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6	Internal Thracian Revolutionary Organisation (talk)	Cleanup
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111	University of Baltimore (talk)	Merge
6	Problem property (talk)	Merge
38	2017 North Korean missile tests (talk)	Wikify
19	Abandonia (talk)	Wikify
50	Demographic history of Macedonia (talk)	Wikify
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5	Arise Gheorghe, Arise Ioan! (talk)	Orphan
10	Robert Bruininks (talk)	Stub
5	Broseley, Missouri (talk)	Stub
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Tech News: 2020-11

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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. [1][2][3]

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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. [4]

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17:15, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-12

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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. [5]

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. [6][7]
You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.

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21:15, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

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14	Product finder (talk)	Add sources
1,652	Superdelegate (talk)	Add sources
10	Hammel, Green and Abrahamson (talk)	Add sources
505	Rapid City, South Dakota (talk)	Add sources
15	Preference elicitation (talk)	Add sources
8	Southern Natural Gas (talk)	Add sources
18	Camara Phyllis Jones (talk)	Cleanup
3	Macedonian Federative Organization (talk)	Cleanup
18	Ham Lake, Minnesota (talk)	Cleanup
23	Hartmut Neven (talk)	Expand
4	South Carolina Highway 296 (talk)	Expand
1,590	2020 Georgia Democratic primary (talk)	Expand
32,835	2020 coronavirus pandemic in Iran (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
235	IDEAL (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
94	Zamina mina (Zangaléwa) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
88	Mine reclamation (talk)	Merge
26	ACM SIGGRAPH (talk)	Merge
25	The Carbon Diaries: 2015 (talk)	Merge
37	Lake City, Minnesota (talk)	Wikify
4	Encyclopedia of Chinese Chess Openings (talk)	Wikify
176	Physical impacts of climate change (talk)	Wikify
23	Paleogeography of the India–Asia collision system (talk)	Orphan
3	Tak Chiu Wong (talk)	Orphan
3	Belt and Road Construction Leadership Group (talk)	Orphan
2	Black Horse Butte (talk)	Stub
3	KSUW (talk)	Stub
5	KOWB (talk)	Stub
3	Castle Rock Butte (talk)	Stub
6	KCGY (talk)	Stub
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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. [8][9]

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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17:08, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 March 2020

From the editors: The bad and the good

News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked

WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report

Special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters

In the media: Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story

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Tech News: 2020-14

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Recent changes

The beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts. [10]

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. [11]
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. [12]

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17:26, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

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925	2005 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament (talk)	Add sources
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3	Sleek Geek Week (talk)	Merge
342	Nüwa (talk)	Merge
277	Civilization II (talk)	Wikify
52	College of St. Scholastica (talk)	Wikify
15	Bibliographic coupling (talk)	Wikify
3	Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) South Dakota (talk)	Orphan
25	Third Pole (talk)	Orphan
4	Agile usability engineering (talk)	Orphan
4	Erina Yashima (talk)	Stub
2	Hump Butte (talk)	Stub
30	Bahman (talk)	Stub
4	Wisconsin Senate, District 23 (talk)	Stub
1,174	2020 coronavirus pandemic in Sudan (talk)	Stub
23	Statute of Jewry (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2020-15

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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. [13]

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).

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19:03, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

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. [15]
You can see wiki tools in the new Tools Gallery. [16]
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. [17]
There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog. [18]

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. [19][20][21]

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. [22]
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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15:31, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

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5	Frontier School of the Bible (talk)	Add sources
10	University of Minnesota College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (talk)	Add sources
75	Nolensville, Tennessee (talk)	Add sources
1,093	Kids Baking Championship (talk)	Add sources
251	Yankton, South Dakota (talk)	Add sources
48,188	Joe Biden (talk)	Add sources
92	Amberian Dawn (talk)	Cleanup
305	Modding in Grand Theft Auto (talk)	Cleanup
18	Expertise finding (talk)	Cleanup
120	Imaginaerum (film) (talk)	Expand
561	Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (talk)	Expand
25,636	Taiwan (talk)	Expand
1,107	Donna Shalala (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
2,702	Sioux Falls, South Dakota (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
418	Bernie Bro (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
3,397	Coronavirus recession (talk)	Merge
130,401	Coronavirus disease 2019 (talk)	Merge
1,296	Hijackers in the September 11 attacks (talk)	Merge
102	Semantic similarity (talk)	Wikify
231	X-Play (talk)	Wikify
79	Sleeping Sun (talk)	Wikify
3	Anita Moreno Regional Hospital (talk)	Orphan
2	Adelheid Gnaiger (talk)	Orphan
3	Antonella Ponce (talk)	Orphan
4	Walter Coffey (talk)	Stub
3,882	Greater (film) (talk)	Stub
57	Neil Hansen (talk)	Stub
130	2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska (talk)	Stub
12	Igor Lukšič (talk)	Stub
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Tech News: 2020-17

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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. [23]
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. [24]

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. [25]
The font in the diffs will change. [26]
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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18:45, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 April 2020

News and notes: Unbiased information from Ukraine's government?

In the media: Coronavirus, again and again

Discussion report: Redesigning Wikipedia, bit by bit

Featured content: Featured content returns

Arbitration report: Two difficult cases

Traffic report: Disease the Rhythm of the Night

Gallery: Roy is doing fine and sending more photos

Recent research: Trending topics across languages; auto-detecting bias

Essay: Wikipedia:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing

By the numbers: Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic

Opinion: Trusting Everybody to Work Together

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

Interview: Health and RfA's: An interview with Guy Macon

In focus: Multilingual Wikipedia

WikiProject report: The Guild of Copy Editors

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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. [27]
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. [28]

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. [29]
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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16:59, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

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106	Steve Sailer (talk)	Add sources
1,704	Gulf Cooperation Council (talk)	Add sources
574	Laramie, Wyoming (talk)	Add sources
5,583	Himalayas (talk)	Add sources
21	Sheridan College (Wyoming) (talk)	Add sources
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786	Peoria, Illinois (talk)	Cleanup
274	Vehicle-ramming attack (talk)	Cleanup
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18	Independence Day (North Macedonia) (talk)	Expand
1,937	Recurrent neural network (talk)	Expand
24	The Carpenter (Nightwish song) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
89	History of North Macedonia (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
851	Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
73	Right to explanation (talk)	Merge
2,383	Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign (talk)	Merge
23	Geelong V/Line rail service (talk)	Merge
179	Conversion marketing (talk)	Wikify
325	Climate of Italy (talk)	Wikify
706	The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (talk)	Wikify
3	Punchinello Players (talk)	Orphan
12	Addison Rerecich (talk)	Orphan
47	FAM180b (talk)	Orphan
9	KBMG (talk)	Stub
45	Jack Rayner (runner) (talk)	Stub
12	Dibao (ancient Chinese gazette) (talk)	Stub
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24	Miodrag Krivokapić (actor) (talk)	Stub
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Tech News: 2020-20

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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. [30]

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. [31]
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. [32][33]

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. [34]

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20:41, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

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. [35][36]

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. [37]
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. [38][39]

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. [40]
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. [41]
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. [42]
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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17:19, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

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105	University of Minnesota Duluth (talk)	Add sources
132	Pete Buttigieg 2020 presidential campaign (talk)	Add sources
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9,945	Artificial intelligence (talk)	Add sources
13,020	Bill Clinton (talk)	Add sources
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84	Demographic history of Macedonia (talk)	Cleanup
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58	End of an Era (album) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
2,466	2020 Republican Party presidential primaries (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
62	Rating site (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
97	TXU Energy (talk)	Merge
50	Ezekiel 37 (talk)	Merge
5	Nepal Pride Parade (talk)	Merge
1,159	Google Ads (talk)	Wikify
26	Abandonia (talk)	Wikify
15	Rainy River Community College (talk)	Wikify
9	Lusthaus (Vienna) (talk)	Orphan
2	Able Newspaper (talk)	Orphan
2	Adaon Kalalla (talk)	Orphan
10	Robert Bruininks (talk)	Stub
8	Cyrus Northrop (talk)	Stub
6	Seraphic Fire (talk)	Stub
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Tech News: 2020-22

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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. [43]
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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The Signpost: 31 May 2020

From the editor: Meltdown May?

News and notes: 2019 Picture of the Year, 200 French paid editing accounts blocked, 10 years of Guild Copyediting

In the media: CBS on COVID-19, Sanger on bias, false noses, and five prolific editors

Discussion report: WMF's Universal Code of Conduct

Special report: The sum of human knowledge? Not in one Wikipedia language edition

Featured content: Weathering the storm

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Tech News: 2020-23

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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. [44]

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. [45][46][47]
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. [48]

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. [49]
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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