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Tech News: 2021-02
 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
 * You can choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed.
 * You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry.
 * Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
 * The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later.
 * Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works.
 * When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the  to   will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Scribunto's file metadata now includes length.
 * Octicons-tools.svg CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js.
 * Octicons-sync.svg There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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Tech News: 2021-03
 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
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * The Growth team plans to add features to get more visitors to edit to more Wikipedias. You can help translating the interface.
 * You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on at 07:00 (UTC).
 * MassMessage posts could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be timestamped you can let the developers know.

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Tech News: 2021-04
 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
 * You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on at 07:00 (UTC). You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech for a short time on at 09:00 (UTC).

Changes later this week
 * Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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Tech News: 2021-05
 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
 * IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource.
 * Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like  as well as the   syntax for IP ranges.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be . This will happen on February 8. You can read more.

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Tech News: 2021-06
 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 Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app.

Changes later this week
 * You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones.
 * Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead.

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Tech News: 2021-07
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned.
 * Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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Tech News: 2021-08
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 visual editor will now use MediaSearch to find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better images.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The syntax highlighter now works with more languages: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU.

Problems
 * Editing a timeline might have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a user group for developers and users interested in working on Wikimedia wikis with the Rust programming language. You can join or tell others who want to make your wiki better in the future.

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00:17, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-09
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
 * Wikis using the Growth team tools can now show the name of a newcomer's mentor anywhere through a magic word. This can be used for welcome messages or userboxes.
 * A new version of the VideoCutTool is now available. It enables cropping, trimming, audio disabling, and rotating video content. It is being created as part of the developer outreach programs.

Problems
 * There was a problem with the job queue. This meant some functions did not save changes and mass messages were delayed. This did not affect wiki edits.
 * Some editors may not be logged in to their accounts automatically in the latest versions of Firefox and Safari.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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19:08, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-10
 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
 * Section translation now works on Bengali Wikipedia. It helps mobile editors translate sections of articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis with a smaller number of articles. You can test it and leave feedback.
 * Flagged revisions now give admins the review right.
 * When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article.

Problems
 * Many graphs have JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * The New Discussion tool will soon be a new discussion tools beta feature for on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new discussions.

Future changes
 * There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates and those who create or maintain them. You can read more.
 * Reference Previews will become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a setting with Page Previews. If you prefer the Reference Tooltips or Navigation-Popups gadget you can keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown.
 * New JavaScript-based functions will not work in Internet Explorer 11. This is because Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can read more.

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Tech News: 2021-11
 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
 * Wikis that are part of the desktop improvements project can now use a new search function. The desktop improvements and the new search will come to more wikis later. You can also test it early.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Editors who put up banners or change site-wide JavaScript code should use the client error graph to see that their changes has not caused problems. You can read more.

Problems
 * Due to database issues the Wikimedia Beta Cluster was read-only for over a day.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * You can add a newline or carriage return character to a custom signature if you use a template. There is a proposal to not allow them in the future. This is because they can cause formatting problems.
 * You will be able to read but not edit 12 wikis for a short period of time on at 06:00 (UTC). This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can use Quarry for SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas. Cross-database  will no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. PAWS and other ways to do SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later.

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Tech News: 2021-12

 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 Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. They don't have a touch screen so readers navigate with the phone keys. There is now a simulator so you can see what it looks like.
 * The reply tool and new discussion tool are now available as the "" beta feature in almost all wikis except German Wikipedia.

Problems
 * You will be able to read but not edit twelve wikis for a short period of time on at 06:00 (UTC). This can also affect password changes, logging in to new wikis, global renames and changing or confirming emails. This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Syntax highlighting colours will change to be easier to read. This will soon come to the first wikis.

Future changes
 * Flagged revisions will no longer have multiple tags like "tone" or "depth". It will also only have one tier. This was changed because very few wikis used these features and they make the tool difficult to maintain.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015 this was moved from  to  .   will soon no longer work.

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 16:53, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-13

 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 very old web browsers don’t work well with the Wikimedia wikis. Some old code for browsers that used to be supported is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers.
 * Octicons-tools.svg IRC recent changes feeds have been moved to a new server. Make sure all tools automatically reconnect to  and not to the name of any specific server. Users should also consider switching to the more modern EventStreams.

Problems
 * When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split. It might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem.
 * Some translatable pages on Meta could not be edited. This was because of a bug in the translation tool. The new MediaWiki version was delayed because of problems like this.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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17:31, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-14

 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
 * Editors can collapse part of an article so you have to click on it to see it. When you click a link to a section inside collapsed content it will now expand to show the section. The browser will scroll down to the section. Previously such links didn't work unless you manually expanded the content first.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg The citoid API will use for example  instead of   for dates with a month but no days. This is because   could be confused with   instead of  . This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the Extended Date/Time Format.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg PAWS can now connect to the new Wiki Replicas. Cross-database  will no longer work from 28 April. There is a new way to connect to the databases. Until 28 April both ways to connect to the databases will work. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech.

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19:41, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-16

 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
 * Email to the Wikimedia wikis are handled by groups of Wikimedia editors. These volunteer response teams now use Znuny instead of OTRS. The functions and interface remain the same. The volunteer administrators will give more details about the next steps soon.
 * If you use syntax highlighting, you can see line numbers in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors when editing templates. This is to make it easier to see line breaks or talk about specific lines. Line numbers will soon come to all namespaces.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Because of a technical change there could be problems with gadgets and scripts that have an edit summary area that looks similar to this one. If they look strange they should use  to go back to how they looked before.
 * The latest version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis last week. There was no Tech News issue last week.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * The user group  will be renamed  . This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in two weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.

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16:49, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-17

 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
 * Templates have parameters that can have specific values. It is possible to suggest values for editors with TemplateData. You can soon see them as a drop-down list in the visual editor. This is to help template users find the right values faster.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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21:24, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-18

 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
 * Twinkle is a gadget on English Wikipedia. It can help with maintenance and patrolling. It can now be used on other wikis. You can get Twinkle on your wiki using the twinkle-starter GitHub repository.

Problems
 * The content translation tool did not work for many articles for a little while. This was because of a bug.
 * Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes.

Changes later this week
 * Reference Previews will become a default feature on a number of wikis on 5 May. This is later than planned because of some changes. You can use it without using Page Previews if you want to. The earlier plan was to have the preference to use both or none.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The CSS classes,   and   do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead.

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15:43, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-19

 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
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * You can see what participants plan to work on at the online Wikimedia hackathon 22–23 May.

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15:10, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-20

 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 toolbar in the Reply tool. It works in the wikitext source mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
 * Wikimedia mailing lists are being moved to Mailman 3. This is a newer version. For the character encoding to work it will change from  to.
 * Octicons-tools.svg An earlier issue of Tech News said that the citoid API would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg  will be renamed  . The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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13:49, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-21

 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 movement has been using IRC on a network called Freenode. There have been changes around who is in control of the network. The Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts have decided to move to the new Libera Chat network instead. This is not a formal decision for the movement to move all channels but most Wikimedia IRC channels will probably leave Freenode. There is a migration guide and ongoing Wikimedia discussions about this.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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17:07, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-22

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

Problems
 * There was an issue on the Vector skin with the text size of categories and notices under the page title. It was fixed last Monday.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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17:05, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-23

 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
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * The Wikimedia movement uses Phabricator for technical tasks. This is where we collect technical suggestions, bugs and what developers are working on. The company behind Phabricator will stop working on it. This will not change anything for the Wikimedia movement now. It could lead to changes in the future.
 * Searching on Wikipedia will find more results in some languages. This is mainly true for when those who search do not use the correct diacritics because they are not seen as necessary in that language. For example searching for  doesn't find   on German Wikipedia. The character   isn't used in German so many would write   instead. This will work better in the future in some languages.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The CSRF token parameters in the action API were changed in 2014. The old parameters from before 2014 will stop working soon. This can affect bots, gadgets and user scripts that still use the old parameters.

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20:02, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-24

 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
 * Logged-in users on the mobile web can choose to use the advanced mobile mode. They now see categories in a similar way as users on desktop do. This means that some gadgets that have just been for desktop users could work for users of the mobile site too. If your wiki has such gadgets you could decide to turn them on for the mobile site too. Some gadgets probably need to be fixed to look good on mobile.
 * Language links on Wikidata now works for multilingual Wikisource.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * In the future we can't show the IP of unregistered editors to everyone. This is because privacy regulations and norms have changed. There is now a rough draft of how showing the IP to those who need to see it could work.
 * German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC.
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 28 June. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.

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20:26, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-25

 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg The  group name is now  . This could affect abuse filters.

Problems
 * You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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15:49, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-26

 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
 * Wikis with the Growth features now can configure Growth features directly on their wiki. This uses the new special page.
 * Wikisources have a new OCR tool. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add  to your common.css page.

Problems
 * You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * ,  and   can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback.
 * A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users.

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16:32, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-27

 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
 * The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 19 July.

Recent changes
 * AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON. Project:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has moved to Project:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and Project:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. Project:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version has moved to Project:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes.

Problems
 * InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from  to.

Changes later this week
 * The tool to find, add and remove templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful.

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17:33, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-29

 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 tool to find, add and remove templates was updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It was supposed to come to the first wikis on 7 July. It was delayed to 12 July instead. It will come to more wikis later this year.
 * Special:UnconnectedPages lists pages that are not connected to Wikidata. This helps you find pages that can be connected to Wikidata items. Some pages should not be connected to Wikidata. You can use the magic word  on pages that should not be listed on the special page.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will soon change. This can affect bots, gadgets, user scripts and extensions. You can read more. You can test it on Testwiki or Testwiki 2.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more.

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15:31, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-30

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

Recent changes
 * A new version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis the week before last week. This was not in Tech News because there was no newsletter that week.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * If you use the Monobook skin you can choose to switch off responsive design on mobile. This will now work for more skins. If  is unticked you need to also untick the new preference  . Otherwise it will stop working. Interface admins can automate this process on your wiki. You can read more.

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21:11, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-31

 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg If your wiki uses markup like <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> or <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> without the required <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> attribute, then these will no longer work in 2 weeks. There is a short-term fix that can be added to your local wiki's Common.css page, which is explained at T287701. From now on, all usages should include the full attributes, for example: <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> or <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . This also applies to some other HTML tags, such as  or  . You can find existing examples on your wiki that need to be updated, using the instructions at T287701.
 * Reminder: Wikimedia has migrated to the Libera Chat IRC network, from the old Freenode network. Local documentation should be updated.

Problems
 * Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 30 minutes. There was a problem with generating dynamic lists of articles on the Russian Wikinews, due to the bulk import of 200,000+ new articles over 3 days, which led to database problems. The problematic feature has been disabled on that wiki and developers are discussing if it can be fixed properly.

Changes later this week
 * When adding links to a page using VisualEditor or the 2017 wikitext editor, disambiguation pages will now only appear at the bottom of search results. This is because users do not often want to link to disambiguation pages.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * The team of the Wikipedia app for Android is working on communication in the app. The developers are working on how to talk to other editors and get notifications. You can read more. They are looking for users who want to test the plans. Any editor who has an Android phone and is willing to download the app can do this.
 * The Beta Feature for will be updated in the coming weeks.  You will be able to subscribe to individual sections on a talk page at more wikis.  You can test this now by adding   to the end of the talk page's URL (example).

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20:47, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-32

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

Problems
 * You can read but not edit 17 wikis for a few minutes on 10 August. This is planned at 05:00 UTC. This is because of work on the database.

Changes later this week
 * The Wikimania Hackathon will take place remotely on 13 August, starting at 5:00 UTC, for 24 hours. You can participate in many ways. You can still propose projects and sessions.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg The old CSS <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> will not be supported after 12 August. Instead, templates and pages should use <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . Please help to replace any existing uses on your wiki. There are global-search links available at T287962.

Future changes
 * The Wikipedia Library is a place for Wikipedia editors to get access to sources. There is an extension which has a new function to tell users when they can take part in it. It will use notifications. It will start pinging the first users in September. It will ping more users later.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Vue.js will be the JavaScript framework for MediaWiki in the future.

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16:21, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-33

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

Recent changes
 * You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet.

Problems
 * There was a problem on wikis which use the Translate extension. Translations were not updated or were replaced with the English text. The problems have been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * A revision tag will soon be added to edits that add links to disambiguation pages. This is because these links are usually added by accident. The tag will allow editors to easily find the broken links and fix them. If your wiki does not like this feature, it can be hidden.
 * Would you like to help improve the information about tools? Would you like to attend or help organize a small virtual meetup for your community to discuss the list of tools? Please get in touch on the Toolhub Quality Signal Sessions talk page. We are also looking for feedback from tool maintainers on some specific questions.
 * In the past, edits to any page in your user talk space ignored your mute list, e.g. sub-pages. Starting this week, this is only true for edits to your talk page.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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19:28, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-34

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

Recent changes
 * The Score extension (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> notation) has been re-enabled on public wikis and upgraded to a newer version. Some musical score functionality may no longer work because the extension is only enabled in "safe mode". The security issue has been fixed and an advisory published.

Problems
 * You will be able to read but not edit some wikis for a few minutes on . This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. During this time, operations on the CentralAuth will also not be possible.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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21:58, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Read-only reminder

 A maintenance operation will be performed on. It should only last for a few minutes.

This will affect your wiki as well as 11 other wikis. During this time, publishing edits will not be possible.

Also during this time, operations on the CentralAuth will not be possible (GlobalRenames, changing/confirming e-mail addresses, logging into new wikis, password changes).

For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.

A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.

Please help your community to be aware of this maintenance operation.

20:35, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-35

 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 musical score syntax no longer works and may needed to be updated, you can check Category: on your wiki for a list of pages with errors.

Problems
 * Musical scores were unable to render lyrics in some languages because of missing fonts. This has been fixed now. If your language would prefer a different font, please file a request in Phabricator.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more about this.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * You will be able to read but not edit Commons for a few minutes on . This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 13 September. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.

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16:01, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-36

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

Recent changes
 * The wikis that have Growth features deployed have been part of A/B testing since deployment, in which some newcomers did not receive the new features. Now, all of the newcomers on 21 of the smallest of those wikis will be receiving the features.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg In 2017, the provided jQuery library was upgraded from version 1 to 3, with a compatibility layer. The migration will soon finish, to make the site load faster for everyone. If you maintain a gadget or user script, check if you have any JQMIGRATE errors and fix them, or they will break.
 * Last year, the Portuguese Wikipedia community embarked on an experiment to make log-in compulsory for editing.  The impact report of this trial is ready. Moving forward, the Anti-Harassment Tools team is looking for projects that are willing to experiment with restricting IP editing on their wiki for a short-term experiment. Learn more.

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15:20, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-37

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

Recent changes
 * 45 new Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features.
 * A majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. The Growth team has published an FAQ page about the features. This translatable FAQ covers the description of the features, how to use them, how to change the configuration, and more.

Problems
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 14 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Starting this week, Wikipedia in Italian will receive weekly software updates on Wednesdays. It used to receive the updates on Thursdays. Due to this change, bugs will be noticed and fixed sooner.
 * You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet.
 * The syntax highlight tool marks up code with different colours. It now can highlight 23 new code languages. Additionally, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> can now be used as an alias for the Go programming language, and a special <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> mode has been added to show a program's output.

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15:35, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-38

 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
 * Growth features are now deployed to almost all Wikipedias. For the majority of small Wikipedias, the features are only available for experienced users, to test the features and configure them. Features will be available for newcomers starting on 20 September 2021.
 * MediaWiki had a feature that would highlight local links to short articles in a different style. Each user could pick the size at which "stubs" would be highlighted. This feature was very bad for performance, and following a consultation, has been removed.
 * A technical change was made to the MonoBook skin to allow for easier maintenance and upkeep. This has resulted in some minor changes to HTML that make MonoBook's HTML consistent with other skins. Efforts have been made to minimize the impact on editors, but please ping Jon (WMF) on wiki or in phabricator if any problems are reported.

Problems
 * There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of an accidental restart of the search servers.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg The meta=proofreadpage API has changed. The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> parameter has been renamed to <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . API users should update their code to avoid unrecognized parameter warnings. Pywikibot users should upgrade to 6.6.0.

Future changes
 * The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The previously announced change to how you obtain tokens from the API has been delayed to September 21 because of an incompatibility with Pywikibot. Bot operators using Pywikibot can follow T291202 for progress on a fix, and should plan to upgrade to 6.6.1 when it is released.

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18:32, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-39

 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
 * iOS 15 has a new function called Private Relay (Apple website). This can hide the user's IP when they use Safari browser. This is like using a VPN in that we see another IP address instead. It is opt-in and only for those who pay extra for iCloud. It will come to Safari users on OSX later. There is a technical discussion about what this means for the Wikimedia wikis.

Problems
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some gadgets and user-scripts add items to the portlets (article tools) part of the skin. A recent change to the HTML may have made those links a different font-size. This can be fixed by adding the CSS class <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * The GettingStarted extension was built in 2013, and provides an onboarding process for new account holders in a few versions of Wikipedia. However, the recently developed Growth features provide a better onboarding experience. Since the vast majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features, GettingStarted will be deactivated starting on 4 October.
 * A small number of users will not be able to connect to the Wikimedia wikis after 30 September. This is because an old root certificate will no longer work. They will also have problems with many other websites. Users who have updated their software in the last five years are unlikely to have problems. Users in Europe, Africa and Asia are less likely to have immediate problems even if their software is too old. You can read more.
 * You can receive notifications when someone leaves a comment on user talk page or mentions you in a talk page comment. Clicking the notification link will now bring you to the comment and highlight it. Previously, doing so brought you to the top of the section that contained the comment. You can find more information in T282029.

Future changes
 * The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. See the list of wikis.

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22:23, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-40

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

Recent changes
 * A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them has been enabled for the following 10 wikis: mediawiki.org, the Italian, Catalan, Hebrew and Vietnamese Wikipedias, French Wikisource, and English Wikivoygage, Wikibooks, Wiktionary and Wikinews. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist on those wikis you can let the developers know.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some gadgets and bots that use the API to read the AbuseFilter log might break. The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> property will no longer say an entry is <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> for unsuppressed log entries about suppressed edits. If your bot needs to know this, do a separate revision query. Additionally, the property will have the value <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> for visible entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response.
 * A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them will be enabled for all production wikis. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist you can let the developers know.

Future changes
 * You can soon get cross-wiki notifications in the iOS Wikipedia app. You can also get notifications as push notifications. More notification updates will follow in later versions.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The JavaScript variables <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> , and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> will soon be removed from <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . These are not part of the "stable" variables available for use in wiki JavaScript.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The JavaScript variables <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> , <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> , and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> will soon be removed from mw.config. Scripts should instead use <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> from the "<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">mediawiki.cookie " module.

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16:32, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-41

 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
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

 * The "auto-number headings" preference is being removed. You can read T284921 for the reasons and discussion. This change was previously announced. A JavaScript snippet is available which can be used to create a Gadget on wikis that still want to support auto-numbering.

Meetings
 * You can join a meeting about the Desktop Improvements. A demonstration version of the newest feature will be shown. The event will take place on Tuesday, 12 October at 16:00 UTC. See how to join.

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15:30, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-42

 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
 * Toolhub is a catalogue to make it easier to find software tools that can be used for working on the Wikimedia projects. You can read more.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * The developers of the Wikipedia Android app are working on communication in the app. You can now answer questions in survey to help the development.
 * 3–5% of editors may be blocked in the next few months. This is because of a new service in Safari, which is similar to a proxy or a VPN. It is called iCloud Private Relay. There is a discussion about this on Meta. The goal is to learn what iCloud Private Relay could mean for the communities.
 * Wikimedia Enterprise is a new API for those who use a lot of information from the Wikimedia projects on other sites. It is a way to get big commercial users to pay for the data. There will soon be a copy of the Wikimedia Enterprise dataset. You can read more. You can also ask the team questions on Zoom on 22 October 15:00 UTC.

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20:53, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-43

 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 Coolest Tool Award 2021 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 27 October.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * Diff pages will have an improved copy and pasting experience. The changes will allow the text in the diff for before and after to be treated as separate columns and will remove any unwanted syntax.
 * The version of the Liberation fonts used in SVG files will be upgraded. Only new thumbnails will be affected. Liberation Sans Narrow will not change.

Meetings
 * You can join a meeting about the Community Wishlist Survey. News about the disambiguation and the real-time preview wishes will be shown. The event will take place on Wednesday, 27 October at 14:30 UTC. See how to join.

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20:08, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-44

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Recent changes
 * There is a limit on the amount of emails a user can send each day. This limit is now global instead of per-wiki. This change is to prevent abuse.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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20:28, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-45

 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
 * Mobile IP editors are now able to receive warning notices indicating they have a talk page message on the mobile website (similar to the orange banners available on desktop). These notices will be displayed on every page outside of the main namespace and every time the user attempts to edit. The notice on desktop now has a slightly different colour.

Changes later this week
 * Wikidata will be read-only for a few minutes on 11 November. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * In the future, unregistered editors will be given an identity that is not their IP address. This is for legal reasons. A new user right will let editors who need to know the IPs of unregistered accounts to fight vandalism, spam, and harassment, see the IP. You can read the suggestions for how that identity could work and discuss on the talk page.

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20:36, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-46

 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
 * Most large file uploads errors that had messages like "<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> " or "<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> " have now been fixed. An incident report is available.

Problems
 * Sometimes, edits made on iOS using the visual editor save groups of numbers as telephone number links, because of a feature in the operating system. This problem is under investigation.
 * There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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22:06, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-47

 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.
 * The template dialog in VisualEditor and in the new wikitext mode Beta feature will be heavily improved on a few wikis. Your feedback is welcome.

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20:02, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-48

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

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title: Wiktionary:Wikimedia Tech News/2021


text:
Rasool

Etymology
Variant of.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Rasool is the 33530th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 680 individuals. Rasool is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (58.68%), Black/African American (19.26%) and White (12.5%) individuals.

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

title: Rasool


text: Rasools

title: Rasools


text: Richners

title: Richners


text: Category:ml:Zingiberales order plants

title: Category:ml:Zingiberales order plants


text: Category:dra-pro:Plants

title: Category:dra-pro:Plants


text: panes integrales

title: panes integrales


text:
Reinoehl

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Reinoehl is the 33530th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 680 individuals. Reinoehl is most common among White (95.59%) individuals.

title: Reinoehl


text: Plochs

title: Plochs


text: Reinoehls

title: Reinoehls


text:
涼傘雖破，骨格原在

Idiom

 * 1)  Although a person is down-and-out, he/she still sticks to his/her nature and/or is not affected greatly.

title: 涼傘雖破，骨格原在


text:
ብዙኅ

Adjective

 * 1) much
 * 2)  long
 * 3)  many
 * 4)  more
 * 5) truly, strongly, very
 * 6)  often, frequently, many times

title: ብዙኅ


text: 凉伞虽破，骨格原在

title: 凉伞虽破，骨格原在


text:
Talk:sieste crapuleuse

See this wordreference thread. PUC – 15:59, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:sieste crapuleuse


text:
sieste crapuleuse

Noun

 * 1)  sneaky siesta, afternoon delight, afternoon frolics nap during which people have sex

title: sieste crapuleuse


text: poules au pot

title: poules au pot


text:
Marginalie

Noun

 * 1) marginalia

title: Marginalie


text:
undecuple

Adjective

 * 1) having 11 parts or members
 * 2) 11 times as much

title: undecuple


text:
Brandblase

Noun

 * 1) burn blister, blister from a burn

title: Brandblase


text: Category:ga:European Union

title: Category:ga:European Union


text:
Category talk:English terms suffixed with -vore

I'm not sure about the policy and style here, but I wonder about the inclusion of formicivorous in this category. It's obviously attested, whereas formicivore is not, but it doesn't literally have the suffix -vore.

--70.114.251.55 16:05, 11 January 2021 (UTC)


text:
Adlernase

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) aquiline nose

title: Adlernase


text:
ብዝኀት

Noun

 * 1) multitude

title: ብዝኀት


text:
Stupsnase

Noun

 * 1) button nose, snub nose

title: Stupsnase


text:
at a low ebb

Etymology
The figurative sense is an extension from the literal sense of.

Prepositional phrase

 * 1)  At a low point; in a poor state; in a state of decline or depression.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch: op een laag pitje

title: at a low ebb


text:
Baugrube

Noun

 * 1) building pit

title: Baugrube


text:
creux de la vague

Etymology
lit. 'trough of the wave, wave trough'.

Noun

 * 1)  low ebb

title: creux de la vague


text:
Kronzeuge

Noun

 * 1) principal witness

title: Kronzeuge


text:
teokali

Noun

 * 1) church

title: teokali


text:
Obaid

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Obaid is the 33530th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 680 individuals. Obaid is most common among White (71.76%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (11.47%) individuals.

title: Obaid


text:
Tanzfläche

Noun

 * 1) dance floor

title: Tanzfläche


text:
Grünfläche

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) green space

title: Grünfläche


text: Ondos

title: Ondos


text: Obaids

title: Obaids


text:
teokouitl

Noun

 * 1) cedar

title: teokouitl


text: Wiktionary:Word of the day/2021/May 3

title: Wiktionary:Word of the day/2021/May 3


text:
Wurfscheibe

Noun

 * 1) throwing disk

title: Wurfscheibe


text:
teokonetl

Noun

 * 1) godson

title: teokonetl


text:
Vererbbarkeit

Noun

 * 1) inheritability

title: Vererbbarkeit


text:
jmieti

Etymology
.

Verb

 * 1) to have
 * 2)  to be doing, to do, to fare

Descendants

 * Moravian:
 * Moravian:

title: jmieti


text:
portion congrue

Noun

 * 1)  part of the tithe  paid by the higher clergy  to the members of the lower clergy  for their sustenance; allowances of the lower clergy
 * 2)  tithe, trifling amount the smallest share, the meanest share, the bare minimum - and possibly even less than that: barely enough

title: portion congrue


text: Category:nch:Religion

title: Category:nch:Religion


text:
Leichenöffnung

Noun

 * 1) autopsy post-mortem examination involving dissection of the body

title: Leichenöffnung


text:
Talk:erf

I am wondering how the example of use fit the "Noun" part: Noun erf (plural erfs) (Northern England, Scotland, rare) Inheritance; patrimony. →   Son, you will have this farm to erf.

I am not a native English speaker, but it seems to me that in the given sentence "to erf" is a verb (infinitive), similar to "you will have this farm to use" or "you will have this farm to own".

 * It might, but no, not necessarily. "To" can be used with a meaning close to "as". So it's like saying "You will have this farm as erf", that is "as inheritence". 89.14.33.48 23:01, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:erf


text:
Einäscherung

Noun

 * 1) cremation

title: Einäscherung


text:
teotajtli

Noun

 * 1) godfather

title: teotajtli


text: Category:gsw:Athletes

title: Category:gsw:Athletes


text:
Übertragbarkeit

Noun

 * 1) transferability

title: Übertragbarkeit


text: Category:gsw:Sports

title: Category:gsw:Sports


text: Category:gsw:Football (soccer)

title: Category:gsw:Football (soccer)


text: Category:gsw:Football

title: Category:gsw:Football


text: Category:gsw:Ball games

title: Category:gsw:Ball games


text:
teponastli

Noun

 * 1) teponaztli

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) teponaztli, (it is) a slit drum; a hollow percussion instrument.

title: teponastli


text:
faire tourner le monde

Verb

 * 1) to make the world go round

title: faire tourner le monde


text:
Rolli

Noun

 * 1)  a wheelchair
 * 2)  a wheelchair user

Noun

 * 1)  a turtleneck sweater

title: Rolli


text:
teopamitl

Noun

 * 1) church

title: teopamitl


text:
tepajtiloya

Noun

 * 1) hospital

title: tepajtiloya


text:
teotlajtoli

Noun

 * 1) god words

title: teotlajtoli


text:
Emch

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Emch is the 25356th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 976 individuals. Emch is most common among White (96.72%) individuals.

title: Emch


text:
Dalhousie

Etymology
The town in New Brunswick is named after (1770 - 1838).

The hill station in Himachal Pradesh is named after (1812 - 1860).

Proper noun

 * 1) A Scottish earldom.
 * 1) A Scottish earldom.
 * 1) A Scottish earldom.

Descendants

Category : English eponyms

Etymology
. The town is named after (1770 - 1838).

Proper noun

Category : French eponyms

title: Dalhousie


text:
Module:xsr-IPA

local export = {}

local lang = require("Module:languages").getByCode("xsr") local sc = require("Module:scripts").getByCode("Deva") local sc = require("Module:scripts").getByCode("Tibt") local m_IPA = require("Module:IPA")

local gsub = mw.ustring.gsub local gmatch = mw.ustring.gmatch local find = mw.ustring.find

local correspondences = { ["ṅ"] = "ŋ", ["g"] = "ɡ", ["c"] = "t͡ʃ", ["j"] = "d͡ʒ", ["ċ"] = "c", ["j̈"] = "ɟ", ["C"] = "t͡s", ["Z"] = "d͡z", ["ñ"] = "ɲ", ["ṭ"] = "ʈ", ["ḍ"] = "ɖ", ["ṇ"] = "ɳ", ["t"] = "t̪", ["d"] = "d̪", ["y"] = "j", ["r"] = "ɾ", ["w"] = "w", ["l"] = "l", ["ś"] = "ʃ", ["ṣ"] = "s", ["h"] = "h", ["n"] = "n", ["ž"] = "ʒ", ["'"] = "ʔ", ["s"] = "s",

["z"] = "z", ["ġ"] = "ɣ", ["q"] = "q", ["x"] = "x", ["θ"] = "θ", ["ð"] = "ð", ["f"] = "f", ["ḻ"] = "ɭ", ["ṟ"] = "ɹ", ["r̥"] = "ri", ["ṃ"] = "̃", [","] = ",", ["V"] = "v", ["ṛ"] = "ɽ",

["a"] = "a", ["ā"] = "ɑ", ["i"] = "i", ["ī"] = "i", ["o"] = "o", ["e"] = "e", ["u"] = "u", ["ū"] = "u", ["ai"] = "ai", ["au"] = "au", ["ŏ"] = "ɒ", ["ĕ"] = "æ",

["āu"] = "ɑu̯", ["āi"] = "ɑi̯",["ũ"] = "ũ", ["õ"] = "õ", ["ã"] = "ã", ["ā̃"] = "ɑ̃", ["ẽ"] = "ẽ",

["ḥ"] = "hʌ", [" "] = " ", }

local vowels = "aāā̃ẽõiīuūeī̃ū̃ĩɑɑ̃oʌʌ̃ãũ" local weak_h_c = "gjzdḍd̪ṇbṛvṟwy" local weak_h = "([" .. weak_h_c .. "])h" local aspirate = "([ksctṭt̪p])" local syllabify_pattern = "([" .. vowels .. "]+)([^" .. vowels .. "%.]+)([" .. vowels .."]+)"

local function find_consonants(text) local current = "" local cons = {} for cc in mw.ustring.gcodepoint(text .. " ") do		local ch = mw.ustring.char(cc) if find(current .. ch, "^[kgṅcjñṭḍṇtdnpbmyrlɳwvɾjwśṣshqxġzžḻṛṟfθðṉ]$") or find(current .. ch, "^[kgcjṭḍṇtdpbṛṟ]h$") then current = current .. ch		else table.insert(cons, current) current = ch		end end return cons end

local function syllabify(text) for count = 1, 2 do		text = gsub(text, syllabify_pattern, function(a, b, c)			b_set = find_consonants(b)			table.insert(b_set, #b_set > 1 and 2 or 1, ".")			return a .. table.concat(b_set) .. c			end) end return text end

local identical = "knlsfzθð" for character in gmatch(identical, ".") do	correspondences[character] = character end

local function transliterate(text) return (lang:transliterate(text)) end

function export.link(term) return require("Module:links").full_link{ term = term, lang = lang, sc = sc } end

function export.toIPA(text, phonetic) local translit = transliterate(text) if not translit then error('The term "' .. Sherpa .. '" could not be transliterated.') end

if phonetic then end local result = gsub(translit, ".", correspondences) translit = gsub(translit, "͠", "̃") translit = gsub(translit, "(...)*$", "%1ʌ") translit = gsub(translit, "%-", " ") translit = gsub(translit, "r̥", "ri") translit = gsub(translit, "ky", "ċ") translit = gsub(translit, "khy", "ċʰ") translit = gsub(translit, "gy", "ɟ") translit = gsub(translit, "ghy", "ɟʱ") translit = gsub(translit, "ts", "C") translit = gsub(translit, "tsh", "Cʰ") translit = gsub(translit, "dz", "Z") translit = gsub(translit, "dzh", "Zʱ") translit = gsub(translit, "ng", "ŋ") translit = gsub(translit, "ny", "ɲ") translit = gsub(translit, "sh", "ʃ") translit = gsub(translit, "zh", "ʒ") translit = gsub(translit, "rh", "ɾ̥") translit = gsub(translit, "hr", "ɾ̥") translit = gsub(translit, "lh", "l̥") translit = syllabify(translit) -- aspiration rules translit = gsub(translit, aspirate .. "h", '%1ʰ') translit = gsub(translit, weak_h, '%1ʱ') translit = gsub(translit, '([' .. weak_h_c .. '])%.h', '.%1ʱ') translit = gsub(translit, aspirate .. '%.h', '.%1ʰ') translit = gsub(translit, "%.ː", "ː.") local result = gsub(translit, ".", correspondences) -- formatting result = gsub(result, "ː̃", "̃ː") result = gsub(result, "ː.̃", "̃ː.") result = gsub(result, "ː%.̃", "̃ː.") return result end

function export.make(frame) local args = frame:getParent.args local pagetitle = mw.title.getCurrentTitle.text local p, results = {}, {} if args[1] then for index, item in ipairs(args) do			table.insert(p, (item ~= "") and item or nil) end else p = { pagetitle } end for _, Sherpa in ipairs(p) do table.insert(results, { pron = "/" .. export.toIPA(Sherpa) .. "/" }) if export.toIPA(Sherpa, true) ~= export.toIPA(Sherpa) then table.insert(results, { pron = "[" .. export.toIPA(Sherpa, true) .. "]" }) end end return m_IPA.format_IPA_full { lang = lang, items = results } end

return export

title: Module:xsr-IPA


text:
attendre au tournant

Verb

 * 1)  to be ready and waiting for (someone), to wait to trip (someone) up, to wait for a chance to catch (someone) out

title: attendre au tournant


text: Category:hu:Breakfast cereals

title: Category:hu:Breakfast cereals


text:
Module:xsr-IPA/documentation

Sherpa IPA pronunciation module. See.

title: Module:xsr-IPA/documentation


text: Etsittys

title: Etsittys


text:
Module:xsr-IPA/testcases

local tests = require("Module:UnitTests") local m_IPA = require("Module:xsr-IPA")

local function tag_IPA(IPA) if phonetic then IPA = '/' .. IPA .. '/'		else IPA = '[' .. IPA .. ']'		end return ' ' .. IPA .. ' ' end function tests:check_output(term, expected, comment) self:equals(		m_IPA.link(term),		tag_IPA(m_IPA.toIPA(term, "standard")),		tag_IPA(expected),		{ comment = comment }	) end

function tests:test_phonetic examples = {

{ "ख्योरो", "cʰo.ɾo" }, } tests:iterate(examples, "check_output")

end

return tests

title: Module:xsr-IPA/testcases


text: Module:xsr-IPA/testcases/documentation

title: Module:xsr-IPA/testcases/documentation


text: Category:Japanese terms derived from Neapolitan


text: Category:Japanese terms derived from Sicilian


text:
à qui ai-je l'honneur

Phrase

 * 1)  with whom do I have the pleasure of speaking?

Usage notes

 * Not to be confused with.

title: à qui ai-je l'honneur


text:
淡汶餅

Noun

 * 1)  a type of pastry from Penang

title: 淡汶餅


text:
grosse commission

Noun

 * 1)  number two, big jobs the act of defecation

title: grosse commission


text: 淡汶饼

title: 淡汶饼


text:
big jobs

Noun

 * 1)  number two the act of defecation

title: big jobs


text: Klappers

title: Klappers


text: Template:xsr-IPA

title: Template:xsr-IPA


text:
optatio

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) wishing, a wish
 * 2) choosing, a choice

title: optatio


text:
service clientèle

Noun

 * 1) customer service

title: service clientèle


text: Category:tcy:Body parts

title: Category:tcy:Body parts


text: Category:ira-pro:Fruits

title: Category:ira-pro:Fruits


text:
شامخ

Etymology
of.

Adjective

 * 1) high, tall
 * 2) arrogant
 * 3) noble

title: شامخ


text: Category:ira-pro:Dairy products

title: Category:ira-pro:Dairy products


text:
ᄒᆞᄅᆞᆸ

Etymology
See 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) animal of one year of age

title: ᄒᆞᄅᆞᆸ


text: Category:Sherpa modules

title: Category:Sherpa modules


text: Category:id:Dermatology

title: Category:id:Dermatology


text:
vijju

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) lightning

title: vijju


text: kōron

title: kōron


text:
clotada

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) an area of lower elevation; a dip, depression, ravine, etc.

title: clotada


text: Category:da:Dermatology

title: Category:da:Dermatology


text:
عفيف

Adjective

 * 1) chaste, pure, virtuous
 * 2) decent
 * 3) righteous

title: عفيف


text:
Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/qipuqqaʀ

Noun

 * 1) humpback whale

Descendants

 * Chaplino:
 * Baffin: ,
 * Chaplino:
 * Baffin: ,
 * Baffin: ,
 * Baffin: ,
 * Baffin: ,
 * Baffin: ,
 * Baffin: ,

title: Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/qipuqqaʀ


text:
ሰምዐ

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to hear
 * 2) to have the sense of hearing
 * 3) to perceive with the ears, apprehend  comprehend, discover, learn
 * 4) to listen to, pay attention to, lend one's ears to
 * 5) to hearken, hear the complaint, counsel, prayer of someone
 * 6) to obey, comply with
 * 7) to approve, assent, accept
 * 8) to bear witness

title: ሰምዐ


text:
Template:R:gml:Kobler

Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelniederdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

title: Template:R:gml:Kobler


text:
mbed

Verb

title: mbed


text:
affected equation

Noun

 * 1)   A polynomial equation in two variables

title: affected equation


text:
馬蹄酥

Noun

 * 1) beh teh saw a type of pastry from Tong'an, with a variant made in Penang

title: 馬蹄酥


text: affected equations

title: affected equations


title: Rhymes:Swedish/²iːsa


text: Category:ik:Dogs

title: Category:ik:Dogs


text: Category:ik:Ursids

title: Category:ik:Ursids


text: Category:ik:Rodents

title: Category:ik:Rodents


text:
cáca milis

Etymology
Literally.

Noun

 * 1) cake sweet dessert

title: cáca milis


text:
سالى

Verb

 * 1)  to finish

title: سالى


text: Category:Moroccan Arabic terms belonging to the root س ل ي


text:
총비서

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) General Secretary of North Korea

title: 총비서


text: 马蹄酥

title: 马蹄酥


text:
Talk:ᜉᜈᜄ᜔ᜉᜃᜋᜆᜌ᜔

RFV discussion: November 2020–January 2021
This has a module error because the module doesn't allow for a transliteration parameter- which raises the question: has the ever been used to write Ilocano? The person who added this back in 2014 has done a lot of good work in languages closer to their own, so I won't name names, but back then, at least, they had a very bad tendency to fixate on the different and the archaic, sort of like a tourist who thinks everyone in Germany should be wearing lederhosen and that every Dutch person should be wearing wooden shoes and standing in front of a windmill. Chuck Entz (talk) 07:34, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
 * RFV-deleted. Seems very unlikely that this script is attested for Ilocano. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 21:27, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:ᜉᜈᜄ᜔ᜉᜃᜋᜆᜌ᜔


text:
Talk:القصر صغير

RFV discussion: November 2020–January 2021
(Arabic) “Luxembourg” --50.60.112.70 03:02, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Literal translation. This should be deleted. فين أخاي (talk) 13:30, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

 * RFV-deleted. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 21:29, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:القصر صغير


text:
Talk:crème

RFV discussion: November 2020–January 2021
RFV-sense of "ice cream", labelled as colloquial. Never heard of this, is this country-specific or region-specific? ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:19, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
 * For certain, it is used in colloquial Belgian Dutch, and hardly ever used in written. Indications of usage:, , , . Morgengave (talk) 15:40, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, that helped a lot in finding three cites. Cited, imo. Also added a Belgian diminutive. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  16:01, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

 * RFV-kept. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 21:41, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:crème


text:
Talk:loquerisne anglice

RFV discussion: October 2020–January 2021
Latin. Tagged by Sasha Gray Wolf on 22 November 2019, not listed:

“Compare Google & Google Books.” J3133 (talk) 06:51, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
 * But that’s the correct way to say “do you speak English?” in Latin. Although, it is maybe unrealistic to ask this in Latin. Fay Freak (talk) 23:38, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

 * Is it correct? Is it anglice or Anglice? Or isn't it "loquerisne linguam Anglicam?" which gets 1 GB result? And even if correct, if there's no attestation, the correctness doesn't matter at all. What about "Loquerisne Latine?" or "Loquerisne linguam Latinam?" which do get more GB hits? --17:18, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
 * All of them are. The capitalization of nation and language names in Latin is controversial, and it is also a naïve assumption that every spelling a term is included in needs to be attested. I am not sure phrasebook entries need to be attested. Phrasebook phrases should be common, true, so one reasonably expects attestation for those in living languages, but what about dead languages? There is a limit, sure, so that adding certain sentences in Gothic or Akkadian would be surreal, but again in Latin it is not so arbitrary. Fay Freak (talk) 23:44, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Am really wondering when a Latin phrasebook would prove useful. When visiting the Vatican City?? — SGconlaw (talk) 11:03, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Or when asking directions at . —Mahāgaja · talk 12:33, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

 * RFV-deleted. Eminently silly to have a phrasebook for the sake of having it; if the phrase has no BGC hits, it can go. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 21:49, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:loquerisne anglice


text:
Talk:damassé

RFV discussion: November 2020–January 2021
Is this even attested in Dutch? Not much on DBNL and BGC, most of the results were either in dictionaries or in larger passages written in French. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  10:50, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
 * (the second one I couldn't confirm for sure, as Google Books glitches with highlighting the match) Thadh (talk) 11:24, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I couldn't find any correspondence between OCRed text and scanned image in that second link. (Google is confused by the two column layout?)  The plain text form has "Enveloppes, witte, gekleurde, velijn en vergé damassé en den dien grond aangetoond door den Heer van DER LINDEN ; hij vertelle."  So now we have two French words, vergé damassé. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 14:01, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
 * It is a matter of column lines glued together. The proper full phrase is “Enveloppes, witte, gekleurde, velijn en vergé damassé en dentelle.” The second “en” here is not the Dutch conjunction but the French preposition. (And Mr. van der Linden ver klaarde .) --Lambiam 22:21, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
 * It turns out that the WNT also has cites: It seems enough to make this pass, but I suppose it is a very rare word. ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  14:23, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

 * RFV-kept. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 21:24, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:damassé


text:
Talk:الحجر فاتح

RFV discussion: November 2020–January 2021
(Arabic) “Liechtenstein” --50.60.112.70 03:07, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Literal translation. This should be deleted. فين أخاي (talk) 13:30, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

 * RFV-deleted. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 21:28, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:الحجر فاتح


text:
Talk:melopeponem

RFV discussion: December 2020–January 2021
Latin. Tagged by Schläsinger X on 16 November, not listed:

“gender? inflection?”, “probably this doesn't exist as "noun" and is only a "noun form" (acc. sg.) of .” J3133 (talk) 07:33, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Really a request for cleanup. I added  but I don't know how to get the inflection table right (-o, -ōnis, derived from Greek -ων). If somebody can add the inflections melopeponem can be changed to a noun form. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 09:31, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * A RFC is inside the entry too, and could be sufficient. Maybe entries like should be improved as well, not linking to melopeponem (acc. sg.) but to  (nom. sg., lemma). --Schläsinger X (talk) 11:48, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * RFV-resolved. Should've been at RFC all along. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 21:23, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:melopeponem


text:
Talk:baußen

RFV discussion: December 2020–January 2021
German. Tagged by 2003:de:3723:2f69:e1ed:f947:5f41:95ff on 17 August, not listed:

“Grimms: "mhd. [= mittelhochdeutsch] in thüringisch hessischer gegend"” J3133 (talk) 08:29, 1 December 2020 (UTC) Additionally there is a problem with the spelling, if the exact spelling is needed thrice and bawsen, bawssenn, baussen, bauszen, beuzen (contrasted with: be uzen, buzen, bûzin, bůzin, buezzen, püsin, bůten, buyten, buyssen) aren't mixed into one. --Schläsinger X (talk) 19:12, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Should be changed to Middle High German if not attested in modern German. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 10:10, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Attested, see Frühneuhochdeutsches Wörterbuch for many quotes; interestingly also as a preposition like still used . Somebody should templatize that dictionary for our convenience. New High German starts at about 1450, and is marked by this very vowel change ũ → au. Fay Freak (talk) 16:33, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I created baussen => "". Feel free to rename and make it easier to use.  Vox Sciurorum (talk) 17:01, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * By SIL, responsible for ISO 639-3, it's: "gmh  Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)". This implies NHG (deu/de) is 1500-now.
 * The keyword there is ca. I agree with the start at ca. 1050, but it is usual in Germanistics to let it end earlier, around 1450 in my view because intelligibiltiy rapidly changes at that point. Wikipedia at even cuts it at 1350 as a general view, wow. Anyway one cannot rest on the dates either but must see from the forms in a text in which language it is as not everything is dated or located well – therefore, Serbo-Croatian must be treated as one language, because there is too rarely a distinction discernible if a text is not too long or if I meet someone speaking the language in Germany, and I cannot split off Kajkavian just for accentological markers as someone would have liked to because they are not always seen; and by the way  has been written until the 9th century by religious conservatives while New Persian begins in the late 7th century to make it clear that timespans of languages also overlap. The Frühneuhochdeutsches Wörterbuch here contains some Middle Low German quotes in my view thus; buyten is from a Middle Low German text from the city of Neuss north of the . Middle Low German ends at about 1650. The line between High German and Low German are multiple isoglosses however. So you there are multiple contradictions in the subject matter itself, don’t overthink in quest of an absolute truth, there are many things to blow your mind here. The bulk is clearly under any definition New High German however as promised in that dictionary’s title.
 * There is no problem with the spelling as we normalize, which the dictionary also does. Lexemes demand three quotes,, not all their spellings. says it about “a term”, and even that is explicitly not “limited to a … usual sense”. Multiple spellings are not multiple terms, they are the same term. This is obvious because otherwise Latin entries would have to be in scriptio continua (what’s a spelling even? your abstraction into Unicode), and this is also proven by the fact that one can quote exclusively from audio records. And this clear teleologically because the point of the rule is to exclude modern words that have not caught on rather than making it tedious to work with periods of a language lacking spelling standardization. Well I have talked about this at multiple occasions you can search, so I do not want not to expand on this further. Fay Freak (talk) 22:23, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * RFV-kept. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 21:06, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:baußen


text:
폄훼

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) disparagement

title: 폄훼


text: 貶毁

title: 貶毁


text:
déde

Noun

 * 1) two things
 * "sga"
 * "sga"

- co beid .i. co mbed a ndéde sin im labrad-sa .i. gáu fír .i. combad sain a n‑as·berin ó bélib aní imme·rádin ó chridiu

title: déde


text: Category:sga:Two

title: Category:sga:Two


text: Category:sga:Numbers

title: Category:sga:Numbers


text:
Talk:منشار

RFV discussion: November 2020–January 2021
Rfv-sense: "winnowing fan" فين أخاي (talk) 01:19, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
 * It was added by in 2015, with a reference to Steingass. The template didn't have the page number specified, but I was able to find the entry here and I updated the template. I don't know if anyone in the real world has ever used it, but the dictionary does, in fact, have that sense. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:52, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I have since come to the conclusion that Steingass may not be so reliable. What do others think? Benwing2 (talk) 02:43, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
 * OTOH, Lane's dictionary says "Also [but less commonly] A wooden implement with prongs, [lit., fingers,] with which wheat and the like are winnowed." Benwing2 (talk) 02:46, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
 * That sense ("A wooden implement with prongs with which wheat and the like are winnowed") is also recorded in Dehkhoda Dictionary, which cites the dictionaries اقرب الموارد (an Arabic dictionary), Anandraj (Persian), منتهی‌الارب (Arabic -> Persian), and ناظم الاطبا (Persian) for this particular sense. --Z 13:23, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

 * RFV-kept. Steingass is not especially reliable, but if it's in Lane, then it's based on real classical usage. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 21:43, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:منشار


text: Abbotsbury

title: Abbotsbury


text: Narzisstin

title: Narzisstin


text: ماتي

title: ماتي


text:
豆沙餅

Noun

 * 1) tau sar piah a type of pastry with a sweet or savoury bean paste filling

title: 豆沙餅


text: 豆沙饼

title: 豆沙饼


text:
Kreditkartennummer

Noun

 * 1) credit card number

title: Kreditkartennummer


text:
common sow thistle

Noun

 * ,, native to western Eurasia.

Synonyms

 * ,, , , milk thistle, ,

title: common sow thistle


text: sow-thistle

title: sow-thistle


text:
太陽餅

Noun

 * 1)  a type of pastry from Taichung

title: 太陽餅


text:
arrestatiegolf

Etymology
Compound of.

Noun

 * 1) A wave of arrests.

title: arrestatiegolf


text: arrestatiegolven

title: arrestatiegolven


text:
شهنشاه

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) shahanshah, king of kings

title: شهنشاه


text: 太阳饼

title: 太阳饼


text: ndede

title: ndede


text: ndéde

title: ndéde


text:
rattenlijn

Etymology
From,.

Noun

 * 1)  ratline escape route or element in a network used by Nazis and other fascists to escape Europe

title: rattenlijn


text: rattenlijnen

title: rattenlijnen


text:
王梨酥

Noun

 * 1)  pineapple cake a Taiwanese pastry

title: 王梨酥


text:
Talk:prea

The Romanian word is definitely Slavic, rather than from Latin praea (before). Besides the fact that its meaning has nothing to do with the Latin word, the related suffix prea- which has similar cognates in the Slavic languages, where it has the meaning of over-, confirms the former ethymology. I'm writing this to explain why I'm making the changes.

 * What you feel about a word has nothing to do with serious linguistics. Scholars have discussed this term for ages and there are just as many promoting one origin, as there are promoting the other. In whatever case, if you're seeking consensus, it's better to take it up in the Etymology scriptorium. --Robbie SWE (talk) 19:57, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:prea


text:
Wissenserklärung

Noun

 * 1)  declaration of knowledge as opposed to the assertion of the legal will to commit to a legal effect

title: Wissenserklärung


text: Wissenserklärungen

title: Wissenserklärungen


text:
협공

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) pincer movement; pincer attack

title: 협공


text: 挾攻

title: 挾攻


text:
협격

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) pincer movement; pincer attack

title: 협격


text: 挾擊

title: 挾擊


text:
黃梨撻

Noun

 * 1)   a type of pastry commonly eaten for Chinese New year

title: 黃梨撻


text: 黄梨挞

title: 黄梨挞


text:
boire le calice jusqu'à la lie

Verb

 * 1)  to go through an unmitigatedly unpleasant experience, to see something through to the bitter end, to swallow a bitter pill

title: boire le calice jusqu'à la lie


text:
hoofdschuldige

Etymology
Compound of.

Noun

 * 1) main culprit

title: hoofdschuldige