Wikipedia:Kadai Kopi/Arsip/September 2014
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- You can now test a new Beta Feature to see links to other wikis in the sidebar. The links come from Wikidata. [1] [2]
- You can now search pages that link to a page. Use the
linksto:keyword in your search. [3] [4] - A redirect to a section now changes the URL in the address bar of your browser. If "Dog" redirects to "Animals#Dog", you now see "Animals#Dog" instead of "Dog#Dog". [5] [6]
- If you are testing Flow, you now have a Flow tab in your Notifications. It is called "Messages". [7]
VisualEditor news
- You can no longer delete required fields in templates. [8]
- We fixed many Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 11, you will get VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [9] [10] [11]
- VisualEditor now looks better in Monobook. [12]
- We fixed a bug where some of your typing could be undone when you used "cut" (Ctrl+X). [13]
- You will no longer see empty or deleted categories among the suggestions when you add a category. [14]
Future software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf19) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 2, and on all Wikipedias on September 4 (calendar).
- There is a proposal to build a database on Commons for file data. It will make it easier to see the author, license and topics. You can give feedback on this idea. You can also come to the IRC chat on September 3 at 18:00 (UTC) in
#wikimedia-officeat freenode. [15] - You can give feedback on Media Viewer until September 7. You can say what needs to be improved and ask other people to give feedback too. [16]
- You can test a new version of the tool to show math. It uses MathML. Report bugs in bugzilla.
- You will no longer be able to upload images from the mobile site. [17]
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1 September 2014 14.48 (WIB)
Grants to improve your project[suntiang sumber]
- Apologies for English. Please help translate this message.
Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th. Your idea could improve Wikimedia projects with a new tool or gadget, a better process to support community-building on your wiki, research on an important issue, or something else we haven't thought of yet. Whether you need $200 or $30,000 USD, Individual Engagement Grants can cover your own project development time in addition to hiring others to help you.
- Submit your proposal
- Get help: In IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session MediaWiki message delivery (maota) 2 September 2014 23.52 (WIB)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
VisualEditor news
- From Thursday, Internet Explorer 11 users will get VisualEditor. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [18] [19] [20]
Future software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf20) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 9, and on all Wikipedias on September 11 (calendar).
- You will soon confirm a "Thanks" inline instead of in a dialog. [21]
- You can read more about the plan to move to Phabricator, a tool that will help people develop the MediaWiki software and report bugs. [22]
Problems
- There were problems with JavaScript and CSS on Friday, September 5 because of a code error.
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8 September 2014 16.33 (WIB)
VisualEditor available on Internet Explorer 11[suntiang sumber]
VisualEditor will become available to users of Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 during today's regular software update. Support for some earlier versions of Internet Explorer is being worked on. If you encounter problems with VisualEditor on Internet Explorer, please contact the Editing team by leaving a message at VisualEditor/Feedback on Mediawiki.org. Happy editing, Elitre (WMF) 11 September 2014 14.29 (WIB).
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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
- You can now change the style of links to disambiguation pages. This is done with the
mw-disambigCSS class. [23] [24] - There was a problem on right-to-left wikis with Wikidata log entries. The text was messy in watchlists and recent changes. The problem is now fixed. The same problem will be fixed soon for user names. [25] [26] [27]
- New users are randomly chosen for a test on 12 Wikipedias. They get messages with ideas of articles to edit. The ideas come from what they have already edited. [28]
Problems
- There was a problem with loading images on September 10. [29]
VisualEditor news
- If you don't select text when you add a link, the link now shows a number. [30]
- The citation tool no longer offers to reuse a citation if there are none on the page yet. [31] [32]
- You can now use help buttons in the "Pangaturan laman" menu to see what the options are for. [33]
Future software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf21) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 16, and on all Wikipedias on September 18 (calendar).
- These changes are coming with the new version:
- If you use Internet Explorer 7, JavaScript will no longer work. JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work in that browser. You should update to a newer browser. [34] [35] [36]
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15 September 2014 15.34 (WIB)
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
- You can test a new Beta Feature called HHVM. It should make editing faster. Please report bugs if you see them. [37]
Problems
- There was a problem on the English Wikipedia on September 19. It was due to edits on a template used on many pages.
- Sites were down for users in the Pacific area around 7:00 UTC on September 20. It was due to a problem in the San Francisco data center.
- There were two bad bugs messing up articles in some browsers in VisualEditor. We fixed the bugs and updated the sites. [38] [39]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf22) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 23, and on all Wikipedias on September 25 (calendar).
- If you have more than 2000 notifications, the oldest ones will be removed.[40] [41]
- In the "Vector" skin, the icon used for users will show a neutral gender. [42] [43]
- The VisualEditor template tool now tells you if a required field is missing. [44]
- The "Cancel" button of the VisualEditor save window is now called "Resume editing". This shows that you can still edit and you won't lose your changes. [45]
- There are new keyboard shortcuts in VisualEditor. Use Ctrl+Shift+6 for
codeand Ctrl+Shift+5 forstrikethrough. [46] [47] - In VisualEditor, you can now see that you are switching to the source editing mode. Before, it was not clear it was happening. [48]
Future site changes
- You can see a plan for the move to Phabricator. It's the new tool to track bugs. A guided tour will be done via video on September 24. [49]
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22 September 2014 16.04 (WIB)
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
- On Commons, you can now see what files are most used across all wikis. You can also see the same list for deleted or uncreated files. [50] [51]
- There are now many more translations for language names. [52]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf1) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 30, and on all Wikipedias on October 2 (calendar).
- Errors from Scribunto (Lua) are now shown on the page. Before, you had to click on "Script error" to see them. [53] [54]
- You can add an "autovalue" for a field in TemplateData. When users add the template to a page, the value will be added automatically. An example is when a clean-up template shows the date it was added. [55]
- If you change a user preference but don't save it, it now asks if you want to save it. [56] [57]
- The PDF export tool has changed. The new one has better language support but it doesn't offer ZIM and EPUB formats. [58]
Future changes
- You can watch a video showing Phabricator, the new tool to track bugs. You can also read more about the move from Bugzilla.
- JavaScript authors: Many old methods will be removed soon. Please check your scripts and gadgets and replace the old methods by the new ones if needed. [59]
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29 September 2014 16.44 (WIB)
Assalamu'alaikum[suntiang sumber]
Uda sysop, ado pamilihan SYSOP ndak???
ДмитрийВанкович 22 September 2013 07.57 (WIT)
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