Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
You can now test a new Beta Feature to see links to other wikis in the sidebar. The links come from Wikidata. [1][2]
You can now search pages that link to a page. Use the linksto: keyword in your search. [3][4]
A redirect to a section now changes the URL in the address bar of your browser. If "Dog" redirects to "Animals#Dog", you now see "Animals#Dog" instead of "Dog#Dog". [5][6]
If you are testing Flow, you now have a Flow tab in your Notifications. It is called "Messages". [7]
VisualEditor news
You can no longer delete required fields in templates. [8]
We fixed many Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 11, you will get VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [9][10][11]
We fixed a bug where some of your typing could be undone when you used "cut" (Ctrl+X). [13]
You will no longer see empty or deleted categories among the suggestions when you add a category. [14]
Future software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf19) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 2, and on all Wikipedias on September 4 (calendar).
There is a proposal to build a database on Commons for file data. It will make it easier to see the author, license and topics. You can give feedback on this idea. You can also come to the IRC chat on September 3 at 18:00 (UTC) in #wikimedia-office at freenode. [15]
You can give feedback on Media Viewer until September 7. You can say what needs to be improved and ask other people to give feedback too. [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.
VisualEditor news
From Thursday, Internet Explorer 11 users will get VisualEditor. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [18][19][20]
Future software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf20) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 9, and on all Wikipedias on September 11 (calendar).
You will soon confirm a "Thanks" inline instead of in a dialog. [21]
You can read more about the plan to move to Phabricator, a tool that will help people develop the MediaWiki software and report bugs. [22]
Problems
There were problems with JavaScript and CSS on Friday, September 5 because of a code error.
السلام عليكم اخي الكريم اسف علي الغيرات التي تتم في صفحي لذلك لعدم قدرتي او خبرتي في التعامل مع هاذا الموقع العالمي ولاني بتداءفي هذا الموقع بالرجاء ساعدني في تسهيل الامر علي شخصيا وعدم حذف الصفحة الخاصة بي
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
You can now change the style of links to disambiguation pages. This is done with the mw-disambigCSS class. [23][24]
There was a problem on right-to-left wikis with Wikidata log entries. The text was messy in watchlists and recent changes. The problem is now fixed. The same problem will be fixed soon for user names. [25][26][27]
New users are randomly chosen for a test on 12 Wikipedias. They get messages with ideas of articles to edit. The ideas come from what they have already edited. [28]
Problems
There was a problem with loading images on September 10. [29]
VisualEditor news
If you don't select text when you add a link, the link now shows a number. [30]
The citation tool no longer offers to reuse a citation if there are none on the page yet. [31][32]
You can now use help buttons in the "إعدادات الصفحة" menu to see what the options are for. [33]
Future software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf21) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 16, and on all Wikipedias on September 18 (calendar).
These changes are coming with the new version:
If you use Internet Explorer 7, JavaScript will no longer work. JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work in that browser. You should update to a newer browser. [34][35][36]
التعليق الأخير: قبل 9 سنوات5 تعليقات3 أشخاص في النقاش
مرحبا أخي العزيز ، نحتاج إلى إعادة تفعيل المرشح الذي يمنع إنشاء مقالات قصيرة جدا أو فارغة ، لأنه للأسف كثر في الفترة الأخيرة قيام بعض الجدد بإنشاء مقالات فارغة أو بها كلمة أو أثنين فأتمنى النظر في هذا الموضوع ، وشكراً لك --إبراهيـمـ✪(نقاش)14:37، 16 سبتمبر 2014 (ت ع م)ردّ
مرحبا أخي أنتايم و أخي إبراهيم. أنشأت المرشح رقم 73 و جربته وعمل بدقة. يمكنكم تغيير الحجم المطلوب بتغيير الرقم الموجود في المرشح. يمنع المرشح الان المستخدمين من إنشاء مقالات أقصر من 512 بايت.--عباس17:55، 16 سبتمبر 2014 (ت ع م)ردّ
شكراً لك عباس ، ما كنت أسأل عنه هو المرشح 39 على ما أعتقد حيث كانت مهمته منع إنشاء المقالات القصيرة أيضاً ولكن يبدو أن به خلل أو لا يعمل لأنه وردت لي مشاكل عن ذلك من بعض المستخدمين ، على أي حال أشكرك على المرشح يعمل بفعالية عالية --إبراهيـمـ✪(نقاش)14:30، 17 سبتمبر 2014 (ت ع م)ردّ
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
You can test a new Beta Feature called HHVM. It should make editing faster. Please report bugs if you see them. [37]
Problems
There was a problem on the English Wikipedia on September 19. It was due to edits on a template used on many pages.
Sites were down for users in the Pacific area around 7:00 UTC on September 20. It was due to a problem in the San Francisco data center.
There were two bad bugs messing up articles in some browsers in VisualEditor. We fixed the bugs and updated the sites. [38][39]
Software changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf22) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 23, and on all Wikipedias on September 25 (calendar).
If you have more than 2000 notifications, the oldest ones will be removed.[40][41]
In the "Vector" skin, the icon used for users will show a neutral gender. [42][43]
The VisualEditor template tool now tells you if a required field is missing. [44]
The "Cancel" button of the VisualEditor save window is now called "Resume editing". This shows that you can still edit and you won't lose your changes. [45]
There are new keyboard shortcuts in VisualEditor. Use Ctrl+Shift+6 for code and Ctrl+Shift+5 for strikethrough. [46][47]
In VisualEditor, you can now see that you are switching to the source editing mode. Before, it was not clear it was happening. [48]
Future site changes
You can see a plan for the move to Phabricator. It's the new tool to track bugs. A guided tour will be done via video on September 24. [49]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
There are now many more translations for language names. [52]
Software changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf1) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 30, and on all Wikipedias on October 2 (calendar).
Errors from Scribunto (Lua) are now shown on the page. Before, you had to click on "Script error" to see them. [53][54]
You can add an "autovalue" for a field in TemplateData. When users add the template to a page, the value will be added automatically. An example is when a clean-up template shows the date it was added. [55]
If you change a user preference but don't save it, it now asks if you want to save it. [56][57]
The PDF export tool has changed. The new one has better language support but it doesn't offer ZIM and EPUB formats. [58]
JavaScript authors: Many old methods will be removed soon. Please check your scripts and gadgets and replace the old methods by the new ones if needed. [59]
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