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I appreciate your warm and very detailed introduction! ^_^ --It's gonna be awesome!#Talk♬ 03:27, 7 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

About "Could you kindly help me review the paragraph written my me" in Talk:Chu_Ke-liang

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I saw it and I think it is ok. THank for your contribution.

In my opinion, I like that message appeared in my talk page instead of in the Talk:Chu_Ke-liang with a {{ping}}.--Wolfch (talk) 21:26, 15 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Alright! Thanks for the time! And have a nice day! ^_^ --It's gonna be awesome!#Talk♬ 02:30, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Tag bombing

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You should read Wikipedia:Tag bombing. Tgeorgescu (talk) 12:31, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

checkY Thanks for that. =) --It's gonna be awesome!#Talk♬ 12:35, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Hong Kong Hiking Group

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About your edit on Yellow Line (Kaohsiung MRT)

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  1. In English Wikipedia, ROC has the same meaning as Taiwan, which is different from Chinese Wikipedia. So it is needless to show ROC and Taiwan at the same time.
  2. Template:related portals2 is commonly used in portal pages. In articles, it is better to add Template:portal bar or Template:portal box.
  3. Portals Taipei, Kaohsiung, Taichung, Taoyuan, Underground does not exist in English Wikipedia now. In my opinion, we had better create these portal page before putting them on article pages.--星巴克女王 (talk) 14:48, 22 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@星巴克女王:Thank you so much for your opinions! ^_^ I just can't make sure which of ROC and Taiwan to stay. Regarding the other two suggestions, I will act accordingly. =) --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 14:54, 22 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for improving the article on my behalf. =) --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 14:56, 22 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]


Speedy deletion nomination of Annual meeting of PHP in Taiwan

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(Annual meeting of PHP in Taiwan和Taiwan Python Conference應該是不同的活動，PHP和Python是不同的程式語言，因此快速刪除) Wolfch (talk) 22:12, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Refs

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Please remember to include these for new content. Added on here[1] Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:23, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you I will. =) --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 02:58, 30 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

zh:苯丙胺

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Hi there. I noticed that you've been working on translating the amphetamine article for the Chinese Wikipedia. Since I realize the source code of that article can be very hard to navigate, feel free to ask me if you have any questions. Also, I'd be happy to translate the image text in {{Amphetamine pharmacodynamics}} and {{Psychostimulant addiction}} to Chinese (I'm assuming the article is written in written vernacular Chinese - I'm not familiar with the language; forgive my ignorance if I'm wrong ) if you're interested and can provide me with the relevant translations for the existing image text. Seppi333 (Insert 2¢) 02:16, 1 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No problem! It's my pleasure to involve myself in the process of the translation! Keep in touch buddy! ^_^ --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 16:55, 1 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

RE:Could you do me a favor?

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不好意思, 我沒辦法幫這個忙

我覺得Taiwanese Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry捐款資訊的資料, 不適合放在維基百科的條目中（中文條目及英文條目都不適合）, 對一般看維基百科要了解此組織的人而言, 這個不是必要的資料, 若有意要捐助此組織的人, 自然會到組織的網站上找相關資訊--Wolfch (talk) 19:02, 24 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

也因為上述的原因, 我已經刪除en:Taiwanese Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry中捐款方式的相關資料--Wolfch (talk) 19:07, 24 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
了解，但學會確實需要更多的捐款才有能力做更多的事情，例如：衛教、國際參與等。--It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 19:19, 24 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
若希望讓社會大眾對學會捐款, 請用其他的方式告知社會大眾, 維基百科不是合適的管道, 像World Vision International、American Heart Association也沒有有關捐款的章節。--Wolfch (talk) 19:43, 24 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I see. If anything, I hope you will be willing to check the existence of {{Psychiatry}} in the Chinese Wikipedia. --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 04:45, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
目前中文維基沒有對應模版, 而我暫時也沒有打算要創建此一模版。--Wolfch (talk) 16:50, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

re:

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有關"心得安", 應該是對應Propranolol, 已改為"普萘洛尔", 另外, 您提的 syntax error, 不太確定您指的是什麼, --Wolfch (talk) 16:39, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reaching out! I meant there were some bullets shown as "*". --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 17:21, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I appreciate your assistance on this matter! ^__^ --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 17:31, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Confirmation

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謝謝您的建議, 已經修正, 謝謝--Wolfch (talk) 04:24, 26 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

My pleasure! : ) --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 04:45, 26 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Incidentally, I found zh:臺灣兒童青少年精神醫學會 is not be redirected to zh:台灣兒童青少年精神醫學會. How could it be? And please consider to correct it when you're in leisure! Gratitude! --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 04:48, 26 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Source you may want to include in the ADHD controversy article.

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謝謝提供資料, 我會思考看看要不要加入相關內容, 若要加入的話要如何加入, 謝謝--Wolfch (talk) 21:55, 27 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

另外, "ADHD獵人與農夫理論"有找到對應的英文條目Hunter vs. farmer hypothesis--Wolfch (talk) 22:03, 27 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
checkY I got it! ^__^ --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 03:48, 28 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ref for targeted temperature management

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Is needed. Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 05:14, 15 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Regards. --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 06:59, 15 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your article Draft:心動家族兒童青少年關懷協會

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I got it. : ) --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 15:04, 16 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

First body, then lead, then infobox

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Hey, I understand the desire to just hit the infobox or the lead, but please update the body of the article with well sourced content. If - and only if - in light of everything else in the article, it belongs in the lead, please then summarize the new content in lead. The infobox is a yet higher-level summary, please think a second time about whether the new material should or should not go in the infobox. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 21:24, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the reminder. There was an edit conflict therefore I didn't find your edit brief. Thanks again. --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 21:27, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Refs

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If there is one good reference, that is typically all that is needed. More refs in the middle of the sentence such as here[2] is not really needed. Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:41, 24 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you I got it! ^__^ Have a fabulous rest of your week friend! ^_^ --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 18:16, 24 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
This is a commentary on a primary source. We should really be using reviews per WP:MEDRS Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 06:49, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oh! Thank you so much! It's not a summary of systematic review, however, I perceive NEJM as an excellent publisher and their primary findings have high potential to be replicated by other researches. Please feel free to let me know if there exist logical flaws among my belief. Thank you--It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 07:01, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry @Doc James:, do you get me? My English is not good. XD --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 09:59, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Have added the new finding and refs.--It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 05:00, 7 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red World Contest

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Ways to improve Susan Shur-Fen Gau

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I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. While this is far better than a machine translation, it still needs a copyedit in places. However this seems like a good article to have on Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions!

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Thanks! I gonna improve it.--It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 21:46, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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  • When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures. [19]
  • Structured discussions toolbars will have more style options. [20]
  • Advanced item When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening. [21]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Today all administrators can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can read more. [22]
  • Page previews will be on by default for new accounts. [23]

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Tech News: 2018-29

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Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change. [27]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on July 17 at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on July 18 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Some articles have messages to readers about problems with the article. For example that it does not cite sources or might not be neutral. Readers do not see these messages on the mobile version. The developers now want to show them. You can read more and leave feedback.
  • You can use <inputbox> to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead of prefix:Page name you will see a text that explains which pages are being searched. You can read more and leave feedback.

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16:01, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-30

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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 changes

  • When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [28]
  • Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [29]
  • Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [30]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2018-31

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Recent changes

  • The design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [31]

Problems

  • Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [32][33]
  • Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [34][35]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 August. It will be on all wikis from 2 August (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 August at 15:00 (UTC) as well as at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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Tech News: 2018-32

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Recent changes

Problems

  • The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [37][38]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:39, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-33

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Recent changes

  • CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [39]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [40]

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17:53, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-34

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Changes later this week

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

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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16:46, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-35

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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 changes

  • You can now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [42]
  • Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [43]

Problems

  • Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [44]

Changes later this week

  • The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [45]
  • AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [46]
  • Advanced item Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title. [47]
  • Advanced item Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [48]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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16:16, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-36

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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 changes

  • There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [49][50]
  • There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [51][52]
  • You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [53]
  • wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [54]
  • When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [55]

Problems

  • UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [56]
  • You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [57]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

Future changes

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16:47, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-37

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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 changes

  • When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [59]

Problems

  • Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [60]
  • Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [61]
  • <maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [62]
  • {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [63]
  • When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [64]

Changes later this week

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
  • Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 Septmber at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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22:35, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-38

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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 changes

  • The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [65]
  • Advanced item MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [66]

Problems

  • You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [67]

Changes later this week

  • Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [68]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

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21:58, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-39

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Changes later this week

  • The preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [69]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (calendar).

Meetings

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15:23, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-40

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Recent changes

  • Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [70][71]

Problems

  • New and updated translations from translatewiki.net will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [72][73]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 October (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.

Future changes

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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17:34, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

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Category:People who were forced disappeared, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Zanhe (talk) 22:52, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2018-41

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Recent changes

Problems

  • There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [75]

Changes later this week

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
  • Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

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23:38, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-42

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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.

Problems

  • Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [76]
  • Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [77]

Changes later this week

  • When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [78]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).

Meetings

  • There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [79]
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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22:40, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-43

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Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 October. It will be on all wikis from 25 October (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • The Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.

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23:11, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-44

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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 changes

  • You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
  • Advanced item The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [80]

Problems

  • Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [81]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
  • The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [82][83]

Meetings

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20:08, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-45

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Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
  • When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [85]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).

Meetings

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17:29, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-46

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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 changes

  • Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [86]

Problems

  • You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [87][88][89]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [90]

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19:22, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-47

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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 changes

  • You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
  • Advanced item There is an A/B test for sameAs data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [91]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [92]
  • The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [93]

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23:28, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

ArbCom 2018 election voter message

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Hello, It's gonna be awesome. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2018-48

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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 changes

  • On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [94]

Changes later this week

  • The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [95]
  • Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [96]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Advanced item The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [97]

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22:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-49

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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 changes

  • Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [98]
  • Small SVG images are now bigger when you see them in MediaViewer. [99]
  • You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow. [100]
  • When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back. [101][102]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

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16:12, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-50

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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

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

Meetings

Future changes

  • New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [103][104]
  • When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [105]

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17:33, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

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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.

Tech News

  • Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.

Recent changes

  • Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [106][107]
  • Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [108]
  • Advanced item The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.

Problems

  • <ref> tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example <ref name="adams" group="books">. If a <ref> tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [109]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 December. It will be on all wikis from 20 December (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
  • Advanced item tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [110]

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20:34, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Xmas

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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

Hello It's gonna be awesome, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019.
Happy editing,
Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 06:09, 25 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Thank you! This made my day ^__^ --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 17:36, 26 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Medical citation needed section

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Template:Medical citation needed section has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Steel1943 (talk) 15:02, 31 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Clinical judgement moved to draftspace

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An article you recently created, Clinical judgement, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to