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Sprachen in der Dateibeschreibung

Hallo Hasenläufer, habe soeben erfreut deine heute hochgeladenen Fotos bemerkt. Mir ist aufgefallen, dass du in der Infobox im Feld "Beschreibung" dem Text keine Sprache zuordnest. Hat dies einen bestimmten Hintergrund? Ich erinnere mich, dass du vereinzelt die Vorlage:LangSwitch oder eine ähnliche Vorlage eingebaut hattest. Gruß--Leit (talk) 18:35, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Hall Leit, besten Dank für den Hinweis! Die Sprache ist versehentlich „unter die Räder“ gekommen. Ich will zukünftig wieder daran denken.

Anderes Thema: Ich sinniere derzeit, ob man für den Erst- (1987) und Erweiterungs-Bau (1991) Josef-Wirmer-Straße 1–3 zwei Kategorien anlegen sollte. In Folge könnte man von den beiden Einträgen im Ernst-van-Dorp-Artikel die zwei Kategorien getrennt adressieren. Gruß, --Hasenläufer (talk) 18:54, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Hallo Hasenläufer, zu diesem Thema haben sich unsere Beiträge auf de:Diskussion:Ernst van Dorp#Unklarheiten und hier überschnitten. Ich erkenne anhand des Fotos im Pellens-Band S. 174 zwar ganz klar, welches deiner von dir angefertigten Fotos den ersten Bauabschnitt 1987 zeigt. Bis gerade eben war ich mir jedoch im Unklaren, welchen Bauabschnitt das Foto auf S. 182 zeigt. Anhand des Symbols des DVGW auf dem Vorbau dürfte es sich jedoch dem 1993–95 erstellten dritten Bauabschnitt zuordnen lassen. Der zweite Bauabschnitt entstand, wenn ich die richtige Schlussfolgerung gezogen habe, bereits 1991. Pellens dürfte hier ein Fehler unterlaufen sein. Gruß--Leit (talk) 19:07, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Hallo Hasenläufer, was die Sprachen angeht, so habe ich meine eigenen Fotos bis zuletzt selbst nur in deutscher Sprache betitelt. Vornehmlich aus Bequemlichkeit. Ich habe mir aber vorgenommen, in Zukunft hin und wieder bereits vorhandene Fotos mit englischen Beschreibungen zu versehen. Allerdings stößt bei mir schon die Übersetzung des Ausdrucks "Denkmalgeschütztes Wohn- und Geschäftshaus" an Grenzen. So ich mir über eine bestimmte Formulierung unsicher bin, würde ich auf die Übersetzung wohl einfach vorerst verzichten und nur die Adresse nennen. Gruß--Leit (talk) 18:59, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Hallo Leit, ja, ich bin es auch schon wieder leid, in jedem Fall englischsprachige Texte zu pflegen. Beim Post Tower macht es Sinn, auf den englischsprachigen Artikel zu verweisen, aber beim Großteil meiner Uploads ist es eher lästig. Ich habe eben testhalber bei dieser Datei die englischsprachige Version weggelassen. Problem dabei: Wenn ich in den Benutzereinstellungen von Wikipedia Englisch wähle, erscheint bei dem Beispiel der Text "Description: This file has no description, and may be lacking other information. Please provide a meaningful description of this file." Daher überlege ich, wieder Abstand von der Vorlage LangSwitch zu nehmen. Gruß, --Hasenläufer (talk) 19:13, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Entscheidend ist m.E., dass dem Text überhaupt eine Sprache zugeordnet wird (als in unserem Falle über die Template:de). Gruß--Leit (talk) 19:22, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Eine Bemerkung noch zu Template:LangSwitch: Das Template betrachtet English als Default für alle Sprachen. D. h., man sollte es nur einsetzten, wenn mindestens eine englische Übersetzung genannt wird.

Zum Template:de: Der Beschreibung ist zu entnehmen, dass man "de|1=German translation with links" wählen sollte, falls die Übersetzung Links enthält. Das verstehe ich nicht ganz, denn Links funktionieren auch, wenn man auf "1=" verzichtet. Gruß, --Hasenläufer (talk) 20:39, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Die Diskussionsseite habe ich nun etwas aufgeräumt. Jedoch, das Thema „Sprachen in der Dateibeschreibung“ lasse ich noch stehen, denn es ist aus meiner Sicht noch nicht abgeschlossen. Ich möchte mir die Option offen halten, zu diesem Thema zukünftig noch Beiträge zu liefern, da mir neue Erkenntnisse vorliegen (denen ich später nachgehen werde). Daher ist es hilfreich, diese Dokumentation einer Diskussion weiterhin aufzubewahren. --Hasenläufer (talk) 00:39, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Das Thema beschäftigt mich nach wie vor. Aufgrund jüngster Erkenntnisse habe ich Raymond zum Thema angesprochen. Mal schauen, was dabei heraus kommt. --Hasenläufer (talk) 02:44, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-25

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Recent changes

• Notifications were not always marked as read when you followed a link from an email notification. This will now happen. [1]

Changes this week

• The list of other languages an article is available in will be shorter on small Wikipedias and non-Wikipedia projects. This is to make it easier to find the most relevant languages for each user. You will still be able to see the other languages. [2][3]
• Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup. [4]
• When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks. [5]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).

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19:14, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-26

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Recent changes

• The ORES service has now moved to a new location. This should make it easier to use ORES. The ORES review service is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia. ORES is an artificial intelligence system for Wikimedia wikis to help editors. [6]
• The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed. [7]
• A new category for tracking pages with math errors was added: Category:Pages with math errors. [8]

Problems

• The Wikimedia Etherpad crashed on June 23. Some edits done that day have been lost. They can be found at etherpad-restore.wikimedia.org for another few days. [9][10]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
• The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be more clear. [11]

Meetings

• 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 28 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation will look at developing better tools for edit review. This is because research suggests we scare away newcomers who want to help. [12]
• An e-mail from the Editing Department explains the technical work that is planned and being researched for the future. Items include better wikitext and visual editing, prompts for edits, language improvements, annotations, and meta-data separation. [13]
• The sorting of Notifications into the two fly-out menus is going to change on July 5 to 7. Bundled notifications should be easier to explore and mark as read individually. [14][15][16]
• From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected. [17]
• Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later. [18]

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15:42, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-27

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Recent changes

• A daily email summary of notifications could be sent even when there were no notifications from the wiki. Now no email will be sent if there is no activity. [19]

Changes this week

• The "Cite" button in the visual editor's toolbar will move into the "Insert" menu except for Wikipedias, Wikibookses and Wikiversities. This is to make it less prominent on wikis that don't use it as much. [20]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can take part in the next office hour for Wikidata on IRC on July 8 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-28

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Recent changes

• A new image scaler fixed a number of bugs for showing SVG files. Some new problems turned up. [21][22][23]
• Notifications are grouped by types. They are now counted by number of notifications and not by unread groups. That change may increase the number of notifications displayed. The earlier way of counting was often incorrect. Unread notifications will also be displayed first. [24][25][26]
• Special:Notifications now has a maximum width for the notifications list on desktop computers. This allows long titles and descriptions to be cut properly. Notifications are now also better parsed. [27][28][29]

Problems

• On 5 July Wikimedia Commons had problems and could not be edited for 20 minutes. For a short while after that the recent changes log and some gadgets were not working properly. It affected administrative actions on other projects too. [30]
• Users who have multiple unread notifications can mark them as read by visiting Special:Notifications page on their wiki.

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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15:14, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

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Recent changes

• Due to the rollback, new sorting of Notifications on the Fly-Out Menus has been deployed with a delay. [31]
• Due to the rollback, the daily special patch deployment process has been changed. [32]
• In notifications, "Messages" are now called "Notices". [33]

Problems

• On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system. [34][35]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).
• Special:Log now has a help link. [36]
• The RevisionSlider can be tested on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia

Meetings

• 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 19 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on 20 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [37]

Future changes

• User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [38][39]
• Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [40]

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12:01, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-30

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Recent changes

• Interactive maps have been enabled for Meta wiki and the Catalan, Hebrew, and Macedonian Wikipedias. Learn how to add interactive maps to wiki pages.
• Last week's rollback is now documented. [41]

Problems

• Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [42]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
• It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon. [43]
• Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages. [44]

Meetings

• 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 26 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on 27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [45]

Future changes

• The current icon for Notifications "Notices" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency. [46]
• Special:Notifications page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly. [47]

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19:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-31

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Recent changes

• A prototype for structured data on Commons is available now. [48]
• The RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.

Problems

• Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [49]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

• 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 2 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• The next CREDIT showcase will be on 3 August at 18:00 (UTC). This is to present and comment on new gadgets, small projects and works in progress. See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "notifications in core". The meeting will be on 3 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:48, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-32

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

Recent changes

• In notifications, the icon for Notices has been changed from a speech-bubble icon () to a tray icon () for consistency. The Alerts icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility. [50]

Problems

• If you use the wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed. [51]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a wildcard. [52]
• On Commons, UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images. [53]
• When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template. [54]
• The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [55]
• When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way. [56]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (calendar).
• A message on Notifications panel will invite users to try Special:Notifications page. [57]

Meetings

• 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 August 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:41, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-33

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

Problems

• Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [58]
• Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [59]
• For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [60][61]

Changes this week

• The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [62]
• Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [63]
• In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [64][65]
• The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [66]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (calendar).

Meetings

• 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 August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [67]

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19:37, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-34

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

Recent changes

• The ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia. [68]
• The norm and ccnorm functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore. [69]
• The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here. This happened on August 5. [70]

Problems

• Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [71]
• When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [72]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

• 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 23 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki. [73][74]
• How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [75]

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21:18, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-35

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Recent changes

• Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster. [76]
• When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing Tab in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing Shift and Tab in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row. [77]

Changes this week

• The name of the "Save page" button will change. The button will say "Publish page" when you create a new page. It will say "Publish changes" when you change an existing page. [78][79]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).

Meetings

• 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 30 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: image and oldimage tables". The meeting will be on 31 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:59, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-36

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

Recent changes

• Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs. [80]
• Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta. [81]
• When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not. [82]

Changes this week

• You will be able to use <maplink> on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [83][84]
• Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. [85][86]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).

Meetings

• 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 6 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The CheckUser extension could work differently in the future. There is a Request for Comments to figure out how. [87]

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17:12, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-37

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

Recent changes

• The Wikimedia Commons app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos. [88]
• <maplink> and <mapframe> can now use geodata from Open Street Map if Open Street Map has defined a region and given it an ID in Wikidata. You can use this to draw on the map and add information. [89][90]

Changes this week

• The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history. [91]
• A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages. [92][93]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).

Meetings

• 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 13 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• When you search on the Wikimedia wikis in the future you could see results from sister projects in your language. You can read more and discuss how this could work.

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18:04, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-38

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Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back because of bugs. Creating new accounts did not work between 15 September 19:10 UTC and 16 September 12:50 UTC. [94][95]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will hopefully be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar). This is the version that was meant to go out last week.

Meetings

• 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 20 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is multi-content revisions. The meeting will be on 21 September at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will start working on adding support for Wiktionary. The Wikidata development team is now taking one last look at the development plan. [96]

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22:09, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

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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

• If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can request it after a community decision. See how to request it. [97]
• When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [98]
• Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit. [99]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version that was supposed to come to the wikis two weeks ago was put on hold again because of new problems. The MediaWiki version after it is now on all wikis. [100][101]

Changes this week

• There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [102]

Meetings

• You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on September 27 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Abandoned tools on Tool Labs could be taken over by other developers. There is a new discussion on Meta about this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on. [103]

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18:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)