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29		Miss International 2009 (talk)	Add sources
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282		Shishito (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
131		Media proprietor (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
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629		CA Technologies (talk)	Merge
44		HP Enterprise Business (talk)	Merge
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275		Suzlon (talk)	Wikify
149		Avoidance coping (talk)	Wikify
19		Overgeneral autobiographical memory (talk)	Orphan
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1		Camp Harding, Colorado (talk)	Orphan
74		Wistron (talk)	Stub
19		Avanti Marianne (talk)	Stub
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6		Centenary Institute (talk)	Stub
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The Signpost: 6 February 2017

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Tech News: 2017-06

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 block log sometimes showed blocks as being much longer than they were. This has now been fixed. [1]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia pages will now be better at showing pictures when you share them on social media. The descriptions will be different too. You can see an example of before and after. [2]
• There are some changes to the OOjs UI. Some old functions will not work anymore or not work as they used to. This could be a breaking change. [3]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Tidy will be replaced later this year. Instead, the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This will cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. You can see if your wiki still has something to fix here for one of the HTML problems. This list does not cover all problems. You can read about more problems. [4][5]

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19:45, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

ACC interface

Please login to the Account Creations Interface to remove your account from the dreaded 45 Day list. Thanx, - Mlpearc (open channel) 01:20, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

 Done ~ Matthewrbowker ^{Say something · What I've done} 03:01, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

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201		Miss International Queen (talk)	Add sources
32		Miss International 2008 (talk)	Add sources
108		Miss Europe (talk)	Add sources
11		STS-61-G (talk)	Add sources
61		Digital China (talk)	Add sources
1,857		Tesla, Inc. (talk)	Add sources
14		Shelly Altman (talk)	Cleanup
22		STS-57 (talk)	Cleanup
201		University of Northern Colorado (talk)	Cleanup
928		STS-107 (talk)	Expand
488		Fort Lee lane closure scandal (talk)	Expand
20		Akron Racers (talk)	Expand
48		Supreme Court of New Jersey (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
33		Ambalappuzha (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
2,139		Wipro (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
609		Seagate Technology (talk)	Merge
341		Independent voter (talk)	Merge
27		PacketVideo (talk)	Merge
7		Perpetration-induced traumatic stress (talk)	Wikify
4,272		Protests against Donald Trump (talk)	Wikify
523		UMTS (telecommunication) (talk)	Wikify
4		Maryam Nayeb Yazdi (talk)	Orphan
10		Trauma Systems Therapy (talk)	Orphan
4		Center for Child and Family Health (talk)	Orphan
583		FIS (company) (talk)	Stub
13		Gayesha Perera (talk)	Stub
14		George Sebastian Silzer (talk)	Stub
2		Ishanka De Alwis (talk)	Stub
8		Josiah Hardy (talk)	Stub
23		2.03 (Buran-class spacecraft) (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2017-07

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

• EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. For now it works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. [6]

Problems

• The Firefox add-on Firefogg can cause problems with the Upload Wizard. This will not be fixed, because Firefox will not support Firefogg in the future. The Upload Wizard will no longer work with Firefogg. [7]
• Tool Labs and Wikimedia Labs databases will be under maintenance on 15 February. This will start at 17:00 (UTC) and last for about six hours. Some tools could have problems during or after this. [8]

Changes this week

• The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It will come to Meta and German Wikipedia this week. It is already available on MediaWiki.org. It will come to more wikis later. [9]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on the Catalan, Greek, Russian, and Italian Wikipedias in the middle of February. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. It will come to more wikis later this spring. [10]
• The Developer Wishlist is a list where developers prioritize tools they need. The voting closes at 14 February 23:59 (UTC). This process is only for developers.

Review

• You can read the 2016 product summary from the Wikimedia Foundation Product group to see what they did with things they said they would work on in the annual plan.

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18:06, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

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37		Miss Mauritius (talk)	Add sources
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106		Criticism of Human Rights Watch (talk)	Cleanup
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649		Zynga (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
27		Human rights in Venezuela (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
375		Miss Venezuela (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
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954		Bruce Rauner (talk)	Merge
749		NCR Corporation (talk)	Merge
12		Vinu Udani Siriwardhana (talk)	Wikify
59		Political positions of Rick Perry (talk)	Wikify
9		Roy D. Bridges Jr. (talk)	Wikify
2		Amauris Samartino Flores (talk)	Orphan
3		Francisco Usón (talk)	Orphan
16		Religion and coping with trauma (talk)	Orphan
4		Miss Earth Trinidad and Tobago (talk)	Stub
16		Charles Smith Olden (talk)	Stub
2		World Foundation for Medical Research and Prevention (talk)	Stub
4		Australian Melanoma Research Foundation (talk)	Stub
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Tech News: 2017-08

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 edit summary box is now a little bit bigger. This is to make it follow the Wikimedia design guide. [11]

Changes this week

• Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards. [12]
• There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options: type and peers. The type option solves this problem. You can use peers to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers. [13]
• OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way. [14]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar).

Meetings

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19:25, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

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824		CGI Group (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
703		Soviet space program (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
24		HP Atalla (talk)	Merge
10		Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation (talk)	Merge
1,286		Northeast India (talk)	Merge
68		Brendan Byrne (talk)	Wikify
105		Vicarious traumatization (talk)	Wikify
448		Mark Hurd (talk)	Wikify
10		Reshma Thakkar (talk)	Orphan
3		The Hospital Research Foundation (talk)	Orphan
14		Anxiety buffer disruption theory (talk)	Orphan
634		Poblano (talk)	Stub
38		Daniel McKee (talk)	Stub
4		Muhammad Qadeer (talk)	Stub
761		HP Inc. (talk)	Stub
17		John Hamilton (New Jersey) (talk)	Stub
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Tech News: 2017-09

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

• On 22 February the wikipedia.org portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file. [15]

Changes this week

• You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor. [16]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (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 28 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can soon upload 3D files to Commons. The file formats are AMF and STL. The plan is for this to work later this week but it could be later. [17]
• The name "Wikipedia" will be more obvious at the top of the page when you read Wikipedia in the mobile view. This is because many readers don't realize they are on Wikipedia. [18][19]

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19:55, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

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