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The Signpost: 05 August 2015[change source]

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The Signpost: 12 August 2015[change source]

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Tech News: 2015-34[change source]

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

  • Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [1] [2] [3]
  • Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems. [4]

Problems

  • Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [5] [6]
  • On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [7]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
  • You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category. [8]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 18 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:17, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 August 2015[change source]

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Anirban Sengupta[change source]

the wikipedia article I donot have to creat.--Rajveerabhimanyu Jayadrathindraniladitya Devegowdankur Sengupta (talk) 14:28, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"John Logo" sockpuppetry[change source]

An IP address has just created 2 pages, Category:John Logo and JSH (John Secret House), which are just nonsense, so I have tagged them for Quick Deletion. This are the first edits by this IP address, but Category:John Logo was definitely created about 1-2 days ago and got deleted. I am suspicious that sockpuppetry may be occurring here due to the similarities in this vandalism by at least two different IPs, but I do not know which IP originally carried out "John Logo"-related vandalism. I was unsure of where to ask about this so I thought I should mention this. I originally posted this at User talk:Auntof6 but as you just deleted a page I posted this here for a faster response. User talk:Auntof6 has been added to Category:John Logo and I am somehow unable to remove it. Thanks, --Rubbish computer (talk) 08:29, 23 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Likely it was not willful sockpuppetry, but rather that whoever was behind those edits has a dynamic IP address and it changed over those few days. The content of the pages look similar enough to tie them to the same person. Right now we will leave it as it is, seeing that the pages have been deleted and the editor has been warned already; if it continues then we can consider blocking them from editing. Chenzw  Talk  09:04, 23 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, about the category problem: compare the following:

[[Category:John Logo]] [[:Category:John Logo]]

The first one will categorise the page itself into the category, while the second one is required if you want to show the link. I have edited the pages to fix this problem. Chenzw  Talk  09:06, 23 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. --Rubbish computer (talk) 09:13, 23 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-35[change source]

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

  • Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function. [9]

Problems

  • There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed. [10]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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13:02, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

ChenzwBot[change source]

Not sure if the bot was supposed to catch this. eurodyne (talk) 16:24, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, that was not meant to be reverted. I have made some adjustments to the heuristics. Thanks! Chenzw  Talk  13:04, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 26 August 2015[change source]

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Tech News: 2015-36[change source]

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

  • VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC. [11][12]
  • The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [13]
  • VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead. [14]
  • Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [15]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 1 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9. [16]

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21:36, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

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