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Tech News: 2017-51

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2018.

Problems

• When you import a page from another wiki the usernames of the users who edited the article on the wiki you imported it from are shown in the article history. This should link to the users on the original wiki. A script to fix this caused problems for Wikidata and German Wikipedia. It also created a large number of SUL accounts on wikis where editors had never edited. [1]
• Some bot owners got email about their bots logging in from a new computer. If this is from one or a couple of wikis, you can turn these messages off in your preferences on those wikis until the problem has been solved. If not, you can report more about the problem in Phabricator.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

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

Future changes

• Files on Commons will have structured metadata in the future. The developers are now looking for examples of different kinds of metadata to make sure they are aware of them when they build prototypes for structured data on Commons. You can read more and help by giving examples of interesting media files.
• The Structured Commons team are making sure Commons work with structured data. If you regularly contribute to Commons and Wikidata you can answer a survey that helps the team prioritise the tools that are important for the Commons and Wikidata communities. The survey ends on 22 December. You can read more on Commons. You can also help the team decide on better names for "captions" and "descriptions". This ends on 3 January 2018.
• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey has now ended. You can see the results. They decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year.

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15h26min de 18 de dezembro de 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-02

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

• On Wikidata, the "gravar" button when you edit is now called "publicar". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "Publicar página" to "Publicar alterações". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [2][3]
• Some edits will get an automatic tag on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways. [4]
• Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [5]
• Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated. [6][7]

Problems

• Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem. [8]
• With the new filters in the recent changes, "Excluir os selecionados" in "Espaços nominais" did not work for "Filtros gravados" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [9]
• The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 instead of #Résumé even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March). [10]
• Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [11]

Changes later this week

• Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this you will be able to read but not edit Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis. [12]
• The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems. [13][14]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).
• WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: ext.wikiEditor. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed. [15]

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 9 January at 19:30 (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 10 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16h19min de 8 de janeiro de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-3

As últimas novidades técnicas da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Informe outros utilizadores sobre as seguintes mudanças. Nem todas afetarão você. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Mudanças recentes

• Burocratas em wikis da Fundação Wikimedia em que a extensão de tradução está instalada agora podem adicionar e remover a permissão de administrador de tradução por padrão. Os administradores de wikis em que esta extensão está habilitada podem adicionar e remover essa permissão de si. Wikis que usaram uma configuração diferente antes não sofreram alterações. [16]
• Há um novo Canal de suporte ao teste do discurso para desenvolvedores da Wikimedia. Você pode fazer perguntas ou responder a outras perguntas sobre o desenvolvimento de software MediaWiki e Wikimedia. [17]

Problemas

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [18][19]

Mudanças ainda nesta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki será implantada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org em 16 de janeiro. Será implantada em wikis selecionadas em 17 de janeiro e nas restantes em 18 de janeiro (calendário).

Encontros

• Você poderá participar do próximo encontro com a equipe do Editor Visual. Durante o encontro, será possível informar aos desenvolvedores quais bugs estão incomodando você. O encontro será realizado em 16 janeiro em 19:30 (UTC). Saiba como participar.
• Você poderá participar do próximo encontro com a equipe do Editor Visual. Durante o encontro, será possível informar aos desenvolvedores quais bugs estão incomodando você. O encontro será realizado em 17 janeiro em 16:00 (UTC). Saiba como participar.

Mudanças futuras

• Algumas centenas de wikis com menos de dez erros de alta prioridade em categorias Linter migrarão para a Biblioteca de análise de Remex. Isto é voltado à substituição do Tidy e acontecerá em 31 de janeiro. Outras wikis serão recomendadas a migrar em breve assim que corrigirem os erros que devem ser corrigidos. O Tidy será removido em meados de 2018. [20][21]

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18h45min de 15 de janeiro de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-04

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

• Filters on Special:RecentChangesLinked will get the new look similar to on the recent changes page. Special:RecentChangesLinked will also get some new features. [22][23]

Problems

• With the new OOUI look menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed. [24]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• irc.wikimedia.org will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically. [25]

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23h55min de 22 de janeiro de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-05

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 later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation is working on how to get less unmaintained code on Wikimedia wikis. This could be by finding maintainers or removing unmaintained features. They are now looking for feedback on what do do with AbuseFilter, the IRC RecentChanges feed, the RelatedSites extension and TimedMediaHandler. You can leave feedback on the linked talk pages. [26]

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17h06min de 29 de janeiro de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-06

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

Recent changes

• Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [27]
• The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [28]
• Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [29]

Problems

• Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [30]

Changes later this week

• When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [31]
• When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [32]
• The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of Sim or Não it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [33]
• Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [34]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (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 6 February at 19:30 (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 7 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Education Program extension will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the Programs and Events Dashboard. [35][36]

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20h51min de 5 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

Narrativa estruturada

Movido de: Utilizador Discussão:DARIO SEVERI

Salve Dario! Tudo bom? Não sou muito ativo neste projeto, mas queria discutir com você se se enquadra nele um projeto que estou pensando em desenvolver e, eventualmente, se teria tempo e interesse em participar. Saudações. --Joalpe (discussão) 20h44min de 9 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

Olá Joalpe, qualquer colaboração neste projeto é muito bem vinda. Eu acompanhei edições tuas e dos teus "alunos" nos últimos dois anos na Wikivoyage e foram muito úteis. Quanto a minha participação, eu praticamente deixei de melhorar e criar artigos (notícias) por falta de tempo. Eu estou envolvido em melhorar diversas outras Wikipedias nas quais não existem sysops, é uma "bagunça" danada nelas, a maioria são Wikipédias de idiomas africanos. O único outro editor ativo como sysop aqui é o Leonardo José Raimundo, como assumiu há poucos meses e não sei se pode ajudar muito, eu posso dar umas ideias mas sem me envolver. Saudações. DARIO SEVERI (discussão) 01h37min de 10 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

@DARIO SEVERI: Obrigado pela resposta. A ideia envolve o Wikidata, mais especificamente uma possível integração Wikidata-Wikinotícias. O objetivo fundamental: criar "automaticamente", em 2018, as notícias relacionadas aos resultados dos pleitos estaduais e outros no Brasil. Podemos extrair os dados sobre eleições da base do tribunal eleitoral e, a partir de uma narrativa estruturada, gerar todas as notícias sobre eleições que quisermos. Seriam notícias com muita informação numérica, eventualmente gráficos e mapas, também gerados automaticamente. Narrativa estruturada é o que nos permite, por exemplo, criar algo assim: w:pt:Usuário:Joalpe/Testes/MLabel1-modelo (clica no link vermelho -- e descubra por que páginas que não existem não deveriam necessariamente ser imaginadas como páginas em branco), ainda em desenvolvimento. Veja que nesse exemplo as informações são extraídas do Wikidata e a narrativa é previamente estruturada. Se você achar que isso tem interesse para este projeto, eu teria de pedir sua ajuda para fazer algumas alterações, que meu estatuto no momento não deve permitir, e também entender como organizar esse fluxo bastante grande de informação sem "floodar" o projeto. --Joalpe (discussão) 09h25min de 10 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

Olá Joalpe, como citei acima qualquer colaboração neste projeto é bem vinda e a tua ideia é muito boa mas existem alguns problemas técnicos que vou cita-lo abaixo:

• Eu posso colaborar um pouco mas não entendo praticamente nada de programação, o sysop que poderia ajudar é o AlvaroMolina, ele é bom nisso mas ele é sysop também na Wikinotícia espanhola e está editando pouco aqui, vamos ver se ele pode ajudar.
• As notícias antes de serem publicadas (aparecerem na Página Principal) devem ser conferidas e só depois é que sǎo publicadas. É um processo manual onde o Sysop deve clicar aceitando a notícia, após conferir que está com fontes, é imparcial etc.. Como atualmente eu sou praticamente o único administrador a conferir notícias criadas pelos diversos editores, o Leonardo José Raimundo colabora conferindo as que ele criou, existe um límite na quantidade que eu posso conferir. Você ao mencionar "esse fluxo bastante grande de informação" me deixou um pouco preocupado.
• Por último, as eleições que você mencionou serão realizadas em Outubro, eu neste mes, durante os últimos anos, desapareço dos projetos da Fundação por estar envolvido em organizar e liderar um grupo que viaja ao Nepal para fazer "trekking" nas montanhas e lá encima praticamente não se tem acesso ao intenet ... por isso não tem como eu verificar as notícias novas. Estou mencionando também o outro sysop, o Grondin, para ver se eles poderiam ajudar nesse assunto. Atenciosamente DARIO SEVERI (discussão) 11h03min de 10 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

• Coloquei a proposta na Wikinotícias:Redação [37] para ver se outros editores se interessam. DARIO SEVERI (discussão) 05h10min de 11 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

Em outubro não estarei fazendo nada, não sei de programação, mas posso ajudar no resto. Micael D. ^{Oi, meu chapa!} 12h25min de 11 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

Saudações. Obrigado por iniciar essa discussão. Copio aqui também Ederporto. Algumas ponderações:

• A ideia é que as notas sobre eleições sejam publicadas sem aprovação. O que será aprovado, e deve ser testado, é a narrativa estruturada. Explico: os textos terão todos a mesma estrutura; o que será alterado são as variáveis (nome do estado, nome dos candidatos, resultados numéricos) e todas essas alterações serão feitas automaticamente, via robô-Wikidata.
• Dado o caráter excepcional da proposto, podemos imaginar uma seção exclusiva na portada do Wikinotícias para divulgar essas notas. Por exemplo: "Cobertura especial das eleições de 2018 no Brasil".
• O Éder e eu podemos cuidar da programação. Temos feito coisas assim na Wikipédia. Talvez precisaremos implementar alguns módulos no Wikinotícias para isso. É mais nisso que precisaremos de ajuda, pois não temos os privilégios necessários, possivelmente.
• Alguém tem preocupações com essa proposta? A ideia é termos um tempo para amadurecê-la e ver como ela se encaixa no projeto, sem gerar qualquer tipo de problema. Saudações. --Joalpe (discussão) 15h19min de 11 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

Concordo, ótima ideia, Joalpe(continue tendo ideias assim :) ). Micael D. ^{Oi, meu chapa!} 21h06min de 11 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

A questão primária a ser pensada é se a comunidade Wikinotícias concorda com a introdução do módulo. Existem debates em aberto em diversas Wikipédias sobre a tomada dessa decisão. Se a resposta for sim, é literalmente um Crtl+C, Ctrl+V e um mundo mágico se abre! Além dos exemplos que o Joalpe citou mostrando a ideia, cito exemplos de utilização do módulo: Sismo de Kobe e Douglas Adams. Temos também uma apresentação básica de como trabalhar com o módulo na criação de infocaixas, a parte programática não é muito mais complexa que o que está descrito na apresentação. Ederporto (discussão) 23h43min de 11 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

Joalpe, se os textos terão a mesma estrutura não há necessidade de verificações neles, o que torna tudo mais fácil. Se precisarem implementar alguns módulos estarei sempre disponivel até o início de setembro. Saudações. DARIO SEVERI (discussão) 00h24min de 12 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

DARIO SEVERI Obrigado. Se não houver discordância, peço-lhe portanto que implemente o módulo Wikidata neste projeto. Obrigado. --Joalpe (discussão) 14h09min de 12 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

Joalpe, discordância não há, mas precisa ser um sysop para implementar? Se você conseguir é melhor pois eu como citei acima sou péssimo nestas coisas. DARIO SEVERI (discussão) 15h16min de 12 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

@Joalpe, DARIO SEVERI: Feito Ederporto (discussão) 02h51min de 15 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

@Ederporto, DARIO SEVERI, Micael D.: O que teríamos de fazer agora é experimentar. Foge às regras criar uma notícia sobre uma eleição passada? Desculpem-me não conhecer bem o projeto :( --Joalpe (discussão) 03h40min de 15 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

@Joalpe, Ederporto:, É contrario as regras, normalmente as notícias devem ser "novas" senão não são mais notícias mas por ser um teste pode e deve ser feito, arquiva-se depois sem nenhum problema. DARIO SEVERI (discussão) 03h54min de 15 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

@Joalpe, DARIO SEVERI: Quão "novas"? Estou pensando na reeleição do presidente da República Checa, Miloš Zeman, no final do mês passado. Ederporto (discussão) 04h07min de 15 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

@Ederporto:, pelas nossas regras teria que ser uma semana, mas existem editores veteranos que ocasionalmente publicam noticias com fatos acontecidos há duas semanas, pode publicar essa reeleição, ninguém vai reclamar e vai ajudar ver se tudo está certo. DARIO SEVERI (discussão) 04h14min de 15 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

:). Micael D. ^{Oi, meu chapa!} 13h45min de 15 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

Apenas lembrando que por aqui existe algo mágico chamado Página de testes. No mais, sou contra a "produção" massiva de "notícias", pois me parece que a ideia foge do escopo deste projeto (um monte de números cercados por texto padrão não é notícia, mas sim artigo da Wikipédia). No entanto, caso os testes mostrem o contrário, mudo minha posição. Pedrohoneto (discussão) 02h07min de 16 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

@Joalpe, Ederporto:, é possivel ver o resultado utilizando a página de testes? se for então seria melhor utiliza-la pois não adicionaria notícias que fogem do escopo do projeto. DARIO SEVERI (discussão) 02h23min de 16 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

@DARIO SEVERI, Pedrohoneto: Salve! Façamos na página de testes, sim. A ideia é que todos -- nós, que atuamos na integração entre Wikidata e outros projetos, e vocês, que sabem tudo de Wikinotícias -- desenvolvamos um texto base, de acordo com os critérios e o escopo do projeto. Para o Pedro, em específico, noto que o uso da narrativa estrutura é uma vertente forte no jornalismo, aliás fortíssima -- o jornalismo computacional. A princípio, por conta de seu caráter fundamentalmente colaborativo, os projetos wiki, no caso o Wikinotícias, parecem ser compatíveis com esse tipo de jornalismo. De todo modo, entendo e compartilho sua preocupação e tomaremos todo o cuidado que você e outros editores deste projeto acharem necessário. Espero aliás que você possa contribuir também, pois podemos estar fazendo algo realmente transformador :)

Enfim, para coisas práticas: o primeiro teste, na página de teste, será a eleição estadual no Acre em 2014. É uma eleição pequena, com dados que já conhecemos. Estamos alimentando o item dessa eleição no Wikidata e, paralelamente, montando um primeiro rascunho de texto base. Acho bom imaginarmos que o texto que será gerado será uma mistura de algo como [38] e [39]. Saudações. --Joalpe (discussão) 11h09min de 19 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

@Joalpe: Já realizaram algum teste? Pedrohoneto (discussão) 18h21min de 12 de março de 2018 (UTC)

@Pedrohoneto: Estamos, a pequenos passos, montando a entrada Q17813784 para servir de modelo. Mas encontramos alguns percalços, que envolvem dificuldades na extração de dados em árvores, falta de propriedades apropriadas para descrever adequadamente uma eleição e tamanho limite da entrada. Talvez o Ederporto possa detalhar melhor as questões. --Joalpe (discussão) 18h25min de 12 de março de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-07

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

• TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [40][41][42]
• Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week

• You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [43]
• The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [44]
• The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [45]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 February 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 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved. [46]

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21h59min de 12 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-08

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 explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [47][48]
• You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [49]

Problems

• Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [50]
• Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [51][52]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (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 20 February at 19:30 (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 21 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible. [53]
• Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.

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22h54min de 19 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-09

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

Recent changes

• Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [54]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [55][56]
• Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [57]
• Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [58][59][60]

Changes later this week

• Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [61]
• The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [62][63]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (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 27 February at 19:30 (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 28 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19h52min de 26 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-10

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 now make longer edit summaries. [64]

Changes later this week

• You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. [65]
• On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [66][67]
• Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [68]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (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 6 March at 19:30 (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 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• In the future you will be able to use global preferences. This means you could change a preference for all wikis instead of having to change it every time for each wiki. You can now test global preferences and give feedback.
• You can now read about planned works on maps during 2018. This will be done by June. You can give feedback on the planned maps work.

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17h12min de 5 de março de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-11

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

• 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons. [69]
• Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [70]
• Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [71]
• Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [72]

Problems

• The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [73]

Changes later this week

• You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [74]
• It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [75][76]
• A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [77][78][79]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 March at 19:30 (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 14 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19h43min de 12 de março de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-12

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 March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [80]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 março. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 março. It will be on all wikis from 22 março (calendar).

Meetings

• There is no Editing team meeting this week.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 março at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [81][82]
• In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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15h03min de 19 de março de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-13

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 later this week

• Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [83] [84]
• The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [85]
• TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [86]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (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 27 March 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 one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [87]
• Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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20h04min de 26 de março de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-14

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

• Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
• The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

Problems

• MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [88][89][90]
• The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [91]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
• User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns. [92]
• Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [93][94][95]
• AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [96] [97]
• In Special:Preferences, the preference "Recarregar a lista de páginas vigiadas automaticamente sempre que um filtro é alterado (requer JavaScript)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [98]
• You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [99]
• You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [100]

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 3 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 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
• On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [101][102]

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19h28min de 2 de abril de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-15

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

Recent changes

• Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it. [103]
• You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year. [104]
• The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details. [105]
• Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left). [106]

Problems

• The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [107]
• For a week in March rollbacks got both the rollback and the undo tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed. [108]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
• Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits. [109]

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 10 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 11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The iOS and Android apps will get synced reading lists later in April.

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18h08min de 9 de abril de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-16

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 later this week

• Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [110]
• Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [111][112]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 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 17 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 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The new PDF renderer could not create PDFs from books. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki. PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function. [113]
• Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3. [114]
• Volunteer developers can fill out the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey. The last day is April 22 (UTC). This is a third-party service survey. See the privacy statement.

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15h20min de 16 de abril de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-17

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. [115]
• 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. [116]

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. [117]
• 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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18h16min de 23 de abril de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-18

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. [118]

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. [119]

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. [120]
• 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. [121]
• You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the Edição 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. [122]
• 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 jharePredefinição:@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. [123][124][125]

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16h18min de 30 de abril de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-19

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. [126]

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. [127]

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. [128]
• 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. [129][130]

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16h27min de 7 de maio de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-20

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

• Dynamic maps are now available on most Wikipedias. Labels on maps can also be in different languages.
• The new Advanced Search interface is now available as a Beta Feature on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated. [131]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 May. It will be on all wikis from 17 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can give feedback and suggestions.
• The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it. Read more on mediawiki.org [132]

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22h23min de 14 de maio de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-21

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 later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 May. It will be on all wikis from 24 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• It could become easier to reference different pages of a book in an article. You can give feedback. The last day for feedback is 27 May.

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17h33min de 21 de maio de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-22

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 now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki. Global preferences will come to the Wikipedias later this week. [133][134]
• It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked. [135]
• Wikidata now supports lexicographical data. This helps describe words.
• There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups. [136]
• Some rare invisible Unicode characters have recently been banned from page titles. This includes soft hyphens (U+00AD) and left-to-right (U+2066) and right-to-left (U+2067) isolate markers. Existing pages with these characters will soon be moved by a script. [137]
• There's a new Wikimedia Foundation team to support the Wikimedia technical communities. It's called the Technical Engagement team. Most of the team members did similar work in other teams before this. [138]

Problems

• Some translatable pages are showing old translations instead of latest ones. The cause of this issue has been fixed. We will update all pages automatically to show the latest translations. [139]

Changes later this week

• There will be a new special page named PasswordPolicies. This page gives information about the password rules for each user group on that wiki. [140]
• A new way to see moved paragraphs in diffs is coming to most wikis. This is to make it easier to find the moved paragraphs and the changes in them. [141]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 May. It will be on all wikis from 31 May (calendar).
• Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. This is complex. The tool will now disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. It has warned about this in the JavaScript console since February. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [142]

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 29 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 30 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Content Translation drafts which have not been updated in over a year will be removed. This allows other users to translate those articles. [143]
• A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development. [144]
• Some wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 30 May and 13 June. Wikis with fewer than 100 linter issues in the main namespace in all high-priority linter categories will switch. This includes Wikidata. Tidy will probably be removed on all wikis in the first week of July. [145][146]

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12h40min de 29 de maio de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-23

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

Recent changes

• The MonoBook skin has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different. [147]
• Planet Wikimedia collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the Rawdog feed aggregator to do this instead of Planet. [148][149]
• Redirect links in Special:WhatLinksHere now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again. [150]

Problems

• You will not be able to edit some wikis between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. You can see if your wiki is one of them.
• MassMessage did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late. [151]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 June. It will be on all wikis from 7 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 June 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 6 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This is planned to happen in June or early July. [152][153]

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21h54min de 4 de junho de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-24

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

Recent changes

• In the Wikipedia app for Android or iOS users can create reading lists. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome. [154]
• There is a new version of Pywikibot. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis. [155]

Problems

• The MonoBook skin was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design. [156]

Changes later this week

• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. For most wikis this will happen on 18 June. For the rest it will happen on 25 June. [157][158]

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 June. It will be on all wikis from 14 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the Readers Web team IRC office hour. There you can discuss tools to contribute on the mobile web for the existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on 18 June at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• 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 12 June 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 13 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to move local wiki files to Commons and keep their original data intact. This is planned to come to the first wikis in June.

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21h55min de 11 de junho de 2018 (UTC)

Spambots

Boa tarde colegas. Acredito que aqui é o local mais adequado para tratar desse assunto, de modo que todos os editores do projeto possam visualizar o que postarei. Como devem ter notado, diariamente são criadas várias contas de diferentes nomes que não realizam nenhuma edição. Algumas delas, quando realizam, na maior parte das vezes se trata de publicação de SPAM na PU ou no domínio principal. Hoje de madrugada, ao observar o registro dos filtros de abuso, descobri que algumas dessas contas acionaram o filtro 72 que se refere a spambots. Exemplo. Solicitei o bloqueio global para essas contas no Meta, mas ainda não responderam se é ou não caso de bloqueio. Independente se serão ou não bloqueadas globalmente, o que acham de bloquearmos por tempo indeterminado toda vez que essas contas acionarem esse filtro? Porque realmente parecem que são contas com o único propósito de publicar SPAMs. --Editor D.S (discussão) 17h16min de 12 de junho de 2018 (UTC)

As contas que reportei no Meta já foram bloqueadas globalmente. --Editor D.S (discussão) 20h18min de 12 de junho de 2018 (UTC)

Concordo 100%. Sempre vejo essas contas sendo criadas aleatoriamente assim.... Diariamente. Faz uns 8 meses que é todo dia isso.... Tem vezes que criam 10 de uma vez só..... Sempre inserindo o mesmo tipo de texto sem sentido com algum link aleatório (e sempre em latim, francês ou italiano, ou quase sempre). Não sei se vocês notaram. Enfim, com certeza é uma medida indispensável. Muito bom! Micael D. ^{Oi, meu chapa!} 23h09min de 12 de junho de 2018 (UTC)

Concordo se o filtro 72 for acionado. Notei essas contas que com nomes não em idioma portugues que aparecem e não criam nada ... bloqueie elas. DARIO SEVERI (discussão) 03h19min de 13 de junho de 2018 (UTC)

Sim DARIO SEVERI e Micael D.. Não sei muito bem como são criadas essas contas. Talvez seja pelo mesma pessoa ou talvez não. Mas acredito que o melhor a se fazer e bloquear, primeiramente, aqui no projeto, as contas que acionarem o filtro 72 (que é o que detecta spambots), até mesmo para evitar que elas publiquem SPAM. Depois disso, reportá-las ao Meta para que sejam bloqueadas globalmente. Praticamente todo dia acesso o Meta e por isso será uma facilidade reportá-las. Leonardo José Raimundo‎ e Grondin, o que acham sobre isso? --Editor D.S (discussão) 18h51min de 13 de junho de 2018 (UTC)

Eu também Concordo com o bloqueio infinito das contas que contenham propagandas. Se na Wikipédia não se permite propagandas, no Wikcionário, Wikinotícias, Wikilivros, Wikidata, Wikimedia Incubator e Meta-Wiki também não se deve permitir. Se as contas de usuário contiverem propagandas, elas devem acionar o filtro 72.

Leonardo José Raimundo (discussão) 19h28min de 13 de junho de 2018 (UTC)

Editor D.S, este assunto está sendo discutido aqui na Wikipédia (pt), talvez seja uma boa ideia ver o que conversam lá sobre isso. DARIO SEVERI (discussão) 02h47min de 14 de junho de 2018 (UTC)

Eu confio na sua sabedoria.-- Bertrand GRONDIN  → ^(escrever) 20h08min de 15 de junho de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-25

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

Recent changes

• Syntax highlighting has been a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It is now a normal feature. It is based on CodeMirror. [159]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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 19 June 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 20 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3. [160][161]
• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [162][163]
• All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the Remex parsing library on 5 July. This is to replace Tidy. You can help fix remaining errors. [164]

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21h47min de 18 de junho de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-26

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

• PAWS, our JupyterHub system, got an upgrade and a logo. Several bugs should be fixed.

Problems

• When a link text was in italics or had other formatting you could sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [165][166]

Changes later this week

• Content translation users who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create better tools for translating articles. [167]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 June. It will be on all wikis from 28 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 June 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 27 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23h10min de 25 de junho de 2018 (UTC)

Predefinição com problema, não posso corrigir

Há um problema sério em Predefinição:Fonte: o parâmetro "pub" é obrigatório, quando evidentemente é opcional (o que é inclusive explicitado quando se vem a criar uma página). Não posso corrigir porque não tenho permissão para tal ainda.

O código é <includeonly>{{#if:{{{idioma|}}}|{{{{{idioma}}}}}}} {{{autor}}}. '''[{{{url}}} {{{título}}}]''' — ''[[w:{{{pub}}}|{{{pub}}}]]'', {{{data}}}{{#if: {{{acessadoem|}}} |. Página visitada em {{{acessadoem|}}}. }}</includeonly><noinclude>{{uso de predefinições}}[[Categoria:!Predefinições para referência|{{PAGENAME}}]]</noinclude>

Deveria ser: <includeonly>{{#if:{{{idioma|}}}|{{{{{idioma}}}}}}} {{{autor}}}. '''[{{{url}}} {{{título}}}]'''{{#if:{{{pub|}}}| — ''[[w:{{{pub}}}|{{{pub}}}]]''}}, {{{data}}}{{#if: {{{acessadoem|}}} |. Página visitada em {{{acessadoem|}}}. }}</includeonly><noinclude>{{uso de predefinições}}[[Categoria:!Predefinições para referência|{{PAGENAME}}]]</noinclude>

Leefeni^{aures audiendi audiat} 01h57min de 28 de junho de 2018 (UTC)

Leefeni de Karik, tem certeza que não consegue fazer a alteração? Pergunto porque a predefinição está protegida a nível de autoconfirmados. E de acordo com que aparece para mim, você já está nesse grupo. --Editor D.S (discussão) 02h01min de 28 de junho de 2018 (UTC)

Na verdade acabei de ver que a predefinição está protegida à nível de administradores devido a uma proteção em cascata que aplicaram. Vou corri-la. --Editor D.S (discussão) 02h04min de 28 de junho de 2018 (UTC)

Leefeni de Karik, corrigido. Poderia verificar para mim se consegue editar a página agora? --Editor D.S (discussão) 02h14min de 28 de junho de 2018 (UTC)

Certo! Leefeni^{aures audiendi audiat} 02h17min de 28 de junho de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-27

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 database for tags will be changed. This will happen on 2 July on French Wikipedia and 9 July on all other wikis. Please report if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge. [168]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem. [169]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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 3 July 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 4 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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00h46min de 3 de julho de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-28

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

• WebM video files have smaller file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take longer time. [170]
• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July. [171]
• All wikis now use the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy. This could cause errors. You can help fix the errors. [172]

Problems

• When you rolled back an edit it could get both the Rollback and Undo tags. This has been fixed. [173]
• Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed. [174]

Changes later this week

• When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label). [175][176]
• On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page. [177]
• When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures. [178]
• Structured discussions toolbars will have more style options. [179]
• When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening. [180]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (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 10 July 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 11 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Today all administrators can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can read more. [181]
• Page previews will be on by default for new accounts. [182]

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23h10min de 9 de julho de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-29

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 now use global preferences on Wikimedia wikis. You can set them on the global preferences page. [183]
• You can now see a new log of pages being created at Special:Log/create. It includes pages which are later deleted. It is now available on all Wikimedia wikis except Commons and Wikidata. [184]
• You can see how many pageviews a wiki had from specific countries. The Wikistats2 maps have now been updated. [185]

Changes later this week

• Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change. [186]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (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 July 17 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 July 18 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some articles have messages to readers about problems with the article. For example that it does not cite sources or might not be neutral. Readers do not see these messages on the mobile version. The developers now want to show them. You can read more and leave feedback.
• You can use <inputbox> to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead of prefix:Page name you will see a text that explains which pages are being searched. You can read more and leave feedback.

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16h01min de 16 de julho de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-30

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 log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [187]
• Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [188]
• Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [189]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 julho. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 julho. It will be on all wikis from 26 julho (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 julho at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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09h44min de 24 de julho de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-31

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

• The design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [190]

Problems

• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [191][192]
• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [193][194]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 julho. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 agosto. It will be on all wikis from 2 agosto (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 31 julho 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 1 agosto at 15:00 (UTC) as well as at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• After a community discussion, a new group for users will be created. "Interface administrators" will be the only users allowed to edit interface pages like MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Common.js. This is done to avoid technical issues and improve security. That change will be effective by the end of August 2018.

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14h05min de 30 de julho de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-32

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

• Special:NewPages now has the OOUI look. [195]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [196][197]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.

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 7 August 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 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19h39min de 6 de agosto de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-33

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

Recent changes

• CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [198]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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 14 August 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 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [199]

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17h53min de 13 de agosto de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-34

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 later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
• Legacy JavaScript global variables have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia or mediawiki.org. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide to fix old scripts. [200]

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16h46min de 20 de agosto de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-35

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 now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [201]
• Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [202]

Problems

• Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [203]

Changes later this week

• The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [204]
• AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [205]
• Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title. [206]
• Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [207]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (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 28 August 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 29 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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16h16min de 27 de agosto de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-36

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

• There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [208][209]
• There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [210][211]
• You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [212]
• wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [213]
• When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [214]

Problems

• UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [215]
• You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [216]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation.
• The RelatedSites extension will be removed from Wikivoyage.
• Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server will be removed. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used. [217]

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16h47min de 3 de setembro de 2018 (UTC)

Fevereiro de 2015

Olá Editor D.S .... foram criadas quase 450 notícias neste mês (Fevereiro de 2015), protege-las é uma tarefa digna de Hércules, vou acabar Abril de 2015 até o fim de semana e ai vou te ajudar .... devagar chegamos lá. Abs DARIO SEVERI (discussão) 05h27min de 6 de setembro de 2018 (UTC)

Olá DARIO. Sim, realmente parece que foram criadas bastante notícias nesse mês. Mas não se preocupe, proteja-as conforme o tempo lhe permitir. E com certeza sua ajuda será muito bem-vinda . Abraços! --Editor D.S (discussão) 16h28min de 6 de setembro de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-37

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

• When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [218]

Problems

• Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [219]
• Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [220]
• <maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [221]
• {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [222]
• When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [223]

Changes later this week

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
• Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

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 11 Septmber 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 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers work on making the wikis work better on mobile phones. There is a list of common problems when making content easier to read in the mobile view. You can add things to the page and ask others to help.

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22h35min de 10 de setembro de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-38

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

Recent changes

• The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [224]
• MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [225]

Problems

• You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [226]

Changes later this week

• Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [227]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers are testing new mobile web navigation. You can use it and give feedback.

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21h58min de 17 de setembro de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-39

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

Changes later this week

• The preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [228]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15h23min de 24 de setembro de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-40

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

Recent changes

• Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [229][230]

Problems

• New and updated translations from will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [231][232]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.

Future changes

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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17h35min de 1 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-41

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

• The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. You can use the Programs and Events Dashboard or the Fountain instead. [233]

Problems

• There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [234]

Changes later this week

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
• Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23h38min de 8 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-42

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

Problems

• Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [235]
• Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [236]

Changes later this week

• When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [237]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).

Meetings

• There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [238]
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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22h41min de 15 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

Nossa PP é muito grande

Caros, nossa PP é gigante. A quantidade de informação nela é, na minha opinião, um pouco desproporcional ao que produzimos aqui. O que acham @Editor D.S, DARIO SEVERI, Leonardo José Raimundo: e demais que queiram participar. EVinente (discussão) 17h10min de 18 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

Concordo com o EVinente. Acredito que realmente algumas informações, como notícias com mais de 30 dias de criação, são desnecessárias. Até porque as pessoas não têm tanto interesse em notícias que já completaram muitos dias de criação. Poderíamos reduzir a Predefinição:Últimas notícias de modo que ela apresente apenas as notícias criadas nas últimas horas, sem apresentar as seções Semana Passadae Últimos 3 meses, porém acho legal deixar a parte que agrupa as notícias por países, continentes e por região, justamente para auxiliar o usuário na hora de escolher qual notícia ler. Na Predefinição:Serviços poderíamos apenas deixar o Quiz de notícias, pois como já disse, quase ninguém se interessa por notícias de anos atrás. A Imagem em Destaque também é outra predefinição que deveríamos eliminar, já que nem é quase atualizada. Pra se ter uma ideia, aquela imagem de um prato de brigadeiros é a mesma desde que comecei a editar aqui em agosto de 2017. Não vejo muito sentido dessa seção continuar existindo. Deveríamso continuar deixando as seções de notícias em destaque e outras como Portais do Wikinotícias, Sobre o Wikinotícias etc. O que acham? Vocês têm outras sugestões?

Convido para participar dessa discussão outros editores que também editam no Wikinotícias: Conde Edmond Dantès, Micael D., Guga1248, Pedrohoneto. Leefeni de Karik, AlvaroMolina, Grondin e Saskeh. Desculpem-me se esqueci de alguém. --Editor D.S (discussão) 18h11min de 18 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

Discordo. Recomendo que deixe a página principal do jeito que está. Quanto à predefinição da imagem em destaque, ela pode ser atualizada. É só escolher uma imagem nova para colocá-la nessa página.

Leonardo José Raimundo (discussão) 20h42min de 18 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

@Leonardo José Raimundo:, não faz sentido manter a PP tão sobrecarregada com lista de notícias de 1, 2 ou 3 anos atrás. Se nossa missão é prover notícias, logo temos que dar destaque às mais recentes possíveis. Veja a PP da Wikinotícias em Inglês. EVinente (discussão) 20h49min de 18 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

E quanto à imagem em destaque pessoal, creio que seja desnecessária também. EVinente (discussão) 20h51min de 18 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

Concordo com o EVinente, desnecessário manter notícias velhas na PP, sugiro que essas notícias sejam mantidas por no máximo 15 dias, dependendo da notícia. Guga1248 (discussão) 03h09min de 19 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

Guga1248, uma pena o nosso recauchutador de PPs, o @Gato Preto: estar off nesse momento. EVinente (discussão) 10h49min de 19 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

@EVinente: Utilizador:Pedrohoneto/PP serve? Pedrohoneto (discussão) 03h48min de 20 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

@Pedrohoneto: assim como das outras vezes a tua colaboração neste assunto é muito bem vinda pois temos poucos colaboradores nesta área, eu pessoalmente entendo muito pouco. Vamos ver o que é decidido pelos colegas, você teria alguma sugestão? DARIO SEVERI (discussão) 10h00min de 20 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

@Pedrohoneto:, está muito bom, mas aquela imagem em destaque, bem, ainda não sei se é necessária, já que teoricamente deveríamos ter imagens de destaque no noticiário. EVinente (discussão) 13h58min de 20 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

Pessoal, eu modifiquei a PP na época que estava abandonada (2014) por muitos usuários na década passada e realmente está grande, principalmente o quadro direito, que nunca consegui fazê-lo igual ao do meio. Mas apoio o início desse debate sobre a PP. Saskeh (discussão) 07h10min de 20 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

@Saskeh, EVinente, Pedrohoneto, Editor D.S, Leonardo José Raimundo: Gostei do modelo feito pelo Pedrohoneto, fica bem mais compacto e consegue transmitir as informações necessárias. Guga1248 (discussão) 16h13min de 20 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

@EVinente: A imagem é realmente desnecessária. Tirei ela. Só tenham em mente que as notícias que aparecerem na PP devem ter um limite X de caracteres (a ser estabelecido). Além disso, a página precisa ser configurada corretamente pro mobile. Talvez o @He7d3r: possa ajudar. Pedrohoneto (discussão) 16h57min de 20 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

• Gostei do modelo feito pelo Pedrohoneto (ver [239]), tem um visual mais moderno e transmite as principais informações a serem dadas, talvez o @Mr. Fulano: possa ajudar na configuração pro mobile. Quanto ao limite X de caracteres deve ser o necessário para que apareçam dois parágrafos curtos ou um maior. DARIO SEVERI (discussão) 02h59min de 21 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

@DARIO SEVERI: Não me lembro como foi feito lá na ptwiki para criar a versão móvel (Minerva), mas se não me engano, é preciso abrir uma tarefa no Phabricator. Imagino que o He7d3r possa responder melhor isso. Mr. Fulano (discussão) 21h30min de 21 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

Inclui os seguintes alguns usuários pra se manifestarem: EVinente, Conde Edmond Dantès, Micael D., Guga1248, Pedrohoneto, Leefeni de Karik, AlvaroMolina, Grondin, Editor D.S, ANGwiki, DARIO SEVERI, Leonardo José Raimundo, Pathoschild, Minerva97. Sugiro que corrijam na parte do indicadores econômicos, onde aparece na PP (acredito que seja no PP e não na predefinição), entre "Indicadores econômicos" e a data de hoje, pois tem espaço, que não faço nenhuma idéia como tirar. Também fiz modificação na predefinição sobre últimas notícias e serviços que ficaram menores. EVinente, já sobre rever sobre a PP, eu já pretendia a fazer isso, mas por falta de tempo, não fiz isso, mas agradeço por ter iniciado. Saskeh (discussão) 07h24min de 21 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

E outra: a discussão deveria ser aqui? Saskeh (discussão) 07h26min de 21 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

Rsrsrs...concordo Saskeh. EVinente (discussão) 14h11min de 21 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

Concordo. A discussão poderia ser na página principal.

Leonardo José Raimundo (discussão) 17h54min de 21 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

Concordo-- Bertrand GRONDIN  → ^(escrever) 19h29min de 21 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Comentário: Também gostei do modelo criado pelo Pedrohoneto e Apoio a aplicação do mesmo. Só uma dúvida: onde aparece escrito textos em outro idioma seria onde ficarão as notícias em destaque? --Editor D.S (discussão) 03h53min de 22 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)