Wikinews:Water cooler/miscellaneous/archives/2015/May

Tech News: 2015-19

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

Recent changes

• You can now chat with other users in Phabricator. [1]
• There was a rare problem with VisualEditor. The text of another wiki could be added to your edit. The issue is now fixed. [2] [3]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 6 (calendar).
• It is now easier to add a link in VisualEditor. You can see an image and a description about the page. [4]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on May 5 at 14:30 (UTC). [5]
• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 6 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join an event in France on May 22−25. You need to sign up before May 8. [6]

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15:03, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-20

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

Recent changes

• You can now make charts and maps on your wiki with the new "graph" tool. If you have an old browser, you will see images instead. It uses a tool called Vega; you can learn how to use it and write help pages for your wiki. You can use the Vega edit tool to make charts and copy the code to your wiki. Charts and maps use complex code and you should put them into templates. In the future, you will be able to create charts with VisualEditor. [7] [8] [9]
• You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community. [10]
• The logos of all wikis are now in a new place. It will make pages load faster. You can still ask to change the logo. You can also use local CSS for brief changes. [11] [12]

Problems

• There was a problem that caused slow editing. [13]
• Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed. [14]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 13 (calendar).
• You can now use data from Wikidata on more pages. The page doesn't need to be linked to the Wikidata item. It works on a few wikis and more wikis will be added soon. [15] [16]
• You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons. [17]
• When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link. [18]
• When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match. [19]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 13 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:34, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Rename?

I created an article "UEFA Champions League2014/2015 Bayern Munich vs Barcelona F.C." but there should be a space in between. How to rectify it?
aGastya  ✉ Dicere Aliquid :) 23:07, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

@Acagastya: At the top of your browser panel when viewing the article, there should be a bar of various controls. Over on the right of that, I think just to the right of the star thingy, there should be a drop-down menu. The one thing on that menu should be to rename the article (or maybe it'll be called "move"). --Pi zero (talk) 23:16, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-21

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

Recent changes

• You can watch a video about the new graph tool.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
• References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page. [20]
• You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [21]
• The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [22]
• You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [23] [24]
• UploadWizard now shows better matches when you add a category to your file. [25]
• A test about VisualEditor will start on the English Wikipedia on Thursday. [26]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 21 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a technical meeting in France this week.

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15:18, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-22

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

Problems

• VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [27]
• Some Labs tools had issues last week. [28] [29]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can add your ideas of new tools to help active users like you. [30]

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16:12, 25 May 2015 (UTC)