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Ausrufer – 1. Woche

Rückblick:

Community-Wunschliste 2017 (Auswertung)	→	Ergebnisse veröffentlicht
Adminkandidatur MannMaus	→	Abbruch auf Wunsch des Kandidaten 83:44 (65,4%)

Wettbewerbe: WikiCup 2018, ^OscArtikel_Marathon 2018, Sonstiges
Kurier – linke Spalte: Tag der Gemeinfreiheit 2018, Eine Milliarde US-Dollar oder der Zustand des Projektes, Der Wahnsinn hat Methode …, Inbox zero zu Weihnachten (Kleine Freuden Teil 23)
Kurier – rechte Spalte: WikiCup – ein erfolgreiches Jahr, OscArtikelMarathon 2018
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:26, 1. Jan. 2018 (CET)

Ausrufer – 2. Woche

Rückblick:

Deadmin Benutzer:Polarlys	→	freiwillige Rückgabe
Adminkandidatur Benutzer:Icodense99	→	Abbruch auf Wunsch des Kandidaten

Adminkandidaturen: DaB., Liesel
Meinungsbilder: Generelle Relevanz Teilnehmer an Ich bin ein Star - Holt mich hier raus! (Dschungelcamp)
Request for comment (Meta): Global ban for Avoided
Umfragen: Wahl zum Unwort des Jahres 2017
Benutzersperrung: Meister und Margarita
Wettbewerbe: Wintersport-Saisonwettbewerb 2017/18
Kurier – linke Spalte: Vorankündigung: In 3 Tagen durch die Welt von Jules Verne
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Kandidaten für die Wahl ins Affiliations Committee stehen fest, Wartungsarbeiten am 9. Januar, Planung für das GLAM-Orgatreffen im 1. Quartal 2018, Abstimmung Unwort des Jahres 2017
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 8. Jan. 2018 (CET)

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 "speichern" button when you edit is now called "veröffentlichen". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "Seite speichern" to "Änderungen veröffentlichen". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [1][2]
• 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. [3]
• 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. [4]
• 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. [5][6]

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. [7]
• With the new filters in the recent changes, "Ausgewählte ausschließen" in "Namensräume" did not work for "Gespeicherte Filter" 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. [8]
• 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). [9]
• 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. [10]

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. [11]
• 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. [12][13]
• 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. [14]

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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17:19, 8. Jan. 2018 (CET)

Ausrufer – 3. Woche

Rückblick:

Benutzersperrung Benutzer:Meister und Margarita

→

Das Verfahren wurde mit 64:151 Stimmen (bei 10 Enthaltungen) formal abgelehnt.

Umfragen: Veto-Recht der Community bei SG-Urteilen, Änderung der Adminwahl
Kurier – linke Spalte: Zahlen zur Jahreswende, Auftakt zum Europäischen Jahr des Kulturerbes, Endlich bessere Bilder (Kleine Freuden Teil 24), Von den Adminwahlen
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Fristen zur Bewerbung auf ein Wikimania-Stipendium, 3. Auswertung des Förderbarometers, Wikisource: 7000 Autoren, Kandidaten für Affiliations Committee stehen fest
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 15. Jan. 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-3

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 on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [15]
• There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [16]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [17][18]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. 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. [19][20]

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19:45, 15. Jan. 2018 (CET)

Ausrufer – 4. Woche

Rückblick:

Wahl zum Unwort des Jahres 2017
Adminkandidatur DaB.	→	erfolgreich: 232:73:15 (76,07%)
Adminkandidatur Liesel	→	nicht erfolgeich: 79:124:35 (38,92%)
De-Admin Benutzer:Achim Raschka	→	freiwillige Rückgabe der Adminrechte
Meinungsbild Generelle Relevanz Teilnehmer an Ich bin ein Star...	→	formal (65,0 : 35,0 %) angenommen und inhaltlich (17,0 : 83,0 %) abgelehnt

Meinungsbilder: Relevanzkriterien für Webvideokanäle
Kurier – linke Spalte: Wikipedia 2018: linke Hetze, rechte Hetze und Zensur
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Störer, GLAM-on-Tour bei Migros in Zürich, Was da nicht steht, Bearbeitungs-Marathon auf Wikivoyage, Unwort des Jahres 2017
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:23, 22. Jan. 2018 (CET)

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. [21][22]

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. [23]

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. [24]

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00:55, 23. Jan. 2018 (CET)

Ausrufer – 5. Woche

Umfragen: Unwort des Jahres sinnvoll?
Adminwiederwahlen: Otberg
Kurier – linke Spalte: 8 1/2 Jahre ein falscher Nummer-eins-Hit und eine falsche Bild-Schlagzeile, Freies Wissen machen ist sooo schön!, 4.–6. Mai: Wiki Loves Jules Verne – Das Programm ist da!
Kurier – rechte Spalte: AdminConvention
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 29. Jan. 2018 (CET)

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. [25]

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18:06, 29. Jan. 2018 (CET)

Ausrufer – 6. Woche

Rückblick:

Rfc: Global ban for Avoided: Avoided wurde global gebannt.
Umfrage zum Unwort des Jahres
Adminkandidatur SdHb	→	Abbruch auf Wunsch des Kandidaten Stand 13:23 (36,11 %)

Umfragen: Neues Tutorial
Wettbewerbe: Asien-Marathon: Indien
Kurier – linke Spalte: Großes steht uns bevor …, 8½ Jahre ein falscher Nummer-eins-Hit und eine falsche Bild-Schlagzeile
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Asien-Marathon Indien, Wollen wir, oder wollen wir nicht?
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:23, 5. Feb. 2018 (CET)

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. [26]
• The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [27]
• 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. [28]

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. [29]

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. [30]
• 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. [31]
• The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of Ja or Nein it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [32]
• 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. [33]
• 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. [34][35]

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21:51, 5. Feb. 2018 (CET)

Ausrufer – 7. Woche

Rückblick:

Umfrage zum Unwort des Jahres • Änderung der Adminwahl
Meinungsbild Relevanzkriterien für Webvideokanäle	→	Vorschlag wurde abgelehnt
Adminwiederwahl Otberg	→	erfolgreich 277:42:14 (86,83%)
Emergency doc	→	Freiwillige Rückgabe der Admin- und Oversightrechte

Adminkandidaturen: Andreas Werle
Umfragen: Unterstützungsstimmen auf Wiederwahlseiten, Adminwiederwahlen
Wettbewerbe: Schreibwettbewerb
Sonstiges: Steward-Wahl, Steward-Bestätigung
Kurier – linke Spalte: Kawumm! …und für immer verloren
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Elektronik-Schrott entsorgen?, Nomen non Omen, Mögliche Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stipendien für State of the Map, Ihr könnt es!
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:23, 12. Feb. 2018 (CET)

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. [36][37][38]
• 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. [39]
• 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. [40]
• 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. [41]
• 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. [42]

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22:58, 12. Feb. 2018 (CET)

Ausrufer – 8. Woche

Rückblick:

Adminwiederwahlen: Seewolf
Umfragen: Administrative Auflagen
Sonstiges: Feedbackrunde neue Oberfläche für „Bearbeitungskonflikte“
Kurier – linke Spalte: (Klammheimliche) Veränderungen der Admin-Regeln?
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Erweiterung für die Wikipedia-Infoboxen: ein erster Ansatz kann jetzt getestet werden, Umfrage zur Änderung der Adminwahl ausgewertet, Workshop zu Katastrophenmanagement, Bearbeitungskonflikte: ein neuer Ansatz kann jetzt getestet werden (Technische Wünsche)
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 19. Feb. 2018 (CET)

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. [43][44]
• You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [45]

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. [46]
• 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. [47][48]

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. [49]
• Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.

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23:54, 19. Feb. 2018 (CET)

Ausrufer – 9. Woche

Rückblick:

Umfrage zum Unwort des Jahres • Änderung der Adminwahl • Unterstützungsstimmen auf Administrator-Wiederwahlseiten
Emergency doc → Freiwillige Rückgabe der Admin- und Oversightrechte
Adminkandidatur Andreas Werle	→	nicht erfolgreich 117:152:29 (43,49%)

Umfragen: Blocking tools and improvements
Wettbewerbe: Wartungsbausteinwettbewerb Winter 2018
Sonstiges: Technikbörse,
Kurier – linke Spalte: (noch) Zimmer frei bei Wiki Loves Jules Verne, The WikiAlpenforum (WAF) flourishes, Erfreuliche Veränderung in einer Systemfunktion (Kleine Freuden Teil 25), Wenn einer eine Reise tut… hat er was zu erzählen
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Neues Projekt Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Parkanlagen in Berlin, Die Technikbörse ist eröffnet, Hier geht’s zum Schreibwettbewerb und seiner Jury: Eilt+++Eilt+++Eilt
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 26. Feb. 2018 (CET)

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. [50]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [51][52]
• 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. [53]
• Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [54][55][56]

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. [57]
• 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. [58][59]
• 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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20:52, 26. Feb. 2018 (CET)

Ausrufer – 10. Woche

Rückblick:

Adminwiederwahl Seewolf

→

erfolgreich 317:25:15 (92,69%)

Umfragen: Löschantragsserie eines Benutzers
Wettbewerbe: Miniaturenwettbewerb
Sonstiges: Oscar-Tippspiel
Kurier – linke Spalte: Urheberrechtsprobleme – Project Gutenberg sperrt Zugang aus Deutschland, Auf die Plätze … Los!, Aufruf: Boykottiert die Schon gewusst?(SG?)-Seite!
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Sichtungsrückstand, Zwei glückliche Wikipedianer haben sich gefunden!, Da könnt ihr lange Warten, Staatsarchiv Bern, Was lange währt…, Wikipedia weiter ohne Gewähr
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:23, 5. Mär. 2018 (CET)

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. [60]

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. [61]
• 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. [62][63]
• 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. [64]
• 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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18:12, 5. Mär. 2018 (CET)

Ausrufer – 11. Woche

Kurier – linke Spalte: Wikipedia-Manipulationen bei „Jugend forscht“, Triff die Frauen in Rot im WikiBär!, Omphaloskepsis, And the Oscar goes to…
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Noch bis Montag: Feedback zum neuen Ansatz für Bearbeitungskonflikte geben (Technische Wünsche), Informatik Sammlung Erlangen, Panoramafreiheit in Albanien, Beleidigungen nur noch mit Lizenzgebühr
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:22, 12. Mär. 2018 (CET)

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. [65]
• 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. [66]
• 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. [67]
• 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. [68]

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). [69]

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. [70]
• 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. [71][72]
• 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. [73][74][75]
• 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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20:43, 12. Mär. 2018 (CET)

Ausrufer – 12. Woche

Rückblick:

Feedbackrunde neue Oberfläche für „Bearbeitungskonflikte“

→

Feedbackrunde ist abgeschlossen

Umfragen: Aktivierung TemplateStyles-Erweiterung
Wettbewerbe: Wiki Loves Earth Deutschland 2018
Kurier – linke Spalte: WTF is… Märkische Heide - Lied , Wiki Loves Earth 2018 Deutschland – Die Jurysuche läuft an
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Spiel-dein-Leben-Onlinekongress, Breaking News: Neuste Strategie von YouTube, Breaking News: WLE 2018
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:23, 19. Mär. 2018 (CET)

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. [76]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 März. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 März. It will be on all wikis from 22 März (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 März 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. [77][78]
• 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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16:03, 19. Mär. 2018 (CET)

Ausrufer – 13. Woche

Adminkandidaturen: Sebastian Wallroth
Wettbewerbe: CEE Spring 2018
Kurier – linke Spalte: Besserwisser gesucht!
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Tippspiel Paris–Roubaix, Anmeldeschluss für GLAM-on-Tour am 1. April, InternetArchiveBot gestartet, Neues Tool zur Überprüfung verlinkter Personen, Akkreditierungen für die re:publica2018, Wikimedia CEE Spring 2018 gestartet
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:23, 26. Mär. 2018 (CEST)

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. [79] [80]
• 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. [81]
• TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [82]
• 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. [83]
• 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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22:03, 26. Mär. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 14. Woche

Rückblick:

WikiCup 2018

→

Einstiegsphase beendet.

Oversightkandidaturen: Kandidatensuche
Umfragen: Ungewöhnliche Signaturen
Wettbewerbe: Publikumspreis, Reviewpreis
Sonstiges: WMF Performance Survey
Kurier – linke Spalte: Triff die Männer in Blau!, Mach’s gut, und danke für alles, Feiertagsgedanken: Was soll ich schreiben?, Der Zweck und die Mittel
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Wikimedia Deutschland tütet Partnerschaft mit Panini ein, Frauen in Rot, Publikums- u. Reviewpreis des 28. Schreibwettbewerbs, Wikimedia Foundation entzieht CheckUsern auf zhwiki die Rechte, 4. Auswertung des Förderbarometers, Visual Editor braucht ein Kindermädchen, WikiCon 2018 findet vom 5. bis 7. Oktober statt, NASA sucht Wolkenphotos
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:23, 2. Apr. 2018 (CEST)

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. [84][85][86]
• The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [87]

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. [88]
• 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. [89][90][91]
• 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. [92] [93]
• In Special:Preferences, the preference "Sofern ein Filter geändert wurde, die Beobachtungsliste automatisch neu laden (erfordert JavaScript)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [94]
• 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. [95]
• 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. [96]

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. [97][98]

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21:28, 2. Apr. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 15. Woche

Rückblick:

Adminkandidatur Futurwiki	→	Abbruch auf Wunsch des Kandidaten beim Stand von 7:36:12 (16,28 %)
Adminkandidatur Sebastian Wallroth	→	erfolgreich: 220:97:22 (69,4%)

Meinungsbilder: Einschränkung von Signaturinhalten, Umgang mit den Artikeln von dauerhaft gesperrten Benutzern
Kurier – linke Spalte: Pompeji und der ganze Rest (Große Freuden Teil 1), State of the Union, Letzter Aufruf für Wiki Loves Jules Verne!
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Seitenvorschaubilder (Page Previews), The 2nd Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference, Fotoworkshop für Jugendliche im Juni – interessiert?
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:23, 9. Apr. 2018 (CEST)

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. [99]
• 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. [100]
• 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. [101]
• 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). [102]

Problems

• The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [103]
• 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. [104]

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. [105]

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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20:08, 9. Apr. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 16. Woche

Rückblick:

Umfrage Benutzer:Schiedsgericht
Wiki Loves Earth 2018	→	Kandidatensuche für die Hauptjury (bis 10. April)

Adminkandidaturen: Jojhnjoy, Miraki, Minderbinder
Oversightkandidaturen: Ra'ike, Horst Gräbner
Kurier – linke Spalte: Kleine Helferlein: Taxoboxen in Wikipedia und WikiData, Der unverhoffte Blick in das Original (Kleine Freuden Teil 26), Wikipedia ist kein Beleg … oder etwa doch?, Schwarzach und die Blauen
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Portale adé?, Wikidata in Köln, Ausschreibung Wikipedian-in-Residence bei IACA
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:23, 16. Apr. 2018 (CEST)

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. [106]
• 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. [107][108]
• 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. [109]
• Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3. [110]
• 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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17:20, 16. Apr. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 17. Woche

Rückblick:

Umfrage Benutzer:Schiedsgericht
Wiki Loves Earth 2018	→	Kandidatensuche für die Hauptjury (bis 10. April)
Meinungsbild Einschränkung von Signaturinhalten	→	Vorschlag wurde abgelehnt

Umfragen: Zeichen für Zifferngruppierung
Wettbewerbe: Wahl der Jury für Wiki Loves Earth Deutschland
Kurier – linke Spalte: WikiCon 2018 vom 5. bis 7. Oktober in St. Gallen, Und es geht doch vorwärts, Wikipedia im Reich der Mitte, das soziale Kapital und der Grosskonzern
Kurier – rechte Spalte: An alle aktiven Sichter und Admins: Vorschlag für eine Softwareänderung beim kommentarlosen Zurücksetzen, Karl Rawer verstorben, Neue Ehrenamtliche: Dankesbanner-Aktion ausgewertet und Vorschau auf die Frühjahrsaktion 2018
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:23, 23. Apr. 2018 (CEST)

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. [111]
• 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. [112]

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. [113]
• 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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20:16, 23. Apr. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 18. Woche

Rückblick:

Meinungsbild Umgang mit den Artikeln von dauerhaft gesperrten Benutzern	→	Vorschlag wurde angenommen
Adminkandidatur Jojhnjoy	→	Nicht erfolgreich 70:113:41 (38,25 %)
Adminkandidatur Miraki	→	Nicht erfolgreich 191:135:17 (58,59 %)
Adminkandidatur Minderbinder	→	Erfolgreich 292:14:7 (95,42 %)
Oversightkandidatur Ra'ike	→	Erfolgreich 189:9 (95,45 %)
Oversightkandidatur Horst Gräbner	→	Erfolgreich 169:23 (88,02 %)

Wettbewerbe: Preisspenden zum Wartungsbausteinwettbewerb, Sonstiges
Kurier – linke Spalte: Gimp 2.10 erschienen, Happy birthday, Wartungsbausteinwettbewerb! Wanted: Geschenke, Wikiversum Weltcafé vom 21. April 2018 in Bremen, Vielzüngige Mithelfer, Kein ganz gewöhnlicher Sonntag
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Sieger des 28. Schreibwettbewerbs, Es sind noch Plätze frei …, SW-Publikumspreis: Stimmen dringend benötigt!, VolksKulTour
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:23, 30. Apr. 2018 (CEST)

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. [114]

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. [115]

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. [116]
• 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. [117]
• You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the Bearbeiten 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. [118]
• 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 jharewikimedia.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. [119][120][121]

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18:18, 30. Apr. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 19. Woche

Adminkandidaturen: Marcus Cyron
Schiedsgerichtswahl: Kandidatensuche
Wettbewerbe: Asien-Marathon
Umfragen in Vorbereitung: Wikipedia:Umfragen/Verschiebungen in den BNR, Wikipedia:Umfragen/Relevanzkriterien für Open Source Software
Kurier – linke Spalte: E-Mail des Teams Ideenförderung zur DSGVO vom 3. Mai, Ein Schatz handkolorierter Bilder – 13'000 Aufnahmen von Leo Wehrli aus dem Bildarchiv der ETH-Bibliothek auf Wikimedia Commons, Urteil zu Abmahnpraxis in der Schweiz
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Verbesserungen der Beta-Funktion „Erweiterte Suchoberfläche“, Asien-Marathon, Kandidieren für das Schiedsgericht
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:23, 7. Mai 2018 (CEST)

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. [122]

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. [123]

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. [124]
• 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. [125][126]

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18:27, 7. Mai 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 20. Woche

Rückblick:

Deadmin Benutzer:Entlinkt	→	Entzug der Rechte aufgrund Inaktivität
Deadmin Benutzer:Micha	→	freiwillige Rückgabe der Rechte

Adminwiederwahlen: JD
Umfragen: Relevanzkriterien für Open Source Software, Verschiebungen in den BNR
Wettbewerbe: Wartungsbausteinwettbewerb Frühling 2018
Kurier – linke Spalte: Wikipedia spielt weiter!, Hands on: Wikidata war in Köln, Neues für Wikipedians?, Erinnern: Srbauer, E-Mail des Teams Ideenförderung zur DSGVO vom 3. Mai
Kurier – rechte Spalte: WikiCon-Handbuch erschienen, Internationaler Museumstag von WMCH unterstützt, Große Geburtstagsfeier: macht mit!
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:23, 14. Mai 2018 (CEST)

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. [127]

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 [128]

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00:22, 15. Mai 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 21. Woche

Rückblick:

Adminkandidatur Marcus Cyron

→

nicht erfolgreich 288:150:33 (65,75 %)

Adminwiederwahlen: lustiger seth
Abstimmungen: Neukonzeption der Tutorialseiten
Sonstiges: Vorjury, WLE 2018 in Deutschland
Kurier – linke Spalte: Ich übersetze mal, Einladung zur Mitarbeit, Im Zeichen des Löwen
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Halbzeit bei Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Earth 2018 in Deutschland, Neue Tutorialseiten - Abstimmen!, Tippspiel zur Tourist Trophy, Jubiläumswettbewerb gestartet: Mitstreiter gesucht
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 21. Mai 2018 (CEST)

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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19:33, 21. Mai 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 22. Woche

Rückblick:

23. Schiedsgerichtwahl	→	Benutzer:Codc, Benutzer:Der-Wir-Ing, Benutzer:Krd, Benutzer:Luke081515 und Benutzer:Wibramuc wurden erfolgreich für 1 Jahr gewählt.
Adminwiederwahl JD	→	erfolgreich 291:44:13 (86,87%)

Kurier – linke Spalte: WTF is Jan Struther?, Saderlach auf Saderlacherisch (Kleine Freuden Teil 27)
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Inoffizieller Artikelmarathon zur WM?
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:22, 28. Mai 2018 (CEST)

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. [129][130]
• It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked. [131]
• 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. [132]
• 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. [133]
• 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. [134]

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. [135]

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. [136]
• 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. [137]
• 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. [138]

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. [139]
• A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development. [140]
• 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. [141][142]

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14:40, 29. Mai 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 23. Woche

Rückblick:

Adminwiederwahl Lustiger seth

→

erfolgreich 231:64:31 (78,31%)

Meinungsbilder: Attributierung von Politikern
Umfragen: Meta-IPs
Wettbewerbe: UNESCO-Erbe-Marathon
Kurier – linke Spalte: WikiCon 2018: Call for Papers hat begonnen!, Kein Pranger, Parallelwelten: Von Elektronenmikroskopen und Quantum Sortern
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Sharing Heritage, ..., Nie wieder texvc, Nehmen die Zweifler zu?, Europäisches Jahr des Kulturerbes: Es geht weiter!
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 4. Jun. 2018 (CEST)

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. [143]
• Planet Wikimedia collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the Rawdog feed aggregator to do this instead of Planet. [144][145]
• 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. [146]

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. [147]

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. [148][149]

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23:54, 4. Jun. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 24. Woche

Sonstiges: WikiCon 2018: Call for papers
Kurier – linke Spalte: Selbstdarstellung in der Wikipedia: ein Bericht aus der Praxis
Kurier – rechte Spalte: WM-Zeit ist Tipp-Zeit, WTF ist ein Formicarium?, WikiDACH ist 2018 zwei Barcamps, Einladung zur GLAM-on-Tour-Station ins Jagdschloss Grunewald, Das wikipedistische Quartett – Reloaded: Interessenten gesucht, Werkzeuge für Freiwillige: Von Wikipedia aus verfolgen, was auf Wikidata vor sich geht
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 11. Jun. 2018 (CEST)

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. [150]
• There is a new version of Pywikibot. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis. [151]

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. [152]

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. [153][154]

• 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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23:55, 11. Jun. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 25. Woche

Rückblick:

Beendet: Umfrage Zeichen für Zifferngruppierung
Deadmin Benutzer:Hukukçu	→	freiwillige Rückgabe
Meinungsbild Attributierung von Politikern	→	Keine formelle Zustimmung des Meinungsbildes

Meinungsbilder: Umfragen
Wettbewerbe: Wahl zum Bild des Jahres 2017
Kurier – linke Spalte: Lebt denn die alte Sperrprüfung noch?, Wiki Loves Yerevan, Erleuchtung am Hofe Buddhas
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Breaking News: Fotografen, aufgepasst!, Bild des Jahres 2017: eines aus 1260, Syntaxhervorhebung für Wikitext ist jetzt für alle aktiviert, Deutsch-internationale Kulturbeziehungen, WikiCon-Orga-Team 2019 gesucht
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 18. Jun. 2018 (CEST)

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. [155]

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. [156][157]
• 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. [158][159]
• 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. [160]

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23:47, 18. Jun. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 26. Woche

Kurier – linke Spalte: Neutralität in Personenartikeln: Beispiel Boris Palmer
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Neue Ehrenamtliche: Frühjahrsaktion 2018 ausgewertet
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:20, 25. Jun. 2018 (CEST)

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. [161][162]

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. [163]
• 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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01:10, 26. Jun. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 27. Woche

Wettbewerbe: WikiDaheim
Sonstiges: WikiEule, WikiCon 2018: Forum des Freien Wissens
Kurier – linke Spalte: Mehr Dateien von hier nach Commons. Der Dateiexporteur kann ab heute als Beta-Funktion genutzt werden
Kurier – rechte Spalte: WikiDaheim 2018 gestartet, Nominierungen für die WikiEulen vom 1.–28.07.2018, Save the date: 30.11.-2.12. Edit-a-thon zum Frauenwahlrecht in Stuttgart
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 2. Jul. 2018 (CEST)

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. [164]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem. [165]

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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02:46, 3. Jul. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 28. Woche

Adminkandidaturen: DAWR
Wettbewerbe: Wahl zum Bild des Jahres 2017
Sonstiges: WikiCon 2018
Kurier – linke Spalte: WTF is… Sexy Cora?, Meerjungfrauen in München, Ein Hoch auf das Halbwissen!
Kurier – rechte Spalte: 10, 9, 8 ..., Tippspiel Tour de France 2018
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 9. Jul. 2018 (CEST)

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. [166]
• 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. [167]
• All wikis now use the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy. This could cause errors. You can help fix the errors. [168]

Problems

• When you rolled back an edit it could get both the Rollback and Undo tags. This has been fixed. [169]
• Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed. [170]

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). [171][172]
• 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. [173]
• 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. [174]
• Structured discussions toolbars will have more style options. [175]
• 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. [176]
• 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. [177]
• Page previews will be on by default for new accounts. [178]

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01:09, 10. Jul. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 29. Woche

Sonstiges: Anmeldung, WikiDACH 2018: Anmeldung
Kurier – linke Spalte: Wiki Loves Earth 2018 (Deutschland) – die Sieger stehen fest!, Inspire Campaign 2018 - kann man das messen?, Die globalen Einstellungen sind da, Allzeittief bei Mitarbeiterzahlen, Ehrenamtspreis für die Kölner Community
Kurier – rechte Spalte: … und sie arbeiten doch!, Sind Wikipedia-Autoren Helden?, Anmeldung WikiCon 2018, Wiki Loves Beer, Unterstützung im Team Ideenförderung, Geringe Wasserstände, Neue Freiwillige gewinnen: Sommeraktion startet am 1. August 2018, Neue Ergebnisse aus dem Förderbarometer
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 16. Jul. 2018 (CEST)

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. [179]
• 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. [180]
• You can see how many pageviews a wiki had from specific countries. The Wikistats2 maps have now been updated. [181]

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. [182]
• 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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18:00, 16. Jul. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 30. Woche

Rückblick:

Adminkandidatur DAWR

→

nicht erfolgreich: 9:124:15 (6,77%)

Sonstiges: WikiDACH 2018, Themensammlung
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Kurier-Extrablatt, Billard-Cup im Portal:Billard, WikiCon 2018: Einreichungsfrist verlängert
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 23. Jul. 2018 (CEST)

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. [183]
• 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. [184]
• Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [185]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 Juli. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 Juli. It will be on all wikis from 26 Juli (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 Juli at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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11:44, 24. Jul. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 31. Woche

Rückblick:

Call for Papers zur WikiCon 2018

→

eingereichte Vorschläge

Kurier – linke Spalte: Wikipedia und Afrika - ein kleiner Erfahrungsbericht, Wiki Loves Fernschreiber – eine Technikdokumentation!
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Happy SysAdmin Day, Wiki goes MEK! - Die Wikipedianer kommen wieder, Wiki Loves Love
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:22, 30. Jul. 2018 (CEST)

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. [186]

Problems

• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [187][188]
• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [189][190]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 Juli. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 August. It will be on all wikis from 2 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 31 Juli 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 August 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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16:05, 30. Jul. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 32. Woche

Rückblick:

De-Admin Benutzer:Ireas	→	inaktiv
Call for Papers zur WikiCon 2018	→	eingereichte Vorschläge

Adminkandidaturen: XenonX3
Kurier – linke Spalte: Wetter, Weltraum, Südafrika, Fiktion: Wer will warten?, POTY 2017: viele Überraschungen, Kochevent im Lokal K, WikiGap – Wikipedia-Artikel aus Ruanda
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Es ist doch schon alles geschrieben …, „Ich bin das Gegenteil von Donald Trump“, Neue Freiwillige gewinnen: Sommeraktion ist gestartet, Der Schreibwettbewerb sucht seine Jury, St. Gallen, wir kommen
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 6. Aug. 2018 (CEST)

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. [191]

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. [192][193]

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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21:39, 6. Aug. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 33. Woche

Rückblick:

De-Admin Benutzer:Ireas	→	inaktiv
Deadmin Benutzer:Leithian	→	freiwillige Rückgabe
Call for Papers zur WikiCon 2018	→	eingereichte Vorschläge

Kurier – rechte Spalte: Wikipedia-Community auf der Buchmesse Frankfurt 2018, WMF-Verhaltensregeln
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:23, 13. Aug. 2018 (CEST)

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. [194]

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. [195]

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19:52, 13. Aug. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 34. Woche

Rückblick:

De-Admin Benutzer:Ireas	→	inaktiv
Deadmin Benutzer:Ukko	→	freiwillige Rückgabe
Call for Papers zur WikiCon 2018	→	eingereichte Vorschläge
Adminkandidatur XenonX3	→	erfolgreich 269:16:11 (94,39%)

Kurier – linke Spalte: Immer Ärger mit den Policies
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Viertausend lesenswerte Artikel, Dein Schreibwettbewerb braucht dich!
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:21, 20. Aug. 2018 (CEST)

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. [196]

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18:46, 20. Aug. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 35. Woche

Rückblick:

Call for Papers zur WikiCon 2018

→

eingereichte Vorschläge

Kurier – linke Spalte: Ein Pferdekopf für die Wikipedia (Kleine Freuden Teil 28)
Kurier – rechte Spalte: GLAM on Tour in Xanten, Kölner Ehrenamtspreis: Alle sind herzlich eingeladen!, WikiCon 2018: Das Programm steht, EU-Urheberrechtsreform: Wie geht es weiter?, Wikipedia lässt NS-Biografieteil unter den Tisch fallen
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:23, 27. Aug. 2018 (CEST)

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. [197]
• Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [198]

Problems

• Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [199]

Changes later this week

• The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [200]
• AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [201]
• 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. [202]
• Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [203]
• 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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18:16, 27. Aug. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 36. Woche

Rückblick:

Call for Papers zur WikiCon 2018

→

eingereichte Vorschläge

Kurier – linke Spalte: Wieder on Tour: GLAM in Xanten
Kurier – rechte Spalte: 200 mal RAW, Schreibwettbewerb, Miniaturenwettbewerb, Wiki Loves Monuments 2018, Wikidata – 50 Millionen, WikiBär – jetzt auch mit Bildungsauftrag, Neues Förderangebot für Projekte um OpenStreetMap
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:23, 3. Sep. 2018 (CEST)

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. [204][205]
• 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. [206][207]
• You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [208]
• wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [209]
• 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. [210]

Problems

• UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [211]
• 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. [212]

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. [213]

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18:47, 3. Sep. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 37. Woche

Rückblick:

WikiCon 2018

→

Programm

Checkuserwahl: Wahlseite
Umfragen: Schwarze Hauptseite gegen Upload-Filter und Leistungsschutzrecht
Wettbewerbe: Schreibwettbewerb, Miniaturenwettbewerb, Wiki Loves Monuments, WikiDaheim, WLM-Deutschland-Vorjury, Denkmal-Cup
Kurier – linke Spalte: Es ist wieder die Zeit des Jahres, Die Urheberrechtsnovelle und das Ende der Einzelnachweise, Auf nach Olympia!, Kölner Wikipedia-Community ausgezeichnet, Vernichtetes Wissen: Die Museums-Katastrophe in Brasilien
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Serverumstellung: Bis zu eine Stunde kein Editieren am 12.09. und 10.10., Vorjury zu Wiki Loves Monuments 2018 in Deutschland gestartet, GLAM on Tour in Görlitz, GLAM on Tour im Jagdschloss Grunewald in Berlin, Frankfurter Buchmesse
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 10. Sep. 2018 (CEST)

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. [214]

Problems

• Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [215]
• Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [216]
• <maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [217]
• {{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. [218]
• When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [219]

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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00:35, 11. Sep. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 38. Woche

Rückblick:

WikiCon 2018	→	Programm
Umfrage Schwarze Hauptseite	→	135:28 dafür, wird aber anders umgesetzt

Adminkandidaturen: Rmcharb
Benutzersperrung: Dschungelfan
Umfragen: Benutzersperrverfahren
Kurier – linke Spalte: Mitglieder-Event im WikiMUC, Neues von der Admin-Front, Ich habe Wikipedia manipuliert, Schenkt Wikipedia das ewige Leben?
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Alemannische Wikipedia, Neue Freiwillige gewinnen: Entwürfe für Banner und Aktionsseite der Herbstaktion, WikiCon: Endspurt, Wörterzahl, Ein stürmischer Ausdruck von Dank, Neulingsgewinnung: Planung der nächsten Kampagne
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:25, 17. Sep. 2018 (CEST)

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. [220]
• MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [221]

Problems

• You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [222]

Changes later this week

• Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [223]
• 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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23:58, 17. Sep. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 39. Woche

Rückblick:

Benutzersperrverfahren Dschungelfan	→	Ein Jahr Sperre
Deadmin Benutzer:Koenraad	→	freiwillige Rückgabe
WikiDACH 2018	→	Anmeldung und Themensammlung beendet.

Checkuserwahl: Hephaion, Perrak
Kurier – linke Spalte: Brandenburgische Jagdpartie, Hat Wikipedia die Offenheit verloren, mit der sie wirbt?, Die neuen Anredeformen, WikiCon: Zweimal Workshop mit DaB., In Zeiten des abnehmenden Wikipedia-Editors
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Herbstmarathon 2018, WikiDACH 2018 in Heidelberg
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:25, 24. Sep. 2018 (CEST)

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. [224]
• 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).

Treffen

• 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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17:23, 24. Sep. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 40. Woche

Rückblick:

Deadmin Benutzer:Kurator71	→	freiwillige Rückgabe
Adminkandidatur Rmcharb	→	Erfolgreich: 213:41:19 (83,86%)

Checkuserwahl: Hephaion, Perrak
Umfragen: Reform von WP:Administratoren/Probleme
Kurier – linke Spalte: Brandenburgische Jagdpartie, Hat Wikipedia die Offenheit verloren, mit der sie wirbt?, Die neuen Anredeformen, In Zeiten des abnehmenden Wikipedia-Editors
Kurier – rechte Spalte: „Falsche Stubs“, WikiCon 2018: Noch Helfende gesucht!, Wikipedianische KulTour am 03.11.2018 im Humboldt Forum, 2.222.222 Artikel … und es werden immer mehr, WikiCon 2018: Es wird voll!, Herbstmarathon 2018, WikiCon: Zweimal Workshop mit DaB., WikiDACH 2018 in Heidelberg
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 1. Okt. 2018 (CEST)

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. [225][226]

Problems

• New and updated translations from translatewiki.net 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. [227][228]

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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19:34, 1. Okt. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 41. Woche

Rückblick:

Checkuserwahl

→

96,10 %) und Benutzer:Perrak (Gewichtete SD 136|89,45 %) wurden erfolgreich wiedergewählt.

Adminkandidaturen: Toni Müller
Adminwiederwahlen: Kenny McFly
Wettbewerbe: WikiDaheim-Vorjury, 29. SW: Publikumspreis, Herbstmarathon 2018
Kurier – linke Spalte: WikiCon hat in St. Gallen stattgefunden, Wikipedistischer Nobelpreis 2018, Löscheritis nun auch im Löscheritis-Thread
Kurier – rechte Spalte: WikiDaheim-Vorjury beginnt, Publikums- u. Reviewpreis des 29. Schreibwettbewerbs, Nach der CU-Wahl ist vor der SG-Wahl, Britische Tate Gallery sourct out und keiner weiß es, Internationale Edit-a-thons:Essen und Filme, Abstimmung zur SG-Special-Artikelauswahl, WP:Miniaturenwettbewerb, Wiki loves Monuments: Für die Einen gerade abgeschlossen, für die Anderen geht es jetzt erst los!
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:25, 8. Okt. 2018 (CEST)

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. [229]

Probleme

• 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. [230]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• 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.

Treffen

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

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01:38, 9. Okt. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 42. Woche

Meinungsbilder: Kommentare bei Adminwahlen, Änderung der Adminwahl
Umfragen in Vorbereitung: Wikipedia:Umfragen/Daniele Ganser 1
Kurier – linke Spalte: Eindrücke von der Frankfurter Buchmesse, Weil nicht sein darf, was nicht sein darf, WMDE-MV 2018-12, Admins „Forever“: Der XVIII. Brumaire der Wikipedia naht, Edit-a-thon „Stimmen für die Demokratie: 100 Jahre Frauenwahlrecht“ - Interview, Wikipedia crosses the Alps, Atamari reflektiert über die WikiCon 2018
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Wikicon, Nachlese für Fotografen: Alles nur geklaut?, Start des zweiten Wiki4MediaFreedom Contest, Im Fernsehen gesehen, auf Wikipedia nachgelesen, WikiCon 2019: Auf nach Wuppertal!
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 15. Okt. 2018 (CEST)

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.

Probleme

• 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. [231]
• Die Wikis werden wieder mit neuen und aktualisierten Übersetzungen von translatewiki.net versorgt. Das geschieht ein mal pro Woche. Die Entwickler arbeiten daran, die Probleme zu beseitigen, so dass die Übersetzungen wieder häufiger aktualisiert werden können. [232]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• 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. [233]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 Oktober. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 Oktober. It will be on all wikis from 18 Oktober (calendar).

Treffen

• 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. [234]
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 Oktober at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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00:40, 16. Okt. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 43. Woche

Rückblick:

Adminwiederwahl Kenny McFly	→	erfolgreich 266:92:24 (74,3%)
Adminkandidatur Toni Müller	→	nicht erfolgreich 115:94:31 (55,02%)

Adminkandidaturen: Filzstift
Wettbewerbe: Asiatischer Monat
Umfragen in Vorbereitung: Wikipedia:Umfragen/Neues Hauptseitendesign 2
Kurier – linke Spalte: Im Spannungsfeld zwischen KTF und dem Streben nach korrekten und vollständigen Inhalten, Das Projekt Technische Wünsche soll im kommenden Jahr enden, Wiki goes MEK! 2.0 (16.–18.11.) – Noch Plätze frei
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Von Wikipedianern für Wikipedianer, Neulingsgewinnung: Kampagne gestartet, WikiConference North America 2018, Anderen Wikidata erklären? Wikidata “Train the Trainers” in Berlin, Köln und Wien, Neue Ergebnisse aus dem Förderbarometer, Chaos Communication Congress, Schreibwettbewerb der Alemannischen Wikipedia
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:25, 22. Okt. 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-43

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

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 Oktober. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 Oktober. It will be on all wikis from 25 Oktober (calendar).

Treffen

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 Oktober at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• The 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.

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01:11, 23. Okt. 2018 (CEST)

Ausrufer – 44. Woche

Rückblick:

Meinungsbild Kommentare bei Adminwahlen	→	Meinungsbild wurde inhaltlich abgelehnt
Meinungsbild Änderung der Adminwahl	→	Meinungsbild wurde inhaltlich abgelehnt

Umfragen: Daniele Ganser
Wettbewerbe: Wartungsbausteinwettbewerb
Kurier – linke Spalte: Sieger des 29. Schreibwettbewerbs, Wiki Loves Monuments 2018 Siegerbilder
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Nihao, Salaam, Ohayō, Namaste und Olá
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:25, 29. Okt. 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-44

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

Letzte Änderungen

• You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
• Die Wikis haben jetzt Content Security Policy im report-only-Modus aktiviert. Das bedeutet, dass du eine Warnmeldung in deiner JavaScript-Konsole bekommen könntest, wenn du externe Ressourcen in dein Benutzerskript einbindest. Aus Sicherheitsgründen wird empfohlen das nicht zu tun. Es könnte sein, dass das Einbinden externer Skripte in Zukunft nicht mehr möglich sein wird. [235]

Probleme

• Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [236]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 Oktober. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 Oktober. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
• The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [237][238]

Treffen

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 Oktober at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:08, 29. Okt. 2018 (CET)

Ausrufer – 45. Woche

Rückblick:

Adminkandidatur Filzstift

→

erfolgreich: 220:68:25 (76,39%)

Schiedsgerichtswahl: Kandidatensuche
Sonstiges: Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2019
Kurier – linke Spalte: Sieben Jahre – und doch nur ein paar Schritte, Großreinemachen in der Wikipedia - wer macht mit?, Internationale Wunschliste startet
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Internationale Wunschliste startet, Relevanzkriterien für Marginalisierte, Wikipedianische KulTour im Haus Wiegand, Bitte an die Fotografen, Bitte an die Autoren, 700.000 Biografien
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:25, 5. Nov. 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-45

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

Letzte Änderungen

• Der Vorlagenassistent (TemplateWizard) kann jetzt genutzt werden, um Vorlagen zu bearbeiten. Das funktioniert nur mit dem 2010er WikiEditor und nicht mit dem VisualEditor oder dem Wikitexteditor 2017. Wenn du auf das klickst, kannst du die Informationen in einem Pop-up eingeben. Du kannst den Vorlagenassistenten in deinen Einstellungen im Bereich Beta-Funktionen aktivieren. [239]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
• When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [240]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).

Treffen

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:29, 5. Nov. 2018 (CET)

Ausrufer – 46. Woche

Kurier – linke Spalte: Multimedial in Salzburg, GLAMTLV2018
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Wikipedia 19, Technische Wünsche: Bearbeitungskonflikte zeilenweise lösen, Zusätzlicher Hinweis, Sind Deine Knöpfe und Sonderzeichen weg?, Sockenzoologie, Qualitätskontrolle dramatisch eingebrochen, Die Löschgeier nach der Fütterung
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:23, 12. Nov. 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-46

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

Letzte Änderungen

• Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [241]

Probleme

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [242][243][244]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (calendar).

Treffen

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [245]

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20:21, 12. Nov. 2018 (CET)

Ausrufer – 47. Woche

Umfragen: Hauptseitendesign
Sonstiges: Offener Brief zur Anonymität im Internet, Umfrage zur Community-Wunschliste 2019
Kurier – linke Spalte: Angemessene Worte, Zurück in die Barriereunfreiheit, Problem gelöst, neues Problem geschaffen, Technische Wünsche: Spezialisierte Suche für alle
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Wiki Loves TV & Radio, 40 Tage bis Weihnachten - DWF, Alemannische Wikipedia wird 15, Wiki4MediaFreedom edit-a-thon in Berlin, Spendenkampagne startet heute, Wikidata Veranstaltungen in München
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:25, 19. Nov. 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-47

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

Letzte Änderungen

• You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
• There is an A/B test for sameAs data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [246]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.

Treffen

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [247]
• The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [248]

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00:28, 20. Nov. 2018 (CET)

Ausrufer – 48. Woche

Rückblick:

Deadmin: Benutzerin:Kritzolina	→ nach Aufforderung nicht zur Wiederwahl kandidiert
24. Schieds­ge­richts­wahl	→ Gewählt wurden: Benutzer:Artregor, Benutzer:Count Count, Benutzerin:Haeferl, Benutzer:Helfmann und Benutzer:-wuppertaler

Kurier – linke Spalte: Es brennt, es brennt… kein Lichtlein brennt…, Essen und eine andere Herangehensweise, UNESCO-Welterbe „Mittelalterliche Stadt von Rhodos“ (Kleine Freuden Teil 28)
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Ahoi!, Saisonwettbewerb des Portals:Wintersport, Adventsmarathon 2018, In itWM ist die Eule ein Igel
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:21, 26. Nov. 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-48

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

Letzte Änderungen

• On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [249]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [250]
• Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [251]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (calendar).

Treffen

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Die Nutzung der Funktion mw.util.jsMessage() wurde im Jahr 2012 missbilligt. Sie wird nächste Woche entfernt. Schau nach der Warnung Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in der JavaScript-Konsole, um zu erfahren ob du davon betroffene Skripte oder Helferlein nutzt. Wenn du Programmierer bist, solltest du prüfen, ob JavaScript-Code mw.util.jsMessage enthält. Es gibt einen Migrations-Leitfaden, der erklärt, wie man stattdessen mw.notify nutzen kann. [252]

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23:21, 26. Nov. 2018 (CET)

Ausrufer – 49. Woche

Rückblick:

Deadmin: Benutzerin:Kritzolina	→ nach Aufforderung nicht zur Wiederwahl kandidiert
24. Schieds­ge­richts­wahl	→ Gewählt wurden: Benutzer:Artregor, Benutzer:Count Count, Benutzerin:Haeferl, Benutzer:Helfmann und Benutzer:-wuppertaler
Wettbewerb Denkmal-Cup	→ Beendet

Umfragen: Begrenzung der Vorschläge pro Benutzer beim Unwort des Jahres 2019
Wettbewerbe: Adventsmarathon, Wintersport-Saisonwettbewerb
Sonstiges: Wikipedia:Weihnachten
Kurier – linke Spalte: Aktion Bildstöcke für gelöschte Schulen?, Damenwahl. Was nun?, Polemische Bearbeitungen, Der Tellerrandblick: Wikidata und Bibliotheken, Vielleicht doch mehr Admins machen?
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Einfach mal..., Alle Jahre wieder ..., Schreibwoche Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft in Belgien, Wikipedia als Strafe – keine gute Idee, Reminder: KulTour Wiegand-Haus, Kleiner Film über Wikidata-Workshop, Technische Wünsche: Hervorhebung von Fußnoten-Link-Buchstaben, Falsch im Bilde: Dolchstoßlegende, Sonderzeicheneinfügeleiste wieder da
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 3. Dez. 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-49

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

Letzte Änderungen

• Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [253]
• Kleine SVG-Dateien werden nun größer angezeigt, wenn man sie im MediaViewer betrachtet. [254]
• Man kann jetzt direkt in den bearbeiteten Abschnitt gelangen, wenn man auf den Abschnittsnamen im Bearbeitungskommentar klickt. Vorher musste man auf den kleinen Pfeil (→) klicken. [255]
• Wenn man auf eine Fußnote klickte, die mehrfach im Artikel genutzt wurde, war es schwierig wieder zur vorherigen Text­stelle zu gelangen. Jetzt wird der entsprechende Buchstabe gefettet und ein Pfeil am Anfang der Fußnote bietet einen Link zurück zur entsprechenden Textstelle. (WP:Technische Wünsche) [256][257]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.

Treffen

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 Dezember at 16:00 (UTC) and at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:12, 3. Dez. 2018 (CET)

Ausrufer – 50. Woche

Rückblick:

Offener Brief zur geplanten Einschränkung der Anonymität im Internet entfernt

→ Beendet

Kurier – linke Spalte: GNDCon, eine Normdaten-Konferenz, Asiatischer Monat, ein voller (?) Erfolg, Präsidium – wie konnte denn das passieren?
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Paid Editing in der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia, Ergebnisse des Wikipedia-Aktionstages 2018 veröffentlicht, Wikimedia Deutschland wählt neues Präsidium
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:21, 10. Dez. 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-50

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

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 Dezember. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 Dezember. It will be on all wikis from 13 Dezember (calendar).

Treffen

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 Dezember at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [258][259]
• Wenn man den Mauszeiger über einen Fußnotenmarker fährt, wird die Fußnote in einem kleinen Popup-Fenster angezeigt, damit man nicht zum Ende der Seite wechseln muss, um die Fußnote zu lesen. Die Aktivierung dieser Funktion ist für 2019 geplant. Einige Wikis haben bereits Gadgets, die sowas machen. Die Funktion wird deaktivierbar sein. (WP:Technische Wünsche) [260]

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18:33, 10. Dez. 2018 (CET)

Ausrufer – 51. Woche

Rückblick:

Offener Brief zur geplanten Einschränkung der Anonymität im Internet entfernt

→ Beendet

Kurier – linke Spalte: Wiki Loves Monuments, Startschuss für die WikiCon 2019 in Wuppertal
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Person of the Year, It’s a man’s world, Winterferien 2018, Studie zur Danken-Funktion, 148 Frauen, die man kennen muß – ein Nachtrag, WikiCon 2018: Evaluation
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:23, 17. Dez. 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-51

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 7 January 2019.

Letzte Änderungen

• Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [261][262]
• Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [263]
• The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.

Probleme

• <ref> tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example <ref name="adams" group="books">. If a <ref> tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [264]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 Dezember. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 Dezember. It will be on all wikis from 20 Dezember (calendar).

Treffen

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 Dezember at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
• tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [265]

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21:34, 17. Dez. 2018 (CET)

Ausrufer – 52. Woche

Rückblick:

Offener Brief zur geplanten Einschränkung der Anonymität im Internet entfernt

→ Beendet

Umfragen: Auswertung
Kurier – linke Spalte: Neue Tier- und Pflanzenarten 2018
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Government Shutdown – wieso betrifft das Wikipedia?, Edit-a-thon zu Hundert Jahre Frauenwahlrecht in Potsdam, [[WP:K#Leider verloren Vorlage:Smiley/Wartung/:( |Leider verloren Vorlage:Smiley/Wartung/:( ]], Ein neuer Admin ist zu uns gestoßen, welch Freude!
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 24. Dez. 2018 (CET)

Ausrufer – 1. Woche

Kurier – linke Spalte: Rundfunk in Wikipedia, Thematische Verdichtungen, Das Milliarden-Dollar-Projekt, Weihnachtsgrüße an alle Wikipedianer, an die, die es noch werden könnten und an unsere Leser
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Der WikiCup geht in die nächste Runde, Rückblick auf KEA, KLA, KILP und KALP bis 2002, OscArtikelMarathon 2019
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:22, 31. Dez. 2018 (CET)