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22	BBC One 'Virtual Globe' ident (talk)	Add sources
24	Computer Originated World (talk)	Add sources
19	BBC News presentation (talk)	Add sources
244	Sky 1 (talk)	Add sources
7	Sequoia Adventure (talk)	Add sources
12	Walbottle Campus (talk)	Add sources
54	History of ITV television idents (talk)	Cleanup
368	Isis (band) (talk)	Cleanup
13	BBC Big Screen (talk)	Cleanup
4	Marshfield High School (Missouri) (talk)	Expand
276	Yvette Cooper (talk)	Expand
76	BBC Kids (talk)	Expand
158	Sky Cinema (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
338	Foxtel (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
38	Bsharri District (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
33	BBC HD (international) (talk)	Merge
22	Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest (talk)	Merge
10	Tess Gaerthé (talk)	Merge
41	Pierre Amine Gemayel (talk)	Wikify
478	Fox Kids (talk)	Wikify
157	Bob Carolgees (talk)	Wikify
6	Kholosi language (talk)	Orphan
8	Vanessa (TV series) (talk)	Orphan
445	Hannah Witton (talk)	Orphan
6	Nostalgie Vlaanderen (talk)	Stub
8	Cercanías Valencia (talk)	Stub
21	BBC Japan (talk)	Stub
4	Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 (talk)	Stub
27	Press Recognition Panel (talk)	Stub
19	Olympic Tennis Centre (Rio de Janeiro) (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2017-03

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

Recent changes

You can now upload WebP files to Commons. [1]

Problems

video2commons was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up. [2]

Changes this week

There is a new magic word called {{PAGELANGUAGE}}. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators. [3]
When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu. [4]
You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas. Before you could use <ce>. <ce> should be replaced by <chem>. [5]
You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown on Special:UncategorizedCategories. The list is at MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist. [6]
The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to your personal CSS: #wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; } You can change the number 50 to make it look like you want to. [7]
Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs, including Tool Labs will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in. [8]
When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu. [9]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).

Meetings

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

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23:24, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 January 2017

From the editor: Next steps for the Signpost

News and notes: Surge in RFA promotions—a sign of lasting change?

Interview: What is it like to edit Wikipedia when you're blind?

In the media: Year-end roundups, Wikipedia's 16th birthday, and more

Featured content: One year ends, and another begins

Arbitration report: Concluding 2016 and covering 2017's first two cases

Traffic report: Out with the old, in with the new

Technology report: Tech present, past, and future

Recent research: Female Wikipedians aren't more likely to edit women biographies; Black Lives Matter in Wikipedia

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Tech News: 2017-04

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

Recent changes

You can see a list of the templates on a page you edit with the visual editor. [10]

Changes this week

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

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20:14, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-05

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

Recent changes

The OAuth management interfaces now look slightly different. [11]

Changes this week

ElectronPdfService will be enabled by default on Meta and German Wikipedia. This is a new way to get articles as PDF files you can download. It will come to more wikis later. [12]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 31. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from February 1. It will be on all wikis from February 2 (calendar).

Future changes

The Community Tech team will develop more tools to handle harassment of Wikimedia editors. The goal is to give the communities better tools to find, report and evaluate harassment. They will also work on more effective blocking tools. [13][14]
The Wikimedia technical community is doing a Developer Wishlist survey. Developers can propose ideas before 31 January 23:59 UTC. This is soon.

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18:45, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - February 2017

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CSS styling in templates

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The Signpost: 6 February 2017

Arbitration report: WMF Legal and ArbCom weigh in on tension between disclosure requirements and user privacy

Special report: Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing

News and notes: Official WMF rebuke to Trump policy; WMF secures restricted funds

In focus: WMF strategy consultant brings background in crisis reputation management; Team behind popular WMF software put "on pause"

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Op-ed: How to make editing workshops useful, even if participants don't stick around

In the media: Presidential politics, periodic table, and our periodic roundup of updates

Technology report: Better PDFs, backup plans, and birthday wishes

Traffic report: Cool It Now

Featured content: Three weeks dominated by articles

Forum: Productive collaboration around coordinated protest marches; Media and political personalities comment on Wikipedia at its 16th birthday celebration

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Tech News: 2017-06

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

Problems

The block log sometimes showed blocks as being much longer than they were. This has now been fixed. [15]

Changes this week

Wikimedia pages will now be better at showing pictures when you share them on social media. The descriptions will be different too. You can see an example of before and after. [16]
There are some changes to the OOjs UI. Some old functions will not work anymore or not work as they used to. This could be a breaking change. [17]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

Tidy will be replaced later this year. Instead, the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This will cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. You can see if your wiki still has something to fix here for one of the HTML problems. This list does not cover all problems. You can read about more problems. [18][19]

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19:45, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

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47	Travel Channel (international) (talk)	Add sources
23	Sydney New Year's Eve 2016–17 (talk)	Add sources
8	BBC Three idents (talk)	Add sources
252	Nathan Trent (talk)	Add sources
18	BBC One 'Rhythm & Movement' idents (talk)	Add sources
28	History of Freeview UK (talk)	Add sources
57	Television in the Republic of Ireland (talk)	Cleanup
6	Media of Ireland (talk)	Cleanup
45	Chloe's Closet (talk)	Cleanup
177	Timeline of the Iraq War (2017) (talk)	Expand
5,402	Club Penguin (talk)	Expand
433	ITV (TV channel) (talk)	Expand
75	BBC Entertainment (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
59	Unionism in the United Kingdom (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
285	BBC Television (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
322	ECOWAS military intervention in the Gambia (talk)	Merge
2,041	Iraqi Civil War (2014–present) (talk)	Merge
405	Constellation program (talk)	Merge
92	ABU Song Festivals (talk)	Wikify
1,114	Niqāb (talk)	Wikify
298	Typography of Apple Inc. (talk)	Wikify
2	Jenny Ogwen (talk)	Orphan
3	Friday Sermon (MTA 1) (talk)	Orphan
4	Hug A Brit (talk)	Orphan
13	UTV2 (talk)	Stub
59	BBC Food (talk)	Stub
38	BBC Studios (talk)	Stub
15	MTV Ireland (talk)	Stub
18	Broadcasting House, Belfast (talk)	Stub
14	Mike Hall (journalist) (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2017-07

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

Recent changes

EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. For now it works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. [20]

Problems

The Firefox add-on Firefogg can cause problems with the Upload Wizard. This will not be fixed, because Firefox will not support Firefogg in the future. The Upload Wizard will no longer work with Firefogg. [21]
Tool Labs and Wikimedia Labs databases will be under maintenance on 15 February. This will start at 17:00 (UTC) and last for about six hours. Some tools could have problems during or after this. [22]

Changes this week

The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It will come to Meta and German Wikipedia this week. It is already available on MediaWiki.org. It will come to more wikis later. [23]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar).

Meetings

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

Future changes

Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on the Catalan, Greek, Russian, and Italian Wikipedias in the middle of February. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. It will come to more wikis later this spring. [24]
The Developer Wishlist is a list where developers prioritize tools they need. The voting closes at 14 February 23:59 (UTC). This process is only for developers.

Review

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

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18:06, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-08

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

Recent changes

The edit summary box is now a little bit bigger. This is to make it follow the Wikimedia design guide. [25]

Changes this week

Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards. [26]
There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options: type and peers. The type option solves this problem. You can use peers to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers. [27]
OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way. [28]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar).

Meetings

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

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19:25, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-09

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

Problems

On 22 February the wikipedia.org portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file. [29]

Changes this week

You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor. [30]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (calendar).

Meetings

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

Future changes

You can soon upload 3D files to Commons. The file formats are AMF and STL. The plan is for this to work later this week but it could be later. [31]
The name "Wikipedia" will be more obvious at the top of the page when you read Wikipedia in the mobile view. This is because many readers don't realize they are on Wikipedia. [32][33]

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19:55, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 February 2017

From the editors: Results from our poll on subscription and delivery, and a new RSS feed

Recent research: Special issue: Wikipedia in education

Technology report: Responsive content on desktop; Offline content in Android app

In the media: The Daily Mail does not run Wikipedia

Gallery: A Met montage

Special report: Peer review – a history and call for reviewers

Op-ed: Wikipedia has cancer

Featured content: The dominance of articles continues

Traffic report: Love, football, and politics

Blog: WikiIndaba 2017: A continent gathers to chart a path forward

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Split history request

{{Admin help}} Can an admin perform a history split of Eurovision Choir of the Year and leave everything from 2017 there, and anything before that back to User:AxG/Sandbox/1? -- AxG / ✉ 20:14, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(Non-administrator comment) Requests for history merges or history splitting can be made at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. — Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 21:01, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed - let Anthony do it. He'll get it right Ronhjones ^(Talk) 22:38, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - March 2017

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13:42, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-10

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

Recent changes

You can now search on English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis and find words even if you forget the diacritics. It also works if you use diacritics in your search but the wiki doesn't. [34]
When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view. [35]

Problems

Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed. [36]
Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user's Special:Contributions will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately. [37]

Changes this week

The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view. [38]
The "flag the edit in the abuse log" checkbox will be removed from the abuse filter interface. This is because the edits are always flagged in the abuse log. [39]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (calendar).

Meetings

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

Clarification

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

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23:23, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

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632	Sky UK (talk)	Add sources
73	True Movies (talk)	Add sources
73	Movie Mix (talk)	Add sources
187	Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest (talk)	Add sources
152	Sony MAX (talk)	Add sources
167	Challenge (TV channel) (talk)	Add sources
92	Sony Watchman (talk)	Cleanup
389	TEN Sports (talk)	Cleanup
15	Nickelodeon (Switzerland) (talk)	Cleanup
403	Vaio (talk)	Expand
23	Jewellery Maker (talk)	Expand
122	Digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom (talk)	Expand
1,609	Channel 4 (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
126	Nickelodeon (UK and Ireland) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
911	Boomerang (TV channel) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
18	Sanremo Music Festival 2012 (talk)	Merge
53	AXN Pakistan (talk)	Merge
38	IODA (talk)	Merge
169	Domenico Modugno (talk)	Wikify
17	Armenia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest (talk)	Wikify
207	Ultra Music (talk)	Wikify
7	Super Sonic Channel (talk)	Orphan
4	ETV Kids (Southeast Asia) (talk)	Orphan
4	Adi Annamalai (talk)	Orphan
37	Bionz (talk)	Stub
30	Showcase TV (talk)	Stub
59	Absolute Radio 80s (talk)	Stub
99	TruTV (UK and Ireland) (talk)	Stub
26	Sony Financial Holdings (talk)	Stub
32	True Movies 2 (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2017-11

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

Changes this week

You will be able to show references from <references /> tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use <references /> tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists. [40][41]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (calendar).

Meetings

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

Future changes

Some old web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis in the future. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [42]
CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. [43][44]

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15:25, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2017-12

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

Recent changes

The Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page. [45]
DMOZ no longer works. Templates that use DMOZ can be redirected to archive.org or another mirror. DMOZ has been removed from the RelatedSites extension on Wikivoyage. [46]
You can see monthly page views when you click on Page information in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API. [47]
The Linter extension is now on smaller Wikimedia wikis. It helps editors find some wikitext errors so they can be fixed. It will come to other Wikimedia wikis later. The extension will be able to find more errors later. [48]
The MediaWiki-Vagrant portable development environment has been updated to use Debian Jessie. This means local development and testing will be more like on the majority of Wikimedia production servers. [49]

Problems

On 15 March some interwiki links to other languages were not correctly sorted. This has been fixed. If you still see pages where the interwiki links are not sorted as they should be, they should be fixed automatically with time or you can edit the page and save it without changing anything. If this doesn't work, please report it. [50]

Changes this week

When you edit with the visual editor, you will be able to switch the direction you write in from right-to-left to left-to-right as you are editing. This is especially important for editors who edit in languages that write from right to left. You can do this with a tool in the editing menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+X on PCs or Cmd+Shift+X on Macs. [51]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).

Meetings

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22:03, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-13

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

Recent changes

When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes. [52]

Problems

Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed. [53][54]

Changes this week

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

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14:46, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Princess Hotels & Resorts

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The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (companies) requirement. If you disagree and deprod this, please explain how it meets them on the talk page here in the form of "This article meets criteria A and B because..." and ping me back through WP:ECHO or by leaving a note at User talk:Piotrus. Thank you.

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22:44, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-14

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

Recent changes

The Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page. [55]
The tracking category Category:Pages with template loops is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template. [56]
English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [57]

Problems

Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed. [58]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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

Future changes

New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech and Hebrew Wikipedia on 11 April. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and user intent prediction. User intent prediction means the filter tries to help editors determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [59]

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17:53, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2017-15

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

Recent changes

Tidy is going to be replaced with an HTML5 parsing algorithm. Bad HTML in wikitext would cause problems on a number of wikis. There is now a ParserMigration extension on all wikis that you can use to help clean this up. You can read more about how you can use it. [60]

Changes this week

Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [61]
New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [62]
The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters. [63]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

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

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18:34, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2017-16

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

Recent changes

You can add ?safemode=1 to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Literature?safemode=1. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them. [64]
You can now see a list of all autoblocks on Special:AutoblockList. [65]
The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from [[File:Wiki.png]]. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way. [66]

Problems

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

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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

Future changes

stats.wikimedia.org will be replaced. You can see the new prototype. You can leave feedback on this change.
Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature can give feedback. [67]
From next week, user scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. [68][69]

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19:32, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Infobox song contest country ideas

AxG, sorry to bother you on this Bank Holiday, but I've been thinking of a couple of ideas that might improve or at least be beneficial to WP:ESC. With your brilliant improvements to various templates for the project, I have been thinking about {{Infobox song contest country}}, and how that can be better useful. I recently updated one of the sections on it, so that "appearances" became "participation summary", as that is basically what information is housed in that section of the box. However, I am wondering if incorporating a new collapsible section that would house a location map and coordinates would help to assist editors on a country's location, and for those who update the participation map on contest pages, but end up having to search through articles to find their exact location. Maybe adding a map would help? Just an idea I'm throwing into the idea-pool. Wes Wolf ^Talk 13:26, 17 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Wesley Wolf: Not exactly hard, the collapsible map data is already on Infobox Song contest and that uses the imagemap so these can easily copied over, and maybe maps can be created just highlighting the country. I'd probably mock one up in a sandbox. -- AxG / ✉ 14:54, 17 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Great! I look forward to seeing the prototype in due course. I'll get back to the extensive rewriting of all these stubs. 12 down, 96 to go. Wes Wolf ^Talk 15:27, 17 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Wesley Wolf: 96 bottles of beer on the wall, 96 bottles of beer.... User:AxG/sandbox/6. -- AxG / ✉ 18:45, 17 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Oh heck I have that song in my head now haha. 95 bottles of beer to go now. I like how the infobox looks - just how I imagined it would. Will this mean creating maps for each individual country? Or would the preloaded location maps that are used on geography articles work? Wes Wolf ^Talk 18:57, 17 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Wesley Wolf: Any map would work, the problem being that the location maps used on Sweden, Spain, Israel differ, with the earlier two highlighting the EU which is not relevant to the ESC. These maps are not under consensus of WP:ESC, so any changes to these maps we would have to lump, especially if we are using Imagemap which would need changing as the proportions are different. Not to mention we have our own great maps, designed by consensus (mostly) highlighting the microstates including Australia (not many Europe maps include Australia). So yeah it actually would be quicker to upload our own. -- AxG / ✉ 19:19, 17 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

When you put it that way, I can see that uploading our own would probably be better then. Especially with all the contests WP:ESC has, and now with Wales in the Eurovision Choir of the Year. Suppose it allows me to get more familiar with InkScape again. Wes Wolf ^Talk 19:52, 17 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]