# விக்கிப்பீடியா:ஆலமரத்தடி (தொழினுட்பம்)/தொகுப்பு10

## உள்ளடக்க மொழிபெயர்ப்பில் மேற்கோள் சிக்கல்
தற்போது உள்ள மேம்படுத்தப்பட்ட உள்ளடக்க கொழிபெயர்ப்பு பக்கத்தில் கட்டுரைகளை மொழிபெயர்த்து வெளியிடும்போது தமிழில் கட்டுரை வெளியாகும்போது மேற்கோள்களானது வழுவுடன் தோன்றுகிறது. இதனால் அவற்றை அழித்துவிட்டு ஆங்கிலக் கட்டுரையில் உள்ள மேற்கோள்களை புதியதாக வெட்டி ஒட்டவேண்டியுள்ளது. இதுபோன்ற சிக்கல் யாருக்கவது உள்ளதா. இதை சரிசெய்ய இயலுமா.--அருளரசன் (பேச்சு) 05:59, 6 சனவரி 2019 (UTC)  
:பொதுவாக மேற்கோள்கள் ஒருமுறை சுட்டிக்காட்டிவிட்டு அதன் பெயரையே பின்னர் மேற்கோளாகப் பயன்படுத்தப்படுகிறது. அவ்வகையில் நீங்கள் காட்டிய இடங்களில் name="diamonddivas" name="timesindia" என்பது பெயர்கள், அதற்குமுன் அந்த மேற்கோள் அப்பக்கத்தில் சுட்டிக்காட்டினால் தான் செயல்படும். கூடுமானவரை மொழிபெயர்க்கையில் அனைத்து மேற்கோள்களையும் அப்படியே வைத்திருந்தால் இச்சிக்கலைத் தவிர்க்கலாம் என நினைக்கிறேன் -நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 09:30, 6 சனவரி 2019 (UTC)  

\\\கூடுமானவரை மொழிபெயர்க்கையில் அனைத்து மேற்கோள்களையும் அப்படியே வைத்திருந்தால் இச்சிக்கலைத் தவிர்க்கலாம் என நினைக்கிறேன்\\\ நீச்சல்காரன் இந்தக் கட்டுரையில் அனைத்து மேற்கோள்களையும் அப்படியேதான் வைத்துள்ளேன். இதன் பக்க வரலாற்றைக் கண்டாலே தெரியும்.--அருளரசன் (பேச்சு) 09:46, 7 சனவரி 2019 (UTC)  

: முதல் வரிசையில் உள்ள ref name="timesindia" என்ற மேற்கோள் கட்டுரையின் பிறிதொரு பகுதியிலேயே முழுமையாகத் தரப்பட்டுள்ளது. இதனாலேயே இப்பிரச்சினை வருகிறது என நினைக்கிறேன். முதலாவதலேயே முழுமையாகத் தந்திருந்தால் சரியாக வரலாம்.--Kanags (பேச்சு) 10:13, 7 சனவரி 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-02

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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.
- MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment.
- codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code.
- On several wikis, an account named "" 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 "" 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.

**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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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W02"/> 18:29, 7 சனவரி 2019 (UTC)  

## வார்ப்புரு பயன்பாட்டு எண்ணிக்கை

ஒரு வார்ப்புரு எத்தனை கட்டுரைகளில் பயன்படுத்தப்பட்டுள்ளது என்பதை அறியவும், அக்கட்டுரைகளின் பெயர்களை பெறவும் கருவியுண்டா? --<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 14:20, 11 சனவரி 2019 (UTC)  
:அந்த வார்ப்புரு பக்கம் சென்று **இப்பக்கத்தை இணைத்தவை** என்று பக்கத்தின் இடது பக்கம் ஒரு இணைப்பு இருக்கும் அதன் மூலம் அறியலாம். அவ்வாறு இல்லாமல் பொதுவாகக் கண்டுபிடிக்க இந்த மாதிரியைப் பயன்படுத்தலாம். https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/சிறப்பு:WhatLinksHere/<வார்ப்புருவின் பெயர்> இந்த முறையில் பெறலாம். -நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 14:25, 11 சனவரி 2019 (UTC)  
::நன்றி. ஆனால், குறிப்பிட்ட ஒரு வார்ப்புரு, பயன்படுத்தப்பட்டுள்ள அனைத்துக் கட்டுரைகளின் பெயர்களை எடுக்க என்ன செய்ய வேண்டும்?--<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 14:46, 11 சனவரி 2019 (UTC)  
:::petscan வழியே எடுக்கலாமென்று எங்களிடையே நடந்த டெலிகிராம் உரையாடலில் வழிகாட்டினார். நன்றி.--<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 03:52, 26 சனவரி 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-03

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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.
- 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.
- Templates with [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:TemplateStyles|]] 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 <code>wrapper</code> parameter now. You can use it for selectors like <code dir="ltr">.mw-parser-output </code>.

**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.

**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.
- The AbuseFilter variable <code>minor_edit</code> 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 <section end="technews-2019-W03"/> 17:54, 14 சனவரி 2019 (UTC)

## Tech News: 2019-04

<section begin="technews-2019-W04"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.

**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 <code></code> 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 <code>Special:TrackingCategories</code> 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.
- MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone.
- 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.

**Changes later this week**  
- You will be able to use template styles in the <code>Module</code> namespace.
- 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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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W04"/> 20:33, 21 சனவரி 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-05

<section begin="technews-2019-W05"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.

**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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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W05"/> 18:14, 28 சனவரி 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-06

<section begin="technews-2019-W06"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.
- 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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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W06"/> 17:11, 4 பெப்ரவரி 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-07

<section begin="technews-2019-W07"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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 <code>ambox</code> CSS class to show page issues to mobile readers. When you use <code>ambox</code> 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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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W07"/> 18:45, 11 பெப்ரவரி 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-08

<section begin="technews-2019-W08"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.

**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.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W08"/> 23:13, 18 பெப்ரவரி 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-09

<section begin="technews-2019-W09"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.

**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.
- 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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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W09"/> 21:16, 25 பெப்ரவரி 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-10

<section begin="technews-2019-W10"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W10"/> 16:37, 4 மார்ச் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-11

<section begin="technews-2019-W11"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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 <code>mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements</code> Lua function or the <code>#statements</code> parser function. If they do, they will now be shown using a Kartographer <code><maplink></code> 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.
- Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed.

**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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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W11"/> 19:28, 11 மார்ச் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-12

<section begin="technews-2019-W12"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.
- 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.
- 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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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W12"/> 19:43, 18 மார்ச் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-13

<section begin="technews-2019-W13"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.

**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.
- The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon.
- 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.

**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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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W13"/> 18:04, 25 மார்ச் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-14

<section begin="technews-2019-W14"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.
- 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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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W14"/> 16:28, 1 ஏப்ரல் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-15

<section begin="technews-2019-W15"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.

**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.
- A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back.
- Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed.

**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.
- The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more.
- The <code></code> magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return <code>""</code> (empty string). When you read a page it will return <code>"-"</code> (dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces.
- 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.
- 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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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W15"/> 18:23, 8 ஏப்ரல் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-16

<section begin="technews-2019-W16"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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 <code> suggestion</code>. This will change how the <code>WikibaseQualityConstraints</code> constraint checking API works.
- You can test the <code>depicts</code> property for structured data on Commons.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W16"/> 22:59, 15 ஏப்ரல் 2019 (UTC)  

## தானியங்கி மூலம் பகுப்புகள் இணைத்தல்/நீக்குதல்

AswnBot மூலம் பகுப்புகள் இணைத்தல் படிப்படியாக நடக்குமாறு செய்துள்ளேன். நேற்று தானியங்கியினை இயக்கியதில் சில பிழைகள் அடிபட்டன  
- சில கட்டுரைகள் தவறான ஆங்கிலக் கட்டுரையுடன் இணைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன
- வழிமாற்று விக்கிதரவில் இணைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது - கட்டுரையில் இல்லை
- பிறப்பு/இறப்பு ஆண்டுகள் தவறாக உள்ளன
- மறைந்த நபர்கள் கட்டுரைகளில் வாழும் நபர்கள் பகுப்பு இணைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது (கட்டுரை புதுப்பிக்கப்படவில்லை)
நான்காம் பிழையினைத் தானியங்கி மூலமாகச் செய்ய இயலும். பிற பிழைகள் இயன்றவரை நான் திருத்த முயல்கிறேன். விக்கிப்பீடியர்கள் இப்பிழைகளைக் கண்டால் அவற்றைத் திருத்துமாறு வேண்டிக்கொள்கிறேன். --அஸ்வின் (பேச்சு) 08:17, 18 ஏப்ரல் 2019 (UTC)  

:இத்தகைய தொகுப்புகளைத் தானியங்கி மூலம் எதற்காக செய்ய வேண்டும்? நீங்கள் ஆங்கிலக் கட்டுரைகளை மூலமாகக் கொள்கிறீர்கள். அக்கட்டுரையின் தரவுகள் சரியானவையா எனப் பார்த்தீர்களா? (பார்க்க: ). பிழையானவற்றை நீங்களே சரி செய்யுங்கள். உங்களின் ஆயிரக்கணக்கான தானியங்கித் தொகுப்புகளை சரி பார்க்க எவருக்கும் நேரமில்லை.Kanags (பேச்சு) 08:22, 18 ஏப்ரல் 2019 (UTC)  

::கட்டுரைகள் சரியாக பகுப்பாக்கப்பட்டிருந்தால் படிப்போர்கும் திருத்துவோர்க்கும் பயன்படும். நான் copy paste செய்து தானியங்கியினை இயக்கவில்லை. ஆங்கில விக்கியிற்கும் த.விக்கியிற்கும் பொருந்தும் பகுப்பு hierarchy மட்டுமே சரிபார்க்கப்பட்டு, அதிலும் மொழி பகுப்புகள் பொருத்தப்பட்டு, பராமரிப்பு பகுப்புகள் விலக்கப்பட்டு இயங்கும் வண்ணம் எழுதப்பட்டுள்ளது. ஸ்கிரிப்டில் பிழைகள் நிகழா வண்ணமே தக்க முன்னெச்சரிக்கைகளுடன் இயக்கப்படுகின்றது. இன்னும் அதிக மேற்பார்வையில் பொறுமையாக இயக்க முயல்கிறேன். இயலவில்லை ஏன்றால் விட்டுவிடுகின்றேன். தானியங்கி இயக்கப்படுவது தமிழ் விக்கியிற்காகவே. நன்றி --அஸ்வின் (பேச்சு) 08:59, 18 ஏப்ரல் 2019 (UTC)  

## புதிய தரவுத்தள அறிக்கை: கவனிப்பு தேவைப்படும் இறந்தவர்களின் கட்டுரைகள்

இந்த அறிக்கையில் பட்டியலிடப்பட்ட கட்டுரைகள் விரைவில் திருத்தப்பட வேண்டும். அவர்களின் இறப்பு விவரங்களை இட்டப் பிறகு '''  
: உங்களின் இப்பட்டியலைக் கண்டேன். மிக நல்ல தொகுப்பு ஆனால் சில கட்டுரைகளை ஆய்வு செய்ததில் சில ஐயம். உங்கள் தானியங்கிதான் வாழும் நபர்கள் என்ற பகுப்பைச் சேர்க்கிறது. அது போல அக்கட்டுரையாளரின் மறைவிற்குப் பின்னர் இறப்புகள் என்றும் இடுகிறது. இரண்டையும் கொண்டு தானியங்கி வழியாகவே திருத்த இயலுமே. இந்தப் பட்டியலின் நோக்கம் வேறு ஏதேனும் உள்ளதா? பொதுவாக உங்கள் தானியங்கி என்ன என்ன செய்கிறது என்பதை அதன் பயனர் பக்கத்தில் சிறு குறிப்புகளுடன் இடக்கோருகிறேன். இதன் மூலம் இத்தகைய பக்கங்களின் தேவையை மற்றவர்கள் உணரவோ மேம்படுத்தவோ உதவும். -நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 08:04, 28 மே 2019 (UTC)  
::தானியங்கியின் செயல்களை பயனர் பக்கத்தில் குறிப்பிடுகின்றேன். வாழும் நபர்கள் பகுப்பை நீக்குமாறு தானியங்கியை இயக்கினால் பயனில்லை. ஏனெனில் கட்டுரையில் இறப்பின் விவரம் தானியங்கியால் இடப்படாது. இப்பட்டியலினைக் கொண்டு பயனர்கள் திருத்தங்களை மேற்கொள்வதே சரி என்று கருதுகின்றேன். --அஸ்வின் (பேச்சு) 12:18, 28 மே 2019 (UTC)  
::: சையது ஐதர் ராசா **வாழும் நபர்கள்** என்றும் **2016 இறப்புகள்** என்றும் உள்ளது. இவர் செத்துப்போனாரா இல்ல உயிரோடு இருக்கிறாரா? --க.மாதவன் (பேச்சு) 09:19, 28 மே 2019 (UTC)  
::::நபரின் இறப்பு விவரம் கட்டுரையில் இருப்பின் வாழும் நபர் பகுப்பினை நீக்கிடலாம். --அஸ்வின் (பேச்சு) 12:18, 28 மே 2019 (UTC)  
::அப்படியெனில் இறப்பு குறித்த தகவல்களை பயனரொருவர் உள்ளிட ஏதுவாக இரு பகுப்புகளும் உள்ளனவா? ஒரே நேரத்தில் இரு பகுப்புகளும் ஒரு கட்டுரையில் இருப்பது முரணாக அமையும் என நினைக்கிறேன். **..இறப்புகள்** பகுப்பை இடும்போதே அந்தக் கட்டுரையில் **வாழும் நபர்கள்** என்ற பகுப்பு இருந்தால் அதை நீக்கி விட்டுச் சேர்க்க, உங்கள் தானியங்கியால் இயலுமா? ஆனால் அவ்வாறு நீக்க இயலாவிட்டால் இறப்புகள் பகுப்பை இடாமல் மேலே குறிப்பிட்ட தரவுத்தள அறிக்கைகளில் பட்டியலிட்டு துப்புரவு செய்யச் சுட்டிக்காட்டலாம். காரணம் பயனர் க. மாதவன் குறிப்பிட்டது போல படிப்பவரைக் குழப்பும் எனக் கருதுகிறேன். நன்றி-நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 12:46, 28 மே 2019 (UTC)  
:::இப்பணியிற்கு தானியங்கியை இயக்குவதை நிறுத்திவிட்டேன். பிற்காலத்தில் இவ்வண்ணம் செய்ய கவனத்தில் கொள்கிறேன். --அஸ்வின் (பேச்சு) 17:04, 28 மே 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-17

<section begin="technews-2019-W17"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.
- The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version.

**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 <code>sameAs</code> meta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W17"/> 19:07, 23 ஏப்ரல் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-18

<section begin="technews-2019-W18"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.

**Problems**  
- Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem.

**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.
- When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in <code>local storage</code> instead of <code>session storage</code>. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow.
- You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits.
- 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 <code>wb_terms</code> 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.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W18"/> 22:28, 29 ஏப்ரல் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-19

<section begin="technews-2019-W19"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.

**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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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W19"/> 16:28, 6 மே 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-20

<section begin="technews-2019-W20"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W20"/> 00:49, 14 மே 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-21

<section begin="technews-2019-W21"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.
- 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.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (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 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.
- The Wikidata <code>wbeditentity</code> 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.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W21"/> 13:04, 20 மே 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-22

<section begin="technews-2019-W22"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.
- 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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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W22"/> 15:34, 27 மே 2019 (UTC)  

## Module:Convert அலகுகள் மொழிபெயர்ப்பு

Module:Convert பெரிதும் ஆங்கிலத்திலேயே அலகுகளைக் காட்டுகிறது. இதனை மொழிபெயர்ப்பது தற்போது எளிதாக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. நேரடியாக Module:Convert/data வினை மொழிபெயர்க்கத் தேவையில்லை. வேண்டிய மொழிபெயர்ப்பு/திருத்தங்களை வார்ப்புரு:Convert/conversion data பக்கத்தில் மேற்கொள்ளலாம். மாற்றங்களைப் பதிந்த பின்னர் Module talk:Convert/makeunits பக்கத்தினை purge செய்து(பக்கத்திலேயே இணைப்பு உள்ளது), அந்த பக்கத்தில் உள்ளவற்றை அப்படியே Module:Convert/data பக்கத்தில் இட்டால் போதும். திருத்தங்கள் தொடர்பான விவரங்களுக்கு ஆங்கில விக்கி பக்கத்தினை பார்க்கலாம். நன்றி -அஸ்வின் (பேச்சு) 14:38, 31 மே 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-23

<section begin="technews-2019-W23"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.
- There is now a field called <code>depicts</code> on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development.
- 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.

**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.

**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.
- 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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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W23"/> 15:24, 3 சூன் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-24

<section begin="technews-2019-W24"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.
- The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment.
- Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly.

**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.

**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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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W24"/> 17:06, 10 சூன் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-25

<section begin="technews-2019-W25"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.

**Changes later this week**  
- MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with <code></code>. Later <code>override_midi</code> and <code>override_audio</code> will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score.
- 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.
- 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 <code>wgEnableAPI</code> and <code>wgEnableWriteAPI</code> values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W25"/> 20:38, 17 சூன் 2019 (UTC)  

## IMPORTANT: Admin activity review
Hello. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on smaller wikis. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review.  

We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):  
1. Krishnaprasaths (administrator)

These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.  

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, **Rschen7754** 02:38, 19 சூன் 2019 (UTC)  

## Wikidata Bridge: edit Wikidata’s data from Wikipedia infoboxes

<div lang="en" dir="ltr">  
*Sorry for writing this message in English - feel free to help us translating it :)*  

Hello all,  

Many language versions of Wikipedia use the content of Wikidata, the centralized knowledge base, to fill out the content of infoboxes. The data is stored in Wikidata and displayed, partially or completely, in the Wikipedia’s language, on the articles.  
This feature is used by many template editors, but brought several issues that were raised by communities in various places: not being able to edit the data directly from Wikipedia was one of them.  

This is the reason why the **Wikidata Bridge** project started, with the goal of offering a way to Wikipedia editors to edit Wikidata’s data more easily. This will be achieved by an interface, connected to the infobox, that users can access directly from their local wiki.  

The project is now at an early stage of development. A lot of user research has been done, and will continue to be done through the different phases of the project. The next steps of development will be achieved by the development team working at Wikimedia Deutschland, starting now until the end of 2019.  

In order to make sure that we’re building a tool that is answering editors’ needs, we’re using agile methods in our development process. We don’t start with a fixed idea of the tool we want to deliver: we will build it together with the editors, based on feedback loops that we will regularly organize. The first version will not necessarily have all of the features you want, but it will keep evolving.  

Here’s the planned timeline:  
- From June to August, we will build the setup and technical groundwork.
- From September to November 2019, we will develop the first version of the feature and publish a test system so you can try it and give feedback.
- Later on, we will test the feature on a few projects, in collaboration with the communities.
  - We will first focus on early adopters communities who already implemented a shortcut from their infoboxes to edit Wikidata (for example Russian, Catalan, Basque Wikipedias)
  - but we also welcome also communities who volunteer to be part of the first test round.
  - Then we will reach some of the big Wikipedias (French, German, English) in order to see if the project scales and to address their potentially different needs.
  - Even later, we can consider enabling the feature on all the other projects.
In any case, no deployment or big change will be enforced on the projects without talking to the communities first, and helping the template builders to prepare for the changes they will have to do on the infoboxes’ code.  

If you want to get involved, there are several ways to help:  
- Read and help translating the documentation pages
- Follow the updates and participate in the first feedback loop
- Talk about it with your local community
More ideas will be added on this page along the way  

If you have any questions for the development team, feel free to ask them on the main talk page. You can also ask under this message, but if you expect an answer from me, please make sure to ping me.  

Thanks for your attention, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:03, 24 சூன் 2019 (UTC)  
</div>  

## Tech News: 2019-26

<section begin="technews-2019-W26"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.
- 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.

**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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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W26"/> 17:30, 24 சூன் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-27

<section begin="technews-2019-W27"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.

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

**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.
- 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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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W27"/> 21:23, 1 சூலை 2019 (UTC)  

## Module:Date லுவா உதவி தேவை

இந்த Module இல் இப்பகுதி மட்டும் தமிழாக்கம் செய்ய இயலவில்லை. தமிழ் சொற்களை unexpected symbols என்று கூறுகின்றது. இதனைச் சீர் செய்ய உதவை தேவை. பார்க்க:  

<code>  
local function day_number(text)  
return name_to_number(text, {  
sun = 0, sunday = 0, ஞாயிறு = 0, ஞாயிற்றுக்கிழமை = 0, ஞாயிற்றுக் கிழமை = 0,  
mon = 1, monday = 1, திங்கள் = 1, திங்கட்கிழமை = 1, திங்கட் கிழமை = 1,  
tue = 2, tuesday = 2, செவ்வாய் = 2, செவ்வாய்க்கிழமை = 2, செவ்வாய்க் கிழமை = 2,  
wed = 3, wednesday = 3, புதன் = 3, புதன்கிழமை = 3, புதன் கிழமை = 3,  
thu = 4, thursday = 4, வியாழன் = 4, வியாழக்கிழமை = 4, வியாழக் கிழமை = 4,  
fri = 5, friday = 5, வெள்ளி = 5, வெள்ளிக்கிழமை = 5, வெள்ளிக் கிழமை = 5,  
sat = 6, saturday = 6, சனி = 6, சனிக்கிழமை = 6, சனிக் கிழமை = 6,  
})  
end  

local function month_number(text)  
return name_to_number(text, {  
jan = 1, january = 1, சனவரி = 1, ஜனவரி = 1,  
feb = 2, february = 2, பிப்ரவரி = 2,  
mar = 3, march = 3, மார்ச்சு = 3, மார்ச் = 3,  
apr = 4, april = 4, ஏப்ரல் = 4, ஏப்பிரல் = 4,  
may = 5, மே = 5,  
jun = 6, june = 6, சூன் = 6, ஜூன் = 6,  
jul = 7, july = 7, சூலை = 7, ஜூலை = 7,  
aug = 8, august = 8, ஆகஸ்ட் = 8, ஆகத்து = 8, ஆகஸ்டு = 8,  
sep = 9, september = 9, sept = 9, செப்டம்பர் = 9,  
oct = 10, october = 10, அக்டோபர் = 10,  
nov = 11, november = 11, நவம்பர் = 11,  
dec = 12, december = 12, திசம்பர் = 12, டிசம்பர் = 12,  
})  
end  

</code>  
:தமிழில் அதாவது non-ascii இல் மாறிகளை இம்மொழியில் நேரடியாக அமைக்க முடியாது என அறிகிறேன் http://lua-users.org/wiki/UnicodeIdentifers. வேறுவழியில் non-ascii செயலாக்க முயல்வதைவிட மாறியாகப் பயன்படுத்தாமல் கீழ்க்கண்டவாறு தவிர்க்கலாம்.  
<pre>  
if text=='ஞாயிறு' then return 0  
elseif text=='ஞாயிற்றுக்கிழமை' then return 0  
elseif text=='ஞாயிற்றுக் கிழமை' then return 0  
end  
</pre>-நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 16:08, 5 சூலை 2019 (UTC)  
::இதனைச் செயல்படுத்த முடியுமா என்று தெரியவில்லை. நன்றி --அஸ்வின் (பேச்சு) 09:08, 6 சூலை 2019 (UTC)  
:::நான் முன்னரே சோதித்துத்தான் பரிந்துரைத்தேன். தற்போது day_number செயலாற்றியை மட்டும் முழுதும் மாற்றியுள்ளேன். வேலை செய்கிறது. நீங்கள் எதிர்பார்த்த விளைவு ஏற்படுகிறதென்றால் அதைப் போல மற்றவொன்றையும் அமைத்துக் கொள்ளலாம்.  

:::: ஏராளமான கட்டுரைகளில் புதிதாக '''நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 09:02, 8 சூலை 2019 (UTC)  

:cite news வார்ப்புருவில் மட்டும் தான் (accessdate, date) இவ்வழு ஏற்படுகிறது. cite web போன்றவற்றில் இவ்வழு இல்லை.--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 12:03, 8 சூலை 2019 (UTC)  

:: cite news வார்ப்புருவில் இந்தத் தொகுப்பினால் தான் இவ்வழு ஏற்பட்டுள்ளதாக நினைக்கிறேன். இத்தொகுப்பை மீள்வித்ததை அடுத்து வழு நீங்கி விட்டது.--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 23:35, 13 சூலை 2019 (UTC)  
:::வழு சரி செய்யப்பட்டுவிட்டது. பிரச்சனை Module:Citation/CS1 திகதிகளை ஏற்றுக்கொள்வதில் தான். திகதிகள் 1 சனவரி 2001/1 சன 2001/1 January 2001/1 Jan 2001 என்று இருக்கவேண்டும். 1/01/2001 /01 சனவரி 2001/1-01-2001 என்று இருந்தால் பிழையாகக் குறியிடுகின்றது. Module களைப் பயன்படுத்தி பிழைகளை சரிசெய்தல் த.வி. வளர்ச்சிக்கு உதவும் என்று கருதுகின்றேன். நன்றி --அஸ்வின் (பேச்சு) 14:21, 14 சூலை 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-28

<section begin="technews-2019-W28"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.
- Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new partial blocks feature.

**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.

**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.
- There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W28"/> 20:13, 8 சூலை 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-29

<section begin="technews-2019-W29"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.

**Changes later this week**  
- The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called <code></code> 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.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W29"/> 15:30, 15 சூலை 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-30

<section begin="technews-2019-W30"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.

**Problems**  
- The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2.

**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.
- 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.
- With advanced search turned on you will be able to choose the sorting order of the search results when you do a search.
- 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 <code>user_wpzero</code> will be removed from AbuseFilter. A list of filters needing a fix is provided.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W30"/> 13:07, 22 சூலை 2019 (UTC)  

## Editing News #1—July 2019

<div lang="en" dir="ltr">  
*Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter*  

<div>  

<big>**Did you know?**</big>  
<div>  

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?  

Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon to start editing.  

**<big>Edit Cards</big>**  

This is what the new **Edit Cards for editing links** in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: **📲 Try Edit Cards.**  
</div></div>  

Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.  

Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.  

Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:  

<strong>Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?</strong>  

If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.  

<em>Follow these instructions and share your experience:</em>  

<strong>📲 Try Edit Cards.</strong>  

### Recent releases
The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:  

1. Section editing
  1. The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
  1. The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were **1% more likely to publish** the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
1. Loading overlay
  1. The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.

Section editing and the new loading overlay are **now available to everyone** using the mobile visual editor.  

### New and active projects
This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.  

- Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now. <em>Go here to see how:</em> 📲 <em>Try Edit Cards</em>.
- Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
- Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: *Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor?* We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
- Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use. The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.

### Looking ahead

- **Wikimania:** Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space. Talk to the team about how editing can be improved.
- **Talk Pages:** In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.

### Learning more
The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.  

PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)  
</div> 18:32, 23 சூலை 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-31

<section begin="technews-2019-W31"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.

**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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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W31"/> 21:42, 29 சூலை 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-32

<section begin="technews-2019-W32"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.

**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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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W32"/> 13:25, 5 ஆகத்து 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-33

<section begin="technews-2019-W33"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.
- 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.

**Changes later this week**  
- Due to Wikimania, there is no deployment this week.

**Meetings**  
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 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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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W33"/> 18:19, 12 ஆகத்து 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-34

<section begin="technews-2019-W34"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.

**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.
- 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 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.
- <code>Special:Contributions/newbies</code> will no longer be working. This is because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the recent changes feed instead.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W34"/> 15:21, 19 ஆகத்து 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-36

<section begin="technews-2019-W36"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.
- 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.
- The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute.
- 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:*.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (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.

**Meetings**  
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to 30 minutes on September 26 at 05:00 (UTC).

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W36"/> 09:08, 4 செப்டம்பர் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-39

<section begin="technews-2019-W39"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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 edits that used the visual editor were not working. This has now been fixed.
- Last week's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The developers are working on the problem.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 September. It will be on all wikis from 26 September (calendar).
- You will be able to read but not to edit an important number of mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes on 24 September at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis.
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to 30 minutes on 26 September at 05:00 (UTC).

**Meetings**  
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

**Future changes**  
- Internet Explorer 6 and 7 might not be supported in the future. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They would not get security support. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them makes the wikis less secure for everyone else.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W39"/> 13:26, 24 செப்டம்பர் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-40

<section begin="technews-2019-W40"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (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 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 <code>Special:</code> pages. There is a script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W40"/> 16:49, 30 செப்டம்பர் 2019 (UTC)  

## மின்னஞ்சல் அறிவிப்பு

ஆங்கில விக்கியில் என்னுடைய சொந்த பேச்சுப் பக்கத்தில் யாரும் ஏதும் பதிவிட்டால் அது பற்றிய அறிவிப்பு எனது மின்னஞ்சல் முகவரிக்கு வருகிறது. ஆனால் தமிழ் விக்கியில் எனது பேச்சுப் பக்கத்தில் நிகழும் மாற்றங்கள் பற்றி மின்னஞ்சல் வருவதில்லை. விக்கிக்கு வந்தால் மட்டுமே அறிந்து கொள்ள முடிகிறது. (தமிழ் விக்கி மாற்றம் பற்றி ஆங்கில விக்கியிலும் Alert காட்டுகிறது, ஆனால் மின்னஞ்சல் வருவதில்லை.--<font>*UK</font><font><strike>Sharma</strike>3*</font> <small>உரையாடல்</small> 02:01, 4 அக்டோபர் 2019 (UTC)  
: அவ்வாறு மின்னஞ்சல் வர வேண்டினால், உங்களது விருப்பத்தேர்வில் அறிவிப்புகள் பகுதியில் "பேச்சுப் பக்க செய்தி" என்பதற்கு மின்னஞ்சல் அனுமதியை வழங்கிச் சேமிக்கவும்.  
::Thanks. Done.--<font>*UK</font><font><strike>Sharma</strike>3*</font> <small>உரையாடல்</small> 09:14, 4 அக்டோபர் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-41

<section begin="technews-2019-W41"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
Latest **tech news** from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.  

**Recent changes**  
- The abuse filter function now has a faster parser. This is to shorten the waiting time when you save an edit.

**Problems**  
- There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text with footnotes. It will be fixed soon.

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

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

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

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W41"/> 15:34, 7 அக்டோபர் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-42

<section begin="technews-2019-W42"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
Latest **tech news** from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.  

**Recent changes**  
- You can now use more advanced editing tools on the mobile web. You can turn them on and off in your preferences in the mobile version.

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

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

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

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W42"/> 23:32, 14 அக்டோபர் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-43

<section begin="technews-2019-W43"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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**  
- *' prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.*]] The API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as <code>internal</code>. API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives.

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

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

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

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W43"/> 14:18, 21 அக்டோபர் 2019 (UTC)  

## விக்கியன்பு

விக்கியன்பு கருவி வேலை செய்கிறதா? பதக்கம் அளிக்க முடியவில்லை. --இரவி (பேச்சு) 07:20, 25 அக்டோபர் 2019 (UTC)  

விக்கியன்பு கருவி வேலை செய்யவில்லை, என்னவென்று கவனியுங்கள்.--கௌதம் 💓 சம்பத் (பேச்சு) 07:49, 25 அக்டோபர் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-44

<section begin="technews-2019-W44"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
Latest **tech news** from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.  

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

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (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 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W44"/> 16:09, 28 அக்டோபர் 2019 (UTC)  

## Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages

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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.  

### Help
<strong>What talk page interactions do you remember?</strong> Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!  

Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. <mark>Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the <strong>talk page for this project</strong>.</mark> The team wants your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.  

### Talk pages project
The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.  

The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the <strong>"Getting involved"</strong> section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.  

### Mobile visual editor
The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.  

#### Edit Cards

- On 3 September, the Editing team released . Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
- There is an on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
- Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.

#### Toolbar
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- In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
  - <em>One toolbar:</em> All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
  - <em>New navigation:</em> The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
  - <em>Seamless switching:</em> an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
- Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.

### Wikimania
The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.  

### Looking ahead

- <strong>Talk Pages Project:</strong> The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: <strong>Getting involved</strong>.
- <strong>Testing the mobile visual editor as the default:</strong> The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: <strong>VisualEditor as mobile default project page</strong>.
- <strong>Measuring the impact of Edit Cards:</strong> This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The Editing team hopes to share results in November. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: <strong>Edit Cards project page</strong>.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)  
</div> 11:12, 29 அக்டோபர் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-45

<section begin="technews-2019-W45"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
Latest **tech news** from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.  

**Recent changes**  
- At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites.

**Changes later this week**  
- <code>MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry</code> can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use <code>MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip</code> to set a different default block length for IP editors.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).

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

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W45"/> 16:47, 4 நவம்பர் 2019 (UTC)  

## Google Code-In will soon take place again! Mentor tasks to help new contributors!

Hi everybody! Google Code-in (GCI) will soon take place again - a seven week long contest for 13-17 year old students to contribute to free software projects. Tasks should take an experienced contributor about two or three hours and can be of the categories Code, Documentation/Training, Outreach/Research, Quality Assurance, and User Interface/Design. Do you have any Lua, template, gadget/script or similar task that would benefit your wiki? Or maybe some of your tools need better documentation? If so, and you can imagine enjoying mentoring such a task to help a new contributor, please check out :mw:Google Code-in/2019 and become a mentor. If you have any questions, feel free to ask at our talk page. Many thanks in advance! --Martin Urbanec 07:28, 5 நவம்பர் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-46

<section begin="technews-2019-W46"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
Latest **tech news** from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.  

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

**Changes later this week**  
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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

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

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W46"/> 22:02, 11 நவம்பர் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-47

<section begin="technews-2019-W47"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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 some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the <code>centralauth</code> database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames.

**Changes later this week**  
- You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
- 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 20 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W47"/> 20:16, 18 நவம்பர் 2019 (UTC)  

## விக்கிதானுலவி பயன்படுத்தி மாற்றங்கள் செய்ய கோரிக்கை / Changes using Auto Wiki Browser

**Tamil Content**  
உள்ளாட்சி அமைப்புகள் தொடர்பாக உருவாக்கப்பட்ட கட்டுரைகளைப் பார்த்தால் தகவல்சட்டத்தில் ஒரு இடத்தில் பிழை / சிக்கல் உள்ளது .அது பின்வருமாறு கிட்டத்தட்ட எல்லா கட்டுரைகளிலும் இது ஏற்படுவதால், நான் விக்கித்தரவின் உதவியை நாடினேன் .Wikidata IRC channel பார்க்க ஆனால், அவர்கள் குறிப்பிட்ட தரவுகளில் சில சிக்கல்கள் உள்ளன, என்பதால் அந்த தொகுப்பை நாங்கள் மீளிமை செய்தோம் .இப்போது ஒரே வழி ([1997kB] மற்றும் mahir256 [m] வழங்கிய பரிந்துரைகளின்படி) விக்கிதானுலவியைப் பயன்படுத்தி கைமுறையாக மாற்றுவதுதான். எனவே, அதைப் பயன்படுத்துவதற்கு முன்பு, நம் சமூகத்தின் ஒப்புதலை வேண்டுகிறேன் .  

**ஆங்கில உள்ளடக்கம்**  
If one looks at the articles created on Local Self Governing bodies , it might be seen that there is an error/issue in the infobox.It reads as .Since it occurs in almost all the articles , I took the help of Wikidata IRC channel . Users [1997kB] and mahir256[m] helped me out . You can see that in the changes .But , there are some issues like temporal data which they mentioned , so we reverted back the change . Now the only way(as per suggestions given by [1997kB] and mahir256[m]) is to change it manually using autowikibrowser . So , before using it , asking for community's approval--Commons sibi (பேச்சு) 11:30, 25 நவம்பர் 2019 (UTC) .  
:இதற்குக் கட்டுரைகளைத் திருத்த வேண்டியதில்லை. P991 என்ற பண்பினை விக்கித் தரவில் நீக்கியுள்ளார்கள். அதற்கு மாற்றான ஒன்றைக் கொண்டு இந்த வார்ப்புருவைத் திருத்தினால் போதும். அதற்கு முன்பு முயன்ற போது சரியான எண் கிடைக்கவில்லை. நீங்களும் முயன்று பாருங்கள். தற்போதைக்கு வழுத் தொடர் தெரியாதவாறு மாற்றியுள்ளேன். -நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 12:13, 25 நவம்பர் 2019 (UTC)  
::நன்றி . --Commons sibi (பேச்சு) 07:28, 26 நவம்பர் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-48

<section begin="technews-2019-W48"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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 mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script.
- Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look . If you see any you can report them.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.

**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 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

**Future changes**  
- You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W48"/> 16:51, 25 நவம்பர் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-49

<section begin="technews-2019-W49"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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**  
- Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 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 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

**Future changes**  
- There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work.
- The <code></code> magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns <code>""</code> (empty string). When you read a page it returns <code>"-"</code> (dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W49"/> 16:57, 2 திசம்பர் 2019 (UTC)  

## ஐபி முகவரி தடை விலக்கு

வணக்கம். என்னுடைய லேப்டாப் இந்த ஆண்டு துவக்கத்தில் ஹேக் செய்யப்பட்டது, அதனைத் தொடர்ந்து நான் தற்போது விபிஎண் இணைப்புடன் இணையப் பயன்பாட்டை உபயோகம் செய்து வருகிறேன். இதனால் என்னால் விக்கிப்பீடியாவில் தொகுக்க முடியவில்லை. கீழே உள்ள செய்தி வருகிறது. ஒவ்வொரு முறையும் விபிஎண் இணைப்பை துண்டித்து விட்டே விக்கிப்பீடியாவில் தொகுப்புகளை செய்ய இயல்கிறது.  

*Your IP address is in a range which has been blocked on all wikis.*  
*The block was made by -revi (meta.wikimedia.org). The reason given is Open proxy: Leaky webhost: Contact stewards if you are affected .*  
''Start of block: 15:49, 26 சூன் 2018  
Expiration of block: 15:49, 26 சூன் 2021  
You can contact -revi to discuss the block. You cannot use the "இப் பயனருக்கு மின்னஞ்சல் செய்" feature unless a valid email address is specified in your account preferences and you have not been blocked from using it. Your current IP address is 208.131.139.69, and the blocked range is 208.131.128.0/19. Please include all above details in any queries you make.  
''  

பாதுகாப்பு காரணங்களுக்காக நான் தொடர்ந்து விபிஎண் பயன்படுத்தி வருகிறேன். இங்கு கொடுத்துள்ள கொள்கைப்படி தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியாவின் நிருவாகிகள் எனக்கு விலக்கு அழிக்க முடியும். தடை செய்யப்பட்ட 208.131.128.0/19 வலையத்தில் என்னுடைய ஐபி முகவரி இல்லாத போதும், என்னுடைய தொகுப்புகளை தடுப்பது (உள்நுழைவு செய்திருந்தும்) வியப்பை அளிக்கின்றது. நிருவாகிகள் உதவுமாறு கேட்டுக்கொள்கிறேன். --தினேஷ்குமார் பொன்னுசாமி (பேச்சு) 03:02, 4 திசம்பர் 2019 (UTC)  

:As a quick response, i write in English. It is universal IP block for some IP ranges in order to prevent socks and scam edits. The block preformed by meta. --AntanO (பேச்சு) 03:22, 4 திசம்பர் 2019 (UTC)  

:: நான் இங்கு படித்த போது, நிருவாகிகள் (sysop) இதற்கு விலக்கு அளிக்க முடியும் என்று கூறியிருந்தனர். எனக்கு இரண்டு கேள்விகள் உள்ளது.  
1. உள்நுழைவு செய்த பிறகு எதற்காக ஐபி முகவரி கண்கானிக்கப்படுகிறது.  
2. தடை செய்யப்பட்ட வலையம்: 208.131.128.0/19, என் முகவரி: 208.131.139.69. இரண்டும் ஒரே முகவரியில் துவங்கினாலும், வெவ்வேறு தான்.  
நன்றி. --தினேஷ்குமார் பொன்னுசாமி (பேச்சு) 17:47, 6 திசம்பர் 2019 (UTC)  

## மேற்கோள் வார்ப்புரு மொழிபெயர்ப்பு தேவை

மேற்கோள்களில் archive.org இல் சேமிக்கப்பட்ட இணைப்பை, ஆங்கிலத்தில் "archived from the original" என்று வருகிறது. அதனை தமிழில் மொழிபெயர்க்குமாறு கேட்டுக்கொள்கிறேன். அதனை இப்பக்கத்தில் பின்வரும் வரிகளில் மாற்றம் செய்ய வேண்டும் என்று நினைக்கிறேன். நன்றி -- <font face="Lucida Handwriting" size="3.5">பாலாஜி </font> <sup><font face="Lucida Handwriting" color="green">(பேசலாம் வாங்க!)</font></sup> 15:50, 6 திசம்பர் 2019 (UTC)  

:மேற்படி வார்ப்புரு (archive உடன்) இணைக்கப்பட்டுள்ள கட்டுரை ஒன்றை உதாரணமாகத் தருவது எப்போதும் நல்லது. அல்லாதுவிடின் நான் ஆயிரக்கணக்கான கட்டுரைகளில் உதாரணம் ஒன்றைத் தேடிப்பிடிப்பது மிகவும் சிரமமான காரியம். ஆனாலும், வார்ப்புருவில் "மூல முகவரியிலிருந்து", "*date* அன்று பரணிடப்பட்டது." என்றவாறு மொழிபெயர்க்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 22:08, 6 திசம்பர் 2019 (UTC)  

::. எடுத்துக்காட்டுக்காக சூர்யா (நடிகர்) கட்டுரையிலுள்ள பல மேற்கோள்களுக்கு "archived from the original" என்று உள்ளது. மேலும் இப்படித் தேடினால் இது போல் பல கட்டுரைகள் கிடைக்கும். நன்றி -- <font face="Lucida Handwriting" size="3.5">பாலாஜி </font> <sup><font face="Lucida Handwriting" color="green">(பேசலாம் வாங்க!)</font></sup> 18:52, 8 திசம்பர் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-50

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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**  
- Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language.
- There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 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 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

**Future changes**  
- You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W50"/> 16:35, 9 திசம்பர் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-51

<section begin="technews-2019-W51"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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 Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again.
- Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem.

**Changes later this week**  
- You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 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 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

**Future changes**  
- The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W51"/> 00:15, 17 திசம்பர் 2019 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2019-52

<section begin="technews-2019-W52"/><div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div>  
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 6 January 2020.

**Recent changes**  
- All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "advanced mode".

**Changes later this week**  
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

**Future changes**  
- You can use <code>setlang</code> in the URL to change the user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript is not working in your browser.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2019-W52"/> 20:03, 23 திசம்பர் 2019 (UTC)  

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