ব্যবহারকারী আলাপ:Ahm masum/আর্কাইভ ৩

উপসাগরীয় আরবি ভাষা

ভাইয়া, শুরুতেই ধন্যবাদ উপসাগরীয় আরবি ভাষাতে {{রুক্ষ অনুবাদ}} ট্যাগ লাগানোর জন্য। সময় স্বল্পতার জন্য, নিবন্ধটি লিখার পর মনে হচ্ছিল কি করব। আমার উচিৎ ছিলো খেলাঘরে রেখে দিবার। বাকি, আমি আবার নিবন্ধটি উন্নয়ন করার চেষ্টা করেছি। আপনি আবার নিবন্ধটি ঘুরে আসলে খুশি হতাম। Fazal E Tamim (আলাপ) ০৪:২৩, ১৫ নভেম্বর ২০১৭ (ইউটিসি) Fazal E Tamim (আলাপ) ০৪:২৩, ১৫ নভেম্বর ২০১৭ (ইউটিসি)

ট্যাগ সরানো হয়েছে । ধন্যবাদ। --Muḥammad (আলাপ) ১২:৩৪, ১৫ নভেম্বর ২০১৭ (ইউটিসি)

উপসাগরীয় আরবি ভাষা

ভাইয়া, শুরুতেই ধন্যবাদ উপসাগরীয় আরবি ভাষাতে {{রুক্ষ অনুবাদ}} ট্যাগ লাগানোর জন্য। সময় স্বল্পতার জন্য, নিবন্ধটি লিখার পর মনে হচ্ছিল কি করব। আমার উচিৎ ছিলো খেলাঘরে রেখে দিবার। বাকি, আমি আবার নিবন্ধটি উন্নয়ন করার চেষ্টা করেছি। আপনি আবার নিবন্ধটি ঘুরে আসলে খুশি হতাম। Fazal E Tamim (আলাপ) ০৪:২৩, ১৫ নভেম্বর ২০১৭ (ইউটিসি) Fazal E Tamim (আলাপ) ০৪:২৩, ১৫ নভেম্বর ২০১৭ (ইউটিসি)

ট্যাগ সরানো হয়েছে । ধন্যবাদ। --Muḥammad (আলাপ) ১২:৩৪, ১৫ নভেম্বর ২০১৭ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2017-47

উইকিমিডিয়া কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তন সম্পর্কে অন্যান্য ব্যবহারকরীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।

সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• আপনি যদি অ্যান্ড্রয়েডে ক্রোম ওয়েব ব্রাউজার ব্যবহার করেন, আপনি মোবাইল ওয়েবসাইটে একটি ডাউনলোড আইকন দেখতে পাবেন। তাতে ক্লিক করে আপনি একটি বিন্যাসিত পিডিএফ ডাউনলোড করতে পারবেন। এটি ভবিষ্যতে অন্য মোবাইল ব্রাউজারেও কাজ করবে। [১]
• অপব্যবহার ছাঁকনির এখন get_matches নামক ফাংশন আছে। আপনি রেগুলার এক্সপ্রেশন থেকে মিলগুলি সংরক্ষণ করতে এটি ব্যবহার করতে পারেন - প্রতিটি ক্যাপচার গ্রুপে একটি করে। আপনি ফ্যাব্রিকেটরে আরো পড়তে পারেন।

সমস্যাসমূহ

• একটি ডেটাবেস ক্র্যাশের কারণে গত সপ্তাহের মিডিয়াউইকির সংস্করণ সব উইকিপিডিয়াতে আসেনি। ২০ নভেম্বরে এটি সবকটি উইকিতে আসবে। [২][৩][৪]

এই সপ্তাহের পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• এই সপ্তাহে কোন নতুন মিডিয়াউইকি সংস্করণ প্রকাশিত হবে না।

সভা

• আপনি সম্পাদক দলের সঙ্গে পরবর্তী সভায় যোগ দিতে পারেন। সভাকালীন, আপনি যে সমস্যাটি সবচেয়ে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ বলে মনে করেন তা উন্নয়নকারীদেরকে জানাতে পারেন। সভাটি ২১ নভেম্বর তারিখে ১৯:৩০ টায় (ইউটিসি) অনুষ্ঠিত হবে। জানুন কিভাবে যোগ দিতে হয়।
• আপনি IRC-তে প্রযুক্তিগত পরামর্শ সভায় যোগ দিতে পারেন। সভায় স্বেচ্ছাসেবক উন্নয়নকারীরা পরামর্শ পেতে প্রশ্ন করতে পারেন।। সভাটি ২২ নভেম্বর তারিখে ১৬:০০ টায় (ইউটিসি) অনুষ্ঠিত হবে। জানুন কিভাবে যোগ দিতে হয়।

ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• ভাষা রূপান্তরকারী সিনট্যাক্স আর বাহ্যিক সংযোগগুলির ভিতরে কাজ করবে না। http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- এর মত উইকিপাঠ্য অবশ্যই প্রতিস্থাপন করতে হবে। এর পরিবর্তে আপনাকে -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- লিখতে হবে। এটি শুধুমাত্র ভাষা রূপান্তরকারী সক্ষম করা ভাষাগুলিকে প্রভাবিত করবে। এই ধরনের ভাষাগুলির উদাহরণ হল চীনা এবং সার্বীয়। এটি পরের সপ্তাহে ঘটবে। [৫][৬]

প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ লেখক দ্বারা প্রস্তুতকৃত ও বট দ্বারা প্রকাশিত প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ • অবদান রাখুন • অনুবাদ করুন • সাহায্য পান • মতামত জানান • গ্রাহকত্ব পরিচালনা করুন।

১৯:১৮, ২০ নভেম্বর ২০১৭ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2017-48

উইকিমিডিয়া কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তন সম্পর্কে অন্যান্য ব্যবহারকরীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।

সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• আপনি এখন mediawiki.org তে নতুন উন্নত অনুসন্ধান ফাংশন বিটা বৈশিষ্ট্য পরীক্ষা করতে পারবেন। এটি কিছু বিশেষ অনুসন্ধানের ফাংশন ব্যবহার করা সহজ করে তোলে যা বেশিরভাগ সম্পাদকেরা জানেনই না যার অস্তিত্ব আছে। এটি এই সপ্তাহে জার্মান ও আরবি উইকিপিডিয়ায় আসবে। এটি পরে আরো উইকিতে আসবে। [৭]
• আপনি এখন ইন্টারনেট আর্কাইভ আপলোড সরঞ্জাম দিয়ে বৃহৎ ফাইল আপলোড করতে পারবেন। পূর্বে ১০০ মেগাবাইটের বড় ফাইল আপলোড করা যেত না। [৮]
• আপনি এখন সকল উইকিতে টাইমলেস আবরণ ব্যবহার করতে পারবেন। আপনি বিশেষ:পছন্দ#Appearance-এ যেয়ে আবরণ পছন্দ করতে পারবেন। [৯]

এই সপ্তাহের পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ২৮ নভেম্বর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ২৯ নভেম্বর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ৩০ নভেম্বর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।

সভা

• আপনি সম্পাদক দলের সঙ্গে পরবর্তী সভায় যোগ দিতে পারেন। সভাকালীন, আপনি যে সমস্যাটি সবচেয়ে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ বলে মনে করেন তা উন্নয়নকারীদেরকে জানাতে পারেন। সভাটি ২৮ নভেম্বর তারিখে ১৯:৩০ টায় (ইউটিসি) অনুষ্ঠিত হবে। জানুন কিভাবে যোগ দিতে হয়।
• আপনি IRC-তে প্রযুক্তিগত পরামর্শ সভায় যোগ দিতে পারেন। সভায় স্বেচ্ছাসেবক উন্নয়নকারীরা পরামর্শ পেতে প্রশ্ন করতে পারেন।। সভাটি ২৯ নভেম্বর তারিখে ১৬:০০ টায় (ইউটিসি) অনুষ্ঠিত হবে। জানুন কিভাবে যোগ দিতে হয়।

প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ লেখক দ্বারা প্রস্তুতকৃত ও বট দ্বারা প্রকাশিত প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ • অবদান রাখুন • অনুবাদ করুন • সাহায্য পান • মতামত জানান • গ্রাহকত্ব পরিচালনা করুন।

২০:৩০, ২৭ নভেম্বর ২০১৭ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2017-49

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

• It is now possible to upload MP3 files to Commons. Only users with MP3 file upload rights can upload MP3 files. [১০]
• You can now use live updates for recent changes if you use the new filters. This feature updates the filtered recent changes every three seconds when you activate it. [১১]
• There is an experimental onion service for Wikimedia projects. [১২]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 December. It will be on all wikis from 7 December (calendar).
• Very old versions of the Opera Web browser are no longer supported. This means that technical development will not be tested to make sure it works with those Opera versions. Use Opera 15 or above or another browser if you have problems. [১৩]
• Almost 170 wikis with no high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. A few larger wikis such as German and Italian Wikipedia will also make this switch. It will happen on 5 December. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [১৪][১৫]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You can vote for wishes on the survey page until 10 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2016 results page.
• The Community Liaisons team at the Wikimedia Foundation is looking for active tech ambassadors. This is to make sure the Wikimedia communities get all the information they need about new features and can be involved in the technical development. [১৬]

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১৭:৫০, ৪ ডিসেম্বর ২০১৭ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2017-50

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

• URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this: 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 has now been fixed on all wikis. Old links will still work. [১৭]
• A new tag marks edits where a redirect was created or removed. This still works when the editor writes something else in the edit summary. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. [১৮]
• If you use Chrome on Android, you can now use the print to PDF button to create a PDF of an article. [১৯]
• Filter by number of edits or filter by time range have been grouped on a same menu on the recent changes page if you use the new filters. The "$1 থেকে নতুনতর পরিবর্তনসমূহ দেখুন" link is now more prominent. [২০]
• Some of the web fonts that were provided by the Universal Language Selector extension are being removed. This is to reduce the load time on pages. The web fonts were added many years ago to help users read text in scripts which did not have fonts or had broken fonts. This is not the case any more. You can check the status page for a list of all web fonts and whether they are currently being used and especially for special requirements. [২১]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can discuss new or improved blocking tools with the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team. They will work on building better blocking tools. Leave comments on the talk page.

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১৭:৫৮, ১১ ডিসেম্বর ২০১৭ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2017-51

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2018.

Problems

• When you import a page from another wiki the usernames of the users who edited the article on the wiki you imported it from are shown in the article history. This should link to the users on the original wiki. A script to fix this caused problems for Wikidata and German Wikipedia. It also created a large number of SUL accounts on wikis where editors had never edited. [২২]
• Some bot owners got email about their bots logging in from a new computer. If this is from one or a couple of wikis, you can turn these messages off in your preferences on those wikis until the problem has been solved. If not, you can report more about the problem in Phabricator.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on ১৯ ডিসেম্বর at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Files on Commons will have structured metadata in the future. The developers are now looking for examples of different kinds of metadata to make sure they are aware of them when they build prototypes for structured data on Commons. You can read more and help by giving examples of interesting media files.
• The Structured Commons team are making sure Commons work with structured data. If you regularly contribute to Commons and Wikidata you can answer a survey that helps the team prioritise the tools that are important for the Commons and Wikidata communities. The survey ends on 22 December. You can read more on Commons. You can also help the team decide on better names for "captions" and "descriptions". This ends on 3 January 2018.
• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey has now ended. You can see the results. They decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year.

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১৫:২৭, ১৮ ডিসেম্বর ২০১৭ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-02

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

Recent changes

• On Wikidata, the "সংরক্ষণ" button when you edit is now called "প্রকাশ করুন". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "পাতা সংরক্ষণ করুন" to "পরিবর্তন প্রকাশ করুন". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [২৩][২৪]
• Some edits will get an automatic tag on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways. [২৫]
• Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [২৬]
• Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated. [২৭][২৮]

Problems

• Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem. [২৯]
• With the new filters in the recent changes, "নির্বাচিতগুলি বাদ দিন" in "নামস্থানসমূহ" did not work for "সংরক্ষিত ছাঁকনি" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [৩০]
• The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #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). [৩১]
• Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [৩২]

Changes later this week

• Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this you will be able to read but not edit Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis. [৩৩]
• The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems. [৩৪][৩৫]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).
• WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: ext.wikiEditor. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed. [৩৬]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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১৬:১৯, ৮ জানুয়ারি ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-3

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

• Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [৩৭]
• There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [৩৮]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [৩৯][৪০]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [৪১][৪২]

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১৮:৪৫, ১৫ জানুয়ারি ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-04

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

• Filters on Special:RecentChangesLinked will get the new look similar to on the recent changes page. Special:RecentChangesLinked will also get some new features. [৪৩][৪৪]

Problems

• With the new OOUI look menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed. [৪৫]

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 24 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• 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. [৪৬]

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২৩:৫৫, ২২ জানুয়ারি ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-05

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

• 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 31 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation is working on how to get less unmaintained code on Wikimedia wikis. This could be by finding maintainers or removing unmaintained features. They are now looking for feedback on what do do with AbuseFilter, the IRC RecentChanges feed, the RelatedSites extension and TimedMediaHandler. You can leave feedback on the linked talk pages. [৪৭]

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১৭:০৭, ২৯ জানুয়ারি ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-06

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

• Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [৪৮]
• The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [৪৯]
• Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [৫০]

Problems

• Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [৫১]

Changes later this week

• When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [৫২]
• When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like 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. [৫৩]
• The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of হ্যাঁ or না it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [৫৪]
• Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [৫৫]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Education Program extension will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the Programs and Events Dashboard. [৫৬][৫৭]

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২০:৫১, ৫ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-07

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

• TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [৫৮][৫৯][৬০]
• Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week

• You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [৬১]
• The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{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. [৬২]
• The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [৬৩]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 February at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved. [৬৪]

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২১:৫৯, ১২ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-08

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 explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [৬৫][৬৬]
• You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [৬৭]

Problems

• Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [৬৮]
• Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [৬৯][৭০]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible. [৭১]
• Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.

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২২:৫৪, ১৯ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-09

উইকিমিডিয়া কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তন সম্পর্কে অন্যান্য ব্যবহারকরীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।

সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• ব্যবহারকারী পরীক্ষক এবং স্টুয়ার্ডরা এখন ব্যক্তিগত তথ্য যেমন অপব্যবহার লগের আইপি ঠিকানা দেখতে পারেন। এই উপাত্ত নিয়মিতভাবে মুছে ফেলা হয়। [৭২]

সমস্যাসমূহ

• গত সপ্তাহের মিডিয়াউইকি সংস্করণটিকে একটি বাগের কারণে বাতিল করা হয়েছে। [৭৩][৭৪]
• গত সপ্তাহে ২০শে ফেব্রুয়ারি মধ্যরাত ইউটিসি পর্যন্ত, যখন আপনি কোনও সম্পাদনার জন্য কাউকে ধন্যবাদ জানিয়েছিলেন, ধন্যবাদটি সেই পৃষ্ঠাটিতে সর্বশেষ অনির্বাচিত সম্পাদনায় গিয়েছে। আপনি যে সম্পাদনার জন্য ধন্যবাদ দেয়ার চেষ্ঠাই করুন না কেন সেটি কাজ করেনি। এটি ঠিক করা হয়েছে। [৭৫]
• বিশেষ:পরিসংখ্যান ১৩ ফেব্রুয়ারী ২০১৮ সাল থেকে সদ্য তৈরি করা পৃষ্ঠাগুলিকে গণনা করছিল না। এর ফলে পরিসংখ্যানগুলি পুনঃনির্ধারণ করা হয়েছে। [৭৬][৭৭][৭৮]

চলতি সপ্তাহের পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• ইন্টারনেট এক্সপ্লোরারের সংস্করণ ১০-এর ব্যবহারকারীরা আর উইকিমিডিয়া উইকিগুলিতে জাভাস্ক্রিপ্ট পাবেন না। আপনি যদি আপনার কম্পিউটারে এই ব্রাউজার ব্যবহার করেন তবে আপনি একটি নতুন সংস্করণে হালনাগাদ করার চেষ্টা করতে পারেন। [৭৯]
• উইকিসংবাদ রিমিক্স পার্সিং লাইব্রেরি ব্যবহার করতে শুরু করবে। এটি Tidy কে পুনঃস্থাপন করতে করা হচ্ছে। এটি ২৭ ফেব্রুয়ারীতে করা হবে। অন্যান্য উইকিগুলিকে ত্রুটিগুলি সংশোধন করতে শীঘ্রই এটিতে আসার পরামর্শ দেয়া হচ্ছে। ২০১৮-এর মাঝামাঝি Tidy সরানো হবে। [৮০][৮১]
• মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ২৭ ফেব্রুয়ারি থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ২৮ ফেব্রুয়ারি থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ১ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।

সভা

• আপনি সম্পাদক দলের সঙ্গে পরবর্তী সভায় যোগ দিতে পারেন। সভাকালীন, আপনি যে সমস্যাটি সবচেয়ে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ বলে মনে করেন তা উন্নয়নকারীদেরকে জানাতে পারেন। সভাটি ২৭ ফেব্রুয়ারি তারিখে ১৯:৩০ টায় (ইউটিসি) অনুষ্ঠিত হবে। জানুন কিভাবে যোগ দিতে হয়।
• আপনি কারিগরি পরামর্শের পরবর্তী সভায় যোগ দিতে পারেন। সভাকালীন, স্বেচ্ছাসেবক উন্নয়নকারীরা পরামর্শের জন্য জিজ্ঞাসা করতে পারেন। সভাটি ২৮ ফেব্রুয়ারি তারিখে ১৬:০০ টায় (ইউটিসি) অনুষ্ঠিত হবে। জানুন কিভাবে যোগ দিতে হয়।

প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ লেখক দ্বারা প্রস্তুতকৃত ও বট দ্বারা প্রকাশিত প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ • অবদান রাখুন • অনুবাদ করুন • সাহায্য পান • মতামত জানান • গ্রাহকত্ব পরিচালনা করুন।

১৯:৫৩, ২৬ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-10

উইকিমিডিয়া কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তন সম্পর্কে অন্যান্য ব্যবহারকরীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।

সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• আপনি সম্পাদনা সারাংশ এখন আরও দীর্ঘ করতে পারেন। [৮২]

এই সপ্তাহ শেষের পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• আপনি সম্পাদনা সারাংশে ব্যবহারকারীদের অবহিত করতে পারবেন। তারা একটি উইকি পাতায় উল্লেখের মত একটি অবহিতি পাবেন। [৮৩]
• বিশেষ:অপব্যবহার লগে আপনি এখন শুধুমাত্র সেই কর্মগুলিও দেখতে পারবেন যা আসলে একটি সম্পাদনা উৎপন্ন করেছে। অন্যান্য কর্মগুলি হল যখন ছাঁকনি সম্পাদককে সতর্ক করে দেয় অথবা সম্পাদনা করা থেকে বিরত রাখে। সেখানে আরো অনুসন্ধান বিকল্প আছে। [৮৪][৮৫]
• উইকিসমূহ দৃশ্যমান সম্পাদনা এবং ২০১৭ উইকিপাঠ সম্পাদককে স্বয়ংক্রিয় তথ্যসূত্র সন্ধানের জন্য Citoid সক্ষম করতে পারবে, কিন্তু এটি জটিল। কনফিগারেশনটি সঠিক না হলে সরঞ্জামটি এখন জাভাস্ক্রিপ্ট কনসোলকে সতর্ক করবে। কনফিগারেশন সঠিক না হলে শীঘ্রই এটি Citoid নিষ্ক্রিয় করবে। আপনার উইকি সঠিকভাবে কনফিগার করা আছে তা পরীক্ষা করে দেখুন আপনি যদি এটির প্রয়োজন হয় তবে সাহায্যের জন্য জিজ্ঞাসা করুন করতে পারেন। [৮৬]
• মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ৬ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ৭ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ৮ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।

সভা

• আপনি সম্পাদক দলের সঙ্গে পরবর্তী সভায় যোগ দিতে পারেন। সভাকালীন, আপনি যে সমস্যাটি সবচেয়ে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ বলে মনে করেন তা উন্নয়নকারীদেরকে জানাতে পারেন। সভাটি ৬ মার্চ তারিখে ১৯:০০ টায় (ইউটিসি) অনুষ্ঠিত হবে। জানুন কিভাবে যোগ দিতে হয়।
• আপনি প্রযুক্তিগত সম্পাদক দলের সঙ্গে পরবর্তী সভায় আইআরসি-তে যোগ দিতে পারেন। সভাকালীন, আপনি যে সমস্যাটি সবচেয়ে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ বলে মনে করেন তা উন্নয়নকারীদেরকে জানাতে পারেন। সভাটি ৭ মার্চ তারিখে ১৬:০০ টায় (ইউটিসি) অনুষ্ঠিত হবে। জানুন কিভাবে যোগ দিতে হয়।

ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• ভবিষ্যতে আপনি বৈশ্বিক পছন্দগুলি ব্যবহার করতে সক্ষম হবেন। এর মানে আপনি প্রতিটি উইকির জন্য আলাদা আলাদা করে প্রতিবার এটি পরিবর্তন করার পরিবর্তে সব উইকির জন্য একেবারে পছন্দ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন। এখন আপনি বৈশ্বিক পছন্দসমূহ পরীক্ষা করতে পারবেন এবং মতামত জানাতে পারবেন।
• আপনি এখন মানচিত্রে ২০১৮ সালের পরিকল্পিত কাজগুলি সম্পর্কে পড়তে পারবেন। এটি জুন মাসের মধ্যে হয়ে যাবে। আপনি পরিকল্পিত মানচিত্রের কাজগুলি সম্পর্কে মতামত দিতে পারেন।

প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ লেখক দ্বারা প্রস্তুতকৃত ও বট দ্বারা প্রকাশিত প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ • অবদান রাখুন • অনুবাদ করুন • সাহায্য পান • মতামত জানান • গ্রাহকত্ব পরিচালনা করুন।

১৭:১২, ৫ মার্চ ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-11

উইকিমিডিয়া কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তন সম্পর্কে অন্যান্য ব্যবহারকরীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।

সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• এখন ত্রিমাত্রিক নকশাগুলি কমন্সে আপলোড করা যাবে। [৮৭]
• Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [৮৮]
• Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [৮৯]
• Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [৯০]

সমস্যা

• The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [৯১]

চলতি সপ্তাহের পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [৯২]
• It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [৯৩][৯৪]
• A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [৯৫][৯৬][৯৭]
• মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ১৩ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ১৪ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ১৫ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।

সভা

• আপনি সম্পাদক দলের সঙ্গে পরবর্তী সভায় যোগ দিতে পারেন। সভাকালীন, আপনি যে সমস্যাটি সবচেয়ে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ বলে মনে করেন তা উন্নয়নকারীদেরকে জানাতে পারেন। সভাটি ১৩ মার্চ তারিখে ১৯:৩০ টায় (ইউটিসি) অনুষ্ঠিত হবে। জানুন কিভাবে যোগ দিতে হয়।
• আপনি IRC-তে কারিগরি পরামর্শের পরবর্তী সভায় যোগ দিতে পারেন। সভাকালীন, স্বেচ্ছাসেবক উন্নয়নকারীরা পরামর্শের জন্য জিজ্ঞাসা করতে পারেন। সভাটি ১৪ মার্চ তারিখে ১৬:০০ টায় (ইউটিসি) অনুষ্ঠিত হবে। জানুন কিভাবে যোগ দিতে হয়।

প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ লেখক দ্বারা প্রস্তুতকৃত ও বট দ্বারা প্রকাশিত প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ • অবদান রাখুন • অনুবাদ করুন • সাহায্য পান • মতামত জানান • গ্রাহকত্ব পরিচালনা করুন।

১৯:৪৩, ১২ মার্চ ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-12

উইকিমিডিয়া কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তন সম্পর্কে অন্যান্য ব্যবহারকরীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।

সমস্যাসমূহ

• সমন্বয়িত সার্বজনীন সময় ১২ই মার্চ সকাল, esams উপাত্তকেন্দ্রের কিছু সমস্যার কারণে ৫০৩ ত্রুটি বার্তা বেড়ে যায়। এটি এখন ঠিক করা হয়েছে। [৯৮]

এই সপ্তাহ অন্তের পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ২০ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ২১ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ২২ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।

সভা

• এই সপ্তাহে সম্পাদক দলের কোনো সভা নেই।
• আপনি আইআরসি-তে কারিগরি পরামর্শ সভায় যোগ দিতে পারেন। সভাকালীন, স্বেচ্ছাসেবক উন্নয়নকারীরা পরামর্শের জন্য জিজ্ঞাসা করতে পারেন। সভাটি ২১ মার্চ তারিখে ১৬:০০ টায় (ইউটিসি) অনুষ্ঠিত হবে। জানুন কিভাবে যোগ দিতে হয়।

ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• ৪ঠা এপ্রিল থেকে, সম্পাদনাগুলির স্বয়ংক্রিয় অবস্থা শুধুমাত্র সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনের ডাটাবেস টেবিলে প্রবেশযোগ্য হবে, সুতারাং শুধুমাত্র ৩০ দিনের জন্য। [৯৯][১০০]
• প্রেক্ষাপট সাহায্য ও অনবোর্ডিং একটি নতুন প্রকল্প, যার উদ্দেশ্য হল নতুন উইকি সম্পাদকের ধারণার উন্নতি করা। লক্ষ্য হল তাদের কার্যকলাপ উপর ভিত্তি করে তাদের সংক্ষিপ্ত শিক্ষাসম্বন্ধীয় প্রবন্ধ এবং অন্যান্য প্রশিক্ষণ অভিজ্ঞতা দেওয়া। সহযোগী দল প্রকল্প আলাপ পৃষ্ঠাতে মতামত আশা করছেন, বিশেষ করে সেই সমস্ত ব্যক্তিদের থেকে যারা নবাগতদের সঙ্গে কাজ করছেন।

প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ লেখক দ্বারা প্রস্তুতকৃত ও বট দ্বারা প্রকাশিত প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ • অবদান রাখুন • অনুবাদ করুন • সাহায্য পান • মতামত জানান • গ্রাহকত্ব পরিচালনা করুন।

১৫:০৩, ১৯ মার্চ ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-13

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

• Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [১০১] [১০২]
• The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [১০৩]
• TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [১০৪]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [১০৫]
• Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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২০:০৪, ২৬ মার্চ ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-14

উইকিমিডিয়া কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তন সম্পর্কে অন্যান্য ব্যবহারকরীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।

সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
• The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

সমস্যাসমূহ

• MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [১০৬][১০৭][১০৮]
• The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [১০৯]

চলতি সপ্তাহের পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ৩ এপ্রিল থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ৪ এপ্রিল থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ৫ এপ্রিল থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
• User subpages ending in .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. [১১০]
• Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [১১১][১১২][১১৩]
• AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [১১৪] [১১৫]
• In Special:Preferences, the preference "প্রতিবার একটি ছাঁকনি পরিবর্তন হওয়া মাত্রই স্বয়ংক্রিয়ভাবে নজরতালিকাটি পুনঃলোড করা হোক (জাভাস্ক্রিপ্ট প্রয়োজন)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [১১৬]
• You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [১১৭]
• You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [১১৮]

সভা

• আপনি সম্পাদক দলের সঙ্গে পরবর্তী সভায় যোগ দিতে পারেন। সভাকালীন, আপনি যে সমস্যাটি সবচেয়ে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ বলে মনে করেন তা উন্নয়নকারীদেরকে জানাতে পারেন। সভাটি ৩ এপ্রিল তারিখে ১৮:৩০ টায় (ইউটিসি) অনুষ্ঠিত হবে। জানুন কিভাবে যোগ দিতে হয়।
• আপনি আই আর সি তে প্রযুক্তি উপদেশ সভায় যোগ দিতে পারেন। সভাকালীন, স্বেচ্বাসেবক উন্নয়নকারীরা উপদেশ চাইতে পারেন। সভাটি ৪ এপ্রিল তারিখে ১5:০০ টায় (ইউটিসি) অনুষ্ঠিত হবে। জানুন কিভাবে যোগ দিতে হয়।

ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
• On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [১১৯][১২০]

প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ লেখক দ্বারা প্রস্তুতকৃত ও বট দ্বারা প্রকাশিত • অবদান রাখুন • অনুবাদ করুন • সাহায্য পান • মতামত জানান • গ্রাহকত্ব পরিচালনা করুন।

১৯:২৮, ২ এপ্রিল ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-15

উইকিমিডিয়া কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তন সম্পর্কে অন্যান্য ব্যবহারকরীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।

সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it. [১২১]
• You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year. [১২২]
• The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details. [১২৩]
• Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left). [১২৪]

Problems

• The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [১২৫]
• For a week in March rollbacks got both the rollback and the undo tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed. [১২৬]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from ১০ এপ্রিল. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from ১১ এপ্রিল. It will be on all wikis from ১২ এপ্রিল (calendar).
• Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits. [১২৭]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on ১০ এপ্রিল at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on ১১ এপ্রিল at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The iOS and Android apps will get synced reading lists later in April.

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১৮:০৯, ৯ এপ্রিল ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-16

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

• Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [১২৮]
• Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [১২৯][১৩০]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (calendar).

Meetings

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

Future changes

• The new PDF renderer could not create PDFs from books. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki. PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function. [১৩১]
• Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3. [১৩২]
• Volunteer developers can fill out the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey. The last day is April 22 (UTC). This is a third-party service survey. See the privacy statement.

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১৫:২০, ১৬ এপ্রিল ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-17

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

• All Wikipedias now have Page Previews.
• The iOS and Android apps now have synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
• The icons in the 2010 wikitext editor have changed. [১৩৩]
• The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press Publish. This button now also shows an ellipsis. This is to show that pressing Publish is not the last step. [১৩৪]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• <mapframe> will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of flagged revisions will not get this feature in May. [১৩৫]
• The rollback function could change. This was a German community request. All editors with rollback rights can leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).

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১৮:১৬, ২৩ এপ্রিল ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-18

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 parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links. [১৩৬]

Problems

• We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator. [১৩৭]

Changes later this week

• You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right. [১৩৮]
• When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date. [১৩৯]
• You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the সম্পাদনা section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly. [১৪০]
• There is a new abuse filter function called equals_to_any. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jharewikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
• All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [১৪১][১৪২][১৪৩]

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১৬:১৮, ৩০ এপ্রিল ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-19

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

Recent changes

• The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones. [১৪৪]

Problems

• The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed. [১৪৫]

Changes later this week

• The advanced search function beta feature will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. [১৪৬]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [১৪৭][১৪৮]

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১৬:২৮, ৭ মে ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-20

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

• Dynamic maps are now available on most Wikipedias. Labels on maps can also be in different languages.
• The new Advanced Search interface is now available as a Beta Feature on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated. [১৪৯]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 May. It will be on all wikis from 17 May (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 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can give feedback and suggestions.
• The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it. Read more on mediawiki.org [১৫০]

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২২:২৩, ১৪ মে ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-21

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 22 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 May. It will be on all wikis from 24 May (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 23 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• It could become easier to reference different pages of a book in an article. You can give feedback. The last day for feedback is 27 May.

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১৭:৩৩, ২১ মে ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

কীছু জানতে চাই ভাই, সাহায্য করুন।

আমি অডিও সম্পর্কে জানতে চাই। আপনার মত কাজ করে সুবিধা কী? Saiful Islam Dew (আলাপ) ০৮:১৭, ২৮ মে ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-22

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 global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki. Global preferences will come to the Wikipedias later this week. [১৫১][১৫২]
• It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked. [১৫৩]
• Wikidata now supports lexicographical data. This helps describe words.
• There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups. [১৫৪]
• Some rare invisible Unicode characters have recently been banned from page titles. This includes soft hyphens (U+00AD) and left-to-right (U+2066) and right-to-left (U+2067) isolate markers. Existing pages with these characters will soon be moved by a script. [১৫৫]
• There's a new Wikimedia Foundation team to support the Wikimedia technical communities. It's called the Technical Engagement team. Most of the team members did similar work in other teams before this. [১৫৬]

Problems

• Some translatable pages are showing old translations instead of latest ones. The cause of this issue has been fixed. We will update all pages automatically to show the latest translations. [১৫৭]

Changes later this week

• There will be a new special page named PasswordPolicies. This page gives information about the password rules for each user group on that wiki. [১৫৮]
• A new way to see moved paragraphs in diffs is coming to most wikis. This is to make it easier to find the moved paragraphs and the changes in them. [১৫৯]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 May. It will be on all wikis from 31 May (calendar).
• Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. This is complex. The tool will now disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. It has warned about this in the JavaScript console since February. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [১৬০]

Meetings

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

Future changes

• Content Translation drafts which have not been updated in over a year will be removed. This allows other users to translate those articles. [১৬১]
• A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development. [১৬২]
• Some wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 30 May and 13 June. Wikis with fewer than 100 linter issues in the main namespace in all high-priority linter categories will switch. This includes Wikidata. Tidy will probably be removed on all wikis in the first week of July. [১৬৩][১৬৪]

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১২:৪০, ২৯ মে ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-23

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 MonoBook skin has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different. [১৬৫]
• Planet Wikimedia collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the Rawdog feed aggregator to do this instead of Planet. [১৬৬][১৬৭]
• Redirect links in Special:WhatLinksHere now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again. [১৬৮]

Problems

• You will not be able to edit some wikis between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. You can see if your wiki is one of them.
• MassMessage did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late. [১৬৯]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This is planned to happen in June or early July. [১৭০][১৭১]

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২১:৫৪, ৪ জুন ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-24

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

• In the Wikipedia app for Android or iOS users can create reading lists. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome. [১৭২]
• There is a new version of Pywikibot. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis. [১৭৩]

Problems

• The MonoBook skin was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design. [১৭৪]

Changes later this week

• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. For most wikis this will happen on 18 June. For the rest it will happen on 25 June. [১৭৫][১৭৬]

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 June. It will be on all wikis from 14 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the Readers Web team IRC office hour. There you can discuss tools to contribute on the mobile web for the existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on 18 June at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to move local wiki files to Commons and keep their original data intact. This is planned to come to the first wikis in June.

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২১:৫৫, ১১ জুন ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-25

উইকিমিডিয়া কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তন সম্পর্কে অন্যান্য ব্যবহারকরীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।

সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• Syntax highlighting has been a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It is now a normal feature. It is based on CodeMirror. [১৭৭]

চলতি সপ্তাহের পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• এই সপ্তাহে মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন কোনো সংস্করণ নেই।

সভা

• আপনি সম্পাদক দলের সঙ্গে পরবর্তী সভায় যোগ দিতে পারেন। সভাকালীন, আপনি যে সমস্যাটি সবচেয়ে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ বলে মনে করেন তা উন্নয়নকারীদেরকে জানাতে পারেন। সভাটি ১৯ জুন তারিখে ১৮:৩০ টায় (ইউটিসি) অনুষ্ঠিত হবে। জানুন কিভাবে যোগ দিতে হয়।
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on ২০ জুন at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3. [১৭৮][১৭৯]
• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [১৮০][১৮১]
• All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the Remex parsing library on 5 July. This is to replace Tidy. You can help fix remaining errors. [১৮২]

প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ লেখক দ্বারা প্রস্তুতকৃত ও বট দ্বারা প্রকাশিত প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ • অবদান রাখুন • অনুবাদ করুন • সাহায্য পান • মতামত জানান • গ্রাহকত্ব পরিচালনা করুন।

২১:৪৭, ১৮ জুন ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-26

উইকিমিডিয়া কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তন সম্পর্কে অন্যান্য ব্যবহারকরীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।

সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• PAWS, our JupyterHub system, got an upgrade and a logo. Several bugs should be fixed.

সমস্যা

• When a link text was in italics or had other formatting you could sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [১৮৩][১৮৪]

চলতি সপ্তাহের পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• Content translation users who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create better tools for translating articles. [১৮৫]
• মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ২৬ জুন থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ২৭ জুন থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ২৮ জুন থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।

সভা

• আপনি সম্পাদক দলের সঙ্গে পরবর্তী সভায় যোগ দিতে পারেন। সভাকালীন, আপনি যে সমস্যাটি সবচেয়ে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ বলে মনে করেন তা উন্নয়নকারীদেরকে জানাতে পারেন। সভাটি ২৬ জুন তারিখে ১৮:৩০ টায় (ইউটিসি) অনুষ্ঠিত হবে। জানুন কিভাবে যোগ দিতে হয়।
• আপনি IRC তে প্রযুক্তিগত উপদেশ সভায় যোগ দিতে পারেন। সভাকালীন, স্বেচ্বাসেবক উন্নয়নকারীরা উপদেশ চাইতে পারেন। সভাটি ২৭ জুন তারিখে ১৫:০০ টায় (ইউটিসি) অনুষ্ঠিত হবে। জানুন কিভাবে যোগ দিতে হয়।

প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ লেখক দ্বারা প্রস্তুতকৃত ও বট দ্বারা প্রকাশিত প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ • অবদান রাখুন • অনুবাদ করুন • সাহায্য পান • মতামত জানান • গ্রাহকত্ব পরিচালনা করুন।

২৩:১০, ২৫ জুন ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-27

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 database for tags will be changed. This will happen on 2 July on French Wikipedia and 9 July on all other wikis. Please report if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge. [১৮৬]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem. [১৮৭]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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০০:৪৬, ৩ জুলাই ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-28

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

• WebM video files have smaller file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take longer time. [১৮৮]
• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July. [১৮৯]
• All wikis now use the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy. This could cause errors. You can help fix the errors. [১৯০]

Problems

• When you rolled back an edit it could get both the Rollback and Undo tags. This has been fixed. [১৯১]
• Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed. [১৯২]

Changes later this week

• When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label). [১৯৩][১৯৪]
• On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page. [১৯৫]
• When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures. [১৯৬]
• Structured discussions toolbars will have more style options. [১৯৭]
• When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening. [১৯৮]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (calendar).

Meetings

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

Future changes

• Today all administrators can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can read more. [১৯৯]
• Page previews will be on by default for new accounts. [২০০]

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২৩:১০, ৯ জুলাই ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-29

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

• You can now use global preferences on Wikimedia wikis. You can set them on the global preferences page. [২০১]
• You can now see a new log of pages being created at Special:Log/create. It includes pages which are later deleted. It is now available on all Wikimedia wikis except Commons and Wikidata. [২০২]
• You can see how many pageviews a wiki had from specific countries. The Wikistats2 maps have now been updated. [২০৩]

Changes later this week

• Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change. [২০৪]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (calendar).

Meetings

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

Future changes

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

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১৬:০১, ১৬ জুলাই ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-30

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

• When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [২০৫]
• Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [২০৬]
• Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [২০৭]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from ২৪ জুলাই. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from ২৫ জুলাই. It will be on all wikis from ২৬ জুলাই (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 ২৫ জুলাই at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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০৯:৪৪, ২৪ জুলাই ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-31

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

Recent changes

• The design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [২০৮]

Problems

• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [২০৯][২১০]
• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [২১১][২১২]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from ৩১ জুলাই. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from ১ আগস্ট. It will be on all wikis from ২ আগস্ট (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on ৩১ জুলাই at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on ১ আগস্ট at 15:00 (UTC) as well as at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• After a community discussion, a new group for users will be created. "Interface administrators" will be the only users allowed to edit interface pages like MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Common.js. This is done to avoid technical issues and improve security. That change will be effective by the end of August 2018.

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১৪:০৫, ৩০ জুলাই ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-32

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

Recent changes

• Special:NewPages now has the OOUI look. [২১৩]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [২১৪][২১৫]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

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

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১৯:৩৯, ৬ আগস্ট ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-33

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

• CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [২১৬]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

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

Future changes

• The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [২১৭]

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১৭:৫৩, ১৩ আগস্ট ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-34

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

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

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

Future changes

• The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
• Legacy JavaScript global variables have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia or mediawiki.org. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide to fix old scripts. [২১৮]

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১৬:৪৬, ২০ আগস্ট ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-35

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

Recent changes

• You can now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [২১৯]
• Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [২২০]

Problems

• Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [২২১]

Changes later this week

• The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [২২২]
• AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [২২৩]
• Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title. [২২৪]
• Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [২২৫]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (calendar).

Meetings

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

Future changes

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

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১৬:১৬, ২৭ আগস্ট ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-36

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

• There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [২২৬][২২৭]
• There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [২২৮][২২৯]
• You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [২৩০]
• wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [২৩১]
• When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [২৩২]

Problems

• UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [২৩৩]
• You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [২৩৪]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation.
• The RelatedSites extension will be removed from Wikivoyage.
• Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server will be removed. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used. [২৩৫]

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১৬:৪৮, ৩ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-37

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

Recent changes

• When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [২৩৬]

Problems

• Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [২৩৭]
• Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [২৩৮]
• <maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [২৩৯]
• {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [২৪০]
• When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [২৪১]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

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

Future changes

• The developers work on making the wikis work better on mobile phones. There is a list of common problems when making content easier to read in the mobile view. You can add things to the page and ask others to help.

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২২:৩৬, ১০ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-38

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

Recent changes

• The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [২৪২]
• MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [২৪৩]

Problems

• You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [২৪৪]

Changes later this week

• Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [২৪৫]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers are testing new mobile web navigation. You can use it and give feedback.

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Tech News: 2018-39

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 preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [২৪৬]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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১৫:২৩, ২৪ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-40

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

Recent changes

• Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [২৪৭][২৪৮]

Problems

• New and updated translations from translatewiki.net will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [২৪৯][২৫০]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

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

Future changes

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

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১৭:৩৫, ১ অক্টোবর ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-41

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 Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. You can use the Programs and Events Dashboard or the Fountain instead. [২৫১]

Problems

• There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [২৫২]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

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

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Tech News: 2018-42

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

Problems

• Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [২৫৩]
• Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [২৫৪]

Changes later this week

• When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [২৫৫]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).

Meetings

• There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [২৫৬]
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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২২:৪১, ১৫ অক্টোবর ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-43

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

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

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

Future changes

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

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২৩:১২, ২২ অক্টোবর ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-44

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 16 November to 30 November.
• The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [২৫৭]

Problems

• Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [২৫৮]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
• The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [২৫৯][২৬০]

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 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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২০:০৯, ২৯ অক্টোবর ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-45

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

• You can now use TemplateWizard to edit templates. This works only with the 2010 wikitext editor and not in the visual editor or the 2017 wikitext editor. If you click on you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences. [২৬১]

Changes later this week

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
• When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [২৬২]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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১৭:২৯, ৫ নভেম্বর ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-46

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

• Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [২৬৩]

Problems

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [২৬৪][২৬৫][২৬৬]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [২৬৭]

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১৯:২২, ১২ নভেম্বর ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-47

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

Recent changes

• You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
• There is an A/B test for sameAs data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [২৬৮]

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 21 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [২৬৯]
• The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [২৭০]

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২৩:২৯, ১৯ নভেম্বর ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

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Tech News: 2018-48

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

Recent changes

• On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [২৭১]

Changes later this week

• The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [২৭২]
• Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [২৭৩]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [২৭৪]

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২২:২২, ২৬ নভেম্বর ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-49

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

Recent changes

• Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [২৭৫]
• Small SVG images are now bigger when you see them in MediaViewer. [২৭৬]
• You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow. [২৭৭]
• When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back. [২৭৮][২৭৯]

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 5 December at 16:00 (UTC) and at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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১৬:১৩, ৩ ডিসেম্বর ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-50

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 11 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 December. It will be on all wikis from 13 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [২৮০][২৮১]
• When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [২৮২]

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১৭:৩৪, ১০ ডিসেম্বর ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2018-51

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

Tech News

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

Recent changes

• Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [২৮৩][২৮৪]
• Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [২৮৫]
• The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.

Problems

• <ref> tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example <ref name="adams" group="books">. If a <ref> tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [২৮৬]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
• 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. [২৮৭]

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২০:৩৫, ১৭ ডিসেম্বর ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2019-02

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 writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.

Recent changes

• RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [২৮৮]
• MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [২৮৯]
• codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [২৯০]
• On several wikis, an account named "অপব্যবহার ছাঁকনি" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.

Problems

• In AbuseFilter, the "থ্রটল" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [২৯১]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.

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Tech News: 2019-03

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 Google Translate in the content translation tool. [২৯২][২৯৩]
• You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
• Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. [২৯৪][২৯৫]
• Templates with could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. has a new wrapper parameter now. You can use it for selectors like .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [২৯৬]

Problems

• When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed. [২৯৭]

Changes later this week

• You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new FileExporter. It will be a beta feature on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it and check your wiki's configuration file.
• Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage. [২৯৮]
• The AbuseFilter variable 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.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15 ১৭:৫৫, ১৪ জানুয়ারি ২০১৯ (ইউটিসি)

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Tech News: 2019-04

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

• Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was because of a problem with MassMessage. If you did not get last week's issue, you can read it on Meta. [২৯৯]

Recent changes

• The content translation tool can now use version 2 as the default version for users who turned on the beta feature. For example it adds the tracking category অপর্যালোচিত অনুবাদসহ পাতা to translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category in Special:TrackingCategories on Wikipedias.
• https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org can now convert collects of up to 800 pages to PDF, EPUB or ODT. Previously this was 200 pages.

Problems

• When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17 January and is now fixed. [৩০০]
• MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone. [৩০১][৩০২]
• Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This has now been fixed. [৩০৩]

Changes later this week

• You will be able to use template styles in the Module namespace. [৩০৪]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all wikis from 24 January (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 23 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2019-05

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

Recent changes

• The Wikimedia servers use HHVM to run the PHP code. They are going to use PHP7 and stop using HHVM. You can test PHP7 with a new beta feature. That way you can help find and report problems.

Problems

• When someone moves a page to a name that already exists that page that had the name the article is moved to is deleted. For a couple of months this didn't always work. Some users saw an error message instead. This has now been fixed. [৩০৫]

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 30 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2019-06

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

• It was easy to untick a box by accident in Special:Preferences. This will now be fixed. [৩০৬]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 February. It will be on all wikis from 7 February (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 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2019-07

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 ambox CSS class to show page issues to mobile readers. When you use ambox there are classes you can use.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 February. It will be on all wikis from 14 February (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 13 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2019-08

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

Recent changes

• When you thank someone on the mobile web you will now have two seconds to cancel the thank. This is in case you clicked on the thank button by accident. [৩০৭]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 February. It will be on all wikis from 21 February (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 20 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is a proposal to add a red link to mobile search results if there is no page with that name. This is how it works on desktop. You can leave feedback. [৩০৮]

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Talk to us about talking

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:

1. First, sign up your group here.
2. Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group. This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
3. Then ask people what they think about communication processes. We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki. Please consider asking these five questions:
   1. When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
   2. What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
   3. What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
   4. What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
   5. What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
4. Finally, please go to Talk pages consultation 2019 on Mediawiki.org and report what you learned from your group. Please include links if the discussion is available to the public.

You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.

Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell us how your group communicates.

You can read more about the overall process on mediawiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you can leave feedback about the consultation process in the language you prefer.

Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you.

Trizek (WMF) ১৫:০৯, ২১ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০১৯ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2019-09

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

Recent changes

• There is a new version of the iOS Wikipedia app. It has for example syntax highlighting and new toolbars to make it easier to write wikitext. It also has night mode, a find-on-page function and other things. You can give feedback and suggestions. [৩০৯]

Changes later this week

• When you look at your watchlist or the recent changes page you can use the new filters for edit review. There you can choose tags to filter different edits. Empty tags will no longer be shown. [৩১০]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 February. It will be on all wikis from 28 February (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 27 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback.

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Tech News: 2019-10

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 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (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 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can give feedback on the future of talk pages.
• The mobile website will use the standard fonts on your computer or phone instead of a generic font. This will make it easier to read text in many scripts. [৩১১][৩১২]

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Tech News: 2019-11

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

• Pages can use geocoordinates from Wikidata with the mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements Lua function or the #statements parser function. If they do, they will now be shown using a Kartographer <maplink> if the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on Phabricator.
• There is now an EventStream to see when links are added or removed on Wikimedia wikis. You can read the discussions and plans.

Problems

• Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (UTC). This will start at 15:00 UTC. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
• Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed. [৩১৩]
• Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed. [৩১৪][৩১৫]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (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 13 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2019-12

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

• When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March. [৩১৬][৩১৭]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (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 20 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers. [৩১৮]
• Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.

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Tech News: 2019-13

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 new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version. [৩১৯]

Problems

• There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed. [৩২০]
• The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon. [৩২১]
• Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them. [৩২২]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (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 27 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2019-14

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

• Notifications tell you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications about new links to pages you created. For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this. [৩২৩]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (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 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2019-15

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

• More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can read more.
• Admins on French and Polish Wikipedia can block someone from editing a page or a namespace. If your wiki wants to get these blocks before they are available to all wikis, you can tell the developers. [৩২৪][৩২৫]

Problems

• You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on 11 April at 05:00 (UTC). This is because of a hardware problem. You can see a list of the affected wikis. [৩২৬]
• A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [৩২৭]
• Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [৩২৮]

Changes later this week

• When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site. [৩২৯]
• The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more. [৩৩০]
• The {{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. [৩৩১]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (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 10 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. [৩৩২][৩৩৩]
• The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.

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Tech News: 2019-16

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

• All wikis now have the TemplateWizard for the wikitext editor.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (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 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will get a new constraint status called suggestion. This will change how the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API works. [৩৩৪][৩৩৫]
• You can test the depicts property for structured data on Commons.

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Tech News: 2019-17

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 advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook. [৩৩৬][৩৩৭][৩৩৮]
• The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [৩৩৯]

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 23 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikipedia articles will have the 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. [৩৪০][৩৪১]

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Tech News: 2019-18

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 Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [৩৪২][৩৪৩]

Problems

• Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [৩৪৪]

Changes later this week

• You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [৩৪৫]
• When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in local storage instead of session storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [৩৪৬]
• You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [৩৪৭]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (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 1 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikidata wb_terms table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more. You can ask for help if you need it.
• Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [৩৪৮]

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২২:২৮, ২৯ এপ্রিল ২০১৯ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2019-19

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

• Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem. [৩৪৯]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (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 8 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2019-20

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 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (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 15 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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০০:৪৯, ১৪ মে ২০১৯ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2019-21

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 report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019 has been published. Communities are invited to start phase 2 of the consultation on their wikis.

Problems

• File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [৩৫০][৩৫১]
• Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments. [৩৫২][৩৫৩]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from ২১ মে. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from ২২ মে. It will be on all wikis from ২৩ মে (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 ২২ মে at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The content translation tool on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team. [৩৫৪]
• The Wikidata wbeditentity API endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June. [৩৫৫]

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Tech News: 2019-22

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

• Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [৩৫৬][৩৫৭]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (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 29 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2019-23

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 write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version. [৩৫৮]
• There is now a field called depicts on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development. [৩৫৯]
• Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema. [৩৬০][৩৬১]

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [৩৬২]

Changes later this week

• Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited. [৩৬৩]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (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 5 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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১৫:২৫, ৩ জুন ২০১৯ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2019-24

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

Recent changes

• When you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton. Before this we used Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them. [৩৬৪][৩৬৫]
• The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [৩৬৬]
• Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [৩৬৭]

Problems

• Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it. [৩৬৮]

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 12 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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১৭:০৭, ১০ জুন ২০১৯ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2019-25

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

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [৩৬৯]

Changes later this week

• MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with [[File:Filename.midi]]. Later override_midi and override_audio will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score. [৩৭০]
• A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [৩৭১]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (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 19 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old wgEnableAPI and wgEnableWriteAPI 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. [৩৭২]

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২০:৩৮, ১৭ জুন ২০১৯ (ইউটিসি)

Tech News: 2019-26

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

• The new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday. [৩৭৩]
• Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced. [৩৭৪]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can watch or join the next Wikimedia Language showcase. It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects. The showcase will be on 26 June at 13:00 (UTC). A recording will be kept for later viewing
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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১৭:৩০, ২৪ জুন ২০১৯ (ইউটিসি)

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. [৩৭৫]

Problems

• Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress. [৩৭৬]
• Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed. [৩৭৭]

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. [৩৭৮]
• 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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নিবন্ধ প্রতিযোগিতা ২০১৯-এ স্বাগতম

	সুপ্রিয় Ahm masum, উইকিমিডিয়া বাংলাদেশের আয়োজনে ও জাগো নিউজের সহযোগিতায় চলছে বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়া নিবন্ধ প্রতিযোগিতা ২০১৯। অংশ নিন, নিবন্ধ লিখুন ও পুরস্কার জিতুন। ১ জুলাই থেকে শুরু হওয়া প্রতিযোগিতাটি চলবে ৩১ আগস্ট পর্যন্ত। ধন্যবাদ। আয়োজক কমিটির পক্ষে, নাহিদ সুলতান (আলাপ) বৃহস্পতিবার ৫:৫৫, ০৪ জুলাই ২০১৯ (ইউটিসি)

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. [৩৭৯]
• Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new partial blocks feature. [৩৮০]

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. [৩৮১]

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. [৩৮২]
• There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July. [৩৮৩]

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২০:১৩, ৮ জুলাই ২০১৯ (ইউটিসি)

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. [৩৮৪]

Changes later this week

• The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called অপব্যবহার ছাঁকনি 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. [৩৮৫]

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১৫:৩০, ১৫ জুলাই ২০১৯ (ইউটিসি)

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. [৩৮৬]

Problems

• The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2. [৩৮৭]

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. [৩৮৮]
• 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. [৩৮৯][৩৯০]
• With advanced search turned on you will be able to choose the sorting order of the search results when you do a search. [৩৯১][৩৯২]
• 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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১৩:০৭, ২২ জুলাই ২০১৯ (ইউটিসি)

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. [৩৯৩]

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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২১:৪২, ২৯ জুলাই ২০১৯ (ইউটিসি)

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. [৩৯৪][৩৯৫]

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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১৩:২৫, ৫ আগস্ট ২০১৯ (ইউটিসি)

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. [৩৯৬]
• 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. [৩৯৭]

Changes later this week

• Due to Wikimania, there is no deployment this week. [৩৯৮]

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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১৮:১৯, ১২ আগস্ট ২০১৯ (ইউটিসি)

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. [৩৯৯]

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. [৪০০]
• 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. [৪০১]

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১৫:২১, ১৯ আগস্ট ২০১৯ (ইউটিসি)

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. [৪০২]
• 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. [৪০৩]
• The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute. [৪০৪]
• 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:. [৪০৫]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from ৩ সেপ্টেম্বর. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from ৪ সেপ্টেম্বর. It will be on all wikis from ৫ সেপ্টেম্বর (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. [৪০৬]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on ৪ সেপ্টেম্বর 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). [৪০৭]
• 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. [৪০৮]
• 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. [৪০৯]
• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to 30 minutes on September 26 at 05:00 (UTC). [৪১০]

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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. [৪১১]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from ১ অক্টোবর. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from ২ অক্টোবর. It will be on all wikis from ৩ অক্টোবর (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 ২ অক্টোবর 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. [৪১২]

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