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Wikicontest for high school students

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Wikidata in the Classroom at the University of Edinburgh

How we defined what secondary education students need

Wikipedia Education Program in Bangkok,Thailand

Shaken but not deterred

Wikipedia workshop against human trafficking in Serbia

The WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique kicks in 4 francophones African countries

A Proposal for Education Team endorsement criteria

In the News

Student perceptions of writing with Wikipedia in Australian higher education

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Tech News: 2017-49[modifica]

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. [29]
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. [30]
There is an experimental onion service for Wikimedia projects. [31]

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. [32]
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. [33][34]

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. [35]

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18:50, 4 dic 2017 (CET)

Tech News: 2017-50[modifica]

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. [36]
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. [37]
If you use Chrome on Android, you can now use the print to PDF button to create a PDF of an article. [38]
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 "Visualizza le modifiche dal $1" link is now more prominent. [39]
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. [40]

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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18:58, 11 dic 2017 (CET)

Tech News: 2017-51[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Notizie tecniche

A causa delle festività, la prossima edizione delle Tech News verrà inviata l'8 gennaio 2018.

Problemi

Quando importi una pagina da un'altra wiki i nomi utente degli utenti che hanno modificato l'articolo sulla wiki di origine vengono mostrati nella cronologia della pagina importata. Questo procedimento dovrebbe puntare agli utenti sulla wiki originale. Uno script per la correzione ha dato problemi per Wikidata e la Wikipedia in tedesco. Ha inoltre creato numerosi account SUL su wiki dove gli utenti non avevano mai effettuato modifiche. [41]
Alcuni manovratori di bot hanno ricevuto una mail in cui si avvisava che il bot aveva effettuato il log in da un nuovo computer. Se il problema si è presentato a un manovratore su una o due wiki, è possibile disabilitare questi messaggi nelle preferenze di quelle wiki fino a che il problema non viene risolto. Se il problema si è verificato su più wiki, puoi segnalare la cosa su Phabricator.

Modifiche di questa settimana

Non ci sarà alcuna nuova versione di MediaWiki questa settimana nè la prossima.

Incontri

Puoi unirti al prossimo incontro con il team di Editing. Durante l'incontro puoi comunicare agli sviluppatori quali sono i problemi (bug) più gravi. L'incontro si terrà il 19 dicembre alle 19:30 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

Prossime modifiche

I file su Commons avranno metadata strutturati in futuro. Gli sviluppatori stanno cercando esempi di differenti tipi di metadata per essere sicuri di averli come esempio quando verranno costruiti i prototipi per i dati strutturati. Puoi leggere di più e aiutare dando esempi di file multimediali interessanti.
Il Structured Commons team stanno lavorando per far sì che Commons possa lavorare con i dati strutturati. Se contribuisci regolarmente su Commons e Wikidata puoi compilare un questionario che aiuta il team a dare maggiore priorità agli strumenti che sono importanti per le comunità di Commons e Wikidata. Il questionario è disponibile fino al 22 dicembre. Puoi trovare maggiori informazioni su Commons. Puoi anche aiutare il team a decidere nomi migliori per "didascalie" e "descrizioni". Si può dare il proprio aiuto fino al 3 gennaio 2018.
Il sondaggio 2017 sui desideri della comunità è terminato. Puoi vedere i risultati che decideranno su cosa si concentrerà il lavoro del Community Tech team nel prossimo anno.

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16:27, 18 dic 2017 (CET)

Global Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-12[modifica]

Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

The last Global collaboration details report is now available (in English).

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

The filters are now deployed as a default feature on all wikis on RecentChanges and RecentChangesLinked pages.
The filters are still available as a Beta feature on all wikis on Watchlists. Please try them!
LiveUpdates have been deployed as a default feature for all wikis.
On wikis using Extension:Translate, translated messages can now be filtered. System messages can be filtered as well, on all wikis. [42]
"Visualizza le modifiche dal $1" link is now more prominent, to invite users to use that native feature to update the list of results. [43]
Pagination and time period selectors are now combined and located on the right on left-to-right wikis. [44]
When a user wanted to click outside of the filter menu to close it, it was possible to click on "revert" link by accident. It is not possible anymore. [45]
It is now possible to filter the following events using the Tags menu: Making a page a redirect, Changing redirect target, Changing an existing redirect into a non-redirect, Blanking of the page, Removing more than 90% of a page content, Rolling back an edit. [46]
Some design improvements have been done to Related Changes page to integrate the new filters. [47]
"Save current filter settings" menu and legend overlapped the results. This is now fixed. [48]
Some small design improvements have been done. [49]

Content translation [More information • Help pages]

Now Content Translation prevents source and target language to be set to same language. [50]
The dialog for selecting article to translate is standardized. It introduces a new component that is used for the selected page on both the "New translation" dialog and the "Suggested pages" list. [51]
More space is given to the language filter, to increase responsiveness and show more language names without truncation. [52]
While searching for a new page to translate, duplicates are not shown anymore for user search input. [53]
Various PHP warnings and JavaScript errors have been fixed. [54][55]

Structured discussions [More information • Help pages]

It is now possible to use Special:Nuke on hidden Structured discussion topics. [56]
The Reply button is not active anymore until something is typed. [57]

Miscellaneous

For wikis that use ORES, preferences for ORES have been rationalized in Special:Preferences, on Recent Changes tab and Watchlist tab. [58]
ORES will be deployed on Simple English Wikipedia. That wiki will be able to use the Prediction filters. [59]

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15:31, 19 dic 2017 (CET)

This Month in Education: December 2017[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 6 | Issue 11 | December 2017

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

In This Issue

Wikimedia Serbia has established cooperation with three new faculties within the Education Program

Updates to Programs & Events Dashboard

Wiki Camp Berovo 2017

WM User Group Greece organises Wikipedia e-School for Educators

Corfupedia records local history and inspires similar projects

Wikipedia learning lab at TUMO Stepanakert

Wikimedia CH experiments a Wikipedia's treasure hunt during "Media in Piazza"

Creating digitally minded educators at BETT 2017

In the News

Things My Professor Never Told Me About Wikipedia

"Academia and Wikipedia: Critical Perspectives in Education and Research" Conference in Ireland

Science is shaped by Wikipedia

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r: Candidature ad amministratore[modifica]

Se è disponibile, ben venga! --pegasovagante (la mi dica) 13:56, 7 gen 2018 (CET)

Samuele chiedeva se sono disponibile. Si certo, le mie competenze tecniche non sono moltissime, ma imparerò, e le funzioni che mi elenchi sono necessarie.--Mattruffoni (discussioni) 17:40, 7 gen 2018 (CET)

sezione esercizi di matematica[modifica]

Ciao, per quanto riguarda gli esercizi io sarei alla fine per organizzare questi piccoli problemi in quiz, che vanno benissimo, e li inserirei direttamente in coda alla lezione, ma ho due questioni da sottoporti:

non ho capito come faccio a nascondere il procedimento svolto del problema (mi faresti vedere come fare, ho consultato la pagina di Aiuto: quiz ma non ho capito/trovato); mi piacerebbe che i miei alunni motivassero con un testo il loro procedimento, non solo operazioni per intendersi: potrebbe andare bene?
più avanti faremo testi di problemi sulla geometria solida, con un testo più lungo; credi che comunque un quiz possa andare bene oppure dove potremmo metterli? tempo fa sul gruppo telegram, ne avevo accennato e mi avevano parlato di creare un link alla pagina degli esercizi.

La materia Esercizi di matematica della scuola media 3 la cancello. Grazie e buona rientro a scuola. --ProfValeria (discussioni) 15:49, 7 gen 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-02[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

Su Wikidata, il pulsante "salva" quando modifichi è ora chiamato "pubblica". Questo significa che tutte le wiki Wikimedia sono passate da "Salva la pagina" e "Pubblica le modifiche". Questo aiuta i nuovi utenti a capire cosa fa il pulsante. [60][61]
Alcune edit ricevono un'etichetta automatica su tutte le wiki. Questo accade quando si crea un redirect, si svuota una pagina, eliminando quasi tutto il contenuto, annullando una modifica o effettuando un rollback. Puoi vedere le etichette ad esempio nelle Modifiche recenti, nella cronologia di una voce, nei contributi di un utente o nei tuoi Osservati speciali. Alcune wiki hanno indicato modifiche come queste in altri modi. [62]
Special:UnusedFiles mostra i file che sono stati caricati ma non sono stati usati. Mostrerà un file che non è usato su una wiki dove è stato caricato, anche se il file è usato in un'altra wiki. La nuova pagina Special:GloballyUnusedFiles su Commons mostra i file che non sono usati in alcuna wiki. [63]
Le discussioni strutturate ora utilizzano l'editor wikitesto 2017 invece dell'editor vecchio. Questo avviene con le tue preferenze per il wikitesto o l'editor visuale. La documentazione è stata aggiornata. [64][65]

Problemi

Le vecchie versioni del browser web Chrome mostrerà sui dispositivi mobili il pulsante per scaricare il PDF, ma non funzionerà una volta premuto. Gli sviluppatori stanno cercando la fonte del problema. [66]
Con i nuovi filtri nelle Ultime modifiche, "Escludi selezionati" in "Namespace" non ha funzionato per "Filtri salvati" tra il 13 dicembre e il 2 gennaio. Quando caricavi un filtro salvato tutti gli altri namespace venivano esclusi. Il problema è stato sistemato. Se hai fatto una qualsiasi modifica ai tuoi filtri salvati tra il 13 dicembre e il 2 gennaio devi salvare nuovamente i filtri con i namespace esclusi. [67]
L'ultima versione di Google Chrome ha avuto un problema con i link ai titoli di sezione mostrati nella barra degli indirizzi. Veniva visualizzato #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 invece di #Résumé anche se MediaWiki non aveva codificato in quel modo. Questo è successo all'inizio di dicembre. Il problema è stato risolto. L'errore verrà risolto in CHrome 64 (23 gennaio) o Chrome 65 (6 marzo). [68]
Alcune richieste POST alle API hanno richiesto più tempo del dovuto a dicembre. Ciò ha interessato l'UI Wikidata e alcuni accessori. Il problema è stato sistemato. [69]

Modifiche di questa settimana

Wikidata verrà spostata su server dedicati. Questo perché sta crescendo e richiede risorse maggiori. A causa di questo sarà possibile leggere ma non modificare Wikidata e la Wikipedia in tedesco tra le 06:00 e 06:30 UTC del 9 gennaio. Potresti perdere le modifiche effettuate se tenti di salvare in questo lasso di tempo. Questo include la modifica degli interwiki link. [70]
La dimensione del carattere nella finestra di modifica verrà leggermente modificata per alcuni utenti. Ora verrà visualizzata in modo uguale su tutti i browser e sistemi operativi. [71][72]
La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 9 gennaio. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 10 gennaio e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 11 gennaio (calendario).
I moduli ResourceLoader di WikiEditor sono stati semplificati a uno: ext.wikiEditor. Tutti gli altri moduli sono ora alias deprecati e andrebbero rimossi. [73]

Incontri

Puoi unirti al prossimo incontro con il team di modifica. Durante l'incontro puoi comunicare agli sviluppatori quali sono i problemi più gravi. L'incontro si terrà il 9 gennaio alle 19:00 (UTC). Vedi come unirti.
Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici via IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere consiglio. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 10 gennaio alle 16:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

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17:19, 8 gen 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-3[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [74]
C'è un nuovo canale di supporto per gli sviluppatori Wikimedia. Puoi chiedere o rispondere a domande su MediaWiki e sullo sviluppo del software in Wikimedia. [75]

Problemi

L'aggiornamento di MediaWiki della settimana scorsa è stato annulato. Questo a causa di un bug che cambiava i caratteri non-ASCII quando veniva modificata una pagina. [76][77]

Modifiche di questa settimana

La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 16 gennaio. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 17 gennaio e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 18 gennaio (calendario).

Incontri

Puoi partecipare al prossimo incontro con l'Editing team. Durante l'incontro puoi comunicare agli svilupatori i problemi che ritieni più gravi. L'incontro si terrà alle 19:30 (UTC) il 16 gennaio. Scopri come unirti
Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici su IRC, dove gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere aiuto. L'incontro si terrà il 17 gennaio alle 16:00 (UTC) il Scopri come unirti.

Cambiamenti futuri

Il 31 gennaio qualche centinaia di wikis, con meno di 10 errori ad altà priorità nelle categorie di Linter, passeranno ad utilizzare la libreria di parsing Remex sostituendo Tidy. Alle wiki rimanenti verrà suggerito il passaggio quando non ci saranno più errori da coreggere. Il supporto per Tidy verrà rimosso verso la metà del 2018. [78][79]

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19:45, 15 gen 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-04[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

I filtri su Special:RecenteChangesLinked avranno un nuovo aspetto simile a quello della pagina delle ultime modifiche. Verranno aggiunte anche nuove funzionalità alla pagina delle ultime modifiche. [80][81]

Problemi

Con il nuovo tema OOUI i menu e popup possono aprirsi anche verso l'alto e non solo verso il basso. ciò per facilitare l'utilizzo di menu molto lunghi. Alcune volte i menu si sovrapponevano con altri elementi, questo problema è stato ora risolto. [82]

Modifiche di questa settimana

Non ci saranno nuove versioni di MediaWiki questa settimana.

Incontri

Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici su IRC, dove gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere aiuto. L'incontro si terrà il 24 gennaio alle ore 16:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

Cambiamenti futuri

irc.wikimedia.org subirà un riavvio il 22 febbraio. I bot che lo utilizzano per ricevere il feed delle ultime modifiche devono essere in grado di riconettersi automaticamente, altrimenti potrebbero non funzionare correttamente. La maggior parte dei bot è in grado di riconettersi automaticamente. [83]

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00:55, 23 gen 2018 (CET)

Global Collaboration products newsletter: 2018-01[modifica]

Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

The Global Collaboration report for December is now available (in English).
Filters are better integrated on Related Changes (see below).
Structured discussions now use the 2017 wikitext editor (see below).

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Bug fixes

When searching, a click on a filter capsule moved the list of filters. [84]
On Related Changes page, the page name entry box didn't show the entirety of long page names. [85]
Transcludeing Special:RelatedChanges on a page added unexpected parameters to the URL. [86]
Filter menu was opening upwards. [87]
ORES preferences on Recent Changes and Watchlist preferences pages have been rationalized. [88]
Users are now prevented from clicking on a link when they click outside of the dropdown menu to close it. [89]

Work in progress

Filters on Related Changes page are better integrated and get new features, for instance: [90]
- The standard auto-completion mechanism is available when you search for a page to look at.
- It is more clear if you are looking to pages linked from the target page or to the target page.
- You no longer need to click the "Show" button; the page updates automatically when a page is positively identified via autocompletion.

Content translation [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

Further enhancement are made for list (Suggestions/In-progress/Published) items on mobile screens. Long titles no longer overflow or overlap with other interface elements. [91]
Various changes to the "New translation" dialog and the selected page for translation have been made: [92]
- Longer titles of selected pages are displayed in smaller. Some space has been added around to increase readability.
- Language codes are not truncated by ellipsis anymore. Only full, autonym language names are subject to truncation.
- Minimal screen sizes and selected suggestion dialog have been revisited. They are more consistent in responding to screen size changes.
- Discard button is no longer shown on small screen sizes.
Language filters no longer render wrong or non-existent language codes. [93]
The "New translation" dialog now shows a loading indicator and doesn't display an error when you change the source language after an unsuccessful research. [94]

Structured discussions [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This works with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. [95][96]
- The documentation has been updated and needs translations updates.
Prométhée, from French Wikipedia, has created some gadgets to customise Structured discussions interface.
- The documentation is ready to be translated.

Future changes

Structured discussions does not always follow wiki's configurations concerning talk pages indexation. This will be fixed. [97]
Hidden topics will not be indexed by search engines anymore. [98]

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

Bug fixes

User rights change notifications were displaying a broken link. This is now fixed. [99]
"Mark as read" buttons had a bad appearance for users who don't have JavaScript activated. [100]

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01:56, 25 gen 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-05[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Sono disponibili altre traduzione.

Modifiche di questa settimana

Non ci saranno nuove versioni di MediaWiki questa settimana.

Incontri

Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici su IRC, dove gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere aiuto. L'incontro si terrà il 31 gennaio alle ore 16:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

Cambiamenti futuri

La fondazione Wikimedia sta lavorando per ridurre la quantità di codice non mantenuto sulle wiki Wikimedia. Le soluzioni possibili sono trovare degli sviluppatori per mantenere il codice o rimuovere alcune funzioni.

Stanno raccogliendo commenti su cosa fare con il Filtro anti abusi, il feed delle Ultime Modifiche, l'estensione RelatedSites e il TimedMediaHandler. Puoi lasciare il tuo parere nelle relative pagine di discussione. [101]

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18:06, 29 gen 2018 (CET)

Learning Quarterly: January 2018[modifica]

L&E Newsletter / Volume 5 / Issue 15 / January 2018
Learning Quarterly

Frontpage:
#LeadershipDevelopment
#CaseStudies

Stay tuned
blogs, events
& more!

A program in the spotlight:
Raising awareness of Wikipedia in Nigeria, one radio program at a time

Leave your mark on Meta!
Inspire New Readers campaign, and AffCom elections

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:45, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

This Month in Education: January 2018[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 7 | Issue 1 | January 2018

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

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In This Issue

Bertsomate: using Basque oral poetry to illustrate math concepts

Wikimedia Serbia celebrated 10 years from the first article written within the Education Program

WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique update

The first Swedish Master's in Digital Humanities partners with Wikimedia Sverige

How we use PetScan to improve partnership with lecturers and professors

The Education Survey Report is out!

Education Extension scheduled shutdown

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 19:42, 1 feb 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-06[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

I burocrati possono ora aggiungere e rimuovere il permesso di "Creatore di account". Questo significa che gli utenti possono aiutare a creare un gran numero di account, per esempio per un editathon. Le wiki possono modificare questa impostazione se vogliono. [102]
La Wikidata vandalism dashboard è un nuovo strumento per monitorare i vandalismi sulle descrizioni ed etichette di Wikidata. È possibile filtrare i risultati per lingua. [103]
Le pagine di informazioni per i file ora mostrano il valore SHA1 del file nella tabella delle informazioni di base del file. Questo permette agli utenti di vedere se il file è lo stesso che hanno caricato. [104]

Problemi

Special:Export ha un alto livello di errore al momento. Questo significa che l'esportazione non funziona sempre. È necessario controllare che il processo abbia funzionato correttamente. Gli sviluppatori sono al lavoro per risolvere il problema. [105]

Modifiche di questa settimana

Quando controlli una modifica effettuata con l'editor visuale puoi vedere un confronto visuale delle tue modifiche oltre al confronto wikitesto. Il sistema ricorderà la tua scelta per il futuro. Il confronto visuale è ora l'impostazione primaria dei nuovi utenti. [106]
Quando usi una galleria di immagini puoi modificare la grandezza, ad esempio gallery widths="150px". Era possibile usare anche em o % invece di px. Ora si può solamente usare px o non indicare nulla (150). Scrivendo qualsiasi altra indicazione il sistema non effettuerà il ridimensionamento. [107]
L'ordine di parole dei ringraziamenti verrà cambiato. Invece di Sì o No visualizzerà Ringrazia e Annulla. Sarà anche più semplice capire che i ringraziamenti sono pubblici. [108]
I redirect connessi a Wikidata possono creare elementi Wikidata doppi. Verrà aggiunta una categoria di controllo apposita. Le wiki che non vogliono questa categoria possono disabilitarla. [109]
La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 6 febbraio. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 7 febbraio e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 8 febbraio (calendario).

Incontri

Puoi unirti al prossimo incontro con il team VisualEditor. Durante l'incontro puoi comunicare agli sviluppatori quali sono i problemi più gravi. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 6 febbraio alle 19:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.
Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici via IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere consiglio. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 7 febbraio alle 16:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

Cambiamenti futuri

L'estensione Education verrà rimossa il 30 giugno. Verrà rimpiazzata dalla Programs and Events Dashboard. [110][111]

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21:51, 5 feb 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-07[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

Wikipedia in lingua svedese può adesso contare su TemplateStyles. TemplateStyles è uno strumento che consente di aggiungere facilmente codice CSS ai template senza i diritti da amministratore. Questo consente una maggiore adattabilità dello schermo, specialmente sui dispositivi mobili, dove registriamo metà delle visualizzazioni delle pagine di Wikipedia. Se la tua community volesse essere la prossima a ricevere questo strumento, manda una richiesta. [112][113][114]
Adesso le pagine di registrazione raccolgono informazioni sull'utilizzo di mouse e tastiera per l'identificazione di spambot.

Modifiche di questa settimana

Una nuova funzione beta permette di visualizzare le diff nella cronologia della pagina. [115]
Il Visual Editor mostra e permette di editare i template in un modo e l'elenco delle fonti in un altro. Prima i template contenenti solo un elenco finto di fonti, ad esempio {{reflist}}, non sarebbero stati aggiornati con le modifiche. Adesso si aggiornano ma non potranno più essere modificati come template con il Visual Editor. [116]
Il filtro anti-abusi ha una nuova funzione contains_all che consente di controllare se una o più righe sono contenute in un'altra riga. [117]
La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 13 febbraio. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 14 febbraio e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 15 febbraio (calendario).

Incontri

Puoi unirti al prossimo incontro con il team. Durante l'incontro puoi comunicare agli sviluppatori quali sono i problemi più gravi. L'incontro si terrà il giorno febbraio alle 18:30 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.
Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici via IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere consiglio. L'incontro si terrà il giorno febbraio alle 16:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

Prossime modifiche

Le pagine delle impostazioni e delle opzioni in beta per il sito in versione mobile verranno migliorate. [118]

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22:59, 12 feb 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-08[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

La spiegazione delle abbreviazioni sulle voci recenti a volte si sovrapponeva alla lista delle modifiche. Il problema è stato risolto. [119][120]
Ora puoi vedere le statistiche delle visite a una pagina divise per stato. È possibile vedere le statistiche su una mappa. [121]

Problemi

Linter riporta una conto approssimativo invece di un conto accurato. Questo a causa di alcuni problemi di prestazioni. Potresti notare alcuni numeri falsamente alti nel conteggio di Linter per alcune categorie. Verrà corretto non appena il problema delle prestazioni sarà risolto. [122]
La scorsa settimana è stato modificato il modo con cui il Visual Editor modifica la lista delle note. Come risultato, le note generate da specifici template, come {{sfn}}, non sono visibili nella lista delle note durante la modifica. [123][124]

Modifiche di questa settimana

La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 20 febbraio. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 21 febbraio e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 22 febbraio (calendario).

Incontri

Puoi unirti al prossimo incontro con il team VisualEditor. Durante l'incontro puoi comunicare agli sviluppatori quali sono i problemi più gravi. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 20 febbraio alle 18:30 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.
Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici via IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere consiglio. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 21 febbraio alle 16:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

Modifiche future

Il modo in cui i registri delle modifiche e dei commenti vengono archiviati nel database verrà modificato. In futuro sarà possibile inserire commenti più lunghi. [125]
I conflitti di modifiche verranno risolti in modo differente in futuro. Puoi provare un nuovo prototipo.

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23:54, 19 feb 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-09[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

I Checkuser e gli Stewart possono vedere dati privati, come l'indirizzo IP, nel registro del filtro anti abusi. I dati vengono rimossi regolarmente. [126]

Problemi

La versione MediaWiki della scorsa settimana è stata ritirata a causa di un bug. [127][128]
Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [129]
Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [130][131][132]

Changes later this week

Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [133]
The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [134][135]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 febbraio. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 febbraio. It will be on all wikis from 1 marzo (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 febbraio at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 febbraio at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:52, 26 feb 2018 (CET)

This Month in Education: February 2018[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 7 | Issue 2 | February 2018

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

In This Issue

WikiProject Engineering Workshop at IIUC,Chittagong

What did we learn from Wikibridges MOOC?

Wikimedia Serbia launched Wiki scholar project

Wiki Club in Ohrid, Macedonia

Karvachar’s WikiClub: When getting knowledge is cool

More than 30 new courses launched in the University of the Basque Country

Review meeting on Christ Wikipedia Education Program

The Multidisciplinary Choices of High School Students: The Arabic Education Program; Wikimedia Israel

The Education Extension is being deprecated (second call)

The 2017 survey report live presentation is available for viewing

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 09:52, 1 mar 2018 (CET)

Vetrina[modifica]

Ciao Samuele, ieri ho provato a inserire una richiesta per vetrina, in considerazione del fatto che non c'è nessuna voce di medicina;). Ho seguito le poche indicazioni, ma , se dai uno sguardo alla cronologia della pagina, ho desistito per non pasticciare, non essendo sicura di dover "creare" proprio quella pagina. Potresti spiegarmi un po' meglio? Grazie. --Geoide (discussioni) 14:02, 4 mar 2018 (CET)

Collaboration products newsletter: 2018-02[modifica]

Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Map improvements 2018, Notifications, Structured discussions and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

Collaboration and Language are now going their way separately. Updates about Content Translation are not included in this newsletter anymore. Please refer to the Language report.
Collaboration has a new project: Map improvements 2018.
- The team’s engagement with maps is based on 2017 Community Wishlist proposal Kartographer Improvements, though the work won’t be restricted to items named there.
- The project is currently in its very early research and planning stages.
- It has a limited term that’s scheduled to conclude at the end of June 2018.

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

es.wikipedia, es.wikibooks, sv.wikipedia, and simple.wikipedia get ORES predictions on Recent Changes (and on Watchlist through "⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽" Beta feature). [136][137][138][139]

Problems

The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [140][141]
On Related changes it was not possible to use Saved filters for several articles. It has been fixed. [142]
Transclude special:relatedchanges on a subpage removed #contentSub. This is now fixed. [143]

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

The wording when you send a thanks message has changed. Instead of Sì or No it says Ringrazia and Annulla. It is also now easier to understand that all thanks are public. [144]
A notification is now sent to account owner on multiple unsuccessful login attempts. [145]

Problems

Between week 7 and 20 February, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [146]
Long page titles on Special:Notifications were not truncated. This is now fixed. [147]

Structured discussions [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

You can now press CTRL + ENTER to post a new message. [148]
It wasn't possible to create a description of a Structured discussions board. This has been fixed. [149]

Problems

On wikis using the Beta feature, it is not possible to enable or disable Structured discussion from the Beta page. However, admins can create and move the pages.

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12:29, 5 mar 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-10[modifica]

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

Recent changes

You can now make longer edit summaries. [150]

Changes later this week

You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. [151]
On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [152][153]
Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [154]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

In the future you will be able to use global preferences. This means you could change a preference for all wikis instead of having to change it every time for each wiki. You can now test global preferences and give feedback.
You can now read about planned works on maps during 2018. This will be done by June. You can give feedback on the planned maps work.

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18:12, 5 mar 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-11[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

I modelli 3D possono ora essere caricati su Commons. [155]
Le anteprime di pagina sono state aggiornate per utilizzare il linguaggio HTML, così da risolvere molti problemi. È stato condotto un test A/B sulla Wikipedia in inglese e quella in tedesco per valutarne l'utilizzo. Ci sono stati anche altri cambiamenti. [156]
Alcune modifiche richiedono il controllo di troppe condizioni per poter attivare alcuni filtri anti abusi. In questi casi la modifica non attiverà alcun filtro e sarà contrassegnata per una revisione. [157]
Il salvataggio automatico è stato aggiunto all'editor visuale e all'editor wikitesto 2017. Al momento ha l'obiettivo di aiutarti in caso di crash del browser o di chiusura accidentale della scheda. [158]

Problemi

Il filtro anti abusi non ha etichettato le modifiche che avrebbe dovuto etichettare in seguito alla distribuzione della versione di MediaWiki della settimana scorsa. Il problema è stato corretto il 9 marzo (UTC). [159]

Modifiche di questa settimana

Puoi inviare notifiche agli utenti dal campo oggetto. Riceveranno un ping come se li avessi menzionati in una pagina. Ciò doveva inizialmente essere implementato la settimana scorsa. [160]
È ora possibile specificare dei parametri di blocco per ogni filtro in Speciale:FiltroAntiAbusi. Tali parametri consistono nella durata del blocco e nella possibilità per l'utente di modificare la propria pagina di discussione. La durata del blocco è divisa per gli utenti anonimi e registrati. [161][162]
Cento wiki Wikimedia sono state aggiornate per l'utilizzo della libreria Remex, che dovrà sostituire Tidy. Questo accadrà il 13 e il 14 marzo. Le altre wiki sono invitate ad eseguire il passaggio non appena avranno corretto gli errori da correggere. Tidy sarà rimosso a metà 2018. [163][164][165]
La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 13 marzo. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 14 marzo e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 15 marzo (calendario).

Incontri

Puoi unirti al prossimo incontro con il team di modifica. Durante l'incontro puoi comunicare agli sviluppatori quali sono secondo te i problemi più gravi. L'incontro si terrà il 13 marzo alle 19:30 (UTC). Vedi come unirti.
Puoi unirti all'incontro con il team di assistenza tecnica su IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori possono chiedere consigli. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 14 marzo alle 16:00 (UTC). Vedi come unirti.

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20:44, 12 mar 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-12[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Problemi

Il 12 marzo il numero di errori 503 è cresciuto a causa di un problema sui datacenter esams. Il problema è stato risolto. [166]

Modifiche di questa settimana

La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 20 marzo. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 21 marzo e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 22 marzo (calendario).

Incontri

Questa settimana non ci sono incontri con il team di modifica.
Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici via IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere consiglio. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 21 marzo alle 16:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

Modifiche future

From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [167][168]
In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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16:03, 19 mar 2018 (CET)

Collaboration products newsletter: 2018-03[modifica]

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Map improvements 2018, Notifications, Structured discussions and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

The Collaboration team has announced the start of a new project: In-Context Help and Onboarding. The idea is to improve retention of new wiki editors by giving them short tutorials and other training experiences related to, and triggered by, their current activities on the wikis (that’s the “in context” part). The project follows from the conclusions of the New Editor Experiences research. The work is in its very early stages, but we’d like to hear from people with ideas on the subject—particularly if you have experience supporting or training new contributors.

Map improvements 2018 [More information]

Maps using Maplink and Mapframe functions now include an extra zoom level (level 19). This is part of the Kartographer Improvements, the number one request of the 2017 Community Wishlist survey. [169]

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Number of edit to show in recent changes information text was incorrect in Special:Preferences. It has been rephrased. [170]

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. That new feature has been documented. [171]
Preferences panel on Special:Notifications was overlapping other elements. This has been fixed. [172]

Future changes

An important work is under progress to allow thanks of log entry. This is done by the Community Tech team. [173]

Structured discussions [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

Structured Discussions extension has been uninstalled from wikis not using it. However, it is still possible for a community to request a trial of Structured discussions. [174]

Problems

It was not possible to opt-in and opt-out Structured discussions on wikis using it as a Beta feature. It is now fixed. [175]

Future changes

The visual editor and 2017 wikitext editor interface is going to change for consistency. The toolbar, dialogs and menus will appear slightly bigger; some icons will look different. Content or functionality will not change. That change will apply to Structured Discussions as well. [176]

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14:24, 26 mar 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-13[modifica]

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

Changes later this week

Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [177] [178]
The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [179]
TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [180]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [181]
Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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22:03, 26 mar 2018 (CEST)

Buona Pasqua 2018[modifica]

auguronissimi, caro/a wikicollega!! --SurdusVII [@email@] 12:16, 2 apr 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-14[modifica]

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

Recent changes

Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

Problems

MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [182][183][184]
The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [185]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns. [186]
Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [187][188][189]
AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [190] [191]
In Special:Preferences, the preference "Ricarica automaticamente l'elenco degli osservati speciali ogni volta che si modifica un filtro (richiede JavaScript)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [192]
You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [193]
You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [194]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [195][196]

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21:28, 2 apr 2018 (CEST)

This Month in Education: March 2018[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 7 | Issue 3 | March 2018

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

In This Issue

Education Programs Itinerary

Animated science educational videos in Basque for secondary school student

Beirut WikiClub: Wikijourney that has enriched our experiences

Students of the Faculty of Biology in Belgrade edit Wikipedia for the first time

The role of Wikipedia in education - Examples from the Wiki Education Foundation

Multilingual resource for Open education projects

Wikipedia: examples of curricular integration in Portugal

Resources and Tips to engage with Educators

Education Session at WMCON 2018

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Tech News: 2018-15[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

Alcune pagine hanno template che descrivono problemi con questo articolo. Per gli utenti da mobile sono ora disponibili maggiori informazioni, qual è l'errore nell'articolo e come possono correggerlo. [197]
Puoi inviare ringraziamenti non solo per le modifiche, ma anche per altre azioni sulle pagine. Questo era uno dei primi dieci desideri nel Sondaggio dei desideri dello scorso anno. [198]
L'ordinamento delle categorie sarà errato per un breve lasso di tempo a partire da lunedì 9 aprile (UTC). Stiamo aggiornando le librerie per l'internazionalizzazione (ICU) e usando uno script per aggiornare il database. Questo passaggio potrebbe durare tra poche ore o qualche giorno a seconda della grandezza della wiki. Sono disponibili maggiori informazioni. [199]
I filtri per le etichette funzioneranno meglio in quelle wiki in cui il nome di un filtro è in un linguaggio che è scritto in modo differente dal linguaggio di quella wiki. Questo avviene per esempio quando c'è un titolo in inglese (scrittura da sinistra a destra) sulla wiki in ebraico o in arabo (scritte da destra a sinistra). [200]

Problemi

L'icona a segnalibro per i filtri salvati nella pagina Modifiche recenti era sparita a causa del passaggio alle nuove icone. Il problema è stato corretto. [201]
Per una settimana durante marzo i rollback hanno avuto sia l'etichetta rollback che quella annulla sulle Modifiche recenti e nelle altre pagine in cui sono visibili le etichette. Il problema è stato corretto. [202]

Modifiche di questa settimana

La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 10 aprile. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 11 aprile e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 12 aprile (calendario).
Le modifiche verificate ora hanno tre stati invece di due. I filtri sono stati aggiornati per visualizzare le modifiche non verificate, autoverificate e verificate manualmente. [203]

Incontri

Puoi unirti ad un incontro con il team di modifica. Durante l'incontro puoi comunicare agli sviluppatori quali sono i problemi più gravi. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 10 aprile alle 18:00 (UTC). Vedi come unirti.
Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici via IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere consiglio. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 11 aprile alle 15:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

Modifiche future

Le app per iOS e Android riceveranno le liste di lettura sincronizzate in aprile.

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20:09, 9 apr 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-16[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche di questa settimana

Le statistiche per il filtro anti abusi riportano quanto frequentemente un filtro venga attivato dalle modifiche e venivano azzerate dopo 10000 azioni. Ora le singole Wiki potranno decidere se resettarle più o meno frequentemente. Per farlo possono aprire un task su phabricator. [204]
Il filtro anti-abusi tratterà i numeri interi e in virgola mobile con maggior precisione. Per esempio 5/2 veniva arrotondato a 2 ma da ora il risultato sarà 2.5 e 2*4 restituirà 8 come intero e non 8.0. Gli unici valori modificati sono quelli delle divisioni; per il resto, solo le strict comparisons (=== e !==) saranno affette da questo cambiamento e i valori rimarranno inalterati. [205][206]
La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 17 aprile. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 18 aprile e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 19 aprile (calendario).

Incontri

Puoi unirti al prossimo incontro con l'Editing team dove potrai riferire agli sviluppatori quali sono i bugs che pensi siano più importanti. L'incontro si terrà 17 aprile alle 18:30 (UTC). Scopri come partecipare.
Puoi unirti all'incontro per i suggerimenti tecnici su IRC dove gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere alcuni consigli. L'incontro si terrà 18 aprile alle 15:00 (UTC). Scopri come partecipare.

Cambiamenti futuri

Il PDF renderer non riesce a creare PDF dai libri di Wikipedia, cioè una collezione di pagine di una wiki. it:PediaPress si occuperà dello sviluppo di questa funzione. [207]
Pywikibot non supporterà più Python 2.7.2 e 2.7.3 [208]
Puoi partecipare al sondaggio per i contributori e le comunità Wikimedia. L'ultima data possibile per compilarlo è il 22 aprile. Questo sondaggio è realizzato da terze parti, puoi vedre l'informativa sulla privacy qui.

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17:20, 16 apr 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-17[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

Adesso tutte le Wikipedia hanno l'estensione Page Previews.
Adesso le applicazioni per iOS e Android hanno le liste di lettura sincronizzate. Ciò significa che d'ora in poi potrai salvare gli articoli in una lista privata che sarà visibile anche sugli altri dispositivi su cui quali è installata l'app.
Sono cambiate le icone del editor wikitext 2010. [209]
Nel Visual editor e l'editor wikitext 2017 dopo aver schiacciato Pubblica viene richiesto di scrivere un oggetto per la modifica. Ora questo bottone mostrerà anche dei it:punti di sospensione per indicare che l'operazione di pubblicazione non è ancora conclusa. [210]

Modifiche di questa settimana

La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 24 aprile. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 25 aprile e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 26 aprile (calendario).

Incontri

Puoi unirti al prossimo incontro del Editing team dove puoi far presente agli sviluppatori i bugs che ritieni più importanti. L'incontro si terrà il 24 aprile alle 18:30 (UTC). Scopri come partecipare.
Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici dove gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere aiuto. L'incontro si terrà il {{#time|j xg|2018-04-25|it}} alle 15:00 (UTC). Scopri come partecipare.

Cambiamenti futuri

L'estensione <mapframe> verrà attivata sulla maggior parte delle Wikipedia in maggio. Ciò significa che potrai inserire delle mappe interattive negli articoli. Le nove Wikipedia che utilizzano l'estensione flagged revisions non riceveranno questa funzione. [211]
La funzione rollback potrebbe cambiare a seguito di una richiesta della comunità tedesca. Tutti gli utenti con il diritto rollback sono invitati a lasciare un loro parere entro il 4 maggio.

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20:16, 23 apr 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-18[modifica]

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

Recent changes

The parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links. [212]

Problems

We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator. [213]

Changes later this week

You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right. [214]
When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date. [215]
You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the Casella di modifica section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly. [216]
Il filtro anti abusi ha una nuova funzione, equals_to_any. Tale funzione può essere usata per verificare se il primo parametro è uguale (===) ad uno qualsiasi dei parametri seguenti. Ad esempio, è possibile utilizzarla per verificare se il namespace della pagina è contenuto in un insieme dato di valori, in modo più compatto di quanto fosse possibile prima. Leggi i dettagli su mediawiki.org.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 maggio. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 maggio. It will be on all wikis from 3 maggio (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 maggio at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 maggio at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jharewikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [217][218][219]

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18:18, 30 apr 2018 (CEST)

This Month in Education: April 2018[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 7 | Issue 4 | April 2018

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

In This Issue

Wikimedia at the Open Educational Resources Conference 2018

Global perspectives from Western Norway

Togh's WikiClub: Wikipedia is the 8th wonder of the world!

Aboriginal Volunteers in Taiwan Shared Experience about Incubating Minority Language Wikipedia in Education Magazine

Workshops with Wiki Clubs members in the Republic of Macedonia

Celebrating Book's Day in the University of the Basque Country: is Wikipedia the largest Basque language book?

Txikipedia is born and you'll love it

Students Write Wiktionary

Presenting the Wikipedia Education Program at the Open Education Global Conference

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 09:33, 4 mag 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-19[modifica]

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

Recent changes

The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones. [220]

Problems

The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed. [221]

Changes later this week

The advanced search function beta feature will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. [222]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [223][224]

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18:27, 7 mag 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-20[modifica]

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

Recent changes

Dynamic maps are now available on most Wikipedias. Labels on maps can also be in different languages.
The new Advanced Search interface is now available as a Beta Feature on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated. [225]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

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

Future changes

In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can give feedback and suggestions.
The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it. Read more on mediawiki.org [226]

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00:22, 15 mag 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-21[modifica]

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 May. It will be on all wikis from 24 May (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

It could become easier to reference different pages of a book in an article. You can give feedback. The last day for feedback is 27 May.

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19:33, 21 mag 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-22[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

Ora puoi usare le preferenze globali sulla maggior parte delle wiki. Questo significa che puoi impostare le preferenze per tutte le wiki allo stesso tempo. Precedentemente era necessario cambiarle su ogni wiki. Le preferenze globali arriveranno sulle Wikipedia durante questa settimana. [227][228]
Ora è più semplice per gli utenti bloccati che accedono da mobile sapere perché sono bloccati. [229]
Wikidata supporta i dati lessicografici. Questi aiutano a descrivere le parole.
Ora è presente una casella di spunta in Special:ListUsers per vedere solo gli utenti aggiunti temporaneamente a un gruppo utenti. [230]
Alcuni caratteri Unicode invisibili rari sono stati recentemente banditi dai titoli delle pagine. Tra questi i soft hyphens (U+00AD) e i marcatori isolati sinistra-destra (U+2066) e destra-sinistra (U+2067). Le voci che contengono questi caratteri nel titolo verranno spostate con uno script. [231]
C'è un nuovo team della Fondazione Wikimedia per aiutare le comunità tecniche di Wikimedia. È chiamato Technical Engagement team. In precedenza la maggior parte dei membri del team svolgevano attività simili in altri team. [232]

Problemi

Alcune pagine in traduzione mostrano le vecchie traduzioni invece delle ultime. La causa di questo errore è stata corretta. Aggiorneremo le voci automaticamente in modo da mostrare l'ultima traduzione. [233]

Modifiche di questa settimana

Ci sarà una nuova pagina speciale chiamata PasswordPolicies. Questa pagina darà informazioni sulle regole per le password per ogni gruppo utente in quella wiki. [234]
Verrà introdotta una nuova visualizzazione per i paragrafi che sono stati spostati. Questo renderà più facile trovare i paragrafi spostati e visualizzare le modifiche che sono state fatte all'interno del paragrafo. [235]
La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 29 maggio. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 30 maggio e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 31 maggio (calendario).
Le wiki possono attivare Citoid per avere una formattazione automatica delle note nell'editor visuale e nell'editor di testo 2017. La configurazione è complessa. Lo strumento si disabiliterà autonomamente se la configurazione non è corretta. Da febbraio è presente un avviso nella console JavaScript. Controlla che la tua wiki sia configurata correttamente. Se ne hai bisogno, puoi chiedere assistenza. [236]

Incontri

Puoi unirti ad un incontro con il team di modifica. Durante l'incontro puoi comunicare agli sviluppatori quali sono i problemi più gravi. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 29 maggio alle 18:30 (UTC). Vedi come unirti.
Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici via IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere consiglio. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 30 maggio alle 15:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

Modifiche future

Le bozze di Content Translation che non sono aggiornate da più di un anno verranno rimosse. Questo permetterà ad altri utenti di tradurre quegli articoli. [237]
Un sondaggio sta raccogliendo informazioni sulle impressioni degli utenti sul caricamento delle pagine Wikimedia. Le informazioni verranno utilizzate per miglioramenti futuri. [238]
Alcun wiki si sposteranno alla Remex parsing library. Questo rimpiazzerà Tidy. Lo spostamento avverrà tra il 30 maggio e il 13 giugno. Le wiki con mene di 100 problemi linter nel namespace principale nelle categorie di alta priorità verranno spostate. Questo include Wikidata. Tidy verrà probabilmente rimosso da tutte le wiki durante la prima settimana di luglio. [239][240]

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14:40, 29 mag 2018 (CEST)

This Month in Education: May 2018[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 4 | Issue 5 | May 2018

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

In This Issue

Creating and reusing OERs for a Wikiversity science journalism course from Brazil

Inauguration Ceremony of Sri Jayewardenepura University Wiki Club

Wiki Education publishes evaluation of Fellows pilot

The first students of Russia with diplomas of Wikimedia and Petrozavodsk State University

Selet WikiSchool

A lofty vision for the Education Team

UNESCO Mobile Learning Week 2018, Digital Skills for Life and Work

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 23:44, 4 giu 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-23[modifica]

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

Recent changes

The MonoBook skin has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different. [241]
Planet Wikimedia collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the Rawdog feed aggregator to do this instead of Planet. [242][243]
Redirect links in Special:WhatLinksHere now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again. [244]

Problems

You will not be able to edit some wikis between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. You can see if your wiki is one of them.
MassMessage did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late. [245]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 June. It will be on all wikis from 7 June (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This is planned to happen in June or early July. [246][247]

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23:54, 4 giu 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-24[modifica]

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

Recent changes

In the Wikipedia app for Android or iOS users can create reading lists. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome. [248]
There is a new version of Pywikibot. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis. [249]

Problems

The MonoBook skin was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design. [250]

Changes later this week

The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. For most wikis this will happen on 18 June. For the rest it will happen on 25 June. [251][252]

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

Meetings

You can join the Readers Web team IRC office hour. There you can discuss tools to contribute on the mobile web for the existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on 18 June at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You will be able to move local wiki files to Commons and keep their original data intact. This is planned to come to the first wikis in June.

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23:55, 11 giu 2018 (CEST)

Learning Quarterly: June 2018[modifica]

L&E Newsletter / Volume 5 / Issue 16 / June 2018
Learning Quarterly

Frontpage:
#WikiWomen
#WikiEduAsia

Stay tuned
blogs, events
& more!

A program in the spotlight:
Karvachar’s WikiClub, when getting knowledge is cool

Leave your mark on Meta!
Inspire New Readers campaign, and AffCom elections

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:45, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-25[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

Evidenziazione della sintassi è stata una funzionalità beta sulle wiki Wikimedia con testo da sinistra a destra. Ora è una funzionalità standard. È basata su CodeMirror. [253]

Modifiche di questa settimana

Non ci saranno nuove versioni di MediaWiki questa settimana.

Incontri

Puoi unirti ad un incontro con il team di modifica. Durante l'incontro puoi comunicare agli sviluppatori quali sono i problemi più gravi. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 19 giugno alle 18:30 (UTC). Vedi come unirti.
Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici via IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere consiglio. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 20 giugno alle 15:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

Modifiche future

Alcuni web brwoser vecchi non saranno in grado di leggere le wiki Wikimedia. Questo poiché usano una via non sicura per connettersi con i server. Questo significa una minor sicurezza anche per gli altri utenti. Il problema interesserà circa lo 0.08% del traffico totale. Il problema interessa gli utenti che leggono Wikipedia su una PlayStation 3. [254][255]
Gli strumenti e l'interfaccia per i nuovi filtri per la revisione delle modifiche usciranno dal progetto beta. Siccome questa settimana non ci sono nuove versioni di MediaWIki la modifica avverrà il 25 giugno per la maggior parte delle wiki. Per le altre, la modifica avrà luogo a inizio luglio. [256][257]
Tutte le wiki che non hanno ancora effettuato il passaggio, passeranno a usare la libreria di parsing Remex il 5 luglio. Questa rimpiazzerà Tidy. Puoi aiutare a correggere gli errori rimanenti. [258]

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23:47, 18 giu 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-26[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

PAWS, il nostro sistema JupyterHub, ha ricevuto un aggiornamento e un logo. DIversi bug dovrebbero essere stati corretti.

Problemi

Quando il testo di un link era in "corsivo" o aveva altre formattazioni non era possibile modificarlo con l'editor visuale. Il problema è stato corretto. [259][260]

Modifiche di questa settimana

Agli utenti che utilizzano Traduzione contenuti per tradurre tra le lingue arabo, inglese, francese, giapponese e russo verrà chiesto di far parte di un progetto di ricerca. Questo servirà a creare strumenti migliori per tradurre gli articoli. [261]
La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 26 giugno. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 27 giugno e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 28 giugno (calendario).

Incontri

Puoi unirti ad un incontro con il team di modifica. Durante l'incontro puoi comunicare agli sviluppatori quali sono i problemi più gravi. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 26 giugno alle 18:30 (UTC). Vedi come unirti.
Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici via IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere consiglio. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 27 giugno alle 15:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

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01:10, 26 giu 2018 (CEST)

This Month in Education: June 2018[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 4 | Issue 6 | June 2018

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

In This Issue

Featured Topic	Academia and Wikipedia: the first Irish conference on Wikipedia in education
From the Community	Ashesi Wiki Club: Charting the cause for Wikipedia Education Program in West Africa Wikimedia Serbia has received a new accreditation for the Accredited seminars for teachers Côte d'Ivoire: Wikipedia Classes 2018 are officially up and running Basque secondary students have now better coverage for main topics thanks to the Education Program What lecturers think about their first experience in the Basque Education Program
From the Education Team	Education Extension scheduled deprecation
In the News	Wikipedia calls for participation to boost content from the continent Wikipedia in the History Classroom Wikipedia as a Pedagogical Tool Complicating Writing in the Technical Writing Classroom When the World Helps Teach Your Class: Using Wikipedia to Teach Controversial Issues

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Tech News: 2018-27[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

Il database per le etichette verrà cambiato. Questo avverrà il 2 luglio sulla Wikipedia in francese e il 9 luglio per tutte le altre wiki. Per favore segnala se le modifiche recenti diventano più lente a caricarsi o non riesci a salvare le modifiche. Questo potrebbe interessare maggiormente gli utenti che usano il database su ToolForge. [262]

Problemi

L'aggiornamento della scorsa settimana di MediaWiki è stato annullato a causa di un problema al database. [263]

Modifiche di questa settimana

Non c'è una nuova versione di MediaWiki questa settimana.

Incontri

Puoi unirti ad un incontro con il team di modifica. Durante l'incontro puoi comunicare agli sviluppatori quali sono i problemi più gravi. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 3 luglio alle 18:30 (UTC). Vedi come unirti.
Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici via IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere consiglio. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 4 luglio alle 15:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

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02:46, 3 lug 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-28[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

I file video WebM hanno una dimensione minore ma mantengono una buona qualità. La creazione di un file WebM richiede più tempo. [264]
Gli strumenti e l'interfaccia dei nuovi filtri per la revisione delle modifiche per gli Osservati speciali lasceranno la fase beta. Questa passaggio era stato precedentemente posticipato. Per la maggior parte delle wiki il passaggio avverrà il 9 luglio; per le altre avverrà il 16 luglio. [265]
Tutte le wiki ora usano la libreria di parsing Remex al posto di Tidy. Questo potrebbe causare degli errori. Puoi aiutare a correggere gli errori. [266]

Problemi

Quando effettuavi un rollback venivano visualizzare entrambe le etichette Rollback e Annulla. Il problema è stato risolto. [267]
I rollback effettuati da utenti autoverificati non venivano segnati automaticamente come verificati. Il problema è stato risolto. [268]

Modifiche di questa settimana

Quando modifichi un link nell'editor visuale ci saranno due pulsanti separati per modificare la destinazione e il testo del link. [269][270]
Sulla versione mobile puoi trovare un link per i contributi di un utente dalla sua pagina utente. Questo funzionerà anche se quell'utente non ha creato la propria pagina utente. [271]
Quando modifichi una discussione nella versione mobile la firma viene aggiunta in automatico. Ora non verrà più inserita se l'utente firma manualmente il messaggio. Questo viene fatto per evitare firme doppie. [272]
La barra degli strumenti delle discussioni strutturate avrà più opzioni per lo stile. [273]
When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening. [274]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 luglio. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 luglio. It will be on all wikis from 12 luglio (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 luglio at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 luglio at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Today all administrators can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can read more. [275]
Page previews will be on by default for new accounts. [276]

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01:10, 10 lug 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-29[modifica]

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

Recent changes

You can now use global preferences on Wikimedia wikis. You can set them on the global preferences page. [277]
You can now see a new log of pages being created at Special:Log/create. It includes pages which are later deleted. It is now available on all Wikimedia wikis except Commons and Wikidata. [278]
You can see how many pageviews a wiki had from specific countries. The Wikistats2 maps have now been updated. [279]

Changes later this week

Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change. [280]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on July 17 at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on July 18 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Some articles have messages to readers about problems with the article. For example that it does not cite sources or might not be neutral. Readers do not see these messages on the mobile version. The developers now want to show them. You can read more and leave feedback.
You can use <inputbox> to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead of prefix:Page name you will see a text that explains which pages are being searched. You can read more and leave feedback.

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18:01, 16 lug 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-30[modifica]

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

Recent changes

When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [281]
Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [282]
Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [283]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 luglio at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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11:44, 24 lug 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-31[modifica]

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

Recent changes

The design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [284]

Problems

Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [285][286]
Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [287][288]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 luglio. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 agosto. It will be on all wikis from 2 agosto (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 luglio 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 agosto at 15:00 (UTC) as well as at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

After a community discussion, a new group for users will be created. "Interface administrators" will be the only users allowed to edit interface pages like MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Common.js. This is done to avoid technical issues and improve security. That change will be effective by the end of August 2018.

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16:05, 30 lug 2018 (CEST)

This Month in Education: July 2018[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 4 | Issue 7 | July 2018

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

In This Issue

Wikipedia+Education Conference 2019: Community Engagement Survey

Young wikipedian: At WikiClub you get knowledge on your own will

Wikipedia in schools project at the "New Technologies in Education" Conference

Basque Education Program: 2017-2018 school year report

In the News

UNESCO ICT in Education Prize call for nominations opens

An educator's overview of Wikimedia (in short videos format)

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Tech News: 2018-32[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

La pagina Special:NewPages ha il nuovo look OOUI [289]

Problemi

A causa di alcuni bug alcune wiki di Wikimedia hanno ricevuto in ritardo l'aggiornamento alla versione di MediaWiki rilasciata due settimane fa. Dal 30 luglio la nuova versione è presente su tutte le wii. [290][291]

Modifiche di questa settimana

La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 7 agosto. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 8 agosto e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 9 agosto (calendario).

Incontri

Puoi unirti al prossimo incontro con l'Editing team dove potrai riferire agli sviluppatori quali sono i bugs che pensi siano più importanti. L'incontro si terrà 7 agosto alle 18:30 (UTC). Scopri come partecipare.
Puoi unirti all'incontro per i suggerimenti tecnici su IRC dove gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere alcuni consigli. L'incontro si terrà 8 agosto alle 15:00 (UTC). Scopri come partecipare.

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21:39, 6 ago 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-33[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

I CSS dei template ora possono essere archiviati in una pagina separata in tutte le wiki. Questo è chiamato TemplateStyles. Questo permette di modificare facilmente l'apparenza dei template. [292]

Modifiche di questa settimana

Non ci sarà una nuova versione di MediaWiki questa settimana.

Incontri

Puoi unirti al prossimo incontro con il team VisualEditor. Durante l'incontro puoi comunicare agli sviluppatori quali sono i problemi più gravi. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 14 agosto alle 18:30 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.
Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici via IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere consiglio. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 15 agosto alle 15:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

Modifiche future

Gli sviluppatori stanno pianificando nuovi modi per bloccare gli utenti. Questo per bloccare le modifiche di un utente su una pagina specifica o in un namespace specifico. Sono disponibili maggiori informazioni. Puoi lasciare un commento sulla pagina di discussione. [293]

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19:53, 13 ago 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-34[modifica]

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
Legacy JavaScript global variables have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia or mediawiki.org. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide to fix old scripts. [294]

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18:46, 20 ago 2018 (CEST)

Latest message for Collaboration team newsletter; Growth team's newsletter invite[modifica]

Hello

Sorry to use English if that's not your favorite language.

You are receiving this message because you were reading the Collaboration team newsletter.

The Collaboration team doesn't longer exists. That team was working on building features that encourage collaboration. This is the latest message for that newsletter.

The Growth Team, formed in July 2018, supports some former Collaboration projects. The Growth Team's main objective is to ease new editors' first steps on wikis, through software changes. You can discover all objectives and missions of the Growth team on its page.

If you wish to be informed about Growth team's updates about easing new users first steps, you can subscribe to the new list to get updates. The first message from Growth –with a call for feedback on a new project– will be posted in a few days!

If you have questions or you want to share experiences made on your wiki about new users' first steps, please post them on the team talk page, in any language.

On behalf of the Growth team, Trizek (WMF) (talk) 12:29, 22 ago 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-35[modifica]

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

Recent changes

You can now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [295]
Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [296]

Problems

Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [297]

Changes later this week

The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [298]
AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [299]
Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title. [300]
Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [301]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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18:16, 27 ago 2018 (CEST)

This Month in Education: August 2018[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 4 | Issue 8 | August 2018

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

In This Issue

The reconnection of Wikimedia Projects in Brazil

Christ (DU) students enrolls for 3rd Wikipedia certificate course

Educational wiki-master-classes at International "Selet" forum

54 students help enrich the digital Arabic content

Mapping education in the Wikimedia Movement

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Tech News: 2018-36[modifica]

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

Recent changes

There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [302][303]
There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [304][305]
You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [306]
wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [307]
When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [308]

Problems

UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [309]
You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [310]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation.
The RelatedSites extension will be removed from Wikivoyage.
Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server will be removed. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used. [311]

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18:48, 3 set 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-37[modifica]

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

Recent changes

When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [312]

Problems

Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [313]
Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [314]
<maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [315]
{{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [316]
When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [317]

Changes later this week

Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 Septmber at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The developers work on making the wikis work better on mobile phones. There is a list of common problems when making content easier to read in the mobile view. You can add things to the page and ask others to help.

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00:35, 11 set 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-38[modifica]

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

Recent changes

The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [318]
MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [319]

Problems

You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [320]

Changes later this week

Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [321]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The developers are testing new mobile web navigation. You can use it and give feedback.

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23:58, 17 set 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-39[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche di questa settimana

L'interfaccia delle preferenze verrà modificata per usare il look standard. Se vedi qualche problema, riportalo su Phabricator. [322]
La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 25 settembre. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 26 settembre e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 27 settembre (calendario).

Incontri

Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici via IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere consiglio. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 26 settembre alle 15:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

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17:23, 24 set 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-40[modifica]

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

Recent changes

Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [323][324]

Problems

New and updated translations from translatewiki.net will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [325][326]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 October (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.

Future changes

Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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19:35, 1 ott 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-41[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

L'estensione Education Program è stata rimossa da tutti i progetti Wikimedia. Puoi usare la Programs and Events Dashboard o usare Fountain. [327]

Problemi

C'era un problema quando si effettuava il copia-incolla di una tabella usando l'editor visuale. Veniva aggiunto un href quando non necessario. Il problema è stato risolto. [328]

Modifiche di questa settimana

A causa si un test sui data center sarà possibile leggere ma non modificare le wiki per circa un'ora il 10 ottobre. Il test inizierà alle 14:00 (UTC). Potresti perdere le tue modifiche se provi a salvare durante questo test. Il periodo di test dovrebbe essere inferiore all'ora. Sono disponibili maggiori informazioni.
A causa del test sui data centre non ci sarà una nuova versione di MediaWiki questa settimana. Le modifiche previste per questa settimana verranno effettuate la prossima settimana.

Incontri

Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici via IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere consiglio. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 10 ottobre alle 15:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

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01:38, 9 ott 2018 (CEST)

This Month in Education: September 2018[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 4 | Issue 9 | September 2018

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

In This Issue

Edu Wiki Camp 2018: New Knowledge for New Generation

Education loves Monuments: A Brazilian Tale

“I have always liked literature, now I like it even more thanks to Wikipedia”. Literature is in the air of WikiClubs․

History of Wikipedia Education programme at Christ (Deemed to be University)

Preparation for the autumn educational session of Selet WikiSchool is started

Wiki Camp Doyran 2018

Wikicamp Czech Republic 2018

Wikipedia offline in rural areas of Colombia

Presentation on mapping education in the Wikimedia Movement

About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 03:14, 9 ott 2018 (CEST)

Wiki4MediaFreedom contest - II edition[modifica]

Ciao Samuele! Dato che hai partecipato alla I edizione ho pensato potesse interessarti sapere che è partita oggi la II edizione del Wiki4MediaFreedom contest. C'è tempo fino al 30 novembre! --Niccolò Caranti (OBC) (Discussione) 16:48, 10 ott 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-42[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Problemi

Alcune pagine, modifiche ed utenti sono scomparsi per un breve periodo dopo lo switch dei server. I contenuti e gli utenti scomparsi sono stati ripristinati in un giorno. Alcune preferenze e altre cose potrebbero richiedere qualche giorno in più per essere risolte. [329]
I wiki sono nuovamente aggiornati con le traduzioni nuove e aggiornate di translatewiki.net. Gli sviluppatori stanno lavorando per correggere il problema in modo da avere nuovamente gli aggiornamenti alle traduzioni più spesso. [330]

Modifiche di questa settimana

Adesso, quando crei un filtro anti abusi che impedisce le modifiche, puoi scrivere un messaggio di errore specifico per tale filtro. In precedenza, tutti i filtri che impedivano le modifiche mostravano lo stesso messaggio di errore. [331]
La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 16 ottobre. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 17 ottobre e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 18 ottobre (calendario).

Incontri

Non ci saranno più incontri con il Team di editing. Questo perché non c'erano abbastanza Wikimediani interessati. Per dire agli sviluppatori quali bug ritieni siano i più importanti, puoi usare Phabricator come al solito. [332]
Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici via IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere consiglio. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 17 ottobre alle 15:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

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00:41, 16 ott 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-43[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche di questa settimana

La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 23 ottobre. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 24 ottobre e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 25 ottobre (calendario).

Incontri

Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici via IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere consiglio. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 24 ottobre alle 15:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

Modifiche future

The Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.

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01:11, 23 ott 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-44[modifica]

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 post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [333]

Problems

Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [334]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [335][336]

Meetings

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

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21:09, 29 ott 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-45[modifica]

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 TemplateWizard to edit templates. This works only with the 2010 wikitext editor and not in the visual editor or the 2017 wikitext editor. If you click on you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences. [337]

Changes later this week

You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [338]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).

Meetings

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

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18:29, 5 nov 2018 (CET)

This Month in Education: November 2018[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 4 | Issue 10 | October 2018

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

In This Issue

A new academic course featuring Wikidata at Tel Aviv University

How we included Wikipedia edition into a whole University department curriculum

Meet the first board of the UG Wikipedia & Education

The education program has kicked off as the new academic year starts

The education program has kicked off as the new academic year starts in Albania

The first Wikimedia+Education conference will happen on April 5-7 at Donostia-Saint Sebastian

Using ORES to assign articles in Basque education program

What to write for Wikipedia about? Monuments!

Wikifridays: editing Wikipedia in the university

Writing articles on Wikipedia is our way of leaving legacy to the next generations

About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 06:55, 12 nov 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-46[modifica]

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 old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [339]

Problems

You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [340][341][342]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

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

Future changes

You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [343]

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20:22, 12 nov 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-47[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

Puoi votare le proposte nel sondaggio dei desideri della comunità. Il sondaggio decide su cosa dovrà lavorare il Community Tech team. Puoi votare fino al 30 novembre.
There is an A/B test for sameAs data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [344]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

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

Future changes

The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [345]
The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [346]

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00:28, 20 nov 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-48[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

Nelle wiki con pagine traducibili potresti creare confusione quando sposti una pagina che ha una sottopagina traducibile. Una sottopagina è quando usi / per creare una nuova pagina: /wiki/Pagina/Sottopagina. Le sottopagine verranno spostate ma non le traduzioni. Questo per rendere più sicuro lo spostamento delle pagine. [347]

Modifiche di questa settimana

L'interfaccia di ricerca avanzata sarà disponibile di default in tutte le wiki di Wikimedia. Rende più facile l'utilizzo di alcune delle funzioni di ricerca speciali che la maggior parte degli utenti non ne conosce l'esistenza. Questa è già attiva nelle Wikipedia in lingua tedesca, farsi, araba e ungherese. [348]
Speciale:CategorieNonUsate mostra le categorie vuote, senza file o altre categorie al loro interno. Potrai presto scegliere di non mostrare le categorie di reindirizzamento o alcune categorie di manutenzione. Puoi fare questo con la magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__ . [349]
La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 27 novembre. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 28 novembre e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 29 novembre (calendario).

Incontri

Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici via IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere consiglio. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 28 novembre alle 15:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

Modifiche future

The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [350]

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23:23, 26 nov 2018 (CET)

Learning Quarterly: November 2018[modifica]

L&E Newsletter / Volume 5 / Issue 17 / November 2018
Learning Quarterly

Frontpage:
#CEInsights18
#GenderEquity

Stay tuned
blogs, events
& more!

A program in the spotlight:
Editatona: Writing women back in history

Leave your mark on Meta!
AffCom corner and Wikimania Poster session

MediaWiki message delivery (Discussione) 18:08, 28 nov 2018 (CET)

This Month in Education: November 2018[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 4 • Issue 10 • October 2018

Contents • Single page view • Subscribe

In This Issue

About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 19:18, 30 nov 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-49[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

Gli amministratori no sono in grado si sbloccare sé stessi, se a bloccarli è stato un altro utente e non loro stessi. Questo perché potrebbe causare problemi se qualcuno si impadronisce di un account di un admin e gli altri amministratori non possono bloccarlo. Se questo è un problema per la tua comunità puoi farlo presente su Phabricator. Puoi anche fare domande su Meta. C'è una discussione su Phabricator riguardo a come risolvere questo problema se due amministratori si scontrano su una piccola wiki. [351]
Le immagini SVG piccole adesso sono più grandi quando le guardi in MediaViewer. [352]
Puoi andare direttamente ad una sezione cliccando sul nome della sezione stessa nel campo oggetto. Per fare questo prima dovevi cliccare sulla freccia. [353]
Quando hai seguito una nota a fondo pagina che è stata usata più volte in un articolo potrebbe essere difficile ritrovare il punto nel testo da cui sei partito. Adesso ci sono segnalibri ed evidenziazioni per aiutarti a tornare indietro. [354][355]

Modifiche di questa settimana

Non ci sono nuove versione di MediaWiki questa settimana.

Incontri

Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici via IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere consiglio. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 5 dicembre alle 16:00 (UTC) e alle 23:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

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17:13, 3 dic 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-50[modifica]

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 December. It will be on all wikis from 13 December (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 12 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [356][357]
When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [358]

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18:33, 10 dic 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-51[modifica]

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

Tech News

Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.

Recent changes

Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [359][360]
Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [361]
The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.

Problems

<ref> tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example <ref name="adams" group="books">. If a <ref> tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [362]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

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

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [363]

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21:35, 17 dic 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2019-02[modifica]

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 writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.

Recent changes

RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [364]
MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [365]
codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [366]
On several wikis, an account named "Filtro anti abusi" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.

Problems

In AbuseFilter, the "Rallenta" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [367]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.

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19:30, 7 gen 2019 (CET)

Tech News: 2019-03[modifica]

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 Google Translate in the content translation tool. [368][369]
You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. [370][371]
Templates with <templatestyles> could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. <templatestyles> has a new wrapper parameter now. You can use it for selectors like .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [372]

Problems

When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed. [373]

Changes later this week

You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new FileExporter. It will be a beta feature on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it and check your wiki's configuration file.
Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage. [374]
The AbuseFilter variable minor_edit has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15 18:55, 14 gen 2019 (CET)

Tech News: 2019-04[modifica]

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

Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was because of a problem with MassMessage. If you did not get last week's issue, you can read it on Meta. [375]

Recent changes

The content translation tool can now use version 2 as the default version for users who turned on the beta feature. For example it adds the tracking category Pagine con traduzioni non revisionate to translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category in Special:TrackingCategories on Wikipedias.
https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org can now convert collects of up to 800 pages to PDF, EPUB or ODT. Previously this was 200 pages.

Problems

When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17 January and is now fixed. [376]
MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone. [377][378]
Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This has now been fixed. [379]

Changes later this week

You will be able to use template styles in the Module namespace. [380]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all wikis from 24 January (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 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:36, 21 gen 2019 (CET)

Tech News: 2019-05[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

I server di Wikimedia usano HHVM per far girare il codice PHP. Questi useranno PHP7 e smetteranno di usare HHVM. Puoi testare PHP7 con una funzionalità sperimentale. In questo modo puoi aiutare a trovare e segnalare i problemi.

Problemi

Quando qualcuno sposta una pagina a un nome già esistente, quella pagina con il nome in cui è stato spostato l'articolo viene eliminata. Per un paio di mesi questo non ha funzionato sempre. Alcuni utenti hanno invece visualizzato un messaggio di errore. Questo è stato risolto. [381]

Modifiche di questa settimana

Non ci sono nuove versione di MediaWiki questa settimana.

Incontri

Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici via IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere consiglio. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 30 gennaio alle 16:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

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19:15, 28 gen 2019 (CET)

This Month in Education: January 2019[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 8 • Issue 1 • January 2019

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Tech News: 2019-06[modifica]

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

Modifiche di questa settimana

Era facile deselezionare per sbaglio un box in Speciale:Preferenze. Questo adesso è stato corretto. [382]
La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 5 febbraio. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 6 febbraio e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 7 febbraio (calendario).

Incontri

Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici via IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere consiglio. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 6 febbraio alle 16:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

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18:12, 4 feb 2019 (CET)

Tech News: 2019-07[modifica]

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 the ambox CSS class to show page issues to mobile readers. When you use ambox there are classes you can use.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 February. It will be on all wikis from 14 February (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 13 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:45, 11 feb 2019 (CET)

Tech News: 2019-08[modifica]

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 thank someone on the mobile web you will now have two seconds to cancel the thank. This is in case you clicked on the thank button by accident. [383]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 February. It will be on all wikis from 21 February (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 20 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

There is a proposal to add a red link to mobile search results if there is no page with that name. This is how it works on desktop. You can leave feedback. [384]

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00:14, 19 feb 2019 (CET)

Talk to us about talking[modifica]

La Wikimedia Foundation sta pianificando una consultazione globale riguardo i modi in cui comunichiamo, con l'obiettivo di coinvolgere Wikimediani e persone simili a noi e migliorare i nostri attuali metodi di comunicazione.

Vogliamo che tutti gli utenti siano in grado di parlarsi sulla wiki, a prescindere dalla loro esperienza, dalle loro capacità e dai loro dispositivi.

Stiamo cercando input da quanti più membri possibili della comunità wikimediana, perché la consultazione riguarda tutti i progetti, in tutte le lingue, con le loro differenti prospettive.

Siamo ancora in fase di pianificazione e abbiamo bisogno del tuo aiuto.

Abbiamo bisogno di volontari che si mettano in contatto con le loro comunità o gruppi di utenti.

Puoi aiutare a creare o gestire una discussione sulla tua wiki, con questi semplici passi:

Prima di tutto, segnati fra i partecipanti (e indica la tua comunità o gruppo di utenti di provenienza).
Poi crea una pagina (oppure una discussione al Bar, un thread di mail o qualsiasi altro metodo che ritieni utile) per raccogliere opinioni e dati da altre persone della tua comunità o gruppo di utenti. Questa non è una discussione volta a prendere una decisione, stiamo soltanto raccogliendo feedback e opinioni.
Chiedi alle persone cosa pensano degli attuali processi di comunicazione. Vogliamo sapere dagli utenti come fanno a comunicare fra loro su Wikipedia e al di fuori di Wikipedia. Inoltre, prendi in considerazione queste cinque domande:
1. Quando vuoi discutere di qualcosa con la tua comunità, quali sono i mezzi che funzionano e quali sono i problemi che incontri?
2. Quando parli con dei nuovi utenti, cosa funziona nelle attuali pagine di discussione e cosa invece crea loro problemi?
3. Quali sono i problemi che gli altri utenti della tua comunità incontrano quando usano le pagine di discussione?
4. Quali sono le funzioni che vorreste avere in una pagina di discussione e che non puoi avere per via degli attuali limiti tecnici?
5. Quali sono gli aspetti più importanti di una "discussione wiki"?
Infine, per favore andate nelle pagine di discussione della consultazione 2019 su Mediawiki.org e trascrivete ciò che avete imparato dal vostro gruppo. Se possibile, includete anche i link alle discussioni (se pubbliche).

Puoi anche aiutare a costruire la lista dei tanti differenti modi in cui gli utenti parlano fra loro.

Non tutti i gruppi attivi su una wiki o un gruppo di wiki utilizzano lo stesso modo per discutere: possono usare la wiki, ma anche i social network o tool esterni. Raccontaci come comunica il tuo gruppo.

Se vuoi, puoi leggere gli approfondimenti su questo processo su Mediawiki.org. Se hai domande oppure idee da proporre, puoi lasciare un feedback sull'intero processo nella lingua che preferisci.

Grazie! Non vediamo l'ora di... comunicare con te!

Trizek (WMF) 16:09, 21 feb 2019 (CET)

Tech News: 2019-09[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

È uscita una nuova versione dell'app Wikimedia per iOS. Questa ha per esempio la colorazione della sintassi e la nuova toolbar per rendere più facile scrivere il wikitesto. Ha anche la modalità notturna, una funzione "trova nella pagina" e altre cose. Puoi lasciare un feedback e dei suggerimenti. [385]

Modifiche di questa settimana

Quando controlli i tuoi osservati speciali o la pagina delle ultime modifiche puoi usare i nuovi filtri per la revisione delle modifiche. Qui puoi scegliere i tag per filtrare le diverse modifiche. I tag vuoti non verranno più visualizzati. [386]
La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 26 febbraio. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 27 febbraio e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 28 febbraio (calendario).

Incontri

Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici via IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere consiglio. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 27 febbraio alle 16:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

Modifiche future

L'app di Wikipedia per Android inviterà gli utenti ad aggiungere una descrizione Wikidata ad un oggetto Wikidata che hanno articoli di Wikipedia ma non descrizioni di Wikidata. Inviterà solo gli utenti che hanno aggiunto un numero di descrizioni di Wikidata nell'app senza essere ripristinati. Questo per evitare spam e cattive modifiche. Puoi leggere maggiori informazioni e lasciare un feedback

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22:17, 25 feb 2019 (CET)

This Month in Education: February 2019[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 8 • Issue 2 • February 2019

In This Issue

About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 18:52, 27 feb 2019 (CET)

Tech News: 2019-10[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche di questa settimana

La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 5 marzo. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 6 marzo e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 7 marzo (calendario).

Incontri

Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici via IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere consiglio. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 6 marzo alle 16:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

Modifiche future

Puoi dare commenti sul futuro delle pagine di discussione.
Il sito mobile userà i font standard sul tuo computer o telefono invece di un fonte generico. Questo renderà più facile la lettura dei testi. [387][388]

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17:38, 4 mar 2019 (CET)

Tech News: 2019-11[modifica]

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

Pages can use geocoordinates from Wikidata with the mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements Lua function or the #statements parser function. If they do, they will now be shown using a Kartographer <maplink> if the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on Phabricator.
There is now an EventStream to see when links are added or removed on Wikimedia wikis. You can read the discussions and plans.

Problems

Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (UTC). This will start at 15:00 UTC. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed. [389]
Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed. [390][391]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (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 13 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:29, 11 mar 2019 (CET)

Tech News: 2019-12[modifica]

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

When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March. [392][393]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (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 20 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers. [394]
Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.

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20:44, 18 mar 2019 (CET)

Tech News: 2019-13[modifica]

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 new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version. [395]

Problems

There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed. [396]
The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon. [397]
Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them. [398]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (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 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:05, 25 mar 2019 (CET)

This Month in Education: March 2019[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 8 • Issue 3 • March 2019

In This Issue

About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 07:32, 28 mar 2019 (CET)

Tech News: 2019-14[modifica]

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche di questa settimana

Notifications ti dice cosa accade sul wiki. Puoi attivare le notifiche riguardo i nuovi collegamenti alle pagine che hai creato. Per motivi di prestazioni non è più possibile ricevere e-mail su questo. [399]
La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 2 aprile. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 3 aprile e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 4 aprile (calendario).

Incontri

Puoi unirti all'incontro per i consigli tecnici via IRC. Durante l'incontro, gli sviluppatori volontari possono chiedere consiglio. L'incontro si terrà il giorno 3 aprile alle 15:00 (UTC). Scopri come unirti.

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18:29, 1 apr 2019 (CEST)

Bring your idea for Wikimedia in Education to life! Launch of the Wikimedia Education Greenhouse[modifica]

style="Template:Pre style;width:100%"| Apply for Education Greenhouse

Are you passionate about open education? Do you have an idea to apply Wikimedia projects to an education initiative but don’t know where to start? Join the the Wikimedia & Education Greenhouse! It is an immersive co-learning experience that lasts 9 months and will equip you with the skills, knowledge and support you need to bring your ideas to life. You can apply as a team or as an individual, by May 12th. Find out more Education Greenhouse. For more information reachout to mguadalupewikimedia.org

—MediaWiki message delivery (Discussione) 13:16, 5 apr 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-15[modifica]

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

More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can read more.
Admins on French and Polish Wikipedia can block someone from editing a page or a namespace. If your wiki wants to get these blocks before they are available to all wikis, you can tell the developers. [400][401]

Problems

You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on 11 April at 05:00 (UTC). This is because of a hardware problem. You can see a list of the affected wikis. [402]
A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [403]
Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [404]

Changes later this week

When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site. [405]
The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more. [406]
The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return "" (empty string). When you read a page it will return "-" (dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces. [407]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (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 10 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. [408][409]
The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.

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20:24, 8 apr 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-16[modifica]

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

Recent changes

All wikis now have the TemplateWizard for the wikitext editor.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (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 17 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Wikidata will get a new constraint status called suggestion. This will change how the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API works. [410][411]
You can test the depicts property for structured data on Commons.

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01:00, 16 apr 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-17[modifica]

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 advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook. [412][413][414]
The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [415]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Wikipedia articles will have the sameAs meta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test. [416][417]

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21:08, 23 apr 2019 (CEST)

This Month in Education: April 2019[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 8 • Issue 4 • April 2019

In This Issue

About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 03:27, 24 apr 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-18[modifica]

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 Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [418][419]

Problems

Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [420]

Changes later this week

You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [421]
When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in local storage instead of session storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [422]
You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [423]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikidata wb_terms table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more. You can ask for help if you need it.
Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [424]

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00:28, 30 apr 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-19[modifica]

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

Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem. [425]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:28, 6 mag 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-20[modifica]

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar).

Meetings

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

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02:49, 14 mag 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-21[modifica]

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 report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019 has been published. Communities are invited to start phase 2 of the consultation on their wikis.

Problems

File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [426][427]
Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments. [428][429]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 maggio. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 maggio. It will be on all wikis from 23 maggio (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 maggio at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The content translation tool on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team. [430]
The Wikidata wbeditentity API endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June. [431]

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15:04, 20 mag 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-22[modifica]

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

Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [432][433]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:34, 27 mag 2019 (CEST)

This Month in Education: May 2019[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 8 • Issue 5 • May 2019

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Tech News: 2019-23[modifica]

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 write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version. [434]
There is now a field called depicts on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development. [435]
Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema. [436][437]

Problems

You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [438]

Changes later this week

Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited. [439]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:24, 3 giu 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-24[modifica]

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 create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton. Before this we used Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them. [440][441]
The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [442]
Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [443]

Problems

Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it. [444]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:07, 10 giu 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-25[modifica]

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

You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [445]

Changes later this week

MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with [[File:Filename.midi]]. Later override_midi and override_audio will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score. [446]
A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [447]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old wgEnableAPI and wgEnableWriteAPI values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values. [448]

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22:38, 17 giu 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-26[modifica]

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 new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday. [449]
Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced. [450]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar).

Meetings

You can watch or join the next Wikimedia Language showcase. It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects. The showcase will be on 26 June at 13:00 (UTC). A recording will be kept for later viewing
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:30, 24 giu 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-27[modifica]

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 development of Wikidata Bridge has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia. [451]

Problems

Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress. [452]
Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed. [453]

Changes later this week

You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database. [454]
There is no deployment of a new version of MediaWiki on the wikis this week (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23:23, 1 lug 2019 (CEST)

This Month in Education: June 2019[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 8 • Issue 6 • June 2019

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Tech News: 2019-28[modifica]

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

For event organizers, if you request a temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation, this will now also raise the edit rate limit for those new accounts at the event, which will prevent another bottleneck. [455]
Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new partial blocks feature. [456]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 July. It will be on all wikis from 11 July (calendar).
The design of MediaWiki's software windows will change for desktop users. Layout will be simpler, buttons will be bolder and clearer, and close buttons will be just icons. This is like the mobile design. This will affect ContentTranslation, VisualEditor, TemplateWizard, and other tools. [457]

Meetings

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

Future changes

Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [458]
There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July. [459]

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22:13, 8 lug 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-29[modifica]

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 mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the mobile web and give feedback. [460]

Changes later this week

The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called Filtro anti abusi and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical problems. It will not do any other changes. You can read more.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all wikis from 18 July (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 17 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback. [461]

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17:30, 15 lug 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-30[modifica]

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

Communities interested by easing newcomers' first steps can now benefit from the Growth team experiments on their wikis. Check the conditions and the request process.
The Coolest Tool Award 2019 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools by July 29. The awarded tools will be presented at Wikimania. [462]

Problems

The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2. [463]

Changes later this week

Phabricator database will be moved to a different server. Writes will be blocked on Thursday 25 July, between 05:30 and 06:00 AM UTC. Reads will remain unaffected. [464]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 July. It will be on all wikis from 25 July (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 24 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Some items in the visual editor will change later this week. This will make it easier to edit links, citations, and templates on both desktop and mobile. [465][466]
With advanced search turned on you will be able to choose the sorting order of the search results when you do a search. [467][468]
Users who edit from IP addresses whitelisted on a request for temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation will bypass CAPTCHAs. This will happen in August. If you think this should not happen for some reason, please let us know.
The variable user_wpzero will be removed from AbuseFilter. A list of filters needing a fix is provided.

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15:07, 22 lug 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-31[modifica]

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

Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [469]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 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 31 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23:42, 29 lug 2019 (CEST)

This Month in Education: July 2019[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 8 • Issue 7 • July 2019

In This Issue

About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 11:53, 30 lug 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-32[modifica]

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 August. It will be on all wikis from 8 August (calendar).

Problems

A change in RelatedArticles extension accidentally enabled it for everyone, not just for mobile users. This has been fixed. [470][471]

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Today everyone can see IP addresses if someone edits without an account. In the future this could be more hidden. This is to protect unregistered editors so fewer can see their IP address. This would only happen after we make sure the tools for vandal fighting can still be effective. You can read more and comment.

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15:25, 5 ago 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-33[modifica]

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

Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools. Feedback on the discussion page is appreciated. [472]
Due to the absence of volunteer maintenance of Cologne Blue skin, the link to activate it will be hidden. The skin will still work, but editors using it are encouraged to switch to another skin. [473]

Changes later this week

Due to Wikimania, there is no deployment this week. [474]

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 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The "Wikidata item" link will be moved from "Tools" to "In other projects" section on all Wikimedia projects, starting on August 21. Full announcement, Phabricator task.

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20:19, 12 ago 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-34[modifica]

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

There will be no Tech News issue next week. The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 2 September 2019.

Problems

Some abuse filters stopped working because of a code change. Only variables for the current action will work. Variables defined inside a branch may not work outside of that branch. You can read more to see how to fix the filters.
Only six accounts can be created from one IP address per day. Between 12 August and August 15 this was two accounts per day. This was because of a security issue. It is now six accounts per day again. [475]

Changes later this week

Only a limited number of accounts can be created from one IP address. An IP address can be whitelisted so that it can create as many accounts as needed. This is useful at events where many new persons learn to edit. IP addresses that are whitelisted for this reason will also not show CAPTCHAs when you create accounts. This will happen on Wednesday. [476]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 August. It will be on all wikis from 22 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 21 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

There is an RFC about creating a new global user group with the right to edit abuse filters. This will be used to fix broken filters and make sure all filters will still work when software changes happen. You can read more and comment.
Special:Contributions/newbies will no longer be working. This is because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the recent changes feed instead. [477]

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17:21, 19 ago 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-36[modifica]

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 the new termbox interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages. [478]
The new version of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week.
The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues. [479]
The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute. [480]
The advanced version of the edit review pages (Recent Changes, Watchlist, and Related Changes) now include two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces. However the "All discussions" filter does not include pseudo talk pages, like discussions that are in the Project: or Wikipedia: namespaces. But it will include changes happening on Project talk: or the Wikipedia talk:. [481]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 settembre. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 settembre. It will be on all wikis from 5 settembre (calendar).
When you log in, the software checks your password to see if it follows the Password policy. From this week, it will also complain if your password is one of the most common passwords in the world. If your password is not strong enough, please consider to change your password for a stronger password. [482]

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 settembre at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You will be able to read but not to edit Wikidata for up to 30 minutes on September 10 at 05:00 (UTC). [483]
You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 17 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [484]
You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 24 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [485]
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to 30 minutes on September 26 at 05:00 (UTC). [486]

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11:08, 4 set 2019 (CEST)

This Month in Education: August 2019[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 8 • Issue 8 • August 2019

In This Issue

About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 03:00, 5 set 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-40[modifica]

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 Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The problem where some pages got it three times should now be fixed. [487]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 ottobre. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 ottobre. It will be on all wikis from 3 ottobre (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 2 ottobre at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working on a watchlist expiry feature. This means you can put things on your watchlist for a period of time instead of forever. They are looking for feedback on the questions they have.
Special:Contributions will get the standard OOUI look. This makes it easier to use on mobile and makes it look like other Special: pages. There is a script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to. [488]

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18:51, 30 set 2019 (CEST)

This Month in Education: September 2019[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 8 • Issue 9 • September 2019

In This Issue

About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 21:34, 1 ott 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-41[modifica]

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 abuse filter function now has a faster parser. This is to shorten the waiting time when you save an edit. [489]

Problems

There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text with footnotes. It will be fixed soon. [490]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Community Wishlist Survey has a new format. It will focus on wikis that typically get less support. It will probably go back to the normal format next year. It is not decided exactly how it will work this year. You can leave feedback.
The URL of the Wikimedia wiki main pages could be changed. This is because the current URLs cause several problems. For example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page would be https://www.wikidata.org/ instead. You can tell the developers if this would cause problems for your wiki.
There is a new technical community newsletter. You can read more about the work of Wikimedia's technical community. Subscribe to get the information in the future.
Outreachy is an internship program for groups who are underrepresented in free and open-source software. There are seven Wikimedia projects about coding, documentation and quality assurance in the next round. Persons who fit the criteria can apply. The last day to apply is 5 November.

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17:36, 7 ott 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-42[modifica]

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 more advanced editing tools on the mobile web. You can turn them on and off in your preferences in the mobile version. [491]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

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

Future changes

Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are no longer supported. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They will not get security support. You can't read Wikimedia wikis in Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows versions that are older than Windows XP. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them made the wikis less secure for everyone else. [492]
In the future section headings might have a share link. This is to make it easier to link to the section. You can read more and discuss.

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01:55, 15 ott 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-43[modifica]

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 API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as internal. API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives. [493]

Problems

There is a translation tool we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed. [494]
The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed. [495]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (calendar).
Reference Previews will be a beta feature on all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.

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 October. See how to join.

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16:39, 21 ott 2019 (CEST)

This Month in Education: October 2019[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 8 • Issue 10 • October 2019

In This Issue

About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 10:30, 25 ott 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-44[modifica]

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 post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist. [496][497]
You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
OOUI now allows using px (pixels) instead of em (em) for some specific cases. [498][499]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 ottobre. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 ottobre. It will be on all wikis from 31 ottobre (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 30 ottobre at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January. [500]
Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named wg* to mw.config. The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.

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17:17, 28 ott 2019 (CET)

Tech News: 2019-45[modifica]

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

At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites. [501]

Changes later this week

MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip to set a different default block length for IP editors. [502]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 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 6 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:48, 4 nov 2019 (CET)

Tech News: 2019-46[modifica]

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

MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.

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23:03, 11 nov 2019 (CET)

Tech News: 2019-47[modifica]

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

You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the centralauth database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames. [503]

Changes later this week

You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:17, 18 nov 2019 (CET)

Tech News: 2019-48[modifica]

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 mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script. [504]
Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them. [505]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.

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 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view. [506]

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17:52, 25 nov 2019 (CET)

This Month in Education: November 2019[modifica]

This Month in Education

Volume 8 • Issue 11 • November 2019