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This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2015)
Hello, Chess.
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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
- Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool. [1]
- Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [2]
Changes 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 from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on June 19 at 16:00 (UTC). [3]
Future changes
- Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas about it. [4]
- If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use
compatanymore. [5] [6] [7]
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Today's articles for improvement weekly vote
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- This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaborations has begun at Week 28 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
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The Signpost: 17 June 2015
- Arbitration report: An election has consequences
- News and notes: Labs outage kills tools, self; news in brief
- Featured content: Great Dane hits 150
- Discussion report: A quick way of becoming an admin
- WikiProject report: Western Australia speaks – we are back
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This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2015)
 The amounts of fat types in selected foods
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Today's articles for improvement weekly vote
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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 wikis can now be used only with HTTPS. This includes the English, Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only HTTPS for all users. [8] [9]
- You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [10]
Problems
- On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [11] [12] [13]
- On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons. [14] [15] [16]
- Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days. [17] [18] [19]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 25 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 23 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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The Bugle: Issue CXI, June 2015
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The Signpost: 24 June 2015
- From the editor: The Signpost tagging initiative
- Featured content: One eye when begun, two when it's done
- Technology report: 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus and Multimedia roadmap announced
- News and notes: Board of Trustees propose bylaw amendments
- Arbitration report: Politics by other means: The American politics 2 arbitration
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This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2015)
 A party in celebration of the Chinese Year of the Ox at a restaruant
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Today's articles for improvement weekly vote
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- This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaborations has begun at Week 30 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
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
- Long lines in code blocks now look better. [20]
- You can now see graphs in VisualEditor. [21]
- When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [22]
- The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [23] [24] [25]
- You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [26]
Problems
- JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [27]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar).
- You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color. [28]
- When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them. [29]
- If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password. [30]
- Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for
action=querydoesn't work any more. [31]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 30 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future
- When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org. [32]
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This Month in Education: June 2015
- Uruguay: A Wikipedia project in foreign languages receives a teaching award
- Hong Kong: The First Wikipedia Education Program in Hong Kong
- Greece: Adult school graduates learn to edit Wikipedia and inspire their peers
- Sweden: Mid-year Summary from the Wikipedia Education Program
- Mexico: New video tutorial for Commons created by students
- Armenia: Wikimedia Armenia New Office, Annual Conference, and WikiCamp 2015
- Argentina: Argentina contributes to a massive cross-border course of free knowledge in Spanish-speaking countries
- Israel: Education Program Extension enabled on Hebrew Wiktionary
- Global: New recognition certificates for program students, teachers and leaders
- Media Articles of interest in other publications: Uk, India, Palestine and more
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WikiProject Eurovision Cup news
| WikiProject Eurovision Cup EuroCup News
 Dear Project Member The winner of the second Project Eurovision Cup is Moldova98, who achieved a score of 54 points. Androptrnt finished in second place once again with 40 points, and Sims2aholic8 in third with 16 points. The third edition has begun and will run from 1 July to 30 September, allowing participants a reasonable amount of time to have their articles which they may have nominated for GA or FA status, to be reviewed. The aim of the competition is to help improve many of the articles within Project Eurovision that would have been otherwise left neglected, by carrying out as many objectives as possible. The more objectives you do, the more points you will earn. So have you got what it takes to be crowned winner of the next Project Eurovision Cup? Project members who wish to participate can now register or de-register at any time by clicking here. The Project Cup judges, Wesley Mouse and CT Cooper, wish you all the best of luck. |
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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q2 2015
The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 8, No. 2 — 2nd Quarter, 2015
Previous issue | Index | Next issue 
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The Signpost: 01 July 2015
- News and notes: Training the Trainers; VP of Engineering leaves WMF
- In the media: EU freedom of panorama; Nehru outrage; BBC apology
- WikiProject report: Able to make a stand
- Featured content: Viva V.E.R.D.I.
- Traffic report: We're Baaaaack
- Technology report: Technical updates and improvements
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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 the mobile site, you now see more information when you search for a page. It now shows the description from Wikidata. [33]
Problems
- The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets. [34]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 8. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 9 (calendar).
- The "Page information" tool shows how many users watch the page. You can now see how many are active. [35] [36]
- You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool. [37]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 7 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2015)
 Mecca is regarded as the holiest city in the religion of Islam. Pictured is the Masjid al-Haram during Hajj, 2007.
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Today's articles for improvement weekly vote
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Wikimedia Highlights from June 2015
- These Texans are on a quest to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of their state’s revolution
- Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS
- 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia
- Record featured article author recommends five Wikipedia articles
- How English Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition
- Preserving Wikipedia citations for the future: Geoffrey Bilder
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The Signpost: 08 July 2015
- News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation annual plan released, news in brief
- In the media: Wikimania warning; Wikipedia "mystery" easily solved
- Traffic report: The Empire lobs back
- Featured content: Pyrénées, Playmates, parliament and a prison...
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter - Issue 47
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Today's articles for improvement weekly vote
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This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2015)
Hello, Chess.
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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 a list of pages with errors in code coloring. [38]
Problems
- There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes. [39]
- There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes. [40]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 15. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 16 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join a technical meeting at Wikimania in Mexico City this week. [41]
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Books and Bytes - Issue 12
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 12, May-June 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)
- New donations - Taylor & Francis, Science, and three new French-language resources
- Expansion into new languages, including French, Finnish, Turkish, and Farsi
- Spotlight: New partners for the Visiting Scholar program
- American Library Association Annual meeting in San Francisco
The Signpost: 15 July 2015
- Op-ed: On paid editing and advocacy: when the Bright Line fails to shine, and what we can do about it
- Traffic report: Belles of the ball
- WikiProject report: What happens when a country is no longer a country?
- News and notes: The Wikimedia Conference and Wikimania
- Featured content: When angels and daemons interrupt the vicious and intemperate
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
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Today's articles for improvement – discussion about changing project processes
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This week's articles for improvement (week 30, 2015)
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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 this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 22. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 23 (calendar).
- You now see more warnings in the image viewer. They tell you to be careful when using the image, for example if it shows a person. [42]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 21 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Soon you won't be able to use MathJax to display math. [43]
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Please comment on Talk:Bitcoin
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The Bugle: Issue CXII, July 2015
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The Signpost: 22 July 2015
- From the editor: Change the world
- News and notes: Wikimanía 2016; Lightbreather ArbCom case
- Wikimanía report: Wikimanía 2015 report, part 1, the plenaries
- Traffic report: The Nerds, They Are A-Changin'
- WikiProject report: Some more politics
- Featured content: The sleep of reason produces monsters
- Gallery: "One small step..."
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
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This week's articles for improvement (week 31, 2015)
 An example of an igloo
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