# விக்கிப்பீடியா:ஆலமரத்தடி (தொழினுட்பம்)/தொகுப்பு08

## தமிழ் விக்கிநூல்கள் திட்டத்தில் :b:வார்ப்புரு:PD-self மேம்பாடு தேவை

மேற்கூறிய வார்ப்புருவினை விக்கிநூலில் அமைக்க முயன்றேன். அதில் சதுரமாக வரும் பெட்டி அமைப்பு வரவில்லை. 1. சதுர பெட்டிக்குள் உரிமைத்தரவு, இங்குள்ளது போல வர வேண்டும். வராததற்கு இந்த வழு (:வார்ப்புரு:Ns has subpages)காரணமா?சீர் செய்து உதவுக.--<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 10:41, 5 சனவரி 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-02

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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.  

**Recent changes**  
- You can now use datasets on Commons. You can see an example that is using this source.
- There is a new opt-in beta feature of a wikitext mode for the visual editor. You can try it out.
- When you update a page with translations on wikis with the Translate extension the existing translations will be marked as outdated instead of removed.
- The new version of MediaWiki was released to all wikis last week (calendar).
- MoodBar has been removed from the Wikimedia wikis.
- <span title="Advanced item"> The <code>live</code> option for the Tipsy notice tool has been removed. Gadgets and user scripts which use it need to be updated.

**Problems**  
- Editors who use Firefox 50 might get logged out or fail to save their edits. This is because of a browser bug. Until this is fixed you can enter <code>about:config</code> in the address bar and set <code>network.cookie.maxPerHost</code> to 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox.

**Changes this week**  
- There is no new version of MediaWiki this week because of the Wikimedia Developer Summit.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W02"/> 19:12, 9 சனவரி 2017 (UTC)  

## படத்தின் பகுதியை பெரிதாக்கும் வார்ப்புரு

படம் ஒன்றின் ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட பகுதியை மட்டும், பெரியதாக்கிக் காட்டும் வார்ப்புருவை சில ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன், நம் விக்கியில் பார்த்ததாக ஞாபகம். அந்த வார்ப்புரு பயன்படுத்தப்பட்டுள்ள கட்டுரையைக் காட்டுக.--<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 18:11, 15 சனவரி 2017 (UTC)  
:இது எனவே கருதுகின்றேன்.--ஸ்ரீஹீரன் (பேச்சு) 09:57, 16 சனவரி 2017 (UTC)  
::நன்றி.--<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 04:31, 3 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-03

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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 upload WebP files to Commons.

**Problems**  
- video2commons was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up.

**Changes this week**  
- There is a new magic word called <code></code>. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators.
- When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu.
- You will be able to use <code></code> to write chemical formulas. Before you could use <code></code>. <code></code> should be replaced by <code></code>.
- You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown on Special:UncategorizedCategories. The list is at MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist.
- The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to your personal CSS: <code></code> You can change the number <code>50</code> to make it look like you want to.
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs, including Tool Labs will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in.
- When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu.
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on January 17 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W03"/> 23:24, 16 சனவரி 2017 (UTC)  

## Developer Wishlist Survey: propose your ideas

<div lang="en" dir="ltr">  

At the Wikimedia Developer Summit, we decided to organize a Developer Wishlist Survey, and here we go:  

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Wishlist  

The Wikimedia technical community seeks input from developers for  
developers, to create a high-profile list of desired improvements. The scope of the survey includes the MediaWiki platform (core software, APIs, developer environment, enablers for extensions, gadgets, templates, bots, dumps), the Wikimedia server infrastructure, the contribution process, and documentation.  

The best part: we want to have the results published by Wednesday, February 15. Yes, in a month, to have a higher chance to influence the  
Wikimedia Foundation annual plan FY 2017-18.  

There's no time to lose. <b>Propose your ideas before the end of January</b>,  
either by pushing existing tasks in Phabricator or by creating new ones. You can find instructions on the wiki page. Questions and feedback are welcome especially on the related Talk page.  

The voting phase is expected to start on February 6 (tentative). Watch this space (or even better, the wiki page) - SSethi_(WMF) January 21st, 2017 3:07 AM (UTC) </div>  

## Tech News: 2017-04

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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 see a list of the templates on a page you edit with the visual editor.

**Changes this week**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W04"/> 20:14, 23 சனவரி 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-05

<section begin="technews-2017-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 OAuth management interfaces now look slightly different.

**Changes this week**  
- ElectronPdfService will be enabled by default on Meta and German Wikipedia. This is a new way to get articles as PDF files you can download. It will come to more wikis later.
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 31. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from February 1. It will be on all wikis from February 2 (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- The Community Tech team will develop more tools to handle harassment of Wikimedia editors. The goal is to give the communities better tools to find, report and evaluate harassment. They will also work on more effective blocking tools.
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> The Wikimedia technical community is doing a Developer Wishlist survey. Developers can propose ideas before 31 January 23:59 UTC. This is soon.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W05"/> 18:45, 30 சனவரி 2017 (UTC)  

## இப்பக்கத்தவை இணைத்தவை என்பதன் வழியே வரும் கட்டுரைகளை பட்டியலை எடுப்பது எப்படி?

Angiosperms, Plant போன்ற சிவப்பு இணைப்பு சொற்கள், **இப்பக்கத்தவை இணைத்தவை** என்பதில் உள்ளன. அக்கட்டுரைகளை எடுப்பது எப்படி? இதன் மூலம் பல்லாயிர கணக்கான சொற்களின் சிவப்பு இணைப்பை நீக்கலாம்--<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 04:35, 3 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  

:தனித்தனியே அப்பக்கங்களைத் திறந்து சிவப்பு இணைப்புகளை நீக்கியுள்ளேன். தானியங்கி கொண்டு எவ்வாறு நீக்கலாம் என்பது தெரியவில்லை. நீச்சல்காரனுக்குத் தெரிந்திருக்கும்.--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 06:52, 3 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  

:<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font>, மின்னல் கருவியூடாக எளிதாக செய்யலாம். மின்னல் கருவியில் உள் பகுதி இதற்காகவே உள்ளடக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. --<span>&nbsp;**மாதவன்**&nbsp;</font></span> (<span>&nbsp;***பேச்சு***&nbsp;</font></span>) 14:10, 5 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  

::மின்னல் கருவி? சிறு குறிப்பு தருக. ஆவலுடன் ..--<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 01:07, 6 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  

## Developer Wishlist Survey: Vote for Proposals

<div lang="en" dir="ltr">  
Almost two weeks ago, the Technical Collaboration team invited proposals for the first edition of the Developer Wishlist survey!  

We collected around 77 proposals that were marked as suitable for the developer wishlist and met the defined scope and criteria. These proposals fall into the following nine categories: Frontend, Backend, Code Contribution (Process, Guidelines), Extensions, Technical Debt, Developer Environment, Documentation, Tools (Phabricator, Gerrit) and Community Engagement.  

Voting phase starts now and will run until <b>February 14th, 23:59 UTC</b>. Click here on a category and show support for the proposals you care for most. Use the 'Vote' and 'Endorse' buttons next to a proposal to do so.  

<b>What happens next?</b>  

Proposals that will gather most votes will be included in the final results which will be published on <b>Wednesday, February 15th</b>. These proposals will also be considered in the Wikimedia Foundation’s annual plan FY 2017-18 - SSethi_(WMF) (talk) 04:41, 6 February 2017 (UTC)  
</div>  

## Tech News: 2017-07

<section begin="technews-2017-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**  
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. For now it works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July.

**Problems**  
- The Firefox add-on Firefogg can cause problems with the Upload Wizard. This will not be fixed, because Firefox will not support Firefogg in the future. The Upload Wizard will no longer work with Firefogg.
- Tool Labs and Wikimedia Labs databases will be under maintenance on 15 February. This will start at 17:00 (UTC) and last for about six hours. Some tools could have problems during or after this.

**Changes this week**  
- The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It will come to Meta and German Wikipedia this week. It is already available on MediaWiki.org. It will come to more wikis later.
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar).

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

**Future changes**  
- Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on the Catalan, Greek, Russian, and Italian Wikipedias in the middle of February. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. It will come to more wikis later this spring.
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> The Developer Wishlist is a list where developers prioritize tools they need. The voting closes at 14 February 23:59 (UTC). This process is only for developers.

**Review**  
- You can read the 2016 product summary from the Wikimedia Foundation Product group to see what they did with things they said they would work on in the annual plan.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W07"/> 18:06, 13 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  

## விக்கித்தரவு இல்லா கட்டுரைகள்

பகுப்பு_பேச்சு:விக்கித்தரவில்லாதவை#விக்கித்தரவில்லாததை கண்டறிவதற்கான நிரலாக்கம் என்பதில் பைத்தான்3 நிரலாக்க ஆர்வலர்களுக்கு ஒரு வேண்டுகோளை வைத்துள்ளேன்.--<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 16:49, 17 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  

## ஆங்கில சொற்களின் உள்ளிணைப்பு நீக்கம்

Special:diff/2188707 இவ்வாறான "ஆங்கில சொற்களின் உள்ளிணைப்பு நீக்கம்" தொகுப்புக்களை தானியங்கி கொண்டு செய்வது ஏற்றது. அதனால் அண்மைய மாற்றங்களில் தானியங்கியை தவிர்த்துப் பார்க்கலாம். விக்கிதானுலவி மூலமும் இலகுவாக Special:diff/2188938 இவ்வாறு செய்யலாம். நிற்க, இதனால் என்ன நன்மை? தானியங்கி மூலம் செய்ய முடியாதெனில் இன்றே சில 100, 1000 தொகுப்புக்களை என்னால் செய்ய முடியும். --Ant<font color="red">a</font>n<font color="red"><big>**O**</big></font> 11:36, 18 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  
:உங்களால் இயலுமெனின் அவற்றை நீக்க வேண்டுகிறேன். ஏனெனில், அத்தகைய சிவப்பு இணைப்புகளினால் என்ன பயன்? சொல்லி கொடுத்தால், நானும் அவற்றை நீக்க முயற்சிக்கிறேன். ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட சொல்லை நீக்குதல் எளிமை. ஆனால், ஒரு பக்கத்தில் பல சொற்கள் இருக்கும் போது, நீக்கும் முயற்சி சில செய்தும் என்னால் முடியவில்லை. ஏதாவது செய்ய வேண்டும் என்று வரும், புதிய பயனர்களுக்கு அத்தகைய துப்புரவு பணியை தொடக்க காலத்தில் நான் கூறி வருகிறேன். சிறு மாற்றத்தை தவறாக செய்யும் போது, அது விக்கியின் தகவற் பெட்டியை எவ்விதம் பாதிக்கும் என்பதை செய்து காட்டும் போது, புதியவர்கள் எளிதில் புரிந்து கொள்கின்றனர். நம்மைப் பொறுத்தவரை AWB நேரவிரயம், கணினியின் பயன்பாடு நேரம் அதிகமாகும். அதுவே, PAWS இல் செய்தால், மின்தடை, இணைய இணைப்புத்தடை, 24 மணி நேரமும் வழங்கியில் இருந்து செயற்படுவதால் மிக எளிது. எனது தானியங்கி கணக்கில் அதனைப் பயன்படுத்த வழு அமைகிறது. [[பயனர்_பேச்சு:Maathavan#PAWS| இந்த உரையாடலில் காணலாம்.] ]அதனால், சில பயர்பாக்சு நீட்சிகளைக் கொண்டு எளிமையாக அவ்வப்போது செய்து வருகிறேன்.--<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 12:08, 18 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  

:: தயவுசெய்து ஓரிரு சோதனை தொகுப்புகள் தவிர தொடர்ச்சியான PAWS அல்லது AWB கொண்டு செய்யும் தொகுப்புகளை உங்களது பொது கணக்கு கொண்டு செய்ய வேண்டாம். இது நமது கொள்கைகளுக்கு முரணானது மேலும் அண்மைய மாற்றங்களை ரோந்திடவும் கடினமாக இருக்கும். தானியங்கி கணக்கு வழுவை நீக்க உங்களது வழங்கியை மறு தொடக்கம் செய்து பாருங்கள் (Control Panel - Stop My server - My server).--**<font>சண்முகம்</font><font color="#D7111F">ப7</font>** <sup><font color="#0A6F04">(பேச்சு) </font></sup> 16:28, 18 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  
::://ஆங்கில சொற்களின் உள்ளிணைப்பு நீக்கம்// என்ற இலக்கினை PAWS அல்லது AWB கொண்டு நான் செய்வதில்லை. பயர்பாக்சின் ( multiple clipboard)சில நீட்சிகளை வைத்து செய்கிறேன். மற்றொன்று, எனது தானியங்கி கணக்கினை பலமுறை இதற்குமுன் நீங்கள் கூறிய வழிமுறைகள் படி செய்து பார்த்தேன். பலனில்லை. வழு பதிந்துள்ளேன். எனவே, வேறு வழிமுறைகளை சிந்திக்கிறேன். எது எப்படி இருப்பினும், ஒரு நிமிடத்திற்கு 2அல்லது 3 பதிவுகளையே செய்துள்ளேன். அதுவும் 10-12 பதிவுகளுக்கு மேல் செய்வதில்லை. --<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 04:08, 19 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  

:இது தேவையற்ற வேலை. *வார்ப்புரு:Taxonomy*, *வார்ப்புரு:Automatic taxobox* மேம்படுத்தியதும் இத்தொகுப்புக்கள் பயனற்றவை. --Ant<font color="red">a</font>n<font color="red"><big>**O**</big></font> 08:09, 4 மார்ச் 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-08

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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**  
- The edit summary box is now a little bit bigger. This is to make it follow the Wikimedia design guide.

**Changes this week**  
- Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards.
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options: <code>type</code> and <code>peers</code>. The <code>type</code> option solves this problem. You can use <code>peers</code> to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers.
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way.
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar).

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## வார்ப்புரு - Infobox Indian jurisdiction

Infobox Indian jurisdiction வார்ப்புருக்கள் உள்ள கட்டுரைகள் பலவற்றில் பிழை தோன்றுகிறது. எ.கா: குவாலியர். அவற்றுக்கு முறையான துணை வார்ப்புருக்கள் உருவாக்க வேண்டும் அல்லது தனி வார்ப்புருவில் சகல தகவல்களையும் உள்ளடக்க வேண்டும். --Ant<font color="red">a</font>n<font color="red"><big>**O**</big></font> 05:08, 24 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  
:இந்த வார்ப்புரு மொத்தம் எத்தனை கட்டுரைகளில் பயன்படுத்தப்பட்டுள்ளன என எப்படி கண்டறிவது?--<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 10:40, 24 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  
::வார்ப்புருவின் இடப்பக்கத்தில் **இப்பக்கத்தை இணைத்தவை** என்பதைச் சொடுக்குங்கள். .--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 10:52, 24 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  
:::சில வருடங்களுக்கு முன் நீங்கள் இதேபோல கூறியது நினைவில் இருக்கிறது. மொத்தம் எத்தனை பக்ங்களில் இணைப்புகள் உள்ளது என்பதை எப்படி கண்டறிவது ?என்பதை அறிய விரும்புகிறேன்?--<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 15:43, 24 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  
:எண்ணிலடங்காதன, பல்லாயிரக்கணக்கில். அடுத்த 500, அடுத்த 500 என எண்ணிப் பாருங்கள். சரியான எண்ணிக்கையை அறிந்து என்ன செய்வது? பிழையைத் திருத்துவதற்கு ஒவ்வொரு கட்டுரையிலும் திருத்தம் செய்ய வேண்டிய அவசியமில்லை. வார்ப்புருவிலேயே திருத்தம் செய்தால் போதும். சில உப-வார்ப்புருக்களை உருவாக்க வேண்டி வரும்.--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 01:58, 25 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  
::ஆம். உங்களின் கூற்று சரியே. ஆனால், இந்த ஒரு வார்ப்புருக்காக நான் வினவவில்லை. ஒரு வார்ப்புருவில் செய்ய வேண்டிய மாற்றங்களை, நமக்கு முன்னமேயே, ஒரு பங்களிப்பாளர் வார்ப்புருவுக்கு வெளியே செய்து விட்டால், அதனை செம்மையாக்க/துப்புரவு செய்ய, நாமும் வார்ப்புருவுக்கு வெளியே பங்களிக்க வேண்டியுள்ளது. அதற்கு பட்டியல் அவசியமாகப் போய் விடுகின்றது. எனக்கு அப்படி ஒரு சூழ்நிலை, subspecies என்பதில் தோன்றியது.<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 02:26, 25 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  

: <strike>இந்த **வார்ப்புருவை** ஏனைய தொகுதிகளுக்கான தகவல்களையும் தொகுக்கனும்.. தமிழ்நாடு மக்களவைத் தொகுதிகள் மட்டும் தான் தொகுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. ஏனைய மாநிலங்களுக்கும் தொகுக்கனும். </strike> --Mdmahir (பேச்சு) 07:18, 25 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  

:இனி எப்போதும் இந்த தரவுகளை இங்கு (த.வி) தொகுக்க வேண்டியதில்லை. தொகுதிப் பெயர்களை மட்டும் தமிழாக்கம் செய்ய உதவும். வார்ப்புரு:இந்திய மக்களவை/QId வார்ப்புருவில் தகவல்களை சேர்த்திருக்கிறேன். விக்கித்தரவில் ஒருமுறை தொகுத்தால் போதும். -- Mdmahir (பேச்சு) 10:59, 1 மார்ச் 2017 (UTC)  
::அதிசயம். நன்றி மாகிர். அடிக்கடி இந்தப் பக்கம் வந்து போங்கோ.--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 11:37, 1 மார்ச் 2017 (UTC)  

## infobox species
என்ற வார்ப்புருவில் துறைச் சொல்லுக்கு உள்ளிணைப்பு தானாக தோன்றுமாறு அமைக்கப்பட்டு உள்ளது. அதனை நீக்க முயன்றேன். இயலவில்லை. அதனை நீக்குவது எப்படி?(எ.கா) கங்கை டால்பின்கள் என்பதிலுள்ள Platanista என்ற தகவற்சட்ட சொல்லைக்காணவும்--<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 01:43, 25 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  

: இவ்வார்ப்புருவில் திருத்தம் செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது. வேறுகட்டுரைகளில் இச்சிக்கல் எழுமாயின் முறையாக வார்ப்புருக்களை உருவாக்கி அல்லது இருப்பதில் திருத்தம் செய்ய வேண்டும். தொடர்புபட்ட பிற வார்ப்புருக்களை இங்கு காணலாம். ஒருசிலவற்றை உருவாக்கியுள்ளேன். --Ant<font color="red">a</font>n<font color="red"><big>**O**</big></font> 03:02, 25 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  
:வார்ப்புரு குறித்தத் தெளிவான வழிகாட்டுதலுக்கு நன்றி. தேவையான இடங்களில் பயன்படுத்திக் கொள்கிறேன். வணக்கம்--<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 03:06, 25 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  

:Taxonomy வார்ப்புருவின் துணை வார்ப்புருக்கள் பல த.விக்கு ஏற்ப (எ.கா: ) சரி செய்யப்பட வேண்டும். கங்கை டால்பின்கள் தற்போது சிவப்பு இணைப்பு ஏற்பட்டுள்ளது. முடிந்தவற்றைச் சரிசெய்யுங்கள். நானும் திருத்துகிறேன். --Ant<font color="red">a</font>n<font color="red"><big>**O**</big></font> 03:18, 25 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-09

<section begin="technews-2017-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.  

**Problems**  
- On 22 February the wikipedia.org portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file.

**Changes this week**  
- You will be able to use <code></code> to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor.
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (calendar).

**Meetings**  
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**Future changes**  
- You can soon upload 3D files to Commons. The file formats are AMF and STL. The plan is for this to work later this week but it could be later.
- The name "Wikipedia" will be more obvious at the top of the page when you read Wikipedia in the mobile view. This is because many readers don't realize they are on Wikipedia.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W09"/> 19:55, 27 பெப்ரவரி 2017 (UTC)  

## மீடியாவிக்கி பேச்சு:Gadget-edittop.js

மீடியாவிக்கி பேச்சு:Gadget-edittop.js இந்த மீடியாவிக்கியில் அமைந்துள்ள கருவியின் சிறப்பு அறிய ஆவல்--<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 01:37, 1 மார்ச் 2017 (UTC)  

## பல அறுபட்ட கோப்புகள் கொடிகளைக் கட்டுரைகளில் நீக்க உதவுக

:பகுப்பு பேச்சு:அறுபட்ட கோப்பு இணைப்புகள் உள்ள பக்கங்கள்#வார்ப்புரு:FIAV‎ என்பதில் பல கொடி குறித்த அமைப்பியல் வழுவை சீர் செய்ய வேண்டியுள்ளது. வார்ப்புருவில் சிறப்பாக பங்களிக்கும் பயனர்களின் உதவி தேவை.--<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 02:25, 1 மார்ச் 2017 (UTC)  

## பகுப்பு பேச்சு:Pages with reference errors நீக்க கருவி உள்ளதா?

பகுப்பு பேச்சு:Pages with reference errors என்பதில் 700க்கும் மேற்பட்ட கட்டுரைகளை மேம்படுத்த வழிகாட்டுதல் தேவை. இதற்கு ஏதேனும் கருவி உள்ளதா?--<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 02:42, 1 மார்ச் 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-10

<section begin="technews-2017-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.  

**Recent changes**  
- You can now search on English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis and find words even if you forget the diacritics. It also works if you use diacritics in your search but the wiki doesn't.
- When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view.

**Problems**  
- Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed.
- Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user's Special:Contributions will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately.

**Changes this week**  
- The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view.
- The "flag the edit in the abuse log" checkbox will be removed from the abuse filter interface. This is because the edits are always flagged in the abuse log.
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (calendar).

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

**Clarification**  
- The 2017/09 issue of Tech News mentioned 3D file formats you can soon upload to Commons. The AMF format will be available later.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W10"/> 23:23, 6 மார்ச் 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-11

<section begin="technews-2017-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.  

**Changes this week**  
- You will be able to show references from <code>.

இந்த வலைப்பக்கத்தில் தமிழ் விக்கிக் கட்டுரையின் தலைப்பை Page name இலும், ta என்பதை அடுத்த கீழ்விடு பட்டியலில் (drop-down menu) இருந்து தெரிவு செய்து Fix Page என்பதை அழுத்துங்கள். மேலதிக விளக்கத்திற்கு: :en:User:Zhaofeng_Li/reFill ஐப் பாருங்கள்.--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 13:01, 14 சூலை 2017 (UTC)  

:புதிய நுட்பத்தை அனைவரும் அறிய தந்தமைக்கு நன்றி. கனகு!இங்கு ஏற்பட்ட மாற்றங்கள், அக்கருவியால் ஏற்பட்டன. ஆனால், முழுமையாக ஏன் ஏற்பட வில்லை என்று புரியவில்லை.--<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 11:32, 19 சூலை 2017 (UTC)  

Kanags, இந்தக் கருவி குறித்து இன்று தான் அறிந்து கொண்டேன். நன்றி. இது போல் துப்புரவில் ஈடுபடுபவர்களுக்குப் பயன் அளிக்கக்கூடிய கருவிகளை ஒரு பக்கத்தில் குறிப்பிடலாம். User:Info-farmer, இந்தப் பக்கம் பாருங்கள். விட்டுப் போன இரண்டு மேற்கோள்களின் வலைப்பக்கங்களிலும் HTML title இல்லை என்று குறிப்பிடுகிறது. அது இருந்தால் தான் இக்கருவி வேலை செய்யும். --இரவி (பேச்சு) 03:56, 24 சூலை 2017 (UTC)  

## சென்னையில் விக்கி நிரல் திருவிழா - சூலை 23

வரும் ஞாயிறு அன்று சென்னை லினக்சு பயனர் குழு நடத்தும் விக்கி நிரல் திருவிழாவில் கலந்து கொள்ள அன்புடன் அழைக்கிறோம்.  
மேலும் விவரங்களுக்கு விக்கிப்பீடியா:சென்னை விக்கி நிரல் திருவிழா, சூலை 2017  

## Citoid கருவி நிறுவ வேண்டும்

Visual editor கருவியில் citoid ஆதரவு பெற்றால் proveit இல்லாமல் இலகுவாக மேற்கோள்களை இணைக்க முடியும். நிறுவல் உதவி தேவை. பார்க்க - Enabling Citoid on your wiki - இரவி (பேச்சு) 04:29, 24 சூலை 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-30

<section begin="technews-2017-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**  
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. This will make it easier to make templates look good on mobile devices. This now works on mediawiki.org and Wikitech. It will come to more wikis later.
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> <code dir=ltr>.mw-ui-constructive</code> modifier class is deprecated and has been removed.

**Changes later this week**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> 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).
- It will be possible to restrict who can send you notifications on a wiki. This new feature will accessible in your preferences, in the Notifications tab, on Wednesday, July 26. Please see the documentation.

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- <span title=" Recurrent item"></span> You can join the Wikimedia Foundation July 2017 Metrics & Activities Meeting. The meeting is about how Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement are perceived and understood by the world. The meeting will be on at 19:00 (UTC). See the agenda and how to join.

**Future changes**  
- New Filters for Edit Review, at the moment available as a Beta feature, will be released by default for the Recent Changes in September.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W30"/> 15:57, 24 சூலை 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-31

<section begin="technews-2017-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**  
- Some pages show the error <code>Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject</code>. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that uses Wikidata. The developers are working on fixing the problem. You can fix a page by opening it for editing and then saving without changing anything.
- Wikidata and German Wikipedia could not be edited for an hour on 28 July. You can read why and how we could avoid it in the future in the incident report.

**Changes later this week**  
- Some wikis already have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. All remaining wikis except Commons will have these from 1 August.
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

**Future changes**  
- The default font in the edit window will soon change for some users. Instead of using the browser default it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W31"/> 21:45, 31 சூலை 2017 (UTC)  

## தமிழ்விக்கி குறித்த புள்ளி விவரங்கள்

https://ta.wikiscan.org/grid என்பதன் வழியே அனைத்து விக்கிகளின் புள்ளி விவரங்களை அறியலாம். மூலம்:காமன்சுசிபி, FSFTN மின்னஞ்சல் குழுமம், , .--<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 10:25, 2 ஆகத்து 2017 (UTC)  
--<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 10:25, 2 ஆகத்து 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-32

<section begin="technews-2017-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.  

**Recent changes**  
- You can now see which Wikipedia language versions are read in a specific country. This tool is called Wikipedia Views Visualized.
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> The Architecture Committee is now the Wikimedia Technical Committee. You can read the charter.

**Problems**  
- You can get an email when a page on your watchlist was edited. You can choose not to get emails for minor edits. There is a bug that means that you then don't get an email when someone does a normal edit after a minor edit. The developers are working on fixing this. Until it has been fixed you can activate "" at the bottom of "" in your preferences if you want to.
- The thanks button sometimes didn't work for mobile users. This was because of a new bug and has now been fixed.

**Changes later this week**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 August. It will be on all wikis from 10 August (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP.
- Links to sections on Wikipedia don't work well in languages that don't use the Latin script. The URL in the address bar in your browser shows Latin characters like <code dir=ltr>.D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8</code> instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months.
- Wiki pages printed by the web browser "Print" function will have an updated style. This new style will be similar to the when you download a page as PDF. It will be better at showing tables, infoboxes and headings.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W32"/> 21:45, 7 ஆகத்து 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-33

<section begin="technews-2017-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**  
- Bureaucrats can now set users as confirmed. Previously only stewards could do this on most wikis. Nothing will change for wikis that have previously decided to let administrators set users as confirmed.

**Problems**  
- The symbols in the language list that show that an article is good or featured in that language doesn't work. Links to the Commons category in the sidebar doesn't work either. The developers are working on fixing it.

**Changes later this week**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W33"/> 23:28, 14 ஆகத்து 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-34

<section begin="technews-2017-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.  

**Recent changes**  
- You can now test the new Timeless skin on the test wiki and mediawiki.org. You can turn it on in your preferences. You can report bugs in Phabricator. It will come to more wikis soon.
- Your watchlist can now have the option to unwatch pages. You have to turn this on in your preferences.
- If a table has several columns you can often choose which column you want to use to sort the table. This has not worked for some columns for readers who have used Firefox or Safari. This has now been fixed.
- The RelatedArticles extension has shown related pages on Wikivoyages. You will now see the related pages at the end of the article together with an image. Previously the links were in the sidebar. Wikis that want this extension can request it on Phabricator.

**Changes later this week**  
- Videos will now be played in the WebM format in all browsers. Previously some browsers used Ogg Theora (.ogv). If you use Safari, Internet Explorer or Edge you may see slower playback speed at high resolutions. Instead we will get better quality and smaller file size. You can still upload video as Ogg files. They are automatically converted to WebM. This doesn't affect Ogg audio files.
- The default font in the edit window will change for some users this week. Instead of using the browser default, it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices.
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W34"/> 18:00, 21 ஆகத்து 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-35

<section begin="technews-2017-W35"/><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**  
- Syntax highlighting is now a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from to . It will come to -to- wikis later. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror.
- You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can turn this off or choose to get an email notification in your preferences. You can also turn on to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address.

**Problems**  
- Some pages show the error <code>Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject</code>. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that use Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this problem. You still need to fix pages that were broken before and still show the error message. You can see how on this page.

**Changes later this week**  
- You can block users from sending you notifications.
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar).

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> You can join the next meeting with the Technical Committee. The topic this week is Migrate to HTML5 section ids. The meeting will be on 30 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

**Future changes**  
- In the future you will have global preferences. This means you could set something in your preferences to work in the same way on all wikis. You will not be forced to use global preferences. The developers are now asking if editors need exceptions. This is where you want to use global settings on almost all wikis, but have some wikis where you want it to work in a different way. If you want this you need to tell the developers now. You can do so on the talk page.
- New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September.
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 in September 2017. Wikis can ask on Phabricator to get it early, so they can help find and solve problems now.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W35"/> 22:09, 28 ஆகத்து 2017 (UTC)  

## பயனர் கணக்கை நீக்குதல் தொடர்பாக

வணக்கம்,  
நான் 17 அக்டோபர் 2014 அன்று P.vijayakanthan எனும் பயனர் பெயரில் விக்கிப்பீடியாவில் புது பயனர் கணக்கினை தொடங்கினேன். இக்கணக்கின் ஊடாக ஒருசில பங்களிப்புக்களை செய்துள்ளேன்.  

தவறுதலாக 9 ஆகத்து 2017 அன்று P.Vijayakanthan எனும் பயனர் பெயரில் மற்றும் ஒரு பயனர் கணக்கினை தொடங்கிவிட்டேன். இதனூடாகவும் சில பங்களிப்புக்களை செய்திருப்பதோடு இதற்கான பயனர் பக்கத்தினையும் உருவாக்கியுள்ளேன்.  

இப்போது ஒரு கணக்கினை நீக்க வேண்டும் அதேநேரம் எனது இரண்டு கணக்குகளிலுமுள்ள பங்களிப்புக்களை தக்கவைக்க வேண்டும்.  

உதவுவீர்களா?--ப.விஜயகாந்தன் (பேச்சு) 11:36, 4 செப்டம்பர் 2017 (UTC)  

கட்டுரைகளை ஒன்றிணைப்பது போல் பயனர் கணக்குகளை அவர்களது பங்களிப்புகள் சேதமாகாமல் ஒன்றிணைப்பது எவ்வாறு?--சஞ்சீவி சிவகுமார் (பேச்சு) 16:04, 1 செப்டம்பர் 2017 (UTC)  
: கவனிக்க.--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 23:00, 1 செப்டம்பர் 2017 (UTC)  

::பயனர் கணக்கை ஒன்றிணைப்பது/நீக்குவது இப்போதைக்கு சாத்தியமில்லை. இவ்வசதி சில நாட்கள் முன்பு சோதனை முயற்சியாக செயல்படுத்தப்பட்டது. சரியாக வேலை செய்யாததால் முடக்கப்பட்டுவிட்டது. எனவே ஒரு கணக்கு தேவைப்படாது எனில் அப்படியே பயன்படுத்தாமல் விட்டுவிடுங்கள். அந்த பயனர் பெயர் கண்டிப்பாக நீக்கப்பட வேண்டும் என விரும்பினால் ஏதாவது ஒரு பெயருக்கு பெயர் மாற்றுதல் கோரிக்கை வைக்கலாம். --**<font>சண்முகம்</font><font color="#D7111F">ப7</font>** <sup><font color="#0A6F04">(பேச்சு) </font></sup> 13:38, 3 செப்டம்பர் 2017 (UTC)  

::: நன்றி. தேவையற்ற கணக்கை பாவிக்காமல் விட்டுவிடுகின்றேன்.--ப.விஜயகாந்தன் (பேச்சு) 11:36, 4 செப்டம்பர் 2017 (UTC)  

## பகுப்பாக்கம்

புதிய கட்டுரை ஒன்றை எழுதும் போது பகுப்பாக்கத்தினை செய்வது எவ்வாறு?--ப.விஜயகாந்தன் (பேச்சு) 11:00, 4 செப்டம்பர் 2017 (UTC)  

:தகுந்த பகுப்பு ஒன்றை கட்டுரையின் அடியில் சேர்த்து சேமியுங்கள். உ+ம்: பெற்றோசோ தமிழ் வித்தியாலயம் கட்டுரையின் அடியில் "  
::Thanks--ப.விஜயகாந்தன் (பேச்சு) 11:31, 4 செப்டம்பர் 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-36

<section begin="technews-2017-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.  

**Tech News**  
- We are asking Tech News readers five questions to make the newsletter better. You can answer the questions here. We are grateful for every reply we get.

**Recent changes**  
- The RevisionSlider user interface has changed. You can now select revisions by clicking on the bars. You can move the blue knob past the yellow one and the yellow one will move along, and the other way around.

**Problems**  
- Some users have problems loading very large watchlists. It is working better than earlier but the problem has not been solved. The developers are working on fixing it. Until it has been fixed you can turn on "" in your preferences and see if it helps.

**Changes later this week**  
- New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September.
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> You can see a presentation about and discuss the new Technical Committee on 5 September at 17:30 (UTC). There will be a presentation on YouTube and a discussion in <code>#wikimedia-office</code> on Freenode. You can use the web chat.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W36"/> 22:14, 4 செப்டம்பர் 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-37

<section begin="technews-2017-W37"/><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 get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis.
- The Newsletter extension is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later.
- The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category: <code>tidy-whitespace-bug</code>. This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more about using Linter and the Tidy whitespace bug.

**Problems**  
- Tech News 2017/36 reported about new filters for edit review coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead.

**Changes later this week**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> OOjs UI will be updated. This could affect some icons. You can read more about the changes.

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

**Future changes**  
- You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
- New filters for edit review are available now on recent changes as a beta feature. Some of those filters and other features will be deployed as default features in the coming weeks. Users will be able to opt out in their preferences.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W37"/> 19:15, 11 செப்டம்பர் 2017 (UTC)  

## Improvements coming soon to Recent Changes

<div dir="ltr">  

Hello  

Sorry to use English. !  

**In short:** starting on 26 September, New Filters for Edit Review (now in Beta) will become standard on Recent Changes. They provide an array of new tools and an improved interface. If you prefer the current page you will be able to opt out. Learn more about the New Filters.  

<big>**What is this feature again?**</big>  

This feature improves Special:RecentChanges and Special:RecentChangesLinked (and soon, Special:Watchlist – see below).  

Based on a new design, it adds new features that ease vandalism tracking and support of newcomers:  
- Filtering - filter recent changes with easy-to-use and powerful filters combinations, including filtering by namespace or tagged edits.
- Highlighting - add a colored background to the different changes you are monitoring. It helps quick identification of changes that matter to you.
- Bookmarking to keep your favorite configurations of filters ready to be used.
- Quality and Intent Filters - those filters use ORES predictions. They identify real vandalism or good faith intent contributions that need help. They are not available on all wikis.
You can know more about this project by visiting the quick tour help page.  

<big>**Concerning RecentChanges**</big>  

Starting on 26 September, **New Filters for Edit Review will become standard on Recent Changes**. We have decided to do this release because of a long and successful Beta test phase, positive feedback from various users and positive user testing.  

Some features will remain as Beta features and will be added later. Learn more about those different features.  

If your community has specific concerns about this deployment or internal discussion, it can request to have the deployment to their wikis delayed to October 1, if they have *sensible, consistent with the project, actionable, realistic feedback to oppose* (at the development team's appreciation).  

You will also be able to opt-out this change in your preferences.  

<big>**Concerning Watchlists**</big>  

Starting on **September 19**, the Beta feature will have a new option. **Watchlists will have all filters available now on the Beta Recent Changes improvements**.  

If you have already activated the Beta feature "", you have no action to take. If you haven't activated the Beta feature "" and you want to try the filters on Watchlists, please go to your Beta preferences on September 19.  

<big>**How to be ready**</big>  

Please share this announcement!  

Do you use Gadgets that change things on your RecentChanges or Watchlist pages, or have you customized them with scripts or CSS? You may have to make some changes to your configuration. Despite the fact that we have tried to take most cases into consideration, some configurations may break. The Beta phase is a great opportunity to have a look at local scripts and gadgets: some of them may be replaced by native features from the Beta feature.  

Please ping me if you have questions.  

On behalf of the Global Collaboration team, Trizek (WMF) 15:27, 14 செப்டம்பர் 2017 (UTC)  
</div>  

## Tech News: 2017-38

<section begin="technews-2017-W38"/><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 see contributions from an IP range at Special:Contributions. Before you could only see contributions from single IP addresses. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them.
- Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions and the development has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed.

**Changes later this week**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 September at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

**Future changes**  
- We are replacing Tidy on Wikimedia wikis. Editors need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors. Some wikis have already switched. If your wiki would like to switch to the new format now, you can file a task.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W38"/> 15:31, 18 செப்டம்பர் 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-39

<section begin="technews-2017-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.  

**Recent changes**  
- Wikitext syntax highlighting is a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from to . This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. You can now search through the entire article with <code>CTRL</code>+<code>F</code> or <code>cmd</code>+<code>F</code> when you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs.
- Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions as a beta feature or by default can now create and move Structured Discussions boards. Structured Discussions was previously called Flow.

**Changes later this week**  
- You now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences.
- Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser.
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September. (calendar).

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
**Future changes**  

- The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department has proposed changing the mobile website. You can read more on mediawiki.org. This would be a big change.
- You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can still create PDFs. Tech News 2017/37 said the function to create PDFs from books would still work. It is now clear it will not work for the next few months. The developers are working on fixing this. You can read more on mediawiki.org.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W39"/> 15:59, 25 செப்டம்பர் 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-40

<section begin="technews-2017-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.  

**Recent changes**  
- You can now use preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it.

**Changes later this week**  
- If you have turned on "" you will now get the 2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature.
- Special:Block and Special:Unblock will get the OOUI look.
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October.
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

**Future changes**  
- A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can give feedback on this feature.
- The search function has used fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can read more and give feedback.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W40"/> 23:25, 2 அக்டோபர் 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-41

<section begin="technews-2017-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 number of active users listed by <code></code> and on Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too.
- Previously you could create wiki links starting with two colons. Now you need to use one colon. now has to be . There is now a new Linter category. You can see a list on Special:Linterrors/multi-colon-escape. The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. You can read more about using Linter.

**Problems**  
- You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at 06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models.

**Changes later this week**  
- The font in the edit window is monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week.
- If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W41"/> 14:20, 9 அக்டோபர் 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-42

<section begin="technews-2017-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**  
- When you edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's <code>format</code> configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in more powerful ways if your wiki wants it.
- The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can give feedback to the developers.

**Problems**  
- There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis.
- Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this.
- Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed.

**Changes later this week**  
- Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP.
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W42"/> 15:31, 16 அக்டோபர் 2017 (UTC)  

## Help!

Hello to all tamilian wikipedia contributor. I apologize for writing in English. I'm just familiar with Tamil through the Chennai Express (சென்னை எக்ஸ்பிரஸ்) movie :)  

I am an active user in Persian (Farsi) wikipedia (Fawikip) and need your help. Where the source code of redirecting url for example: https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/4e redirects to விக்கிப்பீடியா ?  

best regards. Fatemi (பேச்சு) 06:01, 20 அக்டோபர் 2017 (UTC)  

:--Kanags (பேச்சு) 06:52, 20 அக்டோபர் 2017 (UTC)  

: Here is the source code - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShortUrl  

: Here is a details discussion on this https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3450  
: Raise a new ticket at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org if you want to implement the same in your wikis. த.சீனிவாசன் (பேச்சு) 07:13, 20 அக்டோபர் 2017 (UTC)  

:::So thanks my friends. It was so nice of you. Fatemi (பேச்சு) 07:35, 20 அக்டோபர் 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-43

<section begin="technews-2017-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**  
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> You can use <code>ccnorm_contains_any</code> when you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more in the documentation.

**Changes later this week**  
- When you search in some languages the search function could use specific other languages if the first language didn't work. This is called a fallback language. This didn't work properly and created bad searches. The search index is being fixed to work better.
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar).

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

**Future changes**  
- There is a Structured Commons community focus group for Commons and Wikidata contributors who want to give input on structured data on Wikimedia Commons. You can sign up to join it.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W43"/> 18:18, 23 அக்டோபர் 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-44

<section begin="technews-2017-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 now block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis.

**Changes later this week**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W44"/> 00:20, 31 அக்டோபர் 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-45

<section begin="technews-2017-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**  
- You will no longer see the patrol log on Special:Log unless you specifically select it.

**Changes later this week**  
- The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 6 November. You can post proposals from 19:00 UTC and until November 19.
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar).

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

**Future changes**  
- URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this: <code>https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F</code> instead of <code>https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История</code>. This will soon be fixed. Old links will still work.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W45"/> 18:45, 6 நவம்பர் 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-46

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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.  

**Changes later this week**  
- The diff you see when you compare two different versions of a page has changed on MediaWiki.org and the test wiki. This is to make it easier to find a text change in a moved paragraph. It will hopefully soon come to more wikis. You can report bugs in Phabricator.
- A new user group on Commons will be able to upload MP3 files. The plan is to have this user group from 17 November.
- Wikis using Flagged Revisions will get the New filters for Edit Review by default on the recent changes pages. It will be possible to opt-out in user preferences.
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar).

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

**Future changes**  
- Support for uploading and viewing 3D models is coming soon to Wikimedia Commons. The feature will support the .STL file format. You can see an example on the test wiki.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W46"/> 19:19, 13 நவம்பர் 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-47

<section begin="technews-2017-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.  

**Recent changes**  
- If you use the Chrome web browser on Android you can see a download icon on the mobile website. You can download a formatted PDF. It will work in other mobile browsers in the future.
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> The abuse filter now has a function called <code>get_matches</code>. You can use it to store matches from regular expressions – one of each capturing group. You can read more in Phabricator.

**Problems**  
- Last week's MediaWiki version didn't come to all Wikipedias because of a database crash. It will be on all wikis on 20 November.

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

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

**Future changes**  
- Language converter syntax will no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like <code></code> must be replaced. You will have to write <code></code> instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W47"/> 19:18, 20 நவம்பர் 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-48

<section begin="technews-2017-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.  

**Recent changes**  
- You can now test the new advanced search function beta feature on mediawiki.org. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It will come to German and Arabic Wikipedia this week. It will come to more wikis later.
- You can now upload large files with the Internet Archive upload tool. Previously you could not upload files larger than 100 MB.
- You can now use the Timeless skin on all wikis. You can choose skins in Special:Preferences#Appearance.

**Changes later this week**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar).

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W48"/> 20:30, 27 நவம்பர் 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-49

<section begin="technews-2017-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**  
- It is now possible to upload MP3 files to Commons. Only users with MP3 file upload rights can upload MP3 files.
- You can now use live updates for recent changes if you use the new filters. This feature updates the filtered recent changes every three seconds when you activate it.
- There is an experimental onion service for Wikimedia projects.

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

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W49"/> 17:50, 4 திசம்பர் 2017 (UTC)  

## Invitation to Blocking tools consultation

Hello all,  

The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team invites all Wikimedians to discuss new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools in December 2017 for development work in early 2018.  

How can you help?  
1. Share your ideas on the **discussion page** or **send an email to the Anti-Harassment Tools team**.
1. Spread the word that the consultation is happening; this is an important discussion for making decisions about improving the blocking tools.
1. Help with translation.
1. If you know of previous discussions about blocking tools that happened on your wiki, share the links.

We are looking forward to learning your ideas.  

For the Anti-Harassment Tools team SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative (talk) 23:23, 7 திசம்பர் 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-50

<section begin="technews-2017-W50"/><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**  
- URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this: <code>https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F</code> instead of <code>https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История</code>. This has now been fixed on all wikis. Old links will still work.
- A new tag marks edits where a redirect was created or removed. This still works when the editor writes something else in the edit summary. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist.
- If you use Chrome on Android, you can now use the print to PDF button to create a PDF of an article.
- Filter by number of edits or filter by time range have been grouped on a same menu on the recent changes page if you use the new filters. The "" link is now more prominent.
- Some of the web fonts that were provided by the Universal Language Selector extension are being removed. This is to reduce the load time on pages. The web fonts were added many years ago to help users read text in scripts which did not have fonts or had broken fonts. This is not the case any more. You can check the status page for a list of all web fonts and whether they are currently being used and especially for special requirements.

**Changes later this week**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar).

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- <span title="Advanced item"></span> You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W50"/> 17:57, 11 திசம்பர் 2017 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2017-51

<section begin="technews-2017-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.  

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

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

**Changes later this week**  
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

**Meetings**  
- <span title="Recurrent item"></span> You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.

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

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2017-W51"/> 15:26, 18 திசம்பர் 2017 (UTC)