# விக்கிப்பீடியா:ஆலமரத்தடி (தொழினுட்பம்)/தொகுப்பு11

## Tech News: 2020-15

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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.  

**Problems**  
- There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user <code>Maintenance script</code>. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W15"/> 19:01, 6 ஏப்ரல் 2020 (UTC)  

## Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools

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The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.  

The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. <strong>Please test the new Reply tool.</strong>  

- On 31 March 2020, the new tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
- The team is planning some upcoming changes. <strong>Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.</strong> The team will test features such as:
  - an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
  - a rich-text visual editing option, and
  - other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the <strong>"Get involved"</strong> section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.  

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)  
</div> 19:27, 8 ஏப்ரல் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-16

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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 the <code>articletopic</code> search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic.
- You can see wiki tools in the new Tools Gallery.
- You can see edits from the Wikimedia Cloud Services in a new dashboard.
- When you use filters on a history page you sometimes don't see any edits. There is a text explaining this now. Before it was just empty.
- There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog.

**Problems**  
- There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed.
- The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
- For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated <code></code> tag, as well as the use of the deprecated <code>enclose</code> parameter, will add tracking categories.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W16"/> 15:30, 13 ஏப்ரல் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-17

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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**  
- The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.

**Recent changes**  
- The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills.
- Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed. <code>div#content</code> is now <code>.mw-body</code>. <code>div.portal</code> is now <code>.portal</code>. <code>div#footer</code> is now <code>#footer</code>. This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them.

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

**Future changes**  
- Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011.
- The font in the diffs will change.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar).

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W17"/> 18:44, 20 ஏப்ரல் 2020 (UTC)  

## Technical maintenance planned

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(Sorry for using English. .)  

A maintenance operation will be performed on Thursday 30th April at 05:00 AM UTC.  

It impacts all wikis and is supposed to last a few minutes.  

During this time, new translations may fail, and Notifications may not be delivered. For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.  

A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.  

Please help making your community aware of this maintenance operation.  
</div>  
Trizek (WMF), 18:01, 27 ஏப்ரல் 2020 (UTC)  

## Reminder: Technical maintenance planed

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Sorry to use English. .  

This is a reminder of the message sent on Monday 27th April.  

A maintenance operation will be performed on Thursday 30th April at 05:00 AM UTC.  

It impacts all wikis and is supposed to last a few minutes.  

During this time, new translations may fail, and Notifications may not be delivered. For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.  

A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.  

Please help making your community aware of this maintenance operation.  
</div>  
Trizek (WMF) 15:13, 29 ஏப்ரல் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-19

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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.  

**Problems**  
- Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 5 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
- Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 7 May. This will also affect CentralAuth. This can for example affect global renames, password changes, changing or confirming your email address and logging in to new wikis. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.

**Changes later this week**  
- You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can soon turn these notifications off for individual pages.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 May. It will be on all wikis from 7 May (calendar).

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W19"/> 16:59, 4 மே 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-20

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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**  
- Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr.

**Problems**  
- Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
- Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 May. It will be on all wikis from 14 May (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via <code>mw.config.exists</code> or <code>mw.user.tokens.exists</code>. You can use <code>exists</code> or <code>get</code> to check one at a time instead.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W20"/> 20:40, 11 மே 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-21

<section begin="technews-2020-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**  
- If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis.

**Problems**  
- There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them.
- Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.

**Changes later this week**  
- The Wikipedia app for Android can let users add depicts on Commons. The beta version used computer-aided tagging. This was removed to get more specific depicts.
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

**Future changes**  
- Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files.
- Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects <code>div#p-personal</code>, <code>div#p-navigation</code>, <code>div#p-interaction</code>, <code>div#p-tb</code>, <code>div#p-lang</code>, <code>div#p-namespaces</code>, <code>div#p-variants</code> and <code>div#footer</code>. They will have to remove <code>div</code>. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5.
- Some CSS for the Vector skin has been changed. This affects <code>#p-variants</code>, <code>#p-namespaces</code>, <code>#p-personal</code>, <code>#p-views</code> and <code>#p-cactions</code>. They can no longer use <code>> ul</code>. You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W21"/> 17:18, 18 மே 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-22

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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 visual editor will now work in the Modern skin. The changes that needed to happen for this to work could cause problems for some scripts or gadgets.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 27. It will be on all wikis from May 28 (calendar).

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W22"/> 14:17, 25 மே 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-23

<section begin="technews-2020-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**  
- There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos.

**Problems**  
- There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May.
- The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed.

**Changes later this week**  
- You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon turn them off also in the notifications you get.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all wikis from 4 June (calendar).

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W23"/> 22:30, 1 சூன் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-24

<section begin="technews-2020-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**  
- Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting.
- Self-closed tags now work as in the HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them. <code></code> is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work. <code>area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr</code> can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect <code></code> or <code></code>.
- There is a banner called <code>WikidataPageBanner</code>. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on <code>MediaWiki:Sitenotice</code> so that editors know to test and style for mobile too.

**Changes later this week**  
- You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W24"/> 21:11, 8 சூன் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-25

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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**  
- Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from **tools.wmflabs.org** to **toolforge.org**. The routing scheme is moving from **tools.wmflabs.org/toolname** to **toolname.toolforge.org**. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.

**Problems**  
- There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed.
- Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help.
- The selectors <code>.menu</code> and <code>.vectorMenu</code> will no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts. <code>.menu</code> should be replaced by <code>ul</code>. <code>.vectorMenu</code> should be replaced by <code>.vector-menu</code>.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W25"/> 21:36, 15 சூன் 2020 (UTC)  

## Editing news 2020 #2

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This issue of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.  

- <strong>Reply tool</strong>: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature is called "". The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing <code>@</code>. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster now. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
- <strong>New requirements for user signatures</strong>: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
- <strong>New discussion tool</strong>: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
- <strong>Research on the use of talk pages</strong>: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)  
</div> 20:33, 17 சூன் 2020 (UTC)  

## வடிவமைப்பு மாற்றம்

மீடியாவிக்கியில் அண்மையில் செய்யப்பட்ட மாற்றங்களால் போலும், தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா பக்கங்களில் வடிவமைப்பு மாறியிருக்கிறது. கவனியுங்கள். பக்கத்தின் மேற்புறத்தில் எதுவும் தொகுக்கவோ, பிரதிபண்ணவோ முடியவில்லை.--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 08:56, 18 சூன் 2020 (UTC)  
:எனக்கு இந்தப் படத்தில் காட்டியுள்ளது போன்ற பிழை வருகிறது <font face="Casteller" size="4">ஸ்ரீ</font> <sup><font face="Lucida Handwriting" color="green">(✉)</font></sup> 11:52, 18 சூன் 2020 (UTC)  

:: உங்கள் விருப்பத்தேர்வுகளில் மின்னல் (துவிங்கில்) கருவியை நீக்கி விடுங்கள்.--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 23:49, 19 சூன் 2020 (UTC)  
::: நன்றி. தற்போது சரியாகிவிட்டது. <font face="Casteller" size="4">ஸ்ரீ</font> <sup><font face="Lucida Handwriting" color="green">(✉)</font></sup> 12:42, 20 சூன் 2020 (UTC)  

மின்னல் கருவியை மேம்படுத்த வேண்டும். இடைமுக நிர்வாகி மாத்திரம் இதனைச் செய்ய முடியும். கவனிக்க --AntanO (பேச்சு) 13:36, 21 சூன் 2020 (UTC)  
:வழுவிற்குக் காரணமாக இருக்கக்கூடிய இரு நிரல்களை மட்டும் இற்றை செய்துள்ளேன்.(அதிகமாக மொழிபெயர்ப்பு செய்துள்ளதால் எளிதில் அனைத்தையும் இற்றை செய்ய இயலவில்லை) மேலே காட்டியுள்ள வடிவமைப்பு வழு சரியாகியுள்ளது. வேறு ஏதேனும் பயன்பாட்டளவில் சிக்கல் இருந்தால் கூறுங்கள் மற்ற நிரல்களையும் இற்றை செய்கிறேன். -நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 04:35, 25 சூன் 2020 (UTC)  

::நன்றி.--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 07:50, 25 சூன் 2020 (UTC)  

: மின்னலில் (முன்நிலையாக்கம்) கருவி வேலை செய்யவில்லை, அதை இற்றை செய்யுங்கள்.-- கௌதம் 💓 சம்பத் (பேச்சு) 14:13, 25 சூன் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-26

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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.  

**Problems**  
- There are some new tools to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed.
- Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS selectors. <code>.vectorTabs</code> should be replaced with <code>.vector-menu-tabs</code> to fix this.

**Changes later this week**  
- The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W26"/> 18:48, 22 சூன் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-27

<section begin="technews-2020-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.  

**Problems**  
- Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now.
- Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- The Modern and Monobook skins use the ID <code>searchGoButton</code> for the go button. This is <code>searchButton</code> for Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change to <code>searchButton</code> in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use <code>searchButton</code>. You can read more and see a list of affected scripts.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W27"/> 16:30, 29 சூன் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-28

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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.  

**Problems**  
- The Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 July. It will be on all wikis from 9 July (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more.
- The iOS Wikipedia app developers are thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help them by answering the survey.
- Some rules for user signatures will soon be enforced. Lint errors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W28"/> 20:18, 6 சூலை 2020 (UTC)  

## Editing news 2020 #3

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Seven years ago this month, the Editing team offered the visual editor to most Wikipedia editors. Since then, editors have achieved many milestones:  

- More than <strong>50 million edits</strong> have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
- More than <strong>2 million new articles</strong> have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
- The visual editor is <strong>increasingly popular</strong>. The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
- In 2019, <strong>35% of the edits by newcomers</strong> (logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage has <strong>increased every year</strong>.
- Almost <strong>5 million edits on the mobile site</strong> have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
- On 17 November 2019, the <strong>first edit from outer space</strong> was made in the mobile visual editor. 🚀 👩‍🚀
- Editors have made more than <strong>7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor</strong>, including starting <strong>600,000 new articles</strong> in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.

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## Tech News: 2020-29

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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**  
- Users can thank others for their edits. Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets who harass others using thanks.

**Problems**  
- Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week.

**Changes later this week**  
- Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a <span>pink background</span>. Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using <code><translate nowrap></translate></code> on the source page.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- Wikimedia code review plans to use GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W29"/> 16:29, 13 சூலை 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-30

<section begin="technews-2020-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**  
- A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help in Phabricator. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News 2020/24 and 2020/26.

**Problems**  
- There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution.
- Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events.
- Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a browser cookie problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details on Phabricator.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 July. It will be on all wikis from 23 July (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- There is a <code></code> link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W30"/> 19:13, 20 சூலை 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-31

<section begin="technews-2020-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.  

**Recent changes**  
- The Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this.
- The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck **' in your local or global preferences in section **'. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
- On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget directly from mediawiki.org, end users can now choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC.

**Problems**  
- The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week.
- Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed.
- Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 (calendar).

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W31"/> 13:51, 27 சூலை 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-32

<section begin="technews-2020-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.  

**Problems**  
- All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period.
- Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago. The problem is now fixed.
- There is a problem with the global preferences for the "" option. Developers are working on fixing it.
- A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed.

**Changes later this week**  
- The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed.
- Users' <code>global.js</code> and <code>global.css</code> pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin.
- In the MonoBook skin, the <code>searchGoButton</code> identifier is now <code>searchButton</code>. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27.
- Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses <code>counter</code> to prevent large archives was changed.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 5. It will be on all wikis from August 6 (calendar).

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W32"/> 15:43, 3 ஆகத்து 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-33

<section begin="technews-2020-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**  
- FileImporter and FileExporter became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact.

**Problems**  
- The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions and content translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 12. It will be on all wikis from August 13 (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W33"/> 16:06, 10 ஆகத்து 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-34

<section begin="technews-2020-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**  
- If you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an <code>undo</code> tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else.
- The new OOUI version will not work with Internet Explorer 8. This means the wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was reported in Tech/News/2020/17. This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates other problems.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 August. It will be on all wikis from 20 August (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis next week. This is a reminder. You can help by translating the announcement message.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W34"/> 20:41, 17 ஆகத்து 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-35

<section begin="technews-2020-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.  

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 August. It will be on all wikis from 27 August (calendar).

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W35"/> 17:59, 24 ஆகத்து 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-36

<section begin="technews-2020-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.  

**Problems**  
- This is a reminder. All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 14:00 and 15:00 UTC. Please check on the details on the announcement message.

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

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W36"/> 20:10, 31 ஆகத்து 2020 (UTC)  

## species box help

அன்புடையீர்,  
உயிரினங்கள் குறித்த கட்டுரையினை தமிழில் மொழிபெயர்க்கும் பொழுது, species box (வகைப்பாடு) தமிழில் மொழிபெயர்ப்பதில் சிக்கல்கள் ஏற்படுகிறது. முழுமையாக் ஆங்கிலக் கட்டுரையில் இருப்பதுபோன்று தமிழில் எவ்வாறு அமைப்பது குறித்து வழிகாட்டவும். என்னுடைய உயிரினங்கள் கட்டுரையினை மேம்படுத்திய திரு கனகு அவர்களுக்கு பிற நிர்வாகிகளுக்கும் நன்றிகள் பல.--சத்திரத்தான் (பேச்சு) 07:34, 4 செப்டம்பர் 2020 (UTC)  

: கட்டுரையின் species box முழுமையடைவதற்கு சில Taxonomy/ வார்ப்புருக்களை உருவாக்க வேண்டும். இவற்றை நீங்கள் ஆங்கில விக்கியில் இருந்து தருவிக்கலாம். உ=ம்: ராபோர் வனத் தவளை என்ற கட்டுரைக்கு வார்ப்புரு:Taxonomy/Platymantis, வார்ப்புரு:Taxonomy/Ceratobatrachidae, வார்ப்புரு:Taxonomy/Ceratobatrachinae ஆகிய மூன்று வார்ப்புருக்கள் தேவையாகவிருந்தன. அவற்றை நீங்கள் உருவாக்கி சேமிக்கும் போது, கட்டுரை முழுமை அடையும்.--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 12:23, 4 செப்டம்பர் 2020 (UTC)  

## விக்கிமேற்கோளில் இருந்து, மேற்கோள்களை இங்கு இணைக்க நுட்பம் உள்ளதா?

பல அறிஞர்களின் கட்டுரைகள் இங்கு உள்ள.  
:ஆங்கில விக்கியில் அவ்வாறு பயன்படுத்தியுள்ள கட்டுரை ஒன்றைக் காட்டினால் எப்படிச் செய்திருக்கிறார்களெனப் பார்க்கலாம், தகவலுழவன். -- சுந்தர் <sup>\பேச்சு</sup> 12:17, 6 செப்டம்பர் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-37

<section begin="technews-2020-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.  

**Changes later this week**  
- Normally pages can be moved to a title that has no existing page yet or to a page that has only one revision, which is a redirect to the page to be moved. A new user allows editors to move pages over one-revision pages that redirect to anywhere.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 September. It will be on all wikis from 10 September (calendar).
- All MediaWiki API modules will now use <code>watchlist</code> instead of <code>watch</code>. This was inconsistent before.

**Future changes**  
- The Wikipedia Android app team might work on patrolling tools in the future. You can let them know what tools would be useful for you or for less experienced patrollers. See the page on mediawiki.org.
- OTRS will be updated to a new version. This will probably take around two days. OTRS agents will not have access to the system during these days. Emails that come in during the update will be delivered when the update is done. The plan is to start around 08:00 UTC on 14 September. This could change.
- The Wikipedia Android app will send push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will need Google Play Services to work. It will also be possible to get the app without Google Play Services but push notifications will not work. Google Play Services is also used to make the app work for Android 4.4 users.
- Wikimedia code review could move to GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. You can take part in the consultation.
- Dropdown menus in the Vector skin use a <code>.menu</code> class. This will not work in the future. Scripts can use <code>nav ul</code> instead. <code>.vectorTabs</code> and <code>.vectorMenu</code> will also not work. Some scripts need to be updated. You can read more in Phabricator.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W37"/> 15:59, 7 செப்டம்பர் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-38

<section begin="technews-2020-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.  

**Problems**  
- The Wikipedia apps briefly showed pages without CSS last week. This meant they looked wrong. It was quickly fixed but cached pages without CSS were shown for a few hours.

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

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W38"/> 16:19, 14 செப்டம்பர் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-39

<section begin="technews-2020-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**  
- There is a new tag for reverted edits. For example you can see it in the recent changes feed or in the article history. It is added to edits when they have been undone, rollbacked or manually reverted to an older version of the page.

**Changes later this week**  
- The number of times you can do something in a period of time on wiki is limited. This could be the number of edits per minute or the number of users you email in a day. Some users are not affected by all limits because of their user rights. They could soon see the limit even if it does not affect them.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 September. It will be on all wikis from 24 September (calendar).

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W39"/> 21:27, 21 செப்டம்பர் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-40

<section begin="technews-2020-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**  
- Admins can now see links to diffs of deleted revisions on Special:AbuseLog. This uses the interface of Special:Undelete.
- Editors are automatically added to some user groups. For example editors are added to autoconfirmed users when they have edited enough times and long enough. Abuse filters can hinder users from automatically getting user rights for a period of time. They can also remove rights user have. Wikis can now ask to change how long this period of time is for their wiki in Phabricator. It is currently five days.

**Problems**  
- Last year some abuse filters stopped working because of a new change. If they tried to use variables that were unavailable for that action they would fail. This has now been fixed.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 September. It will be on all wikis from 1 October (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- You can't see the language links to other language versions from the talk page or history page. They are also not shown when you edit an article. This could change. It is not decided if for example the history page should link to another history page or to the article. You can take part in the discussion in Phabricator.
- The link colours could change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. You can read more in Phabricator.
- In your preferences you can choose to get different notifications on the web or by email. You will see <code>Apps</code> as one of the alternatives later this week. This is because the Android and iOS Wikipedia apps will use push notifications for those who want them. You can see the preferences on the test wiki. The goal is to have push notifications on Android in October and on iOS in early 2021.
- You can soon put pages on your watchlist for a limited time. This could be useful if you want to watch something for a shorter time but don't want it on your watchlist forever. It now works on mediawiki.org and will come to more wikis later. You can read more and see when it will come to other wikis.
- You can see what Wikimedians think are the best new technical tools this year. You can also nominate them.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W40"/> 21:24, 28 செப்டம்பர் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-41

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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**  
- There is a new tool where you can see which home wiki users have in discussions on Meta. This can help show which communities are not part of the discussion on wikis where we make decisions that affect many other wikis.
- You can now thank users for file uploads or for changing the language of a page.

**Problems**  
- There were many errors with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new version was rolled back. Updates that should have happened last week are late.
- Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now.
- Many pages have JavaScript errors. You can read more and now see a list of user scripts with errors.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 October. It will be on all wikis from 8 October (calendar).
- Letters immediately after a link are shown as part of the link. For example the entire word in <code></code> is linked. On Arabic wikis this works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic letters will extend links on Arabic wikis.

**Future changes**  
- You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W41"/> 16:24, 5 அக்டோபர் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-42

<section begin="technews-2020-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.  

**Problems**  
- Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last week's updates are also late.

**Changes later this week**  
- Live previews didn't show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This has now been fixed. You can also test CSS and JavaScript pages even if you have the live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- A new stable version of Pywikibot is coming soon.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W42"/> 15:24, 12 அக்டோபர் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-43

<section begin="technews-2020-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.  

**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).

**Future changes**  
- You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour.
- In the AbuseFilter extension, the <code dir=ltr>rmspecials</code> function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of <code dir=ltr>rmspecials</code> with <code dir=ltr>rmwhitespace</code> wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage.
- Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID <code dir=ltr>#jump-to-nav</code>. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either <code dir=ltr>#siteSub</code> or <code dir=ltr>#mw-content-text</code>. A list of affected scripts is at the top of phab:T265373.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W43"/> 16:31, 19 அக்டோபர் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-44

<section begin="technews-2020-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.  

**Problems**  
- You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on October 27 around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour.
- Last week, links to "diffs" from mobile watchlists and recentchanges were linking to page-revisions instead of diffs. This has now been fixed.

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

**Future changes**  
- Since the introduction of the interface administrators user group in 2018, administrators couldn’t view the deleted history of CSS/JS pages. Now they can.
- There was a problem with the Change Tags. The software would apply the "" tag to any page actions such as page-protection changes if they came directly after a reverted edit. This has now been fixed for new edits.
- The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias in November. Another announcement will be made once the date is finalized.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W44"/> 17:38, 26 அக்டோபர் 2020 (UTC)  

## AbuseFilter notice: rmspecials will no longer remove whitespace when used in filters

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

Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. .  

We are making a change to the AbuseFilter extension, which may impact the behavior of some existing filters. The <code>rmspecials</code> function currently removes spaces in addition to special characters. We will change it such that it will only remove special characters. The existing <code>rmwhitespace</code> can be used to remove spaces whenever applicable.  

As reported on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P12854 we believe at least one filter on your wiki has been identified to use the <code>rmspecials</code> function. Please consider updating these filters by wrapping <code>rmspecials</code> inside <code>rmwhitespace</code> like this: <code>rmwhitespace(rmspecials(....))</code>  

We need you to update the relevant filters within 2 weeks of this notice. If one of the community members with proper access is volunteering to take this on, we ask them to please respond below and notify User:Huji in their response or in the edit summary. If we don't hear back from you within 2 weeks, Huji will edit the relevant filters on your wiki per the global abuse filter maintainer policy, to ensure the filters won't break once the change is implemented. Thank you for your consideration!  

Best regards,  

--User:Huji ([[:m:User talk:Huji|]]) 23:48, 26 அக்டோபர் 2020 (UTC), sent via MediaWiki message delivery  
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## Tech News: 2020-45

<section begin="technews-2020-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 can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser uses very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It could lead to downgrade attacks. Since October 29, 2020, users who use old TLS versions will not be able to connect to Wikimedia projects. A list of browser recommendations is available. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects.
- There is a new automatic tracking category available: Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments. It collects pages which use the <code></code> parser function with invalid (non-numeric) input, *e.g.* <code></code>. Note that <code></code> is also invalid input: as described in the documentation, the argument should be <u>unformatted</u> so that it can be reliably and correctly localised. The tracking category will help identify problematic usage and double-formatting. The new tracking category's name can be translated at translatewiki.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 4. It will be on all wikis from November 5 (calendar).
- Administrators and stewards will be able to use a special page (Special:CreateLocalAccount) to force local account creation for a global account. This is useful when account creation is blocked for that user (by a block or a filter).
- The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias on November 4. This change excludes the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias, plus a few smaller Wikipedias with special circumstances. You can read the help page and the troubleshooting guide for more information.

**Future changes**  
- A discussion has been restarted about using a Unicode minus sign (− U+2212) in the output of <code></code> when it is given a negative argument.
- In the future IP addresses of unregistered users will not be shown for everyone. They will get an alias instead. There will be a new user or an opt-in function for more vandal fighters to see the IPs of unregistered users. There would be some criteria for who gets the user or opt-in. There will also be other new tools to help handle vandalism. This is early in the process and the developers are still collecting information from the communities before they suggest solutions.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W45"/> 16:09, 2 நவம்பர் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-46

<section begin="technews-2020-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.  

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

**Future changes**  
- You can see reference previews. This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been a beta feature. It will move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be the first ones. You can let them know if your wiki is interested.
- From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the internationalisation library. They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W46"/> 15:50, 9 நவம்பர் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-47

<section begin="technews-2020-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**  
- Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more.

**Changes later this week**  
- If you merged two pages in a namespace where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed.
- 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).

**Future changes**  
- The Community Wishlist Survey is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W47"/> 15:37, 16 நவம்பர் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-48

<section begin="technews-2020-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**  
- Timestamps in Special:Log are now links. They go to Special:Log for only that entry. This is how timestamps work on for example the history page.

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

**Future changes**  
- The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from 1 December. Unclaimed projects can be deleted from 1 January.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W48"/> 17:19, 23 நவம்பர் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-49

<section begin="technews-2020-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.  

**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).

**Future changes**  
- The iOS Wikipedia app will show readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will first be shown only to some iOS app users as a test.
- The Wiki Replicas can be used for SQL queries. You can use Quarry, PAWS or other ways to do this. To make the Wiki Replicas stable there will be two changes. Cross-database <code>JOINS</code> will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W49"/> 17:44, 30 நவம்பர் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-50

<section begin="technews-2020-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**  
- You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function.

**Changes later this week**  
- Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki.
- 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).

**Future changes**  
- You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W50"/> 16:14, 7 திசம்பர் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-51

<section begin="technews-2020-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.  

**Recent changes**  
- There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too.

**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).

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W51"/> 21:34, 14 திசம்பர் 2020 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2020-52

<section begin="technews-2020-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 11 January 2021.

**Recent changes**  
- The <code></code> template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added.

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

**Future changes**  
- You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
- Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a <code></code> tag that can convert a piece of text on a page.
- Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2020-W52"/> 20:53, 21 திசம்பர் 2020 (UTC)