in a storm" during that entire issue and was just doing my best to keep sourced content on the site. There were Socks on all sides and agendas running a muck IMO, but at the end of the day, I would like to think that the Project was not harmed. The presence of Shark310's account still concerns me given that's it a fairly blatant WP:SPA, but only time and activity will tell if that User is WP:HERE or WP:NOTHERE. For the time being, I'm going to keep working on the Special:PendingChanges list. I literally start and end my day with a review of it. Regards, --Scalhotrod (Talk) ☮ღ☺ 18:59, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
Just for the record, scalhotrod, the incident you were attempting to include was a run of the mill "manslaughter." Not a "murder." (you ought to know, you wrote no less than Five articles on this subject.) And while I appreciate your concern regarding my intentions, I think you might recall that your co-author Neptune's Trident was also banned for "socking." So, go ahead and try to save face now if you must, but you might want to remember that regardless of what you think of me or my intentions, it's just as deceptive to intentionally "game" the system to make a point. Also I might suggest that attempting to "Out" someone on this site, regardless of your reasons for doing so, is specifically prohibited by Wikipedia Policy. @fluffer, I thank you for your calm perspective and for your integrity. Thankfully it appears that there are editors on this project who care more about maintaining the integrity of Wikipedia than for allowing it to become a platform for scorekeeping or bullying. thank you for your time and for your wisdom in this matterShark310 05:54, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
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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.
Problems
- There was a security issue on Wikimedia Labs. Many Labs tools were down after the issue was fixed. [24]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 4 (calendar).
- The "Save page" button in the VisualEditor toolbar is now blue rather than green. This is the same as on the mobile site. [25]
- You can now edit pages on the draft namespace with VisualEditor on the Russian Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia. You can ask to get VisualEditor for a namespace on your wiki. When your community agrees, ask in Phabricator. [26] [27]
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16:31, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
VisualEditor News 2015—#1
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.
The Wikimedia Foundation has named its top priorities for this quarter (January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements. There will be weekly triage meetings which will be open to volunteers beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Tell Vice President of Engineering Damon Sicore, Product Manager James Forrester and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins.
Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem.
Recent improvements
The new design for VisualEditor aligns with MediaWiki's Front-End Standards as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the OOjs UI library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action:
- starts a new task, like opening the ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog⧽ dialog: blue ,
- takes a constructive action, like inserting a citation: green ,
- might remove or lose your work, like removing a link: red , or
- is neutral, like opening a link in a new browser window: gray.
The TemplateData editor has been completely re-written to use a different design (T67815) based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor (T73746). This change fixed a couple of existing bugs (T73077 and T73078) and improved usability.
Search and replace in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once (T78234).
Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedias requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace (T86688, T87027). If your community would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
Looking ahead
The Editing team will soon add auto-fill features for citations. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to contribute to the Citoid service's definitions for each website, to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections.
We will need editors to help test the new design of the special character inserter, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF) if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at Phase 5 Wikipedias. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. The date for this change has not been determined.
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Question
I don't think you were wrong to collapse the "discussion" between myself and Viriditas on AN/I, but I'm a bit perplexed that you left his inital comment out of the collapsing:
Nothere? Norton's use of redlinks is no more annoying than a certain someone who uses hidden comments to add white space. I'm not seeing anything actionable in this report other than a possible case of harassment. If you want to discuss the philosophy of redlinks, don't you think the MOS talk page is a better venue? You got into a dispute over redlinks and dragged his ass here instead of an MOS page. Was that wise?
True, he does make one relevant comment ("I'm not seeing anything actionable"), but mixed in with it is an arch dig at "a certain someone" (me), an accusation that I'm possibly harassing RAN (the untruth of which I presented in the collapsed section), and "dragging [RAN's] ass here", when, in fact, previous discussions were not fruitful.
The tone of his comment is what set me off -- plus my probable misinterpretation of his saying "Not here", which I took to mean WP:NOTHERE, i.e. accusing me of not being here to build an encyclopedia - to me, them's fightin' words. (I've been here 9 1/2 years and I've never heard of Template:Nothere, and have never, to my knowledge, seen it used in talk page discussion.)
Given the pointed personal negativity of V's comment, is there any way you could see yourself clear to including it in the collapsing? BMK (talk) 13:07, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- @Beyond My Ken: I left it out because it addressed the thread topic, if a bit archly. My goal in collapsing the rest was not to quash his opinion about the redlinking, but to put a stop to the ongoing argument between you; if I were to also collapse the comment containing his opinion on the actual issue, I would be moving from the realm of "janitorial work" to the realm of "deciding whose opinions count and whose don't". As far as the conflict between the two of you, both of you were behaving incredibly poorly in that thread, and if I were inclined to pursue sanctions of some kind for behavior there (which I'm not, when a simple collapse does the job much more neatly) they would be falling on both of you, not just him. I get that you guys seem to have some personal history, but if you want to sort that out, it should be done via a DR process about that dispute rather than importing it into ANI threads that have nothing to do with the interpersonal relations between you and Viriditas. Even if he says something you don't like or that you think is insulting in a thread like that, you're not going to fix it by hitting back at him there and derailing the entire discussion. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 13:25, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- OK, thanks, I thought I'd ask, just in case.
BTW, I don't at all disagree with your description of the behavior of both of us, and I wasn't in this request implying in any way that he was at fault and I wasn't. From my POV, V is a person who pops up quite frequently whenever my name is in play on the noticeboards, and he always opposes whatever I'm in favor of, or supports those accusing me of whatever. For him to play all cute and unbiased is a sham and an irritant to me, but I'm not invoking that as an excuse, just as an explanation. I may not be happy with it in this and other instances, but I do own my behavior. BMK (talk) 13:39, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- OK, thanks, I thought I'd ask, just in case.
- For the record, I have no "personal history" with BMK. This appears to be some kind of delusion on his part. Further, his allegation that I "pop up quite frequently" when he appears is also another one of these delusions, as are the allegations that I'm a "sock", that I'm acting "cute and unbiased", and that I'm somehow out to get to him. I called these paranoid delusions, because that's exactly what they are. I don't see this as a personal attack but an accurate description of his behavior. Viriditas (talk) 20:03, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
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Recent software changes
- You can now use
{{#lsth: PageName | SectionName }}to transclude a section with its title. [28]
Problems
- MediaWiki was reverted to the previous version on February 4. It was because of a performance issue. It was restored later. [29]
- UploadWizard was broken on February 4 because of the revert of MediaWiki. [30]
- All sites were broken for 30 minutes on February 5. It was due to a network problem. [31]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 11 (calendar).
- You can have one user page for all wikis. Your Meta user page will show if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can test this tool on test wikis. [32] [33] [34]
- You can search for media files in VisualEditor more easily. Images are bigger and you see the size and license. [35] [36]
- It is easier to review your changes when you save the page in VisualEditor. The window is wider. [37]
- You can read the latest news about VisualEditor. You can now join weekly meetings with developers. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The first meeting is on February 11 at 20:00 (UTC).
Future changes
- Administrators will soon be able to delete change tags used fewer than 5,000 times. [38]
- In the future you will be able to have personal lists of articles on the mobile site. [39]
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- Thanks Flinders Petrie! Sometimes the stars align and someone's checking the queue right as something pops into it. Glad I could help :) A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 18:19, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
- Indeed, it's a shame that Wikipedia can't convert WL beers to real ones though. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | Say Shalom! 21 Shevat 5775 18:59, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
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Wifione-paid editing amendment request
I've filed an amendment request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification_and_Amendment#Amendment_request:_Wifione.
I think everybody has had their say at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Wifione/Proposed decision, so perhaps this notice is just a formality.
All the best,
Smallbones(smalltalk) 16:00, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for the notice, Smallbones. I think you're right that between what you've said at ARCA and what you, I, and others have already said on the PD talk, there's not a lot more to add. I'll keep an eye on the clarifications page for an outcome, though. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 16:31, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 18 (calendar).
- On Wednesday your Meta user page will be shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. [40] [41] [42]
- You can now change the order of categories in VisualEditor using drag-and-drop. [43]
- In VisualEditor, you now need to make a change before you can "Apply Changes" to citations and templates. [44]
- The way the cursor moves in VisualEditor is changing. Your browser now handles the cursor directly. Most of you will see no change. In right-to-left text, the cursor now moves in a 'visible' rather than 'logical' way. This is like other sites but you may be surprised at first. [45]
Meetings
- The VisualEditor Team had their first public bug triage meeting on February 11. They will post the results on the meeting page. [46]
- You can join the second weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 18 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join. [47]
- You can join a meeting with the developers of the Content Translation tool. It will be on February 18 at 13:00 (UTC). [48]
Future changes
- You can comment on a proposal about abandoned Labs tools.
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