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Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming
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is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Knowledge article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed.
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Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Knowledge. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can
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It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can
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to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were
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Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the
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The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible.
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To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
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To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
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user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be
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Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now.
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Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions
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handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
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This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period.
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Well, if it currently doesn't, I think it should simply display a big red inconveniently design-/table-breaking error message.
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Thanks for saying so. I imagine that it doesn't come as a surprise that I'm looking to request those additional tools.
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements.
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Administrator elections are in the WMF Trust & Safety SecurePoll calendar and are all set to proceed.
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If it helps, consider this to be a barnstar from me, too! Thank you, SilverLocust!
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DYK nomination of Grupo Mexicano de Desarrollo, S.A. v. Alliance Bond Fund, Inc.
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to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer
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