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164:), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Knowledge community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my 33: 1387: 1169: 1040: 976: 826: 721: 507: 411: 1320: 1017: 877: 676: 458: 255: 961:
Editors can collapse part of an article so you have to click on it to see it. When you click a link to a section inside collapsed content it will now expand to show the section. The browser will scroll down to the section. Previously such links didn't work unless you manually expanded the content
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There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates and those who create or maintain them. You can
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will no longer have multiple tags like "tone" or "depth". It will also only have one tier. This was changed because very few wikis used these features and they make the tool difficult to maintain.
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now works on Bengali Knowledge. It helps mobile editors translate sections of articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis with a smaller number of articles. You can
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noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Knowledge everywhere) Regards from
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of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 April. It will be on non-Knowledge wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 April. It will be on all wikis from 29 April (
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of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 March. It will be on non-Knowledge wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 March. It will be on all wikis from 25 March (
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of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 March. It will be on non-Knowledge wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 March. It will be on all wikis from 18 March (
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of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 March. It will be on non-Knowledge wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 March. It will be on all wikis from 1 April (
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of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 March. It will be on non-Knowledge wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 March. It will be on all wikis from 11 March (
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of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 April. It will be on non-Knowledge wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 April. It will be on all wikis from 8 April (
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Some translatable pages on Meta could not be edited. This was because of a bug in the translation tool. The new MediaWiki version was delayed because of problems like this.
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When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split. It might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a
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character to a custom signature if you use a template. There is a proposal to not allow them in the future. This is because they can cause formatting problems.
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will no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can
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on Knowledge (currently 1,133,146 bytes). I'm adding an archiver template so that it doesn't cause issues when people try to load it. This will make
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Dear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Knowledge about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here:
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well with the Wikimedia wikis. Some old code for browsers that used to be supported is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers.
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to the databases. Until 28 April both ways to connect to the databases will work. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post
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Because of a technical change there could be problems with gadgets and scripts that have an edit summary area that looks
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Email to the Wikimedia wikis are handled by groups of Wikimedia editors. These volunteer response teams now use
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Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015 this was moved from
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Templates have parameters that can have specific values. It is possible to suggest values for editors with
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and not to the name of any specific server. Users should also consider switching to the more modern
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When someone links to a Knowledge article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article.
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errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing.
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phones. They don't have a touch screen so readers navigate with the phone keys. There is now a
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beta feature for on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new discussions.
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of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis last week. There was no Tech News issue last week.
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Congratulations! You have one of the 100 longest user talk pages on the English Knowledge!
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will become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a setting with
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have been moved to a new server. Make sure all tools automatically reconnect to
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colours will change to be easier to read. This will soon come to the
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to see that their changes has not caused problems. You can
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queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later.
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for dates with a month but no days. This is because
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