لێدوانی بەکارھێنەر:RYasmeen (WMF)/خۆڵەپەتانێ

بەشی تەکنیکیی دیوەخان بۆ وتووێژ لەسەر کێشە تەکنیکییەکان سەبارەت بە ویکیپیدیا بەکاردەگیرێ. ئەگەر تووشی کێشەیەکی تەکنیکی لە داڕێژەکان، ئامرازەکان، بۆتەکان و … یان لە پەڕەکانی میدیاویکی، HTML ،CSS، JS و … بوون، دەتوانن لێرەدا وتووێژی لەسەر بکەن.

بەگەکان و کەلێنەکانی نەرمامێری میدیاویکی دەبێ لە فابریکەیتردا (چۆنێتیی ڕاپۆرتی بەگێک) ڕاپۆرت بکرێ.

« وتووێژە کۆنترەکان، ١

Tech News: 2020-10

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

Problems

Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug. [١]

Changes later this week

If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. [٢]
When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security. [٣]
On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to. [٤]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 March. It will be on all wikis from 5 March (calendar).

Future changes

The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback. [٥]
There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list. [٦]

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Tech News: 2020-11

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

Recent changes

There is a new search word called articletopic. You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon. [٧][٨][٩]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all wikis from 12 March (calendar).

Future changes

There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year. [١٠]

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Tech News: 2020-12

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

There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org. [١١]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).

Future changes

If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface. [١٢][١٣]
You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.

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Tech News: 2020-13

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

Problems

Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed. [١٤][١٥]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.

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Tech News: 2020-14

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 beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts. [١٦]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed. [١٧]
There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback. [١٨]

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Tech News: 2020-15

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

Problems

There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [١٩]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to. [٢٠]

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Tech News: 2020-16

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 now use the articletopic search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic. [٢١]
You can see wiki tools in the new Tools Gallery. [٢٢]
You can see edits from the Wikimedia Cloud Services in a new dashboard.
When you use filters on a history page you sometimes don't see any edits. There is a text explaining this now. Before it was just empty. [٢٣]
There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog. [٢٤]

Problems

There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest. [٢٥][٢٦][٢٧]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed. [٢٨]
The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated <source> tag, as well as the use of the deprecated enclose parameter, will add tracking categories.

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Tech News: 2020-17

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

Tech News

The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.

Recent changes

The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills. [٢٩]
Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed. div#content is now .mw-body. div.portal is now .portal. div#footer is now #footer. This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them. [٣٠]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011. [٣١]
The font in the diffs will change. [٣٢]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar).

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Technical maintenance planned

(Sorry for using English. Please help translate to your language.)

A maintenance operation will be performed on Thursday 30th April at 05:00 AM UTC.

It impacts all wikis and is supposed to last a few minutes.

During this time, new translations may fail, and Notifications may not be delivered. For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.

A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.

Please help making your community aware of this maintenance operation.

Trizek (WMF), ‏١٨:٠١، ٢٧ی نیسانی ٢٠٢٠ (UTC)[وەڵامدانەوە]

Reminder: Technical maintenance planed

Sorry to use English. Please help translate to your language.

This is a reminder of the message sent on Monday 27th April.

A maintenance operation will be performed on Thursday 30th April at 05:00 AM UTC.

It impacts all wikis and is supposed to last a few minutes.

During this time, new translations may fail, and Notifications may not be delivered. For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.

A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.

Please help making your community aware of this maintenance operation.

Trizek (WMF) ‏١٥:١٣، ٢٩ی نیسانی ٢٠٢٠ (UTC)[وەڵامدانەوە]

Tech News: 2020-19

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

Problems

Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 5 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [٣٣]
Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 7 May. This will also affect CentralAuth. This can for example affect global renames, password changes, changing or confirming your email address and logging in to new wikis. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [٣٤]

Changes later this week

You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can soon turn these notifications off for individual pages. [٣٥]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 May. It will be on all wikis from 7 May (calendar).

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Tech News: 2020-20

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

Recent changes

Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr. [٣٦]

Problems

Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [٣٧]
Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [٣٨][٣٩]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via mw.config.exists() or mw.user.tokens.exists(). You can use exists() or get() to check one at a time instead. [٤٠]

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Tech News: 2020-21

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

Recent changes

If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. [٤١][٤٢]

Problems

There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them. [٤٣]
Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [٤٤][٤٥]

Changes later this week

The Wikipedia app for Android can let users add depicts on Commons. The beta version used computer-aided tagging. This was removed to get more specific depicts. [٤٦]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files. [٤٧]
Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction, div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces, div#p-variants and div#footer. They will have to remove div. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5. [٤٨]
Some CSS for the Vector skin has been changed. This affects #p-variants, #p-namespaces, #p-personal, #p-views and #p-cactions. They can no longer use > ul. You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how.

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Tech News: 2020-22

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

Changes later this week

The visual editor will now work in the Modern skin. The changes that needed to happen for this to work could cause problems for some scripts or gadgets. [٤٩]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 27. It will be on all wikis from May 28 (calendar).

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بەستەری «گرێدانەکان زیاد بکە» کار ناکات

چارەسەر کرا
⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏١٥:٠٦، ٣ی حوزەیرانی ٢٠٢٠ (UTC)

ئەم لێدوانە بەستراوە. تکایە دەستکاریی مەکە. ھەر لێدوانێکی داھاتوو پێویستە لە بەشێکی نوێی پەڕەکە دابنرێت. نابێت ئەم وتووێژە دەستکاری بکرێت.

سڵاو ھاوڕێیان، بەستەری گرێدانەکان زیاد بکە کار ناکات. وەک دیارە لە فابریکەیتر گفتوگۆ لەسەر ئەمە دەکرێت و لەوانەیە ماوەیەک بخایەنێت.

وەکوو چارەسەرێکی کاتی دەتوانیت ئەم کۆدەی خوارەوە لە common جاڤاسکریپتەکەت دا دابنێیت، کە لە ئامرازەکان دا بەستەری «گەڕانی ویکیدراوە» زیاد دەکات و دەتوانیت لەوێ دا بە زمانێکی تر (کە دڵنیایت بەندەکەی پێوە بەستراوە) گەڕان بۆ ئەو پەڕەیە بکەیت کە دەتەوێت و ئاوا ئاسایی دەتوانیت پەڕەکان ببەستیتەوە.

mw.loader.using(['mediawiki.util'], function () {
  mw.util.addPortletLink(
    'p-tb',
    '//www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=' + encodeURIComponent( mw.config.get('wgPageName') ),
    'گەڕانی ویکیدراوە',
    't-wikidatasearch',
    'لە ویکیدراوە بۆ ناوی پەڕەکە بگەڕێ',
    null,
    '#t-wikibase'
  );
});

سپاس! -- ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏١٧:٢٠، ٢٧ی ئایاری ٢٠٢٠ (UTC)[وەڵامدانەوە]

ئەم وتووێژەی سەرەوە بەستراوە. تکایە دەستکاریی مەکە. ھەر لێدوانێکی داھاتوو پێویستە لە بەشێکی نوێی پەڕەکە دابنرێت. نابێت ئەم وتووێژە دەستکاری بکرێت.

چاکسازیی ساڵە کۆچییەکان (دووگمەی نوێ بۆ تووڵامراز)

ئەم لێدوانە بەسراوە. تکایە دەستکاریی مەکە. ھەر لێدوانێکی داھاتوو پێویستە لە بەشێکی نوێی پەڕەکە دابنرێت. نابێت ئەم وتووێژە دەستکاری بکرێت.

سڵاو ھاوڕێیان، ویستم پێتان بڵێم کە دووگمەی چاکسازیی ساڵە کۆچییەکان (کە دەکەوێتە دوای دووگمەی شائەمراز) زیاد کرا. کاری ئەم دووگمەیە گۆڕینی ساڵە کۆچییەکانە (تەنیا ساڵەکان نەک مانگ و ڕۆژ) بۆ ساڵە زایینییەکان. بەم شێوەیە بەکار دێت: زۆر جاران دەشێت وتارە فارسییەکان وەکوو دیسکۆگرافی، فیلمۆگرافی و … ھتد. کە ساڵی کۆچی بەکار دێنن وەر بگێڕین بۆ ویکیپیدیای کوردی، و گۆڕینی ساڵەکان بۆ زایینی بەدەست وەڕەزکەر دەبن بۆیە ئەم دووگمەیە ڕاستەوخۆ دەیانکاتە زایینی، بەڵام دەبێت ساڵەکە چوار ژمارەیی بێت واتە ساڵی ٩٩٩ی کۆچی ناکاتە زایینی، و لەبیرت بێت کە تەنیا ساڵ بگۆڕیت نەک شتی تر چوونکە ئەگەری گۆڕینی ھەر چوار ژمارەیییەکی ھەیە. دوای داگرتنی دووگمەکە ژمارەکان بۆ شێوازی عەرەبی (نم: 2020) دەگۆڕدرێن و لەڕێگەی دووگمەی چاکسازیی ژمارەکانەوە بۆ شێوازی ھیندۆ-عەرەبی (نم: ٢٠٢٠) بیان گۆڕە. ئەوەش لەبیر نەکەم کە بەڕاستی گەر بەکارھێنەر:Dalba نەبایە، ئەوا نەمان دەتوانی ئەو کارە بکەین بۆیە، سپاسی بێپایانی لێ دەکەم! چێژ ببینە! -- ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏١١:٠٦، ٣٠ی ئایاری ٢٠٢٠ (UTC)[وەڵامدانەوە]

ئەم وتووێژەی سەرەوە بەستراوە. تکایە دەستکاریی مەکە. ھەر لێدوانێکی داھاتوو پێویستە لە بەشێکی نوێی پەڕەکە دابنرێت. نابێت ئەم وتووێژە دەستکاری بکرێت.

Tech News: 2020-23

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

Recent changes

There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos. [٥٠]

Problems

There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May. [٥١][٥٢][٥٣]
The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed. [٥٤]

Changes later this week

You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon turn them off also in the notifications you get. [٥٥]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all wikis from 4 June (calendar).

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Tech News: 2020-24

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

Recent changes

Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting. [٥٦]
Self-closed tags now work as in the HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them. <b/> is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work. area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect <references /> or <ref />. [٥٧]
There is a banner called WikidataPageBanner. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on MediaWiki:Sitenotice so that editors know to test and style for mobile too. [٥٨][٥٩]

Changes later this week

You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets. [٦٠]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June (calendar).

Future changes

A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [٦١]

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Tech News: 2020-25

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

Recent changes

Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.

Problems

There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed. [٦٢]
Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed. [٦٣]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (calendar).

Future changes

Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help. [٦٤]
The selectors .menu and .vectorMenu will no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts. .menu should be replaced by ul. .vectorMenu should be replaced by .vector-menu. [٦٥]

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Tech News: 2020-26

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

Problems

There are some new tools to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed. [٦٦]
Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS selectors. .vectorTabs should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs to fix this. [٦٧]

Changes later this week

The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback. [٦٨]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (calendar).

Future changes

A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [٦٩]

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Tech News: 2020-27

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

Problems

Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [٧٠]
Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed. [٧١]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

Future changes

The Modern and Monobook skins use the ID searchGoButton for the go button. This is searchButton for Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change to searchButton in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use searchButton. You can read more and see a list of affected scripts.

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لەکارخستنی توینکڵ

سڵاو ھاوڕێیان، بەھۆی کار نەکردنی ئامرازی توینکڵ بەڕێکوپێکی بۆ ماوەیەکی نادیار ئامرازەکە لەکار دەخەم. ھێشتا بەڕێوەبەران دەتوانن بەکاری بھێنن، بەڵام تکایە ئێوەش بەکاری مەھێنن تا ئاگادارکرنەوەی داھاتوو. لەگەڵ سپاسی -- ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏١٥:٢١، ٥ی تەممووزی ٢٠٢٠ (UTC)[وەڵامدانەوە]

Tech News: 2020-28

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

Problems

The Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed. [٧٢]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more. [٧٣]
The iOS Wikipedia app developers are thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help them by answering the survey.
Some rules for user signatures will soon be enforced. Lint errors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.

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Tech News: 2020-29

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

Recent changes

Users can thank others for their edits. Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets who harass others using thanks. [٧٤]

Problems

Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week. [٧٥][٧٦]

Changes later this week

Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background. Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using <translate nowrap></translate> on the source page. [٧٧]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (calendar).

Future changes

Wikimedia code review plans to use GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. [٧٨][٧٩][٨٠][٨١]

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Tech News: 2020-30

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

Recent changes

A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help in Phabricator. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News 2020/24 and 2020/26.

Problems

There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution. [٨٢]
Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events. [٨٣]
Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a browser cookie problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details on Phabricator. [٨٤]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

There is a وەشانی ئامادەی چاپ link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway. [٨٥]

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Tech News: 2020-31

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

Recent changes

The Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this. [٨٦]
The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck ڤێکتۆری سپاردە بەکاربێنە in your local or global preferences in section ھەڵبژاردەکانی پێستە. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget directly from mediawiki.org, end users can now choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC.

Problems

The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week. [٨٧][٨٨]
Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed. [٨٩]
Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed. [٩٠]

Changes later this week

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

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Reply tool

Hello, User:Aram and other editors,

I have good news for you.

The mw:Editing team held the mw:Talk pages consultation 2019 last year. mw:Talk pages project/replying is the first major tool that they built because of that consultation.

Right now, the tool is available at the French, Arabic, Dutch, and Hungarian Wikipedias as a Beta Feature. The Editing team is making a short list of Wikipedias that will get the new 'Reply' tool as a Beta Feature next week. About 8 more Wikipedias will get access to the Reply tool. It will be opt-in. To use the tool, you will have to go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures and turn on the tool. If you don't turn it on, nothing will change for you.

The Sorani Kurdish Wikipedia is currently on their list. I have been using the Reply tool at many wikis, and I love it. However, if, for some reason, you do not want this Wikipedia to get access to this tool next week, then please tell me as soon as possible. Otherwise, I will assume that it's okay. Whatamidoing (WMF) (لێدوان) ‏٢٢:٢١، ٣٠ی تەممووزی ٢٠٢٠ (UTC)[وەڵامدانەوە]

Hello @Whatamidoing (WMF):, That is a good news for ckbwiki and it's users! I have already tested the tool and I think it is a good and useful tool. I hope other users try it out and express their opinions as soon as possible. We look forward to seeing the tool on ckbwiki next week. Thank you again! -- ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏٢٣:٣٤، ٣٠ی تەممووزی ٢٠٢٠ (UTC)[وەڵامدانەوە]

The Beta Feature is ready! You can go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures and turn on "ئامرازەکانی وتووێژ" to use it. Then go to any normal, wikitext-based talk page and look for the [ وەڵامدانەوە ] button at the end of existing comments/signatures. Whatamidoing (WMF) (لێدوان) ‏٢٠:٠٠، ٦ی ئابی ٢٠٢٠ (UTC)[وەڵامدانەوە]

@Whatamidoing (WMF): Special thanks to you and the team! We appreciate it! And I would submit my feedback to the tool later if I had any comments. Thank you again! -- ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏٢١:٣٩، ٦ی ئابی ٢٠٢٠ (UTC)[وەڵامدانەوە]

Hello, User:Aram,

Something broke with the Reply tool. The ticket is phab:T259855, and they are working on it now. The main symptom is that English-language namespaces get replaced with the local content language, and that some characters get percent-encoded. I hope that it will be fixed fairly soon, but please check for bad diffs. The team apologizes for the difficulties. Whatamidoing (WMF) (لێدوان) ‏١٧:٢٤، ٧ی ئابی ٢٠٢٠ (UTC)[وەڵامدانەوە]

There should be no more new problems caused by this bug. Whatamidoing (WMF) (لێدوان) ‏١٧:٤٨، ٧ی ئابی ٢٠٢٠ (UTC)[وەڵامدانەوە]

@Whatamidoing (WMF): I haven't actually used it yet, and it doesn't seem to work right now, but be sure I'll warn you if I find any problems. -- ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏١٩:٤٦، ٧ی ئابی ٢٠٢٠ (UTC)[وەڵامدانەوە]

It won't work in this section because of the ltr template. I'll try your user page. Whatamidoing (WMF) (لێدوان) ‏٢٣:٤١، ٧ی ئابی ٢٠٢٠ (UTC)[وەڵامدانەوە]

@Whatamidoing (WMF): Thank you so much! I got it. And I replied on my talk page. -- ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏١٣:٤٧، ٨ی ئابی ٢٠٢٠ (UTC)[وەڵامدانەوە]

If you want to check edits made with the Reply tool, then try this RecentChanges link. Whatamidoing (WMF) (لێدوان) ‏٢١:٠٤، ١٢ی ئابی ٢٠٢٠ (UTC)[وەڵامدانەوە]

Tech News: 2020-32

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

Problems

All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period. [٩١]
Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago. The problem is now fixed. [٩٢]
There is a problem with the global preferences for the "ڤێکتۆری سپاردە بەکاربێنە" option. Developers are working on fixing it. [٩٣]
A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed. [٩٤]

Changes later this week

The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed. [٩٥]
Users' global.js and global.css pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin. [٩٦]
In the MonoBook skin, the searchGoButton identifier is now searchButton. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27.
Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses counter to prevent large archives was changed. [٩٧]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 5. It will be on all wikis from August 6 (calendar).

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Tech News: 2020-33

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

Recent changes

FileImporter and FileExporter became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact. [٩٨]

Problems

The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions and content translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it. [٩٩]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [١٠٠][١٠١]

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