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Tech News: 2014-01

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

Recent software changes

• You can now see the text of DjVu and PDF files in search results on wikis testing the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [1] [2]
• With the new version of the Wikibase DataModel extension, you can install it outside Wikimedia wikis. [3]

VisualEditor news

• Images are now shown inside VisualEditor as HTML5 <figure /> elements. Comments are welcome. [4]
• You can now test a basic version of VisualEditor on mobile devices; see this article as an example.

Problems

• On December 23, Wikimedia Labs was broken for 4 hours due to an NFS problem. [5]

Future software changes

• CirrusSearch will be added as the second search method for Spanish (es), French (fr), Portuguese (pt) and Russian (ru) wikis on December 30. Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies and Wikinews users will also be able to enable it in their Beta Features options.
• AbuseFilter log entries will be visible in CheckUser tool reports. [6] [7]
• It will soon be possible to search for log entries done by users without an account. [8] [9]
• It will no longer be possible to globally hide users with more than 1,000 edits. [10] [11]

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08h40min de 30 de dezembro de 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 01 January 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: The year in review
• In the media: Does Wikipedia need a medical disclaimer?
• Book review: Życie Wirtualnych Dzikich
• Discussion report: Article incubator, dates and fractions, medical disclaimer
• Traffic report: A year stuck in traffic
• WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Fifth Edition
• Featured content: 2013—the trends
• Technology report: 2013: Year in review

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Tech News: 2014-02

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 2. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on January 7 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 9 (calendar).
• The old note-taking site (Etherpad) was removed on December 30, 2013. You can see most of the documents on the new site. [12]

Problems

• On January 2, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage projects were broken for 2 hours due to language cache update issues.
• On the same day, it was not possible to edit most wikis for about 30 minutes, due to a database replication problem.

Future software changes

• The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added as the default search method for Italian Wikipedia, French Wikisource, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage sites, and as a second search method for the German Wikipedia and all Wikibooks sites on January 6. [13]
• Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian Wikipedia users will also be able to enable CirrusSearch in their Beta Features options. [14]
• Plural form rules for some languages will be changed. Many translations of the user interface for Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian and other languages will need to be changed. [15] [16] [17]
• You will see a warning when you try to delete a page linked to from other pages. [18] [19]
• You will be able to hide redirect pages on the list of protected pages. [20] [21]
• You will be able to use keyboard shortcuts in the Translate tool, by pressing Alt+1 and similar key groups. [22] [23]
• E-mails sent by MediaWiki will include the name of the site in their From: line. You will be able to change this name on your wiki by editing the MediaWiki:Emailsender page. [24] [25]
• Images viewed in the Beta Features media viewer will load faster. [26] [27]

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08h35min de 6 de janeiro de 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-03

Mais recente tech news da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Favor informar outros usuários sobre essas mudanças. Nem todas as mudanças irão afetá-lo. Traduções estão disponíveis.

You can read a recent blog post about how Tech News is put together, translated and sent to you across wikis each week.

Mudanças recentes no software

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 9. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 14, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 16 (calendar).
• Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons may be slow due to a search engine issue. [28]

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor will be added for all users on several Wikipedias on January 13. [29]
• You can now add and remove __NOTOC__, __FORCETOC__ and __NOEDITSECTION__ in the page metadata menu. [30] [31] [32]

Problemas

• Por algumas horas em 6 de Janeiro, não foi possível editar páginas utilizando a ferramenta de tradução no Wikimedia Commons e na wiki do Wikimania 2013 devido a um problema de configuração. [33] [34]
• For about 20 minutes on January 9, there were problems with CSS and JavaScript due to high server load.

Mudanças futuras no software

• Wikidata será adicionado a todos os projetos Wikisource em 14 de Janeiro. [35]
• The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added as the second search method for the English Wikipedia on January 13. On Wikibooks and the German Wikipedia, you will also be able to test it by adding it in your Beta Features options.
• Você em breve poderá exportar coleções de páginas em outros formatos além do PDF. [36]
• It will soon be possible to upload groups of photos from Flickr using UploadWizard. [37] [38]
• The Wikimedia Foundation has shared a multimedia vision for 2016. You are invited to comment. [39]

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09h33min de 13 de janeiro de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 January 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Licensed for reuse? Citing open-access sources in Wikipedia articles
• News and notes: Wikimedia Germany asks for "reworking" of Funds Dissemination Committee; should MP4 be allowed on Wikimedia sites?
• In the media: Is Google hurting Wikipedia traffic?; "Wikipedia-Mania" in the New York Times
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Sociology
• Traffic report: The Hours are Ours
• Technology report: Architecture Summit schedule published

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Tech News: 2014-04

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 (calendar).
• You can now see relatively recent results on special pages like Special:DoubleRedirects, Special:UncategorizedPages or Special:WantedCategories. They were disabled before because they were very slow. The results are now updated once a month. [40]
• As of January 16, you can make and use guided tours on the Asturian, Farsi and Russian Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [41] [42]
• You can give comments on an idea to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [43]
• You can watch a video to learn how to report problems in Bugzilla. [44]

VisualEditor news

• In the toolbar, the menu to edit the styles (like bold, italic, etc.) now has a down arrow (). The order of the Insert menu has also changed a little.
• You can now edit <gallery /> tags with a very basic tool. [45]
• You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu. [46]
• When you change categories, you will now see them when you save the page. [47]
• When you edit templates, you will now see the parameters in the right order. The ones that you must add have a star (*). [48] [49]
• The page will now be saved faster, thanks to a new way of coding the text that sends 40% less text to the servers. [50]
• Your wiki can ask to test a new tool to edit TemplateData. [51]

Problems

• There was a problem with search on the English and German Wikipedias between January 6 and January 14. You could not see new pages and changes in search results. [52]
• There were "pool timeouts" errors on several wikis on January 13; it was caused by a code change that was made to fix another problem. [53]
• On January 17, Bugzilla and Wikimedia Labs were broken for about 20 minutes due to network problems. IRC channels with recent changes (irc.wikimedia.org) were broken for about two hours. [54]

Future software changes

Orange bar with new messages

• If you have removed JavaScript in your web browser, you will soon be able to see the orange bar saying that you have new messages. If you have changed how the bar looks with a gadget, you may need to change the gadget again. [55] [56]
• You will soon be able to add a given Flickr user to a blacklist so that their files can't be uploaded using UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons and other wikis. [57]
• You will see a warning when you try to delete a page included in at least one other page. [58]
• You will so longer see disambiguation pages in Special:LonelyPages. [59] [60]

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10h21min de 20 de janeiro de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 January 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Book review: Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse
• Special report: The few who write Wikipedia
• News and notes: Modification of WMF protection brought to Arbcom
• Featured content: Dr. Watson, I presume with the Tramp* Traffic report: No show for the Globes
• Technology report: Architecting the future of MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2014-05

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

Recent software changes

• Pages from Wikimedia sites now load faster in your browser thanks to "module storage", a way for your browser to save data like JavaScript and CSS on your computer to avoid downloading them again. See video. [61]
• The code used to show videos has changed. You should be able to play the video on the page, with the play button on top of the video. If you see the play button on the right of the video, or if clicking on the video leads you to the original file, please file a bug or tell User:Bawolff. [62]
• The Special:ActiveUsers page will be removed because it's too slow. [63]
• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 (calendar).

Problems

• On January 21, Universal Language Selector was turned off on all Wikimedia sites because it makes pages load slowly. If you want to use web fonts, or write in scripts that aren't on your keyboard, you need to add it as an option in your preferences. It will be turned back on when the issues are resolved. [64]
• For about 20 minutes on the same day, there were problems with CSS and JavaScript due to high server load.

Future software changes

• You can give comments about the new version of "Winter", a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [65]

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09h46min de 27 de janeiro de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 January 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions
• Traffic report: Six strikes out
• WikiProject report: Contesting Contests
• Arbitration report: Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion
• Recent research: Translation assignments, weasel words, and Wikipedia's content in its later years

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Tech News: 2014-06

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 30. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 6 (calendar).
• Global AbuseFilter rules are now active on all small wikis. [66] [67]
• The buttons used in pages like log-in, account creation and search are now using the same colors and styles. [68] [69]
• You can now link to diffs using [[Special:Diff/12345]] and similar links. [70]
• There is no longer an option to hide tables of contents on all pages. [71]
• Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons is now faster, after a bug was fixed on January 29. [72]
• All Wikimedia wikis now have high-resolution favicons. [73]

VisualEditor news

• You can now see a list of keyboard shortcuts by pressing Ctrl+/ inside VisualEditor. [74]

Future software changes

• Edits and files hidden with the Oversight tool will be moved to the RevisionDelete system. The Oversight tool will then be removed from Wikimedia wikis. [75] [76] [77]
• For languages where not all sister projects exist, you will be able to link to other language projects using double interwikis (:ko:v, :v:ko, etc.). [78]
• It will soon be possible to use the GettingStarted tool on other wikis than the English Wikipedia. You can translate it on Translatewiki.net. [79]
• You will soon be able to include the Special:Contributions page into other pages. [80]
• You will be able to see where a file is used inside MultimediaViewer, the new tool for viewing media files. [81] [82]
• It will soon be possible to send MassMessage messages using the API. [83]
• You will soon see audio statistics on the Special:TimedMediaHandler page. [84]

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08h30min de 3 de fevereiro de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 January 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions
• Traffic report: Six strikes out
• WikiProject report: Contesting Contests
• Arbitration report: Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion
• Recent research: Translation assignments, weasel words, and Wikipedia's content in its later years

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Tech News: 2014-07

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 13 (calendar).
• The Vector search box was changed to fix old display and accessibility issues; for example, you can now use full-text search even if you have disabled JavaScript. Please report any problems you see. The option to disable the "simplified search bar" on Vector will also be removed. [85] [86] [87] [88] [89]
• You are now notified when someone adds a link to your user page on wikis where it didn't work before (wikis with dates in the year-month-day order, including Hungarian, Japanese, Korean and some variants of Chinese). [90]

VisualEditor news

• You can now set media items' alt text and position, and directly set their size, in the media tool. [91] [92]
• The gallery tool was improved and several issues were fixed. [93] [94] [95]

Problems

• On February 3, all wikis were broken for about an hour due to a traffic balancing issue. [96]
• On February 6, some wikis were broken for about half an hour in total due to a problem with the Math extension.

Future software changes

• Some methods from Scribunto's mw.message library will be removed after February 18. If you use them in your templates or modules, please check to make sure that things will not break. [97] [98]
• You will soon be able to use GettingStarted on 23 new Wikipedias. It helps new users by listing possible tasks and giving help. The new version was also added to the English Wikipedia on February 7th. [99]
• You will soon see results from other wikis when you use the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [100] [101]
• The WikiLove tool was redesigned and should also load faster. [102]
• Edits made with WikiLove or after a GettingStarted suggestion will be tagged. [103] [104]
• It will soon no longer be possible to hide section editing links in your preferences. [105]
• You will soon be able to use the revision deletion feature via the API. [106]
• You will soon be able to choose mobile view on non-mobile devices using a Beta Feature option. [107] [108]
• If you have questions about Universal Language Selector, you can join an IRC meeting on February 12 at 17:00 UTC, in the #wikimedia-office channel on Freenode. [109]
• Developers are preparing for Google Summer of Code 2014. You can propose ideas. [110]
• bugzilla.wikimedia.org will be updated this week. You won't be able to access it from 22:00 UTC on February 12 until 01:00 UTC on February 13 at the latest. [111]
• The <poem> tag will be renamed to <lines>. The old tag will still work. [112]

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09h30min de 10 de fevereiro de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 February 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: WMF bites the bullet on affiliation and FDC funding, elevates Wikimedia user groups
• In the media: WikiVIP; Art Feminism; Medical articles; PR manipulation; Azerbaijani Wikipedia
• Featured content: Space selfie
• Traffic report: Sports Day
• WikiProject report: Game Time in Russia
• Technology report: Left with no choice

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Tech News: 2014-08

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 13. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 18, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 20 (calendar).
• You can now use the list of active users again. [113] [114]
• The new search tool (CirrusSearch) now gives more importance to content namespaces if you search in several namespaces. [115]
• You can now directly link to files viewed with MultimediaViewer, the new tool for viewing media files. [116]
• You can read the summary of the Wikimedia technical report for January 2014. [117]

Problems

• On February 9, Wikimedia Labs was broken for about 2 hours due to an XFS file system problem. [118]
• On February 11, there were problems with VisualEditor for about 20 minutes due to a server logging issue. [119]
• On the same day, for about 20 minutes there were issues with page loading due to database problems.
• There were issues with page loading between 21:00 UTC on February 13 and 11:00 UTC on February 14 for users in Europe. It was due to a cache server problem.
• On February 14, all sites were broken for about 15 minutes for users in Southeast Asia, Oceania and the western part of North America. It was due to problems with cache servers.

VisualEditor news

• The link tool now tells you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. [120]
• You can now change image display (like thumbnail, frame and frameless) with VisualEditor. [121]
• Wikitext warnings will now hide when you remove wikitext from paragraphs you are editing. [122]
• You will soon be able to create and edit redirect pages with VisualEditor. [123] [124] [125]

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08h38min de 17 de fevereiro de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 February 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Foundation takes aim at undisclosed paid editing; Greek Wikipedia editor faces down legal challenge
• WikiProject report: Countering Systemic Bias
• Featured content: Holotype
• Traffic report: Chilly Valentines
• Technology report: ULS comeback

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Tech News: 2014-09

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 20. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 25, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 27 (calendar).
• The new search tool (CirrusSearch) was added to the Italian Wikiquote and all Wikiversity projects. Users can now enable it in their Beta options. [126] [127]
• The Universal Language Selector was enabled on all Wikimedia wikis again. You can enable web fonts in your ULS options (see how).

VisualEditor news

• You will soon be able to add and edit __STATICREDIRECT__, __[NO]INDEX__ and __[NO]NEWEDITSECTION__ in the page settings menu. [128] [129] [130]
• You will soon be able to use the Ctrl+Alt+S or ⌘+Opt+S shortcuts to open the save window in VisualEditor. [131] [132]
• You will soon be able to preview your edit summary when checking your changes in the save window. [133] [134]

Future software changes

• You will soon be able to use the <categorytree> tag again. [135]
• You will soon be able to post messages with the MassMessage tool in all talk namespaces. [136] [137]
• Notifications will soon work in all namespaces. [138][139][140]

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10h18min de 24 de fevereiro de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 February 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Diary of a protester—Wikimedian perishes in Ukrainian unrest
• Forum: Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?
• News and notes: Wikimedia chapters and communities challenge Commons' URAA policy
• Traffic report: Snow big deal
• WikiProject report: Racking brains with neuroscience
• Featured content: Odin salutes you
• Recent research: CSCW '14 retrospective; the impact of SOPA on deletionism

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Tech News: 2014-10

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 6 (calendar).
• When users enable web fonts by default, Universal Language Selector will now log if they don't have fonts to display pages correctly. This information will be used by developers to improve font support in the future. Read more about missing fonts. [141]
• You can now use Guided tours on the Czech and Japanese Wikipedia. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [142] [143]
• You can now use information from Wikidata in all Wikisource wikis. [144]
• The multimedia team is now posting weekly updates on their mailing list. [145]

VisualEditor news

• You can now change image size to default for your wiki. If you add new images to pages, they will also be default size. [146] [147] [148]
• If you switch from VisualEditor to wikitext editing, your edit will now be tagged. [149]
• Template parameters now have a bigger, auto-sizing input box for easier editing. [150]
• VisualEditor now has Arabic, Finnish and Kölsch icons for text styling. If you want icons for your language, ask in Bugzilla. [151] [152] [153]

Future software changes

• The new tool for viewing media files will soon show a progress bar and a thumbnail while loading full images. [154] [155]
• You will soon be able to make user contributions show only page creations. [156] [157]
• Article Feedback Tool will be removed from the English and French Wikipedias on March 3. It will also no longer be possible to add this tool to any Wikimedia wiki. [158] [159]
• Wikis using the new search tool will come back to the old tool for a few hours starting at 00:00 UTC on March 6. [160]

Problems

• For about an hour on February 23, there were problems with page loading due to a MediaWiki bug. [161]

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09h30min de 3 de março de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 March 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wikipedia Library finding success in matching contributors with sources
• Traffic report: Brinksmen on the brink
• Discussion report: Four paragraph lead, indefinitely blocked IPs, editor reviews broken?
• WikiProject report: Article Rescue Squadron
• Featured content: Full speed ahead for the WikiCup

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Tech News: 2014-11

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf17) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 13 (calendar).
• You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch) on all Wikiquote projects. You can now enable it in your Beta options. [162] [163]

VisualEditor news

• It is now easier to edit templates. Complex tools are now in the "advanced" mode. [164] [165]
• It is also easier to edit images. You now have more options and they are explained better. [166]
• VisualEditor adds fake blank lines so you can put your cursor there. They are now smaller and animated to be different from actual blank lines. [167]
• We have improved the tool to add special characters. The buttons are now larger. More changes are coming. [168]
• You can now use new keyboard shortcuts to undo the last action, clear formatting, and show the shortcut help window. [169] [170] [171]

Future software changes

• You will soon be able to use a Beta option to show a shorter list of language links. That way, Universal Language Selector will only show languages that are relevant to you. You will still be able to search for other languages. [172]
• CirrusSearch will soon automatically index newly imported pages. [173] [174]
• It will soon be possible to use CSS to style buttons in templates on all Wikimedia wikis, without needing JavaScript. [175]
• An IRC discussion with the Wikimedia Foundation Language Engineering team will take place on March 12 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [176]

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09h10min de 10 de março de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 March 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Traffic report: War and awards
• News and notes: Wikimedians celebrate International Women's Day and Women's History Month
• WikiProject report: Examining the Russian Wikipedia's Entomology Project
• Featured content: Ukraine burns

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Tech News: 2014-12

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf18) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 13. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 18, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 20 (calendar).
• You can now view smaller versions of PNG images bigger than 20 megapixels. [177]
• You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch) on all small wikis. You can now enable it in your Beta options. [178] [179]
• You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for February 2014. [180]

VisualEditor news

• Searching for template parameters in now case-insensitive. [181] [182]
• Required template parameters now have an asterisk (*) next to their edit boxes. [183]
• Several template dialogs are now smaller, and their insert buttons have changed wording. [184]

Future software changes

• You will soon see an error message if you try to log-in or register with an invalid or taken username. [185]
• You can now test first version of a tool that includes OpenStreetMap maps inside the UploadWizard. Comments are welcome. [186]
• You will soon be able to use the Hovercards tool as a beta feature. [187]

Problems

• VisualEditor was slow to load on March 13 because of an API issue. [188]

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07h14min de 17 de março de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 March 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Interview: Nate Ott: the writer behind 71 articles in the English Wikipedia's largest-ever good topic
• Forum: Wikimedia Commons mission: free media for the world or only Wikimedia projects?
• News and notes: Foundation-supported Wikipedian in residence faces scrutiny
• Traffic report: Into thin air
• WikiProject report: We have history
• Featured content: Spot the bulldozer
• Technology report: Wikimedia engineering report

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Tech News: 2014-13

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf19) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 20. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 25, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 27 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

• You can now double-click or press the ↲ Enter key on an image or template to change its settings. [189] [190]
• Pages that don't exist will now show as red links in the edit mode. [191]
• You will no longer be able to try to use VisualEditor on pages translated using the Translate extension, and you will see a warning if you try to edit pages marked for translation. [192]
• You will now see a full warning, including the most recent log entry, when you try to edit protected pages with VisualEditor. [193]

Future software changes

• Typography Refresh will be enabled for test wiki and MediaWiki.org users who use the Vector skin on March 27. For users on non-Wikipedia wikis, it will be enabled on April 1, and for Wikipedia users on April 3. If you don't use Vector as your skin, you will not be affected.
• You will be able to use the Hovercards tool as a beta feature on all wikis from March 26.
• You will soon be able to include the Whatlinkshere special page in other pages. [194] [195]

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18h56min de 24 de março de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 March 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Why we're updating the default typography for Wikipedia
• Comment: A foolish request
• News and notes: Commons Picture of the Year—winners announced
• Traffic report: Down to a simmer
• WikiProject report: From the peak
• Featured content: Winter hath a beauty that is all his own
• Recent research: Wikipedians' "encyclopedic identity" dominates even in Kosovo debates; analysis of "In the news" discussions; user hierarchy mapped
• Technology report: Why will Wikipedia look like the Signpost?

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Tech News: 2014-14

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf20) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 1, and all Wikipedia wikis on April 3 (calendar).
• Typography Refresh was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 27. You'll only see it if you use the Vector skin. For users on non-Wikipedia wikis, it will be enabled on April 1, and for Wikipedia users on April 3.
• CirrusSearch, the new search tool, was enabled as a beta feature on over 30 new wikis on March 27. [196] [197]

VisualEditor news

• Blocked users now see the same messages in VisualEditor as in the wikitext editor. [198] [199]
• The search box for re-using a reference in VisualEditor is now cleared after each use. [200]
• New links on sub-pages no longer point to the wrong location in VisualEditor. [201]
• VisualEditor's media dialog no longer breaks when opening some types of images. [202]

Future software changes

• You will not be able to use the Wikitech wiki for a short period around 16:00 UTC on April 1 due to a server change. [203]
• CirrusSearch will become the main search engine for all non-Wikipedia wikis except Commons, Meta and Incubator on April 2.
• You will soon be able to use a new special page listing duplicate files. [204]
• Deleting a version of a file or a version of its description page will soon be shown differently in the logs. [205]

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09h20min de 31 de março de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 April 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: On the cusp of the Wikimedia Conference
• News and notes: Wikimedia conferences—soul-searching about costs, attendance, and future
• Traffic report: Regressing to the mean
• WikiProject report: Deutschland in English
• Featured content: April Fools

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Tech News: 2014-15

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf21) was scheduled to be deployed to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 3, however it was temporarily put on hold due to localization issues. (calendar).
• Typography Refresh was enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on April 1, and on all Wikipedias on April 3. You'll only see it if you use the Vector skin.
• CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on over 400 non-Wikipedia wikis on April 2. [206]

Future software changes

• A new special page (Special:TrackingCategories) will soon list all the tracking categories on a wiki. [207] [208]
• All Wikiquote projects will start using language links from Wikidata on April 8. [209]
• The Hovercards feature will soon work with right-to-left languages. [210] [211]
• You will soon be able to download files directly from MediaViewer, the new multimedia tool. [212]
• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on MediaWiki.org on April 10. Comments are welcome.
• You can help check that users can read CAPTCHAs in your language. [213]

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08h00min de 7 de abril de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 April 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz
• News and notes: Round 2 of FDC funding open to public comments
• Traffic report: Conquest of the Couch Potatoes
• WikiProject report: Law
• Featured content: Snow heater and Ash sweep

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Tech News: 2014-16

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

We are looking for contributors to help write new issues every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf22) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and all Wikipedias on April 17 (calendar).
• MediaViewer was enabled for all users on MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be enabled for all users on the Catalan (ca), Hungarian (hu) and Korean (ko) Wikipedias and English Wikivoyage on April 17. Comments are welcome. [214] [215] [216]
• Font issues caused by Typography refresh for Windows users were fixed on April 7. [217] [218]

VisualEditor news

• You will now see only three options when you try to add a template parameter in VisualEditor; you will see other options after a click. [219]
• The size changing controls in VisualEditor media editing dialog were simplified further.
• The wikitext editor tab will now fold into a drop-down menu in the Vector skin if there is not enough space on your screen. [220] [221]

Future software changes

• The font used for body text on Wikimedia wikis will change to your system default sans-serif font. This temporary change will be enabled on all non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and on all Wikipedias on April 17. [222] [223]
• Files from Commons seen on another wiki will soon have a tab saying "View on Wikimedia Commons". The create tab will change to "Add local description" (see screenshot). [224]
• You will soon be able to hide Notification and Hovercards pop-ups by pressing the Esc key. [225] [226] [227] [228]
• Shorter lists of language links will soon work in right-to-left languages. Languages that you have used before will be shown in the list. [229]
• You will soon be able to send messages with the MassMessage tool to all pages in a given category. [230] [231]
• The date format user preference will soon be moved to the appearance tab. [232] [233]
• An IRC discussion with the Wikimedia Foundation Multimedia team will take place on April 16 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [234]

Problems

• Wikimedia Foundation servers were updated after a security bug called Heartbleed was discovered last week. You should change your password as an extra precaution. [235]

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07h18min de 14 de abril de 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-17

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

Tech News updates

• You can now subscribe to an Atom or RSS feed to read Tech News in your news aggregator. The newsletter will now also show on the English Planet Wikimedia every Monday. [236]
• We are looking for contributors to help write a new issue every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf1) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 22, and all Wikipedias on April 24 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was enabled as a beta feature on 27 new wikis on April 18. [237] [238]
• Problems with various fonts in SVG files were fixed last week. Files that use DejaVu Sans Condensed, DejaVu Serif Condensed, DejaVu Sans Light, Kochi Gothic and Kochi Mincho fonts now show correctly. [239] [240] [241] [242]
• The page view statistics site developed by Henrik (stats.grok.se) should now work faster. [243]
• You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for March 2014. [244]

VisualEditor news

• If you try to add a category which redirects to another category, VisualEditor will now suggest adding the target category directly. [245] [246]
• VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear on Education Program pages. [247] [248]
• You can now use VisualEditor on Meta-Wiki and the French Wikinews by enabling it in your preferences. [249] [250] [251]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Czech (cs), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), Hebrew (he), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Thai (th) and Vietnamese (vi) Wikipedias on April 24. Feedback is welcome. [252]
• Edits by anonymous users will now be marked with a new CSS class (mw-anonuserlink). This way, you can easily make those edits use a different color, font or background. [253] [254]
• The user preference to remember login will soon be removed from all wikis. The edit review preferences will be moved to the recent changes tab, and the preference for the WikiLove tool will be moved to the editing tab. [255] [256] [257] [258]
• You will soon be able to give parameters to preloaded templates. [259] [260]
• You will soon be able to use CodeEditor in read-only mode on pages that you cannot edit. [261] [262]
• It is now proposed to replace Bugzilla, Gerrit and other tools by a single tool called Phabricator. You can test Phabricator and add your opinion on MediaWiki.org. [263]
• An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on April 22 at 03:30 AM UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [264]

Problems

• For about 40 minutes on April 17, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.
• There is a problem with the rendering of formulas with MathJax. If you enabled MathJax in your preferences, you might need to turn it off and on again. [265]

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08h34min de 21 de abril de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 April 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: 2014 Wikimedia Conference—what is the impact?
• Wikimania: Winning bid announced for 2015
• News and notes: Wikimedian passes away
• WikiProject report: To the altar—Catholicism
• Featured content: There was I, waiting at the church
• Traffic report: Reflecting in Gethsemane

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Tech News: 2014-18

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf2) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 29, and all Wikipedias on May 1 (calendar).
• You can now use interwiki prefix c: to link to pages on Wikimedia Commons. [266]

VisualEditor news

• You will soon be able to set content language and direction with VisualEditor. [267]
• VisualEditor now works on all Wikipedias after broken MediaWiki:Common.js pages (and similar) were fixed last week. [268]
• VisualEditor dialogs now use an animation of moving lines rather than animated GIF images.

Future software changes

• CirrusSearch will be enabled as a beta feature on 41 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and the Swedish (sv), Russian (ru), Polish (pl), Japanese (ja) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias next week. This change means that CirrusSearch will now be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis.
• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the French (fr) and Dutch (nl) Wikipedias on May 1. Feedback is welcome. [269]
• The mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will soon include filters to limit the number of uploaded files that are copyright violations. [270]
• CodeEditor will soon have a status bar about errors and warnings. [271] [272]
• You can test a new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. Comments are welcome. [273]

Problems

• For about 30 minutes on April 21, there were problems with image scaling due to a high server load. [274] [275]
• On April 22, it was not possible to use the Collection extension for about 90 minutes due to a server move. [276] [277]

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07h22min de 28 de abril de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 April 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: WMF's draft annual plan turns indigestible as an FDC proposal
• Interview: Wikipedia in the Peabody Essex Museum
• Featured content: Browsing behaviours
• WikiProject report: Genetics
• Traffic report: Going to the Doggs
• Recent research: Wikipedia predicts flu more accurately than Google; 43% of academics have edited Wikipedia

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Tech News: 2014-19

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf3) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and all Wikipedias on May 8 (calendar).
• The Compact Personal Bar was added as a beta feature to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added as a beta feature to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and to all Wikipedias on May 8. To test it, you can enable it now in your preferences on MediaWiki.org. [278]
• It is now easier to disable the CodeEditor tool. [279]

VisualEditor news

• External links in VisualEditor are now in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki. [280]
• The template tool now tells you if a parameter is obsolete. [281]
• You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData; VisualEditor will add them like required ones. [282]
• There is a new type for TemplateData parameters: wiki-file-name for file names. [283][284]
• Editing formulae in VisualEditor will soon be enabled for all users. [285] [286]
• You will soon be able to try a new beta feature to edit text in another language. [287] [288]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Japanese (ja), Portuguese (pt), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 8. Feedback is welcome. [289]
• You can help translate about 100 new language names that have been added to our data source. They are used, for example, as hover text for interwiki links. Send an e-mail to Nemo if you want to help.
• If you click on a redirect page in your watchlist, you will soon access the redirect itself. [290] [291]

Problems

• For about 40 minutes around 00:20 UTC on April 29, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.

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07h29min de 5 de maio de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 May 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In focus: Foundation announces long-awaited new executive director
• News and notes: New system of discretionary sanctions; Buchenwald; is Pirelli 'Cracking Wikipedia'?
• WikiCup: 2014 WikiCup enters round three
• In the media: Google and the flu; Adrianne
• WikiProject report: Singing with Eurovision
• Featured content: Wikipedia at the Rijksmuseum
• Traffic report: TMZedia

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Tech News: 2014-20

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf4) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 8. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and all Wikipedias on May 15 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

• A new citation system in VisualEditor was enabled on the English Wikipedia. It will soon be enabled on more wikis. [292]
• Templates that were previously broken in VisualEditor should now appear correctly. [293]

Future software changes

• It will soon be possible to move category description pages. Pages in changed categories will still have to be moved independently. [294] [295]
• You will soon be able to clear your watchlist with one click or through the API. [296] [297] [298] [299]
• You will soon be able to link to Flow posts and workflows with Special:Flow. [300] [301]
• The jQuery JavaScript library will soon be updated. Please check that your gadgets and scripts will still work. [302]
• The Vector skin will work faster, as the sidebar will no longer collapse partly after being loaded. [303] [304] [305]
• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on Wikimedia Commons on May 15. Feedback is welcome.
• An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on May 14 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [306]
• Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead. [307]

Problems

• There were problems with generating file thumbnails for all wikis between May 3 and May 6 due to a configuration error. [308] [309]

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06h00min de 12 de maio de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 May 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Investigative report: Hong Kong's Wikimania 2013—failure to produce financial statement raises questions of probity
• News and notes: 'Ask a librarian': connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia
• Featured content: On the rocks
• Traffic report: Eurovision, Google Doodles, Mothers, and May 5th
• WikiProject report: Relaxing in Puerto Rico
• Technology report: Technology report needs editor, Media Viewer offers a new look

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Tech News: 2014-21

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

Tech News updates

• Tech News is one year old this week; thank you for being with us!

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf5) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendar).
• The jQuery JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work. [310] [311] [312]
• MediaViewer was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22. Feedback is welcome. [313] [314]
• VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferences. [315] [316]
• You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014.

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys. [317] [318]
• VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like {{cite_web}} and not just {{Cite web}}. [319] [320]
• VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it. [321] [322]
• VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit. [323]
• The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. [324] [325]

Future software changes

• User ID number will no longer be visible in preferences. [326] [327]

Problems

• For several hours on May 16, there were problems with loading gadgets on some wikis due to a server problem. [328]

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07h18min de 19 de maio de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 May 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: "Crisis" over Wikimedia Germany's palace revolution
• Traffic report: Doodles' dawn
• Featured content: Staggering number of featured articles

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Tech News: 2014-22

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar).
• MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them. [329] [330] [331] [332]
• A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the File: namespace was fixed last week. [333] [334]
• VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled. [335] [336]
• It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed. [337]
• VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names. [338]

Future software changes

• Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade. [339]
• It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard tool. [340] [341]
• Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax [[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]] will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear. [342] [343] [344]
• You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki. [345] [346]

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08h29min de 26 de maio de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 May 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Interview: Casliber reaches one hundred featured articles
  Wikipedia's second featured article centurion
• News and notes: The English Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion; wiki inventor interviewed on video
• Recent research: Overview of research on Wikipedia's readers; predicting which article you will edit next
• Featured content: Zombie fight in the saloon
• Traffic report: Get fitted for flipflops and floppy hats

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Tech News: 2014-23

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30. [347]

VisualEditor news

• Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target. [348]
• The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [349] [350]
• VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons. [351]
• There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters: date for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. [352]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.
• You will soon see a warning if you visit a contributions page for a user that does not exist. [353] [354]
• The search tab will soon be removed from user preferences. You will be able to set your search preferences on Special:Search. [355] [356]
• You will soon see a label next to the little triangle arrow for the Actions menu in the Vector skin (screenshot). [357] [358]

Problems

• For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error. [359]

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08h07min de 2 de junho de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 June 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: IEG funding for women's stories—a new approach to the gender gap
• Op-ed: "Hospitality, jerks, and what I learned"—the amazing keynote at WikiConference USA
• News and notes: Two new affiliate-selected trustees
• In the media: Reliable or not, doctors use Wikipedia
• Traffic report: Autumn in summer
• Featured content: Ye stately homes of England

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Tech News: 2014-24

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar).
• You can now use guided tours on the Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [360] [361]

VisualEditor news

• You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor. [362] [363]
• The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content. [364] [365] [366]
• You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor. [367] [368]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback is welcome. [369]
• You will be able to use information from Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10. [370]
• On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page migration tool to import existing translations to the new system. [371] [372]
• You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (example video, example audio). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly. [373] [374]
• Templates containing <ref> or <references> tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching. [375] [376] [377]
• You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it. [378] [379]
• Hovercards will no longer flicker. [380]

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07h39min de 9 de junho de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 June 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Moderator: William Beutler
• Special report: Questions raised over secret voting for WMF trustees
• News and notes: PR agencies commit to ethical interactions with Wikipedia
• Traffic report: The week the wired went weird
• Featured content: Politics, Ships, Art, and Cyclones

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Tech News: 2014-25

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

Reminder

• You can subscribe to the wikitech-ambassadors mailing list to get news more quickly and to send feedback or report problems.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 17, and to all Wikipedias on June 19 (calendar).
• You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for May 2014.

VisualEditor news

• You can now easily see the target of a link or other information using the context menu. [381]
• When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to switch it to re-use another reference. [382] [383]
• You can now add and edit {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and __DISAMBIG__ in the page settings menu. [384] [385] [386] [387]
• The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler; the order of mathematical symbols is now correct. [388] [389] [390]

Future software changes

• Media Viewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 19. Feedback is welcome. [391]
• You will no longer be able to use navigation popups and Hovercards at the same time. [392]
• You will no longer see image thumbnails on search results pages on Wikibooks and Wikisource wikis. [393] [394]
• It will soon be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [395] [396]
• Tablet users will be redirected to the mobile view of Wikimedia wikis starting on June 17. [397]
• The special page that lists most linked-to templates will soon include pages from all namespaces; it will also be renamed to Special:MostTranscludedPages. [398]
• An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on June 17 at 17:30 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). You can also read a blog post about the upcoming switch to Phabricator.
• You can now comment on the draft 2014-15 goals of the Wikimedia Foundation engineering department. [399]

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07h13min de 16 de junho de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 June 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: With paid advocacy in its sights, the Wikimedia Foundation amends their terms of use
• Special report: Wikimedia Bangladesh: a chapter's five-year journey
• Traffic report: You can't dethrone Thrones
• WikiProject report: Visiting the city
• Featured content: Worming our way to featured picture

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Tech News: 2014-26

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 19. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 24, and to all Wikipedias on June 26 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

• You can now drag-and-drop selections of content, not just files and templates. [400] [401]
• When dragging an item, you will now see a line that helps you to drop it. [402] [403]
• You can now only move an image to the start of a paragraph, not to the middle of it, so you don't accidentally split it. [404] [405]
• You will now be warned if you add wikitext to file captions and references. [406] [407]

Future software changes

• You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [408] [409]
• CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on additional 70 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and Wikimedia Incubator, during the next week. [410]
• CirrusSearch results will soon take into account categories, the first paragraph and the wikitext of a page. You will also be able to use regular expressions to search the wikitext. It will take a few days for the changes to be enabled on all wikis. [411]
• You will soon be able to watch translations for e-mail notifications without receiving an e-mail when they are reviewed by another translator. [412] [413]
• An IRC meeting to organize old high priority MediaWiki bug reports will take place on June 24 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [414]

Problems

• On June 19, all wikis were broken for about 15 minutes due to a high server load.
• Between June 13 and June 15 there were problems with the scaling of video files due to a configuration error. [415]

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07h20min de 23 de junho de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 June 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Exclusive: Foundation's new executive director speaks to the Signpost
• News and notes: US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan, plans to upload all holdings to Commons
• Featured content: Showing our Wörth
• WikiProject report: The world where dreams come true
• Discussion report: Media Viewer, old HTML tags
• Traffic report: Fake war, or real sport?
• Recent research: Power users and diversity in WikiProjects, the "network of cultures" in multilingual Wikipedia biographies

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Tech News: 2014-27

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 26. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 1, and to all Wikipedias on July 3 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

• Context menus in VisualEditor will no longer flicker and disappear when you insert a new reference, formula, image, etc. [416] [417]
• A bug that prevented relocating items due to cache was fixed last week. [418] [419]
• VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the bottom of the page when you try to edit section 0. When you try to add a formula, VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the top of the page. [420] [421] [422] [423]
• Links to category pages or file pages added with VisualEditor will now work correctly. [424] [425]

Future software changes

• You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [426] [427]
• Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead.
• CirrusSearch will be enabled on June 30 as the primary search method on 34 new wikis, including the Czech (cs), Danish (da), Finnish (fi) and Hebrew (he) Wikipedias. [428]
• All Wikimedia wikis will be using a security method called perfect forward secrecy starting on July 1. If you see a problem, please report it. [429] [430]
• Starting on July 1, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [431]
• You will soon see block information when you visit the contributions page or try to edit the user page or user talk page of a user who is affected by an IP range block. [432] [433]
• You will soon be able to use {{!}} as a magic word to produce the pipe character, for instance for use in tables. [434]

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06h53min de 30 de junho de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 July 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wikimedia Israel receives Roaring Lion award
• In the media: Wiki Education; medical content; PR firms
• WikiProject report: Indigenous peoples of North America
• Traffic report: The Cup runneth over... and over.
• Featured content: Ship-shape
• Technology report: In memoriam: the Toolserver (2005–14)

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Tech News: 2014-28

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

Tech News updates

• We are looking for contributors to help write a new issue every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 3. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 8, and to all Wikipedias on July 10 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was enabled on July 1 as the primary search method on 36 new wikis, including the Norwegian (no), Portuguese (pt) and Ukrainian (uk) Wikipedias. [435]
• It is now possible to create Atom or RSS feeds for Word of the Day, Word of the Week and similar entries on Wiktionary wikis. [436] [437]
• You can now use a graphical interface to edit TemplateData information on the English (en), French (fr) and Italian (it) Wikipedias. [438] [439]

VisualEditor news

• Saving an edit with VisualEditor will now be much faster. [440] [441]
• You can now add a caption when you add a file to a page with VisualEditor. You can also change the file to a different one and keep the existing caption. [442] [443] [444]
• When you switch to the Edit source tab, you are now asked to keep your changes. You no longer need to find the option in the menus. [445] [446] [447]
• The reference tool that adds empty <ref></ref> tags is now at the bottom of the Cite menu, below references that use templates like {{Cite web}}. [448]
• Context menus will no longer be shown over items that you can edit directly, for example formulæ. [449] [450] [451]

Future software changes

• Starting on July 9, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. The feature was first scheduled for July 1, but was delayed due to bugs.
• A plan to enable CirrusSearch as the primary search method on the 11 largest Wikimedia wikis has now been prepared. [452]
• If you use references on a page, you will soon always see them at the bottom of the page, even if you forget to add the <references /> tag (or a template). [453] [454]
• Black-and-white XCF images will soon display correctly. [455] [456]
• Description pages of SVG files will soon always show download links for multiple resolutions (example). The links were previously shown only for SVG files in large original resolutions. [457] [458]

Problems

• Between July 2-3, there were problems with loading pages on multiple wikis due to a configuration issue. [459] [460]
• For a few hours on July 1, there were problems with uploading new files on Wikimedia Commons due to a configuration error. [461] [462]

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07h07min de 7 de julho de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 July 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Wikimania 2014—what will it cost?
• Wikimedia in education: Exploring the United States and Canada with LiAnna Davis
• News and notes: With echoes of the VisualEditor, conflict breaks out again over tech initiative
• Wikicup: Wikicup's third round sees money, space, battleships and more
• Featured content: Three cheers for featured pictures!
• Traffic report: World Cup, Tim Howard rule the week

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Tech News: 2014-29

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 15, and to all Wikipedias on July 17 (calendar).
• It is now possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. Please go to the username changes page on Meta if you want to rename your account on all wikis. [463] [464]
• You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for June 2014.
• You can now read the latest issue of the Wikidata newsletter and translate it into your language.

VisualEditor news

• The tool to add templates and citations will now work for templates that include HTML comments or templates in their titles. [465] [466]
• The button to make images full size should now work correctly. [467] [468] [469]
• References will now be shown in the default font size again. [470]

Future software changes

• CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on the Dutch (nl) and Japanese (ja) Wikipedias on July 14, and on the Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias on July 16. [471]
• The Special:Version page will soon show the exact version of MediaWiki and all extensions installed on your wiki (example). [472] [473]
• It will soon no longer be possible to order printed books of wiki articles via PediaPress. You will still be able to create PDF files. [474]
• Pages that use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''}} more than once will soon show a warning. You can use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''|noerror}} to hide it. [475] [476]
• Pages that have the list of references added automatically will soon be added to a tracking category. Administrators will be able to configure the name of the category on their wikis. [477] [478]
• Administrators will soon be able to easily merge histories of two pages using Special:MergeHistory. [479] [480]
• Administrators will soon see links to delete files on Special:ListFiles. [481]

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07h48min de 14 de julho de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 July 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: $10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors dismissed with help from WMF, but plaintiff intends to refile
• Wikimedia in education: Serbia takes the stage with Filip Maljkovic
• News and notes: Bot-created Wikipedia articles covered in the Wall Street Journal, push Cebuano over one million articles
• Traffic report: World Cup dominates for another week
• Featured content: The Island with the Golden Gun

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Tech News: 2014-30

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 22, and to all Wikipedias on July 24 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was removed as the primary search method from Wikimedia Commons and the Spanish (es) Wikipedia due to a high server load. The plan to enable it on the Dutch (nl), Japanese (ja), Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias was also postponed to a later date. [482] [483] [484]
• The tool that stores information about languages (CLDR) was updated to its latest version. You can still help translate language names into your own language so they can be used in the sidebar and other places. [485]
• Translation memory for newly translatable pages should now offer more suggestions. [486] [487]
• A tool to convert MediaWiki pages to LaTeX is now available on Tool Labs. [488]

VisualEditor news

• Tablet users visiting the mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will be able to use a special version of VisualEditor starting on July 31. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu. Feedback is welcome. [489]
• All windows in VisualEditor have now a new design. Main action buttons will always be located in the top bar and will use simple words rather than icons. [490]
• You can now easily open links inside the link editor, for example to see their target. [491]
• Several bugs related to the positioning of the cursor around some items (like images and references) were fixed last week. [492] [493] [494] [495] [496] [497]

Future software changes

• It will soon be possible to watch individual discussions in the Topic namespace rather than whole pages for talk pages using Flow. [498]
• You can give comments about the new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [499]
• An IRC meeting to organize Pywikibot bugs will take place from July 24 to July 27 on the channel #pywikibot on freenode. [500]
• A request for comments on how to improve MediaWiki API was re-started on MediaWiki.org. Your feedback is welcome.

Problems

• Mailing lists were broken for about 16 hours between July 14 and July 15 due to a server problem. [501]

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07h41min de 21 de julho de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 July 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Forum: Did you know?—good idea, needs reform
• Wikimedia in education: Education program gaining momentum in Israel
• News and notes: Institutional media uploads to Commons get a bit easier
• Traffic report: The World Cup hangs on, though tragedies seek to replace it
• Featured content: Why, they're plum identical!

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Tech News: 2014-31

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 29, and to all Wikipedias on July 31 (calendar).
• You can now download the latest version of the anti-vandalism tool Huggle.

VisualEditor news

• You can now create, edit, and view HTML comments in VisualEditor. [502] [503]
• The cancel button in VisualEditor toolbar has been removed. You can still use the Read tab and the Back button in your browser to cancel your edit. [504]
• If you try to use a template which has no suggested or required parameters in TemplateData, you will now be asked to add the parameters. [505] [506]
• You will no longer be able to edit a page if you can't create it, for example on pages protected against recreation. [507] [508]

Future software changes

• You will soon be able to filter Meta-Wiki's user rights log by wiki and user. [509] [510]
• Wikidata will soon be able to store data about article status, for example "good article" or "featured article". If your wiki has highlighted content, please make sure it is on Wikidata's list. [511]
• It will soon be possible to directly create empty pages, for example in the user namespace. [512] [513]

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08h09min de 28 de julho de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 July 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: How many more hoaxes will Wikipedia find?
• Book review: Knowledge or unreality?
• Wikimedia in education: Success in Egypt and the Arab world
• Featured content: Skeletons and Skeltons
• Traffic report: Doom and gloom vs. the power of Reddit
• Recent research: Shifting values in the paid content debate; cross-language bot detection

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Tech News: 2014-32

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

Tech News updates

• Tech News will be presented at the Wikimania 2014 conference in London! If you will be attending the conference, please join us in Auditorium 2 at 14:30 local time on Sunday, August 10.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 31. Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, it will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [514]
• You can now test a new tool to render wiki pages as PDF files. [515] [516] [517]
• You can now download an update to the archive of Wikimedia Commons files (uploaded up to December 31, 2013). If you have free space on your computer, please help preserve the files. [518]
• New users using the mobile Commons site now need to make 75 edits before they can upload a file. [519] [520]

VisualEditor news

• You will no longer see an edit confirmation message after making a null edit with VisualEditor. [521] [522]
• VisualEditor will no longer change underscores to spaces in category sort keys. [523]
• Many bugs that resulted in inserting the pawn and snowman symbols were fixed last week. [524] [525] [526] [527]
• Several bugs related to the use of references were also fixed. [528] [529] [530] [531]

Future software changes

• You will soon have a user option to watch pages where you revert edits. [532] [533]
• All Toolserver data will be deleted in September. If you want to back up your data, contact Toolserver administrators before August 31. [534]
• Pages in the Translations: namespace on wikis using the Translate extension will no longer be indexed by search engines. [535]

Problems

• Wikivoyage wikis were broken for about 45 minutes on July 29 due to a configuration problem. [536]
• Some users were not able to log in on test wikis and MediaWiki.org between July 31 and August 1. The problem is now fixed. [537]

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07h37min de 4 de agosto de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 August 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Wikimedia in education: Leading universities educate with Wikipedia in Mexico
• News and notes: "History is a human right"—first-ever transparency report released as Europe begins hiding Wikipedia in search results
• Traffic report: Ebola drives reader interest* Featured content: Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them
• Technology report: A technologist's Wikimania preview

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Tech News: 2014-33

Últimas novidades técnicas da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor informe outros usuários sobre estas mudanças. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Mudanças recentes no software

• Devido à conferência Wikimania 2014, não há alterações no MediaWiki nesta semana. A última versão do MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) será instalada em todas as Wikipédias em 14 de agosto e nas demais wikis em 12 de agosto (calendário). [538]
• Os burocratas de todas as wikis Wikivoyage não poderão mais fundir duas contas em uma só. [539]

Novidades do Editor Visual

• Utilizadores de tablets que visitarem a versão móvel de wikis que não sejam a Wikipédia poderão utilizar o Editor Visual a partir de 12 de agosto. O recurso também será ativado nas Wikipédias em 14 de agosto. [540]

Mudanças futuras no software

• Usuários do Internet Explorer 6 passarão a ver a versão sem JavaScript das wikis da Wikimedia; os scripts e ferramentas em JavaScript não funcionarão mais neste navegador. Se você utiliza o Internet Explorer 6, certifique-se de atualizar para um navegador mais recente! [541] [542] [543]
• Em breve, se você visitar uma página especial que exige que esteja registrado, será redirecionado automaticamente para a página de registro em vez de receber um aviso. [544] [545]
• Agora você sempre verá mudanças recentes feitas no texto do idioma de origem ao editar uma tradução com a extensão Translate. [546] [547]
• Haverá uma reunião no IRC para discutir sobre o Editor Visual em 14 de agosto às 09:00 UTC no canal #wikimedia-office do freenode (conversão de horários). [548]

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07h43min de 11 de agosto de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 August 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Wikimania: Promised the moon, settled for the stars
• Op-ed: Red links, blue links, and erythrophobia
• Special report: Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia
• News and notes: Media Viewer controversy spreads to German Wikipedia
• Wikimedia in education: Wikimedia Global Education: WMF's Perspective
• In the media: Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes
• Featured content: Cambridge got a lot of attention this week
• Traffic report: Disease, decimation and distraction

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Tech News: 2014-34

Últimas novidades técnicas da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe os outros editores sobre estas mudanças. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Mudanças recentes no software

• A última versão do MediaWiki (1.24wmf17) foi instalada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org em 14 de agosto. Será instalada em todas as Wikipédias a 21 de agosto e nas demais wikis a 19 de agosto (calendário).
• Existe um novo nível de proteção denominado superproteção. Neste momento, apenas alguns dos funcionários da Wikimedia Foudation têm acesso a ele. Páginas "superprotegidas" não podem ser editadas por administradores. [549] [550] [551]
• Poderá agora criar novas páginas em branco. Uma mensagem será mostrada para que confirme que quer criar uma página sem qualquer conteúdo. [552] [553]
• Pode pesquisar pelas ferramentas Wikimedia ao utilizar a nova lista de ferramentas. [554]
• Pode assistir aos primeiros vídeos do Wikimania 2014. Alguns deles são sobre temas técnicos. Mais vídeos em breve.

Wikidata

• A partir de 19 de agosto, pode usar o Wikidata para ligações interlíngua do Wikinotícias. [555]
• A partir de 19 de agosto, pode utilizar os emblemas do Wikidata para artigos "bons" ou "destacados". Na próxima semana, será possível mostrar os emblemas na barra lateral das páginas da Wikipédia, do Wikisource e Wikiquote. [556]

Problemas

• Houve um problema com as extensões ProofreadPage e WikiEditor nos projetos Wikisource. Já se encontra resolvido. [557] [558]

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07h16min de 18 de agosto de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 August 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Interview: Improving the visibility of digital archival assets using Wikipedia
• Traffic report: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero
• WikiProject report: Bats and gloves
• Featured content: English Wikipedia departs for Japan
• Op-ed: A new metric for Wikimedia

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Tech News: 2014-35

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

VisualEditor news

• There was a error when you put your cursor directly after a reference list. It is now fixed. [559]
• You can now add colors to links in the editor using gadgets. You can do this to see links to redirects or disambiguation pages. [560]
• If you use Internet Explorer, you will soon be able to use VisualEditor. [561] [562] [563]

Future software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf18) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 28 (calendar).
• After August 26, you will have a central JavaScript and CSS page. They will be on Meta-Wiki and will work on all wikis. Read more on the help page. [564]

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09h21min de 25 de agosto de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 August 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Featured content: Cheats at Featured Pictures!
• In the media: Plagiarism and vandalism dominate Wikipedia news
• News and notes: Media Viewer—Wikimedia's emotional roller-coaster
• Traffic report: Viral

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Tech News: 2014-36

Últimas novidades técnicas da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe os outros editores sobre estas mudanças. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Mudanças recentes no software

• Poderá agora testar um novo Recurso Beta que mostra ligações para outras wikis na barra lateral. As ligações são provenientes do Wikidata. [565] [566]
• You can now search pages that link to a page. Use the linksto: keyword in your search. [567] [568]
• A redirect to a section now changes the URL in the address bar of your browser. If "Dog" redirects to "Animals#Dog", you now see "Animals#Dog" instead of "Dog#Dog". [569] [570]
• Se está a testar a extensão Flow, terá um novo separador nas suas Notificações. É denominado "Mensagens". [571]

Notícias sobre o Editor Visual

• You can no longer delete required fields in templates. [572]
• We fixed many Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 11, you will get VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [573] [574] [575]
• VisualEditor now looks better in Monobook. [576]
• We fixed a bug where some of your typing could be undone when you used "cut" (Ctrl+X). [577]
• You will no longer see empty or deleted categories among the suggestions when you add a category. [578]

Mudanças futuras no software

• A última versão do MediaWiki (1.24wmf19) foi instalada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a 28 de agosto. Será instalada em todas as Wikipédias a 4 de setembro e nas demais wikis a 2 de setembro (calendário).
• There is a proposal to build a database on Commons for file data. It will make it easier to see the author, license and topics. You can give feedback on this idea. You can also come to the IRC chat on September 3 at 18:00 (UTC) in #wikimedia-office at freenode. [579]
• Pode dar a sua opinião sobre o Visualizador Multimédia até 7 de setembro. Ajude-nos ao revelar o que precisa de ser melhorado e aconselhando outras pessoas a também fazerem o seu comentário. [580]
• Pode testar uma nova versão da ferramenta matemática. Ela usa MathML. Relate eventuais erros no bugzilla.
• Não poderá mais carregar imagens a partir do sítio móvel. [581]

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07h48min de 1 de setembro de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 September 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Arbitration report: Media viewer case is suspended
• Featured content: 1882 × 5 in gold, and thruppence more
• Op-ed: Automated copy-and-paste detection under trial
• Recent research: A Wikipedia-based Pantheon; new Wikipedia analysis tool suite; how AfC hamstrings newbies
• Traffic report: Holding Pattern
• WikiProject report: Gray's Anatomy (v. 2)

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Tech News: 2014-37

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

VisualEditor news

• From Thursday, Internet Explorer 11 users will get VisualEditor. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [582] [583] [584]

Future software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf20) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 9, and on all Wikipedias on September 11 (calendar).
• You will soon confirm a "Thanks" inline instead of in a dialog. [585]
• You can read more about the plan to move to Phabricator, a tool that will help people develop the MediaWiki software and report bugs. [586]

Problems

• There were problems with JavaScript and CSS on Friday, September 5 because of a code error.

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09h33min de 8 de setembro de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 September 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Media Viewer software is not ready
• Featured content: The louse and the fish's tongue
• WikiProject report: Checking that everything's all right
• Traffic report: Refuge in celebrity

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Tech News: 2014-38

Últimas novidades técnicas da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe os outros editores sobre estas mudanças. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Mudanças recentes no software

• Pode agora alterar o estilo das ligação para páginas de desambiguação. Isto é possível utilizando a classe CSS mw-disambig. [587] [588]
• Houve um problema da direita para a esquerda nas wikis com os registos de entrada do Wikidata. O texto estava uma confusão nas páginas vigiadas e mudanças recentes. O problema está agora resolvido. O mesmo erro será solucionado em breve em relação aos nomes de utilizador. [589] [590] [591]
• Novos utilizadores são escolhidos aleatoriamente para um teste em 12 Wikipédias. Receberão mensagens com sugestões de artigos para editar. As recomendações são feitas a partir de páginas anteriormente editadas. [592]

Problemas

• Houve um problema ao carregar imagens a 10 de Setembro. [593]

Notícias sobre o VisualEditor

• If you don't select text when you add a link, the link now shows a number. [594]
• The citation tool no longer offers to reuse a citation if there are none on the page yet. [595] [596]
• You can now use help buttons in the "Configurações da página" menu to see what the options are for. [597]

Mudanças futuras no software

• A última versão do MediaWiki (1.24wmf21) foi instalada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a 11 de setembro. Será instalada em todas as Wikipédias a 18 de setembro e nas demais wikis a 16 de setembro (calendário).
• Estas alterações estão incluídas na nova versão:
  • Se usa o Internet Explorer 7, o JavaScript não funcionará mais. As ferramentas e scripts do JavaScript não vão funcionar mais no navegador. Deverá atualizá-lo ou mudar para um novo navegador. [598] [599] [600]

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08h34min de 15 de setembro de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 September 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third
• In the media: Turkish Twitter outrage, medical translation, audience metrics
• WikiProject report: A trip up north to Scotland
• Featured content: Which is not like the others?
• Traffic report: Tolstoy leads a varied pack

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Tech News: 2014-39

Últimas novidades técnicas da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe os outros editores sobre estas mudanças. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Mudanças recentes no software

• Pode testar um novo Recurso Beta chamado HHVM. Deverá aumentar o desempenho de edição. Por favor, caso detecte eventuais erros, reporte-os. [601]

Problemas

• Houve um problema na Wikipédia em inglês na sexta-feira, 19 de setembro. Ocorreu devido a edições numa predefinição bastante usada.
• Sites were down for users in the Pacific area around 7:00 UTC on September 20. It was due to a problem in the San Francisco data center.
• Existiam dois erros a causar conflito nos artigos em alguns navegadores ao usar o Editor Visual. Os problemas foram resolvidos e os sítios atualizados. [602] [603]

Mudanças no software esta semana

• A última versão do MediaWiki (1.24wmf22) foi instalada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a 18 de setembro. Será instalada em todas as Wikipédias a 25 de setembro e nas demais wikis a 23 de setembro (calendário).
• Caso tenha mais de 2000 notificações, as mais antigas serão removidas.[604] [605]
• No tema "Vector", o ícone utilizado para utilizadores mostrará um sexo neutro. [606] [607]
• A ferramenta para predefinições do Editor Visual informa agora quando um parâmetro obrigatório está em falta. [608]
• O botão "Cancelar" na janela de gravação do Editor Visual é agora denominado "Retomar edição". Isto mostra que poderá continuar a editar sem perder as suas alterações. [609]
• Existem novos atalhos de teclado no Editor Visual. Use Ctrl+Shift+3 para incluir código e Ctrl+Shift+5 para rasurar. [610] [611]
• Agora sabe quando está a mudar para a edição em modo código-fonte no Editor Visual. Antes, não era perceptível. [612]

Mudanças futuras no sítio

• Pode consultar uma cronologia da migração para Phabricator. Phabricator é a nova ferramenta para controlar erros. Uma visita guiada será feita através de vídeo na quarta-feira, 24 de setembro. [613]

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09h04min de 22 de setembro de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 September 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: Indian political editing, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Congressional chelonii
• Featured content: Oil paintings galore
• Traffic report: Wikipedia watches the election in Scotland
• WikiProject report: GAN reviewers take note: competition time
• Arbitration report: Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education
• Recent research: 99.25% of Wikipedia birthdates accurate; focused Wikipedians live longer; merging WordNet, Wikipedia and Wiktionary

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The Signpost: 01 October 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: The Signpost needs your help
• News and notes: Wikipedia article published in peer-reviewed journal; Wikipedia in education
• Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism
• Featured content: Brothers at War
• Traffic report: Shanah Tovah
• WikiProject report: Animals, farms, forests, USDA? It must be WikiProject Agriculture

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Tech News: 2014-41

Últimas novidades técnicas da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe os outros editores sobre estas mudanças. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Mudanças recentes

• Pode usar phab: e phabricator: para criar ligação a https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/. [614] [615]
• Algumas wikis possuem uma predefinição para controlo de erros no Bugzilla. Deverá atualizá-la para que funcione no Phabricator. Pode perceber como através de um exemplo em no mediawiki.org. [616] [617]
• Pode consultar a página especial Special:MediaStatistics para conferir o tipo de ficheiros existentes na sua wiki. [618]
• Uma nova ferramenta pode agora criar miniaturas largas de imagens TIFF. Tratam-se de ficheiros com mais de 50 megapixels. Estas miniaturas possuem ainda uma maior nitidez. Pode deixar o seu comentário no Commons. [619]
• A ferramenta Visualizador Multimédia evidenciou a ligação para a página própria do ficheiro. Possui ainda botões para descarregar, partilhar e incorporar o ficheiro. [620]

Mudanças desta semana

• A última versão do MediaWiki (1.25wmf2) foi instalada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a 2 de outubro. Será instalada em todas as Wikipédias a 9 de outubro e nas demais wikis a 7 de outubro (calendário).
• Caso a sua edição num script Lua contenha algum erro de código, esta não poderá ser gravada. [621] [622]
• Resolvemos mais alguns dos erros existentes no Internet Explorer. Se usa a versão 10 do navegador, poderá utilizar o Editor Visual a partir da próxima semana. A compatibilidade para versões anteriores será trabalhada em seguida. [623]
• Na quinta-feira, a ferramenta para editar a extensão TemplateData chegará a mais 30 wikis. [624] [625]
• Pode ajudar a ordenar erros relacionados com a ferramenta de exportação para Livros e PDF a 8 de outubro. [626]
• 1% dos leitores sem sessão iniciada estão a aceder às páginas a partir dos servidores da ferramenta HHVM. O HHVM deverá tornar o carregamento das páginas mais rápido. [627]

Mudanças futuras

• Pode consultar o plano do trabalho futuro da equipa Mobile. [628]
• Estão a chegar mais alterações ao Visualizador Multimédia. Será mais fácil desativá-lo e poderá ver a legenda abaixo da imagem. [629] [630]

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06h10min de 6 de outubro de 2014 (UTC)

Re: Mapa dos campi da UNESP

Obrigado por apontar o meu erro no mapa, já foi corrigido. Marquinhos ^{diga aí} 21h07min de 7 de outubro de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 October 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: Opposition research firm blocked; Australian brushfire
• Featured content: From a wordless novel to a coat of arms via New York City
• Traffic report: Panic and denial
• Technology report: HHVM is the greatest thing since sliced bread

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Tech News: 2014-42

Últimas novidades técnicas da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe os outros editores sobre estas mudanças. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Mudanças recentes no software

• Pode agora iniciar sessão no Phabricator, a nova ferramenta para controlo de erros. Crie a sua conta e adicione o seu endereço de correio eletrónico do Bugzilla. Estamos a copiar os erros a partir do Bugzilla. O Bugzilla ainda está operacional. [631] [632]
• Pode agora receber o boletim informativo (newsletter) do Editor Visual no seu idioma caso haja tradução disponível. Também pode contribuir com traduções. Esteja a par das próximas traduções ao juntar-se à lista de tradutores ou perguntando ao utilizador Elitre (WMF).

Problemas

• 10% do projeto Tool Labs esteve inoperacional a 7 de Outubro. [633]
• O Tool Labs voltou a apresentar problemas a 11 de Outubro. [634]

Mudanças no software esta semana

• A última versão do MediaWiki (1.25wmf3) foi instalada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a 9 de outubro. Será instalada em todas as Wikipédias a 16 de outubro e nas demais wikis a 14 de outubro (calendário).
• 5% dos leitores sem sessão iniciada estão a carregar as páginas a partir dos servidores da ferramenta HHVM. Este método deverá aumentar a rapidez do carregamento das páginas. Pode testar a ferramenta como Recurso Beta. [635]

Encontros

• Pode participar numa reunião com programadores de Idioma a 15 de Outubro de 2014, às 17:00 (UTC). [636]
• Existe uma proposta para uma melhor organização das páginas de ficheiros. Usará as mesmas ferramentas que o Wikidata. Pode participar numa reunião sobre o assunto a 16 de Outubro de 2014, às 18:00 (UTC). [637]
• Participe numa reunião sobre o Editor Visual a 18 de Outubro de 2014, às 18:00 (UTC). [638]

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08h53min de 13 de outubro de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 October 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Arbitration report: One case closed and two opened
• Discussion report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-10-15/Discussion report
• Featured content: Bells ring out at the Temple of the Dragon at Peace
• In the media: College player falsely linked to sports scandal by Wikipedia; the Nobel Prizes
• Op-ed: Ships—sexist or sexy?
• Technology report: Attempting to parse wikitext
• Traffic report: Now introducing ... mobile data
• WikiProject report: Signpost reaches the Midwest

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Tech News: 2014-43

Últimas novidades técnicas da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe os outros editores sobre estas mudanças. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Mudanças recentes

• Pode testar um novo sistema para conteúdo matemático ao usar MathML. Aceda às suas configurações de aparência e escolha "⧼mw math mathml⧽".
• Pode adicionar emblemas no Wikidata para conteúdo de qualidade e listas destacadas. [639] [640]

File information cleanup

• You can join a wiki project to help tools read file information. It will help people reuse files.
• See how to fix metadata. You can fix it by adding markers to templates and adding templates to files.
• Consulte uma lista de ficheiros com falta de informação legível na sua wiki.
• Os ficheiros com falta de informação legível também estão nestas categorias: sem licença, sem descrição, sem autor ou sem fonte. [641]

Problemas

• Os programadores resolveram um problema de segurança. Se utiliza o Internet Explorer 6, não poderá mais iniciar sessão. Deverá usar um novo navegador. [642]

Mudanças desta semana

• A última versão do MediaWiki (1.25wmf4) foi instalada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a 16 de outubro. Será instalada em todas as Wikipédias a 23 de outubro e nas demais wikis a 21 de outubro (calendário).
• 10% dos leitores sem sessão iniciada estão a carregar as páginas a partir dos servidores da ferramenta HHVM. Este método deverá aumentar a rapidez do carregamento das páginas. Pode testar a ferramenta como Recurso Beta. [643]
• Se adicionar o mesmo parâmetro duas vezes numa predefinição, a página será adicionada numa categoria de controlo. [644] [645]

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13h48min de 20 de outubro de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 October 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: The story of Wikipedia; Wikipedia reanimated and republished; UK government social media rules; death of Italian Wikipedia administrator
• Featured content: Admiral on deck: a modern Ada Lovelace
• Op-ed: Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution—a wiki-protest
• WikiProject report: De-orphanning articles - a huge task but with a huge team of volunteers to help
• Traffic report: Death, War, Pestilence... Movies and TV

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Tech News: 2014-44

Últimas novidades técnicas da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe os outros editores sobre estas mudanças. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Problemas

• Surgiu um problema com os ficheiros do Commons a 21 de outubro. Apenas conseguia visualizar aqueles com nomes entre 140 e 159 carateres no Commons. [646]
• Houve um problema com as funções "cortar" e "colar" do Editor Visual no Firefox. Foi resolvido rapidamente. [647]
• Ocorreu um problema com a edição de conteúdo matemático do Editor Visual. Foi resolvido rapidamente. [648]

Mudanças no software esta semana

• A nova versão do MediaWiki chegará aos sítios Wikipédia na quarta-feira, e não na terça. [649]
• A última versão do MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) foi instalada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a 23 de outubro. Será instalada em todas as Wikipédias a 28 de outubro e nas demais wikis a 29 de outubro (calendário).
• O Editor Visual passou a usar valores automáticos para predefinições no escopo da TemplateData. [650] [651] [652]
• Os itens do menu do Editor Visual mostram agora os seus atalhos ao lado do nome. [653]
• O Editor Visual abre mais rapidamente quando se clica em "editar". [654]
• As regras para os plurais nas traduções foram alteradas em alguns idiomas. As atualizações da interface de atualização de traduções estão em pausa; serão retomadas a 6 de novembro. [655]

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05h20min de 27 de outubro de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 October 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Featured content: Go West, young man (By the way, there is a monster at the end of this article)
• In the media: Wikipedia a trusted source on Ebola; Wikipedia study labeled government waste; football biography goes viral
• Maps tagathon: Find 10,000 digitised maps this weekend
• Recent research: Informed consent and privacy; newsmaking on Wikipedia; Wikipedia and organizational theories
• Traffic report: Ebola, Ultron, and Creepy Articles

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Tech News: 2014-45

Últimas novidades técnicas da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe os outros editores sobre estas mudanças. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Mudanças recentes no software

• A página "Special:Cite" é agora denominada "Special:CiteThisPage". Desta forma, sabe que está a citar uma página e não uma referência. [656]
• Não pode mais usar a palavra-chave insource: para pesquisas de texto. Causou problemas com a nova ferramenta de pesquisa. Será novamente accionada em breve. [657] [658]

Problemas

• Um problema no Editor Visual no Internet Explorer afetou as ferramentas ao clicar nas suas ligações. O erro foi resolvido na segunda-feira. [659]
• Problemas com a nova ferramenta de pesquisa causaram o aparecimento de código de dados geográficos em páginas na segunda e sexta-feira. A ferramenta móvel "nas redondezas" também esteve inutilizável. O problema foi corrigido. [660] [661] [662]
• O HHVM causou problemas no servidor na última quinta-feira. A questão está resolvida.

Mudanças no software esta semana

• A última versão do MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) foi instalada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a 29 de outubro. Será instalada em todas as Wikipédias a 5 de novembro e nas demais wikis a 4 de novembro (calendário).
• Algumas wikis mostram ícones no topo de páginas se protegidas ou destacadas. Os ícones são mostrados através de código CSS. Pode agora usar a marca <indicator> nestas predefinições invés de adicionar os ícones. [663] [664]
• O Editor Visual informa agora se está a editar uma referência reutilizada. Isto ajuda a evitar a alteração se apenas quiser adicionar uma nova. [665]
• Os ícones para adicionar mais campos na ferramenta de edição de predefinições do Editor Visual estão de volta, juntamente com outras correções. [666] [667] [668] [669] [670]
• Depois de 6 de novembro, todas as wikis terão a ferramenta para editar no TemplateData. [671] [672] [673]

Mudanças futuras

• A nova ferramenta de pesquisa estará disponível nas próximas semanas nas últimas wikis. Isto inclui as Wikipédias em alemão, francês, chinês e inglês. [674]

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17h28min de 3 de novembro de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 November 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: Predicting the flu; MH17 conspiracy theories
• Traffic report: Sweet dreams on Halloween

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Tech News: 2014-46

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

Mudanças recentes no software

• You may see a new tool on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [675] [676]
• The MediaWiki API now shows information in a nice format. You can translate it in translatewiki.net. [677]

File information cleanup

• Reminder: You can help fix file information on your wiki. It will help robots understand the information. After that, it will be easier for you to search files and re-use them.
• You can join two IRC chats this week to learn more about the file cleanup project. One will be on Wednesday at 18:00 (UTC) and the other on Thursday at 04:00 (UTC). You can ask questions during the chat if you need help to fix files on your wiki.
• You can see a list of files to fix on the Labs tool. You can report bugs and ask questions on the talk page.

Problemas

• Wikimedia Labs was broken for a few hours on Thursday. It was due to a hardware problem. [678]

Mudanças no software esta semana

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf7) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11, and on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).
• You can now use more editing tools for tables in VisualEditor. You can add rows and columns, merge cells, and edit table captions. [679] [680]
• The style and insert menus in the toolbar of VisualEditor now show fewer tools. This helps you see the most common tasks. You can see all items by clicking "More". [681]
• The way windows inside VisualEditor work has changed. VisualEditor should be faster and have fewer bugs. [682]

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15h00min de 10 de novembro de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 November 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: Amazon Echo; EU freedom of panorama; Bluebeard's Castle
• Featured content: Wikipedia goes to church in Lithuania
• WikiProject report: Talking hospitals
• Traffic report: Holidays, anyone?

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Tech News: 2014-47

Últimas novidades técnicas da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe os outros editores sobre estas mudanças. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Mudanças no software esta semana

• A última versão do MediaWiki (1.25wmf8) foi instalada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a 12 de novembro. Será instalada em todas as Wikipédias a 19 de novembro e nas demais wikis a 18 de novembro (calendário).
• A nova ferramenta de pesquisa ("CirrusSearch") estará ativa na Wikipédia em inglês a partir de 19 de novembro. [683]

Migração do Bugzilla para o Phabricator

• A ferramenta para o controlo de erros muda a 21 de novembro.
• Não conseguirá adicionar ou editar processos de erros entre 21 e 24 de novembro
• Pode tornar a alteração mais fácil para si ao criar a sua conta.
• O Bugzilla será descontinuado após a alteração. Poderá consultar, editar e relatar erros no Phabricator.
• Pode participar em duas conversações através do IRC para saber mais sobre esta alteração. As reuniões decorrerão na terça-feira, dia 18 de novembro, às 16:00 (UTC) e 23:00 UTC. [684]

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18h28min de 17 de novembro de 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-48

Últimas novidades técnicas da comunidade técnica da Wikimedia. Por favor, informe os outros editores sobre estas mudanças. Nem todas as alterações irão afetá-lo. Estão disponíveis traduções.

Mudanças recentes

• A migração do Bugzilla para o Phabricator está concluída. Pode agora relatar erros no Phabricator. [685]

Problemas

• Houve um problema ao editar tabelas no Editor Visual. O Editor Visual estava a tentar corrigir valores errados para a opção de colspan ou rowspan. Agora, a ferramenta deixa os valores errados intatos para evitar mais problemas. O erro foi solucionado a 17 de novembro. [686]

Mudanças no software esta semana

• A última versão do MediaWiki (1.25wmf9) foi instalada nas wikis de teste e no MediaWiki.org a 19 de novembro. Será instalada em todas as Wikipédias a 26 de novembro e nas demais wikis a 25 de novembro (calendário).
• Conseguirá experimentar o Editor Visual em várias novas wikis pela primeira vez. Após 26 de novembro, o Editor Visual estará disponível nos projetos Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikilivros, Wikiversidade, Wikivoyage e Wikinotícias. Pode ativar a ferramenta nas suas opções de Recursos Beta. [687]
• O Editor Visual informa agora se a sua edição precisa de ser aprovada. [688]
• Pode usar agora as ferramentas do Editor Visual diretamente após inserir o resumo da edição, depois de fechar a janela de gravação. [689]
• As ferramentas de edição de tabelas do Editor Visual funcionam melhor nos idiomas da direita para a esquerda. [690] [691]

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19h31min de 24 de novembro de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 November 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Featured content: Orbital Science: Now you're thinking with explosions
• In the media: A Russian alternative Wikipedia; Who's your grandfather?; ArtAndFeminism
• Recent research: Gender gap and skills gap; academic citations on the rise; European food cultures
• Traffic report: Big in Japan
• WikiProject report: Back with the military historians

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The Signpost: 03 December 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Who edits health-related content on Wikipedia and why?
• In the media: Embroidery and cheese
• Featured content: ABCD: Any Body Can Dance!
• Traffic report: Turkey and a movie
• WikiProject report: Today on the island

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Tech News: 2014-50

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

Recent software changes

• All users are now getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [692]
• You can join a video chat about Phabricator on December 11 at 18:00 (UTC). Phabricator is the new tool to report issues. [693]

Problems

• There was a problem with Phabricator on November 29. It was due to a network issue. [694]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf11) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 10 (calendar). [695]
• You can now exit VisualEditor by pressing the "Esc" key. [696]
• It is now easier to use VisualEditor with IMEs. Typing in Malayalam now works better. [697] [698]
• The new version of OOjs UI fixed many issues with the size and layout of buttons in dialogs. [699] [700] [701]
• (Lua) You can no longer use mw.text.unstrip to get the HTML from special page transclusion. You can see a list of scripts to fix. [702] [703]

Future changes

• Starting next week JavaScript tools won't work if they use jQuery Migrate. [704]

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17h10min de 8 de dezembro de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 December 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: It's GLAM up North!
• In the media: Wikipedia is "a rancorous, sexist, elitist, stupidly bureaucratic mess"
• Traffic report: Dead Black Men and Science Fiction
• Featured content: Honour him, love and obey? Good idea with military leaders.

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The Signpost: 17 December 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: Wikipedia's year in review video; Checking in with Wikipedia's founders
• Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee election results
• Featured content: Tripping hither, tripping thither, Nobody knows why or whither; We must dance and we must sing, Round about our fairy ring!
• Traffic report: A December Lull

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Tech News: 2014-52

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

Recent software changes

• The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private. [705]

Software changes this week

• There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6. [706]

Future changes

• The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations. [707]
• A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis. [708]

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16h52min de 22 de dezembro de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 December 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Looking for new editors-in-chief
• In the media: Wales on GamerGate
• Featured content: Still quoting Iolanthe, apparently.
• WikiProject report: Microsoft does The Signpost
• Traffic report: North Korea is not pleased

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Tech News: 2015-01

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

Software changes

• There are no technical changes this week.

Feedback about Tech News in 2014

• The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2014? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us at m:Talk:Tech/News. You can write in your language. Thank you!

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16h51min de 29 de dezembro de 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 December 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
• In the media: Study tour controversy; class tackles the gender gap
• Op-ed: My issues with the Wiki Education Foundation
• Featured content: A bit fruity
• Traffic report: Surfin' the Yuletide
• Recent research: Wikipedia in higher education; gender-driven talk page conflicts; disease forecasting

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