விக்சனரி:ஆலமரத்தடி/2018 - தமிழ் விக்சனரி

Tech News: 2018-02

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 Wikidata, the "சேமி" button when you edit is now called "publish". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "பக்கத்தைச் சேமி" to "மாற்றங்களைப் பதிப்பிடுக". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [1][2]
Some edits will get an automatic tag on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways. [3]
Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [4]
Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated. [5][6]

Problems

Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem. [7]
With the new filters in the recent changes, "Exclude selected" in "பெயர்வெளிகள்" did not work for "சேமித்த வடிகட்டிகள்" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [8]
The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 instead of #Résumé even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March). [9]
Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [10]

Changes later this week

Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this you will be able to read but not edit Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis. [11]
The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems. [12][13]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).
WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: ext.wikiEditor. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed. [14]

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 9 January at 19:30 (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 10 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:19, 8 சனவரி 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-3

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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

Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [15]
There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [16]

Problems

Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [17][18]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (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 16 January at 19:30 (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 17 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [19][20]

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18:45, 15 சனவரி 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-04

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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

Filters on Special:RecentChangesLinked will get the new look similar to on the recent changes page. Special:RecentChangesLinked will also get some new features. [21][22]

Problems

With the new OOUI look menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed. [23]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

irc.wikimedia.org will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically. [24]

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23:55, 22 சனவரி 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-05

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

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation is working on how to get less unmaintained code on Wikimedia wikis. This could be by finding maintainers or removing unmaintained features. They are now looking for feedback on what do do with AbuseFilter, the IRC RecentChanges feed, the RelatedSites extension and TimedMediaHandler. You can leave feedback on the linked talk pages. [25]

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17:06, 29 சனவரி 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-06

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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

Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [26]
The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [27]
Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [28]

Problems

Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [29]

Changes later this week

When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [30]
When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [31]
The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of ஆம் or இல்லை it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [32]
Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [33]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (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 6 February at 19:30 (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 7 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Education Program extension will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the Programs and Events Dashboard. [34][35]

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20:51, 5 பெப்ரவரி 2018 (UTC)

சிங்கப்பூர் அமைச்சகத்தின் தமிழ் சொல்வளக் கையேட்டினை விக்கீப்படுத்துதல் இயலுமா??

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சமீபத்தில் சிங்கப்பூர் அரசின் தகவல் தொடர்பு அமைச்சகத்தின் மூலமாக வெளீயிடப்பட்டுள்ள ஆங்கில - தமிழ் சொல்வளக் கையேட்டினை விக்கீப்படுத்தினால் நலம் என்று தோன்றுகிறது. அப்படி செய்வது அனைவருக்கும் உசிதமானால் முன்னெடுத்துச் செல்லலாம். இது குறித்த வலைத்தள முகவரியினை இணைத்துள்ளேன்.

http://tamil.org.sg/en/~/media/tlc/files/english%20to%20tamil%20glossary%20book.pdf?la=en

அதில் எங்கும் உரிமை குறித்த விளக்கம் இல்லை. இது பொதுவுரிமையின் கீழ் பயன்படுத்த அனுமதியை எப்படி பெறுவது?--தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 02:39, 12 பெப்ரவரி 2018 (UTC)

அகரவரிசை சீராக்கம்

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விக்சனரி அகரவரிசை சீராக்கம் தொடர்பாக இங்கே விவாதிக்கப்படுகிறது. உங்கள் கருத்துக்களையும் ஆதரவையும் இங்கே தெரிவிக்கவும் w:விக்கிப்பீடியா:ஆலமரத்தடி_(கொள்கை)#தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா/விக்சனரி அகரவரிசை சீராக்கம் -Neechalkaran (பேச்சு) 07:25, 11 பெப்ரவரி 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-07

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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

TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [36][37][38]
Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week

You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [39]
The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [40]
The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [41]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (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 13 February 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 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved. [42]

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21:59, 12 பெப்ரவரி 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-08

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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 explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [43][44]
You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [45]

Problems

Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [46]
Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [47][48]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (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 20 February at 19:30 (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 21 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible. [49]
Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.

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22:54, 19 பெப்ரவரி 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-09

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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

Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [50]

Problems

Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [51][52]
Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [53]
Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [54][55][56]

Changes later this week

Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [57]
The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [58][59]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (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 27 February at 19:30 (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 28 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:52, 26 பெப்ரவரி 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-10

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

Recent changes

You can now make longer edit summaries. [60]

Changes later this week

You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. [61]
On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [62][63]
Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [64]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (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 6 March at 19:30 (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 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

In the future you will be able to use global preferences. This means you could change a preference for all wikis instead of having to change it every time for each wiki. You can now test global preferences and give feedback.
You can now read about planned works on maps during 2018. This will be done by June. You can give feedback on the planned maps work.

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17:11, 5 மார்ச் 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-11

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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

3D models can now be uploaded to Commons. [65]
Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [66]
Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [67]
Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [68]

Problems

The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [69]

Changes later this week

You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [70]
It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [71][72]
A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [73][74][75]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (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 13 March at 19:30 (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 14 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:43, 12 மார்ச் 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-12

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

Problems

On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [76]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 மார்ச்சு. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 மார்ச்சு. It will be on all wikis from 22 மார்ச்சு (calendar).

Meetings

There is no Editing team meeting this week.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 மார்ச்சு at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [77][78]
In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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15:03, 19 மார்ச் 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-13

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

Changes later this week

Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [79] [80]
The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [81]
TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [82]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (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 27 March 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 one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [83]
Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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20:04, 26 மார்ச் 2018 (UTC)

இணைக்கப்பட வேண்டியன

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இந்த பக்கத்தில் இருந்து பல தமிழ் சொற்களை இணைக்கவேண்டியுள்ளது.--தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 10:57, 2 ஏப்ரல் 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-14

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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

Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

Problems

MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [84][85][86]
The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [87]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns. [88]
Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [89][90][91]
AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [92] [93]
In Special:Preferences, the preference "வைடிகட்டுவான் மாற்றப்பட்டதும் கவனிப்புபட்டியலை தானியக்கமாக மறுநினைவேற்று (ஜாவாகிறிட்டு தேவை)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [94]
You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [95]
You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [96]

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 April 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 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [97][98]

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19:28, 2 ஏப்ரல் 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-15

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

Recent changes

Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it. [99]
You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year. [100]
The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details. [101]
Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left). [102]

Problems

The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [103]
For a week in March rollbacks got both the rollback and the undo tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed. [104]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits. [105]

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 April 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 11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The iOS and Android apps will get synced reading lists later in April.

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18:08, 9 ஏப்ரல் 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-16

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

Changes later this week

Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [106]
Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [107][108]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (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 April 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 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The new PDF renderer could not create PDFs from books. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki. PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function. [109]
Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3. [110]
Volunteer developers can fill out the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey. The last day is April 22 (UTC). This is a third-party service survey. See the privacy statement.

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15:20, 16 ஏப்ரல் 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-17

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

Recent changes

All Wikipedias now have Page Previews.
The iOS and Android apps now have synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
The icons in the 2010 wikitext editor have changed. [111]
The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press Publish. This button now also shows an ellipsis. This is to show that pressing Publish is not the last step. [112]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 April. It will be on all wikis from 26 April (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 April 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 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

<mapframe> will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of flagged revisions will not get this feature in May. [113]
The rollback function could change. This was a German community request. All editors with rollback rights can leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).

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18:16, 23 ஏப்ரல் 2018 (UTC)

Tell us what you think about the automatic links for Wiktionary

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Hello all,

(Sorry for writing in English. Feel free to translate this message below.)

One year ago, the Wikidata team started deploying new automatic interwiki links for Wiktionaries. Today, the links for the main namespace are automatically displayed by a Mediawiki extension, and the links for other namespaces are stored in Wikidata. You can find the documentation here (feel free to help translating it in your language).

We would like to know if you encountered problems with the system, if you would have suggestions for further improvements. This could be for example:

Some automatic links don’t work as expected
Some problems you encountered with entering links (for non-main namespace) in Wikidata
Some new features you’d like to have, related to links

To give feedback, you have two options:

Let a message on this talk page
Let a message here. If you do so, please mention me with the {{ping}} template, so I can get a notification.

Our preferred languages are English, French and German, but you can also let a message in your own language if you feel more comfortable with it.

I’m looking forward for your feedback! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:24, 24 ஏப்ரல் 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-18

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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 parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links. [114]

Problems

We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator. [115]

Changes later this week

You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right. [116]
When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date. [117]
You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the தொகுத்தல் section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly. [118]
There is a new abuse filter function called equals_to_any. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (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 1 May 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 2 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jhareவார்ப்புரு:@wikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [119][120][121]

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16:18, 30 ஏப்ரல் 2018 (UTC)

AdvancedSearch

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From May 8, AdvancedSearch will be available as a beta feature in your wiki. The feature enhances the search page through an advanced parameters form and aims to make existing search options more visible and accessible for everyone. AdvancedSearch is a project by WMDE Technical Wishes. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:53, 7 மே 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

Tech News: 2018-19

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

Recent changes

The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones. [122]

Problems

The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed. [123]

Changes later this week

The advanced search function beta feature will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. [124]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (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 8 May 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 9 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [125][126]

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16:27, 7 மே 2018 (UTC)

நிருவாகி தேர்தல்

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வணக்கம். நீண்ட நாட்களுக்குப் பிறகு நிருவாகி தேர்தல் நடைபெறுகிறது. வாக்களிக்க வேண்டுகிறேன். நன்றி. --இரவி (பேச்சு) 13:18, 14 மே 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

Tech News: 2018-20

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

Recent changes

Dynamic maps are now available on most Wikipedias. Labels on maps can also be in different languages.
The new Advanced Search interface is now available as a Beta Feature on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated. [127]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 May. It will be on all wikis from 17 May (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 16 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can give feedback and suggestions.
The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it. Read more on mediawiki.org [128]

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22:22, 14 மே 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-21

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 May. It will be on all wikis from 24 May (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 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

It could become easier to reference different pages of a book in an article. You can give feedback. The last day for feedback is 27 May.

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17:33, 21 மே 2018 (UTC)

Lexicographical data is now available on Wikidata

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Hello,

Sorry for writing in English. Feel free to translate the content of this message below.

After several years discussing about it, and one year of development and discussion with the communities, the development team of Wikimedia Germany has now released the first version of lexicographical data support on Wikidata.

Since the start of Wikidata in 2012, the multilingual knowledge base was mainly focused on concepts: Q-items are related to a thing or an idea, not to the word describing it. Starting now, Wikidata stores a new type of data: words, phrases and sentences, in many languages, described in many languages. This information will be stored in new types of entities, called Lexemes, Forms and Senses.

The goal of lexicographical data on Wikidata is to provide a structured and machine-readable way to describe words and phrases in multiple languages, stored in a same place, reusable under CC-0. In the near future, this data will be available for Wiktionaries and other projects to reuse, as much as you want to.

For now, we’re at the first steps of this project: the new data structure has been released on Wikidata, and we’re looking for people to try it, and give us feedback on what is working or not. Participating to this project is the opportunity for you to have a voice in it, to make sure that your needs and requests are taken in account very early in the process, and to start populating Wikidata with words in your language!

Here’s how you can try lexicographical data on Wikidata:

First of all, if you’re not familiar with the data model, I encourage you to have a look at the documentation page. If you’re not familiar with Wikidata at all, I suggest this page as a start point.
You can also look at the Lexemes that already exists (search features will be improved in the future).
When you feel ready to create a word, go on d:Special:NewLexeme.
If some properties that you need are missing, you can suggest them on this page (if you’re not sure how to do it, just let a message on the talk page and someone will help you).
The main discussion page is d:Wikidata:Lexicographical data. Here, you can ask for help, suggest ways to organize the data, but also leave feedback: if you encounter any bug or issue, let us know. We’re looking especially to know what are the most important features for you to be worked on next.

In any case, feel free to contact me if you have a question or problem, I’ll be very happy to help.

Cheers, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 12:20, 23 மே 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

Tech News: 2018-22

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

Recent changes

You can now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki. Global preferences will come to the Wikipedias later this week. [129][130]
It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked. [131]
Wikidata now supports lexicographical data. This helps describe words.
There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups. [132]
Some rare invisible Unicode characters have recently been banned from page titles. This includes soft hyphens (U+00AD) and left-to-right (U+2066) and right-to-left (U+2067) isolate markers. Existing pages with these characters will soon be moved by a script. [133]
There's a new Wikimedia Foundation team to support the Wikimedia technical communities. It's called the Technical Engagement team. Most of the team members did similar work in other teams before this. [134]

Problems

Some translatable pages are showing old translations instead of latest ones. The cause of this issue has been fixed. We will update all pages automatically to show the latest translations. [135]

Changes later this week

There will be a new special page named PasswordPolicies. This page gives information about the password rules for each user group on that wiki. [136]
A new way to see moved paragraphs in diffs is coming to most wikis. This is to make it easier to find the moved paragraphs and the changes in them. [137]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 May. It will be on all wikis from 31 May (calendar).
Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. This is complex. The tool will now disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. It has warned about this in the JavaScript console since February. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [138]

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 May 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 30 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Content Translation drafts which have not been updated in over a year will be removed. This allows other users to translate those articles. [139]
A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development. [140]
Some wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 30 May and 13 June. Wikis with fewer than 100 linter issues in the main namespace in all high-priority linter categories will switch. This includes Wikidata. Tidy will probably be removed on all wikis in the first week of July. [141][142]

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12:40, 29 மே 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-23

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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 MonoBook skin has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different. [143]
Planet Wikimedia collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the Rawdog feed aggregator to do this instead of Planet. [144][145]
Redirect links in Special:WhatLinksHere now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again. [146]

Problems

You will not be able to edit some wikis between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. You can see if your wiki is one of them.
MassMessage did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late. [147]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 June. It will be on all wikis from 7 June (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 June 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 6 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This is planned to happen in June or early July. [148][149]

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21:54, 4 சூன் 2018 (UTC)

சிறப்பு:Import

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சிறப்பு:Import என்ற பக்கம் இன்னும் வரையறுக்கப்படவில்லை. இதனை செயல் படுத்தினால் பல வார்ப்புருக்கள் ம்மற்றும் கருவிகளை நாம் எளிதல் வேறு விக்கிகளில் இருந்து தரவிறக்கம் செய்து கொள்ளலாம். அதற்காக phabricatorஇல் வழு பதிக்க என்னுகிறேன். ஏதேனும் ஆட்சேம் இல்லை கருந்து இருந்தால் தெரிவிக்கவும். நன்றி -- பாலாஜி ^{(பேசலாம் வாங்க!)} 09:44, 5 சூன் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

Tech News: 2018-24

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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

In the Wikipedia app for Android or iOS users can create reading lists. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome. [150]
There is a new version of Pywikibot. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis. [151]

Problems

The MonoBook skin was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design. [152]

Changes later this week

The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. For most wikis this will happen on 18 June. For the rest it will happen on 25 June. [153][154]

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

Meetings

You can join the Readers Web team IRC office hour. There you can discuss tools to contribute on the mobile web for the existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on 18 June at 16:00 (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 June 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 13 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You will be able to move local wiki files to Commons and keep their original data intact. This is planned to come to the first wikis in June.

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21:55, 11 சூன் 2018 (UTC)

Update on page issues on mobile web

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Update on page issues on mobile web

Please help translate to your language Hi everyone. The Readers web team has recently begun working on exposing issue templates on the mobile website. Currently, details about issues with page content are generally hidden on the mobile website. This leaves readers unaware of the reliability of the pages they are reading. The goal of this project is to improve awareness of particular issues within an article on the mobile web. We will do this by changing the visual styling of page issues.

So far, we have drafted a proposal on the design and implementation of the project. We were also able to run user testing on the proposed designs. The tests so far have positive results. Here is a quick summary of what we learned:

The new treatment increases awareness of page issues among participants. This is true particularly when they are in a more evaluative/critical mode.
Page issues make sense to readers and they understand how they work
Readers care about page issues and consider them important
Readers had overwhelmingly positive sentiments towards Wikipedia associated with learning about page issues

Our next step would be to start implementing these changes. We wanted to reach out to you for any concerns, thoughts, and suggestions you might have before beginning development. Please visit the project page where we have more information and mockups of how this may look. Please leave feedback on the talk page.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:58, 12 சூன் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

Tech News: 2018-25

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

Recent changes

Syntax highlighting has been a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It is now a normal feature. It is based on CodeMirror. [155]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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 June 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 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3. [156][157]
The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [158][159]
All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the Remex parsing library on 5 July. This is to replace Tidy. You can help fix remaining errors. [160]

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21:47, 18 சூன் 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-26

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

Recent changes

PAWS, our JupyterHub system, got an upgrade and a logo. Several bugs should be fixed.

Problems

When a link text was in italics or had other formatting you could sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [161][162]

Changes later this week

Content translation users who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create better tools for translating articles. [163]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 June. It will be on all wikis from 28 June (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 26 June 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 27 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23:10, 25 சூன் 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-27

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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 database for tags will be changed. This will happen on 2 July on French Wikipedia and 9 July on all other wikis. Please report if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge. [164]

Problems

Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem. [165]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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 July 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 4 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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00:46, 3 சூலை 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-28

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

Recent changes

WebM video files have smaller file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take longer time. [166]
The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July. [167]
All wikis now use the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy. This could cause errors. You can help fix the errors. [168]

Problems

When you rolled back an edit it could get both the Rollback and Undo tags. This has been fixed. [169]
Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed. [170]

Changes later this week

When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label). [171][172]
On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page. [173]
When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures. [174]
Structured discussions toolbars will have more style options. [175]
When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening. [176]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (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 July 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 11 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Today all administrators can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can read more. [177]
Page previews will be on by default for new accounts. [178]

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23:09, 9 சூலை 2018 (UTC)

Global preferences are available

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Global preferences are now available, you can set them by visiting your new global preferences page. Visit mediawiki.org for information on how to use them and leave feedback. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

19:20, 10 சூலை 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-29

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

Recent changes

You can now use global preferences on Wikimedia wikis. You can set them on the global preferences page. [179]
You can now see a new log of pages being created at Special:Log/create. It includes pages which are later deleted. It is now available on all Wikimedia wikis except Commons and Wikidata. [180]
You can see how many pageviews a wiki had from specific countries. The Wikistats2 maps have now been updated. [181]

Changes later this week

Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change. [182]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (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 July 17 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 July 18 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Some articles have messages to readers about problems with the article. For example that it does not cite sources or might not be neutral. Readers do not see these messages on the mobile version. The developers now want to show them. You can read more and leave feedback.
You can use <inputbox> to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead of prefix:Page name you will see a text that explains which pages are being searched. You can read more and leave feedback.

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16:00, 16 சூலை 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-30

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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

When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [183]
Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [184]
Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [185]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 சூலை. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 சூலை. It will be on all wikis from 26 சூலை (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 25 சூலை at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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09:44, 24 சூலை 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-31

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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 design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [186]

Problems

Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [187][188]
Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [189][190]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 சூலை. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 ஆகத்து. It will be on all wikis from 2 ஆகத்து (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 31 சூலை 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 1 ஆகத்து at 15:00 (UTC) as well as at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

After a community discussion, a new group for users will be created. "Interface administrators" will be the only users allowed to edit interface pages like MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Common.js. This is done to avoid technical issues and improve security. That change will be effective by the end of August 2018.

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14:05, 30 சூலை 2018 (UTC)

New user group for editing sitewide CSS / JS

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Hi all!

To improve the security of our readers and editors, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed. (These are pages like MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Vector.js which contain code that is executed in the browsers of users of the site.) A new user group, interface-admin, has been created. Starting four weeks from now, only members of this group will be able edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage).

You can learn more about the motivation behind the change here.

Please add users who need to edit CSS/JS to the new group (this can be done the same way new administrators are added, by stewards or local bureaucrats). This is a dangerous permission; a malicious user or a hacker taking over the account of a careless interface-admin can abuse it in far worse ways than admin permissions could be abused. Please only assign it to users who need it, who are trusted by the community, and who follow common basic password and computer security practices (use strong passwords, do not reuse passwords, use two-factor authentication if possible, do not install software of questionable origin on your machine, use antivirus software if that's a standard thing in your environment).

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 17:45, 30 சூலை 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)[பதிலளி]

Tech News: 2018-32

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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

Special:NewPages now has the OOUI look. [191]

Problems

The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [192][193]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.

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 7 August 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 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:39, 6 ஆகத்து 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-33

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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

CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [194]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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 14 August 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 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [195]

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17:52, 13 ஆகத்து 2018 (UTC)

Wiktionary Cognate Dashboard

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Sorry for writing this message in English. Feel free to help translate it below.

Hello all,

A few months ago, we asked you for feedback about Cognate, the system allowing interwikilinks between Wiktionaries (on main namespace). Several community members gave some suggestions, one of them was to provide statistics about these interwikilinks.

The Wikidata team is pleased to present you the Wiktionary Cognate Dashboard, a website presenting a lot of interesting information about how Wiktionaries are connected to each others. You can find there, for example:

the most interlinked Wiktionary entries not having a page on your Wiktionary
the number of interlinks between each possible pair of Wiktionaries
visualizations of the relationships between different Wiktionaries

To learn more about the tool, you can have a look at the documentation (please help us translating it in your language!). The interface of the tool itself can also be translated in other languages by using this page.

If you find a bug, please let a comment on this Phabricator task or ping me onwiki. Thanks a lot, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:08, 14 ஆகத்து 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

Tech News: 2018-34

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 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 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
Legacy JavaScript global variables have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia or mediawiki.org. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide to fix old scripts. [196]

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16:46, 20 ஆகத்து 2018 (UTC)

Editing of sitewide CSS/JS is only possible for interface administrators from now

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Hi all,

as announced previously, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed: only members of the interface-admin (இடைமுக நிர்வாகிகள்) group, and a few highly privileged global groups such as stewards, can edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage). This is done to improve the security of readers and editors of Wikimedia projects. More information is available at Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS. If you encounter any unexpected problems, please contact me or file a bug.

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 12:40, 27 ஆகத்து 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)[பதிலளி]

Tech News: 2018-35

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

Recent changes

You can now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [197]
Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [198]

Problems

Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [199]

Changes later this week

The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [200]
AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [201]
Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title. [202]
Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [203]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 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 28 August 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 29 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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16:15, 27 ஆகத்து 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-36

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

Recent changes

There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [204][205]
There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [206][207]
You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [208]
wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [209]
When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [210]

Problems

UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [211]
You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [212]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 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 5 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation.
The RelatedSites extension will be removed from Wikivoyage.
Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server will be removed. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used. [213]

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16:47, 3 செப்டம்பர் 2018 (UTC)

Read-only mode for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October

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The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data centre. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on Wednesday, 12 September 2018. On Wednesday, 10 October 2018, they will switch back to the primary data center.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop when we switch. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday, 12 September and Wednesday, 10 October. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 13 September and Thursday 11 October).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the weeks of 10 September 2018 and 8 October 2018. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /User:Johan(WMF) (talk)

13:33, 6 செப்டம்பர் 2018 (UTC)

இடைமுகத்தொகுப்பு அனுமம்

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விக்சனரி இடைமுகத் தொகுப்பு செய்வதற்கு தற்பொழுது தனியாக அனுமம் தேவைப்படுகிறது. நமது தமிழ்விக்சனரியில் இன்னும் யாருக்கும் இந்த அனுமம் இல்லை. மேலும் ஒவ்வொரு ஆறுமாதத்திற்கு அனுமம் புதுப்பிப்பதும் சிரமமான வேலை. அதனால் அதற்கு நிரந்தர அனுமம் எனக்கு கிடைத்தால் சிறப்பு என்று தோன்றுகிறது. தங்கள் ஆதரவு எதிர்ப்புகளை தெரிவிக்கலாம். நன்றி -- பாலாஜி ^{(பேசலாம் வாங்க!)} 15:47, 8 செப்டம்பர் 2018 (UTC)

விருப்பம்சிறப்பு அணுக்கம் நிரந்தரமாக்க விரும்புகிறேன்.--தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 06:59, 9 செப்டம்பர் 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-37

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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

When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [214]

Problems

Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [215]
Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [216]
<maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [217]
{{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [218]
When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [219]

Changes later this week

Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

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 11 Septmber 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 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The developers work on making the wikis work better on mobile phones. There is a list of common problems when making content easier to read in the mobile view. You can add things to the page and ask others to help.

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22:35, 10 செப்டம்பர் 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-38

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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 Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [220]
MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [221]

Problems

You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [222]

Changes later this week

Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [223]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 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 19 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The developers are testing new mobile web navigation. You can use it and give feedback.

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21:58, 17 செப்டம்பர் 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-39

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

Changes later this week

The preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [224]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 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 26 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:23, 24 செப்டம்பர் 2018 (UTC)

இடைமுகத்தொகுப்பு அனுமம்

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இது பரணின் நகல்

விருப்பம்சிறப்பு அணுக்கம் நிரந்தரமாக்க விரும்புகிறேன்.--தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 06:59, 9 செப்டம்பர் 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-40

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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

Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [225][226]

Problems

New and updated translations from will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [227][228]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 October (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 3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.

Future changes

Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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17:34, 1 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)

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வாக்கெடுப்பு: தமிழ் சொல்லுக்கு, மொழிபெயர்ப்புகளை இணைக்கும் கருவி

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வாக்கெடுப்பு என்பதை விட கருத்துக் கணிப்பு என்ற சொல்லை பயன்படுத்த மாற்றங்களை ஏற்படுத்தியுள்ளேன். ஏனெனில், வாக்கு என்றால் வெற்றி, தோல்வியை இலக்காகக் கொண்டது. --தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 03:27, 6 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

கருத்துக் கணிப்பு

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புதிய கருவியின் செயற்பாடு

ஒரு பக்கத்தினைத் திறந்து, அங்கு உரிய இடத்தில் , உரிய வடிவத்தில் தமிழ் அல்லாத மற்றொரு மொழியினை இணைப்பது என்பது நன்கு கவனித்து செய்ய வேண்டும். இதில் பல கூறுகள் உள்ளன. அவற்றை எல்லாம் எளிமையாகச் செய்ய ஒரு கருவி, ஆங்கில விக்சனரியில் உள்ளது. அதனை தமிழ் விக்சனரியில் இணைக்க, பல ஆண்டுகளாக முயற்சித்து வருகிறேன். தற்போது அதற்கான சூழ்நிலை அமைந்துள்ளது. அதற்கு நமது பங்களிப்பாளர்களின் ஒப்புதல் இருப்பின், அதனை பிற மொழியில் செயற்படும் விக்கிநுட்ப பங்களிப்பாளர்களின் உதவி பெறுதல் எளிது. எனவே வாக்கெடுப்பில் பங்கு கொள்ளவும்.--தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 05:58, 3 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

தகவலுழவன், I have installed the tool, Can someone Check it's Working? 1684199 It is working for me. But There is some Module Import Problems, Which should be done by local users.--Jayprakash12345 (பேச்சு) 18:49, 5 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

Now I have created most of the Module, And Template:t and Template:t+ has converted into Lua. Please someone create all lang translit (langcode-translit) like Module:te-translit from enwikt Thanks :)--Jayprakash12345 (பேச்சு) 19:54, 5 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

I am rising the following issues not ony for ta.wikt and also for other Indic wiktionaries. Kindly have a look at விக்சனரி:தமிழ்த் தூதரகம் (Wiktionary:Tamil Embassy)

Issue-1

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You can find testcases here. Eventhough i created Module:km-translit , why the respective issue coming? And also not able to insert English language.--தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 03:18, 6 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

Question-Eventhough I created Module:km-translit why is the respective issue coming?
Ans- Because some Module needs other modules to take data from it. You created Module:km-translit, But it needs Module:km. So you will have to create Module:km, The Simple Solution of this is that Make Module upon error. like if you find "Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:km' not found." error then make Module:km. Or you can create one large test case for all language, So I will import module.
Question- Also not able to insert the English language?
Ans- I have added English language support.--Jayprakash12345 (பேச்சு) 04:26, 6 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

தீர்வு --தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 06:41, 6 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

Issue-2

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A feature of trans-box

Select targeted languages is found just inside the translation-box in en.wikt. e.g., en:yellow-eyed penguin. Is it not appearing here. Why?--தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 06:40, 6 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

Can't get it, the word is confusing. Can you upload the diff screenshoot. This may be helpful for me. :)--Jayprakash12345 (பேச்சு) 08:04, 6 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

Excuse me. Kindly see "A feature of trans-box" video.--தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 12:28, 6 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

தகவலுழவன், Select targeted languages is not a part of Translations-Adder tool. It is another gadget. I have installed that gadget. Please enable from your preferences. Thanks :)--Jayprakash12345 (பேச்சு) 14:06, 6 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

Jayprakash12345 I "Enabled targeted translations" through my preferences but the feature is not coming. i think you have to verify the coding of the table--தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 05:56, 7 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

தகவலுழவன், Did you tried it on Main Namespace? This feature is not working other than main namespace. See API, for testing.--Jayprakash12345 (பேச்சு) 06:09, 7 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

தீர்வு Yes. tested in a mainspace தாய்--தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 06:22, 7 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

Issue-3

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Where I can translate all the output language names. e.g., You can find "Hindi: तमिल भाषा" here. I want to change as"இந்தி: तमिल भाषा" --தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 06:40, 6 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

தகவலுழவன்

தீர்வு , You can translate it at Module:languages/data2 like 1684217. This can break the other Module. But I did see its other usages. So relax, Just translate it.--Jayprakash12345 (பேச்சு) 08:04, 6 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

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Url in Social Sharing Gadget

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During the maintenance of Gadget, I find that URL rendering of social sharing is using encodeURIComponent, Which should be unnecessary.

Current Message in Twiter sharing

தமிழ் விக்சனரியில் படித்தேன்,பிடித்தது: முதற் பக்கம் https://ta.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B1%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D #tawp

Should be

தமிழ் விக்சனரியில் படித்தேன்,பிடித்தது: முதற் பக்கம் 
https://ta.wiktionary.org/wiki/முதற்_பக்கம் #tawp

I will remove encoding if there is no concorn. Thanks :)--Jayprakash12345 (பேச்சு) 06:28, 6 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

If that is the right procedure please go ahead. Thanks in advance. -- பாலாஜி ^{(பேசலாம் வாங்க!)} 06:36, 6 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

ஆதரவு--தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 06:48, 6 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

தீர்வு , Now gadget has updated to use ShortUrl.

@Jayprakash12345: while trying to use the twitter url sharing in home page i am getting the following message

தமிழ் விக்சனரியில் படித்தேன்,பிடித்தது: முதற் பக்கம் (error) #tawp

why error instead of url of home page? Kindly look into this in your free time. Thanks -- பாலாஜி ^{(பேசலாம் வாங்க!)} 09:22, 7 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

i think instead of #tawp, #tawikt. "wp" means wikipedia. Is it so?--தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 10:30, 7 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

பாலாஜி, Because Now Gadget use ShortUrl as a url. But the problem is ShortUrl does not make url for Main Page. So it throw the error. I have add exception for main page. Now It is working. தகவலுழவன் Replace tawp to tawikt. Thanks :)--Jayprakash12345 (பேச்சு) 12:10, 7 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

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Tech News: 2018-41

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

Recent changes

The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. You can use the Programs and Events Dashboard or the Fountain instead. [229]

Problems

There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [230]

Changes later this week

Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23:38, 8 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)

redirecting capital letters in a word to small character words

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Tamil wiktionary still cannot redirect to existing words if the word contains Capital letter in the word. Eg Guard shows page not exists where as guard is already available.

log in, please. Only few contributors are in Tamil Wikimedia.. Lot's of work to be done. For this purpose, the automation available in en.wiktionary. Come and participate. Kindly don't 'value', come to increase 'the values'.--தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 01:38, 10 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Capitalization --தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 16:40, 17 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

Tech News: 2018-42

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

Problems

Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [231]
Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [232]

Changes later this week

When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [233]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).

Meetings

There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [234]
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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22:40, 15 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)

அனைத்து விக்சனரித் தரவுகளையும் பதிவிறக்கலாம்

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இங்கு பலவகையான விக்சனரி தரவுகளை முழுமையாகப் பதிவிறக்கிக் கொள்ளலாம். விக்சனரி குறித்த ஒட்டுமொத்த ஆய்வுக்கு, கூகுள் போன்ற வணிக தளங்கள் இதனை தனது சேவைகளில் பயன்படுத்திக் கொள்கின்றன.--தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 02:41, 17 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

Tech News: 2018-43

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 October. It will be on all wikis from 25 October (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 24 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.

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23:11, 22 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-44

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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 post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [235]

Problems

Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [236]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [237][238]

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:08, 29 அக்டோபர் 2018 (UTC)

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ஆங்கில விக்சனரியின் நுட்பங்கள், தமிழ் விக்சனரிக்குத் தேவை

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ஆங்கில விக்சனரியின் பல நுட்பங்கள், தமிழ் விக்சனரியில் இல்லை. காண்க: wikt:en:penguin. அவற்றை சமூக ஒப்புதலுடன் தான் கொண்டு வர இயலும். அப்பொழுதே பிற மொழியில் செயற்படும் விக்கியகத்தொழினுட்பர் செய்வர். எனவே, ஒப்பமிடுக.

கிடைக்கும் நன்மைகள்

தமிழ் விக்சனரியின் வடிவமும் அதே போல இருந்தால், பல சொல்லின் மொழிபெயர்ப்புகளை இங்கு எளிமையாகக் கொணரலாம்.
ஒவ்வொரு மொழிக்கும் அவ்குள்ளது போலவே, கொடி வரும்.
ஒவ்வொரு பொருளின் மீது, சுட்டியினை(hover) நகர்த்தினால், அதனை மட்டும் தொகுக்கும் வசதி பெறலாம்.
மேற்கோள்களை வேண்டும் போது, பார்க்கலாம். மூடி வைக்கலாம்.
மொழிபெயர்ப்புகள் பெட்டிற்கு தலைப்பிடும் நுட்பமும் அமைக்கப்பெறும்.

ஒப்பம்

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எதிர் ஒப்பம்

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எண்ணங்கள்

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The Request for user rights has made at meta:Steward_requests/Permissions#Jayprakash12345@tawiktionary--Jayprakash12345 (பேச்சு) 22:39, 3 நவம்பர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

The translations

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தகவலுழவன் Ji, Can you gives me following translation?

Visibility~கட்புலன்

quotations~மேற்கோள்கள்

Show~காட்டு

Hide~மறை

Add definition~வரையறையைச் சேர்

Type in your definition, drag it to where it should be placed, and click there to place it.!~உங்கள் வரையறைக்குள் தட்டச்சுக, பின் அதனை சுட்டியில் அழுத்தி இழுத்து வந்து, அதனைப் பொருத்த வேண்டிய இடத்தில் சொடுக்குக.!

Definition:~வரையறை:

Add part of speech~வாக்கிய உறுப்புகளைச் சேர்

Add example sentence~எடுத்துக்காட்டு வாக்கியத்தைச் சேர் 

Add quotation~மேற்கோளை சேர்

More~மேலும்

Edit gloss~மினுக்கத்தைத் தொகு

Add gloss~மினுக்கத்தை சேர்

Please add a gloss before adding synonyms.~மினுக்கத்தை, ஒத்தசொற்களை இணைக்கும் முன் சேர்

Add synonyms~ஒத்தசொற்களைச் சேர்

Please add a gloss before adding antonyms.~மினுக்கத்தை, எதிர்ச்சொற்களை இணைக்கும் முன் சேர்

Add antonyms~எதிர்ச்சொற்களைச் சேர்

Give feedback on this tool~ இக்கருவிக்காகப் பின்னூட்டத்தைத் தருக.

Disable this tool~இக்கருவியை முடக்கு

Example sentence~எடுத்துக்காட்டு வாக்கியம்

Preview~முன்தோற்றம்

Translation~மொழிபெயர்ப்பு

Transliteration~ஒலிபெயர்ப்பு

Preview Changes~மாற்றங்களின் முன்தோற்றம்

Discard Changes~மாற்றங்களை நீக்கு

Please specify a definition.~வரையறையைக் குறிப்பிடுக.

Disable definition editing options.~வரையறைத் தொகுத்தெரிவுகளை முடக்கு

Enable definition editing options.~வரையறைத் தொகுத்தெரிவுகளை இயக்கு

Add country flags next to language headers.~நாட்டின் கொடியை, மொழியின் தலைப்பில் இணை.

And for Flag Gadget. see பயனர்:Jayprakash12345/TranslationNeededForFlag.

see its talk page--தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 08:14, 7 நவம்பர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

தீர்வு --Jayprakash12345 (பேச்சு) 19:55, 7 நவம்பர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

notes

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Gadget-WiktCountryFlags and Gadget-DefSideBoxes have been installed.
- Please enable them from your preference. And quotations hide is now working. I added quotations hide code in MediaWiki:common.js So it will be enabled by default for every user. Thanks :)--Jayprakash12345 (பேச்சு) 22:18, 6 நவம்பர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]
  - Great work. thank you--தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 08:14, 7 நவம்பர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

others

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@Jayprakash12345: ! I forget the followings:-

The following features will be more helpful while doing hours of edit work with out eye strain.

If we hide the side bar, we can get larger work area and also we can icrease font size. See the feature. This feature is partially working, i.e., we can't get back to normal view. Kindly clear the bug and add this feature as a gadget.
In en.wikipedia under appearance of gadgets, "Use a black background with green text" feature available kindly import that here.--தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 07:38, 7 நவம்பர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]
- தகவலுழவன் Ji, w:பயனர்:Surya Prakash.S.A./Hideside.js is using addOnloadHook() method, Which got deprecated Migration_guide_(users)#Ready,_onload,_hook. and no longer to work. So I installed the Gadget from Centrally. It will work when the user will be in editing mode. And the Second gadget is also installed. Let me know if there is any problem and Feel free to this discussion.--Jayprakash12345 (பேச்சு) 15:42, 7 நவம்பர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]
  - WOW! thank you very much, brother! The logo inthe side bar shows wikipedia instead of this SVG--தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 16:09, 7 நவம்பர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]
    - done
To put colon,(much useful in talk page) will you kindly make a button in the edit bar--தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 16:13, 7 நவம்பர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

I think I have to create a new button. So Please request this on meta. I will look it later :)--Jayprakash12345 (பேச்சு) 18:32, 7 நவம்பர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

At the meta page, I requested. Is it enough?--தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 04:24, 8 நவம்பர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

தகவலுழவன் Ji, Script is ready to install, So It should be as the gadget or common for all users? In gadget, User has to install the button by enabling it And In common, It will available for all user. :)--Jayprakash12345 (பேச்சு) 11:48, 11 நவம்பர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

//common for all users// is good for all. kindly implement it --தகவலுழவன் (பேச்சு) 13:08, 13 நவம்பர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

தீர்வு --Jayprakash12345 (பேச்சு) 16:08, 13 நவம்பர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

The above discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

Tech News: 2018-45

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

Recent changes

You can now use TemplateWizard to edit templates. This works only with the 2010 wikitext editor and not in the visual editor or the 2017 wikitext editor. If you click on you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences. [239]

Changes later this week

You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [240]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (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 7 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:29, 5 நவம்பர் 2018 (UTC)

விக்சனரி செயலி

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வணக்கம்,

ஆன்டிராடில் விக்சனரிக்கு என்று விக்கி அறக்கட்டளை மூலம் ஓரு செயலி இருந்தது. மிகவும் பிரபலமான இந்த செயலியை சில காரணங்களை சொல்லி நீக்கிவிட்டார்கள். இப்பொழுது விக்சனரி தரவை பயன்படுத்தி பல தனியார் நிறுவனங்கள் விளம்பரங்களோடு உள்ளன. அவை பயனர்களுக்கு ஒரு நிறைவான அனுபவத்தை தருவதில்லை. அதனால் மீண்டும் விக்சனரி செயலி வேண்டும் என கோரிக்கை வைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. அந்த கோரிக்கையில் தங்கள் கருத்துக்கள் இருந்தால் சிறப்பாக இருக்கும். கருத்துக்களை இங்கு பதிவு செய்யவும்.

இன்றுதான் கடைசி தினம் என்று நினைக்கிறேன். நன்றி -- பாலாஜி ^{(பேசலாம் வாங்க!)} 03:50, 11 நவம்பர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

Tech News: 2018-46

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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

Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [241]

Problems

You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [242][243][244]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (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 14 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [245]

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19:21, 12 நவம்பர் 2018 (UTC)

Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web

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Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web

Please help translate to your language

Hello,

In a few weeks the Readers web team will be changing how some templates look on the mobile web site. We will make these templates more noticeable when viewing the article. We ask for your help in updating any templates that don't look correct.

What kind of templates? Specifically templates that notify readers and contributors about issues with the content of an article – the text and information in the article. Examples like Template:Unreferenced or Template:More citations needed. Right now these notifications are hidden behind a link under the title of an article. We will format templates like these (mostly those that use Template:Ambox or message box templates in general) to show a short summary under the page title. You can tap on the "Learn more" link to get more information.

For template editors we have some recommendations on how to make templates that are mobile-friendly and also further documentation on our work so far.

If you have questions about formatting templates for mobile, please leave a note on the project talk page or file a task in Phabricator and we will help you.

நன்றி!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 19:35, 13 நவம்பர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

Tech News: 2018-47

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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 vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
There is an A/B test for sameAs data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [246]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [247]
The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [248]

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23:28, 19 நவம்பர் 2018 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey vote

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The Community Wishlist Survey. Please help translate to your language.

Hey everyone,

The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech should work on over the next year.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. The communities have now posted a long list of technical proposals. You can vote on the proposals from now until 30 November. You can read more on the wishlist survey page.

/User:Johan (WMF)

18:13, 22 நவம்பர் 2018 (UTC)

Advanced Search

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Advanced Search will become a default feature on your wiki on November 28. This new interface allows you to perform specialized searches on the search page, even if you don’t know any search syntax. Advanced Search originates from the German Community’s Technical Wishes project. It's already a default feature on German, Arabic, Farsi and Hungarian Wikipedia. Besides, more than 40.000 users across all wikis have tested the beta version. Feedback is welcome on the central feedback page.

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 11:03, 26 நவம்பர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

Tech News: 2018-48

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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

On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [249]

Changes later this week

The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [250]
Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [251]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (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 28 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [252]

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22:21, 26 நவம்பர் 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-49

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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

Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [253]
Small SVG images are now bigger when you see them in MediaViewer. [254]
You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow. [255]
When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back. [256][257]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 December at 16:00 (UTC) and at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:12, 3 திசம்பர் 2018 (UTC)

புதிய விக்கிமீடியா கடவுச்சொல் கொள்கை மற்றும் தேவைகள் (New Wikimedia password policy and requirements)

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விக்கிமீடியா அறக்கட்டளை பாதுகாப்பு குழு ஒரு புதிய கடவுச்சொல் கொள்கை மற்றும் தேவைகள் செயல்படுத்துகிறது. நீங்கள் மீடியாவிக்கியில் திட்டத்தைப் பற்றி மேலும் அறியலாம்.

இந்த புதிய தேவைகள் புதிய கணக்குகள் மற்றும் சிறப்புரிமை பெற்ற கணக்குகளுக்கு பொருந்தும். புதிய கணக்குகளின் கடவுச்சொல் குறைந்தபட்சம் 8 எழுத்துகள் கொண்டதாக இருக்க வேண்டும். சிறப்புரிமை பெற்ற கணக்குள் அடுத்த முறை உள்நுழையும்ப்போது கடவுச்சொல் குறைந்தபட்சம் 10 எழுத்துகள் கொண்ட ஒன்றாக மாற்றும் படி கேட்கப்படும்.

இந்த மாற்றங்கள் டிசம்பர் 13 ஆம் தேதி நடைமுறைப்படுத்த திட்டமிடப்பட்டுள்ளது. உங்கள் வேலை அல்லது கருவிகள் இந்த மாற்றத்தால் பாதிக்கப்படும் என நீங்கள் நினைத்தால், தயவுசெய்து எங்களுக்கு பேச்சுப் பக்கத்தில் தெரியப்படுத்தவும்.

நன்றி! -- Kaartic ஆல் மொழி பெயர்கப்பட்டது.

English version

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The Wikimedia Foundation security team is implementing a new password policy and requirements. You can learn more about the project on MediaWiki.org.

These new requirements will apply to new accounts and privileged accounts. New accounts will be required to create a password with a minimum length of 8 characters. Privileged accounts will be prompted to update their password to one that is at least 10 characters in length.

These changes are planned to be in effect on December 13th. If you think your work or tools will be affected by this change, please let us know on the talk page.

நன்றி!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:03, 6 திசம்பர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

நிர்வாகிகளின் சுய தடையழி (unblock) திறனிற்கு மாற்றம்

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இனி மேல் தங்களைத் தவிர வேறொருவர் தங்களது கணக்கை முடக்கினால், நிர்வாகிகள் தங்களைத் தடையழி (unblock) செய்ய முடியாது. இதற்கு காரணம், யாராவது ஒரு நிர்வாகியின் கணக்கை கையகப்படுத்தினால், அந்த கணக்கை மற்ற நிர்வாகிகள் முடக்க முடியாமல் போகலாம். இது உங்கள் சமூகத்திற்கு ஒரு பிரச்சனை என்றால், அதை பாபரிகேட்டறில் (Phabricator) புகாரளிக்கலாம். மெட்டாவவிலும் நீங்கள் கேள்விகளை கேட்கலாம். இரண்டு நிர்வாகிகள் ஒரு சிறிய விக்கி மீது ஒருவருக்கொருவர் சண்டை போடுவார்களா என்பது பற்றி பாபரிகேட்டறில் ஒரு விவாதம் நடை பெறுகிறது. -- Kaartic (பேச்சு) 07:34, 10 திசம்பர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

Tech News: 2018-50

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 December. It will be on all wikis from 13 December (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 12 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [258][259]
When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [260]

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17:33, 10 திசம்பர் 2018 (UTC)

வார்ப்புரு:ஒலிக்கோப்பு-தமிழ்

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வார்ப்புரு:ஒலிக்கோப்பு-தமிழ் இதுவரை Ta என்று தொடங்கும் ஒலிக்கோப்புகளை மட்டுமே காட்டிவந்தது ஆனால் சுமார் 250 ஒலிக்கோப்புகள் TA எனத் தொடங்குமாறு இருக்கின்றன. அதனையும் காட்டும் பொருட்டு இவ்வார்ப்புருவைத் திருத்தியுள்ளேன். ஏதேனும் வழுவோ, ஆலோசனையோ இருந்தால் தெரிவிக்கலாம் -Neechalkaran (பேச்சு) 07:53, 11 திசம்பர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

Selection of the Tremendous Wiktionary User Group representative to the Wikimedia Summit 2019

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Dear all,

Sorry for posting this message in English and last minute notification. The Tremendous Wiktionary User Group could send one representative to the Wikimedia Summit 2019 (formerly "Wikimedia Conference"). The Wikimedia Summit is an yearly conference of all organizations affiliated to the Wikimedia Movement (including our Tremendous Wiktionary User Group). It is a great place to talk about Wiktionary needs to the chapters and other user groups that compose the Wikimedia movement.

For context, there is a short report on what happened last year. The deadline is very close to 24 hrs. The last date for registration is 17 December 2018. As a last minute effort, there is a page on meta to decide who will be the representative of the user group to the Wikimedia Summit created.

Please feel free to ask any question on the wiktionary-l mailing list or on the talk page.

For the Tremendous Wiktionary User Group, -- Balajijagadesh 05:56, 16 திசம்பர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

Tech News: 2018-51

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

Tech News

Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.

Recent changes

Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [261][262]
Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [263]
The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.

Problems

<ref> tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example <ref name="adams" group="books">. If a <ref> tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [264]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 December. It will be on all wikis from 20 December (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 19 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [265]

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20:34, 17 திசம்பர் 2018 (UTC)

Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019

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Please help translate to your language

Love is an important subject for humanity and it is expressed in different cultures and regions in different ways across the world through different gestures, ceremonies, festivals and to document expression of this rich and beautiful emotion, we need your help so we can share and spread the depth of cultures that each region has, the best of how people of that region, celebrate love.

Wiki Loves Love (WLL) is an international photography competition of Wikimedia Commons with the subject love testimonials happening in the month of February.

The primary goal of the competition is to document love testimonials through human cultural diversity such as monuments, ceremonies, snapshot of tender gesture, and miscellaneous objects used as symbol of love; to illustrate articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects.

The theme of 2019 iteration is Celebrations, Festivals, Ceremonies and rituals of love.

To know more about the contest, check out our Commons Page and FAQs

There are several prizes to grab. Hope to see you spreading love this February with Wiki Loves Love!

Kind regards,

Wiki Loves Love Team

Imagine... the sum of all love!

--MediaWiki message delivery (பேச்சு) 10:13, 27 திசம்பர் 2018 (UTC)[பதிலளி]

சிங்கப்பூர் அமைச்சகத்தின் தமிழ் சொல்வளக் கையேட்டினை விக்கீப்படுத்துதல் இயலுமா??

அகரவரிசை சீராக்கம்

இணைக்கப்பட வேண்டியன

Tell us what you think about the automatic links for Wiktionary

AdvancedSearch

நிருவாகி தேர்தல்

Lexicographical data is now available on Wikidata

சிறப்பு:Import

Update on page issues on mobile web

Global preferences are available

New user group for editing sitewide CSS / JS

Wiktionary Cognate Dashboard

Editing of sitewide CSS/JS is only possible for interface administrators from now

Read-only mode for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October

இடைமுகத்தொகுப்பு அனுமம்

இடைமுகத்தொகுப்பு அனுமம்

வாக்கெடுப்பு: தமிழ் சொல்லுக்கு, மொழிபெயர்ப்புகளை இணைக்கும் கருவி

கருத்துக் கணிப்பு

ஏற்பு

மறுப்பு

நடுநிலை

எண்ணங்கள்

Issue-1

Issue-2

Issue-3

Url in Social Sharing Gadget

redirecting capital letters in a word to small character words

அனைத்து விக்சனரித் தரவுகளையும் பதிவிறக்கலாம்

ஆங்கில விக்சனரியின் நுட்பங்கள், தமிழ் விக்சனரிக்குத் தேவை

ஒப்பம்

எதிர் ஒப்பம்

எண்ணங்கள்

The translations

notes

others

விக்சனரி செயலி

Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web

Community Wishlist Survey vote

Advanced Search

புதிய விக்கிமீடியா கடவுச்சொல் கொள்கை மற்றும் தேவைகள் (New Wikimedia password policy and requirements)

English version

நிர்வாகிகளின் சுய தடையழி (unblock) திறனிற்கு மாற்றம்

வார்ப்புரு:ஒலிக்கோப்பு-தமிழ்

Selection of the Tremendous Wiktionary User Group representative to the Wikimedia Summit 2019

Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019