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Hi. How does reviewer rights work and should I apply? I usually go through RC and NP feeds to review pages. SireWonton 19:13, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, SireWonton, thanks for your quick patrol of my new article and any help you can give to improve it.
Might I ask for more guidance about Allegorical Interpretations of Plato? Is this the best way to contact you?
1. The Multiple Issues box says too few citations. In the body of the article I try to put a note every sentence or two. Is the problem with the three opening paragraphs? Those are just a summary of what follows and so there are fewer notes. Is that alright? Should I add 'internal' refs to the sections below?
2. The Multiple Issues box says too many sections. The article surveys a lot of history, and I found the sections a good way of keeping the historical periods separate. I like it the way it is, but if you see a way to improve that please tell me more.
Any help appreciated, thanks, JohnD'Alembert ( talk) 19:31, 10 November 2015 (UTC)!
Hello, SireWonton. Is it possible you have customized your talk page signature so that it does not contain any links? If so, please could you refer to the guideline WP:SIGLINK? Signatures are expected to include at least one direct internal link to your user page, user talk page, or contributions page. Thanks! – Wdchk ( talk) 19:46, 10 November 2015 (UTC) Thanks Wdchk! SireWonton ( talk) 19:51, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi SireWonton. I just wanted to let you know that I have removed the proposed deletion template that you added to the page Greenisholives, because the proposed deletion process is only intended to be used for articles, not redirects. Additionally, there is an active deletion discussion for the redirect—see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2015 November 11#Greenisholives. Regards, Mz7 ( talk) 01:49, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
Oh I understand. I didn't know there was a difference. Thanks! SireWonton ( talk) 02:45, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I know that article looks awful in the absence of a history section, but it can't stay. Thanks, 2601:188:0:ABE6:2C7F:6EC8:FD4E:9E3B ( talk) 04:23, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
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I don't understand what you think is confusing about the intro to this article. Rathfelder ( talk) 19:50, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
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type
and peers
. The type
option solves this problem. You can use peers
to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about
type and
peers.
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<chem>
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<references />
tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use <references />
tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists.
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Save page
button now says Publish page
or Publish changes
on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page
is when you save a new page and Publish changes
when you edit an existing page.
[390]Page information
in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API.
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Ctrl
+Shift
+X
on PCs or Cmd
+Shift
+X
on Macs.
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button now says Publish page
or Publish changes
on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page
is when you save a new page and Publish changes
when you edit an existing page.
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?safemode=1
to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal
CSS and
JavaScript. Example: /info/en/?search=Literature?safemode=1
. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them.
[409][[File:Wiki.png]]
. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see
how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way.
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mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' )
block for your scripts also, or add mediawiki.util
dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in
MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition.
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Publish changes
, Show preview
and Show changes
buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the
OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding &ooui=1
to the URL.
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Hide categorization of pages
in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent
in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from
Special:EditWatchlist/raw.
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Visual editing
and Source editing
instead of Switch to visual editing
and Switch to code editing
. This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using.
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-{
is used in
transclusions or
web addresses it has to be
escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{
for transclusions and %2D{
in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use -{
in a template: {{1x| sad :-{ face }}
. This is because of some code fixes to the
preprocessor and affects all wikis.
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mediawiki.util
library does not load automatically any more. Your
Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ).done(function(){
as the first line in the file and });
as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the
2017/18 issue.
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-{
is used in
transclusions or
web addresses it has to be
escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{
for transclusions and %2D{
in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the
preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see
the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find
false positives. You can
read more about what to fix.
[438]
[439]Older unreported changes
__NOGLOBAL__
to your Meta user page to stop this.
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<div>
tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext
parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can
report new problems you think are related to this.
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&fuzzy=1
to the end of the web address when looking at
Special:Undelete.
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irc.wikimedia.org
has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down.
[464]Special:PageData
will be an entry point for machine-readable page data.
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parameter. You can add values like searchfilter=insource:foo
. It will add that to the user's search query.
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Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject
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Lua module that uses Wikidata. The developers are working on fixing the problem. You can fix a page by opening it for editing and then saving without changing anything.
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.D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8
instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months.
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Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject
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Lua module that use Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this problem. You still need to fix pages that were broken before and still show the error message. You can see how
on this page.
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#wikimedia-office
on
Freenode. You can use the
web chat.
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tidy-whitespace-bug
. This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more
about using Linter and the
Tidy whitespace bug.
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or cmd
+F
when you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs.
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{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}
and on
Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too.
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format
configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in
more powerful ways if your wiki wants it.
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ccnorm_contains_any
when you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more
in the documentation.
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https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F
instead of
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История
. This will soon be fixed. Old links will still work.
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. You can use it to store matches from regular expressions – one of each capturing group. You can read more
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http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}-
must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }-
instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week.
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https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F
instead of
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История
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#R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9
instead of #Résumé
even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March).
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ext.wikiEditor
. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed.
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irc.wikimedia.org
will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically.
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gallery widths="150px"
. You could use em
or %
instead of px
but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px
or nothing (150
). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px
, it will not work.
[606]Yes
or No
it will say Thank
and Cancel
. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public.
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{{reflist}}
, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates.
[615]contains_all
that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.
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{{sfn}}
are not visible in the references list whilst editing.
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.json
will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js
and .css
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to do this without concerns.
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===
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<inputbox>
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using AWB
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tag that says AWB
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[776]Deprecated. Use ... instead
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[777]page_age
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[792]{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}
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href
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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.
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__EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__
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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
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. There is a
migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify
instead.
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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.
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Tech News writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.
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wrapper
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minor_edit
has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on
Special:AbuseFilter.17:54, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
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Module
namespace.
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The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.
We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.
We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.
We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.
We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.
You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:
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{{REVISIONID}}
magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return ""
(empty string). When you read a page it will return "-"
(dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces.
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suggestion
. This
will change how the WikibaseQualityConstraints
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sameAs
meta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an
A/B test.
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local storage
instead of
session storage
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wb_terms
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wbeditentity
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[[File:Filename.midi]]
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wgEnableAPI
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values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values.
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user_wpzero
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Special:Contributions/newbies
will no longer be working. This is because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the recent changes feed instead.
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Special:
pages. There is a
script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to.
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page
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https://www.wikidata.org/
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internal
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wg*
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MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry
can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip
to set a different default block length for IP editors.
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centralauth
database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or
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{{REVISIONID}}
magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns ""
(empty string). When you read a page it returns "-"
(dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces.
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setlang
in the
URL to change the
user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if
Javascript is not working in your browser.
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<ref follow="…">
to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead.
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python2
tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can
get help to do so.
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wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage
was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can
read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a
list.
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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.
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action=changecontentmodel
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documentation on mediawiki.org.
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is now #footer
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HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them.
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mw.config.exists()
or mw.user.tokens.exists()
. You can use exists()
or get()
to check one at a time instead.
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div#p-personal
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, 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.
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and #p-cactions
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<b/>
is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work. area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr
can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in
a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in
Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect <references />
or <ref />
.
[1,065]WikidataPageBanner
. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on MediaWiki:Sitenotice
so that editors know to test and style for mobile too.
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.menu
and .vectorMenu
will no longer work in the
Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts. .menu
should be replaced by ul
. .vectorMenu
should be replaced by .vector-menu
.
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should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs
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searchGoButton
for the go button. This is searchButton
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Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change to searchButton
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<translate nowrap></translate>
on the source page.
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Printable version
link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway.
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global.js
and global.css
pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read
documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin.
[1,104]searchGoButton
identifier is now searchButton
. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in
T255953. This was previously mentioned in
issue 27.counter
to prevent large archives was changed.
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watchlist
instead of watch
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Apps
as one of the alternatives later this week. This is because the
Android and iOS Wikipedia apps will use push notifications for those who want them. You can see the
preferences on the test wiki. The goal is to have push notifications on Android in October and on iOS in early 2021.
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[[Child]]ren
is linked. On Arabic wikis this works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic letters will extend links on Arabic wikis.
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rmspecials()
function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials()
with rmwhitespace()
wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on
Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage.
[1,142]#jump-to-nav
. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either #siteSub
or #mw-content-text
. A list of affected scripts is at the top of
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{{formatnum}}
parser function with invalid (non-numeric) input, e.g. {{formatnum:TECHNEWS}}
. Note that {{formatnum:123,456}}
is also invalid input: as described in the
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JOINS
will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think this affects you and you need help you can
post on Phabricator or on
Wikitech.
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template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added.
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watchlist
to watch
will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database.
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JOINS
will no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can
post on Phabricator or on
Wikitech.
PAWS and other ways to do
SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later.
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wg*
to mw.config
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irc.wikimedia.org
and not to the name of any specific server. Users should also consider switching to the more modern
EventStreams.
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2010-12-XX
instead of 2010-12
for dates with a month but no days. This is because 2010-12
could be confused with 2010-2012
instead of December 2010
. This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the
Extended Date/Time Format.
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oversight
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.error
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and .success
do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in
MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead.
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MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist
will be renamed MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist
. The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles.
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Bedusz
doesn't find Będusz
on German Wikipedia. The character ę
isn't used in German so many would write e
instead. This will work better in the future in some languages.
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otrs-member
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Special:EditGrowthConfig
.
[1,261].ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; }
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common.css page.
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Threshold for stub link formatting
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and auto-number headings
can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can
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has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON
and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config
. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version
has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON
. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes.
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archive.is
to web.archive.org
.
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__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__
on pages that should not be listed on the special page.
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⧼monobook-responsive-label⧽
is unticked you need to also untick the new
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without the required dir
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T287701. From now on, all usages should include the full attributes, for example: <div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="en">
or <div class="mw-content-rtl" dir="rtl" lang="he">
. This also applies to some other HTML tags, such as span
or code
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<div class="visualClear"></div>
will not be supported after 12 August. Instead, templates and pages should use <div style="clear:both;"></div>
. Please help to replace any existing uses on your wiki. There are global-search links available at
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A maintenance operation will be performed on Wednesday August 25 06:00 UTC. It should only last for a few minutes.
Also during this time, operations on the CentralAuth will not be possible (GlobalRenames, changing/confirming e-mail addresses, logging into new wikis, password changes).
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golang
can now be used as an alias for the
Go programming language, and a special output
mode has been added to show a program's output.
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piprop
parameter has been renamed to prpiprop
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hidden
property will no longer say an entry is implicit
for unsuppressed log entries about suppressed edits. If your bot needs to know this, do a separate revision query. Additionally, the property will have the value false
for visible entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response.
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, wgLegalTitleChars
, and wgIllegalFileChars
will soon be removed from
mw.config
. These are not part of the "stable" variables available for use in wiki JavaScript.
[1,307]wgCookiePrefix
, wgCookieDomain
, wgCookiePath
, and wgCookieExpiration
will soon be removed from mw.config. Scripts should instead use mw.cookie
from the "
mediawiki.cookie" module.
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20:35, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
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stashfailed
" or "DBQueryError
" have now been fixed. An
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Special:MentorDashboard
. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the
Growth features. You can learn more about
activating the mentor list on your wiki and about
the mentor dashboard project.action=ajax
, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module.
[1,317]jquery.jStorage
, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to mediawiki.storage
instead.
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[[WB:]]
will go to the local language default for the [[Project:]]
namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via
the usual process.
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<DynamicPageList>
) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis.
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oauth_consumer
variable has been added to the
AbuseFilter to enable identifying changes made by specific tools.
[1,322]|actions=edit,history
will load a gadget only while editing and on history pages.
[1,324]withgadget
URL parameter. This can be used to replace
an earlier snippet that typically looks like withJS
or withCSS
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URL parameter that was
announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specify supportsUrlLoad
in the gadget definition (
documentation).
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oversight
will be renamed suppress
. This is for
technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can comment
in Phabricator if you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on translatewiki (
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should be updated to also check for vector-2022
.
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to find localisation messages, it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as "View history".
[1,350]deletelogentry
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rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the deleterevision
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expressions joined by |
into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on
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[1,390]{{=}}
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typeof
attribute values, and instead use mw:File
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will be removed from
mw.config
and be replaced with the variable prpSourceIndexPage
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#p-namespaces
should be updated to use the
mw.util.addPortletLink
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table are now being dropped: tl_namespace
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. See
T299417 for more information. This is part of
normalization of links tables.
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mw.loadJsonData()
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require( "strict" )
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Module:No globals" on most wikis.
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diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID]
in place of diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]
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Talk:
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namespaces. These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such as Wikipedia talk:
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or on()
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migration guide.
[1,524]__ARCHIVEDTALK__
magic word. There will also be a new .mw-archivedtalk
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__TOC__
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Thank you. I have also created an article pertaining to Noticias Univision. Both articles encompass the respective networks' news divisions, whereas the Noticiero Univision and Noticiero Telemundo articles kind of integrated between focusing on their flagship newscasts and the parent news divisions. Those two existing articles were restructured in the manner of articles such as those for ABC World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News to firm the distinction. TVtonightOKC ( talk) 17:38, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hi. How does reviewer rights work and should I apply? I usually go through RC and NP feeds to review pages. SireWonton 19:13, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, SireWonton, thanks for your quick patrol of my new article and any help you can give to improve it.
Might I ask for more guidance about Allegorical Interpretations of Plato? Is this the best way to contact you?
1. The Multiple Issues box says too few citations. In the body of the article I try to put a note every sentence or two. Is the problem with the three opening paragraphs? Those are just a summary of what follows and so there are fewer notes. Is that alright? Should I add 'internal' refs to the sections below?
2. The Multiple Issues box says too many sections. The article surveys a lot of history, and I found the sections a good way of keeping the historical periods separate. I like it the way it is, but if you see a way to improve that please tell me more.
Any help appreciated, thanks, JohnD'Alembert ( talk) 19:31, 10 November 2015 (UTC)!
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Hi SireWonton. I just wanted to let you know that I have removed the proposed deletion template that you added to the page Greenisholives, because the proposed deletion process is only intended to be used for articles, not redirects. Additionally, there is an active deletion discussion for the redirect—see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2015 November 11#Greenisholives. Regards, Mz7 ( talk) 01:49, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
Oh I understand. I didn't know there was a difference. Thanks! SireWonton ( talk) 02:45, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I know that article looks awful in the absence of a history section, but it can't stay. Thanks, 2601:188:0:ABE6:2C7F:6EC8:FD4E:9E3B ( talk) 04:23, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
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<mapframe>
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tags in an article to insert an interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas and suggestions to the
Maps talk page. If you find any bugs, you can report them in
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<div/>
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to mean <div></div>
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will not work in the future. Templates and pages that use these tags should be fixed. When
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<slippymap>
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instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should
ask for it as soon as possible.
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[rights=hidden]
. You should now use [hidden]
instead. [rights=hidden]
in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]
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can see the difference between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua.
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{{PAGELANGUAGE}}
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to write chemical formulas. Before you could use <ce>
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should be replaced by <chem>
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type
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. The type
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to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about
type and
peers.
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is when you save a new page and Publish changes
when you edit an existing page.
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Ctrl
+Shift
+X
on PCs or Cmd
+Shift
+X
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?safemode=1
to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal
CSS and
JavaScript. Example: /info/en/?search=Literature?safemode=1
. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them.
[409][[File:Wiki.png]]
. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see
how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way.
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mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' )
block for your scripts also, or add mediawiki.util
dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in
MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition.
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Publish changes
, Show preview
and Show changes
buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the
OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding &ooui=1
to the URL.
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Hide categorization of pages
in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent
in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from
Special:EditWatchlist/raw.
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and Source editing
instead of Switch to visual editing
and Switch to code editing
. This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using.
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-{
is used in
transclusions or
web addresses it has to be
escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{
for transclusions and %2D{
in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use -{
in a template: {{1x| sad :-{ face }}
. This is because of some code fixes to the
preprocessor and affects all wikis.
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mediawiki.util
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Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ).done(function(){
as the first line in the file and });
as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the
2017/18 issue.
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-{
is used in
transclusions or
web addresses it has to be
escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{
for transclusions and %2D{
in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the
preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see
the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find
false positives. You can
read more about what to fix.
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[439]Older unreported changes
__NOGLOBAL__
to your Meta user page to stop this.
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<div>
tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext
parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can
report new problems you think are related to this.
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&fuzzy=1
to the end of the web address when looking at
Special:Undelete.
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irc.wikimedia.org
has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down.
[464]Special:PageData
will be an entry point for machine-readable page data.
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Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject
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Lua module that uses Wikidata. The developers are working on fixing the problem. You can fix a page by opening it for editing and then saving without changing anything.
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.D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8
instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months.
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Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject
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Lua module that use Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this problem. You still need to fix pages that were broken before and still show the error message. You can see how
on this page.
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#wikimedia-office
on
Freenode. You can use the
web chat.
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tidy-whitespace-bug
. This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more
about using Linter and the
Tidy whitespace bug.
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+F
or cmd
+F
when you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs.
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{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}
and on
Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too.
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format
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more powerful ways if your wiki wants it.
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ccnorm_contains_any
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in the documentation.
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https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F
instead of
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История
. This will soon be fixed. Old links will still work.
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get_matches
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http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}-
must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }-
instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week.
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https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F
instead of
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История
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#R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9
instead of #Résumé
even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March).
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ext.wikiEditor
. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed.
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irc.wikimedia.org
will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically.
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gallery widths="150px"
. You could use em
or %
instead of px
but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px
or nothing (150
). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px
, it will not work.
[606]Yes
or No
it will say Thank
and Cancel
. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public.
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{{reflist}}
, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates.
[615]contains_all
that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.
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{{sfn}}
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.json
will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js
and .css
pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json
to do this without concerns.
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rollback
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===
and !==
) will be affected leaving the values unchanged.
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Publish
. This button now also shows an
ellipsis. This is to show that pressing Publish
is not the last step.
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<inputbox>
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using AWB
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tag that says AWB
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[776]Deprecated. Use ... instead
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[777]page_age
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[792]{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}
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href
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metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks.
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__EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__
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function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week.
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migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify
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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.
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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.
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Tech News writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.
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wrapper
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The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.
We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.
We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.
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{{REVISIONID}}
magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return ""
(empty string). When you read a page it will return "-"
(dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces.
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suggestion
. This
will change how the WikibaseQualityConstraints
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[888]depicts
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sameAs
meta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an
A/B test.
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local storage
instead of
session storage
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wb_terms
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wbeditentity
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[[File:Filename.midi]]
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user_wpzero
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Special:Contributions/newbies
will no longer be working. This is because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the recent changes feed instead.
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Special:
pages. There is a
script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to.
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page
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. API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives.
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wg*
to mw.config
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MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry
can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip
to set a different default block length for IP editors.
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centralauth
database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or
global renames.
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{{REVISIONID}}
magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns ""
(empty string). When you read a page it returns "-"
(dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces.
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setlang
in the
URL to change the
user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if
Javascript is not working in your browser.
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<ref follow="…">
to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead.
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python2
tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can
get help to do so.
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wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage
was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can
read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a
list.
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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.
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action=changecontentmodel
to specify the new model. You can read the
documentation on mediawiki.org.
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Maintenance script
. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to.
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is now .portal
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is now #footer
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HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them.
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mw.config.exists()
or mw.user.tokens.exists()
. You can use exists()
or get()
to check one at a time instead.
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div#p-personal
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, 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.
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, #p-personal
, #p-views
and #p-cactions
. They can no longer use > ul
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<b/>
is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work. area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr
can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in
a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in
Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect <references />
or <ref />
.
[1,065]WikidataPageBanner
. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on MediaWiki:Sitenotice
so that editors know to test and style for mobile too.
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.menu
and .vectorMenu
will no longer work in the
Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts. .menu
should be replaced by ul
. .vectorMenu
should be replaced by .vector-menu
.
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should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs
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searchGoButton
for the go button. This is searchButton
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<translate nowrap></translate>
on the source page.
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Printable version
link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway.
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global.js
and global.css
pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read
documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin.
[1,104]searchGoButton
identifier is now searchButton
. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in
T255953. This was previously mentioned in
issue 27.counter
to prevent large archives was changed.
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undo
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watchlist
instead of watch
. This was inconsistent before.
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Apps
as one of the alternatives later this week. This is because the
Android and iOS Wikipedia apps will use push notifications for those who want them. You can see the
preferences on the test wiki. The goal is to have push notifications on Android in October and on iOS in early 2021.
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[[Child]]ren
is linked. On Arabic wikis this works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic letters will extend links on Arabic wikis.
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rmspecials()
function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials()
with rmwhitespace()
wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on
Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage.
[1,142]#jump-to-nav
. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either #siteSub
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parser function with invalid (non-numeric) input, e.g. {{formatnum:TECHNEWS}}
. Note that {{formatnum:123,456}}
is also invalid input: as described in the
documentation, the argument should be unformatted so that it can be reliably and correctly localised. The tracking category will help identify problematic usage and double-formatting. The new tracking category's name can be
translated at translatewiki.
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{{formatnum}}
when it is given a negative argument.
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JOINS
will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think this affects you and you need help you can
post on Phabricator or on
Wikitech.
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{{citation needed}}
template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added.
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<langconvert>
tag that can convert a piece of text on a page.
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watchlist
to watch
will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database.
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1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55
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syntax for IP ranges.
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. This will happen on February 8. You can
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JOINS
will no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can
post on Phabricator or on
Wikitech.
PAWS and other ways to do
SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later.
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wg*
to mw.config
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will soon no longer work.
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irc.wikimedia.org
and not to the name of any specific server. Users should also consider switching to the more modern
EventStreams.
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17:29, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
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2010-12-XX
instead of 2010-12
for dates with a month but no days. This is because 2010-12
could be confused with 2010-2012
instead of December 2010
. This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the
Extended Date/Time Format.
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oversight
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.error
, .warning
and .success
do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in
MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead.
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UTF-8
to utf8mb3
.
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MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist
will be renamed MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist
. The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles.
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Bedusz
doesn't find Będusz
on German Wikipedia. The character ę
isn't used in German so many would write e
instead. This will work better in the future in some languages.
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otrs-member
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. This could affect abuse filters.
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15:48, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
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Special:EditGrowthConfig
.
[1,261].ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; }
to your
common.css page.
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Threshold for stub link formatting
, thumbnail size
and auto-number headings
can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can
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has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON
and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config
. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version
has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON
. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes.
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to web.archive.org
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on pages that should not be listed on the special page.
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⧼monobook-responsive-label⧽
is unticked you need to also untick the new
preference Enable responsive mode
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or <div class="mw-content-rtl">
without the required dir
attribute, then these will no longer work in 2 weeks. There is a short-term fix that can be added to your local wiki's Common.css page, which is explained at
T287701. From now on, all usages should include the full attributes, for example: <div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="en">
or <div class="mw-content-rtl" dir="rtl" lang="he">
. This also applies to some other HTML tags, such as span
or code
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<div class="visualClear"></div>
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19:26, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
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<score>
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A maintenance operation will be performed on Wednesday August 25 06:00 UTC. It should only last for a few minutes.
Also during this time, operations on the CentralAuth will not be possible (GlobalRenames, changing/confirming e-mail addresses, logging into new wikis, password changes).
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golang
can now be used as an alias for the
Go programming language, and a special output
mode has been added to show a program's output.
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hidden
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for visible entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response.
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will soon be removed from
mw.config
. These are not part of the "stable" variables available for use in wiki JavaScript.
[1,307]wgCookiePrefix
, wgCookieDomain
, wgCookiePath
, and wgCookieExpiration
will soon be removed from mw.config. Scripts should instead use mw.cookie
from the "
mediawiki.cookie" module.
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stashfailed
" or "DBQueryError
" have now been fixed. An
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Special:MentorDashboard
. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the
Growth features. You can learn more about
activating the mentor list on your wiki and about
the mentor dashboard project.action=ajax
, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module.
[1,317]jquery.jStorage
, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to mediawiki.storage
instead.
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[[WB:]]
will go to the local language default for the [[Project:]]
namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via
the usual process.
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<DynamicPageList>
) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis.
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oauth_consumer
variable has been added to the
AbuseFilter to enable identifying changes made by specific tools.
[1,322]|actions=edit,history
will load a gadget only while editing and on history pages.
[1,324]withgadget
URL parameter. This can be used to replace
an earlier snippet that typically looks like withJS
or withCSS
.
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URL parameter that was
announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specify supportsUrlLoad
in the gadget definition (
documentation).
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oversight
will be renamed suppress
. This is for
technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can comment
in Phabricator if you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on translatewiki (
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should be updated to also check for vector-2022
.
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21:15, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
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rmspecials()
function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials()
with rmwhitespace()
wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on
Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage.
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class=notpageimage
. For example, [[File:Example.png|class=notpageimage]]
.
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19:11, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
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oversight
was renamed suppress
. This is for
technical reasons. You may need to update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to Special:Listusers, or uses of
NUMBERINGROUP.Problems
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successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox
), please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at
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uselang=qqx
to find localisation messages, it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as "View history".
[1,350]deletelogentry
and deletedhistory
rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the deleterevision
right could access this special page.
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anymore. It may affect some filters that have been set up by some communities.
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successbox
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, warningbox
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attribute values, and instead use mw:File
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#p-namespaces
should be updated to use the
mw.util.addPortletLink
function instead. Gadgets that style this id should consider also targeting #p-associated-pages
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table are now being dropped: tl_namespace
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. See
T299417 for more information. This is part of
normalization of links tables.
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require( "strict" )
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or on()
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[1,524]__ARCHIVEDTALK__
magic word. There will also be a new .mw-archivedtalk
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[1,577]{{DEFAULTSORT:...}}
keywords incorrectly appear as missing templates in VisualEditor. Developers are exploring how to fix this. In the meantime, those wishing to edit the default sortkey of a page are advised to switch to source editing.
[1,578]#wpReason
with #wpReason > input
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to all prop=extlinks
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.mbox-text
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[1,589]|targets=
parameter is also deprecated and should not be used. You should make gadgets work on mobile or disable them based on the skin (with the |skins=
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subpages with a transclusion of the base pages anymore. This makes it easier to maintain local overrides.
[1,601]action=growthsetmentorstatus
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mediawiki.ui
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global_account_groups
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. They are available only when an account is being created. You can use them to prevent blocking automatic creation of accounts when users with many edits elsewhere visit your wiki for the first time.
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#page-actions
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addPortletLink
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meta.domain == "canary"
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Pywikibot or
wikimedia-streams will discard these events by default.
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async
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requiresES6
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jquery.cookie
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module last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed.
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targets
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changetags
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Special:Book
page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old
Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the
Wikisource extension.
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namespaces and gadgets-definition-edit
user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made.
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page_last_edit_age
will be added to
abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made.
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__EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__
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attribute in the
image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive.
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pagelinks
database table (pl_namespace
and pl_title
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linktarget
table instead (lt_namespace
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). In your existing SQL queries:
JOIN pagelinks
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.
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MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category
" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category
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class, Parsoid now also adds the reference-text
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wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup.
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system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community
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