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Tech News: 2019-14

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

Changes later this week

Notifications tell you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications about new links to pages you created. For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this. [1]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (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 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:29, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

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13	Anu Namshir (talk)	Add sources
24	Gwendoline Ruais (talk)	Add sources
113	Mutya ng Pilipinas (talk)	Add sources
108,062	Deaths in 2019 (talk)	Add sources
49	HP Integrity Servers (talk)	Add sources
68	Binibining Pilipinas 2014 (talk)	Add sources
426	Alappuzha (talk)	Cleanup
156	Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures (talk)	Cleanup
35	Council Rock High School North (talk)	Cleanup
4	Mircea Dușa (talk)	Expand
4	Mutya ng Pilipinas 2007 (talk)	Expand
15	HP Enterprise Security Products (talk)	Expand
31	Boulder High School (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
22	Treatments for PTSD (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
33	Ambalappuzha (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
2,512	Hewlett-Packard (talk)	Merge
651	HP Inc. (talk)	Merge
79	Military sexual trauma (talk)	Merge
56	ProCurve (talk)	Wikify
447	Carol II of Romania (talk)	Wikify
3	Ovidiu Sincai Social Democratic Institute (talk)	Wikify
4	Maryam Elisha (talk)	Orphan
3	Andreas Maercker (talk)	Orphan
4	Center for Child and Family Health (talk)	Orphan
16	Miss Yugoslavia (talk)	Stub
8	Gavril Dejeu (talk)	Stub
10	Constantin Coandă (talk)	Stub
43	Parul Shah (talk)	Stub
8	Thalavady (talk)	Stub
16	Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino (talk)	Stub

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

Administrator changes

Reaper Eternal • ThaddeusB

Bogdangiusca • Christopher Parham • Necrothesp • Schneelocke • Siroxo • Sarah

Mentifisto → Lofty abyss

Interface administrator changes

Mr. Stradivarius

Bureaucrat changes

DeltaQuad

Kingturtle

Technical news

In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Please see meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 to provide your input on this idea.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee clarified that the General 1RR prohibition for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} edit notice.

Miscellaneous

Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:57, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-15

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

More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can read more.
Admins on French and Polish Wikipedia can block someone from editing a page or a namespace. If your wiki wants to get these blocks before they are available to all wikis, you can tell the developers. [2][3]

Problems

You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on 11 April at 05:00 (UTC). This is because of a hardware problem. You can see a list of the affected wikis. [4]
A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [5]
Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [6]

Changes later this week

When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site. [7]
The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more. [8]
The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return "" (empty string). When you read a page it will return "-" (dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces. [9]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (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 10 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. [10][11]
The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.

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18:24, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

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9	Constantin A. Crețulescu (talk)	Add sources
37	Sorin Grindeanu (talk)	Add sources
1,540	Catriona Gray (talk)	Add sources
92	Binibining Pilipinas 2017 (talk)	Add sources
102	Luis de Góngora (talk)	Add sources
7	Dimitrie Brătianu (talk)	Add sources
204	Cypress Semiconductor (talk)	Cleanup
70	Woodrow Wilson High School (Washington, D.C.) (talk)	Cleanup
21	Kamiak High School (talk)	Cleanup
9	Gheorghe Argeșanu (talk)	Expand
312	HP Pavilion (computer) (talk)	Expand
351	Social Democratic Party (Romania) (talk)	Expand
15	Miss Mongolia (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
9	Miss Luxembourg (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
34	Barnstable High School (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
2	Ministry of European Integration (Romania) (talk)	Merge
6	Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration (Romania) (talk)	Merge
14	Cleistocalyx operculatus (talk)	Merge
15	2015 Romanian protests (talk)	Wikify
196	Traian Băsescu (talk)	Wikify
7	Alexandru Lapedatu (talk)	Wikify
12	Anxiety buffer disruption theory (talk)	Orphan
44	Ulysses syndrome (talk)	Orphan
4	Carrenza (talk)	Orphan
10	Josephine Tan (talk)	Stub
18	Sorin Cîmpeanu (talk)	Stub
9	Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Alappuzha (talk)	Stub
3	Muhammad Qadeer (talk)	Stub
3	Grace Chapella (talk)	Stub
8	Chorvátsky Grob (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2019-16

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

Recent changes

All wikis now have the TemplateWizard for the wikitext editor.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (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 17 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Wikidata will get a new constraint status called suggestion. This will change how the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API works. [12][13]
You can test the depicts property for structured data on Commons.

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23:00, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
21	Radu Vasile (talk)	Add sources
6	Constantin Bosianu (talk)	Add sources
1,659	Delta Air Lines fleet (talk)	Add sources
11	Vintilă Brătianu (talk)	Add sources
21	Barbu Știrbey (talk)	Add sources
97	Miss Malaysia (talk)	Add sources
13	Miss Belarus (talk)	Cleanup
19	Hanover High School (New Hampshire) (talk)	Cleanup
65	Navajo Wars (talk)	Cleanup
6	Ion Emanuel Florescu (talk)	Expand
54	STS-3xx (talk)	Expand
48	Tanoan languages (talk)	Expand
14	Miss Belize (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
94	Miss Universe Japan (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
146	Economy of Mozambique (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
6	Strawblocks (talk)	Merge
796	Messiah in Judaism (talk)	Merge
118	Pioneer (military) (talk)	Merge
241	Montjuïc (talk)	Wikify
196	Flashback (psychology) (talk)	Wikify
117	Zilog (talk)	Wikify
2	Parayakad, Alappuzha (talk)	Orphan
5	Posttraumatic stress disorder and substance use disorders (talk)	Orphan
4	Thalia Thin (talk)	Orphan
5	Vicksburg, Colorado (talk)	Stub
5	Glennifer Perido (talk)	Stub
16	Lulu City, Colorado (talk)	Stub
20	Constantin Dăscălescu (talk)	Stub
9	Constantin Angelescu (talk)	Stub
12	Christi McGarry (talk)	Stub

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Contact for research project

Hello, I am a French PHD in media studies and communication at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University. I did my thesis on Wikipedia and I am analyzing now the tools like Xtools used in Wikipedia linked with the data management and the fight against vandalism. I would like to ask you some questions about it, could you contact me at my professional address marie-noelle.doutreix@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr? Thank you very much! Best regards, Marie Doutreix — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:E35:2E20:F5C0:9C2F:D5C8:3CDF:7E2D (talk) 15:15, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

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1,218	Miss World (talk)	Add sources
11	The Vanguard School (Colorado) (talk)	Add sources
78	Ariella Arida (talk)	Add sources
65	Miss Pakistan World (talk)	Add sources
18	Roy J. Wasson High School (talk)	Add sources
117	Miss World 2015 (talk)	Add sources
25	Titu Maiorescu (talk)	Cleanup
3	1997 WPF Draft (talk)	Cleanup
3	Bogdan Niculescu-Duvăz (talk)	Cleanup
173	HP Envy (talk)	Expand
8	Theodor Rosetti (talk)	Expand
245	HP ProBook (talk)	Expand
23	Miss Kazakhstan (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
151	Economy of Panama (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
27	Apollo 21 (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
86	Miss Universe Australia (talk)	Merge
146	Skylab 4 (talk)	Merge
8	Motoring.co.uk (talk)	Merge
161	Debriefing (talk)	Wikify
123	HP Cloud (talk)	Wikify
177	Avoidance coping (talk)	Wikify
4	Akshaya Alshi (talk)	Orphan
13	Overgeneral autobiographical memory (talk)	Orphan
14	Mental health among female offenders in the United States (talk)	Orphan
18	Trauma risk management (talk)	Stub
46	Alappuzha Beach (talk)	Stub
7	Bogdan Aurescu (talk)	Stub
25	HP Vectra (talk)	Stub
4	Hilltop Baptist School (talk)	Stub
4	Americus, Colorado (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2019-17

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

The advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook. [14][15][16]
The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [17]

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

Future changes

Wikipedia articles will have the sameAs meta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test. [18][19]

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19:08, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-18

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 Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [20][21]

Problems

Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [22]

Changes later this week

You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [23]
When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in local storage instead of session storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [24]
You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [25]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 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 1 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikidata wb_terms table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more. You can ask for help if you need it.
Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [26]

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22:27, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

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49	Compaq LTE (talk)	Add sources
17	Falcon High School (talk)	Add sources
21	QuickPlay (talk)	Add sources
14	Pine Creek High School (talk)	Add sources
251	Philippines at major beauty pageants (talk)	Add sources
30	Constantin Sănătescu (talk)	Add sources
275	Crisis intervention (talk)	Cleanup
196	Alibaba Cloud (talk)	Cleanup
533	NetApp (talk)	Cleanup
533	HP EliteBook (talk)	Expand
4	Mutya ng Pilipinas 2008 (talk)	Expand
11	Mesa Ridge High School (talk)	Expand
27	Exeter High School (New Hampshire) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
7	Kudassanad (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
147	As a service (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
268	Gemalto (talk)	Merge
18	STec, Inc. (talk)	Merge
4	Military sexual assault (talk)	Merge
68	International Standard Link Identifier (talk)	Wikify
37	G. Sudhakaran (talk)	Wikify
64	Do No Harm (TV series) (talk)	Wikify
8	Race-based traumatic stress (talk)	Orphan
8	HP Business Service Automation (talk)	Orphan
6	Miss La Union (talk)	Orphan
10	Coronado High School (Colorado) (talk)	Stub
7	Eugen Bejinariu (talk)	Stub
5	1997 WLAF season (talk)	Stub
4	Jacqueline Schubert (talk)	Stub
7	Pallathuruthy (talk)	Stub
9	Harrison High School (Colorado Springs) (talk)	Stub

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