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Tech News: 2024-09

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

'''Recent changes'''

The mobile visual editor ↗ is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research ↗ shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T352127 ↗

12px|link=|alt=|Advanced item ↗ The mw.config ↗ value <code>wgGlobalGroups</code> now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is: <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups")))</code></bdi>. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T356008 ↗

'''Changes later this week'''

12px|link=|alt=|Recurrent item ↗ The new version ↗ of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2024-02-27|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2024-02-28|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2024-02-29|en}} (calendar ↗). https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train ↗https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar ↗

'''Future changes'''

The right to change edit tags ↗ (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>changetags</code></bdi>) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket ↗ to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:21, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-10

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

'''Recent changes'''

The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>Special:Book</code></bdi> page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension ↗ has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358437 ↗

Wikitech ↗ now uses the next-generation Parsoid ↗ wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the Known Issues discussion page ↗. You can use the ParserMigration ↗ extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation ↗ for more details.

Maintenance on etherpad ↗ is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket ↗.

12px|link=|alt=| Advanced item ↗ Gadgets ↗ allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>Gadget</code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>Gadget_definition</code></bdi> namespaces and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>gadgets-definition-edit</code></bdi> user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T31272 ↗

A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T354847 ↗

'''Changes later this week'''

12px|link=|alt=|Recurrent item ↗ The new version ↗ of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2024-03-05|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2024-03-06|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2024-03-07|en}} (calendar ↗). https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train ↗https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar ↗

'''Future changes'''

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358233 ↗

The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See Heading HTML changes ↗ for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>?useparsoid=1</code></bdi> to your URL (more info ↗) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info ↗).

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:45, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-11

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

'''Changes later this week'''

12px|link=|alt=|Recurrent item ↗ The new version ↗ of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2024-03-12|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2024-03-13|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2024-03-14|en}} (calendar ↗). https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train ↗https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar ↗

After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin ↗ will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358498 ↗

The active link color in Minerva ↗ will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358516 ↗

Structured data on Commons ↗ will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312315 ↗

'''Future changes'''

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358233 ↗https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:02, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-12

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

'''Recent changes'''

The notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin ↗ main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T353619 ↗

12px|link=|alt=|Advanced item ↗ IP info feature ↗ displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341395 ↗

12px|link=|alt=|Advanced item ↗ The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Obsolete:Toolforge/Grid ↗https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge_Grid_Engine_deprecation ↗https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/03/14/toolforge-and-grid-engine/ ↗

Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326746 ↗

'''Problems'''

RevisionSlider ↗ is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left ↗ languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T352169 ↗

'''Changes later this week'''

12px|link=|alt=|Recurrent item ↗ The new version ↗ of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2024-03-19|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2024-03-20|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2024-03-21|en}} (calendar ↗). https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train ↗https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar ↗

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358233 ↗https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 17:37, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-13

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

'''Recent changes'''

12px|link=|alt=|Advanced item ↗ An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin ↗. A checklist ↗ is provided for site admins to follow.

'''Changes later this week'''

12px|link=|alt=|Recurrent item ↗ The new version ↗ of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2024-03-26|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2024-03-27|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2024-03-28|en}} (calendar ↗). https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train ↗https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 18:54, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Congrats!

Congrats on making 6088 significant edits to the English Wikipedia! You could change that on your user page {{Smiley}} <span class="tmp-color" style="color:orange">Myrealnamm</span> (talk to me) 23:40, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-14

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

'''Recent changes'''

Users of the reading accessibility ↗ beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T359030 ↗

'''Changes later this week'''

12px|link=|alt=|Recurrent item ↗ The new version ↗ of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2024-04-02|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2024-04-03|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2024-04-04|en}} (calendar ↗). https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train ↗https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar ↗

'''Future changes'''

The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results ↗ for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 03:33, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-15

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

'''Recent changes'''

Web browsers can use tools called extensions ↗. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed ↗ which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.

12px|link=|alt=|Wishlist item ↗ A new Edit Recovery ↗ feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference ↗. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page ↗. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.

Initial results of Edit check ↗ experiments have been published ↗. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it ↗. Let us know ↗ if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342930 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361727 ↗

Readers using the Minerva skin ↗ on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T359029 ↗

'''Changes later this week'''

12px|link=|alt=|Recurrent item ↗ The new version ↗ of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2024-04-09|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2024-04-10|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2024-04-11|en}} (calendar ↗). https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train ↗https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar ↗

New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor ↗ as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361134 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:35, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-16

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

'''Problems'''

Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions ↗, the "{{Int:tag-mw-reverted}}" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361918 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361940 ↗

'''Changes later this week'''

12px|link=|alt=|Recurrent item ↗ The new version ↗ of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2024-04-16|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2024-04-17|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2024-04-18|en}} (calendar ↗). https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train ↗https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar ↗

Default category sort keys ↗ will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes ↗. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40435 ↗

A new variable <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>page_last_edit_age</code></bdi> will be added to abuse filters ↗. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269769 ↗

'''Future changes'''

Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts ↗. Learn more ↗.

12px|link=|alt=|Advanced item ↗ Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry ↗). This affects only the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>abuse_filter</code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>abuse_filter_history</code></bdi> tables. Some queries might need to be updated. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361996 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:26, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-17

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

'''Recent changes'''

Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged ↗ to try structured tasks. Structured tasks ↗ have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T348086 ↗

You can nominate your favorite tools ↗ for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.

'''Changes later this week'''

12px|link=|alt=|Recurrent item ↗ The new version ↗ of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2024-04-23|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2024-04-24|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2024-04-25|en}} (calendar ↗). https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train ↗https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar ↗

'''Future changes'''

This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of {{#special:MyPage}}/vector.js ↗ to {{#special:MyPage}}/vector-2022.js ↗. There are more technical details ↗ available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T362701 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:25, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-18

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

'''Recent changes'''

thumb|alt=Screenshot of the visual improvements made on talk pages|Example of a talk page with the new design, in French. ↗

The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: {{int:project-localized-name-azwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-bnwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-dewiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-fawiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-hewiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-hiwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-idwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-kowiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-nlwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-ptwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-rowiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-thwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-trwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-ukwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-viwiki/en}}. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results ↗, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ↗ ("{{int:discussiontools-preference-visualenhancements}}"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341491 ↗

Seven new wikis have been created:

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in Betawi ↗ (<code>w:bew:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357866 ↗

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in Kusaal ↗ (<code>w:kus:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T359757 ↗

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in Igala ↗ (<code>w:igl:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361644 ↗

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wiktionary}} in Karakalpak ↗ (<code>wikt:kaa:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T362135 ↗

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikisource}} in Burmese ↗ (<code>s:my:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361085 ↗

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikisource}} in Malay ↗ (<code>s:ms:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363039 ↗

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikisource}} in Georgian ↗ (<code>s:ka:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363085 ↗

You can now watch message groups/projects ↗ on Translatewiki.net ↗. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T348501 ↗

Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode ↗. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis ↗. See more detailed guidelines ↗.

'''Problems'''

Kartographer ↗ maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>mapstyle="osm"</nowiki></code></bdi>. This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T362531 ↗

'''Changes later this week'''

12px|link=|alt=|Recurrent item ↗ The new version ↗ of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2024-04-30|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2024-05-01|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2024-05-02|en}} (calendar ↗). https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train ↗https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 03:31, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-19

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

'''Recent changes'''
thumb|alt=Screenshot of the visual improvements made on talk pages|Example of a talk page with the new design, in French. ↗

The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few ↗ have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on ''Diff'' ↗. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ↗ ("{{int:discussiontools-preference-visualenhancements}}"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T352087 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T319146 ↗

12px|link=|alt=|Advanced item ↗ Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the <code>SiteAdminHelper</code>. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363932 ↗

12px|link=|alt=|Advanced item ↗ Wikimedia Enterprise ↗ has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/article-sections-and-description/ ↗

'''Changes later this week'''

12px|link=|alt=|Recurrent item ↗ The new version ↗ of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2024-05-07|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2024-05-08|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2024-05-09|en}} (calendar ↗). https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train ↗https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar ↗

When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T237729 ↗

'''Future changes'''

A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph ↗. Details can be found in the latest update ↗ regarding this extension.

Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link ↗". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias ↗. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308144 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 16:41, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi Hajoon0102. Thank you for your work on Groupe Dubreuil ↗. Another editor, SunDawn, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol ↗ and left the following comment:

{{Bq|1=Good day! Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia by writing this article. I have marked the article as reviewed. Have a wonderful and blessed day for you and your family!}}

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{code|<nowiki>{{Re|</nowiki>SunDawn<nowiki>}}</nowiki>}}. <small>(Message delivered via the Page Curation ↗ tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)</small>

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Tech News: 2024-20

<section begin="technews-2024-W20"/><div class="plainlinks">
Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Recent changes'''

On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>__EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__</code></bdi> to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344214 ↗

If you use the user-preference ↗ "{{int:tog-uselivepreview}}", then the template-page feature "{{int:Templatesandbox-editform-legend}}" will now also work without reloading the page. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136907 ↗

Kartographer ↗ maps can now specify an alternative text via the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>alt=</nowiki></code></bdi> attribute. This is identical in usage to the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>alt=</nowiki></code></bdi> attribute in the image and gallery syntax ↗. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328137 ↗

The old Guided Tour ↗ for the "New Filters for Edit Review ↗" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217451 ↗

'''Changes later this week'''

12px|link=|alt=|Recurrent item ↗ The new version ↗ of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2024-05-14|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2024-05-15|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2024-05-16|en}} (calendar ↗). https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train ↗https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar ↗

12px|link=|alt=|Advanced item ↗ The {{#special:search}} ↗ results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320295 ↗

'''Future changes'''

In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357706 ↗

12px|link=|alt=|Advanced item ↗ Two columns of the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>pagelinks ↗</code></bdi> database table (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>pl_namespace</code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>pl_title</code></bdi>) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>linktarget ↗</code></bdi> table instead (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>lt_namespace</code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>lt_title</code></bdi>). In your existing SQL queries:

# Replace <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>JOIN pagelinks</code></bdi> with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>JOIN linktarget</code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>pl_</code></bdi> with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>lt_</code></bdi> in the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>ON</code></bdi> statement

# Below that add <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id</code></bdi>

* See <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">phab:T222224 ↗</bdi> for technical reasoning. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222224 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T299947 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:56, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

File:FaceTime screenshot.png listed for discussion

30px|left ↗ A file that you uploaded or altered, :File:FaceTime screenshot.png ↗, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion ↗. Please see the '''discussion''' ↗ to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you.  <span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Kys<span style="background-color: rgb(50, 0, 129); color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">5</span>g</span><sup><small> talk!</small></sup> 09:40, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-21

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

'''Recent changes'''

The Nuke ↗ feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T43351 ↗

New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:WMF_support_for_Commons/Upload_Wizard_Improvements#Changes_to_%22Describe%22_workflow ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361049 ↗

'''Changes later this week'''

12px|link=|alt=|Recurrent item ↗ The new version ↗ of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2024-05-21|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2024-05-22|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2024-05-23|en}} (calendar ↗). https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train ↗https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar ↗

12px|link=|alt=|Advanced item ↗ The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility ↗. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems ↗ so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles ↗ if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:02, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-22

<section begin="technews-2024-W22"/><div class="plainlinks">
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'''

Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see T365107 ↗ and T365119 ↗.

12px|link=|alt=|Advanced item ↗ In March 2024 a new addPortlet ↗ API was added to allow gadgets to create new portlets (menus) in the skin. In certain skins this can be used to create dropdowns. Gadget developers are invited to try it and give feedback ↗.

12px|link=|alt=|Advanced item ↗ Some CSS in the Minerva skin has been removed to enable easier community configuration. Interface editors should check the rendering on mobile devices for aspects related to the classes: <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>.collapsible</code></bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>.multicol</code></bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>.reflist</code></bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>.coordinates</code></bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>.topicon</code></bdi>. Further details are available on replacement CSS ↗ if it is needed.

'''Changes later this week'''

12px|link=|alt=|Recurrent item ↗ The new version ↗ of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2024-05-28|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2024-05-29|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2024-05-30|en}} (calendar ↗). https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train ↗https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar ↗

When you visit a wiki where you don't yet have a local account, local rules such as edit filters can sometimes prevent your account from being created. Starting this week, MediaWiki takes your global rights into account when evaluating whether you can override such local rules. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316303 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:13, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-23

<section begin="technews-2024-W23"/><div class="plainlinks">
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'''

It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript. Documentation is available ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T6086 ↗

The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category</code></bdi>" to "<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category</code></bdi>". https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/wikihiero/+/1035855 ↗

One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in Kadazandusun ↗ (<code>w:dtp:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T365220 ↗

'''Changes later this week'''

12px|link=|alt=|Recurrent item ↗ The new version ↗ of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2024-06-04|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2024-06-05|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2024-06-06|en}} (calendar ↗). https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train ↗https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar ↗

'''Future changes'''

Next week, on wikis with the Vector 2022 skin as the default, logged-out desktop users will be able to choose between different font sizes. The default font size will also be increased for them. This is to make Wikimedia projects easier to read. Learn more ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:32, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-24

<section begin="technews-2024-W24"/><div class="plainlinks">
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 software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265549 ↗

12px|link=|alt=|Advanced item ↗ The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility ↗. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems ↗ so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles ↗ if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.

12px|link=|alt=|Advanced item ↗ The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid ↗ changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>mw-reference-text</code></bdi> class, Parsoid now also adds the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>reference-text</code></bdi> class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available ↗. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1036705 ↗

'''Problems'''

There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366374 ↗

'''Changes later this week'''

12px|link=|alt=|Recurrent item ↗ The new version ↗ of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2024-06-11|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2024-06-12|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2024-06-13|en}} (calendar ↗). https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train ↗https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar ↗

12px|link=|alt=|Advanced item ↗ The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid ↗ will now generate a <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki><span class="mw-cite-backlink"></nowiki></code></bdi> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available ↗. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1035809 ↗

On multilingual wikis that use the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki><translate></nowiki></code></bdi> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T49177 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:18, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:IOS 18 Homescreen.png

35px|text-top|left|⚠|link= ↗ Thanks for uploading ''':File:IOS 18 Homescreen.png ↗'''. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use ↗. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media ↗).

Note that any non-free images not used in any '''articles''' will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion ↗. Thank you. GTrang (talk) 20:57, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-25

<section begin="technews-2024-W25"/><div class="plainlinks">
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'''

People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check ↗ for more details. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366751 ↗

The new Community Configuration extension ↗ is available on Test Wikipedia ↗. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases ↗ in the future. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323811 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T360954 ↗

The dark mode beta feature ↗ is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366370 ↗

'''Problems'''

12px|link=|alt=|Advanced item ↗ Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/2024-06-11_WMCS_Ceph ↗

Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367480 ↗

'''Changes later this week'''

12px|link=|alt=|Recurrent item ↗ The new version ↗ of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2024-06-18|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2024-06-19|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2024-06-20|en}} (calendar ↗). https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train ↗https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar ↗

Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check ↗ will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias ↗. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis ↗, the number of citations added more than doubled ↗ when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361843 ↗

Mailing lists ↗ will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367521 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:46, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 ↗

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If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted ↗ so you can continue working on it.

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Concern regarding Draft:Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 ↗

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Tech News: 2024-26

<section begin="technews-2024-W26"/><div class="plainlinks">
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 will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions on the project talkpage ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361717 ↗

The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366515 ↗

'''Problems'''

You can copy permanent links to talk page comments ↗ by clicking on a comment's timestamp. This feature ↗ did not always work when the topic title was very long and the link was used as a wikitext link. This has been fixed. Thanks to Lofhi for submitting the bug. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T356196 ↗

'''Changes later this week'''

12px|link=|alt=|Recurrent item ↗ The new version ↗ of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2024-06-25|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2024-06-26|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2024-06-27|en}} (calendar ↗). https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train ↗https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar ↗

Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature on Diff ↗ or on Mediawiki.org ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T365974 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:30, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-27

<section begin="technews-2024-W27"/><div class="plainlinks">
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'''

Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes ↗, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366364 ↗

Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode ↗, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341278 ↗

If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS ↗ features and to send less code to all readers. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288287 ↗https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:How_to_make_a_MediaWiki_skin#Using_CSS_variables_for_supporting_different_themes_e.g._dark_mode ↗

Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration ↗. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features ↗ on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366458 ↗

Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards ↗, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org ↗. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium ↗, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.

One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in Mandailing ↗ (<code>w:btm:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368038 ↗

'''Problems'''

Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368119 ↗

'''Future changes'''

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:57, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-28

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

'''Recent changes'''

At the Wikimedia Foundation a new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Chart ↗. You can subscribe to the newsletter ↗ to get notified about new project updates and other news about Chart.

The CampaignEvents ↗ extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on your wiki. This extension helps in managing and making events more visible, giving Event organizers the ability to use tools like the Event registration tool. To learn more about the deployment status and how to request this extension for your wiki, visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-wiki ↗.

Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image ↗ feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.

Thank you to all of the authors ↗ who have contributed to MediaWiki Core. As a result of these contributions, the percentage of authors contributing more than 5 patches has increased by 25% since last year ↗, which helps ensure the sustainability of the platform for the Wikimedia projects.

'''Problems'''

A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed ↗.

'''Future changes'''

The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts ↗ with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation ↗ explaining how to do the update. Learn more ↗.

'''Tech News survey'''

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 21:29, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Nothing OS ↗

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Tech News: 2024-29

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'''Tech News survey'''

Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey ↗. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 3 more days. The survey is covered by this privacy statement ↗. Some translations are available.

'''Recent changes'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit ↗ and GitLab ↗, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status ↗ page.

The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council ↗ (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10 ↗.

Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol ↗ features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team ↗. You can read more about this project on Diff blog ↗.

Editors who have access to The Wikipedia Library ↗ can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted ↗ them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week ↗.

'''Changes later this week'''

This week, dark mode will be available on a number of Wikipedias ↗, both desktop and mobile, for logged-in and logged-out users. Interface admins and user script maintainers are encouraged to check gadgets and user scripts in the dark mode, to find any hard-coded colors and fix them. There are some recommendations for dark mode compatibility ↗ to help.

'''Future changes'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts ↗ feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T348895 ↗

Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload ↗ and discussion at Commons:Village Pump ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 01:28, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-30

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

'''Feature News'''

Stewards can now globally block ↗ accounts. Before the change ↗ only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks ↗ (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts ↗ project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.

Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs ↗ (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system ↗. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin ↗ was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex ↗ by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191156 ↗

Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest ↗. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367329 ↗

Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App ↗ highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.

Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics ↗ analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/19/commons-impact-metrics-now-available-via-data-dumps-and-api/ ↗

'''Project Updates'''

Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist ↗. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.

'''Learn more'''

Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff ↗.

How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post ↗ by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative ↗, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin ↗ and Add a Fact ↗, to help take Wikimedia into the future.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:02, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-31

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

'''Feature news'''

Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage ↗.

'''Bugs status'''

Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors ↗ were mainly due to the addition of new linter ↗ rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.

Editors can use the IP Information tool ↗ to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks ↗ that were resolved last week.

'''Project updates'''

There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary ↗.

There is an update on the Charts project ↗. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.

One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikivoyage}} in Czech ↗ (<code>voy:cs:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370905 ↗

'''Learn more'''

There is a new Wikimedia Foundation data center ↗ in São Paulo, Brazil which helps to reduce load times.

There is new user research ↗ on problems with the process of uploading images.

Commons Impact Metrics are now available ↗ via data dumps and API.

The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter ↗ is now available.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:08, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-32

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'''Feature news'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ Two new parser functions will be available this week: <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>#dir ↗<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>#bcp47 ↗<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>. These will reduce the need for <code>Template:Dir</code> and <code>Template:BCP47</code> on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows ↗ from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T359761 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366623 ↗

Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance ''Wikipedia:'' or ''Wikisource:'' namespaces) if they understand the known limitations ↗. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools ↗ in these namespaces.

The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki ↗. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.

'''Project updates'''

Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey ↗ or share your thoughts on the talkpage ↗. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ The new parser is being rolled out on {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikivoyage}} wikis over the next few months. The {{int:project-localized-name-enwikivoyage}} and {{int:project-localized-name-hewikivoyage}} were switched ↗ to Parsoid last week. For more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification ↗.

'''Learn more'''

There will be more than 200 sessions at Wikimania this week. Here is a summary of some of the key sessions related to the product and technology area ↗.

The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin ↗ is available.

The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter ↗ is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more.

The latest quarterly Growth newsletter ↗ is available.

The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter ↗ is available.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:41, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-33

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

'''Feature news'''

AbuseFilter ↗ editors and maintainers can now make a CAPTCHA show if a filter matches an edit ↗. This allows communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T20110 ↗

Stewards ↗ can now specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before this change ↗ by the Trust and Safety Product ↗ Team, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.

'''Project updates'''

Nominations are open on Wikitech ↗ for new members to refresh the Toolforge standards committee ↗. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy ↗ and Abandoned tool policy ↗ among other duties. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.

One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in West Coast Bajau ↗ (<code>w:bdr:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T371757 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:19, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-34

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

'''Feature news'''

Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing ↗ feature. You can read more about the project ↗ and how to test the prototype ↗.

Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList ↗, Kartographer ↗, Phonos ↗, RSS ↗, Score ↗, WikiHiero ↗. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347324 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the <code><bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">categories</bdi></code> property of <code><bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">mw.title objects ↗</bdi></code>. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T50175 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85372 ↗

'''Bugs status'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with <code>Talk:WP:</code> so that their titles start with <code>Wikipedia talk:</code>), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ ↗</bdi> instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388 ↗.

Editors who volunteer as mentors ↗ to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix ↗. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Project updates'''

The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council ↗ (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.

'''Learn more'''

The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards ↗ were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon ↗. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.

The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin ↗ is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:50, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-35

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

'''Feature news'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ Administrators can now test the temporary accounts ↗ feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page ↗.

Later this week, editors at wikis that use FlaggedRevs ↗ (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191156 ↗

'''Bugs status'''

Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will no longer ↗ experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Project updates'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item ↗ Please review and vote on Focus Areas ↗, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.

Do you have a project and are willing to provide a three (3) month mentorship for an intern? Outreachy ↗ is a twice a year program for people to participate in a paid internship that will start in December 2024 and end in early March 2025, and they need mentors and projects to work on. Projects can be focused on coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, research). See the Outreachy page for more details, and a list of past projects since 2013.

'''Learn more'''

If you're curious about the product and technology improvements made by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, read this recent highlights summary on Diff ↗.

To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:

* Community Configuration - Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together ↗ (55 mins) - about the Community Configuration ↗ project.

* Future of MediaWiki. A sustainable platform to support a collaborative user base and billions of page views ↗ (30 mins) - an overview for both technical and non technical audiences, covering some of the challenges and open questions, related to the platform evolution, stewardship and developer experiences ↗ research.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:29, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Re-rename

Hey! On notification from @InfiniteNexus (on my talkpage ↗) I would like to request that you submit another rename request which would be in line with the local policy ↗. Cheers! Nadzik (talk) 17:30, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

:{{Ping|Nadzik}} I requested rename. Please accept. IPhone13 (talk) 11:57, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-36

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

'''Weekly highlight'''

Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update ↗ and help to test the charts.

'''Feature news'''

Editors who use the {{#special:Unusedtemplates}} ↗ page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word <code dir="ltr"><nowiki>__EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__</nowiki></code> ↗ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184633 ↗

Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded ↗ to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and {{formatnum:28}} other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week ↗.

Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373243 ↗

Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu ↗.

'''Project updates'''

A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki ↗. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page ↗ until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.

'''Learn more'''

To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:

* Charts, the successor of Graphs - A secure and extensible tool for data visualization ↗ (25 mins) – about the above-mentioned Charts project.

* State of Language Technology and Onboarding at Wikimedia ↗ (90 mins) – about some of the language tools that support Wikimedia sites, such as Content ↗/Section Translation ↗, MinT ↗, and LanguageConverter; also the current state and future of languages onboarding. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368772 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 01:03, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-37

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

'''Feature news'''

Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter ↗ will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T365311 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259059 ↗

Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>entity:getSitelink()</code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid)</code></bdi> will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T295356 ↗

'''Project updates'''

Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370962 ↗

Contributors of 11 Wikipedias ↗, including English will have a new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>MOS</code></bdi> namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>MOS:</code></bdi> (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style ↗) are not broken by Mooré ↗ Wikipedia (language code <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>mos</code></bdi>). https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363538 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 18:49, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-38

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

'''Improvements and Maintenance'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item ↗ Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery ↗, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes ↗.

The new automated {{#special:NamespaceInfo}} ↗ page helps editors understand which namespaces ↗ exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263513 ↗

References Check ↗ is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373692 ↗

It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request ↗ a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373480 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases ↗ from both Quarry ↗ and Superset ↗. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge ↗ user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself ↗. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and {{formatnum:20}} other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week ↗.

Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>mw-message-box</code></bdi> need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search ↗ to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>cdx-message</code></bdi> group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation ↗, and an example update ↗), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374499 ↗

'''Technical project updates'''

Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC ↗. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. ↗ The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370962 ↗

'''Tech in depth'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter ↗ is available. This edition includes details about: research about hook ↗ handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:

* Hackathon Showcase ↗ (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are more details and links available ↗ in the Phabricator task.

* Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem ↗ (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:59, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-39

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

'''Weekly highlight'''

All wikis will be read-only ↗ for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC ↗. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.

'''Updates for editors'''
thumb|A screenshot of the interface for the Alt Text suggested-edit feature ↗

Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment ↗ after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image ↗". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page ↗.

The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes ↗ for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within <code><nowiki><syntaxhighlight></nowiki></code> tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax <code><nowiki>{{…}}</nowiki></code> are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368166 ↗

Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest ↗ system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370595 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T372223 ↗

View all {{formatnum:25}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:25|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ From Wikimedia Enterprise ↗:

* The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on the project's blog post ↗. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.

* The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that ↗) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that ↗). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.

'''In depth'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the WDQS Graph Split project ↗, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly ↗" and "main ↗" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint ↗ will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:33, 23 September 2024 (UTC)


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Tech News: 2024-40

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

'''Updates for editors'''

Readers of 42 more wikis ↗ can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool ↗ if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page ↗ provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.

Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding <code dir=ltr>?veaction=editsource</code> to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T239796 ↗

For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more ↗ about the changes related to donor experiences. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373585 ↗

The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled ↗ on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided ↗ to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia ↗ and on Wikidata ↗. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki ↗.

View all {{formatnum:22}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:22|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required ↗ for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.

'''In depth'''

The server switch ↗ was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds ↗. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes. https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/66ZW7B2MG63AESQVTXDIFQBDBS766JGW/ ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

October 4–6: WikiIndaba Conference's Hackathon ↗ in Johannesburg, South Africa

November 4–6: MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 ↗ in Vienna, Austria

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:16, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-41

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

'''Weekly highlight'''

Communities can now request installation of Automoderator ↗ on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps ↗ for installation and configuration. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336934 ↗

'''Updates for editors'''

Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available ↗, can now customize their articles suggestion list from 41 filtering options when using the tool. This topic-based article suggestion feature makes it easy for translators to self-discover relevant articles based on their area of interest and translate them. You can try it with your mobile device ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368422 ↗

View all {{formatnum:12}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:12|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

It is now possible for <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki><syntaxhighlight></nowiki></code></bdi> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>copy=1</nowiki></code></bdi> attribute is set on the tag ↗. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40932 ↗

Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T375789 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ Later this month, temporary accounts ↗ will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis ↗, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit ↗ and GitLab ↗ to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables ↗ firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall ↗, GitLab limits ↗ and Gerrit operations ↗.

Five new wikis have been created:

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in Komering ↗ (<code>w:kge:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374813 ↗

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in Mooré ↗ (<code>m:mos:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374641 ↗

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wiktionary}} in Madurese ↗ (<code>wikt:mad:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374968 ↗

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikiquote}} in Gorontalo ↗ (<code>q:gor:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T375088 ↗

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikinews}} in Shan ↗ (<code>n:shn:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T375430 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:39, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-42

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

'''Updates for editors'''

The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools ↗, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis ↗ are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Structured_Discussions/Deprecation ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370722 ↗

WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week ↗ on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">''hastemplate''</bdi> and <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">''incategory''</bdi> keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_%28WMF%29/Notes/Language_Analyzer_Harmonization_Notes#ASCII-folding/ICU-folding_%28T332342%29 ↗

View all {{formatnum:20}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:20|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, EditCheck ↗ was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector ↗ will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:New_pages_patrol/Reviewers#Authentication_is_now_required_for_search_engine_checks_on_Earwig's_Copyvio_Tool ↗

Phabricator ↗ users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator ↗ has been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T356077 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <code><nowiki><bdi></nowiki></code> element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended ↗ and might break at any time. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T375975 ↗

'''In depth'''

The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter ↗ is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.

The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter ↗ is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 21:17, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-43

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

'''Weekly highlight'''

The Mobile Apps team has released an update ↗ to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh ↗ to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.

thumb|iOS Wikipedia App's profile menu and contents ↗

'''Updates for editors'''

Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page ↗ and subscribe to their newsletter ↗.

Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis ↗ will start to have temporary accounts ↗ created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account ↗. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available ↗. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis ↗.

View all {{formatnum:33}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:33|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the South Ndebele ↗, Pannonian Rusyn ↗, Obolo ↗, Iban ↗ and Tai Nüa ↗ Wikipedia languages were created last week. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36785 ↗https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35660 ↗https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36614 ↗https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33424 ↗https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36556 ↗

It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type ↗ launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new <code dir="ltr">{{#timef ↗:…}}</code> parser function. For example, <code dir="ltr"><nowiki>{{#timef:now|date|en}}</nowiki></code> will show as "<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">{{#timef:now|date|en}}</bdi>". Previously, <code dir="ltr"><nowiki>{{#time:…}}</nowiki></code> could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation. <code dir="ltr">#timef</code> (or <code dir="ltr">#timefl</code> for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223772 ↗https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions##timef ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language ↗ using <code dir="ltr"><nowiki>{{USERLANGUAGE}}</nowiki></code> instead of using <code dir="ltr"><nowiki>{{int:lang}}</nowiki></code>. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T4085 ↗

The Product and Tech Advisory Council ↗ (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council ↗ initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy/Initiatives/Technology_Council ↗

'''In depth'''

The latest quarterly Growth newsletter ↗ is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.

The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program ↗, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures ↗ (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.

The Community Wishlist ↗ is now testing machine translations ↗ for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.

'''Meetings and events'''

24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar - Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard ↗, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel.

20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 ↗ in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:49, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-44

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

'''Updates for editors'''

Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update ↗ and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Wikipedia ↗.

View all {{formatnum:32}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:32|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, Pediapress.com ↗, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use Wikimedia Maps ↗ to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T375761 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension ↗ to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode ↗. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set <code>emitTransitionOnStep</code> to <code>true</code> to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag <code>allowAutomaticBack</code> to avoid back-buttons they don't want. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73927#10241528 ↗

Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension ↗ will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366068 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:53, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-45

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

'''Updates for editors'''

Stewards can now make global account blocks ↗ cause global autoblocks ↗. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts ↗ project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368949 ↗

Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled ↗ can now use the Collaboration List ↗ feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan ↗. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps ↗ or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.

The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370446 ↗

View all {{formatnum:32}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:32|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now ↗ hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

XML data dumps ↗ have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/xmldatadumps-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/BXWJDPO5QI2QMBCY7HO36ELDCRO6HRM4/ ↗

'''In depth'''

Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work ↗, you can read about the deployment plans ↗. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects ↗. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF ↗ for assistance.

The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter ↗ is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.

'''Meetings and events'''

MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 ↗ is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.

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Tech News: 2024-46

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

'''Updates for editors'''

On wikis with the Translate extension ↗ enabled, users will notice that the FuzzyBot will now automatically create translated versions of categories used on translated pages. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285463 ↗

View all {{formatnum:29}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:29|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the submitted task to use the SecurePoll extension ↗ for English Wikipedia's special administrator election ↗ was resolved on time. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T371454 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ In <code dir="ltr">1.44.0-wmf-2 ↗</code>, the logic of Wikibase function <code>getAllStatements</code> changed to behave like <code>getBestStatements</code>. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270851 ↗

Wikimedia REST API ↗ users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API ↗ endpoints. The impacted endpoints ↗ include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket ↗.

'''In depth'''

Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled ↗ can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard ↗ calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page ↗ for more information about this work. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T369488 ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC ↗ & 16:00 UTC ↗) - Community call ↗ with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:04, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

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The Arbitration Committee ↗ is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process ↗. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans ↗, topic bans ↗, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy ↗ describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

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Tech News: 2024-47

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

'''Updates for editors'''

Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a redirect ↗ to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326057 ↗

View all {{formatnum:42}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:42|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, Pywikibot ↗, which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378676 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

On wikis that use the FlaggedRevs extension ↗, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T379218 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368380 ↗

'''In depth'''

There is a new Diff post ↗ about Temporary Accounts, available in more than 15 languages. Read it to learn about what Temporary Accounts are, their impact on different groups of users, and the plan to introduce the change on all wikis.

'''Meetings and events'''

Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon ↗, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships ↗ is open from '''November 12 to December 10 2024'''. The registration for the event will close in mid-April 2025. The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual gathering that unites the global technical community to collaborate on existing projects and explore new ideas.

Join the Wikimedia Commons community calls ↗ this week to help prioritize support for Commons which will be planned for 2025–2026. The theme will be how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. This is an opportunity for volunteers who work on different things to come together and talk about what matters for the future of the project. The calls will take place '''November 21, 2024, 8:00 UTC ↗ and 16:00 UTC ↗'''.

A Language community meeting ↗ will take place '''November 29, 16:00 UTC''' to discuss updates and technical problem-solving.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 01:58, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-48

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

'''Updates for editors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item ↗ A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter ↗ will be available as a beta feature ↗ later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support, template folding ↗, autocompletion ↗, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the help page ↗.

The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>Ctrl</code>+<code>B</code></bdi> for bold and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>Ctrl</code>+<code>I</code></bdi> for italics. A full list of all six shortcuts ↗ is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T62928 ↗

Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: <bdi>bswiki</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>elwiki</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>euwiki</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>fawiki</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>fiwiki</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>frwikiquote</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>frwikisource</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>frwikiversity</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>frwikivoyage</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>idwiki</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>lvwiki</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>plwiki</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>ptwiki</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>urwiki</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>viwikisource</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>zhwikisource</bdi>. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work ↗. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF) ↗.

View all {{formatnum:25}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:25|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected" if it includes a protected variable ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The CodeEditor ↗, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, now offers ↗ live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>Ctrl</code>+<code>,</code></bdi> and un-selecting "<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">Live Autocompletion</bdi>".

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check this dashboard ↗ and the list in the Description of the task T350592 ↗ to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April. https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/KLUV4IOLRYXPQFWD6WKKJUHMWE77BMSZ/ ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ The New PreProcessor parser performance report ↗ has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279069 ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

A Language community meeting ↗ will take place November 29 at 16:00 UTC ↗. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, the language support track at Wiki Indaba ↗, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:39, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-49

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

'''Updates for editors'''

Two new parser functions were added this week. The <code dir="ltr"><nowiki>{{</nowiki>#interwikilink ↗<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> function adds an interwiki link ↗ and the <code dir="ltr"><nowiki>{{</nowiki>#interlanguagelink ↗<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> function adds an interlanguage link ↗. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>MOS:</code></bdi> on English Wikipedia conflict with the <code>mos</code> language code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia ↗.

Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page ↗ for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/CTYEHVNSXUD3NFAAMG3BLZVTVQWJXJAH/ ↗

Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: <bdi>arwiki</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>cawiki</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>frwiki</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>mediawikiwiki</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>orwiki</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>wawiki</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>wawiktionary</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>wikidatawiki</bdi>{{int:comma-separator/en}}<bdi>zhwiki</bdi>. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work ↗. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF) ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T380910 ↗

This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version on Testwiki ↗ and read the November project update ↗ for more details.

View all {{formatnum:23}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:23|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376438 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

In late February, temporary accounts will be rolled out on at least 10 large wikis. This deployment will have a significant effect on the community-maintained code. This is about Toolforge tools, bots, gadgets, and user scripts that use IP address data or that are available for logged-out users. The Trust and Safety Product team wants to identify this code, monitor it, and assist in updating it ahead of the deployment to minimize disruption to workflows. The team asks technical editors and volunteer developers to help identify such tools by adding them to this list ↗. In addition, review the updated documentation ↗ to learn how to adjust the tools. Join the discussions on the project talk page ↗ or in the dedicated thread ↗ on the Wikimedia Community Discord server (in English) ↗ for support and to share feedback.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:20, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-50

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

'''Weekly highlight'''

Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub ↗ on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">#wikimedia-techdocs</bdi> IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team ↗.

'''Updates for editors'''
thumb|Layout change for the Edit Check feature ↗

Later this week, Edit Check ↗ will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks ↗ that appear ''while'' they are typing. The initial results ↗ show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.

The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki ↗ and read the November project update ↗ for more details.

Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available ↗, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection ↗" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <code dir=ltr><nowiki><page-collection> </page-collection></nowiki></code> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378958 ↗

The Nuke ↗ feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection ↗. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.

The Nuke feature also now provides links ↗ to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T364225#10371365 ↗

The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid ↗ tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, <code dir=ltr>archiveUrl</code> and <code dir=ltr>archiveDate</code>, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template ↗, and a list of all relevant templates ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374831 ↗

One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikivoyage}} in Indonesian ↗ (<code>voy:id:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T380726 ↗

Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing. https://www.wikimediastatus.net/incidents/3g2ckc7bp6l9 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:19}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:19|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, a bug in the Add Link ↗ feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T380455 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T380329 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Codex ↗, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP ↗. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer ↗, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation ↗. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T379662 ↗

Wikimedia REST API ↗ users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki ↗ from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket ↗ before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase ↗ system.

The 2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey ↗ is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement ↗.

There is no new MediaWiki version this week. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation discussions with the Wikimedia Commons community ↗ will take place on December 12 at 8:00 UTC ↗ and at 16:00 UTC ↗. The topic of this call is new media and new contributors. Contributors from all wikis are welcome to attend.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:13, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-51

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

'''Weekly highlight'''

Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension ↗ offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page ↗.

'''Updates for editors'''

Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review ↗ with insights based on their reading and editing history.

Users of the Android Wikipedia App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes ↗ feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.

The global reminder bot ↗ is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page ↗ for more information.

The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:27}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:27|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, a bug was fixed ↗ in the Android Wikipedia App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar/2025 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:22, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

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Tech News: 2025-03

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

'''Weekly highlight'''

The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page ↗ for more details and a timeline.

'''Updates for editors'''

On wikis with PageAssessments ↗ installed, you can now filter search results ↗ to pages in a given WikiProject by using the <code dir=ltr>inproject:</code> keyword. (These wikis: {{int:project-localized-name-arwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-enwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-enwikivoyage/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-frwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-huwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-newiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-trwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-zhwiki/en}}) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378868 ↗

One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in Tigre ↗ (<code>w:tig:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381377 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:35}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:35|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T382592 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints ↗ from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team ↗ in Phabricator if they arise.

Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 ↗ and OAuth 2 ↗ returned a JSON object with an integer in its <code>sub</code> field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T382139 ↗

Many wikis currently use Cite CSS ↗ to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to ''not'' clean up your <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki:Common.css ↗</bdi> until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370027 ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation Community Conversations with the Wikimedia Commons community ↗ will take place on January 15 at 8:00 UTC ↗ and at 16:00 UTC ↗. The topic of this call is defining the priorities in tool investment for Commons. Contributors from all wikis, especially users who are maintaining tools for Commons, are welcome to attend.

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Tech News: 2025-04

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

'''Updates for editors'''

Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke ↗. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T380846 ↗

On wikis that use ↗ the Patrolled edits ↗ feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use filters ↗ on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T302140 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:31}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:31|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been fixed ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools ↗, which is used on any regular talk page. The last group of wikis ↗ ({{int:project-localized-name-cawikiquote/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-fiwikimedia/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-gomwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-kabwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-ptwikibooks/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-sewikimedia/en}}) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping Trizek (WMF) ↗ at your wiki. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T380912 ↗

The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter ↗ is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 01:34, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-05

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

'''Weekly highlight'''

Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and 13 other questions ↗ to shape the technical direction for next year.

'''Updates for editors'''

iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a personalized Year in Review ↗ feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item ↗ Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in {{#special:RecentChanges}} ↗ and {{#special:NewPages}} ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T56145 ↗

Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a double redirect ↗). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326056 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ Wikimedia wikis allow WebAuthn ↗-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is fragile ↗ and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of SUL3 ↗ (single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378402 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:30}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:30|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

For developers that use the MediaWiki History dumps ↗: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the Temporary Accounts ↗ initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>mediawiki_user_history</code></bdi> dump, the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>anonymous</code></bdi> field will be renamed to <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>is_anonymous</code></bdi>. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February. https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/LKMFDS62TXGDN6L56F4ABXYLN7CSCQDI/ ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:12, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2025-06

<section begin="technews-2025-W06"/><div class="plainlinks">
Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

Editors who use the "Special characters" editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki. This change should help make it easier to find the characters you use most often. The feature is in both the 2010 wikitext editor and VisualEditor. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110722 ↗

Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor can now create sublists with correct indentation by selecting the line(s) you want to indent and then clicking the toolbar buttons.https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T380438 ↗ You can now also insert <code><nowiki><code></nowiki></code> tags using a new toolbar button.https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383010 ↗ Thanks to user stjn for these improvements.

Help is needed to ensure the citation generator ↗ works properly on each wiki.

* (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page <code dir=ltr>MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json</code> to include entries for <code dir=ltr>preprint</code>, <code dir=ltr>standard</code>, and <code dir=ltr>dataset</code>; Here are example diffs to replicate for 'preprint' ↗ and for 'standard' and 'dataset' ↗.

* (2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing, one will need to be added ↗. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updates for 'preprint' ↗ and for 'standard' and 'dataset' ↗. The new fields that may need to be supported are <code dir=ltr>archiveID</code>, <code dir=ltr>identifier</code>, <code dir=ltr>repository</code>, <code dir=ltr>organization</code>, <code dir=ltr>repositoryLocation</code>, <code dir=ltr>committee</code>, and <code dir=ltr>versionNumber</code>. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383666 ↗

One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia/en}} in Central Kanuri ↗ (<code>w:knc:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T385181 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:27}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:27|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the OCR (optical character recognition) tool ↗ used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384782 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:06, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

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Note that any non-free images not used in any '''articles''' will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion ↗. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 03:27, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-07

<section begin="technews-2025-W07"/><div class="plainlinks">
Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Weekly highlight'''

The Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has published a draft of their recommendations ↗ for the Wikimedia Foundation's Product and Technology department. They have recommended focusing on mobile experiences ↗, particularly contributions. They request community feedback at the talk page ↗ by 21 February.

'''Updates for editors'''

The "Special pages" portlet link will be moved from the "Toolbox" into the "Navigation" section of the main menu's sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions at T385346 ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333211 ↗

As part of this year's work around improving the ways readers discover content on the wikis, the Web team will be running an experiment with a small number of readers that displays some suggestions for related or interesting articles within the search bar. Please check out the project page ↗ for more information.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (<code dir=ltr>prefers-reduced-motion ↗</code>, <code dir=ltr>prefers-reduced-transparency ↗</code>, <code dir=ltr>prefers-contrast ↗</code>, and <code dir=ltr>forced-colors ↗</code>). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384175 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:22}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:22|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the {{#special:CentralAuth}} page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T377024 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Wikidata now supports a special language as a "default for all languages" ↗ for labels and aliases. This is to avoid excessive duplication of the same information across many languages. If your Wikidata queries use labels, you may need to update them as some existing labels are getting removed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312511 ↗

The function <code dir="ltr">getDescription</code> was invoked on every Wiki page read and accounts for ~2.5% of a page's total load time. The calculated value will now be cached, reducing load on Wikimedia servers. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383660 ↗

As part of the RESTBase deprecation effort ↗, the <code dir="ltr">/page/related</code> endpoint has been blocked as of February 6, 2025, and will be removed soon. This timeline was chosen to align with the deprecation schedules for older Android and iOS versions. The stable alternative is the "<code dir="ltr">morelike</code>" action API in MediaWiki, and a migration example ↗ is available. The MediaWiki Interfaces team can be contacted ↗ for any questions. https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/GFC2IJO7L4BWO3YTM7C5HF4MCCBE2RJ2/ ↗

'''In depth'''

The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter ↗ is available. It includes: Updates about the "Contribute" menu; details on some of the newest language editions of Wikipedia; details on new languages supported by the MediaWiki interface; updates on the Community-defined lists feature; and more.

The latest Chart Project newsletter ↗ is available. It includes updates on the progress towards bringing better visibility into global charts usage and support for categorizing pages in the Data namespace on Commons.

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Tech News: 2025-08

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

'''Weekly highlight'''

Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the <code>{{#special:Homepage}}</code> for newcomers. This feature will help newcomers to be informed about editing activities they can participate in. Administrators can create a new event to showcase at <code>{{#special:CommunityConfiguration}}</code>. To learn more about this feature, please read the Diff post ↗, have a look at the documentation ↗, or contact the Growth team ↗.

'''Updates for editors'''
thumb|Highlighted talk pages improvements ↗

Starting next week, talk pages at these wikis – {{int:project-localized-name-eswiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-frwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-itwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-jawiki/en}} – will get a new design ↗. This change was extensively tested as a Beta feature and is the last step of talk pages improvements ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T379102 ↗

You can now navigate to view a redirect page directly from its action pages, such as the history page. Previously, you were forced to first go to the redirect target. This change should help editors who work with redirects a lot. Thanks to user stjn for this improvement. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5324 ↗

When a Cite reference is reused many times, wikis currently show either numbers like "1.23" or localized alphabetic markers like "a b c" in the reference list. Previously, if there were so many reuses that the alphabetic markers were all used, an error message ↗ was displayed. As part of the work to modernize Cite customization ↗, these errors will no longer be shown and instead the backlinks will fall back to showing numeric markers like "1.23" once the alphabetic markers are all used.

The log entries for each change to an editor's user-groups are now clearer by specifying exactly what has changed, instead of the plain before and after listings. Translators can help to update the localized versions ↗. Thanks to user Msz2001 for these improvements.

A new filter has been added to the {{#special:Nuke}} ↗ tool, which allows administrators to mass delete pages, to enable users to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378488 ↗

Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the {{#special:Nuke}} ↗ tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376378 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:25}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:25|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, a bug was fixed in the configuration for the AV1 video file format, which enables these files to play again. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T382193 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to most Wiktionaries over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyage to Parsoid Read Views last year. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification ↗ project page. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T385923 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T371640 ↗

Developers of tools that run on-wiki should note that <code dir=ltr>mw.Uri</code> is deprecated. Tools requiring <code dir=ltr>mw.Uri</code> must explicitly declare <code dir=ltr>mediawiki.Uri</code> as a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser native <code dir=ltr>URL</code> API soon. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384515 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 21:14, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-09

<section begin="technews-2025-W09"/><div class="plainlinks">
Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

Administrators can now customize how the Babel feature ↗ creates categories using {{#special:CommunityConfiguration/Babel}} ↗. They can rename language categories, choose whether they should be auto-created, and adjust other settings. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374348 ↗

The <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">wikimedia.org ↗</bdi> portal has been updated – and is receiving some ongoing improvements – to modernize and improve the accessibility of our portal pages. It now has better support for mobile layouts, updated wording and links, and better language support. Additionally, all of the Wikimedia project portals, such as <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">wikibooks.org ↗</bdi>, now support dark mode when a reader is using that system setting. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373204 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368221 ↗https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals ↗

One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wiktionary/en}} in Santali ↗ (<code>wikt:sat:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386619 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:30}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:30|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, a bug was fixed that prevented clicking on search results in the web-interface for some Firefox for Android phone configurations. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381289 ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, February 28th at 14:00 UTC ↗. This week's meeting will cover: highlights and technical updates on keyboard and tools for the Sámi languages, Translatewiki.net contributions from the Bahasa Lampung community in Indonesia, and technical Q&A. If you'd like to join, simply sign up on the wiki page ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:38, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-10

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

'''Updates for editors'''

All logged-in editors using the mobile view can now edit a full page. The "{{int:Minerva-page-actions-editfull}}" link is accessible from the "{{int:minerva-page-actions-overflow}}" menu in the toolbar. This was previously only available to editors using the Advanced mobile contributions ↗ setting. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T387180 ↗

Interface administrators can now help to remove the deprecated Cite CSS code matching "<code dir="ltr">mw-ref</code>" from their local <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki:Common.css ↗</bdi>. The list of wikis in need of cleanup, and the code to remove, can be found with this global search ↗ and in this example ↗, and you can learn more about how to help on the CSS migration project page ↗. The Cite footnote markers ("<code dir="ltr">[1]</code>") are now rendered by Parsoid ↗, and the deprecated CSS is no longer needed. The CSS for backlinks ("<code dir="ltr">mw:referencedBy</code>") should remain in place for now. This cleanup is expected to cause no visible changes for readers. Please help to remove this code before March 20, after which the development team will do it for you.

When editors embed a file (e.g. <code><nowiki>File:MediaWiki.png ↗</nowiki></code>) on a page that is protected with cascading protection, the software will no longer restrict edits to the file description page, only to new file uploads.https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T24521 ↗ In contrast, transcluding a file description page (e.g. <code><nowiki>{{:File:MediaWiki.png}}</nowiki></code>) will now restrict edits to the page.https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T62109 ↗

When editors revert a file to an earlier version it will now require the same permissions as ordinarily uploading a new version of the file. The software now checks for 'reupload' or 'reupload-own' rights,https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304474 ↗ and respects cascading protection.https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140010 ↗

When administrators are listing pages for deletion with the Nuke tool, they can now also list associated talk pages and redirects for deletion, alongside pages created by the target, rather than needing to manually delete these pages afterwards. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95797 ↗

The previously noted ↗ update to Single User Login, which will accommodate browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies by moving login and account creation to a central domain, will now roll out to all users during March and April. The team plans to enable it for all new account creation on Group0 ↗ wikis this week. See the SUL3 project page ↗ for more details and an updated timeline.

Since last week there has been a bug that shows some interface icons as black squares until the page has fully loaded. It will be fixed this week. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T387351 ↗

One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia/en}} in Sylheti ↗ (<code>w:syl:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386441 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:23}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:23|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, a bug was fixed with loading images in very old versions of the Firefox browser on mobile. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386400 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 02:28, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

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Note that any non-free images not used in any '''articles''' will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion ↗. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 03:15, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-11

<section begin="technews-2025-W11"/><div class="plainlinks">
Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

Editors who use password managers at multiple wikis may notice changes in the future. The way that our wikis provide information to password managers about reusing passwords across domains has recently been updated, so some password managers might now offer you login credentials that you saved for a different Wikimedia site. Some password managers already did this, and are now doing it for more Wikimedia domains. This is part of the SUL3 project ↗ which aims to improve how our unified login works, and to keep it compatible with ongoing changes to the web-browsers we use. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T385520 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384844 ↗

The Wikipedia Apps Team is inviting interested users to help improve Wikipedia’s offline and limited internet use. After discussions in Afrika Baraza ↗ and the last ESEAP call ↗, key challenges like search, editing, and offline access are being explored, with upcoming focus groups to dive deeper into these topics. All languages are welcome, and interpretation will be available. Want to share your thoughts? Join the discussion ↗ or email <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">aramadan@wikimedia.org</bdi>!

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 19. This is planned at 14:00 UTC ↗. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.

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'''Updates for technical contributors'''

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'''In depth'''

The latest quarterly Growth newsletter ↗ is available. It includes: the launch of the Community Updates module, the most recent changes in Community Configuration, and the upcoming test of in-article suggestions for first-time editors.

An old API that was previously used in the Android Wikipedia app is being removed at the end of March. There are no current software uses, but users of the app with a version that is older than 6 months by the time of removal (2025-03-31), will no longer have access to the Suggested Edits feature, until they update their app. You can read more details about this change ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:06, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-12

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

'''Weekly highlight'''

Twice a year, around the equinoxes, the Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team performs a datacenter server switchover ↗, redirecting all traffic from one primary server to its backup. This provides reliability in case of a crisis, as we can always fall back on the other datacenter. Thanks to the Listen to Wikipedia ↗ tool, you can hear the switchover take place: Before it begins, you'll hear the steady stream of edits; Then, as the system enters a brief read-only phase, the sound stops for a couple of minutes, before resuming after the switchover. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog ↗. If you want to keep an ear out for the next server switchover, listen to the wikis on March 19 at 14:00 UTC ↗.

'''Updates for editors'''

The improved Content Translation tool dashboard ↗ is now available in 10 Wikipedias ↗ and will be available for all Wikipedias soon ↗. With the unified dashboard ↗, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-based article suggestion filters ↗ (initially available only for mobile device users); Discover and access the Community-defined lists ↗ filter, also known as "Collections", from wiki-projects and campaigns.

On Wikimedia Commons, a new system to select the appropriate file categories ↗ has been introduced: if a category has one or more subcategories, users will be able to click on an arrow that will open the subcategories directly within the form, and choose the correct one. The parent category name will always be shown on top, and it will always be possible to come back to it. This should decrease the amount of work for volunteers in fixing/creating new categories. The change is also available on mobile. These changes are part of planned improvements to the UploadWizard.

The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for the Multiblocks ↗ feature and a refreshed Special:Block page in late March. Multiblocks enables administrators to impose multiple different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. If you are an admin or steward and would like us to discuss joining the pilot with your community, please leave a message on the project talk page ↗.

Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at 12 Wikipedias ↗: Multi-Check ↗. Half of the newcomers on these wikis will see all Reference Checks ↗ during their edit session, while the other half will continue seeing only one. The goal of this test is to see if users are confused or discouraged when shown multiple Reference Checks (when relevant) within a single editing session. At these wikis, the tags used on edits that show References Check will be simplified, as multiple tags could be shown within a single edit. Changes to the tags are documented on Phabricator ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T379131 ↗

The Global reminder bot ↗, which is a service for notifying users that their temporary user-rights are about to expire, now supports using the localized name of the user-rights group in the message heading. Translators can see the listing of existing translations and documentation ↗ to check if their language needs updating or creation.

The GlobalPreferences ↗ gender setting, which is used for how the software should refer to you in interface messages, now works as expected by overriding the local defaults. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386584 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:26}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:26|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the Wikipedia App for Android had a bug fixed for when a user is browsing and searching in multiple languages. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T379777 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Later this week, the way that Codex styles are loaded will be changing. There is a small risk that this may result in unstyled interface message boxes on certain pages. User generated content (e.g. templates) is not impacted. Gadgets may be impacted. If you see any issues please report them ↗. See the linked task for details, screenshots, and documentation on how to fix any affected gadgets.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:45, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-13

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

'''Weekly highlight'''

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking your feedback on the drafts of the objectives and key results that will shape the Foundation's Product and Technology priorities ↗ for the next fiscal year (starting in July). The objectives are broad high-level areas, and the key-results are measurable ways to track the success of their objectives. Please share your feedback on the talkpage, in any language, ideally before the end of April.

'''Updates for editors'''

The CampaignEvents extension ↗ will be released to multiple wikis (see deployment plan ↗ for details) in April 2025, and the team has begun the process of engaging communities on the identified wikis. The extension provides tools to organize, manage, and promote collaborative activities (like events, edit-a-thons, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. The extension has three tools: Event Registration ↗, Collaboration List ↗, and Invitation Lists ↗. It is currently on 13 Wikipedias, including English Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and Spanish Wikipedia, as well as Wikidata. Questions or requests can be directed to the extension talk page ↗ or in Phabricator (with <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr" style="white-space: nowrap;">#campaigns-product-team</bdi> tag).

Starting the week of March 31st, wikis will be able to set which user groups can view private registrants in Event Registration ↗, as part of the CampaignEvents ↗ extension. By default, event organizers and the local wiki admins will be able to see private registrants. This is a change from the current behavior, in which only event organizers can see private registrants. Wikis can change the default setup by requesting a configuration change ↗ in Phabricator (and adding the <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr" style="white-space: nowrap;">#campaigns-product-team</bdi> tag). Participants of past events can cancel their registration at any time.

Administrators at wikis that have a customized <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki:Sidebar ↗</bdi> should check that it contains an entry for the {{int:specialpages}} listing. If it does not, they should add it using <code dir=ltr style="white-space: nowrap;">* specialpages-url|specialpages</code>. Wikis with a default sidebar will see the link moved from the page toolbox into the sidebar menu in April. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T388927 ↗

The Minerva skin (mobile web) combines both Notice and Alert notifications within the bell icon (16px|link=|class=skin-invert ↗). There was a long-standing bug where an indication for new notifications was only shown if you had unseen Alerts. This bug is now fixed. In the future, Minerva users will notice a counter atop the bell icon when you have 1 or more unseen Notices and/or Alerts. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344029 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:23}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:23|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

VisualEditor has introduced a new client-side hook ↗ for developers to use when integrating with the VisualEditor target lifecycle. This hook should replace the existing lifecycle-related hooks, and be more consistent between different platforms. In addition, the new hook will apply to uses of VisualEditor outside of just full article editing, allowing gadgets to interact with the editor in DiscussionTools as well. The Editing Team intends to deprecate and eventually remove the old lifecycle hooks, so any use cases that this new hook does not cover would be of interest to them and can be shared in the task ↗.

Developers who use the <code dir=ltr>mw.Api</code> JavaScript library, can now identify the tool using it with the <code dir=ltr>userAgent</code> parameter: <code dir=ltr>var api = new mw.Api( { userAgent: 'GadgetNameHere/1.0.1' } );</code>. If you maintain a gadget or user script, please set a user agent, because it helps with library and server maintenance and with differentiating between legitimate and illegitimate traffic. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373874 ↗https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Wikimedia_Foundation_User-Agent_Policy ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:39, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-14

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

'''Updates for editors'''

The Editing team is working on a new Edit check ↗: Peacock check ↗. This check's goal is to identify non-neutral terms while a user is editing a wikipage, so that they can be informed that their edit should perhaps be changed before they publish it. This project is at the early stages, and the team is looking for communities' input: in this Phabricator task ↗, they are gathering on-wiki policies, templates used to tag non-neutral articles, and the terms (jargon and keywords) used in edit summaries for the languages they are currently researching. You can participate by editing the table on Phabricator, commenting on the task, or directly messaging Trizek (WMF) ↗.

Single User Login ↗ has now been updated on all wikis to move login and account creation to a central domain. This makes user login compatible with browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies, which have prevented users of some browsers from staying logged in.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:35}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:35|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Starting on March 31st, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin a limited release of generated OpenAPI specs and a SwaggerUI-based sandbox experience for MediaWiki REST APIs ↗. They invite developers from a limited group of non-English Wikipedia communities (Arabic, German, French, Hebrew, Interlingua, Dutch, Chinese) to review the documentation and experiment with the sandbox in their preferred language. In addition to these specific Wikipedia projects, the sandbox and OpenAPI spec will be available on the on the test wiki REST Sandbox special page ↗ for developers with English as their preferred language. During the preview period, the MediaWiki Interfaces Team also invites developers to share feedback about your experience ↗. The preview will last for approximately 2 weeks, after which the sandbox and OpenAPI specs will be made available across all wiki projects.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''In depth'''

Sometimes a small, one line code change ↗ can have great significance: in this case, it means that for the first time in years we're able to run all of the stack serving <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">maps.wikimedia.org ↗</bdi> - a host dedicated to serving our wikis and their multi-lingual maps needs - from a single core datacenter, something we test every time we perform a datacenter switchover ↗. This is important because it means that in case one of our datacenters is affected by a catastrophe, we'll still be able to serve the site. This change is the result of extensive work ↗ by two developers on porting the last component of the maps stack over to kubernetes ↗, where we can allocate resources more efficiently than before, thus we're able to withstand more traffic in a single datacenter. This work involved a lot of complicated steps because this software, and the software libraries it uses, required many long overdue upgrades. This type of work makes the Wikimedia infrastructure more sustainable.

'''Meetings and events'''

MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025 ↗ is happening in Sandusky, USA, and online, from 14–16 May 2025. The workshop will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users. Registration and presentation signup is now available at the workshop's website.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:02, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-15

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

'''Updates for editors'''

From now on, interface admins ↗ and centralnotice admins ↗ are technically required to enable two-factor authentication ↗ before they can use their privileges. In the future this might be expanded to more groups with advanced user-rights. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150898 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:20}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:20|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The Design System Team is preparing to release the next major version of Codex (v2.0.0) on April 29. Editors and developers who use CSS from Codex should see the 2.0 overview documentation ↗, which includes guidance related to a few of the breaking changes such as <code dir=ltr style="white-space: nowrap;">font-size</code>, <code dir=ltr style="white-space: nowrap;">line-height</code>, and <code dir=ltr style="white-space: nowrap;">size-icon</code>.

The results of the Developer Satisfaction Survey (2025) ↗ are now available. Thank you to all participants. These results help the Foundation decide what to work on next and to review what they recently worked on.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon ↗ will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, between 2–4 May. Registration for attending the in-person event will close on 13 April. Before registering, please note the potential need for a visa ↗ or e-visa ↗ to enter the country.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 18:49, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

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Note that any non-free images not used in any '''articles''' will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion ↗. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:16, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

Nomination of :Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite ↗ for deletion

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The article will be discussed at '''Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite  (2nd nomination) ↗''' until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.</div> '''<span style="color:#00ced1">Zack</span><span style="color:#007F94">mann</span>''' (<sup>Talk to me ↗</sup>/<sub><span style="color:orange;">What I been doing</span> ↗</sub>) 09:20, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

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Happy 6th Wikibirthday!

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Drafts for IPhone Fold, IPhone Air 2, IPad 12 Gen, IPad Air (M4), 12.9-inch MacBook

Hello Hajoon0102. I have created 5 drafts shown here. This includes the upcoming low-cost MacBook, along with an iPad 12, & IPad Air 8 according to sources, In addition I also created drafts for iPhone Fold and iPhone Air 2 since these devices may come out in fall 2026.<br/><br/>Draft:IPhone Fold ↗<br/>Draft:IPhone Air 2 ↗ <br/>Draft:12.9-inch MacBook ↗ - (created as a draft to prevent "edit wars" when the device gets announced).<br/>Draft:IPad (12th generation) ↗ - (created as a draft to prevent "edit wars" when the device gets announced).<br/> Draft:IPad Air (M4) ↗ - (created as a draft to prevent "edit wars" when the device gets announced)

Sources:
"New Low-Cost iPad Coming Next Week: What to Expect" ↗<br/>"2026 iPad Air Rumors: M4 chip & Wi-Fi 7 upgrade incoming!" ↗<br/>"More Lower-Cost MacBook Details Surface Ahead of 'Apple Experience' Next Week" ↗<br/><br/> <span style="font-family:times new roman"><span style="background-color:purple; color: #7FFFD4">~ŤheŴubṂachine</span>-<span style="color:#339966">840</span><span style="color:red">≈</span></span> 11:49, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

":IPhone 15 Ultra ↗" listed at Redirects for discussion ↗

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