“ Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. Links to sections on Wikipedia don't work well in languages that don't use the Latin script. ”

“ When you edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's format configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in more powerful ways if your wiki wants it. The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can give feedback to the developers. ”

“ Rich text mode is now the default in Flow replies. Some inconsistencies used to exist. Now the preference between visual mode and wikitext mode is updated when a content change is made in the selected editor, literally when it is typed in, not when it is saved or when the editor is switched. We plan to change Flow's URLs to make them more human readable. Your feedback is still welcome, the conversation will be closed on February 28th. Collaboration team's newsletter prepared by the Collaboration team and posted by bot • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. ”

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What's new?
“New Filters for Edit Review” beta released: As of May 9, the New Filters for Edit Review beta has been released to all wikis. The beta lets users review edits on Recent Changes using an easier and more powerful interface and many new tools, including user-defined highlighting and, on some wikis, predictive filters powered by ORES, a machine-learning program. You must opt in to the beta to try it out. More features coming soon: The New Filters are still very much in development. ”

“ Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page. The tracking category Category:Pages with template loops is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template. English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. ”

“ Pamela Drouin was hired as User Interface Designer. She works at the Multimedia team as well, and her work will focus on the Structured Commons project. Partners and allies We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group (phabricator task T174134) . You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued! Research Design research is ongoing. ”

“ Determine metrics and metrics baseline for Commons (phabricator task T174519) . The multimedia team at WMF is gaining expertise in Wikibase, and unblocking further development for Structured Commons, by completing the MediaInfo extension for Wikibase. Stay up to date! Follow the Structured Data on Commons project on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/34/ Subscribe to this newsletter to receive it on a talk page of your own choice. Join the next IRC office hour and ask questions to the team! ”

“ With table style and adding of font styles, you are stepping outside of the approach that the community had previously taken, so I started that conversation with you. How else would you like for me to address that? We are a community and reportable to the community for our actions, and our styling. We are each accountable for our edits, and our compliance with the style and holding to the consensus. ”

“ Embedded search results enabled to provide users with more translation opportunities. Articles user recently edited (in currently selected source language wiki) are surfaced when there is no input in search bar, with additional info if article is missing in user's currently selected target language. Long suggestion descriptions are limited to three lines, and the rest is truncated, which is indicated by ellipsis. Chart data representing user translation statistics in now showing all the months since user's first published translation. ”

“ The community decided that images, dates of life, interwikis and authority control data should all come from Wikidata, and it wasn't magicked over the years, it has come from effort, time, coordination and asking favours of outside people (hard work!) . Similarly, where we have research on the author page. overt or hidden, then it is moved to the author talk page; if it duplicates Wikipedia link, then it can just be trimmed. ”

“ Using the <pages /> tag with no prev or next parameters pulls this in automatically, and in the proofreading progress ribbon it displays the progress for the entire index rather than just the pages transcluded. You can look at A Leaf in the Storm; A Dog of Flanders and Other Stories for an example. A while ago for The Book of Tea you changed the main namespace page to a more typical transclusion right after you added {{index transcluded}} to the Index page's ToC field, I suppose you had in mind that template's categorization and whatever else it does would be improperly transcluded into main. ”