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Tech News: 2015-09
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * All new accounts are now global.
 * Your Meta user page is now shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can report problems if you see any. You can ask a bot to delete your old user pages.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 25. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 26 (calendar).
 * It is now easier to see template fields in VisualEditor. The fields are bigger.
 * It is now easier to see when a button is disabled in VisualEditor.
 * Sometimes when you copy-pasted a template in VisualEditor, it was replaced by HTML. This problem is now fixed.
 * Tools in Labs will stop working for a few hours on February 24.

Meetings
 * You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 26 at 00:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * At the moment you need to log in to edit Wikimedia wikis on mobile devices. You can say if anyone should be allowed to edit on the mobile sites. The discussion ends on March 15.
 * Images in the interface will soon work better in Opera 12.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  16:28, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #147
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher 12:45, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Platypus - a speaking interface for Wikidata
 * Past: Wikidata for Research meetup
 * Past: GLAMhack (two of the results: The Endless Story and a family tree)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata reached 200,000,000 edits
 * Welcome Wikibooks! Wikibooks now gets its language links via Wikidata as well.
 * Vote for your favorite Wikimania submissions. Here are the Wikidata related ones.
 * New release of the Wikidata Toolkit with lots of good stuff.
 * There are now over 30,000 objects in OpenStreetMap tagged with a Wikidata ID. Can you add more?
 * Want to see where we want infoboxes to go with Wikidata? Check out the infobox fromage on French Wikipedia. Have a look at the wiki text here.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Naturbase ID, Fach, AllMusic song ID, AllMusic album ID, AllMusic artist ID, Flora of North America ID, Florentine musea Inventario 1890 ID, beats per minute
 * Newest WikiProjects: Cheese, Filming Locations
 * Showcase items: None this week. Yours next week?
 * You can listen to Wikidata (setting at the bottom)
 * Development
 * Chaged a number of Lua modules (from deprecated function mw.wikibase.getEntity to mw.wikibase.getEntityObject)
 * Updated the json documentation
 * Always link to Wikidata on client pages that don’t have any langlinks. This affects users without JavaScript and logged out users, logged in users will still see the link item dialog. 168632
 * Fixes for the Wikibase qunit Jenkins job
 * Made Vagrant git-update also properly update Wikibase and dependencies
 * Fix for T88254 (malformatted Wikidata entries appearing in Watchlist RSS feed in clients)
 * Final touches on new header design
 * Investigated how we can provide language fallback also in suggestions when search or adding new statements
 * More work on allowing additional languages in monolingual text datatype
 * Added missing backend piece for quantities with units. Now the remaining piece is the user interface.
 * Enabled Wikibase Client on Wikibooks
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Tech News: 2015-10
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * A Lua function to use Wikidata has changed. You need to update the pages that use it.
 * You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Uzbek and Minangkabau. You need to enable it in your Beta options.
 * You can now hide banners if you don't have an account.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 4 (calendar).
 * You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Punjabi and Kyrgyz. You can ask for the tool in other languages.
 * Editing the fake blank line in VisualEditor is now simpler. This change also fixed a few bugs.
 * The TemplateData editor now warns you if a related page already has TemplateData.
 * The TemplateData table now tells you if a template doesn't take any parameters.

Meetings
 * You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 4 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join technical meetings in France and Mexico this year. You will be able to ask for help if you can't pay yourself.

Future changes
 * You will be able to get a direct link for a section of a page.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  16:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #148
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 00:19, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open RfA: Haplology
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * upcoming: Wikidata for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Köln in 17th of March
 * upcoming: Wikidata editathon in Berlin on 24th of March
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Help flesh out landing pages for partners
 * Update on the Wikidata query service progress
 * The automatic description API can now generate infoboxes (currently, "person" and "artwork" on en.wp)
 * Wikidata Skim gives you very simple query functionality
 * Meet Kian, the first neural network to serve Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Information Center for Israeli Art artist identifier, Comedien.ch identifier, oath of office date, Steam ID
 * Showcase items:Symphony No. 7
 * Development
 * Fixed edit buttons sometimes not showing up because of caching
 * Added mailto to the allowed protocols in the URL data type
 * Worked on updating the data model documentation
 * Worked on client wiki subscription/notification mechanism
 * Improved handling of scientific notation for quantity values
 * Reworked a lot of code related to time parsing and formatting, e.g. proper support for language independent parsing of YYYY-MM-DD ordered dates
 * Continued working on the new Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!