ব্যবহারকারী আলাপ:Hasive/সংকলন-৩
পদকের জন্য ধন্যবাদ
সম্পাদনাউইকিপিডিয়াতে প্রাপ্ত পদক কর্মস্পৃহা বৃদ্ধি করে। পদক প্রদানের জন্য আপনাকে অসংখ্য ধন্যবাদ --Sajjad ctg (আলাপ) ১১:৩৫, ২ মার্চ ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
উইকিমিডিয়া কমিউনিটি থেকে প্রকাশিত সর্বশেষ টেক নিউজ। অন্যান্য ব্যবহারকারীদের অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তন সম্পর্কে অবগত করুন। অনুবাদ করা আছে।
সফটওয়্যারের সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনগুলো
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 6 (calendar).
- When users enable web fonts by default, Universal Language Selector will now log if they don't have fonts to display pages correctly. This information will be used by developers to improve font support in the future. Read more about missing fonts. [১]
- You can now use Guided tours on the Czech and Japanese Wikipedia. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [২] [৩]
- You can now use information from Wikidata in all Wikisource wikis. [৪]
- The multimedia team is now posting weekly updates on their mailing list. [৫]
VisualEditor news
- You can now change image size to default for your wiki. If you add new images to pages, they will also be default size. [৬] [৭] [৮]
- If you switch from VisualEditor to wikitext editing, your edit will now be tagged. [৯]
- Template parameters now have a bigger, auto-sizing input box for easier editing. [১০]
- VisualEditor now has Arabic, Finnish and Kölsch icons for text styling. If you want icons for your language, ask in Bugzilla. [১১] [১২] [১৩]
Future software changes
- The new tool for viewing media files will soon show a progress bar and a thumbnail while loading full images. [১৪] [১৫]
- You will soon be able to make user contributions show only page creations. [১৬] [১৭]
- Article Feedback Tool will be removed from the English and French Wikipedias on March 3. It will also no longer be possible to add this tool to any Wikimedia wiki. [১৮] [১৯]
- Wikis using the new search tool will come back to the old tool for a few hours starting at 00:00 UTC on March 6. [২০]
Problems
- For about an hour on February 23, there were problems with page loading due to a MediaWiki bug. [২১]
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০৯:৩০, ৩ মার্চ ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf17) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 13 (calendar).
- You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch) on all Wikiquote projects. You can now enable it in your Beta options. [২২] [২৩]
VisualEditor news
- It is now easier to edit templates. Complex tools are now in the "advanced" mode. [২৪] [২৫]
- It is also easier to edit images. You now have more options and they are explained better. [২৬]
- VisualEditor adds fake blank lines so you can put your cursor there. They are now smaller and animated to be different from actual blank lines. [২৭]
- We have improved the tool to add special characters. The buttons are now larger. More changes are coming. [২৮]
- You can now use new keyboard shortcuts to undo the last action, clear formatting, and show the shortcut help window. [২৯] [৩০] [৩১]
Future software changes
- You will soon be able to use a Beta option to show a shorter list of language links. That way, Universal Language Selector will only show languages that are relevant to you. You will still be able to search for other languages. [৩২]
- CirrusSearch will soon automatically index newly imported pages. [৩৩] [৩৪]
- It will soon be possible to use CSS to style buttons in templates on all Wikimedia wikis, without needing JavaScript. [৩৫]
- An IRC discussion with the Wikimedia Foundation Language Engineering team will take place on March 12 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [৩৬]
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০৯:১০, ১০ মার্চ ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
নিবন্ধ অপসারণ প্রসঙ্গে!
সম্পাদনাভাই হাছিব, আমার প্রণয়নাধীন নিবন্ধ সামান্থা রুথ প্রভু আপনি কিছুক্ষণ আগে অপসারণ করেছেন! অথচ আমি তা এই মাত্রই প্রণয়ণ করছিলাম এবং নিচে "অসম্পূর্ণ" এবং "কাজ চলছে" টেমপ্লেটও সংযুক্ত ছিলো। আমি ঠিক বুঝতে পারছি না এটা অপসারণের পেছনের যুক্তির অর্থ। ধন্যবাদ। আপনার সহায়তা আশা করছি। ভালো থাকবেন।-- মহীন রীয়াদ (আলাপ) ০৬:৫১, ১৩ মার্চ ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
- নিবন্ধিটিতে কোন টেমপ্লেট ছিলো না। একটা খালি নিবন্ধ থাকায় মুছে ফেলা হয়েছে। --নুরুন্নবী চৌধুরী হাছিব • আলাপ • ০৭:০৩, ১৩ মার্চ ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
- সাধারণত আমি আমার উপপাতা টেমপ্লেট ব্যবহার করে কাজ করি তাই এ ধরণের ভূলের জন্যে অবশ্যই দুঃখিত। (পাতার লগ দেখুন) তবে এক্ষেত্রে আমি আরও সতর্ক থাকবো। অনেক ধন্যবাদ অাপনাকে। ভালো থাকবেন।-- মহীন রীয়াদ (আলাপ) ০৭:৩৬, ১৩ মার্চ ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
- কাজ চলছে টেম্পলেট পাতার শুরুতে লাগলে সবচেয়ে ভালো হয়। ধন্যবাদ..--নুরুন্নবী চৌধুরী হাছিব • আলাপ • ০৮:০১, ১৩ মার্চ ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
- সাধারণত আমি আমার উপপাতা টেমপ্লেট ব্যবহার করে কাজ করি তাই এ ধরণের ভূলের জন্যে অবশ্যই দুঃখিত। (পাতার লগ দেখুন) তবে এক্ষেত্রে আমি আরও সতর্ক থাকবো। অনেক ধন্যবাদ অাপনাকে। ভালো থাকবেন।-- মহীন রীয়াদ (আলাপ) ০৭:৩৬, ১৩ মার্চ ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
- ধন্যবাদ পরামর্শের জন্যে।-- মহীন রীয়াদ (আলাপ) ১১:৫৮, ১৩ মার্চ ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf18) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 13. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 18, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 20 (calendar).
- You can now view smaller versions of PNG images bigger than 20 megapixels. [৩৭]
- You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch) on all small wikis. You can now enable it in your Beta options. [৩৮] [৩৯]
- You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for February 2014. [৪০]
VisualEditor news
- Searching for template parameters in now case-insensitive. [৪১] [৪২]
- Required template parameters now have an asterisk (*) next to their edit boxes. [৪৩]
- Several template dialogs are now smaller, and their insert buttons have changed wording. [৪৪]
Future software changes
- You will soon see an error message if you try to log-in or register with an invalid or taken username. [৪৫]
- You can now test first version of a tool that includes OpenStreetMap maps inside the UploadWizard. Comments are welcome. [৪৬]
- You will soon be able to use the Hovercards tool as a beta feature. [৪৭]
Problems
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০৭:১৪, ১৭ মার্চ ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf19) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 20. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 25, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 27 (calendar).
VisualEditor news
- You can now double-click or press the ↲ Enter key on an image or template to change its settings. [৪৯] [৫০]
- Pages that don't exist will now show as red links in the edit mode. [৫১]
- You will no longer be able to try to use VisualEditor on pages translated using the Translate extension, and you will see a warning if you try to edit pages marked for translation. [৫২]
- You will now see a full warning, including the most recent log entry, when you try to edit protected pages with VisualEditor. [৫৩]
Future software changes
- Typography Refresh will be enabled for test wiki and MediaWiki.org users who use the Vector skin on March 27. For users on non-Wikipedia wikis, it will be enabled on April 1, and for Wikipedia users on April 3. If you don't use Vector as your skin, you will not be affected.
- You will be able to use the Hovercards tool as a beta feature on all wikis from March 26.
- You will soon be able to include the Whatlinkshere special page in other pages. [৫৪] [৫৫]
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১৮:৫৬, ২৪ মার্চ ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
ভিত্তিহীন নিবন্ধ অপসারণ প্রস্তাব
সম্পাদনাআন্দালিব রাশদী শীর্ষক নিবন্ধটি অপসারণের প্রস্তাব করা অন্যায় হয়েছে আপনি কী উদ্দেশ্য নিয়ে তা করেছেন তা পরিষ্কার নয় কেন আপনি এই প্রস্তাব করেছেন তা ব্যাখ্যা করেন নি একটি গুরুত্বপূর্ণ নিবন্ধ অপসারণের প্রস্তাব প্রদানের আগে আলোচনা পাতায় তা ব্যাখ্যা করা সমীচীন ছিল সম্পূর্ণ অযৌক্তিভাবে, বিনা কারণে, একটি অপসারণের প্রস্তাব ফলক সাঁটানো সংশ্লিষ্ট নিবন্ধের বিষয়, এবং একই কারণে নিবন্ধ প্রণেতার প্রতি অসম্মান প্রদর্শনের সমতূল্য এটি একটি ধ্বংসাত্মক প্রবণতাও বটে কেননা এতে নিবন্ধ প্রণেতা নিরুৎসাহিত হতে পারেন এবং উইকিপিডিয়াতে অংশগ্রহণ বন্ধ করতে পারেন মনে রাখতে হবে বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়াতে অবদানকারীর সংখ্যা নগণ্য; নিবন্ধের সংখ্যা খুবই কম আশা করি কোন দায়িত্বজ্ঞান সম্পন্ন সম্পাদক এবম্বিধ পদক্ষেপ নেবেন না যাতে অন্যের কাজ ব্যাহত হয় অধিকন্তু ফলক সাঁটানোর মতো সহজ কাজের প্রতি গুরুত্বারোপের পরিবর্তে নিবন্ধ রচনা বা সমৃদ্ধকরণের বিষয়ে অধিকতর মনোযোগ প্রদানই কি ন্যায্য নয়? -Faizul Latif Chowdhury (আলাপ) ১৩:৫৪, ২৫ মার্চ ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
- শুরুতেই বলি, ট্যাগগুলোতে উল্লেখিত বিষয় যুক্ত না করে ট্যাগ না সরানোর অনুরোধ করা হয়েছিল যা আপনি করেননি। এটা ঠিক নয়। এ নিবন্ধটি গ্রহণযোগ্যতা বিচারে ব্যার্থ। আলোচনা পাতায় যাওয়ার আগেই আমার মনে হয়েছে নিবন্ধটি উইকিপিডিয়ায় থাকার মতো উল্লেখযোগ্য নয়। ট্যাগ লাগানো কোন উইকিপিডিয়ানকে অসন্মান কিংবা নিরুৎসাহিত করা নয় যা আপনি আশা করি জানেন। বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়ার আগে যা অবদানকারী ছিলো এখন অনেক বেড়েছে যা ধীরে ধীরে আরো বাড়বে এটাই প্রত্যাশা। নিবন্ধের সংখ্যা বাড়ছে। এটা এমন কোন পদক্ষেপ নয় যা নিয়ে একজন দায়িত্বজ্ঞান সম্পন্ন ব্যক্তিকে বিশেষ নজর দিতে হবে। আর ফলক সাঁটানো ছাড়াও যে আমি নিবন্ধ রচনা, সমৃদ্ধ করণ করি আপনি আশা করি আমাদের কার্যক্রম দেখেই সেটা বুঝে নেবেন।
এবার আসি নিবন্ধের উল্লেখযোগ্যতা বিষয়ে। অপসারণ ট্যাগ লাগানোর পূর্বে এখানে একটি ট্যাগ ছিলো। নিবন্ধে কোন উল্লেখযোগ্য তথ্যসূত্রও নেই। ব্লগ থেকে তথ্যসূত্র দেয়া হয়েছে যা উইকিপিডিয়া গ্রহণযোগ্য নয়। একটি দেয়া হয়েছে নিবন্ধ যার তার নিজের মতামত নিয়ে, আরেকটি দেয়া হয়েছে উনার ব্যক্তিগত একটা সংবাদ নিয়ে। সর্বশেষ বইয়ের তালিকা দেয়া হয়েছে একটি ই-কমার্স সাইট থেকে। এসব তথ্যসূত্র কোন ভাবেই এ নিবন্ধের গ্রহণযোগ্যতা প্রমাণ করে না। যথেষ্ঠ উল্লেখযোগ্যতার প্রমাণ ছাড়া আমি এখনও এ নিবন্ধ অপসারণের পক্ষে। তাই পুনরায় ট্যাগ লাগানো হয়েছে। আশা করছি ট্যাগ না সরিয়ে গ্রহণযোগ্যতা বিচারের বিষয়টি বিবেচনা করবেন। আপনি একজন অভিজ্ঞ ব্যবহারকারী, অবদানকারী হিসেবে এ বিষয়গুলো আশা করি জানেন। --নুরুন্নবী চৌধুরী হাছিব • আলাপ • ১৪:১৭, ২৫ মার্চ ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
- আমি স্পষ্ট উল্লেখ করেছি, আন্দালিব রাশদী শীর্ষক নিবন্ধটি অপসারণের প্রস্তাব করা অন্যায্য হয়েছিল তার কারণ আমি ওপরে ব্যাখ্যা করেছি প্রত্যুত্তরে কেন আপনি এই প্রস্তাব করেছিলেন তা ব্যাখ্যা না করেই আপনি অপসারণ ফলকটি পুন:স্থাপন করেছেন এটি সর্ব্বতোভাবে একটি অনধিকার চর্চ্চা এ কথা বলার অপেক্ষা রাখে না কেন আপনার মনে হয়েছে নিবন্ধটি উইকিপিডিয়ায় থাকার মতো উল্লেখযোগ্য নয় তা ব্যাখ্যা করছেন না কেন? কারো ব্যাক্তিগত ভাল লাগা না-লাগার ওপর একটি নিবন্ধের উল্লেখযোগ্যতা নির্ভর করে না অন্যায্যভাবে অপসারণের ফলক লাগানো অসম্মানজনক নয়? আমার কাজে বাধা দান নিরুৎসাহজনক নয়? যে কেউ বুঝবে যে এটি একটি নির্মাণাধীন নিবন্ধ আমি কয়েক বছর আগে রীতিমতো যুদ্ধ করেছি এই বক্তব্য প্রতিপাদনের জন্য যে নির্মাণাধীন নিবন্ধে হস্তক্ষেপ কাম্য হতে পারে না ফলকটি অপসারণের পর ধৈর্য্য ধরার অবকাশ আপনার হলো না? অবিলম্বে ফলকটি পুন:স্থাপন করতে হবে, হবেই? যে কোন সম্পাদকের পক্ষে এহেন গোয়ার্তুমি ধরণের মনোভাব বর্জ্জনীয় তথ্যসূত্রের অভাব তো নেই! আপনি নিজেই উদ্যোগ নিয়ে ১০টি তথ্যসূত্র লাগিয়ে দিচ্ছেন না কেন? এটা কি আমার একচেটিয়া নিবন্ধ? আমি জোর দিয়ে বলার পরও উল্লেখযোগ্যতা নিয়ে সন্দেহ রয়ে গেছে? সেক্ষেত্রে বাংলা একাডেমীর মহাপরিচালক বা প্রথম আলো পত্রিকার সম্পাদককে জিজ্ঞেস করুন না কেন? কিংবা বাংলা সাহিত্য সম্পর্কে খবর রাখে এমন যে কোন ব্যক্তিকে? ব্যক্তি মত এবং যুক্তির পার্থক্য যদি না বোঝেন তবে সমস্যা হবে অপসারণ ফলকটি পুন:স্থাপন করা যে কতটা অসৌজন্যমূলক হয়েছে ভেবে দু:খ বোধ করছি - Faizul Latif Chowdhury (আলাপ) ১৫:১৫, ২৫ মার্চ ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf20) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 1, and all Wikipedia wikis on April 3 (calendar).
- Typography Refresh was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 27. You'll only see it if you use the Vector skin. For users on non-Wikipedia wikis, it will be enabled on April 1, and for Wikipedia users on April 3.
- CirrusSearch, the new search tool, was enabled as a beta feature on over 30 new wikis on March 27. [৫৬] [৫৭]
VisualEditor news
- Blocked users now see the same messages in VisualEditor as in the wikitext editor. [৫৮] [৫৯]
- The search box for re-using a reference in VisualEditor is now cleared after each use. [৬০]
- New links on sub-pages no longer point to the wrong location in VisualEditor. [৬১]
- VisualEditor's media dialog no longer breaks when opening some types of images. [৬২]
Future software changes
- You will not be able to use the Wikitech wiki for a short period around 16:00 UTC on April 1 due to a server change. [৬৩]
- CirrusSearch will become the main search engine for all non-Wikipedia wikis except Commons, Meta and Incubator on April 2.
- You will soon be able to use a new special page listing duplicate files. [৬৪]
- Deleting a version of a file or a version of its description page will soon be shown differently in the logs. [৬৫]
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০৯:২০, ৩১ মার্চ ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf21) was scheduled to be deployed to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 3, however it was temporarily put on hold due to localization issues. (calendar).
- Typography Refresh was enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on April 1, and on all Wikipedias on April 3. You'll only see it if you use the Vector skin.
- CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on over 400 non-Wikipedia wikis on April 2. [৬৬]
Future software changes
- A new special page (Special:TrackingCategories) will soon list all the tracking categories on a wiki. [৬৭] [৬৮]
- All Wikiquote projects will start using language links from Wikidata on April 8. [৬৯]
- The Hovercards feature will soon work with right-to-left languages. [৭০] [৭১]
- You will soon be able to download files directly from MediaViewer, the new multimedia tool. [৭২]
- MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on MediaWiki.org on April 10. Comments are welcome.
- You can help check that users can read CAPTCHAs in your language. [৭৩]
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০৮:০০, ৭ এপ্রিল ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
ফিরতি বার্তা
সম্পাদনা১৬:৩৫, ৯ এপ্রিল ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি) তারিখে বার্তাটি যোগ হয়েছে। আপনি {{ফিরতি বার্তা}} টেমপ্লেটটি অপসারণের মাধ্যমে যেকোনো সময় এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি মুছে ফেলতে পারেন।
জন্মদিনের শুভেচ্ছা নেবেন
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-- যুদ্ধমন্ত্রী আলাপ ০৮:২৭, ১৩ এপ্রিল ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
- হাসিব ভাই, জন্মদিনের শুভেচ্ছা নেবেন। হ্যাপি বার্থডে টু ইউ। দিনটি বছর বছর ঘুরে আসুক আপনার জীবনে। - Suvray
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সম্পাদনাআজকের এই শুভ নববর্ষের শুভক্ষনে; বাঙালির সাজ সাজ রবে আপনাকে রাঙাতে আমার পক্ষ থেকে আপনাকে শুভ নববর্ষের বাঙালিয়ানা শুভেচ্ছা জানাচ্ছি এবং এরই সাথে সাথে আপনি এবং আপনার পরিবারের সবার জন্য পান্না ভাত আর ইলিশ মাছ পাঠালাম। তাই পরিবারের সবাই মিলে খুব মজা করে খাবেন এবং ভাল থাকবেন সবসময় এই শুভ কামনায় ; ----— মাসুম ইবনে মুসা কথোপকথন ১৮:১২, ১৪ এপ্রিল ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি) |
নববর্ষের শুভেচ্ছা
সম্পাদনাবাঙালি সংস্কৃতির এ বর্ণিল দিনের ন্যায় বছরের প্রতিটি দিনই আপনার ও আপনার পরিবারের জন্য হয়ে উঠুক মধুর এবং উৎসবের আনন্দ সবাইকেই ছুঁয়ে যাক - এই প্রত্যাশা ব্যক্ত করছি। সাথে পান্তা-ইলিশ-কাঁচা মরিচ-এর মোহময়ী শুভেচ্ছা।--অংকন (আলাপ) ০৩:২৮, ১৪ এপ্রিল ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি) |
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Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf22) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and all Wikipedias on April 17 (calendar).
- MediaViewer was enabled for all users on MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be enabled for all users on the Catalan (ca), Hungarian (hu) and Korean (ko) Wikipedias and English Wikivoyage on April 17. Comments are welcome. [৭৪] [৭৫] [৭৬]
- Font issues caused by Typography refresh for Windows users were fixed on April 7. [৭৭] [৭৮]
VisualEditor news
- You will now see only three options when you try to add a template parameter in VisualEditor; you will see other options after a click. [৭৯]
- The size changing controls in VisualEditor media editing dialog were simplified further.
- The wikitext editor tab will now fold into a drop-down menu in the Vector skin if there is not enough space on your screen. [৮০] [৮১]
Future software changes
- The font used for body text on Wikimedia wikis will change to your system default sans-serif font. This temporary change will be enabled on all non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and on all Wikipedias on April 17. [৮২] [৮৩]
- Files from Commons seen on another wiki will soon have a tab saying "View on Wikimedia Commons". The create tab will change to "Add local description" (see screenshot). [৮৪]
- You will soon be able to hide Notification and Hovercards pop-ups by pressing the Esc key. [৮৫] [৮৬] [৮৭] [৮৮]
- Shorter lists of language links will soon work in right-to-left languages. Languages that you have used before will be shown in the list. [৮৯]
- You will soon be able to send messages with the MassMessage tool to all pages in a given category. [৯০] [৯১]
- The date format user preference will soon be moved to the appearance tab. [৯২] [৯৩]
- An IRC discussion with the Wikimedia Foundation Multimedia team will take place on April 16 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [৯৪]
Problems
- Wikimedia Foundation servers were updated after a security bug called Heartbleed was discovered last week. You should change your password as an extra precaution. [৯৫]
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০৭:১৮, ১৪ এপ্রিল ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
শুভ নববর্ষ
সম্পাদনাসৈয়দ আলী হায়দার রিজভী নিবন্ধের দ্রুত অপসারণ প্রস্তাবনা
সম্পাদনাসৈয়দ আলী হায়দার রিজভী নিবন্ধের দ্রুত অপসারণ প্রস্তাবনা দাখিল করা হয়েছে। কিন্তু ট্যাগ লাগানোর ৬ ঘন্টার মধ্যে ডিলিট করা কি ঠিক? নিবন্ধককে তো অনলাইনে আসারও একটা সময় লাগে। যেহেতু পাতাটি কারও জীবনীসংশ্লিস্ট, সেহেতু নিশ্চয়ই কোন না কোন রেফারেন্স নিশ্চয়ই আছে। নিবন্ধক তো আলোচনারই কোন সুযোগ পেল না।--আশা (আলাপ) ০৭:২৩, ২০ এপ্রিল ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
- এক লাইন লিখে ৬ ঘন্টা অপেক্ষা করলে উক্ত নিবন্ধ সম্পর্কে কিছু বোঝার উপায় বা সুযোগ থাকে না। এক্ষেত্রে কাজ চলছে টাইপের কোন ট্যাগ থাকলেও বোঝা যেত বিষয়টা। যেহেতু এমন কিছুই ছিলো না তাই নিবন্ধটি মুছে ফেলা হয়েছে। আর এসব ক্ষেত্রে শুরু করলে অবশ্যই একটা অবস্থায় নিবন্ধকে রাখার অনুরোধ করছি যাতে করে বোঝা যায় নিবন্ধের বিষয়বস্তু। এক দুই লাইন লিখে ফেলে রাখলে মুছে ফেলা ছাড়া উপায় থাকে না।--নুরুন্নবী চৌধুরী হাছিব • আলাপ • ০৭:৪৬, ২০ এপ্রিল ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News updates
- You can now subscribe to an Atom or RSS feed to read Tech News in your news aggregator. The newsletter will now also show on the English Planet Wikimedia every Monday. [৯৬]
- We are looking for contributors to help write a new issue every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf1) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 22, and all Wikipedias on April 24 (calendar).
- CirrusSearch was enabled as a beta feature on 27 new wikis on April 18. [৯৭] [৯৮]
- Problems with various fonts in SVG files were fixed last week. Files that use DejaVu Sans Condensed, DejaVu Serif Condensed, DejaVu Sans Light, Kochi Gothic and Kochi Mincho fonts now show correctly. [৯৯] [১০০] [১০১] [১০২]
- The page view statistics site developed by Henrik (stats.grok.se) should now work faster. [১০৩]
- You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for March 2014. [১০৪]
VisualEditor news
- If you try to add a category which redirects to another category, VisualEditor will now suggest adding the target category directly. [১০৫] [১০৬]
- VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear on Education Program pages. [১০৭] [১০৮]
- You can now use VisualEditor on Meta-Wiki and the French Wikinews by enabling it in your preferences. [১০৯] [১১০] [১১১]
Future software changes
- MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Czech (cs), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), Hebrew (he), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Thai (th) and Vietnamese (vi) Wikipedias on April 24. Feedback is welcome. [১১২]
- Edits by anonymous users will now be marked with a new CSS class (
mw-anonuserlink
). This way, you can easily make those edits use a different color, font or background. [১১৩] [১১৪] - The user preference to remember login will soon be removed from all wikis. The edit review preferences will be moved to the recent changes tab, and the preference for the WikiLove tool will be moved to the editing tab. [১১৫] [১১৬] [১১৭] [১১৮]
- You will soon be able to give parameters to preloaded templates. [১১৯] [১২০]
- You will soon be able to use CodeEditor in read-only mode on pages that you cannot edit. [১২১] [১২২]
- It is now proposed to replace Bugzilla, Gerrit and other tools by a single tool called Phabricator. You can test Phabricator and add your opinion on MediaWiki.org. [১২৩]
- An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on April 22 at 03:30 AM UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [১২৪]
Problems
- For about 40 minutes on April 17, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.
- There is a problem with the rendering of formulas with MathJax. If you enabled MathJax in your preferences, you might need to turn it off and on again. [১২৫]
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০৮:৩৪, ২১ এপ্রিল ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf2) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 29, and all Wikipedias on May 1 (calendar).
- You can now use interwiki prefix
c:
to link to pages on Wikimedia Commons. [১২৬]
VisualEditor news
- You will soon be able to set content language and direction with VisualEditor. [১২৭]
- VisualEditor now works on all Wikipedias after broken
MediaWiki:Common.js
pages (and similar) were fixed last week. [১২৮] - VisualEditor dialogs now use an animation of moving lines rather than animated GIF images.
Future software changes
- CirrusSearch will be enabled as a beta feature on 41 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and the Swedish (sv), Russian (ru), Polish (pl), Japanese (ja) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias next week. This change means that CirrusSearch will now be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis.
- MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the French (fr) and Dutch (nl) Wikipedias on May 1. Feedback is welcome. [১২৯]
- The mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will soon include filters to limit the number of uploaded files that are copyright violations. [১৩০]
- CodeEditor will soon have a status bar about errors and warnings. [১৩১] [১৩২]
- You can test a new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. Comments are welcome. [১৩৩]
Problems
- For about 30 minutes on April 21, there were problems with image scaling due to a high server load. [১৩৪] [১৩৫]
- On April 22, it was not possible to use the Collection extension for about 90 minutes due to a server move. [১৩৬] [১৩৭]
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০৭:২৩, ২৮ এপ্রিল ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf3) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and all Wikipedias on May 8 (calendar).
- The Compact Personal Bar was added as a beta feature to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added as a beta feature to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and to all Wikipedias on May 8. To test it, you can enable it now in your preferences on MediaWiki.org. [১৩৮]
- It is now easier to disable the CodeEditor tool. [১৩৯]
VisualEditor news
- External links in VisualEditor are now in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki. [১৪০]
- The template tool now tells you if a parameter is obsolete. [১৪১]
- You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData; VisualEditor will add them like required ones. [১৪২]
- There is a new type for TemplateData parameters:
wiki-file-name
for file names. [১৪৩][১৪৪] - Editing formulae in VisualEditor will soon be enabled for all users. [১৪৫] [১৪৬]
- You will soon be able to try a new beta feature to edit text in another language. [১৪৭] [১৪৮]
Future software changes
- MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Japanese (ja), Portuguese (pt), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 8. Feedback is welcome. [১৪৯]
- You can help translate about 100 new language names that have been added to our data source. They are used, for example, as hover text for interwiki links. Send an e-mail to Nemo if you want to help.
- If you click on a redirect page in your watchlist, you will soon access the redirect itself. [১৫০] [১৫১]
Problems
- For about 40 minutes around 00:20 UTC on April 29, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.
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০৭:২৯, ৫ মে ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf4) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 8. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and all Wikipedias on May 15 (calendar).
VisualEditor news
- A new citation system in VisualEditor was enabled on the English Wikipedia. It will soon be enabled on more wikis. [১৫২]
- Templates that were previously broken in VisualEditor should now appear correctly. [১৫৩]
Future software changes
- It will soon be possible to move category description pages. Pages in changed categories will still have to be moved independently. [১৫৪] [১৫৫]
- You will soon be able to clear your watchlist with one click or through the API. [১৫৬] [১৫৭] [১৫৮] [১৫৯]
- You will soon be able to link to Flow posts and workflows with
Special:Flow
. [১৬০] [১৬১] - The jQuery JavaScript library will soon be updated. Please check that your gadgets and scripts will still work. [১৬২]
- The Vector skin will work faster, as the sidebar will no longer collapse partly after being loaded. [১৬৩] [১৬৪] [১৬৫]
- MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on Wikimedia Commons on May 15. Feedback is welcome.
- An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on May 14 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [১৬৬]
- Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead. [১৬৭]
Problems
- There were problems with generating file thumbnails for all wikis between May 3 and May 6 due to a configuration error. [১৬৮] [১৬৯]
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০৬:০০, ১২ মে ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News updates
- Tech News is one year old this week; thank you for being with us!
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf5) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendar).
- The jQuery JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work. [১৭০] [১৭১] [১৭২]
- MediaViewer was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22. Feedback is welcome. [১৭৩] [১৭৪]
- VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferences. [১৭৫] [১৭৬]
- You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014.
VisualEditor news
- VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys. [১৭৭] [১৭৮]
- VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like
{{cite_web}}
and not just{{Cite web}}
. [১৭৯] [১৮০] - VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it. [১৮১] [১৮২]
- VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit. [১৮৩]
- The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. [১৮৪] [১৮৫]
Future software changes
- User ID number will no longer be visible in preferences. [১৮৬] [১৮৭]
Problems
- For several hours on May 16, there were problems with loading gadgets on some wikis due to a server problem. [১৮৮]
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০৭:১৮, ১৯ মে ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar).
- MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.
VisualEditor news
- VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them. [১৮৯] [১৯০] [১৯১] [১৯২]
- A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the
File:
namespace was fixed last week. [১৯৩] [১৯৪] - VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled. [১৯৫] [১৯৬]
- It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed. [১৯৭]
- VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names. [১৯৮]
Future software changes
- Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade. [১৯৯]
- It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard tool. [২০০] [২০১]
- Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax
[[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]]
will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear. [২০২] [২০৩] [২০৪] - You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki. [২০৫] [২০৬]
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০৮:২৯, ২৬ মে ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar).
- CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30. [২০৭]
VisualEditor news
- Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target. [২০৮]
- The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [২০৯] [২১০]
- VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons. [২১১]
- There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters:
date
for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. [২১২]
Future software changes
- MediaViewer will be enabled on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.
- You will soon see a warning if you visit a contributions page for a user that does not exist. [২১৩] [২১৪]
- The search tab will soon be removed from user preferences. You will be able to set your search preferences on Special:Search. [২১৫] [২১৬]
- You will soon see a label next to the little triangle arrow for the Actions menu in the Vector skin (screenshot). [২১৭] [২১৮]
Problems
- For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error. [২১৯]
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০৮:০৭, ২ জুন ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar).
- You can now use guided tours on the Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [২২০] [২২১]
VisualEditor news
- You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor. [২২২] [২২৩]
- The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content. [২২৪] [২২৫] [২২৬]
- You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor. [২২৭] [২২৮]
Future software changes
- MediaViewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback is welcome. [২২৯]
- You will be able to use information from Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10. [২৩০]
- On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page migration tool to import existing translations to the new system. [২৩১] [২৩২]
- You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (example video, example audio). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly. [২৩৩] [২৩৪]
- Templates containing
<ref>
or<references>
tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching. [২৩৫] [২৩৬] [২৩৭] - You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it. [২৩৮] [২৩৯]
- Hovercards will no longer flicker. [২৪০]
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০৭:৩৯, ৯ জুন ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Reminder
- You can subscribe to the wikitech-ambassadors mailing list to get news more quickly and to send feedback or report problems.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 17, and to all Wikipedias on June 19 (calendar).
- You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for May 2014.
VisualEditor news
- You can now easily see the target of a link or other information using the context menu. [২৪১]
- When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to switch it to re-use another reference. [২৪২] [২৪৩]
- You can now add and edit
{{DISPLAYTITLE}}
and__DISAMBIG__
in the page settings menu. [২৪৪] [২৪৫] [২৪৬] [২৪৭] - The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler; the order of mathematical symbols is now correct. [২৪৮] [২৪৯] [২৫০]
Future software changes
- Media Viewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 19. Feedback is welcome. [২৫১]
- You will no longer be able to use navigation popups and Hovercards at the same time. [২৫২]
- You will no longer see image thumbnails on search results pages on Wikibooks and Wikisource wikis. [২৫৩] [২৫৪]
- It will soon be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [২৫৫] [২৫৬]
- Tablet users will be redirected to the mobile view of Wikimedia wikis starting on June 17. [২৫৭]
- The special page that lists most linked-to templates will soon include pages from all namespaces; it will also be renamed to
Special:MostTranscludedPages
. [২৫৮] - An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on June 17 at 17:30 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). You can also read a blog post about the upcoming switch to Phabricator.
- You can now comment on the draft 2014-15 goals of the Wikimedia Foundation engineering department. [২৫৯]
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০৭:১৩, ১৬ জুন ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 19. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 24, and to all Wikipedias on June 26 (calendar).
VisualEditor news
- You can now drag-and-drop selections of content, not just files and templates. [২৬০] [২৬১]
- When dragging an item, you will now see a line that helps you to drop it. [২৬২] [২৬৩]
- You can now only move an image to the start of a paragraph, not to the middle of it, so you don't accidentally split it. [২৬৪] [২৬৫]
- You will now be warned if you add wikitext to file captions and references. [২৬৬] [২৬৭]
Future software changes
- You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [২৬৮] [২৬৯]
- CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on additional 70 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and Wikimedia Incubator, during the next week. [২৭০]
- CirrusSearch results will soon take into account categories, the first paragraph and the wikitext of a page. You will also be able to use regular expressions to search the wikitext. It will take a few days for the changes to be enabled on all wikis. [২৭১]
- You will soon be able to watch translations for e-mail notifications without receiving an e-mail when they are reviewed by another translator. [২৭২] [২৭৩]
- An IRC meeting to organize old high priority MediaWiki bug reports will take place on June 24 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [২৭৪]
Problems
- On June 19, all wikis were broken for about 15 minutes due to a high server load.
- Between June 13 and June 15 there were problems with the scaling of video files due to a configuration error. [২৭৫]
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০৭:২০, ২৩ জুন ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 26. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 1, and to all Wikipedias on July 3 (calendar).
VisualEditor news
- Context menus in VisualEditor will no longer flicker and disappear when you insert a new reference, formula, image, etc. [২৭৬] [২৭৭]
- A bug that prevented relocating items due to cache was fixed last week. [২৭৮] [২৭৯]
- VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the bottom of the page when you try to edit section 0. When you try to add a formula, VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the top of the page. [২৮০] [২৮১] [২৮২] [২৮৩]
- Links to category pages or file pages added with VisualEditor will now work correctly. [২৮৪] [২৮৫]
Future software changes
- You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [২৮৬] [২৮৭]
- Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead.
- CirrusSearch will be enabled on June 30 as the primary search method on 34 new wikis, including the Czech (cs), Danish (da), Finnish (fi) and Hebrew (he) Wikipedias. [২৮৮]
- All Wikimedia wikis will be using a security method called perfect forward secrecy starting on July 1. If you see a problem, please report it. [২৮৯] [২৯০]
- Starting on July 1, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [২৯১]
- You will soon see block information when you visit the contributions page or try to edit the user page or user talk page of a user who is affected by an IP range block. [২৯২] [২৯৩]
- You will soon be able to use
{{!}}
as a magic word to produce the pipe character, for instance for use in tables. [২৯৪]
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০৬:৫৩, ৩০ জুন ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News updates
- We are looking for contributors to help write a new issue every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 3. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 8, and to all Wikipedias on July 10 (calendar).
- CirrusSearch was enabled on July 1 as the primary search method on 36 new wikis, including the Norwegian (no), Portuguese (pt) and Ukrainian (uk) Wikipedias. [২৯৫]
- It is now possible to create Atom or RSS feeds for Word of the Day, Word of the Week and similar entries on Wiktionary wikis. [২৯৬] [২৯৭]
- You can now use a graphical interface to edit TemplateData information on the English (en), French (fr) and Italian (it) Wikipedias. [২৯৮] [২৯৯]
VisualEditor news
- Saving an edit with VisualEditor will now be much faster. [৩০০] [৩০১]
- You can now add a caption when you add a file to a page with VisualEditor. You can also change the file to a different one and keep the existing caption. [৩০২] [৩০৩] [৩০৪]
- When you switch to the Edit source tab, you are now asked to keep your changes. You no longer need to find the option in the menus. [৩০৫] [৩০৬] [৩০৭]
- The reference tool that adds empty
<ref></ref>
tags is now at the bottom of the Cite menu, below references that use templates like{{Cite web}}
. [৩০৮] - Context menus will no longer be shown over items that you can edit directly, for example formulæ. [৩০৯] [৩১০] [৩১১]
Future software changes
- Starting on July 9, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. The feature was first scheduled for July 1, but was delayed due to bugs.
- A plan to enable CirrusSearch as the primary search method on the 11 largest Wikimedia wikis has now been prepared. [৩১২]
- If you use references on a page, you will soon always see them at the bottom of the page, even if you forget to add the
<references />
tag (or a template). [৩১৩] [৩১৪] - Black-and-white XCF images will soon display correctly. [৩১৫] [৩১৬]
- Description pages of SVG files will soon always show download links for multiple resolutions (example). The links were previously shown only for SVG files in large original resolutions. [৩১৭] [৩১৮]
Problems
- Between July 2-3, there were problems with loading pages on multiple wikis due to a configuration issue. [৩১৯] [৩২০]
- For a few hours on July 1, there were problems with uploading new files on Wikimedia Commons due to a configuration error. [৩২১] [৩২২]
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০৭:০৭, ৭ জুলাই ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
উইকিমিডিয়া টেকনিকাল কমিউনিটি থেকে প্রকাশিত সর্বশেষ টেক নিউজ। অনুগ্রহ করে অন্যান্য ব্যবহারকারীদের এই পরিবর্তনগুলো সম্পর্কে অবগত করুন। অনুবাদ করা আছে।
সফটওয়্যারের সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনগুলো
- মিডিয়াউইকি সফটওয়্যারের সর্বশেষ সংস্করণ (1.24wmf13), টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org ওয়েবসাইটে চালু করা হয়েছে জুলাই মাসের ১০ তারিখে। উইকিপিডিয়ার সহপ্রকল্পগুলোতে এটি সক্রিয় করা হবে ১৫ জুলাই এবং সকল উইকিপিডিয়াতে সক্রিয় করা হবে জুলাই মাসের ১৭ তারিখে।
- এখন কেন্দ্রীয়ভাবে (SULব্যবহারকারীদের) ব্যবহারকারীদের নাম পরিবর্তন করা যাচ্ছে। সকল উইকিতে আপনার ব্যবহারকারী নাম পরিবর্তন করতে চাইলে নির্ধারিত মেটা উইকি পাতায় অনুরোধ করুন। [৩২৩] [৩২৪]
- আপনি জুন ২০১৪ এর উইকিমিডিয়া টেকনিকাল রিপোর্টের সারসংক্ষেপ পড়তে পারবেন।
- আপনি উইকি ডাটা নিউজলেটারের সর্বশেষ সংস্করণ পড়তে পারবেন এবং আপনার নিজের ভাষার অনুবাদ করতে পারবেন।
ভিজ্যুয়ালএডিটর সংবাদ
- টেমপ্লেট এবং তথ্যসূত্র যোগ করার টুলটি এখন এমন সকল টেমপ্লেটের জন্য ব্যবহার করা যাবে যেগুলোতে এইচটিএমএল কমেন্ট রয়েছে এবং শিরনামেও টেমপ্লেট ব্যবহার করা হয়েছে। [৩২৫] [৩২৬]
- ছবিকে পূর্ভ আকারে দেখানোর বাটনটি এখন সঠিকভাবে কাজ করছে। [৩২৭] [৩২৮] [৩২৯]
- তথ্যসূত্রগুলো এখন আগের মতই সাধারণ ফন্টে দেখা যাবে। [৩৩০]
ভবিষ্যতের সফটওয়্যারের পরিবর্তন পরিকল্পনাসমূহ
- CirrusSearch ডাচ (nl) এবং জাপানি (ja) উইকিপিডিয়াতে ১৪ জুলাইতে এবং পোলিশ (pl) এবং রাশিয়ান (ru) উইকিপিডিয়ায় ১৬ জুলাই থেকে সক্রিয় হবে। [৩৩১]
- The Special:Version page will soon show the exact version of MediaWiki and all extensions installed on your wiki (example). [৩৩২] [৩৩৩]
- It will soon no longer be possible to order printed books of wiki articles via PediaPress. You will still be able to create PDF files. [৩৩৪]
- Pages that use
{{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''}}
more than once will soon show a warning. You can use{{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''|noerror}}
to hide it. [৩৩৫] [৩৩৬] - Pages that have the list of references added automatically will soon be added to a tracking category. Administrators will be able to configure the name of the category on their wikis. [৩৩৭] [৩৩৮]
- Administrators will soon be able to easily merge histories of two pages using Special:MergeHistory. [৩৩৯] [৩৪০]
- Administrators will soon see links to delete files on Special:ListFiles. [৩৪১]
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০৭:৪৮, ১৪ জুলাই ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 22, and to all Wikipedias on July 24 (calendar).
- CirrusSearch was removed as the primary search method from Wikimedia Commons and the Spanish (es) Wikipedia due to a high server load. The plan to enable it on the Dutch (nl), Japanese (ja), Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias was also postponed to a later date. [৩৪২] [৩৪৩] [৩৪৪]
- The tool that stores information about languages (CLDR) was updated to its latest version. You can still help translate language names into your own language so they can be used in the sidebar and other places. [৩৪৫]
- Translation memory for newly translatable pages should now offer more suggestions. [৩৪৬] [৩৪৭]
- A tool to convert MediaWiki pages to LaTeX is now available on Tool Labs. [৩৪৮]
VisualEditor news
- Tablet users visiting the mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will be able to use a special version of VisualEditor starting on July 31. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu. Feedback is welcome. [৩৪৯]
- All windows in VisualEditor have now a new design. Main action buttons will always be located in the top bar and will use simple words rather than icons. [৩৫০]
- You can now easily open links inside the link editor, for example to see their target. [৩৫১]
- Several bugs related to the positioning of the cursor around some items (like images and references) were fixed last week. [৩৫২] [৩৫৩] [৩৫৪] [৩৫৫] [৩৫৬] [৩৫৭]
Future software changes
- It will soon be possible to watch individual discussions in the Topic namespace rather than whole pages for talk pages using Flow. [৩৫৮]
- You can give comments about the new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [৩৫৯]
- An IRC meeting to organize Pywikibot bugs will take place from July 24 to July 27 on the channel #pywikibot on freenode. [৩৬০]
- A request for comments on how to improve MediaWiki API was re-started on MediaWiki.org. Your feedback is welcome.
Problems
- Mailing lists were broken for about 16 hours between July 14 and July 15 due to a server problem. [৩৬১]
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০৭:৪২, ২১ জুলাই ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
পবিত্র ঈদুল ফিত্র এর দাওয়াত এবং শুভেচ্ছা
সম্পাদনামহা পবিত্র ঈদুল ফিতর আগত, আর তাই আমরা সকলেই এই দিনকে ঘিরে উচ্ছ্বসিত; উদ্বেলিত। প্রিয়জনের সাথে থাকার এই মহা পবিত্র উৎসবে আপনাকে আমার পক্ষ থেকে ঈদের দাওয়াত এবং শুভেচ্ছা রইল। আশা করছি যে, দাওয়াতটি সাদরে গ্রহণ করবেন এবং এরই সাথে সাথে আপনি এবং আপনার পরিবারের সকলের জন্য অপরিসীম শুভ কামনা ব্যক্ত করে; ----— মাসুম ইবনে মুসা কথোপকথন ০৬:৫৬, ২৭ জুলাই ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি) |
উইকিমিডিয়া কমিউনিটি থেকে প্রকাশিত সর্বশেষ টেক নিউজ। অন্যান্য ব্যবহারকারীদের অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তন সম্পর্কে অবগত করুন। অনুবাদ করা আছে।
সফটওয়্যারের সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনগুলো
- মিডিয়াউইকি সফটওয়্যারের সর্বশেষ সংস্করণ (1.24wmf15), টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org ওয়েবসাইটে চালু করা হয়েছে জুলাই মাসের ২৪ তারিখে। উইকিপিডিয়ার সহপ্রকল্পগুলোতে এটি সক্রিয় করা হবে ২৯ জুলাই এবং সকল উইকিপিডিয়াতে সক্রিয় করা হবে জুলাই মাসের ৩১ তারিখে।
- ধ্বংশপ্রবনতা রোধ করার টুল Huggle এর সর্বশেষ সংস্করণ ডাউনলোড করার জন্য উন্মুক্ত করা হয়েছে।
VisualEditor news
- You can now create, edit, and view HTML comments in VisualEditor. [৩৬২] [৩৬৩]
- The cancel button in VisualEditor toolbar has been removed. You can still use the Read tab and the Back button in your browser to cancel your edit. [৩৬৪]
- If you try to use a template which has no suggested or required parameters in TemplateData, you will now be asked to add the parameters. [৩৬৫] [৩৬৬]
- You will no longer be able to edit a page if you can't create it, for example on pages protected against recreation. [৩৬৭] [৩৬৮]
ভবিষ্যতের সফটওয়্যারের পরিবর্তন পরিকল্পনাসমূহ
- খুব শিঘ্রই আপনি অন্যান্য উইকি এবং ব্যবহারকারীর ভিত্তিতে মেটা উইকি ব্যবহারকারীরদের অধিকারস্তর ফিল্টার করতে পারবেন। [৩৬৯] [৩৭০]
- উইকিডাটা ব্যবহার করে খুব শিঘ্রই ভালো নিবন্ধ, নির্বাচিত নিবন্ধ ইত্যাদি তথ্য সংরক্ষন করা যাবে। যদি আপনার উইকিতে এটি সক্রিয় করতে চান তবে অনুগ্রহ করে উইকিডাটার তালিকায় যোগ করুন। [৩৭১]
- It will soon be possible to directly create empty pages, for example in the user namespace. [৩৭২] [৩৭৩]
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০৮:০৮, ২৮ জুলাই ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News updates
- Tech News will be presented at the Wikimania 2014 conference in London! If you will be attending the conference, please join us in Auditorium 2 at 14:30 local time on Sunday, August 10.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 31. Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, it will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [৩৭৪]
- You can now test a new tool to render wiki pages as PDF files. [৩৭৫] [৩৭৬] [৩৭৭]
- You can now download an update to the archive of Wikimedia Commons files (uploaded up to December 31, 2013). If you have free space on your computer, please help preserve the files. [৩৭৮]
- New users using the mobile Commons site now need to make 75 edits before they can upload a file. [৩৭৯] [৩৮০]
VisualEditor news
- You will no longer see an edit confirmation message after making a null edit with VisualEditor. [৩৮১] [৩৮২]
- VisualEditor will no longer change underscores to spaces in category sort keys. [৩৮৩]
- Many bugs that resulted in inserting the pawn and snowman symbols were fixed last week. [৩৮৪] [৩৮৫] [৩৮৬] [৩৮৭]
- Several bugs related to the use of references were also fixed. [৩৮৮] [৩৮৯] [৩৯০] [৩৯১]
Future software changes
- You will soon have a user option to watch pages where you revert edits. [৩৯২] [৩৯৩]
- All Toolserver data will be deleted in September. If you want to back up your data, contact Toolserver administrators before August 31. [৩৯৪]
- Pages in the
Translations:
namespace on wikis using the Translate extension will no longer be indexed by search engines. [৩৯৫]
Problems
- Wikivoyage wikis were broken for about 45 minutes on July 29 due to a configuration problem. [৩৯৬]
- Some users were not able to log in on test wikis and MediaWiki.org between July 31 and August 1. The problem is now fixed. [৩৯৭]
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০৭:৩৭, ৪ আগস্ট ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
উইকিমিডিয়া কমিউনিটি থেকে প্রকাশিত সর্বশেষ টেক নিউজ। অন্যান্য ব্যবহারকারীদের অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তন সম্পর্কে অবগত করুন। অনুবাদ করা আছে।
সফটওয়্যারের সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনগুলো
- উইকিমিডিয়া ২০১৪ সম্মেলনের জন্য এই সপ্তাহপ মিডিয়াউইকি সফটওয়্যারে কোনো পরিবর্তন করা হচ্ছে না। মিডিয়াউইকি সফটওয়্যারের সর্বশেষ সংস্করণ (1.24wmf16) উইকিপিডিয়া নয় এমন উইকিতে আগস্ট ১২ তারিখে এবং অন্যান্য উইকিপিডিয়া ওয়বসাইটে আগস্ট ১৪ তারিখে (ক্যালেন্ডার) চালু করা হবে। [৩৯৮]
- বিভিন্ন ভাষার উইকিভ্রমনের বুরোক্র্যটগন এখন থেকে দুটি ব্যবহারকারী অ্যাকাউন্ট একত্রিকরণ করতে পারবেন না। [৩৯৯]
ভিজ্যুয়ালএডিটর সংবাদ
- ট্যবলেট থেকে উইকিপিডিয়া ছাড়া অন্যান্য উইকি সাইটের মোবাইল সংস্করণ ব্যবহার করার সময় ভিজ্যুয়াল এডিটর ব্যবহার করা যাবে আগষ্টের ১২ তারিখ থেকে। আগষ্টের ১৪ তারিখে অন্যান্য উইকিপিডিয়া সাইটের জন্যও এটি সক্রিয় করা হবে। [৪০০]
ভবিষ্যতের সফটওয়্যারের পরিবর্তন পরিকল্পনাসমূহ
- ইন্টারনেট এক্সপ্লোরার ৬ ব্যবহারকারীদের কিছুদিন পর থেকেই জাভাস্ক্রিপ্ট ছাড়া উইকিপিডিয়ার একটি সংস্করণ ব্যবহার করতে হবে; জাভাস্ক্রিপ্ট ভিত্তিক টুল এবং স্ক্রিপ্টগুলো ব্রাউজারের এই সংস্করণে ব্যবহার করা যাবে না। যদি আপনি ইন্টারনেট এক্সপ্লোরার ৬ ব্যবহারকারী হয়ে থাকেন তবে খুব দ্রুত ব্রাউজারের ভার্সন আপডেট করুন! [৪০১] [৪০২] [৪০৩]
- আপনি যদি এমন কোনো পাতা ওপেন করেন যেটি দেখার জন্য লগইন করা প্রয়োজন, কিছুদিনের মধ্যেই এমন পাতাগুলো ওপেন করার সময় সয়ংক্রিয়ভাবে লগইন পাতা ওপেন হবে। [৪০৪] [৪০৫]
- Translate এক্সটেনশন ব্যবহার করে অনুবাদ করার সময় মূল ভাষার নিবন্ধের সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনগুলো দেখতে পারবেন। [৪০৬] [৪০৭]
- ভিজ্যুয়াল এডিটর সম্পর্কিত একটি আইআরসি মিটিং আয়োজন করা হয়েছে আগষটের ১৪ তারিখের ০৯:০০ UTC সময়ে freenode এর #wikimedia-office চ্যানেলে (বিভিন্ন টাইনজোনে সময়)। [৪০৮]
টেক নিউজ তৈরী করেন টেক এম্বাসেডরগণ এবং এটি মিডিয়াউইকি মেসেজ ডেলিভারী পদ্ধতিতে বিরতণ করা হয় • অবদান রাখুন • অবদান রাখুন • সাহায্য করুন • মতামত জানান • সাবসক্রাইব, আনসাবসক্রাইব.
০৭:৪৩, ১১ আগস্ট ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf17) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 21 (calendar).
- There is a new protection level called superprotection. At the moment, only some Wikimedia Foundation employees have access to it. Administrators can't edit "superprotected" pages. [৪০৯] [৪১০] [৪১১]
- You can now create empty pages directly. A message asks you to confirm that you want to create an empty page. [৪১২] [৪১৩]
- You can search for Wikimedia tools using a new list of tools. [৪১৪]
- You can watch the first videos from Wikimania 2014. Some of them are about technical topics. More videos will come later.
Wikidata
- After August 19, you can use Wikidata for inter language links on Wikinews. [৪১৫]
- After August 19, you can use Wikidata for badges like "good" or "featured" articles. Next week, you will be able to show the badges in the article sidebar on Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikiquote. [৪১৬]
Problems
- There was an issue with ProofreadPage and WikiEditor on Wikisource wikis. It is now fixed. [৪১৭] [৪১৮]
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০৭:১৬, ১৮ আগস্ট ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
উইকিমিডিয়ার প্রযুক্তির সাথে যুক্ত সম্প্রদায়ের সবচেয়ে সাম্প্রতিক টেক নিউজ। এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্যান্য ব্যবহারকারীদের অবগত করুন। সব পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্ভবত আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। এই পৃষ্ঠার অনুবাদ অন্যান্য ভাষায় উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
ভিজুয়্যালএডিটর (VisualEditor) সম্পর্কিত খবর
- তথ্য উৎসঃ তালিকার ঠিক পরে কার্সার স্থাপন করা হলে একটি ত্রুটি দেখা যেত। এটি সংশোধিত হয়েছে। [৪১৯]
- গ্যাজেটের সাহায্যে বর্তমানে এডিটের মধ্যে লিংকের জন্য বিভিন্ন রং প্রয়োগ করা যাবে। পুনর্নির্দেশক ও দ্ব্যর্থতা নিরসনকারী পৃষ্ঠার লিংক দেখার জন্য এই বৈশিষ্ট্য ব্যবহার করা যাবে। [৪২০]
- Internet Explorer ব্যবহারকারীরা খুব শীঘ্রই ভিজুয়্যালএডিটর (VisualEditor) ব্যবহার করতে পারবেন। [৪২১] [৪২২] [৪২৩]
সফটওয়্যার পরিবর্তন সম্পর্কিত ভবিষ্যতের পরিকল্পনা
- আগস্ট মাসের ২১ তারিখ থেকে MediaWiki-র সবচেয়ে নতুন সংস্করণ (1.24wmf18) MediaWiki.org ও পরীক্ষামূলক উইকিগুলিতে স্থাপন করা হয়েছে। উইকিপিডিয়া ব্যাতীত অন্যান্য উইকিগুলিতে এই সংস্করণ আগস্ট ২৬-এ স্থাপিত হবে ও আগস্ট ২৮-থেকে সকল উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ব্যবহার করা যাবে (ক্যালেন্ডার)।
- আগস্টের ২৬ তারিখের পরে, একটি কেন্দ্রীয় JavaScript ও CSS পৃষ্ঠা উপলব্ধ হবে। এটি Meta-Wiki-তে উপস্থিত থাকবে ও সকল উইকিতে ব্যবহার করা যাবে। সহায়তা পৃষ্ঠায় বিশদ বিবরণ প্রাপ্ত করুন। [৪২৪]
টেক অ্যামবেসেডরদের দ্বারা প্রস্তুত ও বট দ্বারা প্রকাশিত টেক নিউজ • যোগদান করুন • অনুবাদ করুন • সাহায্য প্রাপ্ত করুন • মতামত জানান • গ্রাহকত্ব পরিচালনা
০৯:২১, ২৫ আগস্ট ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
প্রীত রেজা দ্রুত অপসারণ
সম্পাদনাপ্রীত রেজা নামক নিবন্ধটি উইকিপিডিয়ার দ্রুত অপসারণের বিচারধারা অনুসারে দ্রুত অপসারণের অনুরোধ করা হয়েছে। এর কারন হিসাবে বলা হয়েছে
দ্রুত অপসারণের বিচারধারা মতে, নিবন্ধটি উইকিপিডিয়ার মূল নীতি অনুসারে নয়, তাই নিবন্ধটি যে কোন মুহুর্তে অপসারণ করা হতে পারে। দয়া করে উইকিপিডিয়ার সাধারণভাবে গ্রহনযোগ্য নিবন্ধের নীতিমালার জন্য দেখুন এবং আপনি আপনার যুক্তি দেখিয়ে এই ট্যাগের আপত্তি জানাতে পারেন ও ব্যাক্ষ্যা করুন কেন আপনি বিশ্বাস করেন এই নিবন্ধ অপসারণ করা উচিত নয়। এর জন্য আপনাকে {{hangon}}
এই ট্যাগটি নিবন্ধ পাতায় যুক্ত করতে পারে এবং নিবন্ধের আলাপ পাতায় আপনি আপনার যুক্তি রাখতে পারেন।তবে দয়া করে আপনার নিজের তৈরি করা নিবন্ধ থেকে এ নোটিশটি সরিয়ে ফেলবেন না।
অনুগ্রহকরে কোন প্রশ্ন থাকলে আপনি আমার আলাপ পাতায় রাখতে পারেন। 103.19.255.86 (আলাপ) ২০:১৭, ৩০ আগস্ট ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
- সংশ্লিষ্ট নিবন্ধেরর আলাপ পাতায় উত্তর দেয়া হয়েছে। --নুরুন্নবী চৌধুরী হাছিব • আলাপ • ০৯:৩০, ১ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
উইকিমিডিয়ার প্রযুক্তির সাথে যুক্ত সম্প্রদায়ের প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক টেক নিউজ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্যান্য ব্যবহারকারীদের অবগত করুন। সব পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্ভবত আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। এই পাতাটি বিভিন্ন ভাষায় অনুবাদ করা আছে।
সফটওয়্যারের সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনগুলো
- সাইডবার থেকে অন্যান্য উইকির লিংক পরীক্ষা করার একটি নতুন বেটা বৈশিষ্ট চালু করা হয়েছে। এই লিংকগুলো উইকিডাটা থেকে দেখানো হচ্ছে। [৪২৫] [৪২৬]
- একটি পাতার সাথে কোন কোন পাতার লিংক রয়েছে সেটি অনুসন্ধানের একটি বৈশিষ্ট চালু করা হয়েছে। অনুসন্ধানের সময়
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কিওয়ার্ড লিখে এটি ব্যবহার করা যাবে। [৪২৭] [৪২৮] - কোনো পরিচ্ছেদের সাথে রিডাইরেক্টের জন্য ব্রাউজারের অ্যাড্রেসবারের ইউআরএল পরিবর্তন হবে। যেমন "কুকুর" যদি "প্রাণী#কুকুর" এর সাথে লিংক করা থেকে তবে, এখন থেকে "কুকুর#কুকুর" এর পরিবর্তে "প্রাণী#কুকুর" দেখা যাবে। [৪২৯] [৪৩০]
- আপনি যদি পরীক্ষামূলকভাবে ফ্লো ব্যবহার করেন তবে এখন থেকে নোটিফিকেশন অংশে নতুন একটি ফ্লো ট্যাব দেখা যাবে। এটির নাম হবে বার্তা [৪৩১]
ভিজুয়্যালএডিটর (VisualEditor) সম্পর্কিত খবর
- টেমপ্লেটের বাধ্যতামূলক পূরণের ঘরগুলো এখন থেকে আর অপসারণ করা যাবে না। [৪৩২]
- ইন্টারনেট এক্সপ্লোরার সম্পর্কিত বেশ কিছু বাগ সংশোধন করেছি আমরা। আপনি যদি ইন্টারনেট এক্সপ্লোরার ১১ ব্যবহারকারী হয়ে থাকেন, তবে আগামী সপ্তাহ থেকে আপনি ভিজ্যুয়ালএডিটর ব্যবহার করতে পারবেন। পূর্ববর্তী সংস্করণের জন্য আগামীতে চালু করা হবে। [৪৩৩] [৪৩৪] [৪৩৫]
- মনোবুক টেমপ্লেটে এখন ভিজুয়্যালএডিটর আগের থেকে আরও ভালো ভাবে ব্যবহার করা যাবে। [৪৩৬]
- আমরা একটি বাগ সমাধান করেছি এর ফলে আপনি এখন থেকে লেখা কাট (Ctrl+X) করতে পারবেন। [৪৩৭]
- বিষয়শ্রেণী যোগ করার সময় এখন থেকে আর খালি অথবা অপসারিত বিষয়শ্রেণী দেখানো হবে না। [৪৩৮]
সফটওয়্যার পরিবর্তন সম্পর্কিত ভবিষ্যতের পরিকল্পনা
- আগস্ট মাসের ২৮ তারিখ থেকে মিডিয়াউইকি-র সবচেয়ে নতুন সংস্করণ (1.24wmf19) MediaWiki.org ও পরীক্ষামূলক উইকিগুলিতে সক্রিয় করা হয়েছে। উইকিপিডিয়া ব্যাতীত অন্যান্য উইকিগুলিতে এই সংস্করণ সেপ্টেম্বর ২-এ সক্রিয় করা হবে ও সেপ্টেম্বর ৪-থেকে সকল উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ব্যবহার করা যাবে (ক্যালেন্ডার)।
- ফাইলের তথ্য সংরক্ষনের জন্য কমন্সে একটি ডাটাবেজ তৈরীর প্রস্তাব করা হয়েছে। এর মাধ্যমে সহজেই ফটোগ্রাফারের নাম, লাইসেন্স এবং বিষয় সম্পর্কে জানতে পারা যাবে। এই বিষয়ে আপনার মতামত জানান। সেপ্টেম্বর ৩ তারিখের ১৮:০০ (UTC) সময়ে IRC ফ্রিনোডের
#wikimedia-office
চ্যানেলে আলোচনায় অংশ নিতে পারেন। [৪৩৯] - সেপ্টেম্বরের ৭ তারিখ পর্যন্ত আপনি Media Viewer সম্পর্কে মতামত জানাতে পারবেন। এটির কি কি উন্নয়ন প্রয়োজন সেটি আমাদের জানান এবং অন্যদেরকেও মতামত জানাতে উৎসাহিত করুন। [৪৪০]
- ম্যাথ দেখানোর টুলের নতুন একটি সংস্করণ প্রকাশিত হয়েছে। MathML ব্যবহার করে এটি তৈরী করা হয়েছে। প্রয়োজনে বাগজিলায় বাগ রিপোর্ট করুন।
- মোবাইল সাইট থেকে এখন থেকে আর ছবি আপলোড করা যাবে না। [৪৪১]
টেক দূত দ্বারা প্রস্তুত ও বট দ্বারা প্রকাশিত টেক নিউজ • যোগদান করুন • অনুবাদ করুন • সাহায্য প্রাপ্ত করুন • মতামত জানান • গ্রাহকত্ব পরিচালনা।
০৭:৪৮, ১ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
নোটিশ
সম্পাদনাপ্রিয়, আপনাকে এই বার্তাটি প্রদান করা হয়েছে কারণ উইকিপিডিয়া:প্রশাসকদের আলোচনাসভা একটি আলোচ্য বিষয়ের অবতারণা করা হয়েছে যেখানে আপনার কোনো বিষয় জড়িত থাকতে পারে। আলোচনার বিষয় প্রধান পাতার নির্বাচিত নিবন্ধ অনুচ্ছেদ। আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ। নাসির খান সৈকত • আলাপ • ১২:২৯, ৫ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
VisualEditor news
- From Thursday, Internet Explorer 11 users will get VisualEditor. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [৪৪২] [৪৪৩] [৪৪৪]
Future software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf20) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 9, and on all Wikipedias on September 11 (calendar).
- You will soon confirm a "Thanks" inline instead of in a dialog. [৪৪৫]
- You can read more about the plan to move to Phabricator, a tool that will help people develop the MediaWiki software and report bugs. [৪৪৬]
Problems
- There were problems with JavaScript and CSS on Friday, September 5 because of a code error.
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০৯:৩৩, ৮ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
False Allegation of vandalism regarding edits on bn:ভবানীপুর_শক্তিপীঠ
সম্পাদনাThe edits for which allegation of vandalism has been raised contains/contained reliable and verified references. So the allegation of vandalism and reverting of those edits are nothing but an attempt to suppress the facts. Those edits conformed to the policies and guidelines of Wikipedia. It is being proposed to have an open discussion on those edits on the talk page of the article and let the article contain facts. Thank you. বাবু (আলাপ) ০৪:২৫, ১৪ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
উইকিমিডিয়ার প্রযুক্তির সাথে যুক্ত সম্প্রদায়ের প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক টেক নিউজ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্যান্য ব্যবহারকারীদের অবগত করুন। সব পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্ভবত আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। এই পাতাটি বিভিন্ন ভাষায় অনুবাদ করা আছে।
সফটওয়্যারের সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনগুলো
- You can now change the style of links to disambiguation pages. This is done with the
mw-disambig
CSS class. [৪৪৭] [৪৪৮] - There was a problem on right-to-left wikis with Wikidata log entries. The text was messy in watchlists and recent changes. The problem is now fixed. The same problem will be fixed soon for user names. [৪৪৯] [৪৫০] [৪৫১]
- New users are randomly chosen for a test on 12 Wikipedias. They get messages with ideas of articles to edit. The ideas come from what they have already edited. [৪৫২]
ত্রুটিসমূহ
- There was a problem with loading images on September 10. [৪৫৩]
ভিজ্যুয়ালএডিটর সংবাদ
- If you don't select text when you add a link, the link now shows a number. [৪৫৪]
- The citation tool no longer offers to reuse a citation if there are none on the page yet. [৪৫৫] [৪৫৬]
- You can now use help buttons in the "পাতা সেটিং" menu to see what the options are for. [৪৫৭]
ভবিষ্যতের সফটওয়্যারের পরিবর্তন পরিকল্পনাসমূহ
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf21) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 16, and on all Wikipedias on September 18 (calendar).
- These changes are coming with the new version:
- If you use Internet Explorer 7, JavaScript will no longer work. JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work in that browser. You should update to a newer browser. [৪৫৮] [৪৫৯] [৪৬০]
টেক দূত দ্বারা প্রস্তুত ও বট দ্বারা প্রকাশিত টেক নিউজ • যোগদান করুন • অনুবাদ করুন • সাহায্য প্রাপ্ত করুন • মতামত জানান • গ্রাহকত্ব পরিচালনা।
০৮:৩৪, ১৫ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
নোটিশ
সম্পাদনাপ্রিয়, আপনাকে এই বার্তাটি প্রদান করা হয়েছে কারণ উইকিপিডিয়া:প্রশাসকদের আলোচনাসভা একটি আলোচ্য বিষয়ের অবতারণা করা হয়েছে যেখানে আপনার কোনো বিষয় জড়িত থাকতে পারে। আলোচনার বিষয় Community consultation for future of Wikimedia movement in India। আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ। --জয়ন্ত (আলাপ - অবদান) ০২:৪২, ১৯ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
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 software changes
- You can test a new Beta Feature called HHVM. It should make editing faster. Please report bugs if you see them. [৪৬১]
Problems
- There was a problem on the English Wikipedia on September 19. It was due to edits on a template used on many pages.
- Sites were down for users in the Pacific area around 7:00 UTC on September 20. It was due to a problem in the San Francisco data center.
- There were two bad bugs messing up articles in some browsers in VisualEditor. We fixed the bugs and updated the sites. [৪৬২] [৪৬৩]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf22) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 23, and on all Wikipedias on September 25 (calendar).
- If you have more than 2000 notifications, the oldest ones will be removed.[৪৬৪] [৪৬৫]
- In the "Vector" skin, the icon used for users will show a neutral gender. [৪৬৬] [৪৬৭]
- The VisualEditor template tool now tells you if a required field is missing. [৪৬৮]
- The "Cancel" button of the VisualEditor save window is now called "Resume editing". This shows that you can still edit and you won't lose your changes. [৪৬৯]
- There are new keyboard shortcuts in VisualEditor. Use Ctrl+Shift+6 for
code
and Ctrl+Shift+5 forstrikethrough. [৪৭০] [৪৭১] - In VisualEditor, you can now see that you are switching to the source editing mode. Before, it was not clear it was happening. [৪৭২]
Future site changes
- You can see a plan for the move to Phabricator. It's the new tool to track bugs. A guided tour will be done via video on September 24. [৪৭৩]
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০৯:০৪, ২২ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
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 software changes
- On Commons, you can now see what files are most used across all wikis. You can also see the same list for deleted or uncreated files. [৪৭৪] [৪৭৫]
- There are now many more translations for language names. [৪৭৬]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf1) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 30, and on all Wikipedias on October 2 (calendar).
- Errors from Scribunto (Lua) are now shown on the page. Before, you had to click on "Script error" to see them. [৪৭৭] [৪৭৮]
- You can add an "autovalue" for a field in TemplateData. When users add the template to a page, the value will be added automatically. An example is when a clean-up template shows the date it was added. [৪৭৯]
- If you change a user preference but don't save it, it now asks if you want to save it. [৪৮০] [৪৮১]
- The PDF export tool has changed. The new one has better language support but it doesn't offer ZIM and EPUB formats. [৪৮২]
Future changes
- You can watch a video showing Phabricator, the new tool to track bugs. You can also read more about the move from Bugzilla.
- JavaScript authors: Many old methods will be removed soon. Please check your scripts and gadgets and replace the old methods by the new ones if needed. [৪৮৩]
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০৯:৪৪, ২৯ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can use the
phab:
andphabricator:
interwikis to link to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org. [৪৮৪] [৪৮৫] - Some wikis have a template to track bugs in Bugzilla. You should update it to work with Phabricator. You can look at the one on mediawiki.org to see how. [৪৮৬] [৪৮৭]
- You can look at Special:MediaStatistics to see what kind of files are on your wiki. [৪৮৮]
- A new tool can now create thumbnails of large TIFF images. This concerns files larger than 50 megapixels. These thumbnails are also sharpened. You can comment on Commons. [৪৮৯]
- The Media Viewer tool has a clearer link to the file page. It also has buttons to download, share and embed the file. You can enlarge images by clicking on them. [৪৯০]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf2) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 7 October, and on all Wikipedias from 9 October (calendar).
- If you make a code mistake when editing a Lua script, you won't be able to save your edit. [৪৯১] [৪৯২]
- We fixed some more Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 10, you will be able to use VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [৪৯৩]
- On Thursday, the tool to edit TemplateData will come to 30 more wikis. [৪৯৪] [৪৯৫]
- You can help sort bugs in the Book and PDF export tool on October 8. [৪৯৬]
- 1% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [৪৯৭]
Future changes
- You can look at the plan of the Mobile team for their future work. [৪৯৮]
- More changes to Media Viewer are coming. It will be easier to disable it, and you will see the caption below the image. [৪৯৯] [৫০০]
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০৬:১০, ৬ অক্টোবর ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
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 software changes
- You can now log into Phabricator, the new tool to track bugs. Create your account and add your Bugzilla email address. We are copying the bugs from Bugzilla. Bugzilla is still open. [৫০১] [৫০২]
- You will now get the VisualEditor newsletter in your language if someone has translated it. You can add translations. You can know about the next translations by joining the translators list or asking Elitre (WMF).
Problems
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf3) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 9 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 14 October, and on all Wikipedias from 16 October (calendar).
- 5% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [৫০৫]
Meetings
- You can join a meeting with Language developers on October 15, 2014 at 17:00 (UTC). [৫০৬]
- There is a proposal to organize file pages better. It would use the same tools as Wikidata. You can join a meeting about it on October 16, 2014 at 18:00 (UTC). [৫০৭]
- You can join a meeting about VisualEditor on October 18, 2014 at 18:00 (UTC). [৫০৮]
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০৮:৫৩, ১৩ অক্টোবর ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. You can read translations.
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
- You can test a new system to see math using MathML. Go to your display options and choose "সম্ভব হলে ম্যাথএমএল (MathML) (পরীক্ষামূলক)".
- You can add badges in Wikidata for quality articles and featured lists. [৫০৯] [৫১০]
File information cleanup
- You can join a wiki project to help tools read file information. It will help people reuse files.
- See how to fix metadata. You can fix it by adding markers to templates and adding templates to files.
- You can see a list of files missing machine-readable information on your wiki.
- The files missing readable data are also in these categories: no license, no description, no author or no source. [৫১১]
সমস্যাসমূহ
- Developers fixed a security problem. If you use Internet Explorer 6, you won't be able to log in any more. You should use a newer browser. [৫১২]
চলতি সপ্তাহের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf4) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 21, and on all Wikipedias from October 23 (calendar).
- 10% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [৫১৩]
- If you add the same parameter twice in a template, it now puts the page in a tracking category. [৫১৪] [৫১৫]
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১৩:৪৭, ২০ অক্টোবর ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
দশম প্রতিষ্ঠা বার্ষিকীতে যোগদানের নিবন্ধন সম্পর্কে
সম্পাদনাদশম প্রতিষ্ঠা বার্ষিকীতে যোগদানের জন্য যে নিবন্ধন করতে হবে তা কিভাবে করব? (আব্দুল্লাহ আল নাহিয়ান (আলাপ) ০৮:২৩, ২২ অক্টোবর ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি))
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 an issue with files from Commons on October 21. You could only see those with names between 140 and 159 characters by visiting Commons itself. [৫১৬]
- There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It was fixed quickly. [৫১৭]
- There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [৫১৮]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every Wednesday, instead of every Thursday. [৫১৯]
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
- VisualEditor now uses autovalues for templates if they are in TemplateData. [৫২০] [৫২১] [৫২২]
- VisualEditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them. [৫২৩]
- VisualEditor now opens faster when you click "edit". [৫২৪]
- The rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages. Interface translations are currently not being updated from translatewiki.net; this process will start again on November 6. [৫২৫]
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০৫:২০, ২৭ অক্টোবর ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
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 software changes
- The "Special:Cite" page is now called "Special:CiteThisPage". That way, you know it's to cite the page, not to add a reference. [৫২৬]
- You can no longer use the
insource:
keyword for text searches. It caused issues with the new search tool. It will come back later. [৫২৭] [৫২৮]
Problems
- There was a bug in VisualEditor with Internet Explorer. It hid tools like the link editor when you opened them. The bug was fixed on Monday. [৫২৯]
- Issues with the new search tool caused geo data code to show up on pages on Monday and Friday. The mobile "nearby" tool was also broken. The problem is now fixed. [৫৩০] [৫৩১] [৫৩২]
- HHVM caused server issues on Thursday. They are now fixed.
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4, and on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).
- Some wikis have icons at the top of a page to show if it is protected or featured. Icons show up using CSS. You can now use the
<indicator>
tag in these templates instead to add the icons. [৫৩৩] [৫৩৪] - VisualEditor now tells you if you're editing a re-used reference. This helps you avoid changing it if you just want to add a new one. [৫৩৫]
- The icons in VisualEditor's template editor tool for adding more fields are back, along with other fixes. [৫৩৬] [৫৩৭] [৫৩৮] [৫৩৯] [৫৪০]
- After November 6, all wikis will have the tool to edit TemplateData. [৫৪১] [৫৪২] [৫৪৩]
Future changes
- The new search tool will come to the last wikis in the coming weeks. This includes Wikipedia in French, Chinese, German and English. [৫৪৪]
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১৭:২৮, ৩ নভেম্বর ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
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 software changes
- You may see a new tool on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [৫৪৫] [৫৪৬]
- The MediaWiki API now shows information in a nice format. You can translate it in translatewiki.net. [৫৪৭]
- Reminder: You can help fix file information on your wiki. It will help robots understand the information. After that, it will be easier for you to search files and re-use them.
- You can join two IRC chats this week to learn more about the file cleanup project. One will be on Wednesday at 18:00 (UTC) and the other on Thursday at 04:00 (UTC). You can ask questions during the chat if you need help to fix files on your wiki.
- You can see a list of files to fix on the Labs tool. You can report bugs and ask questions on the talk page.
Problems
- Wikimedia Labs was broken for a few hours on Thursday. It was due to a hardware problem. [৫৪৮]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf7) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11, and on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).
- You can now use more editing tools for tables in VisualEditor. You can add rows and columns, merge cells, and edit table captions. [৫৪৯] [৫৫০]
- The style and insert menus in the toolbar of VisualEditor now show fewer tools. This helps you see the most common tasks. You can see all items by clicking "More". [৫৫১]
- The way windows inside VisualEditor work has changed. VisualEditor should be faster and have fewer bugs. [৫৫২]
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১৫:০০, ১০ নভেম্বর ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf8) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 12. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18, and on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).
- The new search tool ("CirrusSearch") will be on the English Wikipedia from November 19. [৫৫৩]
Move from Bugzilla to Phabricator
- The tool to track bugs will change on November 21.
- You won't be able to add or edit bugs between November 21 and November 24.
- You can make the change easier for you by creating your account.
- Bugzilla will be frozen after the change. You will see, edit and report bugs in Phabricator.
- You can join two IRC chats to learn more about the change. The chats will be on Tuesday, November 18 at 16:00 (UTC) and 23:00 UTC. [৫৫৪]
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১৮:২৮, ১৭ নভেম্বর ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
দশম প্রতিষ্ঠাবার্ষিকী-বৃত্তি
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The move from Bugzilla to Phabricator is done. You can now report bugs in Phabricator. [৫৫৫]
Problems
- There was a problem when editing tables in VisualEditor. VisualEditor was trying to fix bad values for the
colspan
orrowspan
option. VisualEditor now leaves the bad values to avoid making things worse. This was fixed on November 17. [৫৫৬]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf9) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 19. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 25, and on all Wikipedias from November 26 (calendar).
- You will be able to try VisualEditor on many new wikis for the first time. After November 26, VisualEditor will become available on Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews wikis. You can find it in your Beta options. [৫৫৭]
- VisualEditor now tells you if your edit needs to be approved. [৫৫৮]
- You can now use VisualEditor's tools directly when you resume editing after closing the save window. [৫৫৯]
- VisualEditor's table editing tools now work better in right-to-left languages. [৫৬০] [৫৬১]
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১৯:৩১, ২৪ নভেম্বর ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
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 software changes
- All users are now getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [৫৬২]
- You can join a video chat about Phabricator on December 11 at 18:00 (UTC). Phabricator is the new tool to report issues. [৫৬৩]
Problems
- There was a problem with Phabricator on November 29. It was due to a network issue. [৫৬৪]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf11) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 10 (calendar). [৫৬৫]
- You can now exit VisualEditor by pressing the "Esc" key. [৫৬৬]
- It is now easier to use VisualEditor with IMEs. Typing in Malayalam now works better. [৫৬৭] [৫৬৮]
- The new version of OOjs UI fixed many issues with the size and layout of buttons in dialogs. [৫৬৯] [৫৭০] [৫৭১]
- (Lua) You can no longer use
mw.text.unstrip
to get the HTML from special page transclusion. You can see a list of scripts to fix. [৫৭২] [৫৭৩]
Future changes
- Starting next week JavaScript tools won't work if they use jQuery Migrate. [৫৭৪]
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১৭:১০, ৮ ডিসেম্বর ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
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 software changes
- You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [৫৭৫]
- You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects. [৫৭৬]
- You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf12) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar). [৫৭৭]
- You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu,
Ctrl+F
orCmd+F
. [৫৭৮] - VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold. [৫৭৯]
- The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change. [৫৮০]
Future changes
- The star image of the watchlist may change soon. [৫৮১] [৫৮২]
- You won't be able to use Phabricator on December 18, 2014. It will be down between 00:00 and 08:00 (UTC). [৫৮৩] [৫৮৪]
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১৬:৪৩, ১৫ ডিসেম্বর ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
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 software changes
- The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private. [৫৮৫]
Software changes this week
- There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6. [৫৮৬]
Future changes
- The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations. [৫৮৭]
- A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis. [৫৮৮]
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১৬:৫২, ২২ ডিসেম্বর ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Software changes
- There are no technical changes this week.
Feedback about Tech News in 2014
- The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2014? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us at m:Talk:Tech/News. You can write in your language. Thank you!
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১৬:৫২, ২৯ ডিসেম্বর ২০১৪ (ইউটিসি)
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 software changes
- Rotated PDF files in landscape format used to show too small. They will now display correctly. You may need to purge older files. [৫৮৯]
- You can now use the
{{!}}
magic word instead of Template:!. Many wikis used the template to create a pipe (|
) in tables and templates. You can delete the template. [৫৯০]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf14) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from January 13. It will be on all Wikipedias from January 14 (calendar).
- A bug in VisualEditor sometimes added a
☀
(Sun) character. This is now fixed. [৫৯১] - The search and replace tool in VisualEditor is now much faster in long pages. [৫৯২]
- The TemplateData editor now uses the same design as VisualEditor. [৫৯৩] [৫৯৪] [৫৯৫]
- The
thumb
option is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar. [৫৯৬]
Future changes
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১৬:৪৭, ১২ জানুয়ারি ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 download the new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. The new version shows lead images, better galleries and content from Wikidata. It also has many other new features.[৫৯৮] [৫৯৯]
- Programs and bots still can't read information about images on many wikis. You can see the list of wikis with the most files to fix. Wikipedia in Italian, Indonesian and Japanese language have the most files to fix. On the biggest wikis you should use bots. Bots can add information templates to groups of files. You can ask other tech users to help you.
Problems
- All JavaScript on Commons was broken for a few minutes on Tuesday. It was because of old code in the HotCat tool. The same problem happened on some Wikipedias on Wednesday. It is now fixed. [৬০০]
Software changes this week
- There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings. [৬০১]
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১৮:১২, ১৯ জানুয়ারি ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 software changes
- You can now translate articles with the new ContentTranslation tool on several wikis. [৬০২]
This week
- There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings. [৬০৩]
Future changes
- You can join a project to improve WikiProjects. [৬০৪]
- The Compact Personal Bar will be removed for now. It has a bug that breaks the tool to choose your language. It will come back when the bug is fixed. [৬০৫]
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১৬:০৮, ২৬ জানুয়ারি ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 security issue on Wikimedia Labs. Many Labs tools were down after the issue was fixed. [৬০৬]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 4 (calendar).
- The "Save page" button in the VisualEditor toolbar is now blue rather than green. This is the same as on the mobile site. [৬০৭]
- You can now edit pages on the draft namespace with VisualEditor on the Russian Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia. You can ask to get VisualEditor for a namespace on your wiki. When your community agrees, ask in Phabricator. [৬০৮] [৬০৯]
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১৬:৩১, ২ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 software changes
- You can now use
{{#lsth: PageName | SectionName }}
to transclude a section with its title. [৬১০]
Problems
- MediaWiki was reverted to the previous version on February 4. It was because of a performance issue. It was restored later. [৬১১]
- UploadWizard was broken on February 4 because of the revert of MediaWiki. [৬১২]
- All sites were broken for 30 minutes on February 5. It was due to a network problem. [৬১৩]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 11 (calendar).
- You can have one user page for all wikis. Your Meta user page will show if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can test this tool on test wikis. [৬১৪] [৬১৫] [৬১৬]
- You can search for media files in VisualEditor more easily. Images are bigger and you see the size and license. [৬১৭] [৬১৮]
- It is easier to review your changes when you save the page in VisualEditor. The window is wider. [৬১৯]
- You can read the latest news about VisualEditor. You can now join weekly meetings with developers. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The first meeting is on February 11 at 20:00 (UTC).
Future changes
- Administrators will soon be able to delete change tags used fewer than 5,000 times. [৬২০]
- In the future you will be able to have personal lists of articles on the mobile site. [৬২১]
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১৬:২৬, ৯ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 18 (calendar).
- On Wednesday your Meta user page will be shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. [৬২২] [৬২৩] [৬২৪]
- You can now change the order of categories in VisualEditor using drag-and-drop. [৬২৫]
- In VisualEditor, you now need to make a change before you can "Apply Changes" to citations and templates. [৬২৬]
- The way the cursor moves in VisualEditor is changing. Your browser now handles the cursor directly. Most of you will see no change. In right-to-left text, the cursor now moves in a 'visible' rather than 'logical' way. This is like other sites but you may be surprised at first. [৬২৭]
Meetings
- The VisualEditor Team had their first public bug triage meeting on February 11. They will post the results on the meeting page. [৬২৮]
- You can join the second weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 18 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join. [৬২৯]
- You can join a meeting with the developers of the Content Translation tool. It will be on February 18 at 13:00 (UTC). [৬৩০]
Future changes
- You can comment on a proposal about abandoned Labs tools.
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১৭:৫৭, ১৬ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 software changes
- All new accounts are now global. [৬৩১]
- Your Meta user page is now shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can report problems if you see any. You can ask a bot to delete your old user pages. [৬৩২] [৬৩৩] [৬৩৪]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 25. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 26 (calendar).
- It is now easier to see template fields in VisualEditor. The fields are bigger. [৬৩৫]
- It is now easier to see when a button is disabled in VisualEditor. [৬৩৬]
- Sometimes when you copy-pasted a template in VisualEditor, it was replaced by HTML. This problem is now fixed. [৬৩৭]
- Tools in Labs will stop working for a few hours on February 24. [৬৩৮]
Meetings
- You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
- You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 26 at 00:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- At the moment you need to log in to edit Wikimedia wikis on mobile devices. You can say if anyone should be allowed to edit on the mobile sites. The discussion ends on March 15.
- Images in the interface will soon work better in Opera 12. [৬৩৯]
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১৬:২৮, ২৩ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 software changes
- A Lua function to use Wikidata has changed. You need to update the pages that use it. [৬৪০]
- You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Uzbek and Minangkabau. You need to enable it in your Beta options.
- You can now hide banners if you don't have an account. [৬৪১] [৬৪২]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 4 (calendar).
- You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Punjabi and Kyrgyz. You can ask for the tool in other languages.
- Editing the fake blank line in VisualEditor is now simpler. This change also fixed a few bugs. [৬৪৩] [৬৪৪] [৬৪৫] [৬৪৬]
- The TemplateData editor now warns you if a related page already has TemplateData. [৬৪৭]
- The TemplateData table now tells you if a template doesn't take any parameters. [৬৪৮]
Meetings
- You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
- You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 4 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join technical meetings in France and Mexico this year. You will be able to ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [৬৪৯]
Future changes
- You will be able to get a direct link for a section of a page. [৬৫০]
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১৬:৪১, ২ মার্চ ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
ছবি
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আপনি যদি মনে করেন যে এই নোটিশটি এখানে ভুল করে প্রদান করা হয়েছে, তবে এই অপসারণের আপত্তি জানাতে নিবন্ধে যেয়ে দ্রুত অপসারণের আপত্তি করতে চাইলে এখানে ক্লিক করুন লেখা লেবেলের উপর ক্লিক করুন। এটি করার ফলে আপনি আগে থেকে বিন্যাস্ত সংশ্লিষ্ট নিবন্ধের আলাপ পাতা পাবেন, সেখানে আপনি ব্যাখ্যা করুন, কেন নিবন্ধটি দ্রুত অপসারণ করা উচিত নয়। অথবা আপনি নিবন্ধের আলাপ পাতায় সরাসরি আপনার কারণ ব্যক্ত করতে পারেন। কিন্তু এটাও মনে রাখবেন, দ্রুত অপসারণ ট্যাগ কোনো নিবন্ধে করা হলে, কোনো দেরি না করে অপসারণ করা হয় যদি নিবন্ধটি দ্রুত অপসারণ বিচারাধারার সাথে মিলে যায়। এটি যদি দ্রুত অপসারণের বিচারধারা অনুসারে না হয় তবে নিবন্ধ থেকে এই নোটিশটি সরিয়ে ফেলুন, কিন্তু অনুগ্রহপূর্বক আপনার নিজের তৈরি করা নিবন্ধ থেকে এ নোটিশটি সরিয়ে ফেলবেন না আমরা আপনাকে নিবন্ধটিকে সম্প্রাসারণ করতে উৎসাহিত করছি। আরও মনে রাখবেন যে, নিবন্ধের বিষয় অবশ্যই উল্লেখযোগ্য হতে হবে ও নির্ভরযোগ্য উৎস থেকে তথ্যসূত্রগুলো যাচাইযোগ্য হওয়া উচিত। যদি ইতিপূর্বে নিবন্ধটি অপসারিত হয়ে থাকে আপনি কোনো একজন সক্রিয় প্রশাসকের সহিত যোগাযোগ করুন।
অনুগ্রহপূর্বক আরও লক্ষ করুন যে, অপসারণের প্রস্তবনা কোনো ব্যক্তিগত আক্রমণ নয়। এটি শুধুমাত্র একটি নোটিশ যা উইকিপিডিয়ার নীতিমালা অনুসারে আপনাকে প্রদান করা হয়েছে। উইকিপিডিয়ায় অবদান রাখার জন্য আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ। আপনার আরও কোনো প্রশ্ন থাকলে আপনি বিনা দ্বিধায় আমার আলাপের পাতায় বার্তা রাখতে পারেন। মহীন রীয়াদ (আলাপ) ১৯:০৭, ৪ মার্চ ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
- হাসিব ভাই, কেমন আছেন? খালেদ মাহমুদ সুজন জীবিত থাকায় এই চিত্রটি ফেয়ার ইউজ পলিসিতে উইকিপিডিয়ায় ব্যবহারযোগ্য নয়। দয়া করে চিত্রগ্রাহকের অনুমতি উল্লেখ করুন। --মহীন রীয়াদ (আলাপ) ১৯:২৪, ৪ মার্চ ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
- ছবিটি যে কার কাছ থেকে নিয়েছিলাম মনে নেই। যাই হোক আবার সংগ্রহের চেষ্টা করতে হবে। --নুরুন্নবী চৌধুরী হাছিব • আলাপ • ০৫:০৮, ৫ মার্চ ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 create books on almost all wikis. It doesn't work yet on wikis using the language converter. [৬৫১] [৬৫২]
- VisualEditor had problems with categories in Safari. It sometimes moved or removed the categories. The issue is now fixed. [৬৫৩] [৬৫৪] [৬৫৫]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 11 (calendar).
- In VisualEditor the "Edit beta" button is now called "Edit" on the English Wikipedia. [৬৫৬] [৬৫৭]
- The feedback tool in VisualEditor now looks like the other tools. It also asks for information about your browser to help fix bugs. [৬৫৮] [৬৫৯]
- You now see the VisualEditor toolbar even if the rest of the page is still loading. [৬৬০] [৬৬১]
- You now see more information when you edit a link, a reference or other items in VisualEditor. You also see a clearer edit button in those tools. [৬৬২] [৬৬৩]
- If you use the ContentTranslation tool you now see red links in the list of articles in other languages. The link is red if the article doesn't exist in the language of your options or of your browser. You can translate the article by clicking on the red link.
Meetings
- You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
- You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join a technical meeting in France in May. You can ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [৬৬৪]
Future changes
- You can get help to become a developer. You can learn more on the Google Summer of Code and Outreachy pages. [৬৬৫]
- You will soon be able to read technical reports in Phabricator. [৬৬৬]
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১৫:১৮, ৯ মার্চ ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
উইকিমিডিয়া কারিগরী কমিউনিটি থেকে প্রকাশিত সর্বশেষ টেক নিউজ। অনুগ্রহ করে অন্যান্য ব্যবহারকরীদের পরিবর্তন সম্পর্কে অবহিত করুন। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনার জন্য প্রযোজ্য নাও হতে পারে। অনুবাদিত সংস্করণ রয়েছে।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
- ছবি রিসাইজ করার সার্ভারে নতুন সফটওয়্যার ব্যবহার ব্যবহার করা হচ্ছে। ছবি সংক্রান্ত কোনো সমস্যা দেখা গেলে অনুগ্রহ করে রিপোর্ট করুন। [৬৬৭]
- কমন্স, উইকিসোর্স এবং অভিধান সম্পর্কিত বাগগুলো দেখতে পারবেন এখান থেকে। [৬৬৮]
- ভিজ্যুয়াল এডিটরের মাধ্যমে এখন খুব সহজেই বিশেষ অক্ষরগুলো লেখা যাবে। আপনার উইকির ক্ষেত্রে আপনি তালিকাটি সম্পাদনা করতে পারবেন। [৬৬৯] [৬৭০]
ত্রুটিসমূহ
- কোডের ত্রুটির কারণে গত বৃহঃস্পতিবারে কয়েক মিনিটের জন্য উইকিসমূহ বন্ধ ছিলো।
চলতি সপ্তাহের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
- মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণটি গত ১১ মার্চ থেকে টেস্ট উইকিসমূহ এবং MediaWiki.org-এ সক্রিয় রয়েছে। উইকিপিডিয়া নয় এমন উইকি সমূহে আগামি ১৭ মার্চ থেকে সক্রিয় হবে। এবং উইকিপিডিয়াসমূহে সক্রিয় করা হবে ১৮ তারিখ থেকে (ক্যালেন্ডার)।
- A puzzle piece icon ( ) now shows hidden templates in VisualEditor. You can edit the template by clicking the icon. For example, you can now edit anchor templates. [৬৭১] [৬৭২]
- টেমপ্লেট ডাটাতে আপনি এখন থেকে পুরাতন প্যারামিটারের উদাহারণ এবং বিস্তারিত তথ্য যোগ করতে পারবেন। [৬৭৩] [৬৭৪]
মিটিংসমূহ
- ভিজ্যুয়াল এডিটরের সর্বশেষ মিটিং নোট পড়তে পারবেন।
- You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 18 at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The list of bad user names on your wiki will no longer work. The global list will replace it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [৬৭৫] [৬৭৬]
- You can comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [৬৭৭]
- The final steps of single user login (SUL) will happen in April. You can see the rules to rename accounts. [৬৭৮]
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১৫:১৪, ১৬ মার্চ ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 25 (calendar).
- The text of a reference is now more visible when you click on it. It has a blue background. Many wikis already have the blue color. Those wikis can now remove it from their CSS page. [৬৭৯]
- VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor. [৬৮০] [৬৮১] [৬৮২]
- When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it. [৬৮৩]
Meetings
- You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
- You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Talk pages using "LiquidThreads" on mediawiki.org will soon use the new system. [৬৮৪]
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১৫:০৯, ২৩ মার্চ ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 hide site banners even if you don't have an account. [৬৮৫]
- You can now add citations more easily with VisualEditor on the French and Italian Wikipedia. The tool adds the information when you add some types of links. In the future you will be able to add this tool to your wiki. [৬৮৬] [৬৮৭] [৬৮৮]
- All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser. [৬৮৯]
- You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [৬৯০]
- VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly. [৬৯১]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 31. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 1 (calendar).
- VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias. [৬৯২]
- You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account. [৬৯৩]
- You can test a new tool on the beta mobile site on the English Wikipedia. With the new tool, you can create lists of articles. [৬৯৪]
- You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page. [৬৯৫]
- VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more. [৬৯৬] [৬৯৭] [৬৯৮] [৬৯৯]
Meetings
- You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on IRC on March 31 at 16:00 (UTC). [৭০০]
- You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
- You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 1 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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১৫:১৮, ৩০ মার্চ ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 join a new email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs. [৭০১]
- You can read the last monthly report. In the future you can read team reports every three months. You can see current work on the roadmap. [৭০২] [৭০৩]
- The number of articles in Special:Statistics is now updated once a month. [৭০৪]
- You can use a new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. Using the app, you can now share a fact with your friends. [৭০৫]
Problems
- The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary. [৭০৬]
- Labs was broken several times this week. [৭০৭] [৭০৮] [৭০৯] [৭১০]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 8 (calendar).
- You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor. [৭১১]
- Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [৭১২] [৭১৩]
- You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people. [৭১৪]
Meetings
- You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 8 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
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১৫:৪১, ৬ এপ্রিল ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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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 read the latest news about VisualEditor.
- You can now use the new translation tool on 22 Wikipedias. You now see the tool the first time you create a new page. [৭১৬]
- The list of bad user names on your wiki no longer works. The global list replaces it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [৭১৭] [৭১৮]
Problems
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 15 (calendar).
- Developers will start to rename 1.5 million accounts on Wednesday. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [৭২১] [৭২২]
- All users can now test link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias. [৭২৩]
Meetings
- You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 15 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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১৬:৪০, ১৩ এপ্রিল ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 was sometimes a problem when saving a page in VisualEditor. It is now fixed on all wikis. [৭২৪]
- VisualEditor sometimes showed empty warnings for wikis using Flagged Revisions. This is now fixed on all wikis. [৭২৫]
- You can get the new version of the Wikipedia app for iOS. With it you can share facts with your friends. [৭২৬]
- If you write JavaScript, you should stop using importScript and importStylesheet. [৭২৭]
Problems
- There was a problem with Labs on Monday. [৭২৮]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 21. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 22 (calendar).
- Developers are renaming 1.5 million accounts. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [৭২৯] [৭৩০] [৭৩১]
- If your wiki has the auto-fill tool for citations, you can now use it when you edit a reference. [৭৩২]
- You can now give examples for template options in TemplateData. [৭৩৩]
Meetings
- You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 22 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
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১৫:৩০, ২০ এপ্রিল ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
== ধন্যবাদ ভাই।== মাসুম (আলাপ) masum ১৫:১৮, ২৬ এপ্রিল ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- All accounts are now unique and work on all wikis. [৭৩৬] [৭৩৭]
- You can read a report from experts who tested the security of MediaWiki. [৭৩৮]
- There was a problem between VisualEditor and an antivirus software. It is now fixed. [৭৩৯]
- You can help test VisualEditor to see if it works in your language. [৭৪০]
Problems
- Some Labs tools had problems due to a software bug. [৭৪১]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 29 (calendar).
- It is now clearer that you can delete several rows and columns when you edit tables in VisualEditor. [৭৪২]
- You now see more information when you search for a template in VisualEditor. [৭৪৩]
- You can now cancel when you add citations on desktop, or edit links on mobile, in VisualEditor. [৭৪৪]
- You can now see the list of other formats for videos only after they're ready. [৭৪৫]
Meetings
- You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 29 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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১৫:১০, ২৭ এপ্রিল ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
Support request with team editing experiment project
সম্পাদনাDear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Wikipedia about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Wikipedia community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Wikipedia everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta.
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 chat with other users in Phabricator. [৭৪৬]
- There was a rare problem with VisualEditor. The text of another wiki could be added to your edit. The issue is now fixed. [৭৪৭] [৭৪৮]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 6 (calendar).
- It is now easier to add a link in VisualEditor. You can see an image and a description about the page. [৭৪৯]
Meetings
- You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on May 5 at 14:30 (UTC). [৭৫০]
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 6 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join an event in France on May 22−25. You need to sign up before May 8. [৭৫১]
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১৫:০৩, ৪ মে ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 make charts and maps on your wiki with the new "graph" tool. If you have an old browser, you will see images instead. It uses a tool called Vega; you can learn how to use it and write help pages for your wiki. You can use the Vega edit tool to make charts and copy the code to your wiki. Charts and maps use complex code and you should put them into templates. In the future, you will be able to create charts with VisualEditor. [৭৫২] [৭৫৩] [৭৫৪]
- You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community. [৭৫৫]
- The logos of all wikis are now in a new place. It will make pages load faster. You can still ask to change the logo. You can also use local CSS for brief changes. [৭৫৬] [৭৫৭]
Problems
- There was a problem that caused slow editing. [৭৫৮]
- Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed. [৭৫৯]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 13 (calendar).
- You can now use data from Wikidata on more pages. The page doesn't need to be linked to the Wikidata item. It works on a few wikis and more wikis will be added soon. [৭৬০] [৭৬১]
- You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons. [৭৬২]
- When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link. [৭৬৩]
- When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match. [৭৬৪]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 13 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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১৫:৩৫, ১১ মে ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 watch a video about the new graph tool.
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
- References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page. [৭৬৫]
- You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [৭৬৬]
- The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [৭৬৭]
- You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [৭৬৮] [৭৬৯]
- UploadWizard now shows better matches when you add a category to your file. [৭৭০]
- A test about VisualEditor will start on the English Wikipedia on Thursday. [৭৭১]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 21 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join a technical meeting in France this week.
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১৫:১৮, ১৮ মে ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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
- VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [৭৭২]
- Some Labs tools had issues last week. [৭৭৩] [৭৭৪]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You can add your ideas of new tools to help active users like you. [৭৭৫]
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১৬:১২, ২৫ মে ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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
- Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [৭৭৬]
- Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [৭৭৭]
- Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [৭৭৮] [৭৭৯]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
- You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [৭৮০]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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১৫:৩০, ১ জুন ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar). [৭৮১] [৭৮২]
- If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [৭৮৩]
- When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [৭৮৪]
- The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [৭৮৫]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on June 10 at 14:30 (UTC). [৭৮৬]
Future changes
- If you have a bot, you may need to fix it. The default continuation mode of the API for
action=query
will change at the end of June. [৭৮৭]
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১৫:২৮, ৮ জুন ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool. [৭৮৮]
- Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [৭৮৯]
Changes 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 from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on June 19 at 16:00 (UTC). [৭৯০]
Future changes
- Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas about it. [৭৯১]
- If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use
compat
anymore. [৭৯২] [৭৯৩] [৭৯৪]
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১৫:০৪, ১৫ জুন ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 wikis can now be used only with HTTPS. This includes the English, Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only HTTPS for all users. [৭৯৫] [৭৯৬]
- You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [৭৯৭]
Problems
- On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [৭৯৮] [৭৯৯] [৮০০]
- On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons. [৮০১] [৮০২] [৮০৩]
- Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days. [৮০৪] [৮০৫] [৮০৬]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 25 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 23 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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১৫:২৩, ২২ জুন ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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
- Long lines in code blocks now look better. [৮০৭]
- You can now see graphs in VisualEditor. [৮০৮]
- When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [৮০৯]
- The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [৮১০] [৮১১] [৮১২]
- You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [৮১৩]
Problems
- JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [৮১৪]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar).
- You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color. [৮১৫]
- When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them. [৮১৬]
- If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password. [৮১৭]
- Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for
action=query
doesn't work any more. [৮১৮]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 30 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future
- When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org. [৮১৯]
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১৫:৫৬, ২৯ জুন ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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
- On the mobile site, you now see more information when you search for a page. It now shows the description from Wikidata. [৮২০]
Problems
- The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets. [৮২১]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 8. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 9 (calendar).
- The "Page information" tool shows how many users watch the page. You can now see how many are active. [৮২২] [৮২৩]
- You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool. [৮২৪]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 7 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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১৫:১৩, ৬ জুলাই ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now see a list of pages with errors in code coloring. [৮২৫]
Problems
- There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes. [৮২৬]
- There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes. [৮২৭]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 15. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 16 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join a technical meeting at Wikimania in Mexico City this week. [৮২৮]
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১৫:০৬, ১৩ জুলাই ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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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 this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 22. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 23 (calendar).
- You now see more warnings in the image viewer. They tell you to be careful when using the image, for example if it shows a person. [৮২৯]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 21 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Soon you won't be able to use MathJax to display math. [৮৩০]
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০৩:০৫, ২১ জুলাই ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 redirects to link to JavaScript pages. [৮৩১]
- You cannot use the compact user bar any more. [৮৩২]
- You can change your options to see bigger images. [৮৩৩]
- You can watch short videos about how to use VisualEditor. [৮৩৪]
- You can now edit pages linked in "what links here" more easily. [৮৩৫]
Problems
- There was a problem with some Lua modules on July 22 and 23. Some pages using them did not list them in "what links here". You can fix those pages with a null edit: edit and save the page without making any change.
- There was a problem with the abuse filter page on big wikis on July 23. It was due to a code error. [৮৩৬]
Changes 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 from July 29. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 30 (calendar).
- JavaScript authors: You cannot use
wgNoticeUserData
to get edit counts anymore. [৮৩৭]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 28 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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১৫:০৫, ২৭ জুলাই ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
- The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [৮৪৩]
- MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [৮৪৪]
- Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [৮৪৫]
Problems
- There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [৮৪৬]
- We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now. [৮৪৭]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 6 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 4 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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১৫:৫১, ৩ আগস্ট ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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
- MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page. [৮৪৮]
- The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [৮৪৯]
- You can now play Ogg video files in some browsers that don't support this format. This solution uses JavaScript and works on desktop browsers only for now. It will work on mobile later. [৮৫০]
- You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [৮৫১]
- It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [৮৫২]
- JavaScript authors:
- You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix. [৮৫৩] [৮৫৪]
- You can no longer use
document.write
on Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix. [৮৫৫] [৮৫৬]
- The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [৮৫৭]
Problems
- More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [৮৫৮]
- Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [৮৫৯]
- Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [৮৬০]
Changes 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 from August 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 13 (calendar).
- UploadWizard is getting a new look. The look of buttons and checkboxes has already changed. This week, UploadWizard gets a new date picker. The other text fields will change soon. [৮৬১]
- You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [৮৬২]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Some things in the watchlist will get a new look. [৮৬৩]
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১৪:৫৭, ১০ আগস্ট ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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
- Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [৮৬৪] [৮৬৫] [৮৬৬]
- Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems. [৮৬৭]
Problems
- Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [৮৬৮] [৮৬৯]
- On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [৮৭০]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
- You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category. [৮৭১]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 18 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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১৬:১৭, ১৭ আগস্ট ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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
- Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function. [৮৭২]
Problems
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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১৩:০২, ২৪ আগস্ট ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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
- VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC. [৮৭৪][৮৭৫]
- The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [৮৭৬]
- VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module
ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init
. Useext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init
instead. [৮৭৭] - Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [৮৭৮]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 1 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9. [৮৭৯]
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২১:৩৬, ৩১ আগস্ট ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users. [৮৮০]
- A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [৮৮১]
- You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [৮৮২]
Problems
- There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed. [৮৮৩]
- The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [৮৮৪][৮৮৫]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
- The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters. [৮৮৬]
- The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page. [৮৮৭][৮৮৮]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 8 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the Wikitech ambassadors mailing list. The list is for Wikimedians interested in spreading information about Wikimedia technology news. See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours. [৮৮৯]
- Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [৮৯০][৮৯১]
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১৭:২৯, ৭ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
নোটিশ
সম্পাদনাপ্রিয়, আপনাকে এই বার্তাটি প্রদান করা হয়েছে কারণ উইকিপিডিয়া:আলোচনাসভায় একটি আলোচ্য বিষয়ের অবতারণা করা হয়েছে যেখানে আপনার কোনো বিষয় জড়িত থাকতে পারে। আলোচনার বিষয় পশ্চিমবঙ্গে বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়ানদের নিয়ে মিট-আপ। আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ। বোধিসত্ত্ব (আলাপ) ১৩:০৬, ১৩ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 Wikidata query service. [৮৯২]
- Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wiki.x.io to be-tarask.wiki.x.io. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [৮৯৩]
- Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [৮৯৪][৮৯৫]
Problems
- There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [৮৯৬]
- The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [৮৯৭]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [৮৯৮]
- The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [৮৯৯]
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১৬:১৮, ১৪ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here. [৯০০][৯০১]
- Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong. [৯০২][৯০৩][৯০৪][৯০৫]
- More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [৯০৬]
- The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [৯০৭]
Problems
- Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time. [৯০৮]
- Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [৯০৯][৯১০]
- UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [৯১১]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
- The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms. [৯১২]
- You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it. [৯১৩]
- Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [৯১৪]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on September 23 at 17:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can register to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 in San Francisco 4–6 January 2016. Gadget, template, bot, and tool developers are welcome as well. Call for participation and travel sponsorship requests are open until 2 October.
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১৮:২৯, ২১ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them. [৯১৫]
- UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [৯১৬]
- You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [৯১৭]
- When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [৯১৮]
- You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [৯১৯]
- The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [৯২০]
- MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in Gerrit. The goal was to clean up the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers. [৯২১]
Problems
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar).
- There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide if they want to enable it. [৯২৪]
- The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan. [৯২৫]
Meetings
- You can join the strategy process of the Reading department of Wikimedia Engineering. [৯২৬]
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation developers want the community to decide who can use OAuth in the future. You can discuss it on Meta.
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১৫:১৫, ২৮ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile. [৯২৭]
- The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [৯২৮]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar).
- UploadWizard will remind users to add a category. [৯২৯]
- UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [৯৩০]
- A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [৯৩১]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Wikidata requests your input on how to improve the editing of Wikidata's data in other locations, such as Wikipedias.
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১৮:৩২, ৫ অক্টোবর ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters. [৯৩২]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar).
- You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing. [৯৩৩]
- Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [৯৩৪]
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 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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১৬:২৮, ১২ অক্টোবর ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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
- Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback on this change.
- Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [৯৩৫]
Problems
- A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [৯৩৬]
- Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [৯৩৭]
- The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen. [৯৩৮]
Changes this week
- Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [৯৩৯]
- Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [৯৪০][৯৪১][৯৪২][৯৪৩]
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 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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১৬:০২, ১৯ অক্টোবর ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
- The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools. [৯৪৪]
- You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "ফাইল সংযোজন" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor. [৯৪৫][৯৪৬]
- When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [৯৪৭][৯৪৮]
- Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in
$wgContentNamespaces
. [৯৪৯]
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১৮:০৪, ২৬ অক্টোবর ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [৯৫০]
- If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [৯৫১]
- Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [৯৫২]
Problems
- On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [৯৫৩]
Changes 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 from November 4. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 5 (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 3 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can also read the latest VisualEditor newsletter.
Future changes
- A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links. [৯৫৪]
- Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [৯৫৫]
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১৬:৪৩, ২ নভেম্বর ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
গুরুত্বপূর্ণ বিজ্ঞপ্তি
সম্পাদনাসুধী, বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়ায় অবদানের জন্য আপনাকে আবারও ধন্যবাদ। আপনি নিশ্চই জানেন, উইকিপিডিয়ার প্রায় সকল লেখা বা অন্যান্য মিডিয়া ক্রিয়েটিভ কমন্স অ্যাট্রিবিউশন শেয়ার অ্যালাইক লাইসেন্সের আওতাভুক্ত। সম্প্রতি একটি আলোচনার মাধ্যমে আমাদের দৃষ্টিগোচর হয়েছে যে, আমরা না জেনেই উক্ত লাইসেন্সের একটি ধারা লঙ্ঘন করে যাচ্ছি। আমরা প্রায় সময়ই ইংরেজি উইকিপিডিয়া থেকে নিবন্ধ অনুবাদ করে বাংলাতে যুক্ত করে থাকি। লাইসেন্স-এর শর্তানুসারে, কোন কিছু অন্য উইকিমিডিয়া প্রকল্প থেকে অনুবাদ করলে মূল প্রকল্পের লেখকদের স্বীকৃতি প্রদান করতে হয়। আমরা ইংরেজি উইকিপিডিয়া থেকে নিবন্ধ অনুবাদ করলেও ইংরেজি উইকিপিডিয়ার লেখকদের স্বীকৃতিপ্রদান করি না অনেক সময়ই। যারা বিশেষ:ContentTranslation ব্যবহার করে অনুবাদ করেন, তাদের ক্ষেত্রে স্বয়ংক্রিয়ভাবে স্বীকৃতি প্রদান হয়ে যায়। যারা ম্যানুয়ালি অনুবাদ করেন, তারা খুব সহজেই নিচের যেকোন একটি পদ্ধতি অনুসরণ করার মাধ্যমে স্বীকৃতিপ্রদান করতে পারেন:
- নিবন্ধ তৈরির সময় সম্পাদনা সারাংশে লিখুন অমুক উইকিপিডিয়ার অমুক নিবন্ধের অনুবাদ। যেমন, ইংরেজি থেকে নিবন্ধ অনুবাদ করলে সারাংশে লিখবেন,
[[:en:ইংরেজি নিবন্ধের নাম]] থেকে অনুবাদ
। নিবন্ধ তৈরির সময় একবার সারাংশে এটি উল্লেখ করলেই চলবে। - অথবা, সংশ্লিষ্ঠ নিবন্ধের আলাপ পাতায় {{অনূদিত পাতা}} টেমপ্লেটটি ব্যবহার করতে পারেন। উদাহরণ হিসেবে দেখুন, আলাপ:২০০৩ বাংলাদেশ ক্রিকেট দলের অস্ট্রেলিয়া সফর।
এখন থেকে বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়ার সকল সম্মানিত ব্যবহারকারীগণকে এই স্বীকৃতিপ্রদানের চর্চা করার অনুরোধ করছি। একইসাথে যেহেতু এটা সম্পর্কে একটি নতুন নীতিমালা তৈরি করতে হবে সুতরাং আমরা আপনাকে উইকিপিডিয়া:উইকিপিডিয়ার অভ্যন্তরে অনুলিপি করা পাতাটির অনুবাদে অংশগ্রহণের আমন্ত্রণ জানাচ্ছি। কোন প্রশ্ন থাকলে আলোচনাসভায় বার্তা রাখার অনুরোধ করছি। আপনার সম্পাদনা আনন্দময় হোক। ধন্যবাদ।
বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়া সম্প্রদায়ের পক্ষে,
নাহিদ (আলাপ) ও আফতাব (আলাপ)
বৃহস্পতিবার ১৫:০০, ০৫ নভেম্বর ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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
- Superprotect has been removed. [৯৫৬]
- You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [৯৫৭]
- JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [৯৫৮]
Problems
- Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [৯৫৯]
Changes this week
- Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [৯৬০]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (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 10 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- A new tool to navigate through diff pages is being developed. You can test it out and give feedback. [৯৬১]
- The options on Special:Watchlist will look slightly different. [৯৬২]
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১৭:১৮, ৯ নভেম্বর ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
এই সপ্তাহের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
- You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information. [৯৬৩]
- Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [৯৬৪]
- The Community Tech team is doing a community wishlist survey to understand what they should be working on. They are now accepting proposals in all languages. You can create your proposal in the small box above the blue button and click it when you're done.
- Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [৯৬৫]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 19 (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 17 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
- Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. The change will happen in January 2016. [৯৬৬][৯৬৭]
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১৯:৩৯, ১৬ নভেম্বর ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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 new Pageview API has been announced. Feedback is requested to help decide which data to add to it next.
Changes this week
- There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Language Engineering team. The topic is: Content Translation updates and Questions & Answers. The meeting will be on 25 November at 13:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- 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 24 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: Raise MediaWiki's PHP version requirement and update coding standards". The meeting will be on 25 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats. [৯৬৮]
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২০:২৬, ২৩ নভেম্বর ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The symbol for advanced news items has been changed. This is because the symbols were too similar. If a news item is for more technical readers it now looks like this: . You can give feedback on this change.
Problems
- On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015. [৯৬৯]
- Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed. [৯৭০]
Changes this week
- Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [৯৭১][৯৭২]
- There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (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 1 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is using the
<figure>
tag for media. The meeting will be on 2 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [৯৭৩]
- Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified. [৯৭৪]
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১৬:১৬, ৩০ নভেম্বর ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
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
- Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias. [৯৭৫]
Problems
- Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [৯৭৬]
Changes this week
- You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [৯৭৭]
- IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [৯৭৮]
- You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be. [৯৭৯]
- It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [৯৮০]
- You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor. [৯৮১]
- UploadWizard will look a bit different. [৯৮২]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
- New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays. [৯৮৩]
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 8 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Graph/Graphoid/Kartographer – data storage architecture" and "Parametric JSON builder". The meeting will be on 9 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default. [৯৮৪]
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১৭:৫২, ৭ ডিসেম্বর ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
চিত্র:BSMRAU logo.jpg নিবন্ধের দ্রুত অপসারণ প্রস্তাবনা
সম্পাদনাচিত্র:BSMRAU logo.jpg নিবন্ধটি উইকিপিডিয়া থেকে দ্রুত অপসারণের জন্য একটি ট্যাগ লাগানো হয়েছে। নিম্নলিখিত কারণে এটি করা হয়েছে:
দ্রুত অপসারণ নীতি অনুসারে, যেসকল নিবন্ধ উইকিপিডিয়ার সাধারণ নীতিমালা অনুসরণ করেনি সেগুলো যেকোন মুহুর্তে অপসারণ করা হতে পারে।
আপনি যদি মনে করেন যে এই নোটিশটি এখানে ভুল করে প্রদান করা হয়েছে, তবে এই অপসারণের আপত্তি জানাতে নিবন্ধে যেয়ে দ্রুত অপসারণের আপত্তি করতে চাইলে এখানে ক্লিক করুন লেখা লেবেলের উপর ক্লিক করুন। এটি করার ফলে আপনি আগে থেকে বিন্যাস্ত সংশ্লিষ্ট নিবন্ধের আলাপ পাতা পাবেন, সেখানে আপনি ব্যাখ্যা করুন, কেন নিবন্ধটি দ্রুত অপসারণ করা উচিত নয়। অথবা আপনি নিবন্ধের আলাপ পাতায় সরাসরি আপনার কারণ ব্যক্ত করতে পারেন। কিন্তু এটাও মনে রাখবেন, দ্রুত অপসারণ ট্যাগ কোনো নিবন্ধে করা হলে, কোনো দেরি না করে অপসারণ করা হয় যদি নিবন্ধটি দ্রুত অপসারণ বিচারাধারার সাথে মিলে যায়। এটি যদি দ্রুত অপসারণের বিচারধারা অনুসারে না হয় তবে নিবন্ধ থেকে এই নোটিশটি সরিয়ে ফেলুন, কিন্তু অনুগ্রহপূর্বক আপনার নিজের তৈরি করা নিবন্ধ থেকে এ নোটিশটি সরিয়ে ফেলবেন না আমরা আপনাকে নিবন্ধটিকে সম্প্রাসারণ করতে উৎসাহিত করছি। আরও মনে রাখবেন যে, নিবন্ধের বিষয় অবশ্যই উল্লেখযোগ্য হতে হবে ও নির্ভরযোগ্য উৎস থেকে তথ্যসূত্রগুলো যাচাইযোগ্য হওয়া উচিত। যদি ইতিপূর্বে নিবন্ধটি অপসারিত হয়ে থাকে আপনি কোনো একজন সক্রিয় প্রশাসকের সহিত যোগাযোগ করুন।
অনুগ্রহপূর্বক আরও লক্ষ করুন যে, অপসারণের প্রস্তবনা কোনো ব্যক্তিগত আক্রমণ নয়। এটি শুধুমাত্র একটি নোটিশ যা উইকিপিডিয়ার নীতিমালা অনুসারে আপনাকে প্রদান করা হয়েছে। উইকিপিডিয়ায় অবদান রাখার জন্য আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ। আপনার আরও কোনো প্রশ্ন থাকলে আপনি বিনা দ্বিধায় আমার আলাপের পাতায় বার্তা রাখতে পারেন। কায়সার আহমাদ (আলাপ) ০৩:৩৯, ১৩ ডিসেম্বর ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes this week
- Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [৯৮৫]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 17 December. (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 15 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is talking about the agenda for the Wikimedia Developer Summit. The meeting will be on 16 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join. [৯৮৬]
Future changes
- A new gadget manager will come next year. The new gadget system is called Gadgets 2.0. [৯৮৭]
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১৭:৪২, ১৪ ডিসেম্বর ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
বিজয় দিবসের শুভেচ্ছা
সম্পাদনাপ্রিয়, Hasive/সংকলন-৩
বিজয় দিবসের শুভেচ্ছা! |
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 2016.
- The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2015? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!
Recent changes
- CompletionSuggester is a new suggestions algorithm for Search. It is available as a Beta feature since 17 December. (more information)
- The Multimedia team is running an A/B test for the cross-wiki upload tool. They are testing four different interfaces. The test is running from 16-23 December. (more information)
Changes this week
- There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 (calendar).
Meetings
- Should administrators and other users with advanced tools need stronger passwords? You can discuss about it in a Request for Comments.
- No meeting with the VisualEditor team on 22 and 29 December, and 5 January.
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১৮:২৯, ২১ ডিসেম্বর ২০১৫ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Wikimedia no longer uses visitor statistics from comScore. [৯৮৮]
- You can make interactive graphs with the Graph extension. There is now a tutorial for how to do this. [৯৮৯]
Problems
- Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated. [৯৯০]
Changes this week
- The Nuke extension will work with Flow. This will make it easier to handle spam in Flow. [৯৯১]
- New file uploads will now be patrollable. [৯৯২]
- Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia if you use Internet Explorer 8, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. [৯৯৩][৯৯৪]
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 12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. [৯৯৫]
- The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab. [৯৯৬][৯৯৭]
- There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [৯৯৮][৯৯৯]
- The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.
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১৬:৫৯, ১১ জানুয়ারি ২০১৬ (ইউটিসি)
Help decide the future of Wikimania
সম্পাদনাThe Wikimedia Foundation is currently running a consultation on the value and planning process of Wikimania, and is open until 18 January 2016. The goals are to (1) build a shared understanding of the value of Wikimania to help guide conference planning and evaluation, and (2) gather broad community input on what new form(s) Wikimania could take (starting in 2018).
After reviewing the consultation, we'd like to hear your feedback on on this survey.
In addition, feel free to share any personal experiences you have had at at a Wikimedia movement conference, including Wikimania. We plan to compile and share back outcomes from this consultation in February.
With thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF) (talk), from Community Resources ২৩:৪৬, ১২ জানুয়ারি ২০১৬ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [১,০০০]
- Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis. [১,০০১]
Changes this week
- The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving. [১,০০২]
- MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change. [১,০০৩]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (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 19 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is governance model. The meeting will be on 20 January at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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১৭:৫৫, ১৮ জানুয়ারি ২০১৬ (ইউটিসি)
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 follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [১,০০৪][১,০০৫]
- Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [১,০০৬]
Changes this week
- You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [১,০০৭]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (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 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [১,০০৮]
- The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [১,০০৯]
- Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [১,০১০]
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১৬:৩৯, ২৫ জানুয়ারি ২০১৬ (ইউটিসি)
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
- Sites with a
wikimedia.org
address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [১,০১১] - Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [১,০১২][১,০১৩]
- Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [১,০১৪]
Changes this week
- The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [১,০১৫]
- Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [১,০১৬][১,০১৭]
- The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [১,০১৮]
- The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [১,০১৯][১,০২০][১,০২১]
- The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [১,০২২][১,০২৩]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (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 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is expiring watch list entries. The meeting will be on 3 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The
rest.wikimedia.org
domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use/api/rest_v1/
at each individual project domain instead. [১,০২৪]
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২১:০১, ১ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০১৬ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Syntax highlighting support is now available for 53 more computer languages. [১,০২৫]
- When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [১,০২৬]
- RESTBase is now using
scrub_wikitext
instead ofscrubWikitext
. [১,০২৭]
Changes this week
- Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [১,০২৮][১,০২৯]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (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 9 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is per-language URLs for pages of multilingual wikis. The meeting will be on 10 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [১,০৩০][১,০৩১]
- Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [১,০৩২][১,০৩৩][১,০৩৪]
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১৮:৫৮, ৮ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০১৬ (ইউটিসি)
Towards a New Wikimania results
সম্পাদনাLast December, I invited you to share your views on the value of Wikimedia conferences and the planning process of Wikimania. We have completed analysis of these results and have prepared this report summarizing your feedback and important changes for Wikimania starting in 2018 as an experiment. Feedback and comments are welcome at the discussion page. Thank you so much for your participation. I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, ২২:৪৭, ৮ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০১৬ (ইউটিসি)
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 edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [১,০৩৫]
- You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas. [১,০৩৬]
Problems
- A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [১,০৩৭][১,০৩৮]
Changes this week
- There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [১,০৩৯][১,০৪০]
- Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [১,০৪১]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (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 16 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [১,০৪২]
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১৬:১৬, ১৫ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০১৬ (ইউটিসি)
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
- Phabricator has been upgraded. [১,০৪৩][১,০৪৪]
Problems
- There was no new MediaWiki version last week. Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week instead. This is because of a bug that made saving pages take longer time. [১,০৪৫][১,০৪৬]
Changes this week
- After February 23, you can use Wikidata for inter-language links on Wikiversity. [১,০৪৭]
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 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is Assign RFCs to ArchCom shepherds. The meeting will be on 24 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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১৮:২২, ২২ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০১৬ (ইউটিসি)
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
- Thanks to the Graph extension and Pageview API, we now have {{Graph:PageViews}} templates that can show pageviews for any wiki page for any of the wikis. See the examples.
- The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
- The visual editor now follows the TemplateData
format
setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [১,০৪৮][১,০৪৯] - The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [১,০৫০][১,০৫১]
Changes this week
- On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences. [১,০৫২]
- Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [১,০৫৩]
- Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [১,০৫৪]
Meetings
- Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project. [১,০৫৫]
- 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 1 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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২০:১২, ২৯ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০১৬ (ইউটিসি)
বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়ায় চেকইউজার অধিকার যুক্তকরণ
সম্পাদনাসুধী,
শুভেচ্ছা নেবেন। অতি সম্প্রতি সম্প্রদায়ের আলোচনাসভায় বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়ায় চেকইউজার অধিকার যুক্তকরণ ও নীতিমালা বিষয়ে আলোচনা শুরু হয়েছে। আলোচনাটি শেষ হবে আগামী ২৯শে মার্চ। উক্ত বিষয়ে আপনার সুচিন্তিত মতামত জানানোর অনুরোধ করছি। ধন্যবাদ। --নাহিদ সুলতান (আলাপ) বুধবার ৭:২৪, ০২ মার্চ ২০১৬ (ইউটিসি)
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
- Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB. [১,০৫৬]
- Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one. [১,০৫৭]
- The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the Eqiad cluster have now been upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again because of this. [১,০৫৮]
- It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app. [১,০৫৯]
- Bare attributes in tags now parse according to the HTML5 specifications.
<pages from= to= section=1>
will parse as<pages from="to=" section="1">
instead of<pages from="" to="" section="1">
as it used to. Please use<pages from="" to="" section=1>
or<pages section=1>
instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on Wikisource projects. [১,০৬০]
Problems
- Phabricator has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now. [১,০৬১]
- The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title. [১,০৬২]
- The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource. [১,০৬৩]
- You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of contents. This should be fixed soon. [১,০৬৪]
- Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes. [১,০৬৫]
Changes this week
- Cross-wiki notifications will be enabled as a beta feature on all wikis on 10 March. You will be able to get notifications when something happens on another Wikimedia wiki. [১,০৬৬]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).
- Wikivoyages will get the Kartographer extension. Kartographer will allow
<mapframe>
and<maplink>
tags in an article to insert an interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas and suggestions to the Maps talk page. If you find any bugs, you can report them in Phabricator. [১,০৬৭]
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 8 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [১,০৬৮]
- The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The date for this might change. [১,০৬৯]
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২০:২৪, ৭ মার্চ ২০১৬ (ইউটিসি)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The mobile web interface no longer suggests HiDPI thumbnails. This is to take up less bandwidth on slow or expensive connections. [১,০৭০]
- The search engine on wikipedia.org has been updated. [১,০৭১]
Changes this week
- Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 22 March and 24 March. This could be postponed to April 18. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. Because of a test, there will also be a couple of minutes where you can't edit the wikis on 15 March starting 07:00 UTC. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
- Administrators and other users with advanced permissions will need to have an 8-byte long passwords. This change takes place on 15 March. Users with too short passwords will be asked to change password the next time they log in. This was decided in a discussion on Meta and is because they can use tools that can hurt the wikis. [১,০৭২]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
- The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [১,০৭৩]
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 15 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are backlog and thumb API. The meeting will be on 16 March at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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১৮:৩৭, ১৪ মার্চ ২০১৬ (ইউটিসি)
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
- Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. The Wikimedia Technology department planned to test it this week. This will take place the week of April 18 instead. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
- In Firefox, the visual editor would sometimes just jump down to the bottom of the page when you double-clicked on a table cell. This has now been fixed. [১,০৭৪]
Changes this week
- It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve CAPTCHAs. [১,০৭৫]
- You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread. [১,০৭৬]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (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 22 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. This will happen on May 2. [১,০৭৭]
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১৬:০৪, ২১ মার্চ ২০১৬ (ইউটিসি)
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
- MediaWiki now supports the semantic web standards of Microdata and RDFa 1.0. On Wikimedia projects, a configuration change must be requested in order to enable RDFa 1.0. [১,০৭৮] [১,০৭৯]
Problems
- Adding references with Citoid was broken for approximately 6 hours on 24 March. This was fixed. [১,০৮০]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
- You will be able to remove the header and footer style from User language (babel) boxes. This will make it easier to use them with other userboxes. [১,০৮১]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with part of the Architecture committee, which will discuss a few topics. The meeting will be on 30 March at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- The Architecture committee has sent a summary of new and ongoing RFC discussions.
Future changes
- Commons will soon have improved access to Wikidata's data. It will then be possible to access data about any concept on any page on Commons. Assistance with testing this on the beta cluster is appreciated. [১,০৮২]
- Wikibits.js will not be loaded by default anymore starting April 2016. Gadget and script authors should have already updated their code since the previous announcements, but there is another migration path available if needed. See wikitech-l for details.
Corrections
- Last week Tech News said the new MediaWiki version would come to wikis from 21 March to 23 March. The right dates were 22 March to 24 March.
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১৯:৪৩, ২৮ মার্চ ২০১৬ (ইউটিসি)