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See . I'm guessing your computer's system time is set to sometime in July and not August. — MusikAnimal talk 19:26, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
- @MusikAnimal: Yep, sadly it is. The laptop I was using to make that edit belongs to my school so I don't have much control over it. For some reason the clock broke after DST, and every time I boot up the computer it flips the clock back one hour. I sadly can't change the clock without the admin password, so unfortunately I'll just have to wait for my laptop to realize that it's August. I do have other computers that do have the correct time and date, but they're slower, so I don't usually use them for recent changes patrolling. --I am k6ka Talk to me! See what I have done 19:34, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
- Not a big deal! I'm pretty sure Huggle can still register the last level warning and act accordingly, it's merely the heading that's wrong :) Cheers — MusikAnimal talk 19:37, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
- Not in my experience. Huggle would look at my computer's date and time and get confused when it's earlier than the date and time of the revision I reverted, so it would refuse to warn the user no matter what. I often had to go and use Twinkle to warn the user, which resulted in erroneous date headings. --I am k6ka Talk to me! See what I have done 19:52, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
- Not a big deal! I'm pretty sure Huggle can still register the last level warning and act accordingly, it's merely the heading that's wrong :) Cheers — MusikAnimal talk 19:37, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
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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.
- MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages.
- Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore.
Problems
- There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error.
- We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now.
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
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You can add quotations marks before and after a title or phrase with a single click.
Select the relevant text. Find the correct quotations marks in the special character inserter tool (marked as Ω in the toolbar).
Click the button. VisualEditor will add the quotation marks on either side of the text you selected.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team have been working on mobile phone support. They have fixed many bugs and improved language support. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving language support and functionality on mobile devices.
Wikimania
The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations about VisualEditor and the future of editing.
Following Wikimania, we announced winners for the VisualEditor 2015 Translathon. Our thanks and congratulations to users Halan-tul, Renessaince, जनक राज भट्ट (Janak Bhatta), Vahe Gharakhanyan, Warrakkk, and Eduardogobi.
For interface messages (translated at translatewiki.net), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (+21.7%). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).
For documentation messages (on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (+20.3%). There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).
We published some graphs showing the effect of the event on the Translathon page. 
Thank you to the translators for participating and the translatewiki.net staff for facilitating this initiative.
Recent improvements
Auto-fill features for citations can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses the citoid service to convert a URL or DOI into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick, simple process at mediawiki.org. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow the instructions at mediawiki.org.
Your wiki can customize the first section of the special character inserter in VisualEditor. Please follow the instructions at mediawiki.org to put the characters you want at the top.
In other changes, if you need to fill in a CAPTCHA and get it wrong, then you can click to get a new one to complete. VisualEditor can now display and edit Vega-based graphs. If you use the Monobook skin, VisualEditor's appearance is now more consistent with other software.
Future changes
The team will be changing the appearance of selected links inside VisualEditor. The purpose is to make it easy to see whether your cursor is inside or outside the link. When you select a link, the link label (the words shown on the page) will be enclosed in a faint box. If you place your cursor inside the box, then your changes to the link label will be part of the link. If you place your cursor outside the box, then it will not. This will make it easy to know when new characters will be added to the link and when they will not.
On the English Wikipedia, 10% of newly created accounts are now offered both the visual and the wikitext editors. A recent controlled trial showed no significant difference in survival or productivity for new users in the short term. New users with access to VisualEditor were very slightly less likely to produce results that needed reverting. You can learn more about this by watching a video of the July 2015 Wikimedia Research Showcase. The proportion of new accounts with access to both editing environments will be gradually increased over time. Eventually all new users have the choice between the two editing environments.
Let's work together
- Share your ideas and ask questions at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.
- Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test if you can help.
- If your wiki would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace, you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
- Please file requests for language-appropriate "Bold" and "Italic" icons for the styling menu in Phabricator.
- The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
- The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Tuesdays at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q1 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.
If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact Elitre directly, so that she can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:01, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
Would you mind taking a look at my username request at Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple? Thanks The Editor of All Things Wikipedia 《Talk》 05:06, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
- Hello K6ka:
- A discussion is occurring at the TAFI talk page regarding the removal of entries from the project's List of articles page. Your input is welcome at the discussion.
Hello, about a month ago, I changed my username from Khaled Akil to Hallit Aqueel, it still appears on Google search, Would you please check or help me knowing why it is still appears, giving though there is an article for Khaled Akil and the user page is taking it's place in the search result. Thanks Abraham (talk) 08:36, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Hallit Aqueeal: I noticed that you initially tried to redirect that page to Khaled Akil, but then chose to blank it instead. Blanking a page does not actually remove the page, and it's possible this is why Google continues to list the page. You can try making it a redirect again, or request that it be deleted using {{db-g7}} --I am k6ka Talk to me! See what I have done 11:49, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
- @K6ka: I don't have an access to Khaled Akil anymore, because I changed my username and the previous one remained, I edited it and wrote in the blank page the code you gave me {{db-g7}} , do you think it is enough ? and can you please help to remove it ? I don't want it to appear in the Google search, it is taking the article's place. Thank you very much Abraham (talk) 13:42, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
- Hallit Aqueeal, relax. Adding {{db-g7}} flags the page for deletion and adds the page to a special category, where an administrator patrolling that category can see it, and delete it accordingly. The page has now been deleted, so we must again wait for Google's cache to clear. Sorry that you had to wait this long to get it off the search results page! --I am k6ka Talk to me! See what I have done 17:25, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page.
- The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times.
- 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.
- You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers.
- It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script.
- JavaScript authors:
- You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix.
- You can no longer use
document.writeon Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix.
- The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added.
Problems
- More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed.
- Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed.
- Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed.
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.
- You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes.
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
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Could you rake a look at my usurpation please, its been almost a day and i see youre active.Thank You. @K6ka:Wikipenguin 8 (talk) 01:30, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Wikipenguin 8: Sorry, I don't perform usurpations, since I don't have the authority to do so. See User:K6ka/Why didn't you rename me?:
Lastly, I do not perform username usurpations, although I still clerk them. The authority to usurp an account lies only with a local bureaucrat[1] or a steward.
--I am k6ka Talk to me! See what I have done 02:36, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
- Oh ok, Im just trying to make a custom signature and stuff and would like an answer sooner than later. Thanks. Wikipenguin 8 (talk) 02:39, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
- Wait Im confused, I just found you on an official list here as a renamer. It it says you, K6ka, became one just over a month ago so maybe you didnt realize it! But anyway because I guess you really are one, could you take a look at the requests building up because none of the other renamers are close to beinf active. Thanks Wikipenguin 8 (talk) 17:27, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
- Also, I am thinking of becoming a usernames clerk like you were or you think you still are in a week or so, once I get some more of a grip on what wikipedia is like. From what Ive read, theres no official process to becoming one right you can jump right in. Do you have any suggestions too. I just think that the category just needs so much more attention, especially as I am still waiting for my request. Thanks. Wikipenguin 8 (talk) 17:33, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
- Wikipenguin 8, I am indeed a global renamer (of course I know that!), but I'm not a bureaucrat or a steward, so while I can technically perform usurpations in practice I don't.
- Also, while there is no process or training to become a clerk, clerks do need to familiarize themselves with both the global rename policy and the local English Wikipedia username policy. They should also be knowledgeable enough with wikitext to know how to fix broken markup, and should also know about the global account feature and how it works. --I am k6ka Talk to me! See what I have done 23:07, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
- Ohhhh. Ok thanks for the reply, Ill be sure to read up on those. Thanks! Wikipenguin 8 (talk) 23:08, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
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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.
- 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.
Problems
- Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated.
- On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day.
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.
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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Recent changes
Problems
- There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed.
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
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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
- VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC.
- The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool.
- VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module
ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Useext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.initinstead. - Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis.
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.
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