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• You can now see which Wikipedia language versions are read in a specific country. This tool is called Wikipedia Views Visualized. [1]
• The Architecture Committee is now the Wikimedia Technical Committee. You can read the charter. [2]

Problems

• You can get an email when a page on your watchlist was edited. You can choose not to get emails for minor edits. There is a bug that means that you then don't get an email when someone does a normal edit after a minor edit. The developers are working on fixing this. Until it has been fixed you can activate "Email me also for minor edits of pages and files" at the bottom of "User profile" in your preferences if you want to. [3]
• The thanks button sometimes didn't work for mobile users. This was because of a new bug and has now been fixed. [4]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 August. It will be on all wikis from 10 August (calendar).

Future changes

• Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [5]
• Links to sections on Wikipedia don't work well in languages that don't use the Latin script. The URL in the address bar in your browser shows Latin characters like .D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8 instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months. [6][7]
• Wiki pages printed by the web browser "Print" function will have an updated style. This new style will be similar to the when you download a page as PDF. It will be better at showing tables, infoboxes and headings. [8][9]

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21:45, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
3,150		Devils Tower (talk)	Add sources
84		Hunkpapa (talk)	Add sources
779		Rapid City, South Dakota (talk)	Add sources
12		Product finder (talk)	Add sources
17		Valparaiso University School of Law (talk)	Add sources
35		Donelson, Tennessee (talk)	Add sources
50		Lake City, Minnesota (talk)	Cleanup
4		South Dakota Highway 47 (talk)	Cleanup
2,459		Augmented reality (talk)	Cleanup
92		Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey (talk)	Expand
119		Minnesota Golden Gophers (talk)	Expand
10,974		Puerto Rico (talk)	Expand
66		Black Hills Land Claim (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
9		Hurricane High School (West Virginia) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
13		Sydney Freight Network (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
404		Fused deposition modeling (talk)	Merge
5		History of Lakia (talk)	Merge
80		University of Nebraska at Kearney (talk)	Merge
480		College basketball (talk)	Wikify
55		Bedrock City (South Dakota) (talk)	Wikify
1,072		Inglewood, California (talk)	Wikify
9		Henry Buchwald (talk)	Orphan
2		Lois K. Alexander Lane (talk)	Orphan
2		Donald Perry Polsky (talk)	Orphan
10		Salt River Range (talk)	Stub
22		Major fourth and minor fifth (talk)	Stub
20		The Bowery Hotel (talk)	Stub
6		Touhy, Nebraska (talk)	Stub
6		South Dakota Magazine (talk)	Stub
25		TD Bank Sports Center (talk)	Stub

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• Bureaucrats can now set users as confirmed. Previously only stewards could do this on most wikis. Nothing will change for wikis that have previously decided to let administrators set users as confirmed. [10]

Problems

• The symbols in the language list that show that an article is good or featured in that language doesn't work. Links to the Commons category in the sidebar doesn't work either. The developers are working on fixing it. [11][12]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).

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23:29, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

• You can now test the new Timeless skinonthe test wiki and mediawiki.org. You can turn it on in your preferences. You can report bugs in Phabricator. It will come to more wikis soon. [13][14]
• Your watchlist can now have the option to unwatch pages. You have to turn this on in your preferences. [15]
• If a table has several columns you can often choose which column you want to use to sort the table. This has not worked for some columns for readers who have used Firefox or Safari. This has now been fixed. [16]
• The RelatedArticles extension has shown related pages on Wikivoyages. You will now see the related pages at the end of the article together with an image. Previously the links were in the sidebar. Wikis that want this extension can request it on Phabricator.

Changes later this week

• Videos will now be played in the WebM format in all browsers. Previously some browsers used Ogg Theora (.ogv). If you use Safari, Internet Explorer or Edge you may see slower playback speed at high resolutions. Instead we will get better quality and smaller file size. You can still upload video as Ogg files. They are automatically converted to WebM. This doesn't affect Ogg audio files. [17]
• The default font in the edit window will change for some users this week. Instead of using the browser default, it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [18]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:01, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

Books & Bytes
Issue 23, June-July 2017

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• Spotlight: Combating misinformation, fake news, and censorship
• Bytes in brief

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
297		Great Sioux War of 1876 (talk)	Add sources
178		American Institute of Architects (talk)	Add sources
15		Bohemian Flats (talk)	Add sources
120		Skee-Ball (talk)	Add sources
12		He Reigns: The Worship Collection (talk)	Add sources
15		South Dakota Supreme Court (talk)	Add sources
67		College of St. Scholastica (talk)	Cleanup
27		Projection augmented model (talk)	Cleanup
31		Dallas Theater Center (talk)	Cleanup
8		Hohenzollern (mountain) (talk)	Expand
248		Sacred Heart University (talk)	Expand
372		Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome (talk)	Expand
560		Jack Douglass (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
747		Plant nutrition (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
11		National Youth Leadership Council (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
12		Lakia (talk)	Merge
11		Emerson High School (Gary) (talk)	Merge
27		Amalgamation (fiction) (talk)	Merge
164		Circuit court (talk)	Wikify
220		Hammond, Indiana (talk)	Wikify
24		Dave Bald Eagle (talk)	Wikify
3		David A. Hafler (talk)	Orphan
4		John J. O'Malley (talk)	Orphan
2		Arthur Cogswell (talk)	Orphan
23		Sanford Pentagon (talk)	Stub
4		Benjamin Munson (talk)	Stub
5		Maly Anyuy River (talk)	Stub
2		Richard W. Sabers (talk)	Stub
4		Iron Mountain (South Dakota) (talk)	Stub
620		Super Bowl LIII (talk)	Stub

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• Syntax highlighting is now a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It will come to right-to-left wikis later. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. [19][20]
• You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can turn this off or choose to get an email notification in your preferences. You can also turn on to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. [21]

Problems

• Some pages show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that use Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this problem. You still need to fix pages that were broken before and still show the error message. You can see how on this page. [22]

Changes later this week

• You can block users from sending you notifications. [23]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Technical Committee. The topic this week is Migrate to HTML5 section ids. The meeting will be on 30 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• In the future you will have global preferences. This means you could set something in your preferences to work in the same way on all wikis. You will not be forced to use global preferences. The developers are now asking if editors need exceptions. This is where you want to use global settings on almost all wikis, but have some wikis where you want it to work in a different way. If you want this you need to tell the developers now. You can do so on the talk page. [24]
• New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [25]
• The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 in September 2017. Wikis can ask on Phabricator to get it early, so they can help find and solve problems now.

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22:10, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

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

Recent changes

• The RevisionSlider user interface has changed. You can now select revisions by clicking on the bars. You can move the blue knob past the yellow one and the yellow one will move along, and the other way around. [26][27]

Problems

• Some users have problems loading very large watchlists. It is working better than earlier but the problem has not been solved. The developers are working on fixing it. Until it has been fixed you can turn on "Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent" in your preferences and see if it helps. [28]

Changes later this week

• New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [29]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can see a presentation about and discuss the new Technical Committeeon5 September at 17:30 (UTC). There will be a presentation on YouTube and a discussion in #wikimedia-officeonFreenode. You can use the web chat. [30]

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22:14, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

• News and notes: Basselpedia; WMF Board of Trustees appointments

• Featured content: Warfighters and their tools or trees and butterflies

• Traffic report: A fortnight of conflicts

• Special report: Biomedical content, and some thoughts on its future

• Recent research: Discussion summarization; Twitter bots tracking government edits; extracting trivia from Wikipedia

• In the media: Google's Ideological Echo Chamber; What makes someone successful?

• WikiProject report: WikiProject YouTube

• Technology report: Latest tech news

• Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 4 wrap-up

• Humour: Bots

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
1,748		Elo rating system (talk)	Add sources
15		White Monastery (talk)	Add sources
8		Makam al-Nabi Sain Mosque (talk)	Add sources
3,241		Mason–Dixon line (talk)	Add sources
7		Albrecht Matrix Hybrid (talk)	Add sources
7		ARGH Power Ratings (talk)	Add sources
61		Ghost Dance War (talk)	Cleanup
11		Helena Hernmarck (talk)	Cleanup
253		Gaussian filter (talk)	Cleanup
8		Mystic Miner Ski Resort (talk)	Expand
627		Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (talk)	Expand
210		Karl Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollern (talk)	Expand
610		Qualcomm Stadium (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
327		Hou Yifan (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
2,976		Steampunk (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,120		Exponentiation (talk)	Merge
112		TrueSkill (talk)	Merge
114		Camas, Washington (talk)	Merge
27		Vera Neumann (talk)	Wikify
199		Construction of Mount Rushmore (talk)	Wikify
4		MindRDR (talk)	Wikify
2		Pedro Víctor Debrigode (talk)	Orphan
4		Fredrick Barton (talk)	Orphan
3		Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) South Dakota (talk)	Orphan
11		Stadium Village, Minneapolis (talk)	Stub
47		Andy Beshear (talk)	Stub
5		Peter Wolfe (sports rankings) (talk)	Stub
6		Jeff Sonas (talk)	Stub
9		Stadium Village (Metro Transit station) (talk)	Stub
11		West Bank (Metro Transit station) (talk)	Stub

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• You can get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis. [31]
• The Newsletter extension is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later. [32]
• The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category: tidy-whitespace-bug. This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more about using Linter and the Tidy whitespace bug. [33]

Problems

• Tech News 2017/36 reported about new filters for edit review coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead. [34]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
• OOjs UI will be updated. This could affect some icons. You can read more about the changes.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
• New filters for edit review are available now on recent changes as a beta feature. Some of those filters and other features will be deployed as default features in the coming weeks. Users will be able to opt out in their preferences. [35]

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19:16, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

• You can now see contributions from an IP rangeatSpecial:Contributions. Before you could only see contributions from single IP addresses. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them. [36][37]
• Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions and the development has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed. [38]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 September at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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

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15:32, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

• In the media: Monkey settlement; Wikipedia used to give AI context clues

• Humour: Chickenz

• Recent research: Wikipedia articles vs. concepts; Wikipedia usage in Europe

• Technology report: Flow restarted; Wikidata connection notifications

• Gallery: Chicken mania

• Special report: Two steps forward, one step backward: The Sustainability Initiative

• Traffic report: Fights and frights

• Featured content: Flying high

• Wikitext syntax highlighting is a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. You can now search through the entire article with CTRL+Forcmd+F when you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs. [39][40]
• Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions as a beta feature or by default can now create and move Structured Discussions boards. Structured Discussions was previously called Flow. [41]

Changes later this week

• You now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences. [42]
• Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser. [43]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September. (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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

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16:00, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
840		Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (talk)	Add sources
11		Saint Anthony Park, Saint Paul (talk)	Add sources
3,034		Louise Linton (talk)	Add sources
14		Kenneth Massey (talk)	Add sources
986		Comparison of top chess players throughout history (talk)	Add sources
35		Arden Hills, Minnesota (talk)	Add sources
600		Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport (talk)	Cleanup
145		Alaska State Troopers (talk)	Cleanup
418		Police vehicles in the United States and Canada (talk)	Cleanup
43		Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota (talk)	Expand
70		Minnesota's 3rd congressional district (talk)	Expand
51		Arizona State Legislature (talk)	Expand
17		County roads in Hennepin County, Minnesota (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
74		North Carolina State Highway Patrol (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
21		Montana Supreme Court (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
19		New York State Department of Labor (talk)	Merge
623		Income tax in India (talk)	Merge
41		Conservation officer (talk)	Merge
2,133		Pharaoh (talk)	Wikify
15		Minnesota State Community and Technical College (talk)	Wikify
155		Gunfire locator (talk)	Wikify
11		Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (talk)	Orphan
4		Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas (talk)	Orphan
4		Françoise Grossen (talk)	Orphan
3		Minnesota Executive Council (talk)	Stub
20		Conscription in Cyprus (talk)	Stub
3		Minnesota lieutenant gubernatorial election, 1920 (talk)	Stub
5		East Bank (Metro Transit station) (talk)	Stub
7		Minnesota Democratic Party (talk)	Stub
199		Ski-U-Mah (slogan) (talk)	Stub

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• You can now use preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it. [44]

Changes later this week

• If you have turned on "Automatically enable most beta features" you will now get the 2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature. [45]
• Special:Block and Special:Unblock will get the OOUI look. [46]
• The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October. [47]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can give feedback on this feature. [48]
• The search function has used fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can read more and give feedback.

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23:25, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

• The number of active users listed by {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}} and on Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too. [49]
• Previously you could create wiki links starting with two colons. Now you need to use one colon. [[::File:X.jpg]] now has to be [[:File:X.jpg]]. There is now a new Linter category. You can see a list on Special:Linterrors/multi-colon-escape. The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. You can read more about using Linter. [50]

Problems

• You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at 06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models. [51]

Changes later this week

• The font in the edit window is monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week. [52]
• If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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37		Martin Luther College (talk)	Add sources
8		University of Minnesota-Twin Cities College of Design (talk)	Add sources
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11		Dan Patch Corridor (talk)	Add sources
144		Chess engine (talk)	Add sources
65		Supreme Court of Puerto Rico (talk)	Cleanup
3		Fracas! Improv Festival (talk)	Cleanup
21		Iowa Workforce Development (talk)	Cleanup
12		Concordia Academy (Minnesota) (talk)	Expand
8		Eirunepé (talk)	Expand
27		Company K (talk)	Expand
13		Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
19		South Dakota Highway Patrol (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
20		American Refugee Committee (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
70		Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (talk)	Merge
2,069		Value-added tax (talk)	Merge
24		Affinity Sutton (talk)	Merge
7		Rainy River Community College (talk)	Wikify
368		Target Field (talk)	Wikify
72		Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (talk)	Wikify
3		John E. Weyss (talk)	Orphan
6		Moving to work (talk)	Orphan
4		A Plague of Frogs (talk)	Orphan
6		Minnesota Judicial Center (talk)	Stub
6		Elections in Minnesota (talk)	Stub
6		Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals (talk)	Stub
4		Robert W. Johnson (Minnesota politician) (talk)	Stub
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• When you edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's format configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in more powerful ways if your wiki wants it. [53][54]
• The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can give feedback to the developers.

Problems

• There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis. [55]
• Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this. [56]
• Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed. [57]

Changes later this week

• Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [58]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:31, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Books & Bytes
Issue 24, August-September 2017

• User Group update
• Global branches update
  • Star Coordinator Award - last quarter's star coordinator: User:Csisc
• Wikimania Birds of a Feather session roundup
• Spotlight: Wiki Loves Archives
• Bytes in brief

Arabic, Kiswahili and Yoruba versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!

Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:53, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

• Featured content: Don, Marcel, Emily, Jessica and other notables

• Humour: Guys named Ralph

• In focus: Offline Wikipedia developed at OFF.NETWORK Content Hackathon

• Blog: The future of offline access to Wikipedia: The Kiwix example

• In the media: Facebook and poetry

• Special report: Working with GLAMs in the UK

• Traffic report: Death, disaster, and entertainment

• You can use ccnorm_contains_any when you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more in the documentation. [59]

Changes later this week

• When you search in some languages the search function could use specific other languages if the first language didn't work. This is called a fallback language. This didn't work properly and created bad searches. The search index is being fixed to work better. [60]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is a Structured Commons community focus group for Commons and Wikidata contributors who want to give input on structured data on Wikimedia Commons. You can sign up to join it. [61]

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18:18, 23 October 2017 (UTC)