Metmaacher Klaaf:BBKurt

Bot flag für Addbot

Könntest du bitte mal einen Blick auf diese Anfrage werfen? Das Vollschützen deiner Diskussionsseite trägt allerdings nicht gerade zu deiner Erreichbarkeit als Bürokrat bei, vor allem da du der einzige aktive zu sein scheinst. Grüße, Vogone (SWMT) 17:32, 4. Apr 2013 (CEST)

Das Botflag wurde erteilt. --BBKurt (Klaafe) 20:00, 4. Apr 2013 (CEST)

Danke för dat Flag un dat Ophevve vum Sigge Schotz. Jröß, Vogone (SWMT) 20:17, 4. Apr 2013 (CEST)

Port Moresby Stock Exchange

Hallo BBKurt,

auf der Alemannischen Wikipedia verfolge ich ja seit langem ein Projekt zu Papua-Neuguinea. Da habe ich doch gleich Deine Anregung aufgenommen und auf alswiki ebenfalls einen Artikel zum Port Moresby Stock Exchange verfasst.

Gruß, --Holder (Klaafe) 19:46, 11. Jun 2013 (CEST)

Schön, dass es interessierte Leser gibt. Für ein Projekt reicht es bei ksh wohl nie! Gruß --BBKurt (Klaafe) 20:38, 11. Jun 2013 (CEST)

Darkicebot

Could you please remove the bot flag from my bot, User:Darkicebot? It will not be active. Thanks, Razorflame (Klaafe) 03:17, 25. Jul 2013 (CEST)

John Cale

Hi, I noticed that you have created article about Joan Baez. Thank you for them. Should I request to you, you would want to create at least a short article for John Cale (en • de • fr) (founding member of The Velvet Underground)? Thank you in advance for any resolution. --88.103.182.75 13:54, 14. Sep 2013 (CEST)

Thank you very much! --88.103.182.75 16:36, 20. Sep 2013 (CEST)

Wikicon 2013

Hallo BBKurt.

Von 22. bis 24. November findet in Karlsruhe die WikiCon 2013 statt. Ich werde dort einen Workshop zum Thema "Wikipedien in kleinen Sprachen" organisieren. Du bist herzlich eingeladen, nach Karlsruhe zu kommen und mitzudiskutieren. Die offizielle Anmeldung läuft bis zum 23. Oktober. Vielleicht könnten wir uns da auch mal über mögliche Strategien zur Neubelebung der Ripuarischen Wikipedia austauschen. Gruß, --Holder (Klaafe) 08:21, 7. Okt 2013 (CEST)

Hallo Holder,

vielen Dank für die Einladung. Leider kann ich nicht teilnehmen, denke aber, dass dir die Probleme der ksh-Wikipedia genau bekannt sind. Meine Einstellung zu dieser Wikipedia habe ich ebenfalls oft genug demonstriert, so dass hier auch keine Zweifel bestehen sollten. Gleichzeitig haben wir mehrfach aktuelle Probleme diskutiert, Schwierigkeiten, die - soweit mir bekannt ist - keine andere Dialekt-Wikipedia besitzt.

Ich unterstütze eventuell gefasste Entschlüsse zum Überleben der ksh-Wikipedia, sehe jedoch kaum eine realistische Chance.

Gruß --BBKurt (Klaafe) 23:58, 8. Okt 2013 (CEST)

Hallo BBKurt, die Ripuarische Wikipedia braucht keine Entschlüsse, sondern mehr Mitarbeiter, das ist das grundsätzliche Problem. Und da hat sie durchaus Parallelen zu anderen kleinen Wikipedien. Und dass eine eingeschlafene Wikipedia gar keine realistische Chance hat, glaube ich nicht. Nur mal als Beispiel: die Maltesische Wikipedia war rund drei Jahre praktisch inaktiv und dann haben vor ca. einem Jahr wieder Leute angefangen Artikel zu schreiben, warum sollte das nicht auch in der Ripuarischen Wp irgendwann so kommen? Es braucht einfach ganz neue Leute, nicht die alten von vor sechs Jahren. P.S.: Morgen bin ich übrigens in Aachen, da komme ich auf der Fahrt immer am Bahnhof Stolberg vorbei :-). Gruß, --Holder (Klaafe) 08:29, 9. Okt 2013 (CEST)

Schöne Weihnachten

Hallo BBKurt,

ich wünsche Dir und Deiner Familie schöne Weihnachten und ein gutes Neus Jahr.

Viele Grüße aus dem Süden. --Holder (Klaafe) 08:07, 24. Dez 2013 (CET)

Ein Stück Internet wird kölsch

Koeln-Domain: Ein Stück Internet wird kölsch (ptext.de, 11.01.2014). Gruß, --Holder (Klaafe) 14:22, 13. Jan 2014 (CET)

Ich freue mich über jeden neuen Autor. Gruß ~~BBKurt

Kleiner Hinweis

Kleiner Hinweis an den Hauptautor von Stillleben mit Bierkrug und Obst: der Artikel existiert in der deutschen Version schon länger. Nun habe ich auch den Artikel Stillleben mit Kaffeetopf und Blumen geschrieben. Beide Gemälde wurden lange Zeit von Gogh zugeschrieben, sie sind aber nicht von van Gogh. --Atamari (Klaafe) 11:21, 30. Jan 2014 (CET)

Adminkandidatur

Hallo BBKurt,

nachdem Jüppsche und Düüwelskääl seit über einem Jahr inakjtiuv sind, kandidiere ich hier als Admin.

Gruß, --Holder (Klaafe) 09:36, 14. Feb 2014 (CET)

Köbes-Wahl

Die Köbes-Wahl ist ja nunn vorbei, leider hast nur Du abgestimmt. Gültig ist die Wahl nach den Regeln aber dennoch. Gruß, --Holder (Klaafe) 12:37, 6. Mäz 2014 (CET)

Ich gratuliere zur Wahl. Dass es zu keiner weiteren Stimmabgabe gekommen ist - mich hat es nicht überrascht. Gruß --BBKurt

Danke, kannst Du mir noch die Adminrechte geben? Du bist doch hier Bürokrat ... :-) --Holder (Klaafe) 06:02, 7. Mäz 2014 (CET)

Request for username change : Hosiryuhosi -> Rxy

Hello. Could you please change my username?

• Current username: Hosiryuhosi
• Target username: Rxy
• Reason: I want to change my current username to short username at WMF wikis globally. Note: Global account "Rxy" is my account (confirm). I'm sorry for request to here. I can't find request page. Thanks. --Hosiryuhosi (Klaafe) 20:26, 8. Mäz 2014 (CET)

The name was changed as requested. Regards --BBKurt (Klaafe) 21:53, 8. Mäz 2014 (CET)

Thanks for moving my user page. However I want to change my user name to rxy. It should use Special:RenameUser. Regards, --Hosiryuhosi (Klaafe) 13:29, 19. Mäz 2014 (CET)

I tried a rename but received the following message "Dä Metmaacher-Name „Rxy“ es för en jemeinsame Aanmeldung reserveet. Do künne mer nix drop ömnenne." It means that Rxy is reserved for use in all wikipedias. A rename is not possible. Please try to use Rxy at the ksh-wikipedia. It should work. Regards --BBKurt (Klaafe)

User:JhsBot

Hi, could you please remove bot status from my bot JhsBot? I only used it for interwiki on this wiki, and since we now have Wikidata, the bot is obsolete. Thanks in advance! Jon Harald Søby (Klaafe) 16:52, 17. Auj 2014 (CEST)

Done!--BBKurt (Klaafe)

WikiCon 2014 in Köln

Hallo BBKurt

Die diesjährige WikiCon findet vom 3. bis zum 5. Oktober in Köln statt. Ich würde mich sehr freuen, wenn Du Zeit und Interesse hättest, dort mal vorbeizuschauen, würde Dich gerne einmal kennenlernen. Anmelden kannst Du dich über das Online-Portal https://wikicon.org/. Falls Du eine Hotelübernachtung in Köln möchtest, kannst Du das noch bis zum 31. August über dieses Portal buchen lassen. Auch die Kosten für Anreise und Übernachtung kannst Du dir über einen formlosen Antrag an Wikimedia Deutschland erstatten lassen. Wenn du noch Fragen hast, kannst du dich gerne an mich wenden. Viele Grüße, --Holder (Klaafe) 08:50, 25. Auj 2014 (CEST)

Wir streben auf der WikiCon übrigens auch einen Besichtigungstermin bei der Akademie för uns kölsche Sproch an, die ihren Sitz im gleichen Gebäude hat. --Holder (Klaafe) 18:24, 25. Auj 2014 (CEST)

An important message about renaming users

Dear BBKurt, My aplogies for writing in English. Please translate or have this translated for you if it will help. I am cross-posting this message to many places to make sure everyone who is a Wikimedia Foundation project bureaucrat receives a copy. If you are a bureaucrat on more than one wiki, you will receive this message on each wiki where you are a bureaucrat.

As you may have seen, work to perform the Wikimedia cluster-wide single-user login finalisation (SUL finalisation) is taking place. This may potentially effect your work as a local bureaucrat, so please read this message carefully.

Why is this happening? As currently stated at the global rename policy, a global account is a name linked to a single user across all Wikimedia wikis, with local accounts unified into a global collection. Previously, the only way to rename a unified user was to individually rename every local account. This was an extremely difficult and time-consuming task, both for stewards and for the users who had to initiate discussions with local bureaucrats (who perform local renames to date) on every wiki with available bureaucrats. The process took a very long time, since it's difficult to coordinate crosswiki renames among the projects and bureaucrats involved in individual projects.

The SUL finalisation will be taking place in stages, and one of the first stages will be to turn off Special:RenameUser locally. This needs to be done as soon as possible, on advice and input from Stewards and engineers for the project, so that no more accounts that are unified globally are broken by a local rename to usurp the global account name. Once this is done, the process of global name unification can begin. The date that has been chosen to turn off local renaming and shift over to entirely global renaming is 15 September 2014, or three weeks time from now. In place of local renames is a new tool, hosted on Meta, that allows for global renames on all wikis where the name is not registered will be deployed.

Your help is greatly needed during this process and going forward in the future if, as a bureaucrat, renaming users is something that you do or have an interest in participating in. The Wikimedia Stewards have set up, and are in charge of, a new community usergroup on Meta in order to share knowledge and work together on renaming accounts globally, called Global renamers. Stewards are in the process of creating documentation to help global renamers to get used to and learn more about global accounts and tools and Meta in general as well as the application format. As transparency is a valuable thing in our movement, the Stewards would like to have at least a brief public application period. If you are an experienced renamer as a local bureaucrat, the process of becoming a part of this group could take as little as 24 hours to complete. You, as a bureaucrat, should be able to apply for the global renamer right on Meta by the requests for global permissions page on 1 September, a week from now.

In the meantime please update your local page where users request renames to reflect this move to global renaming, and if there is a rename request and the user has edited more than one wiki with the name, please send them to the request page for a global rename.

Stewards greatly appreciate the trust local communities have in you and want to make this transition as easy as possible so that the two groups can start working together to ensure everyone has a unique login identity across Wikimedia projects. Completing this project will allow for long-desired universal tools like a global watchlist, global notifications and many, many more features to make work easier.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the SUL finalisation, read over the Help:Unified login page on Meta and leave a note on the talk page there, or on the talk page for global renamers. You can also contact me on my talk page on meta if you would like. I'm working as a bridge between Wikimedia Foundation Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Stewards, and you to assure that SUL finalisation goes as smoothly as possible; this is a community-driven process and I encourage you to work with the Stewards for our communities.

Thank you for your time. -- Keegan (WMF) talk 20:24, 25. Auj 2014 (CEST)

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Willkommen

Hallo BBKurt. Schön, dass man mal wieder etwas von dir liest. Kommst du eigentlich zur WikiCon in Wuppertal? Würde mich freune, dich mal persönlich kennenzulernen. Viele Grüße --Holder (Klaafe) 07:48, 10. Jun 2019 (CEST)

Hallo Holder,

das habe ich nicht geplant, mir aber vorgenommen, zukünftig wieder öfter für die ksh-Wikipedia zu schreiben.

Gruß --BBKurt (Klaafe)

Hallo BBKurt. Das freut mich zu lesen! --Holder (Klaafe) 15:10, 14. Jun 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The development of Wikidata Bridge has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia. [1]

Problems

• Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress. [2]
• Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed. [3]

Changes later this week

• You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database. [4]
• There is no deployment of a new version of MediaWiki on the wikis this week (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23:23, 1. Jul 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-28

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

• For event organizers, if you request a temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation, this will now also raise the edit rate limit for those new accounts at the event, which will prevent another bottleneck. [5]
• Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new partial blocks feature. [6]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 July. It will be on all wikis from 11 July (calendar).
• The design of MediaWiki's software windows will change for desktop users. Layout will be simpler, buttons will be bolder and clearer, and close buttons will be just icons. This is like the mobile design. This will affect ContentTranslation, VisualEditor, TemplateWizard, and other tools. [7]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [8]
• There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July. [9]

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22:13, 8. Jul 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the mobile web and give feedback. [10]

Changes later this week

• The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called Meßbruchsfelter and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical problems. It will not do any other changes. You can read more.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all wikis from 18 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback. [11]

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17:30, 15. Jul 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-30

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

• Communities interested by easing newcomers' first steps can now benefit from the Growth team experiments on their wikis. Check the conditions and the request process.
• The Coolest Tool Award 2019 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools by July 29. The awarded tools will be presented at Wikimania. [12]

Problems

• The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2. [13]

Changes later this week

• Phabricator database will be moved to a different server. Writes will be blocked on Thursday 25 July, between 05:30 and 06:00 AM UTC. Reads will remain unaffected. [14]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 July. It will be on all wikis from 25 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some items in the visual editor will change later this week. This will make it easier to edit links, citations, and templates on both desktop and mobile. [15][16]
• With advanced search turned on you will be able to choose the sorting order of the search results when you do a search. [17][18]
• Users who edit from IP addresses whitelisted on a request for temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation will bypass CAPTCHAs. This will happen in August. If you think this should not happen for some reason, please let us know.
• The variable user_wpzero will be removed from AbuseFilter. A list of filters needing a fix is provided.

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15:07, 22. Jul 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-31

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [19]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23:42, 29. Jul 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-32

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 August. It will be on all wikis from 8 August (calendar).

Problems

• A change in RelatedArticles extension accidentally enabled it for everyone, not just for mobile users. This has been fixed. [20][21]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Today everyone can see IP addresses if someone edits without an account. In the future this could be more hidden. This is to protect unregistered editors so fewer can see their IP address. This would only happen after we make sure the tools for vandal fighting can still be effective. You can read more and comment.

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15:25, 5. Auj 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-33

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

• Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools. Feedback on the discussion page is appreciated. [22]
• Due to the absence of volunteer maintenance of Cologne Blue skin, the link to activate it will be hidden. The skin will still work, but editors using it are encouraged to switch to another skin. [23]

Changes later this week

• Due to Wikimania, there is no deployment this week. [24]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The "Wikidata item" link will be moved from "Tools" to "In other projects" section on all Wikimedia projects, starting on August 21. Full announcement, Phabricator task.

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20:19, 12. Auj 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-34

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

• There will be no Tech News issue next week. The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 2 September 2019.

Problems

• Some abuse filters stopped working because of a code change. Only variables for the current action will work. Variables defined inside a branch may not work outside of that branch. You can read more to see how to fix the filters.
• Only six accounts can be created from one IP address per day. Between 12 August and August 15 this was two accounts per day. This was because of a security issue. It is now six accounts per day again. [25]

Changes later this week

• Only a limited number of accounts can be created from one IP address. An IP address can be whitelisted so that it can create as many accounts as needed. This is useful at events where many new persons learn to edit. IP addresses that are whitelisted for this reason will also not show CAPTCHAs when you create accounts. This will happen on Wednesday. [26]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 August. It will be on all wikis from 22 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is an RFC about creating a new global user group with the right to edit abuse filters. This will be used to fix broken filters and make sure all filters will still work when software changes happen. You can read more and comment.
• 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. [27]

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17:21, 19. Auj 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-36

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 use the new termbox interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages. [28]
• The new version of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week.
• The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues. [29]
• The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute. [30]
• The advanced version of the edit review pages (Recent Changes, Watchlist, and Related Changes) now include two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces. However the "All discussions" filter does not include pseudo talk pages, like discussions that are in the Project: or Wikipedia: namespaces. But it will include changes happening on Project talk: or the Wikipedia talk:. [31]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 Septämber. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 Septämber. It will be on all wikis from 5 Septämber (calendar).
• When you log in, the software checks your password to see if it follows the Password policy. From this week, it will also complain if your password is one of the most common passwords in the world. If your password is not strong enough, please consider to change your password for a stronger password. [32]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 Septämber at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikidata for up to 30 minutes on September 10 at 05:00 (UTC). [33]
• You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 17 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [34]
• You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 24 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [35]
• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to 30 minutes on September 26 at 05:00 (UTC). [36]

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11:07, 4. Sep 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-40

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Last week's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The problem where some pages got it three times should now be fixed. [37]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 Oktober. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 Oktober. It will be on all wikis from 3 Oktober (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 Oktober at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working on a watchlist expiry feature. This means you can put things on your watchlist for a period of time instead of forever. They are looking for feedback on the questions they have.
• Special:Contributions will get the standard OOUI look. This makes it easier to use on mobile and makes it look like other Special: pages. There is a script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to. [38]

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18:49, 30. Sep 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-41

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The abuse filter function now has a faster parser. This is to shorten the waiting time when you save an edit. [39]

Problems

• There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text with footnotes. It will be fixed soon. [40]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 October. It will be on all wikis from 10 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Community Wishlist Survey has a new format. It will focus on wikis that typically get less support. It will probably go back to the normal format next year. It is not decided exactly how it will work this year. You can leave feedback.
• The URL of the Wikimedia wiki main pages could be changed. This is because the current URLs cause several problems. For example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page would be https://www.wikidata.org/ instead. You can tell the developers if this would cause problems for your wiki.
• There is a new technical community newsletter. You can read more about the work of Wikimedia's technical community. Subscribe to get the information in the future.
• Outreachy is an internship program for groups who are underrepresented in free and open-source software. There are seven Wikimedia projects about coding, documentation and quality assurance in the next round. Persons who fit the criteria can apply. The last day to apply is 5 November.

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17:35, 7. Okt 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-42

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now use more advanced editing tools on the mobile web. You can turn them on and off in your preferences in the mobile version. [41]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 October. It will be on all wikis from 17 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are no longer supported. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They will not get security support. You can't read Wikimedia wikis in Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows versions that are older than Windows XP. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them made the wikis less secure for everyone else. [42]
• In the future section headings might have a share link. This is to make it easier to link to the section. You can read more and discuss.

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01:33, 15. Okt 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-43

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as internal. API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives. [43]

Problems

• There is a translation tool we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed. [44]
• The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed. [45]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (calendar).
• Reference Previews will be a beta feature on all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 October. See how to join.

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16:27, 21. Okt 2019 (CEST)

Tech News: 2019-44

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
• Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist. [46][47]
• You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
• OOUI now allows using px (pixels) instead of em (em) for some specific cases. [48][49]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 Oktober. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 Oktober. It will be on all wikis from 31 Oktober (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 Oktober at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January. [50]
• Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named wg* to mw.config. The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.

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17:11, 28. Okt 2019 (CET)

Tech News: 2019-45

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

• At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites. [51]

Changes later this week

• 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. [52]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:47, 4. Nov 2019 (CET)

Tech News: 2019-46

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

• MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.

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23:03, 11. Nov 2019 (CET)