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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.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 February. It will be on all wikis from 6 February (calendar).
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3 feb 2020 21:04 (CET)
Visuele tekstverwerker
bewerkenPer Wikipedia:Opinielokaal/Inschakelen visuele tekstverwerker, the visual editor will arrive today, in about three hours.
This will change the user interface (UI) for some users. In my experience, someone is upset about every UI change, and this is a big change for active editors. But it is easy to fix. If you do not want this change, then go to Speciaal:Voorkeuren#mw-prefsection-editing and change your preferences.
Please {{Ping}} me or leave a note on my talk page if you encounter problems. Whatamidoing (WMF) (overleg) 3 feb 2020 22:06 (CET)
- @Whatamidoing (WMF): the voting page claims that the VE will be available in the Wikipedia namespace. ("De VT zal beschikbaar zijn op artikelpagina's, en in de Gebruiker-, Wikipedia- en in de Help-naamruimte.") Was this
a liefalse? –bdijkstra (overleg) 4 feb 2020 17:57 (CET)- Volgens mij kun je deze vraag ook stellen zonder mij meteen een leugenaar te noemen? Ciell 4 feb 2020 18:12 (CET)
- Sorry, dat was wel een beetje een suggestieve vraag. Mijn bedoeling is waarheidsvinding, geen beschuldiging, dus doorgestreept. –bdijkstra (overleg) 4 feb 2020 18:30 (CET)
- I'm sorry about that, bdijkstra. It's possible, but it's not "default", and I didn't check to make sure that it was on the list. But before I ask them to change it, do you want it turned on in the
Wikipedia:namespace? Whatamidoing (WMF) (overleg) 4 feb 2020 19:33 (CET)- Basically yes. The community voted in favor of it, so I expect that to happen. –bdijkstra (overleg) 4 feb 2020 19:57 (CET)
- I'm sorry about that, bdijkstra. It's possible, but it's not "default", and I didn't check to make sure that it was on the list. But before I ask them to change it, do you want it turned on in the
- Sorry, dat was wel een beetje een suggestieve vraag. Mijn bedoeling is waarheidsvinding, geen beschuldiging, dus doorgestreept. –bdijkstra (overleg) 4 feb 2020 18:30 (CET)
- Volgens mij kun je deze vraag ook stellen zonder mij meteen een leugenaar te noemen? Ciell 4 feb 2020 18:12 (CET)
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 version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem. [1]
Problems
- There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things. [2]
Changes later this week
The MediaWiki action API is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work. [3]- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February (calendar).
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10 feb 2020 20:09 (CET)
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 on Wikidata and Commons now load faster. You can read more about page load performance. [4][5]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 February. It will be on all wikis from 20 February (calendar).
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17 feb 2020 17:16 (CET)
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 25 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be on all wikis from 27 February (calendar).
Future changes
- There will be a reply button after each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later. You can test the reply button. It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first wikis last week.
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24 feb 2020 21:59 (CET)