Brúkarakjak:EileenSanda/Savn 8

Mín kjaksíða er her / My talkpage is at: Brúkarakjak:EileenSanda

Innihaldið á hesi síðuni er flutt frá mínari kjaksíðu, tað er frá 2017.

The content of this page is from 2017, moved from my talkpage.

Happy new Year !!!

Peace and success, long life!!! See you soon Rei Momo (kjak) 2. jan 2017 kl. 21:29 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-02

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

Recent changes

• You can now use datasets on Commons. You can see an example that is using this source. [1]
• There is a new opt-in beta feature of a wikitext mode for the visual editor. You can try it out.
• When you update a page with translations on wikis with the Translate extension the existing translations will be marked as outdated instead of removed. [2]
• The new version of MediaWiki was released to all wikis last week (calendar).
• MoodBar has been removed from the Wikimedia wikis. [3]
• The live option for the Tipsy notice tool has been removed. Gadgets and user scripts which use it need to be updated. [4]

Problems

• Editors who use Firefox 50 might get logged out or fail to save their edits. This is because of a browser bug. Until this is fixed you can enter about:config in the address bar and set network.cookie.maxPerHost to 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox. [5]

Changes this week

• There is no new version of MediaWiki this week because of the Wikimedia Developer Summit.

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9. jan 2017 kl. 19:12 (UTC)

Färiska sjukan - igen.

Hej Eileen!

Jag har råkat titta litet på vår artikel no:Færøysk syke. Språket har de norska wikipedianerna rättat till. sv:Användare:Riggwelter har också översatt den från norska till svenska, ser jag. (När kommer den färiska artikeln:-)?)

Jag läste också den angivna källan från år 2003 (alltså Ulrike Steuerwalds artikel i Gunnvá Mortensens översättning) litet noggrannare, och jag blev litet fundersam. I den danska artikeln stod att omkring var 20:e färing antas vara bärare av det recessiva anlaget; men i källan däremot bara

Sostatt má roknes við, at mutatiónin er nógv útbreidd í føroyska fólkinum: uml. 1 av 25 kann vera berari!

Nu är ju 1 av 25 (alltså 4%) mindre än 1 av 20 (som är 5%). Om vi inte har någon annan källa, så bör vi ändra uppgiften i dawp- och nowpartiklarna. (annars får jag återställa svwpartikeln, som jag redan ändrat.) Verkligheten är illa nog som den är; vi bör ju inte framställa den som ännu värre.

Artiklarna är också litet oklara vad gäller skillnaden mellan att vara anlagsbärare och att vara sjuk. Det är möjligt att den gamla version som du lade tillbaka skrevs av någon som inte riktigt förstår hur den här typen av genetiska sjukdomar ärvs.

Jag undrar också över om något har hänt sedan år 2003. I Ulrikes artikel sägs det att man inte har hittat den gen det är fel på (om jag förstod artikeln rätt), men att man misstänker fel på mitokondrierna, och särskilt i andningsapparaten. Nu kan ju inte ett genetiskt fel i mitokondrierna vara grundorsaken, eftersom man på grund av arvsmönstret vet att både fadern och modern måste bidra med den mutetrade genen för att barnet skall bli sjukt. (Mitokondriernas arvsmassa ärver man ju bara från sin mor.) Ulrike skrev ju också:

Arbeiði við at finna fram til sjúkuelvandi mutatiónina og geni, er í menning.

Det har gått rätt lång tid sedan år 2003, och man kan kanske hoppas att man vet litet mer om sjukdomen idag. Vet du vem som skulle kunna svara på den frågan? Jörgen B(Tú kanst svara á føroyskum) 11. jan 2017 kl. 21:29 (UTC)

Hey Jørgen :) Langt síðan eg havi hoyrt frá tær. Hevur tú sæð hesa kelduna frá 2009? Har stendur, at ein av 25 føroyingum er berari av føroysku sjúkuni, og at eitt barn fyri hvørji 2500 føðingar hevur føroysku sjúkuna. Har stendur undir "Fakta", at sjúkan skyldast eitt brek í einum enzymi, ið mitochonriini nýta til at vinna orku (energi) úr sukri. Ja, tað er ov galið, at eg ella onkur annar ikki longu hava skrivað um føroysku sjúkuna á føroysku Wikipediuni. Her stendur nakað um hvussu Ulrike Steuerwald kom til Føroya í 1993. Vinarlig heilsan --EileenSanda (kjak) 13. jan 2017 kl. 09:14 (UTC)

Eg haldi, at hatta talið ið tú nevnir, 4% ella 5% gott kunnu broytast við tíðini, bara tað at eitt barn kemur afturat, kann sikkurt broyta hatta talið, ella hvat? Tað kann eisini hugsast, at komandi foreldur, ið vita at tey eru berarar, antin lata vera við at fáa sær børn ella fáa hjálp til at fáa børn, ið ikki hava føroysku sjúkuna. Eg veit ikki, um tað verður gjørt longu nú, men tað hevði givið góða meining í hvussu so er. --EileenSanda (kjak) 13. jan 2017 kl. 09:26 (UTC)

Nej, den källan från 2009 hade jag inte sett, och den svarade på en del av mina frågor; stort tack! Den ger ju mycket klarare information om sjukdomen än vad Steuerwalds artikel gör.

Man vet alltså vilket enzym som är skadat, och man vet var genen för detta enzym sitter. Det framgår att enzymet används av mitokondrierna, men att själva den genetiska skadan inte finns där, utan i en av cellkärnans kromosomer (nämligen den trettonde). Detta betyder att man bör kunna avgöra om en person är bärare av anlaget med hjälp av ett enkelt DNAtest av ett blodprov, precis som det står i avsnittet Ráðgeving av pørum. Om det blir vanligt att göra sådana test när gravida kvinnor ändå undersöks, så kan det mycket väl leda till att antalet sjuka nyfödda barn går ned. Det skulle vara intressant att veta om det redan är så. Procentsatsen bärare påverkas dock inte särskilt mycket av detta.

Källan bekräftar att det snarare är 1 på 25 (alltså 4%) som är anlagsbärare än 1 på 20, som det nu står i de danska och norska artiklarna. Jag rättar detta. Jag skulle också vilja använda källan som referens. Är det rätt uppfattat att den kommer från ett artikelarkiv för tidningen Sosialurin? Jörgen B(Tú kanst svara á føroyskum) 13. jan 2017 kl. 21:26 (UTC)

Jag hittade litet om sjukdomen i en enwikiartikel: en:Mitochondrial_DNA_depletion_syndrome#Encephalomyopathic form (SUCLA2 and RRM2B related). Där står något om undersökningar man har gjort på 12 barn som fötts med sjukdomen fram till år 2007. De ger en engelsk källa som referens, nämligen "SUCLA2-Related Mitochondrial DNA Depletion Syndrome, Encephalomyopathic Form, with Mild Methylmalonic Acuduria". review. GeneReviews [Internet] (Seattle (WA): University of Washington, Seattle). May 2009.  . Jag har inte tittat på denna källa än, men antar att den kan vara användbar. Jörgen B(Tú kanst svara á føroyskum) 13. jan 2017 kl. 22:12 (UTC)

Jag fann några artiklar till, bland annat den här från 2009 av Ulrike Steuerwald och sju andra författare. Där nämns undersökningar av 16 färöiska barn. Det här verkar oroande: 9 kända fall till och med år 2003, 12 fall till och med 2007, 16 fall till och med 2009. Det är möjligt att ökningen beror på att man numera är mer uppmärksam på symptomen, och därför inte missar särskilt många fall. Det är ju inte heller en särskilt stor procentsats av alla nyfödda färingar som är drabbade; men varje enstaka sjukt barn innebär ju en mänsklig tragedi. Jörgen B(Tú kanst svara á føroyskum) 13. jan 2017 kl. 22:52 (UTC)

Ja, tað er rætt, at handa keldan frá 2009 er Sosialurin, har stendur Vikuskiftis (Weekend). Ja, tað er ein sera álvarsom sjúka, og bønini, ið verða fødd við sjúkuni eru sera handikappaði, hava slappar vøddar, klára ofta ikki at eta sjálvi (meini eg bestemt). Eg havi havt ein starvsfelaga (kollega), ið átti trý børn, harav tvey høvdu føroysku sjúkuna. Báðir eru deyðir nú, teir blivu uml. 12 og 15 ár. Eg møtti fleiri ferðir tí yngra, hann ið bleiv 15, ein sera fittur og glaður drongur, sjálvt um hann var so sjúkur. Sera hart fyri foreldur at fáa børn við hasi sjúkuni, og so missa tey áðrenn tey gerast vaksin. --EileenSanda (kjak) 16. jan 2017 kl. 23:39 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-03

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 upload WebP files to Commons. [6]

Problems

• video2commons was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up. [7]

Changes this week

• There is a new magic word called {{PAGELANGUAGE}}. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators. [8]
• When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu. [9]
• You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas. Before you could use <ce>. <ce> should be replaced by <chem>. [10]
• You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown on Special:UncategorizedCategories. The list is at MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist. [11]
• The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to your personal CSS: #wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; } You can change the number 50 to make it look like you want to. [12]
• Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs, including Tool Labs will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in. [13]
• When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu. [14]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on January 17 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16. jan 2017 kl. 23:24 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-04

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

Recent changes

• You can see a list of the templates on a page you edit with the visual editor. [15]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).

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23. jan 2017 kl. 20:14 (UTC)

Translation request about the article 'United Nations General Assembly Resolution 68/262'

Hello dear EileenSanda, saw your wonderful contribution in Faroese Wikipedia, especially on the article "Ukraina". According to the subject I would like to ask you translate the small article into Faroese, and add it to the Faroese wikipedia. Thank you in advance for your support/contribution and best wishes!

Done. Samtykt 68/262 frá ST aðalfundi. Best wishes --EileenSanda (kjak) 3. feb 2017 kl. 10:20 (UTC)

I saw, Thank you very much and best wishes to You!

Tech News: 2017-05

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

Recent changes

• The OAuth management interfaces now look slightly different. [16]

Changes this week

• ElectronPdfService will be enabled by default on Meta and German Wikipedia. This is a new way to get articles as PDF files you can download. It will come to more wikis later. [17]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 31. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from February 1. It will be on all wikis from February 2 (calendar).

Future changes

• The Community Tech team will develop more tools to handle harassment of Wikimedia editors. The goal is to give the communities better tools to find, report and evaluate harassment. They will also work on more effective blocking tools. [18][19]
• The Wikimedia technical community is doing a Developer Wishlist survey. Developers can propose ideas before 31 January 23:59 UTC. This is soon.

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30. jan 2017 kl. 18:45 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-06

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

Problems

• The block log sometimes showed blocks as being much longer than they were. This has now been fixed. [20]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia pages will now be better at showing pictures when you share them on social media. The descriptions will be different too. You can see an example of before and after. [21]
• There are some changes to the OOjs UI. Some old functions will not work anymore or not work as they used to. This could be a breaking change. [22]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Tidy will be replaced later this year. Instead, the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This will cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. You can see if your wiki still has something to fix here for one of the HTML problems. This list does not cover all problems. You can read about more problems. [23][24]

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6. feb 2017 kl. 19:45 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-07

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

Recent changes

• EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. For now it works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. [25]

Problems

• The Firefox add-on Firefogg can cause problems with the Upload Wizard. This will not be fixed, because Firefox will not support Firefogg in the future. The Upload Wizard will no longer work with Firefogg. [26]
• Tool Labs and Wikimedia Labs databases will be under maintenance on 15 February. This will start at 17:00 (UTC) and last for about six hours. Some tools could have problems during or after this. [27]

Changes this week

• The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It will come to Meta and German Wikipedia this week. It is already available on MediaWiki.org. It will come to more wikis later. [28]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on the Catalan, Greek, Russian, and Italian Wikipedias in the middle of February. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. It will come to more wikis later this spring. [29]
• The Developer Wishlist is a list where developers prioritize tools they need. The voting closes at 14 February 23:59 (UTC). This process is only for developers.

Review

• You can read the 2016 product summary from the Wikimedia Foundation Product group to see what they did with things they said they would work on in the annual plan.

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13. feb 2017 kl. 18:06 (UTC)

Fyrimynd:Infobox deity

Hej, du kunne vel ikke lave den på da WP også? På forhånd tak. TherasTaneel (kjak) 17. feb 2017 kl. 23:09 (UTC)

Hej TherasTaneel, ja, det kan jeg godt, jeg skal gå i gang med det i morgen, og så håber jeg at du kan hjælpe til med oversættelsen, hvis jeg kommer i tvivl om noget :) Jeg skal nok spørge dig. Mvh. --EileenSanda (kjak) 18. feb 2017 kl. 00:23 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-08

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

Recent changes

• The edit summary box is now a little bit bigger. This is to make it follow the Wikimedia design guide. [30]

Changes this week

• Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards. [31]
• There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options: type and peers. The type option solves this problem. You can use peers to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers. [32]
• OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way. [33]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20. feb 2017 kl. 19:25 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-09

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

Problems

• On 22 February the wikipedia.org portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file. [34]

Changes this week

• You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor. [35]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can soon upload 3D files to Commons. The file formats are AMF and STL. The plan is for this to work later this week but it could be later. [36]
• The name "Wikipedia" will be more obvious at the top of the page when you read Wikipedia in the mobile view. This is because many readers don't realize they are on Wikipedia. [37][38]

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27. feb 2017 kl. 19:55 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-10

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

Recent changes

• You can now search on English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis and find words even if you forget the diacritics. It also works if you use diacritics in your search but the wiki doesn't. [39]
• When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view. [40]

Problems

• Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed. [41]
• Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user's Special:Contributions will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately. [42]

Changes this week

• The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view. [43]
• The "flag the edit in the abuse log" checkbox will be removed from the abuse filter interface. This is because the edits are always flagged in the abuse log. [44]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Clarification

• The 2017/09 issue of Tech News mentioned 3D file formats you can soon upload to Commons. The AMF format will be available later.

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6. mar 2017 kl. 23:23 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-11

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

Changes this week

• You will be able to show references from <references /> tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use <references /> tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists. [45][46]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some old web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis in the future. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [47]
• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. [48][49]

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13. mar 2017 kl. 15:25 (UTC)

Roberta Pinotti

Dearest Eileen, how are you? Here Spring is coming, and flowers are opening...

Please, I've opnede this new page and I ask you, please, 3 minutes of your time to translate the 8-10 word in English. Sorry, I made a little mistake, I clicked also Listi yvir verjumálaráðharrar í Italia and opened it. I already redirectione in Roberta Pinotti, well, is it possible to erase this page?

Thanks a lot for your precious help, and hope to hear from you soon!

Rei Momo (kjak) 16. mar 2017 kl. 10:44 (UTC)

Hello. I am just fine :) We have a lot of wind here. I saw the mistake and I have deleted the redirect page. And I have also translated the English words. Best regards --EileenSanda (kjak) 16. mar 2017 kl. 10:55 (UTC)

Wowowow, GRAZIE MILLE (thanks a lot). See you very soon!!! Visit my site reimomo.it and leave a message. Thanks!!! Rei Momo (kjak) 16. mar 2017 kl. 11:17 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-12

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

Recent changes

• The Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page. [50]
• DMOZ no longer works. Templates that use DMOZ can be redirected to archive.org or another mirror. DMOZ has been removed from the RelatedSites extension on Wikivoyage. [51]
• You can see monthly page views when you click on Page information in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API. [52]
• The Linter extension is now on smaller Wikimedia wikis. It helps editors find some wikitext errors so they can be fixed. It will come to other Wikimedia wikis later. The extension will be able to find more errors later. [53]
• The MediaWiki-Vagrant portable development environment has been updated to use Debian Jessie. This means local development and testing will be more like on the majority of Wikimedia production servers. [54]

Problems

• On 15 March some interwiki links to other languages were not correctly sorted. This has been fixed. If you still see pages where the interwiki links are not sorted as they should be, they should be fixed automatically with time or you can edit the page and save it without changing anything. If this doesn't work, please report it. [55]

Changes this week

• When you edit with the visual editor, you will be able to switch the direction you write in from right-to-left to left-to-right as you are editing. This is especially important for editors who edit in languages that write from right to left. You can do this with a tool in the editing menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+X on PCs or Cmd+Shift+X on Macs. [56]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 mars at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20. mar 2017 kl. 22:03 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-13

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

Recent changes

• When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes. [57]

Problems

• Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed. [58][59]

Changes this week

• New filters for Recent changes will be released on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias and MediaWikiwiki on March 28. Other wikis will get it progressively. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and, on certain wikis, user intent prediction.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from March 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from March 29. It will be on all wikis from March 30 (calendar).

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27. mar 2017 kl. 14:46 (UTC)

Translation request

Dear EuleenSanda, please translate the article about Belarusian writer en:Uladzimir Karatkievich/ de:Uladsimir Karatkewitsch. Thank you in advance. --Rymchonak (kjak) 3. apr 2017 kl. 09:14 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-14

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

Recent changes

• The Goym síðu button now says Publish page or Publish changes on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page. [60]
• The tracking category Bólkur:Pages with template loops is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template. [61]
• English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [62]

Problems

• Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed. [63]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 4 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on 5 April at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech and Hebrew Wikipedia on 11 April. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and user intent prediction. User intent prediction means the filter tries to help editors determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [64]

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3. apr 2017 kl. 17:53 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-15

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

Recent changes

• Tidy is going to be replaced with an HTML5 parsing algorithm. Bad HTML in wikitext would cause problems on a number of wikis. There is now a ParserMigration extension on all wikis that you can use to help clean this up. You can read more about how you can use it. [65]

Changes this week

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [66]
• New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [67]
• The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters. [68]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.
• RevisionSlider will change how you move between revisions. This will be available on the test wiki from 11 April. It will come to other wikis later if users like the change. You can test it and give feedback.

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10. apr 2017 kl. 18:34 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-16

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

Recent changes

• You can add ?safemode=1 to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature?safemode=1. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them. [69]
• You can now see a list of all autoblocks on Special:AutoblockList. [70]
• The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from [[File:Wiki.png]]. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way. [71]

Problems

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this. This will also happen on 3 May.

Changes this week

• There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings

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

Future changes

• stats.wikimedia.org will be replaced. You can see the new prototype. You can leave feedback on this change.
• Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature can give feedback. [72]
• From next week, user scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. [73][74]

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17. apr 2017 kl. 19:31 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-17

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

Recent changes

• New filters for recent changes are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can turn it on in your preferences. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May. [75]
• When administrators, bureaucrats and stewards make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time. Special:UserRights will have new options for this. You can read more about user groups. [76]

Problems

• Since the data centre test last week the content translation tool has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved. [77]

Changes this week

• The GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit. [78]
• Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read more about this. [79]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

Meetings

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

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24. apr 2017 kl. 16:40 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-18

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

Recent changes

• The content translation tool works again. It was turned off because of a database problem. [80]
• Scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. This is the same thing as Tech News wrote about in issue 2017/16. You need to add mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ) block for your scripts also, or add mediawiki.util dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. [81][82]

Problems

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.

Changes this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• All Wikimedia wikis will have cookie blocks from May 8. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [83]
• The Publish changes, Forskoðan and Sýn broytingar buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding &ooui=1 to the URL. [84]

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1. mai 2017 kl. 19:49 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-19

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

Problems

• Some users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn on Fjal bólking av síðum in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off Víðkað eftirlit in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from Special:EditWatchlist/raw. [85]
• There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered a CAPTCHA. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May. [86]

Changes this week

• When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now say Visual editing and Source editing instead of Switch to visual editing and Switch to code editing. This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using. [87]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users. [88][89]
• Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If -{ is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use -{ in a template: {{1x| sad :-{ face }}. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. [90][91]

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9. mai 2017 kl. 02:25 (UTC)

Maurizio Malvestiti

Dearest EileenSanda, how are you? Me fine, here Spring is come!

Please, I ask you to translate tthe line I added in this page. It will take you just 3 minutes, ok? I'll help you in Italian and Portuguese!

Thanks a lot for your precious help!

Rei Momo (kjak) 12. mai 2017 kl. 08:15 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your help!!! In some days I'll open the new page. Grazie mille (thanks a lot), if you nedd something in Italian or Portuguese, it's just to tel me!!! Rei Momo (kjak) 16. mai 2017 kl. 09:41 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-20

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 use ISBNs to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that have enabled Citoid. [92]
• The Two Column Edit Conflict View is available as a beta feature on all wikis. It is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. [93]

Problems

• The mediawiki.util library does not load automatically any more. Your Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ).done(function(){ as the first line in the file and }); as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/18 issue. [94]

Changes this week

• The RevisionSlider extension will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences. [95]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages. [96][97]
• Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. If -{ is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find false positives. You can read more about what to fix. [98][99]

Older unreported changes

• Your Meta user page is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word __NOGLOBAL__ to your Meta user page to stop this. [100][101]

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15. mai 2017 kl. 21:48 (UTC)

Bartholomæus Kirkja

Good morning, dearest EileenSanda, how are you? Me fine.... just my discal hernia a little hurt, sigh-sigh...

I've opende this new page, as you can imagine, and I ask some minute of your time to>:

• translate the 2 lines from English
• controle if it's correct the new category I put still in red-colour.

Thanks a lot for your precious help, and have a nice day!!! Rei Momo (kjak) 17. mai 2017 kl. 06:08 (UTC)

Hello. Yes, but what means "Kerk"? --EileenSanda (kjak) 18. mai 2017 kl. 23:24 (UTC)

OPS, but.... isn't it kerk the translation of church in FO? Thanks a loto for all, for your help and patience!!! Rei Momo (kjak) 19. mai 2017 kl. 07:00 (UTC)

No, like you wrote in the article, it is "Kirkja". I have moved the article. Best regards --EileenSanda (kjak) 19. mai 2017 kl. 07:03 (UTC)

OPS, sorryyyyyy, thanks a lot and have a nice week.... here it's start rainins and I think we'll have a grey week end!!!

If you have Linkedin, you can find me at "Alessandro Grecchi" page. See you soon!!! Rei Momo (kjak) 19. mai 2017 kl. 07:06 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-21

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

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).
• There will be a <div> tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can report new problems you think are related to this. [102]

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22. mai 2017 kl. 22:02 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-22

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

• Last week’s MediaWiki version was rolled back from some wikis because of a problem. This means planned changes did not happen. [103]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 30 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to control who can notify you on the Wikimedia wikis. You will have a user blacklist. When you add a user to the blacklist you will not get a notification when they mention you. You can test this on Beta Wikipedia. You can read more and give feedback on Meta. [104]

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30. mai 2017 kl. 12:18 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-23

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

Recent changes

• You can see new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from. [105]
• When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox. [106]
• You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article. [107]
• New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June. [108]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen. [109]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links will see languages they have in their Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences. [110]
• You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions. [111]
• When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead. [112]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
• String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules. [113]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all. [114][115]
• Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too. [116]
• The Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft that describes the new committee.

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5. jun 2017 kl. 19:04 (UTC)

Tíðarsonur

Hey Eileen. Føroyska wikipedian er sett til at brúka GMT alt árið, eins og tann enska. At tann enska brúkar GMT er skilagott, tí hon verður brúkt um allan heimin. Men flestu aðrar wikipediur brúka lokaltíð fyri landið, tær umboða, t.d. europeiska tíð fyri norsku, donsku, svensku, týsku og fronsku wikipedia (Europa/Berlin: +1 tíma um veturin, +2 tímar um summarið).
Tað ber til at fáa tað broytt, so føroyska wikipedian vísir lokaltíð (London/Lissabon: GMT um veturin, +1 tíma um summarið). Men eg haldi tað er best at umboðsstjórarnir taka avgerð, um hetta skal gerast.
Eg havi spurt meg fyri á wikimedia, har eg fekk svar: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Extension:ParserFunctions#Help_with_.23timel
Heilsan Benadikt (kjak) 7. jun 2017 kl. 13:21 (UTC)

Hey Benadikt. Eg visti ikki at hatta kundi broytast, men gott at tað kann tað. Sjálvandi eiga vit at hava lokala føroyska tíð á føroysku Wikipediuni, eisini summartíð. Eg havi svarað á enskum á hasari leinkjuni ið tú nevnir her omanfyri. Eg haldi tað er nokk, at tú og eg eru samd um hetta. Tað eru ikki so nógvir virknir brúkarar á fo-wiki, tað man vera í lagi, um vit í hvussu so er eru tvey ið eru samd. Eg dugi ikki at ímynda mær, at nakar skal hava nakað ímóti tí. Vinarlig heilsan --EileenSanda (kjak) 7. jun 2017 kl. 13:37 (UTC)

Fínt, takk fyri. Eg fylgi við, um tað verður broytt. Og tá fái eg brúkt onkrar av funktiónunum, sum hava við lokaltíð at gera. Benadikt (kjak) 7. jun 2017 kl. 17:29 (UTC)

Leypár og skotár

Tað hava verið tvær greinir um hetta sama evnið. Eftir orðabókini eitur tað leypár. Eg havi roynt at flætta greinirnar saman í leypár og gjørt eina ávísing frá skotár.
Men nú er trupulleikin, at ávísingarnar frá útlendsku greinunum er til skotár, og eg fái ikki broytt tað til leypár, sum tað eigur at vera. Á donsku ComicWiki, har eg eri administratorur, hevði eg bara skrivað alt innihaldið í skotár, og so kopiera greinina út yvir leypár - tað kann ein administratorur gera, men ikki vanligir brúkarar.
Benadikt (kjak) 8. jun 2017 kl. 10:39 (UTC)

Tað rætta at gera her, er at rætta heitið í Wikidata, og tað havi eg gjørt nú. Vh. --EileenSanda (kjak) 11. jun 2017 kl. 06:57 (UTC)

Fínt, takk fyri. Benadikt (kjak) 11. jun 2017 kl. 13:06 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-24

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

Recent changes

• Some wikis have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long. [117]
• When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results. [118]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the test wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account. [119]
• Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects. [120]
• Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding &fuzzy=1 to the end of the web address when looking at Special:Undelete. [121][122]

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12. jun 2017 kl. 15:29 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-25

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

Problems

• ORES had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40 UTC. It has now been fixed. [123]

Changes this week

• irc.wikimedia.org has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down. [124]
• Special:PageData will be an entry point for machine-readable page data. [125]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. You can now see how the TemplateStyles extension works on Beta Labs.

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19. jun 2017 kl. 15:44 (UTC)

Links

Hej, jeg lod mærke til at Thomsen har et link til Poul Julius Thomsen, som fører til en fil på commons, er det sådan man gør på færøsk wp? TherasTaneel (kjak) 21. jun 2017 kl. 00:48 (UTC)

Hej, nej det er ikke sådan vi normalt gør. Det er åbenbart en nederlandsk bruger, Brúkari:Lotje, der har indført linket. Jeg har rettet det. Mvh. --EileenSanda (kjak) 21. jun 2017 kl. 10:36 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-26

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

Recent changes

• The <inputbox> has a new searchfilter parameter. You can add values like searchfilter=insource:foo. It will add that to the user's search query. [126]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
• Users will be able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in enhanced watchlist/recent changes. Previously, this was disabled for everyone. [127]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next WMF Language team office hour, an open session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects. The meeting will be on 27 June at 13:00 UTC. [128]

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26. jun 2017 kl. 15:38 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-27

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

Recent changes

• There was a problem with maps on Wikimedia wikis that used <mapframe> when you clicked on the link to another map service. Open Street Map or Google Maps are examples of other map services. If you had marked a place on the map the marker would not be in the same place on the other map service. It was in the middle of the map. This has now been fixed. [129]

Changes this week

• Very old and inactive unpublished translations in the Content Translation database will be removed. This is because of technical maintenance. If you have not worked on a translation after 1 January 2016 you will lose it after 6 July. If you want to keep the unfinished translation you need to open it before 6 July with the Content Translation tool. You can continue working on it later. Translations that were started or have been worked on after 1 January 2016 will not be affected.
• There is no new Mediawiki version this week.
• EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. It works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/07 issue. [130]

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3. jul 2017 kl. 15:31 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-28

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

Recent changes

• There are sometimes links to pages about the same thing on other Wikimedia projects. A Wikipedia article about Berlin can link to the Wikivoyage guide or Wiktionary entry about Berlin. You can now see when that page has a badge. A badge could be the star that shows that an article is a featured article. [131]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 juli at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Mobile users will be able to edit Wikipedia without JavaScript. This will make it possible to edit the wikis from older mobile phones. This will probably happen on 18 July for most wikis. [132]
• We will not use Tidy on Wikimedia wikis in the future. It will be replaced by June 2018. It could be earlier. Editors will need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors.

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10. jul 2017 kl. 15:07 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-29

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

Recent changes

• "Wikimedia Labs" is now called "Cloud VPS". "Wikimedia Tool Labs" is now called "Wikimedia Toolforge". This is to help clarify the purpose of these services. [133]

Problems

• On some pages, the Table of Contents is not being shown. It will normally appear if you edit the page again. Investigation is currently ongoing. [134]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 18 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is: Migrate to HTML5 section ids. [135] The meeting will be on 19 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Page Previews, currently a Beta Feature, will be enabled for logged-out users for all remaining Wikipedias (with the exception of English and German) the week of 24 July. An A/B test will be run on English Wikipedia to collect data before approaching the community for further discussion. [136]

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17. jul 2017 kl. 22:58 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-30

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

Recent changes

• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. This will make it easier to make templates look good on mobile devices. This now works on mediawiki.org and Wikitech. It will come to more wikis later. [137][138][139]
• .mw-ui-constructive modifier class is deprecated and has been removed. [140]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 juli. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 juli. It will be on all wikis from 27 juli (calendar).
• It will be possible to restrict who can send you notifications on a wiki. This new feature will accessible in your preferences, in the Notifications tab, on Wednesday, July 26. Please see the documentation. [141]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 25 juli at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the Wikimedia Foundation July 2017 Metrics & Activities Meeting. The meeting is about how Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement are perceived and understood by the world. The meeting will be on 27 juli at 19:00 (UTC). See the agenda and how to join.

Future changes

• New Filters for Edit Review, at the moment available as a Beta feature, will be released by default for the Recent Changes in September.

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24. jul 2017 kl. 15:57 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-31

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

Problems

• Some pages show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that uses Wikidata. The developers are working on fixing the problem. You can fix a page by opening it for editing and then saving without changing anything. [142]
• Wikidata and German Wikipedia could not be edited for an hour on 28 July. You can read why and how we could avoid it in the future in the incident report.

Changes later this week

• Some wikis already have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. All remaining wikis except Commons will have these from 1 August. [143]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).

Meetings

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

Future changes

• The default font in the edit window will soon change for some users. Instead of using the browser default it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [144]

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31. jul 2017 kl. 21:45 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-32

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

Recent changes

• You can now see which Wikipedia language versions are read in a specific country. This tool is called Wikipedia Views Visualized. [145]
• The Architecture Committee is now the Wikimedia Technical Committee. You can read the charter. [146]

Problems

• You can get an email when a page on your watchlist was edited. You can choose not to get emails for minor edits. There is a bug that means that you then don't get an email when someone does a normal edit after a minor edit. The developers are working on fixing this. Until it has been fixed you can activate "Send mær eisini ein teldupost viðvíkjandi smærri broytingum á síðum og fílum" at the bottom of "Brúkaradáta" in your preferences if you want to. [147]
• The thanks button sometimes didn't work for mobile users. This was because of a new bug and has now been fixed. [148]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 August. It will be on all wikis from 10 August (calendar).

Future changes

• Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [149]
• Links to sections on Wikipedia don't work well in languages that don't use the Latin script. The URL in the address bar in your browser shows Latin characters like .D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8 instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months. [150][151]
• Wiki pages printed by the web browser "Print" function will have an updated style. This new style will be similar to the when you download a page as PDF. It will be better at showing tables, infoboxes and headings. [152][153]

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7. aug 2017 kl. 21:45 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-33

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

Recent changes

• Bureaucrats can now set users as confirmed. Previously only stewards could do this on most wikis. Nothing will change for wikis that have previously decided to let administrators set users as confirmed. [154]

Problems

• The symbols in the language list that show that an article is good or featured in that language doesn't work. Links to the Commons category in the sidebar doesn't work either. The developers are working on fixing it. [155][156]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).

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14. aug 2017 kl. 23:28 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-34

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

Recent changes

• You can now test the new Timeless skin on the test wiki and mediawiki.org. You can turn it on in your preferences. You can report bugs in Phabricator. It will come to more wikis soon. [157][158]
• Your watchlist can now have the option to unwatch pages. You have to turn this on in your preferences. [159]
• If a table has several columns you can often choose which column you want to use to sort the table. This has not worked for some columns for readers who have used Firefox or Safari. This has now been fixed. [160]
• The RelatedArticles extension has shown related pages on Wikivoyages. You will now see the related pages at the end of the article together with an image. Previously the links were in the sidebar. Wikis that want this extension can request it on Phabricator.

Changes later this week

• Videos will now be played in the WebM format in all browsers. Previously some browsers used Ogg Theora (.ogv). If you use Safari, Internet Explorer or Edge you may see slower playback speed at high resolutions. Instead we will get better quality and smaller file size. You can still upload video as Ogg files. They are automatically converted to WebM. This doesn't affect Ogg audio files. [161]
• The default font in the edit window will change for some users this week. Instead of using the browser default, it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [162]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21. aug 2017 kl. 18:00 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-35

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

Recent changes

• Syntax highlighting is now a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It will come to right-to-left wikis later. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. [163][164]
• You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can turn this off or choose to get an email notification in your preferences. You can also turn on to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. [165]

Problems

• Some pages show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that use Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this problem. You still need to fix pages that were broken before and still show the error message. You can see how on this page. [166]

Changes later this week

• You can block users from sending you notifications. [167]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Technical Committee. The topic this week is Migrate to HTML5 section ids. The meeting will be on 30 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• In the future you will have global preferences. This means you could set something in your preferences to work in the same way on all wikis. You will not be forced to use global preferences. The developers are now asking if editors need exceptions. This is where you want to use global settings on almost all wikis, but have some wikis where you want it to work in a different way. If you want this you need to tell the developers now. You can do so on the talk page. [168]
• New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [169]
• The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 in September 2017. Wikis can ask on Phabricator to get it early, so they can help find and solve problems now.

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28. aug 2017 kl. 22:09 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-36

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

Tech News

• We are asking Tech News readers five questions to make the newsletter better. You can answer the questions here. We are grateful for every reply we get.

Recent changes

• The RevisionSlider user interface has changed. You can now select revisions by clicking on the bars. You can move the blue knob past the yellow one and the yellow one will move along, and the other way around. [170][171]

Problems

• Some users have problems loading very large watchlists. It is working better than earlier but the problem has not been solved. The developers are working on fixing it. Until it has been fixed you can turn on "Víðkað eftirlit" in your preferences and see if it helps. [172]

Changes later this week

• New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [173]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can see a presentation about and discuss the new Technical Committee on 5 September at 17:30 (UTC). There will be a presentation on YouTube and a discussion in #wikimedia-office on Freenode. You can use the web chat. [174]

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4. sep 2017 kl. 22:15 (UTC)

Just a Picture in Luigi Carlo Borromeo page

Dearest EileenSanda, how are you? here summer is ending...

I charged a picture in this pahe, and please I ask 2 minutes to you just to translate the line I put in English. Thnaks a lot for your precious help!!!

Rei Momo (kjak) 8. sep 2017 kl. 15:44 (UTC)

Thank you, have a nice Sunday!!! Rei Momo (kjak) 10. sep 2017 kl. 12:17 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-37

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

Recent changes

• You can get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis. [175]
• The Newsletter extension is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later. [176]
• The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category: tidy-whitespace-bug. This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more about using Linter and the Tidy whitespace bug. [177]

Problems

• Tech News 2017/36 reported about new filters for edit review coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead. [178]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
• OOjs UI will be updated. This could affect some icons. You can read more about the changes.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
• New filters for edit review are available now on recent changes as a beta feature. Some of those filters and other features will be deployed as default features in the coming weeks. Users will be able to opt out in their preferences. [179]

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11. sep 2017 kl. 19:15 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-38

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

Recent changes

• You can now see contributions from an IP range at Special:Contributions. Before you could only see contributions from single IP addresses. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them. [180][181]
• Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions and the development has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed. [182]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 September at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• We are replacing Tidy on Wikimedia wikis. Editors need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors. Some wikis have already switched. If your wiki would like to switch to the new format now, you can file a task.

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18. sep 2017 kl. 15:31 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-39

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

Recent changes

• Wikitext syntax highlighting is a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. You can now search through the entire article with CTRL+F or cmd+F when you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs. [183][184]
• Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions as a beta feature or by default can now create and move Structured Discussions boards. Structured Discussions was previously called Flow. [185]

Changes later this week

• You now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences. [186]
• Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser. [187]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September. (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department has proposed changing the mobile website. You can read more on mediawiki.org. This would be a big change.
• You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can still create PDFs. Tech News 2017/37 said the function to create PDFs from books would still work. It is now clear it will not work for the next few months. The developers are working on fixing this. You can read more on mediawiki.org.

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25. sep 2017 kl. 15:59 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-40

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

Recent changes

• You can now use preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it. [188]

Changes later this week

• If you have turned on "Aktivera sjálvvirkandi allar nýggjar betafunksjónir" you will now get the 2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature. [189]
• Special:Block and Special:Unblock will get the OOUI look. [190]
• The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October. [191]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can give feedback on this feature. [192]
• The search function has used fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can read more and give feedback.

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2. okt 2017 kl. 23:25 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-41

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

Recent changes

• The number of active users listed by {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}} and on Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too. [193]
• Previously you could create wiki links starting with two colons. Now you need to use one colon. [[::File:X.jpg]] now has to be [[:File:X.jpg]]. There is now a new Linter category. You can see a list on Special:Linterrors/multi-colon-escape. The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. You can read more about using Linter. [194]

Problems

• You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at 06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models. [195]

Changes later this week

• The font in the edit window is monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week. [196]
• If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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9. okt 2017 kl. 14:21 (UTC)

Invitation from WAM 2017

Hi WAM organizers!

Hope you receive your postcard successfully! Now it's a great time to sign up at the 2017 WAM, which will still take place in November. Here are some updates and improvements we will make for upcoming WAM. If you have any suggestions or thoughts, feel free to discuss on the meta talk page.

1. We want to host many onsite Edit-a-thons all over the world this year. If you would like to host one in your city, please take a look and sign up at this page.
2. We will have many special prize provided by Wikimedia Affiliates and others. Take a look at here. Let me know if your organization also would like to offer a similar thing.
3. Please encourage other organizers and participants to sign-up in this page to receive updates and news on Wikipedia Asian Month.

If you no longer want to receive the WAM organizer message, you can remove your username at this page.

Reach out the WAM team here at the meta talk page if you have any questions.

Best Wishes,
Sailesh Patnaik

Just a picture in Maurizio Malvestiti

Hi, dearest Eileen, how are you? Me fine, older... eh eh eh, last 29 september I did 40 (+10!!!) years.

Please, I ask you just 2 minutes to you translate the 2 lines on the new picture I put in this page, just 2 lines. Thank you very much for your precious help!!! Have a nice Sunday.

Rei Momo (kjak) 14. okt 2017 kl. 20:56 (UTC)

Thank you very much, have a nice day!!! Rei Momo (kjak) 25. okt 2017 kl. 12:10 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-42

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

Recent changes

• When you edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's format configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in more powerful ways if your wiki wants it. [197][198]
• The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can give feedback to the developers.

Problems

• There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis. [199]
• Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this. [200]
• Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed. [201]

Changes later this week

• Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [202]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16. okt 2017 kl. 15:31 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-43

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

Recent changes

• You can use ccnorm_contains_any when you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more in the documentation. [203]

Changes later this week

• When you search in some languages the search function could use specific other languages if the first language didn't work. This is called a fallback language. This didn't work properly and created bad searches. The search index is being fixed to work better. [204]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is a Structured Commons community focus group for Commons and Wikidata contributors who want to give input on structured data on Wikimedia Commons. You can sign up to join it. [205]

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23. okt 2017 kl. 18:18 (UTC)

WAM Reminder

Hi WAM organizers!

Thanks again for organizing Wikipedia Asian Month. There are only 4 days before it starts. If you haven't yet signed your language in WAM 2017, You can sign-up here. Below we have provided some notices and guidelines for organizing.

Page Setup

• Our Sample page is ready to be translated. There are only a few adjustments if you had this page for 2016 already.
  • Article Requirement is 4
  • Article criteria are 3k bytes and 300 words. NO 2k bytes for smaller Wikipedia.
  • According to the tool's limit, IP users can not participate. Please encourage them to register an account.

Localization

• Please localize this template and used on sign up page. I will update the template once the tool is ready to be used.
• You may localize this page, but you can also just put a link towards the meta page. m:Wikipedia Asian Month/QA

Strategy

• You may have to invite some of your Wikipedia friends or active Wikipedians from your home WIKI to help you organize.
• You may have to send some invitation to last year participants, active Wikipedians, and Wikipedians who has a special interest.
• Central Notice will be used. You may use the Site Notice if you don't see the CN is deployed.

Reward

• We will keep sending postcards (new design) this year, and as an organizer, you will receive an additional postcard as well.
• We will have many special prizes provided by Wikimedia Affiliates and others. Take a look at here. Let me know if your organization also would like to offer a similar thing.
• We will send the Ambassador a regular paper copy of the certificate through the basic mail.

Question

Please feel free to contact me or the WAM team meta talk page, send me an email by Email this User or chat with me on facebook.

If you no longer want to receive the WAM organizer message, you can remove your username at this page.

Best Wishes,
Sailesh Patnaik using MediaWiki message delivery (kjak) 27. okt 2017 kl. 13:38 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-44

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

Recent changes

• You can now block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis. [206]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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31. okt 2017 kl. 00:20 (UTC)

Wikipedia Asian Month 2017: engage with audience

Dear WAM organizer,

I’m Erick, the coordinator of WAM 2017. Thanks for your effort and help at m:Wikipedia Asian Month 2017! Here are some more information about organizational matter of the event at a national level.

You are receiving this message because you have signed up as a organizer or in the list.

Timeline

The event has started and will end in the November 30th 23:59 (UTC). However, we are late for some matter. So we need your help:

• Invite previous participants and your community members to join. We have a template you can use.
• Translate Central Notice for your community (more instruction below) as well as sending a notice in village pump. Go public!
• Become the jury member in a campaign on Fountain which is an amazing tool for you to supervise participants’ articles. If you don’t have the campaign set up, please contact us! And put a link to your community’s campaign page for participants’ navigation.
• Organize a off-site editathon event. A coffee bar, internet and laptops. Though it’s optional. If you want to do that, please contact me.

In the following days, you should answer the questions from your community and supervise the submissions. Hope you have fun!

Prepare Central Notice

Central Notice shows a banner on the top of pages in your wiki project along the event timeframe. We will use this to engage with audience. Steps:

1. Translate, change logo and link to event page. Find your project's Central Notice here. For example, we can change the banner for Chinese Wikipedia here.
2. When you mark the 4 items (translation) as done. I'll enable the central notice in your language for this month.

Interesting articles

Have some interesting articles in your mind or from community? Drop us a line so that we can post that here to exchange the information to other communities.

Special Prize

You can find some special prizes in Event Partner page. They can be claimed by:

• Write an article about Indigenous people in Taiwan at Wikipedia Asian Month (supported by Wikimedia Taiwan).
• Write articles on monuments of Bhubaneswar (supported by Bhubaneswar Heritage Edit-a-thon).

The participants who joins for the special prize need to also report their conribution in the speical page. The link is shown in the Event Partner page.

Looking for help

At all times, please reply me back or send me an email at erick@asianmonth.wiki.--Fantasticfears (talk) 5. nov 2017 kl. 12:12 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-45

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

Recent changes

• You will no longer see the patrol log on Special:Log unless you specifically select it. [207]

Changes later this week

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 6 November. You can post proposals from 19:00 UTC and until November 19.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F instead of https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История. This will soon be fixed. Old links will still work. [208][209]

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6. nov 2017 kl. 18:45 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-46

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

Changes later this week

• The diff you see when you compare two different versions of a page has changed on MediaWiki.org and the test wiki. This is to make it easier to find a text change in a moved paragraph. It will hopefully soon come to more wikis. You can report bugs in Phabricator. [210]
• A new user group on Commons will be able to upload MP3 files. The plan is to have this user group from 17 November. [211]
• Wikis using Flagged Revisions will get the New filters for Edit Review by default on the recent changes pages. It will be possible to opt-out in user preferences. [212]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Support for uploading and viewing 3D models is coming soon to Wikimedia Commons. The feature will support the .STL file format. You can see an example on the test wiki. [213]

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13. nov 2017 kl. 19:19 (UTC)

Biskupur Egidio Miragoli

Hi, dearest EileenSanda, how are you? Me I'm fine and here it's arrived cold.

I've opened this short page, and I ask you 4 minutes to read it, and translate the 2 lines I wrote in English, please. Just 4 minutes. Thanks a lot for your precious help, see you soon.

Rei Momo (kjak) 20. nov 2017 kl. 11:07 (UTC)

Hello, it is also cold here, we have a little bit of snow. I have translated the two lines. Best regards --EileenSanda (kjak) 20. nov 2017 kl. 12:16 (UTC)

Grazie mille, my dearest!!! I'll be pleased to help ypu in Italian and Portuguese, see you soon!!! Rei Momo (kjak) 20. nov 2017 kl. 12:18 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-47

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

Recent changes

• If you use the Chrome web browser on Android you can see a download icon on the mobile website. You can download a formatted PDF. It will work in other mobile browsers in the future. [214]
• The abuse filter now has a function called get_matches. You can use it to store matches from regular expressions – one of each capturing group. You can read more in Phabricator.

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki version didn't come to all Wikipedias because of a database crash. It will be on all wikis on 20 November. [215][216][217]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Language converter syntax will no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week. [218][219]

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20. nov 2017 kl. 19:18 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-48

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

Recent changes

• You can now test the new advanced search function beta feature on mediawiki.org. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It will come to German and Arabic Wikipedia this week. It will come to more wikis later. [220]
• You can now upload large files with the Internet Archive upload tool. Previously you could not upload files larger than 100 MB. [221]
• You can now use the Timeless skin on all wikis. You can choose skins in Special:Preferences#Appearance. [222]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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27. nov 2017 kl. 20:30 (UTC)

Liv and Maddie

Can you take a look at Kjak:Liv and Maddie? Thanks. Kkjj (kjak) 30. nov 2017 kl. 23:12 (UTC)

Yesterday 195.249.78.90 created the page Björn Ulvaeus which currently says "BjÖrn is pretty cool". It has been tagged for deletion by 2602:306:83A9:3D00:551E:23EC:7C8F:740F as nonsense. However, would it be better just to fix it? I saw a few pages link to it, and there is an article in English as well as 41 other languages. I saw the IP who created the page has been blocked, but the page still exists. Will you fix it or delete it? I can probably do a stub, but it will need help, just like Liv and Maddie needed help (and still does). Thank you. Kkjj (kjak) 2. des 2017 kl. 17:41 (UTC)

OK, I have fixed it up. However, it is very small. I need help making it better. Thank you. Kkjj (kjak) 2. des 2017 kl. 17:54 (UTC)

I forgot to ask, but shouldn't Snjóhvíta og teir sjey dvørgarnir (1937 filmur) be moved to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 filmur)? I believe it's better to use the original name, that's why I moved Lisa í Undralandi (1951 filmur) to Alice in Wonderland (1951 filmur). A lot of these pages are badly written and in need or a rewrite. I'm working on that. Also, I realize that there was another page created about Snow White that got merged with the original, but if you delete it can you restore the history of the one with the right name afterwords? Kkjj (kjak) 2. des 2017 kl. 19:12 (UTC)

I also moved Meistaraverk Disney to Walt Disney Classics for this reason. The article needs updating, and there also needs to be an update on the articles I have edited. I'm working on that, but I will need help. I have also flagged the article in English about Walt Disney Classics as needing copy editing. Kkjj (kjak) 2. des 2017 kl. 20:23 (UTC)

Disney biograffilmar needs cleanup as well. Kkjj (kjak) 2. des 2017 kl. 20:51 (UTC)

I have deleted the stub about Björn Ulvaeus, it was much too short, and you wrote that he is a "songkvinna" which means "female singer", it should just be "sangari" when it is a man. But I don't don't have the time to write about him just now, and I don't think that I wan't to right now, so better to delete it. I am not here on the Faroese Wikipedia all the time, so sometimes a nonsence article is not deleted right away.

You as too many questions, I can't answer all of them. Are you not the same person who has edited the Disney articles earlier? Just with other jusernames or IP-addresses? Please don't move a lot of articles without discussion, espesially when you move them to an English title. Brúkari:Benadikt what do you think about this? I mean if the articles about Disney films should have the original title in English or in Faroese? --EileenSanda (kjak) 3. des 2017 kl. 08:24 (UTC)

OK, I will admit it, this account is part of en:WP:LTA:BF101. I'm trying to undo my own vandalism. The article I wrote that was too short was copied from another page (don't remember which one). I know my edits have bad grammar and the like. I've already been blocked in two wikis, cy (Welsh) and jv (Javanese). But some of the Disney articles are edited by another editor, from Sweden. I keep thinking it was better to use the original names because these movies are not dubbed in Faroese. There is a Disney international dubbings site that I found last year, and it has the Disney movies listed in other languages. None of them are dubbed in Faroese yet. I keep asking questions because I keep forgetting stuff.

There are also underdeveloped articles in other languages too, and the languages that you can speak that have poor articles are Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Greek. German and Icelandic do too. I will admit, I have used Google a lot in these articles, but it's even harder without Google, since they don't have Faroese yet.

The Swedish guy has made a lot of the same kinds of mistakes I have made, like how he kept using "film" and not "filmur". It is also kvikmynd in Icelandic. Note that Bambi (film) was deleted in Icelandic a lot, and it took a long time for me to realize that it was pointless since English speakers would not type in Bambi (kvikmynd) in English Wikipedia.

Note I also moved Frozen because there is at least one other movie with that name, and it was from 2010. Note that I have only seen the Disney film.

Another thing I was wondering was if I could upload the movie posters for these films or not. I have some of them on my computer uploaded, but are they allowed? I wanted to help by uploading the posters, but not if they aren't allowed. I know that they're only allowed in some languages, but it's hard to remember which ones.

Also, does "dagføring" mean update, or something else? So many pages need updating, and I don't always know what to write. I hate the past edits I have made that were awful. Like I said, the Swedish guy has done the same things, but his edits aren't always in other languages besides English and Swedish. I write in almost every language, even ones not on Google.

I'm sorry I wasted your time. But I often have a lot of time on my hands, and I'm almost 23! If I had a job it would be to clean up my own vandalism on this site and other sites. But I don't even have a job yet.

I have actually seen most of the stuff I have written about, but only if it's American. I haven't seen the Swedish movies the Swedish IP has seen.

I get bored easily as well. That's why I get bored cleaning up after my own edits that were wrong or out of date. I also have real life problems I'm going through.

Thank you for understanding. Kkjj (kjak) 3. des 2017 kl. 11:21 (UTC)

Also, another note: in Frisian (fy) Wikipedia Brúkari:Ieneach fan 'e Esk said that animaasjefilm and tekenfilm mean exactly the same thing: an animation film. Is that also true for Faroese or not? I didn't know if teknifilmar and animatiónsfilmar have a difference in Faroese if they don't in Frisian. I know the languages are different, but there are some languages where there is a difference. According to Ieneach fan 'e Esk, in Dutch animatiefilm and tekenfilm mean exactly the same. However, they seem to mean different in Danish. Do they? I don't know if Frozen is a teknifilm or an animatiónsfilm. I thought it would be the latter, since it is not drawn. View this page for more info: Brúkarakjak:Ieneach fan 'e Esk. Kkjj (kjak) 4. des 2017 kl. 05:22 (UTC)

Yes, dagføring means update. No, posters are not allowed on the Faroese Wikipedia because of the copyright act. I think that "teknifilmur" and "animatiónsfilmur" can be two different things, but a "teknifilmur" can also be defined as an "animatiónsfilmur" or what, I am not sure. But if you look at the Faroese dictionary Sprotin, they don't have the word "animatión" in the Faroese/English version of the dictionary. But it is common in daily use. And you can find it if you chose the DA-FØ dictionary and write "animation", then one of the DA-FØ dictionaries says "teknimyndagerð, teknifilmur, animatión". So it seems that the dictionary says that animation film can also be called "teknifilmur" in Faroese. It is a bit confusing. "Teknifilmur" means a movie which has been drawn, orignally it meant that anyway. Sometimes the words in a language does not keep up witht the development. And sometimes a dictionary uses words that people don't use in daily speak. I have updated the article Disney biograffilmar now. I removed the part with "Framtíðar útgávur" (Future releases). --EileenSanda (kjak) 4. des 2017 kl. 11:49 (UTC)

Here is a link to Sprotin.fo with the example I mentioned. --EileenSanda (kjak) 4. des 2017 kl. 11:51 (UTC)

But please don't use the first word that comes up there: "teknimyndagerð", I don't think that it would sound good to say "teknimyndagerðsfilmur", that would be a very clumpsy word. Aniomatiónsfilmur is better, Faroese people will understand what "animatiónsfilmur" is, but I don't think that they are familiar with newly constructed words like "teknimyndagerð" at least not if it it put together til the word "filmur". --EileenSanda (kjak) 4. des 2017 kl. 11:55 (UTC)

I forgot to mention this before but on Björn Ulvaeus I was trying to say that he is a songwriter, not a singer. I read the English article and it said songwriter. So I copied the wrong article either way. Like I said, it would be easier if Google could translate to Faroese. But on the other hand they might do it next year, since they add a new language every year. In fact, they add multiple every year. I'm hoping that Faroese will be one of the next. But I will know only to use it sparingly, since it's only good for certain words and phrases. But it will be good to use it more for knowing what actual words mean. Also, I was wondering if you'd restore the stub and then fix it (correct the female singer error and make it a long enough stub) if you ever have time to. I was also wondering if Benadikt would like to help on any of these articles. He's helped before, such as on Once Upon a Time in New York City and Lady and the Tramp. Note about the former article, I'm trying to find sources that it notable enough for the English Wikipedia, because it was merged into Oliver & Company (the movie it's from). I really like this song, and I am even listening to it right now. Note why I created that page in the first place, because of the article about Better in Stereo (the theme song to Liv and Maddie). It doesn't have a page in English either, but it instead it redirects to en:Liv and Maddie: Music from the TV Series. Yeah, I said this before but Liv and Maddie is my favorite show, so I know a lot about it. I know you've probably never seen these movies and shows I've written about but they are all in my interests if you know what I mean. Another thing I noticed is that at this site they list the Disney movies dubbed in other languages, complete with the cast and when they were dubbed. So far, none of these movies have been dubbed in Faroese yet, but every year or so they start dubbing movies in a new language, so it might happen. If they do, we can move the pages to the official Faroese names. I was even planning to move Vakurleikin og Ódjórið to Beauty and the Beast (1991 filmur) but I didn't after you said not to. But you can move it if you want to or need to. Kkjj (kjak) 4. des 2017 kl. 13:52 (UTC)

I wrote new comments at Kjak:Liv and Maddie. Also, I was wondering: if animatiónsfilmar and teknifilmar don't have a difference, can we just merge the categories then? I still think that Björn Ulvaeus deserves an article, but I don't know what else to write that I didn't already write. Kkjj (kjak) 5. des 2017 kl. 22:29 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-49

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

Recent changes

• It is now possible to upload MP3 files to Commons. Only users with MP3 file upload rights can upload MP3 files. [223]
• You can now use live updates for recent changes if you use the new filters. This feature updates the filtered recent changes every three seconds when you activate it. [224]
• There is an experimental onion service for Wikimedia projects. [225]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 December. It will be on all wikis from 7 December (calendar).
• Very old versions of the Opera Web browser are no longer supported. This means that technical development will not be tested to make sure it works with those Opera versions. Use Opera 15 or above or another browser if you have problems. [226]
• Almost 170 wikis with no high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. A few larger wikis such as German and Italian Wikipedia will also make this switch. It will happen on 5 December. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [227][228]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You can vote for wishes on the survey page until 10 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2016 results page.
• The Community Liaisons team at the Wikimedia Foundation is looking for active tech ambassadors. This is to make sure the Wikimedia communities get all the information they need about new features and can be involved in the technical development. [229]

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4. des 2017 kl. 17:50 (UTC)

What's Next (WAM)

Congratulations! The Wikipedia Asian Month is has ended and you've done amazing work of organizing. What we've got and what's next?

Here are some number I would like to share with you

Total submitted: 7429 articles; 694 users

Here are what will come after the end of WAM

• Make sure you judge all articles before December 12th, and participants who can improve their contribution (not submit) before December 10th.
• Once you finish the judging, please update this page after December 12th
• There will be three round of address collection scheduled: December 15th, December 20th, and December 25th.
• Please report the local Wikipedia Asian Ambassador (who has most accepted articles) on this page, if the 2nd participants have more than 30 accepted articles, you will have two ambassadors.
• There will be a progress page for the postcards.

If you no longer want to receive the WAM organizer message, you can remove your username at this page.

Best Wishes,
Sailesh Patnaik using MediaWiki message delivery (kjak) 5. des 2017 kl. 17:37 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-50

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 changes

• URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F instead of https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История. This has now been fixed on all wikis. Old links will still work. [230]
• A new tag marks edits where a redirect was created or removed. This still works when the editor writes something else in the edit summary. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. [231]
• If you use Chrome on Android, you can now use the print to PDF button to create a PDF of an article. [232]
• Filter by number of edits or filter by time range have been grouped on a same menu on the recent changes page if you use the new filters. The "View new changes since $1" link is now more prominent. [233]
• Some of the web fonts that were provided by the Universal Language Selector extension are being removed. This is to reduce the load time on pages. The web fonts were added many years ago to help users read text in scripts which did not have fonts or had broken fonts. This is not the case any more. You can check the status page for a list of all web fonts and whether they are currently being used and especially for special requirements. [234]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can discuss new or improved blocking tools with the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team. They will work on building better blocking tools. Leave comments on the talk page.

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11. des 2017 kl. 17:58 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-51

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2018.

Problems

• When you import a page from another wiki the usernames of the users who edited the article on the wiki you imported it from are shown in the article history. This should link to the users on the original wiki. A script to fix this caused problems for Wikidata and German Wikipedia. It also created a large number of SUL accounts on wikis where editors had never edited. [235]
• Some bot owners got email about their bots logging in from a new computer. If this is from one or a couple of wikis, you can turn these messages off in your preferences on those wikis until the problem has been solved. If not, you can report more about the problem in Phabricator.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 desember at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Files on Commons will have structured metadata in the future. The developers are now looking for examples of different kinds of metadata to make sure they are aware of them when they build prototypes for structured data on Commons. You can read more and help by giving examples of interesting media files.
• The Structured Commons team are making sure Commons work with structured data. If you regularly contribute to Commons and Wikidata you can answer a survey that helps the team prioritise the tools that are important for the Commons and Wikidata communities. The survey ends on 22 December. You can read more on Commons. You can also help the team decide on better names for "captions" and "descriptions". This ends on 3 January 2018.
• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey has now ended. You can see the results. They decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year.

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18. des 2017 kl. 15:26 (UTC)

Wikipdia Cultural Diversity Observatory

Hello ElieenSanda,

I have seen you endorsed my project Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory as a volunteer for the Faroese Wikipedia. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikipedia_Cultural_Diversity_Observatory_(WCDO)

The great news is that the project got accepted :) I will be working on it since January and I hope to make it real very soon.

Could you please write me at marcmiquel @ gmail.com so I can have your e-mail. I will communicate with volunteers by email, since it is more comfortable.

Thanks a lot!! Best regards,

--Marcmiquel (kjak) 20. des 2017 kl. 18:45 (UTC)