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Thanks to Benoît (Trizek) for writing the issue this week, as I was
unavailable. Below is the English version.
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Latest *tech news
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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/09> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Thanks to the Graph extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph> and Pageview API
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/PageviewAPI>, we now have
{{Graph:PageViews}}
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/template:Graph:PageViews> templates
that can show pageviews for any wiki page for any of the wikis. See the
examples
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Pageview_stats_tool#Graph_extension>
.
- The Capiunto
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Capiunto>
extension
is installed on test wiki <https://test.wikipedia.org/>. Capiunto
provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto> and generates HTML
for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and
modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable
across different language versions, and easily extensible.
- The visual editor now follows the TemplateData format setting
announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the
wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111674>[2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104599>
- The order of parameters and format defined in a template's
TemplateData will be now respected. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104599>[4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111674>
*Changes this week*
- On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode,
red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor,
depending on user preferences. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55441>
- Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for
consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127403>
- Parsoid <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid> has been updated to
fit some HTML 5 specifications. [7]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108134>
*Meetings*
- Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at
Knowledge
Engine FAQ <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Engine/FAQ> regarding
the much talked about project. [8]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-February/082470.html>
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs
you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 March at
20:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=01&month=03&year=2016>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
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//Johan Jönsson