Discusión de usuario:Tris T7

Adición masiva de imágenes aHibisco

Actualmente hay una discusión en Wikipedia:Tablón de anuncios de administradores/Incidencias sobre un problema en el que usted puede haber estado involucrado. Eric ^talk 03:06, 11 de junio de 2018 (UTC) [ responder ]

@ Eric : Respondo todo lo que necesitas saber en la página de discusión, así que por favor responde lo que te he preguntado. Gracias -- Tris T7 (discusión) 09:54 12 jun 2018 (UTC) @ Eric :[ responder ]

Por cierto, soy nuevo como editor, así que si hay algo que puedas aportarme, no me lo quites, enséñame algo mejor para la sociedad de Wiki, no para un asunto personal. Y si eres tan amable de informarme sobre el IBAN en tu página de discusión, sería genial. ¿De alguna manera puedes mostrarme el código común de Wiki de tus imágenes o un artículo de ejemplo de lo que editaste o creaste? Sería genial. Gracias. -- Tris T7 (discusión) 09:58, 12 de junio de 2018 (UTC) [ responder ]

Además de los enlaces proporcionados en la publicación de bienvenida anterior, consulte:

Wikipedia:Política_de_uso_de_imágenes#Añadir_imágenes_a_artículos
Wikipedia: Qué hacer y qué no hacer con las imágenes , incluidos los enlaces bajo "Véase también".
Ayuda: Creación y uso de archivos multimedia
Lea los comentarios en Wikipedia:Tablón_de_anuncios_de_administradores/Incidentes#utilizando_Hibiscus_como_galería_personal y manténgase dentro del tema allí.

Por favor, no publiques la misma pregunta a la misma persona en varios lugares. Eric ^talk 11:06, 12 de junio de 2018 (UTC) [ responder ]

¡Hola! Consulta los enlaces anteriores que te envió el usuario: Eric. Te pueden guiar en la dirección correcta con respecto a las políticas y procedimientos de uso de imágenes. Si tienes alguna pregunta, házmelo saber. Red Director ( discusión ) 17:39 16 jun 2018 (UTC) [ responder ]

Política de Wikipedia sobre cuentas múltiples

Hola, Tris T7, bienvenido a Wikipedia y gracias por tus contribuciones . Tu patrón de edición indica que puedes estar usando varias cuentas o coordinando la edición con personas fuera de Wikipedia, como One World Thailand ( discusión · contribs ). Nuestra política sobre cuentas múltiples normalmente no permite esto, y los usuarios que usan varias cuentas pueden ser bloqueados para editar . Si operas varias cuentas directamente o con la ayuda de otra persona, por favor revela estas conexiones. Gracias. BlackcurrantTea ( discusión ) 06:29 11 jun 2018 (UTC) [ responder ]

@ BlackcurrantTea : Problema de cuentas múltiples Querido BlackcurrantTea, solo quiero responder a tu pregunta sobre las cuentas múltiples. No, solo tengo una cuenta a mi nombre. Pero las imágenes que regalé pueden provenir de cualquier fuente, como mi hermano, mi madre, mi padre, mi amigo o cualquier persona que me solicite que fotografíe algo que quiera y yo esté de acuerdo en fotografiar para ellos, pero bajo mis derechos de autor y términos de uso. Si lo usan para educación y conocimiento, está bien, pero cuando lo usan para uso comercial sin mi permiso o autorización para la imagen, ese sería el siguiente paso legal. También regalé muchas cosas, no solo imágenes, a otros. Así que no des una conclusión hasta que obtengas una respuesta sobre lo que tienes sobre mí. Si tienes alguna otra pregunta, no dudes en hacerla. Que tengas un buen día. -- Tris T7 (discusión) 09:45, 12 de junio de 2018 (UTC) [ responder ]

Gracias por tu respuesta. También vi tu copia de esta nota en mi página de discusión; mantengamos la conversación aquí para que todo esté en un solo lugar. Si te entiendo correctamente, no estás usando la cuenta de One World Tailandia de ninguna manera y no editas Wikipedia bajo ningún otro nombre. ¿Es correcto?

Esta es la razón por la que parece que estás usando ambas cuentas: One World Thailand ha subido muchas de tus imágenes y las ha añadido a artículos, como lo hicieron aquí. También se han declarado propietarios de los derechos de autor, por ejemplo, aquí. Wikipedia se toma muy en serio las violaciones de los derechos de autor y, si hay un problema aquí, debemos saberlo. Gracias, BlackcurrantTea ( discusión ) 06:24, 17 de junio de 2018 (UTC) [ responder ]

Sí, solo uso esta cuenta para subir mi trabajo y editar Wikipedia, así que puedes consultar el concurso de imágenes de Wikiloveearth Tailandia, porque verás que solo mi cuenta subió mis imágenes, así que no te preocupes, de ahora en adelante nadie podrá acceder a mi trabajo hasta que obtengan el documento de publicación. Gracias por tu amabilidad y espero mejorar mi capacidad para contribuir con mis conocimientos a los demás. Genial. -- Tris T7 (discusión) 18:50 15 jul 2018 (UTC) [ responder ]

Eliminación rápidanominación de สินธพ

Si este es el primer artículo que ha creado, es posible que desee leer la guía para escribir su primer artículo .
Quizás quieras considerar usar el Asistente de artículos para ayudarte a crear artículos.

Se ha colocado una etiqueta en สินธพ, solicitando que se elimine rápidamente de Wikipedia. Esto se ha hecho bajo la sección A2 de los criterios para la eliminación rápida , porque el artículo parece ser un artículo en un idioma extranjero que tiene esencialmente el mismo contenido que un artículo de otro proyecto de la Fundación Wikimedia . Consulte Wikipedia:Traducción para obtener información sobre las solicitudes y la coordinación de traducciones de Wikipedias en idiomas extranjeros al inglés.

Si cree que esta página no debería eliminarse por este motivo, puede impugnar la nominación visitando la página y haciendo clic en el botón "Impugnar esta eliminación rápida". Esto le dará la oportunidad de explicar por qué cree que la página no debería eliminarse. Sin embargo, tenga en cuenta que una vez que una página está etiquetada para eliminación rápida, puede eliminarse sin demora. No elimine usted mismo la etiqueta de eliminación rápida de la página, pero no dude en agregar información de acuerdo con las políticas y pautas de Wikipedia . Si se elimina la página y desea recuperar el material eliminado para referencia o mejora futura, comuníquese con el administrador de eliminación o, si ya lo ha hecho, puede presentar una solicitud aquí . SkyGazer 512 ^{Oh, no, ¿qué hice esta vez?} 20:24, 12 de junio de 2018 (UTC)¡Al menos muéstrenme un poco de respeto! -- Tris T7 (discusión) 21:56 21 jul 2018 (UTC)Obteniendo conocimiento de Wiki, esta es mi manera de aprender que no se puede controlar a las personas para que sean inteligentes en todo. Por ejemplo, ¿qué almorzaste el 7 de julio de 2018? Creí que no lo recordabas. Así que respeta a los demás y hazles saber amablemente cuando quieres darles conocimiento, no los presiones hasta el límite de esta manera. Gracias [ responder ]

Revertir algunas adiciones de imágenes recientes

Hola Trisorn Triboon, gracias por tus esfuerzos para contribuir con nuevas imágenes a los artículos de Wikipedia. Pero varias de tus adiciones recientes no cumplían con nuestras pautas de uso de imágenes y he revertido estas ediciones. Consulta los historiales de edición de los artículos para conocer mis razones específicas. He intentado explicar mis razones en detalle, pero no dudes en pedirme más información si alguno de estos resúmenes no está claro. Te recomiendo volver a leer la Política de uso de imágenes #Agregar imágenes a los artículos . Si tienes alguna pregunta sobre este aspecto o el uso de imágenes en Wikipedia en general, también puedes unirte a WP:Teahouse , un foro para que los nuevos editores obtengan consejos sobre todas las preguntas relacionadas con Wikipedia.

Un último consejo: considere usar resúmenes de ediciones para futuras ediciones. Un breve resumen de ediciones puede ayudar a otros editores a comprender su cambio y puede ayudar a evitar reversiones y malentendidos en el futuro. Saludos cordiales. GermanJoe ( discusión ) 07:54, 6 de julio de 2018 (UTC) [ responder ]

Hola Trisorn Triboon, por favor deja de agregar múltiples imágenes redundantes, especialmente cuando estas imágenes no tienen contexto textual. Wikipedia no es una galería de fotos. Se pueden almacenar múltiples imágenes en Commons, pero solo se deben agregar a los artículos cuando agreguen un valor enciclopédico significativo para el tema. La política de uso de imágenes#Agregar imágenes a los artículos explica los detalles de este manejo; lee esta información. Además, los subtítulos solo deben contener una breve descripción de la imagen; cualquier atribución de la imagen se realiza en la página de información del archivo vinculado, no en el subtítulo en sí. Si no estás seguro acerca de las pautas vinculadas, pregúntame a mí o a WP:Teahouse antes de agregar más imágenes. Gracias. GermanJoe ( discusión ) 19:34, 15 de julio de 2018 (UTC) [ responder ]

Este artículo trata sobre el parque nacional de Tailandia, por lo que pensé que era necesario incluir variaciones de animales y plantas vivos en el artículo, especialmente las imágenes del concurso WikiloveEarth, ¿no crees? Lo siento, he añadido muchas imágenes, pero al menos este artículo es útil para los tailandeses y les da inspiración para viajar y conocer el parque nacional tailandés, más que palabras que parecen aburridas (al menos para mí). También creo que se debe respetar a la persona que escribió este artículo y dejar que escriba libremente lo que quiera. Sabía que el artículo no es una biblioteca de fotos y no puse el mismo tipo de animal en el artículo, así que déjame saber lo que piensas sobre el comentario tailandés sobre esto. Gracias. Tris T7 (discusión) 21:55, 21 de julio de 2018 (UTC) [ responder ]

Hola Trisorn Triboon, me preocupaban principalmente las muchas imágenes añadidas en Gymnanthemum extensum (y en las secciones principales de algunos otros artículos). Pero debería haber enlazado el artículo correspondiente en mi mensaje original para empezar. Como habrás notado, mantuve una de tus imágenes adicionales ya que muestra algo único que se menciona explícitamente en el artículo, pero varias imágenes adicionales con contenido en gran medida similar son simplemente demasiadas para un artículo corto de Wikipedia como Gymnanthemum extensum . Las contribuciones de imágenes adicionales son apreciadas en Commons, por supuesto, pero no deben agregarse a los artículos de Wikipedia cuando ya existen imágenes similares para el mismo propósito. Mis disculpas por no ser claro y por el probable malentendido sobre el artículo afectado. Si necesitas más ayuda con el uso de imágenes en Wikipedia, házmelo saber. Por cierto: puedes notificar a otros editores agregando {{ping|username here}}un mensaje a una nueva página de discusión. Espero que esto ayude un poco. GermanJoe ( discusión ) 22:33, 21 de julio de 2018 (UTC) [ responder ]

Notificación de enlace de desambiguación para el 12 de julio

Hola. Gracias por tus ediciones recientes. Un proceso automatizado ha detectado que cuando editaste recientemente Roselle (planta) , agregaste un enlace que apunta a la página de desambiguación Thai (verificar para confirmar | corregir con el solucionador Dab). Dichos enlaces suelen ser incorrectos , ya que una página de desambiguación es simplemente una lista de temas no relacionados con títulos similares. (Lee las Preguntas frecuentes • Únete a nosotros en el WikiProject DPL ).

Está bien eliminar este mensaje. Además, para dejar de recibir estos mensajes, siga estas instrucciones de cancelación de suscripción . Gracias, DPL bot ( discusión ) 09:40, 12 de julio de 2018 (UTC) [ responder ]

Notificación de enlace de desambiguación para el 16 de septiembre

Un proceso automatizado ha detectado que cuando editaste recientemente Bodyslam (banda) , agregaste enlaces que apuntan a las páginas de desambiguación Thai , Drive y Believe (verifica para confirmar | corrige con el solucionador Dab).

¡Bienvenido a la aventura de Wikipedia!

¡Hola, Tris T7! Nos alegra mucho que hayas querido jugar para aprender, como una forma amistosa y divertida de adentrarte en nuestra comunidad y misión. Creo que estos enlaces pueden resultarte útiles para empezar.

-- 04:00, jueves, 11 de octubre de 2018 ( UTC )

Obtener ayuda

Acerca de la aventura de Wikipedia | Pase el rato en el salón interestelar

Mensaje para los votantes de la ArbCom en las elecciones de 2018

Hola, Tris T7. La votación para las elecciones del Comité de Arbitraje de 2018 está abierta hasta las 23:59 del domingo 3 de diciembre. Todos los usuarios que registraron una cuenta antes del domingo 28 de octubre de 2018, realizaron al menos 150 ediciones en el espacio principal antes del jueves 1 de noviembre de 2018 y no están bloqueados actualmente pueden votar. Los usuarios con cuentas alternativas solo pueden votar una vez.

El Comité de Arbitraje es el panel de editores responsable de llevar a cabo el proceso de arbitraje de Wikipedia . Tiene la autoridad de imponer soluciones vinculantes a las disputas entre editores, principalmente en el caso de disputas de conducta graves que la comunidad no ha podido resolver. Esto incluye la autoridad para imponer prohibiciones de sitios , prohibiciones de temas , restricciones de edición y otras medidas necesarias para mantener nuestro entorno de edición. La política de arbitraje describe las funciones y responsabilidades del Comité con mayor detalle.

Si desea participar en las elecciones de 2018, revise los candidatos y envíe sus opciones en la página de votación . Entrega de mensajes de MediaWiki ( discusión ) 18:42 19 nov 2018 (UTC) [ responder ]

Este mensaje se aplica a todos los usuarios.

Reducir los problemas de acoso y la brecha de género para facilitar un entorno seguro, acogedor y de apoyo para colaboradores y editores. ลดปัญหาการคุกคามและช่องว่างเพศเพื่ออำนวย ความสะดวกในสภาพแวดล้อมที่ปลอดภัย ให้การต้อนรับและให้การสนับสนุนสำหรับเหล่าผู้มีส่วนร่วมและเหล่าบรรณาธิการTris T7 (talk) 10:35, 26 November 2018 (UTC) [ reply ]

Noticias tecnológicas: 2018-50

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 11 de diciembre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 12 de diciembre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 13 de diciembre (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 12 de diciembre a las 16:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

Las nuevas cuentas necesitarán contraseñas de al menos 8 caracteres. Los administradores, administradores de interfaz, burócratas, supervisores, administradores de CentralNotice, renombradores globales, usuarios de verificación, administradores y algunos otros grupos de usuarios necesitarán contraseñas de al menos 10 caracteres. Esto se debe a que un atacante podría causar daños a las wikis si tomara el control de estas cuentas. [1][2]
Cuando pases el cursor sobre una nota al pie, se te mostrará la referencia como una ventana emergente. Esto es para que no tengas que saltar al final de la página para ver una referencia. Esto sucederá en 2019. Algunas wikis ya tienen gadgets que hacen esto. Podrás desactivarlo. [3]

Noticias tecnológicas preparadas por escritores de Tech News y publicadas por bot • Contribuir • Traducir • Obtener ayuda • Dar retroalimentación • Suscribirse o cancelar la suscripción.

17:33, 10 de diciembre de 2018 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2018-51

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Noticias tecnológicas

Debido a las vacaciones, el próximo número de Tech News se enviará el 7 de enero de 2019.

Cambios recientes

Algunas plantillas que muestran avisos sobre el contenido de la página ahora se mostrarán en el sitio web móvil. En muchos casos, antes estaban ocultas. [4][5]
Los administradores ya no pueden desbloquearse a sí mismos, excepto en el caso de autobloqueos. Un administrador bloqueado puede bloquear al usuario que lo bloqueó, pero a nadie más. Esto es para que nadie pueda bloquear a todos los administradores de una wiki sin que se lo impida. [6]
Se ha eliminado la extensión ParserMigration, que comparaba el resultado de dos versiones del proceso de análisis de wikitexto de MediaWiki. Se utilizó cuando pasamos a la biblioteca de análisis Remex en lugar de Tidy.

Problemas

<ref>Las etiquetas pueden usar parámetros como "nombre" o "grupo". Por ejemplo <ref name="adams" group="books">, si una <ref>etiqueta tiene más de dos parámetros, todos se ignoran. No recibes una advertencia de que no funcionan. Esto se solucionará pronto. [7]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 18 de diciembre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 19 de diciembre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 20 de diciembre (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 19 de diciembre a las 16:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

El equipo de la aplicación para Android de Wikimedia Foundation está trabajando para facilitar la edición en teléfonos móviles. Puedes leer más sobre estos planes. Si tienes un teléfono Android y hablas al menos dos idiomas, puedes ayudar con las pruebas en inglés. Dile a Dchen (WMF) que quieres participar en las pruebas escribiendo en su página de discusión o enviándole un correo electrónico.
tiles.wmflabs.orgy wma.wmflabs.orgdejará de funcionar. No tienen mantenedores y utilizan un sistema operativo antiguo. Las herramientas que lo utilizan podrían dejar de funcionar. Esto incluye el gadget mapnik , el sombreado de colinas y las capas de senderismo y ciclismo. Los nuevos mantenedores podrían ayudar y mantenerlo en funcionamiento. [8]

20:35, 17 de diciembre de 2018 (UTC)

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Los escritores, editores y traductores de Tech News le deseamos un feliz año 2019.

Cambios recientes

La extensión RelatedSites ya no está disponible. Se utilizaba para crear enlaces entre wikis en Wikivoyage, que ahora son gestionados por Wikidata. [9]
El registro de MediaWiki Logstash se está trasladando a una nueva infraestructura. Se trata de una implementación en curso. [10]
Se ha actualizado codesearch.wmflabs.org con repositorios nuevos y actualizados y nuevas opciones de búsqueda de código. [11]
En varias wikis, se creó una cuenta denominada "Editar filtro" el 17 de diciembre para realizar tareas de mantenimiento técnico en AbuseFilter. Esta cuenta tiene derechos de administrador, pero es un usuario del sistema y ningún humano puede usarla. La cuenta ya existía en wikis donde AbuseFilter puede realizar bloqueos, que se emiten utilizando esta cuenta. Consulte T212268 para obtener más información y planes futuros.

Problemas

En AbuseFilter, la acción "Throttle" toma tres parámetros: count, period y groups. Ahora deben respetar estrictamente los requisitos que figuran en mediawiki.org. En Phabricator hay una lista de filtros que no funcionan. Si estás familiarizado con AbuseFilter, échale un vistazo y corrígelos. [12]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 8 de enero. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean de Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 9 de enero. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 10 de enero (calendario).

Reuniones

El horario de atención de la Plataforma de búsqueda se reprograma para el 9 de enero. Consulte los detalles para conocer la hora y la fecha.

18:30, 7 de enero de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: marzo de 2019

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios recientes

Ahora puedes utilizar Google Translate en la herramienta de traducción de contenidos. [13][14]
Ahora puedes agregar subtítulos a los archivos en Commons. Los subtítulos son descripciones breves del archivo. Se pueden traducir a todos los idiomas que utilizamos. No pueden usar el marcado de wikitexto.
Antes, un atributo HTML entre comillas debía ir seguido de un espacio. Ahora ya no es así. Esto significa que algunas páginas podrían tener un aspecto diferente al guardarlas, incluso si no editaste esa parte del texto. [15][16]
Las plantillas con <templatestyles> no podían mostrar la diferencia entre la plantilla activa y la versión sandbox cuando se las probaba. Esto ya se ha solucionado. <templatestyles> wrapperahora tiene un nuevo parámetro. Puedes usarlo para selectores como .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [17]

Problemas

Cuando ves una edición en el feed de cambios recientes o en el historial de una página, algunas de ellas tienen etiquetas. Algunas etiquetas se agregan automáticamente. También puedes agregar etiquetas manualmente. Las etiquetas de ediciones que se agregaron manualmente se pueden editar. Esto no funcionó durante un tiempo. Ahora se ha solucionado. [18]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

Puedes mover archivos desde tu wiki a Wikimedia Commons y mantener el historial de archivos con el nuevo FileExporter. Estará disponible como función beta en todas las wikis a partir del 16 de enero. Si quieres probarla, actívala y consulta el archivo de configuración de tu wiki.
Los usuarios que podrían causar más daño a las wikis si alguien se apoderara de sus cuentas deben tener contraseñas más seguras. Esto incluye a los administradores y otros grupos de usuarios. No pueden usar contraseñas que estén en una lista de contraseñas comunes. Las cuentas con contraseñas comunes son fáciles de apoderar. La lista de contraseñas comunes se hizo más larga hace unas semanas y tiene un mensaje de error diferente. Se han agregado algunos grupos de usuarios a los que no pueden usar contraseñas comunes. Esto es para proteger todas las cuentas con derechos de usuario que podrían causar daños. [19]
Se ha eliminado la variable AbuseFilter minor_edit. Quedó obsoleta en 2016. Ahora no se puede utilizar. Se pueden corregir los filtros usándola. Puedes encontrarlos si utilizas la barra de búsqueda en Special:AbuseFilter .
La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 15 de enero

17:55, 14 de enero de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: abril de 2019

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Noticias tecnológicas

Algunas personas no recibieron la edición de la semana pasada de Tech News. Esto se debió a un problema con MassMessage. Si no recibió la edición de la semana pasada, puede leerla en Meta. [20]

Cambios recientes

La herramienta de traducción de contenido ahora puede usar la versión 2 como la versión predeterminada para los usuarios que activaron la función beta. Por ejemplo, agrega la categoría de seguimiento Pages with unreviewed translationsa las traducciones que podrían haber utilizado traducciones automáticas sin solucionar los problemas. Esto es para que otros puedan encontrarlas. Puede encontrar esta categoría en Special:TrackingCategoriesWikipedia.
https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org ahora puede convertir colecciones de hasta 800 páginas a PDF , EPUB u ODT . Antes eran 200 páginas.

Problemas

Cuando se editaba una plantilla con el editor visual, a veces se colocaba toda la información en una sola línea. Esto dificultaba la lectura para los editores que usan el editor de wikitexto. También dificultaba ver lo que había sucedido en una comparación. Este problema afectó a las ediciones realizadas entre el 8 y el 17 de enero y ya está solucionado. [21]
MassMessage se utiliza para enviar mensajes a muchas páginas. No ha funcionado de forma fiable. Algunos mensajes no se han enviado a todos. [22][23]
Debido a un problema con la base de datos que se tuvo que solucionar de inmediato, no se pudieron editar la mayoría de las wikis durante un par de minutos el 17 de enero (UTC). Esto ya se ha solucionado. [24]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

Podrás utilizar estilos de plantilla en el Moduleespacio de nombres. [25]
La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 22 de enero. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 23 de enero. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 24 de enero (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 23 de enero a las 16:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

20:37, 21 de enero de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-05

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios recientes

Los servidores de Wikimedia utilizan HHVM para ejecutar el código PHP . Van a utilizar PHP7 y dejarán de utilizar HHVM. Puedes probar PHP7 con una nueva función beta. De esa manera, puedes ayudar a encontrar y reportar problemas.

Problemas

Cuando alguien mueve una página a un nombre que ya existe, se elimina la página que tenía el nombre al que se movió el artículo. Durante un par de meses, esto no siempre funcionó. Algunos usuarios veían un mensaje de error en su lugar. Esto ya se ha solucionado. [26]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

No hay nueva versión de MediaWiki esta semana.

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 30 de enero a las 16:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

18:15, 28 de enero de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-06

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios a finales de esta semana

Era fácil desmarcar una casilla por accidente en Special:Preferences . Esto se solucionará ahora. [27]
La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 5 de febrero. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 6 de febrero. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 7 de febrero (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 6 de febrero a las 16:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

17:12, 4 de febrero de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-07

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios recientes

Puedes usar la clase ambox CSS para mostrar problemas de la página a los lectores móviles. Cuando la uses, amboxhay clases que puedes usar.

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 12 de febrero. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 13 de febrero. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 14 de febrero (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión tendrá lugar el 13 de febrero a las 16:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

18:45, 11 de febrero de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-08

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios recientes

Cuando le agradezcas a alguien en la web móvil, ahora tendrás dos segundos para cancelar el agradecimiento. Esto es en caso de que hayas hecho clic en el botón de agradecimiento por accidente. [28]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 19 de febrero. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 20 de febrero. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 21 de febrero (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión tendrá lugar el 20 de febrero a las 16:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

Existe una propuesta para agregar un enlace rojo a los resultados de búsqueda en dispositivos móviles si no hay una página con ese nombre. Así es como funciona en la computadora de escritorio. Puedes dejar comentarios. [29]

23:13, 18 de febrero de 2019 (UTC)

Hable con nosotros sobre hablar

La Fundación Wikimedia está planeando una consulta global sobre comunicación. El objetivo es reunir a wikimedistas y personas con mentalidad wiki para mejorar las herramientas de comunicación.

Queremos que todos los colaboradores puedan hablar entre sí en los wikis, sea cual sea su experiencia, sus habilidades o sus dispositivos.

Buscamos aportes de la mayor cantidad posible de sectores diferentes de la comunidad Wikimedia. Los aportes provendrán de múltiples proyectos, en varios idiomas y con múltiples perspectivas.

Actualmente estamos planificando la consulta. Necesitamos tu ayuda.

Necesitamos voluntarios que nos ayuden a hablar con sus comunidades o grupos de usuarios.

Puedes ayudar organizando un debate en tu wiki. Esto es lo que debes hacer:

Primero, registra tu grupo aquí.
A continuación, crea una página (o una sección en una bomba de agua de la aldea, o un hilo de correo electrónico, lo que sea más natural para tu grupo) para recopilar información de otras personas de tu grupo. No se trata de una votación ni de un debate para tomar decisiones: solo estamos recopilando comentarios.
Luego, pregúntele a la gente qué piensa sobre los procesos de comunicación. Queremos escuchar historias y otra información sobre cómo se comunican las personas entre sí dentro y fuera de la wiki. Considere hacer estas cinco preguntas:
1. Cuando quieres discutir un tema con tu comunidad, ¿qué herramientas te funcionan y qué problemas te bloquean?
2. ¿Qué es lo que funciona en las páginas de discusión para los recién llegados y qué es lo que los bloquea?
3. ¿Con qué luchan otros en tu comunidad acerca de las páginas de discusión?
4. ¿Qué te gustaría poder hacer en las páginas de discusión, pero no puedes debido a limitaciones técnicas?
5. ¿Cuáles son los aspectos importantes de una “discusión wiki”?
Por último, visite la sección Consulta de páginas de discusión de 2019 en Mediawiki.org e informe lo que aprendió de su grupo. Incluya enlaces si la discusión está disponible para el público.

También puedes ayudar a elaborar la lista de las diferentes formas en que las personas se comunican entre sí.

No todos los grupos activos en wikis o alrededor de wikis utilizan la misma manera para discutir las cosas: puede suceder en wikis, en redes sociales, a través de herramientas externas... Cuéntanos cómo se comunica tu grupo.

Puede leer más sobre el proceso general en mediawiki.org. Si tiene preguntas o ideas, puede dejar comentarios sobre el proceso de consulta en el idioma que prefiera.

¡Gracias! Esperamos poder hablar contigo.

Trizek (WMF) 15:08 21 febrero 2019 (UTC) [ responder ]

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-09

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios recientes

Hay una nueva versión de la aplicación de Wikipedia para iOS. Tiene, por ejemplo, resaltado de sintaxis y nuevas barras de herramientas para facilitar la escritura de wikitexto. También tiene modo nocturno, una función de búsqueda en la página y otras cosas. Puedes enviar comentarios y sugerencias. [30]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

Cuando mires tu lista de seguimiento o la página de cambios recientes, puedes usar los nuevos filtros para revisar las ediciones. Allí puedes elegir etiquetas para filtrar las diferentes ediciones. Las etiquetas vacías ya no se mostrarán. [31]
La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 26 de febrero. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 27 de febrero. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 28 de febrero (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 27 de febrero a las 16:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

La aplicación Wikipedia para Android invitará a los usuarios a añadir descripciones de Wikidata a los objetos Wikidata que tengan artículos de Wikipedia pero no descripciones de Wikidata. Solo invitará a los usuarios que hayan añadido varias descripciones de Wikidata en la aplicación sin que se haya revertido el proceso. Esto es para evitar el spam y las ediciones incorrectas. Puedes leer más y dejar comentarios.

21:17, 25 de febrero de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-10

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 5 de marzo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 6 de marzo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 7 de marzo (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 6 de marzo a las 16:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

Puedes dar tu opinión sobre el futuro de las páginas de discusión.
El sitio web para dispositivos móviles utilizará las fuentes estándar de su computadora o teléfono en lugar de una fuente genérica. Esto facilitará la lectura del texto en muchos alfabetos. [32][33]

16:38, 4 de marzo de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-11

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios recientes

Las páginas pueden utilizar coordenadas geográficas de Wikidata con la función mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements Lua#statements o la función parser. Si lo hacen, ahora se mostrarán utilizando un <maplink> de Kartographer si la wiki puede utilizar Kartographer. Puedes informar errores o hacer preguntas en Phabricator.
Ahora existe un EventStream para ver cuándo se agregan o eliminan enlaces en los wikis de Wikimedia. Puedes leer las discusiones y los planes.

Problemas

Algunas wikis no podrán editarse durante un breve período de tiempo el 19 de marzo ( UTC ). Esto comenzará a las 15:00 UTC. Durará hasta 15 minutos, pero probablemente menos. Puedes ver la lista de wikis afectadas. Esto se debe al mantenimiento de la red. Aún puedes leer las wikis.
Los editores que usan Firefox para editar con el editor visual tenían un problema con la copia de texto. Cuando intentaban seleccionar texto que incluía notas al pie, plantillas o imágenes de bloque en el medio, a menudo solo obtenían una parte del texto. Esto ya se ha solucionado. [34]
Algunos mapas dejaron de funcionar durante un tiempo el 8 de marzo. Esto se ha solucionado. [35][36]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 12 de marzo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 13 de marzo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 14 de marzo (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 13 de marzo a las 16:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

19:29, 11 de marzo de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-12

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios a finales de esta semana

Cuando utilices la función de reversión, podrás obtener un mensaje de confirmación en la mayoría de las wikis. Te preguntará si deseas hacer la reversión. Esto es para evitar clics incorrectos. Tendrás que optar por obtenerla. En la Wikipedia en alemán será una función de exclusión voluntaria a partir del 28 de marzo. [37][38]
La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 19 de marzo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 20 de marzo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 21 de marzo (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 20 de marzo a las 16:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

Los administradores podrán impedir que alguien edite una página o un espacio de nombres. Esto ya funciona en algunos wikis de Wikimedia. Puedes leer más. Si tu wiki quiere ser uno de los primeros en probar esto, puedes decírselo a los desarrolladores. [39]
Toolforge cerrará la cuadrícula de trabajos Trusty de Ubuntu. Esto ocurrirá la semana del 25 de marzo. Las herramientas que usan esta cuadrícula deben trasladarse a la nueva cuadrícula de trabajos Stretch de Debian. Si no lo han hecho, se desconectarán. Los encargados del mantenimiento pueden reiniciar las herramientas más tarde. Es posible que los usuarios no puedan usarlas mientras tanto. Puede ver una lista de las herramientas afectadas.

19:44, 18 de marzo de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-13

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios recientes

La nueva versión de la herramienta de traducción de contenido se utilizará para todas las traducciones nuevas. La versión anterior se seguirá utilizando para las traducciones que se iniciaron con ella. La mayoría de los usuarios no notarán ningún cambio. Más del 80% de las traducciones publicadas ya utilizan la nueva versión. [40]

Problemas

Había un problema con la edición con Safari en iOS . Cuando escribías un resumen de edición, no podías guardar la edición. Esto ya se ha solucionado. [41]
La barra de herramientas de edición a veces desaparece cuando te desplazas por la pantalla en dispositivos iOS . Esto se solucionará pronto. [42]
Los wikis pueden anular los mensajes de la interfaz en el wiki. Un problema hacía que, a veces, se mostraran versiones antiguas de los mensajes modificados, como el aviso del sitio y otras partes importantes de la interfaz. Esto se solucionó alrededor del 22 de marzo de 2019 a las 16:00 (UTC). Los usuarios que hayan cerrado sesión aún pueden recibir el mensaje incorrecto. Purgar la página debería solucionarlo. [43]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 26 de marzo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 27 de marzo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 28 de marzo (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 27 de marzo a las 16:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

18:05, 25 de marzo de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-14

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios a finales de esta semana

Las notificaciones te informan sobre lo que sucede en la wiki. Puedes activar las notificaciones sobre nuevos enlaces a páginas que hayas creado. Por razones de rendimiento, ya no podrás recibir correos electrónicos sobre esto. [44]
La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 2 de abril. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean de Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 3 de abril. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 4 de abril (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 3 de abril a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

16:29, 1 de abril de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-15

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios recientes

Ahora más wikis están probando la edición visual de secciones para usuarios móviles. Puedes leer más.
Los administradores de Wikipedia en francés y polaco pueden impedir que alguien edite una página o un espacio de nombres. Si su wiki quiere obtener estos bloqueos antes de que estén disponibles para todos los wikis, puede informar a los desarrolladores. [45][46]

Problemas

Podrás leer, pero no editar, la mayoría de los wikis durante 30 minutos el 11 de abril a las 05:00 (UTC). Esto se debe a un problema de hardware. Puedes ver una lista de los wikis afectados. [47]
Una actualización de mapas causó algunos problemas el 29 y el 30 de marzo, por lo que se revirtió. [48]
Las páginas de algunos Wikiviajes tenían problemas con el título superior. Esto se ha solucionado. [49]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

Cuando agregas un resumen de edición, el Editor visual buscará tus resúmenes de edición recientes en caso de que quieras reutilizar uno. Esto funciona tanto en el modo visual como en el modo wikitexto en la versión de escritorio. También funciona en el sitio móvil. [50]
Los wikis de Wikimedia contarán con un acortador de URL . Esto funcionará a partir del 11 de abril. Puedes leer más al respecto. [51]
La {{REVISIONID}}palabra mágica ya no funcionará por razones de rendimiento. Cuando obtenga una vista previa de una página, devolverá ""(cadena vacía). Cuando lea una página, devolverá "-"(guión). Por ahora, esto solo afectará a los espacios de nombres de contenido. [52]
La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 9 de abril. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 10 de abril. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 11 de abril (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 10 de abril a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

Podrás obtener una vista previa de las referencias. Esto significa que cuando pases el cursor sobre el enlace, aparecerá una ventana emergente que te mostrará una vista previa de la referencia. Funcionará de forma muy similar a las vistas previas de página. Esto es para que no tengas que ir al final de la página para ver una referencia. Esta función estará disponible ahora como una versión beta en Wikipedia en alemán y árabe. [53][54]
La salida JSON de Wikidata cambiará. Los contenedores vacíos se serializarán como objetos vacíos. Este es un cambio importante que afectará a las herramientas que usan salidas JSON y API. Ocurrirá el 30 de abril. Puedes leer más y ver cómo probar tu código.

18:24, 8 de abril de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-16

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios recientes

Todas las wikis ahora tienen el TemplateWizard para el editor de wikitexto.

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 16 de abril. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 17 de abril. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 18 de abril (calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 17 de abril a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

Wikidata tendrá un nuevo estado de restricción llamado suggestion. Esto cambiará el WikibaseQualityConstraintsfuncionamiento de la API de verificación de restricciones. [55][56]
Puede probar la propiedad depicts para datos estructurados en Commons.

23:00, 15 de abril de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-17

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios recientes

La función de búsqueda avanzada de URL ahora muestra en qué espacios de nombres se realiza la búsqueda. El campo de espacio de nombres está contraído de forma predeterminada en la página de búsqueda. También puede agregar nuevos campos a la interfaz de búsqueda a través de un gancho . [57][58][59]
Las wikis ahora se ven ligeramente diferentes en la versión web móvil. [60]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

No hay nueva versión de MediaWiki esta semana.

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 23 de abril a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

Los artículos de Wikipedia tendrán la sameAspropiedad meta, que añade datos estructurados, lo que facilita a los motores de búsqueda la búsqueda de artículos de Wikipedia y la reutilización de contenidos. Habrá una prueba A/B . [61][62]

19:08, 23 de abril de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-18

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios recientes

La aplicación Wikipedia para Android ahora invita a los usuarios a agregar descripciones de Wikidata a los objetos Wikidata que tienen artículos de Wikipedia pero no descripciones de Wikidata. Solo invitará a los usuarios que hayan agregado varias descripciones de Wikidata en la aplicación sin que se haya revertido el proceso. Esto es para evitar el spam y las ediciones incorrectas. [63][64]

Problemas

La semana pasada, Tech News se retrasó debido a un error en MassMessage. Otros boletines tuvieron el mismo problema. [65]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

Podrás ver cuándo fue la última vez que actualizaste la página de cambios recientes. Esto es para que puedas ver qué tan recientes son los cambios. [66]
Cuando escribes un comentario en Discusiones Estructuradas pero aún no lo has publicado, tu navegador web lo guardará en local storagelugar de en session storage. Esto significa que no lo perderás incluso si cierras tu navegador web. Las Discusiones Estructuradas solían llamarse Flow. [67]
Podrás desactivar las notificaciones de hitos. Las notificaciones de hitos te felicitan cuando has realizado una determinada cantidad de ediciones. [68]
La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 30 de abril. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 1 de mayo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 2 de mayo (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión tendrá lugar el 1 de mayo a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

La tabla Wikidata wb_termsse eliminará. Esto afectará a algunas herramientas Wikidata. Deben actualizarse. La tabla se ha vuelto demasiado grande y eso está causando problemas. Esto sucederá el 29 de mayo. Puedes leer más. Puedes pedir ayuda si la necesitas.
Los wikis de Wikimedia pronto utilizarán un token cuando cierres sesión. Esto cambia el funcionamiento de la API. Es posible que sea necesario actualizar algunas herramientas. [69]

22:27, 29 de abril de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-19

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Problemas

Especial: La lista de seguimiento puede mostrar información incorrecta. No siempre muestra qué ediciones se han leído y cuáles no. Los desarrolladores están trabajando para resolver el problema. [70]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 7 de mayo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 8 de mayo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 9 de mayo (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 8 de mayo a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

16:27, 6 de mayo de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-20

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Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 14 de mayo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 15 de mayo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 16 de mayo (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 15 de mayo a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

00:48, 14 de mayo de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-21

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios recientes

Se ha publicado el informe de la fase 1 de la consulta sobre las páginas de discusión de 2019. Se invita a las comunidades a iniciar la fase 2 de la consulta en sus wikis.

Problemas

Las descripciones de los archivos de Commons no se mostraban correctamente en otros wikis de Wikimedia durante unos días. Por ejemplo, faltaban las descripciones de las imágenes y la información de la licencia. Esto ya se ha solucionado. [71][72]
Algunas diferencias muestran un mensaje de error cuando intentas verlas. Los desarrolladores están trabajando para solucionarlo. Podría deberse a algunos comentarios de edición. [73][74]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 21 de mayo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 22 de mayo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 23 de mayo (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 22 de mayo a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

La herramienta de traducción de contenido de Wikipedia puede utilizar traducciones automáticas. Existe un sistema para detener las traducciones cuando los editores no corrigen los errores de traducción automática. Este sistema les advierte o los detiene si parecen copiar lo que les proporciona la traducción automática. Si este sistema es demasiado estricto o no lo suficientemente estricto, se lo puedes decir al equipo de idiomas. [75]
El punto final de la wbeditentity API de Wikidata eliminará todos los alias si la solicitud incluye un alias vacío. Así es como se supone que debería funcionar. No ha funcionado de esta manera debido a un error. Esto comenzará el 12 de junio. [76]

13:04, 20 de mayo de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-22

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Cambios a finales de esta semana

El 3 de junio se producirán grandes cambios en la base de datos de réplicas . Algunas herramientas de Cloud Services dejarán de funcionar si los encargados del mantenimiento no las actualizan para que utilicen el nuevo esquema. Esto probablemente afecte a las herramientas que consultan revisiones o entradas de registro realizadas por un usuario. [77][78]
La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 28 de mayo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 29 de mayo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 30 de mayo (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 29 de mayo a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

15:33, 27 de mayo de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-23

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Cambios recientes

Ahora puedes escribir todas las letras especiales en todos los idiomas africanos de Wikipedia. Esto funciona en la versión de escritorio. [79]
Ahora existe un campo llamado depictsCommons. Se trata de una forma de mostrar lo que hay en una imagen con la ayuda de Wikidata. Todavía está en desarrollo. [80]
Algunas herramientas de Toolforge pueden dejar de funcionar a partir del 3 de junio debido a cambios en la base de datos. Los encargados del mantenimiento deben actualizar sus herramientas para utilizar el nuevo esquema. [81][82]

Problemas

Podrás leer, pero no editar, Wikimedia Commons durante 30 minutos el 19 de junio a las 05:00 (UTC). Esto es para solucionar un problema de hardware. [83]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

Algunas wikis tienen una pestaña para el editor visual y otra para el editor de wikitexto. Otras wikis sólo tienen una pestaña. Si tu wiki tiene dos pestañas, al hacer clic en un enlace para crear una nueva página siempre se ha abierto un editor de wikitexto. Ahora se abrirá el editor que usaste la última vez que editaste. [84]
La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 4 de mayo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 5 de mayo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 6 de mayo (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 5 de mayo a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

15:24, 3 de junio de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-24

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Cambios recientes

Cuando creas un PDF a partir de una página de la wiki, ahora lo hace Proton. Antes, usábamos Electron. Debería verse igual, pero funciona mejor. Ambos usan Chromium. Este es un sistema diferente al que se usa cuando se recopilan varios artículos en un libro y se crea un PDF a partir de ellos. [85][86]
La extensión Flagged Revisions ahora utiliza los íconos estándar de OOUI. Habrá correcciones menores adicionales para el posicionamiento en la próxima implementación. [87]
Los bots y otros scripts que no establecen un agente de usuario identificable pueden encontrar sus solicitudes estrictamente limitadas hasta que se identifiquen adecuadamente. [88]

Problemas

Comprueba si la configuración de revisiones marcadas en tu wiki es la que esperas (o la que era hace unas semanas). Si no es así, infórmanos. [89]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

No hay nueva versión de MediaWiki esta semana.

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 12 de junio a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

17:06, 10 de junio de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-25

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Problemas

Podrás leer, pero no editar, Wikimedia Commons durante 30 minutos el 19 de junio a las 05:00 (UTC). Esto es para solucionar un problema de hardware. [90]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

Los archivos MIDI se podrán reproducir pronto sin la extensión Score. A continuación, podrá añadirlos con [[File:Filename.midi]]. Más tarde override_midiy override_audiodejará de funcionar. En su lugar, deberá añadir el archivo MIDI debajo de la partitura musical. [91]
Pronto un nuevo reproductor de vídeo reemplazará al antiguo. Podrás habilitarlo como una función beta en tus preferencias . Más adelante se habilitará para todos si no hay grandes problemas. [92]
La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 18 de junio. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 19 de junio. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 20 de junio (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 19 de junio a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

Algunos gadgets y scripts de usuario aún utilizan los valores wgEnableAPIy antiguos wgEnableWriteAPI. Estos valores siempre son verdaderos. Pronto se eliminarán. Esto podría dañar los gadgets y scripts. Debes corregir tus gadgets para que no utilicen estos valores. [93]

20:37, 17 de junio de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-26

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Problemas

La nueva versión de MediaWiki de la semana pasada no se publicó por completo debido a problemas. Se eliminó de la mayoría de las wikis el martes y de las wikis de prueba el jueves. [94]
La mayoría de las wikis funcionaron con lentitud y luego, durante un breve período, se convirtieron en de solo lectura la semana pasada debido a un problema en uno de los servidores de bases de datos. Ahora se ha reemplazado. [95]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 25 de junio. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 26 de junio. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 27 de junio (calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes ver o unirte a la próxima presentación de Wikimedia Language. Se tratará sobre el uso de la traducción automática en los proyectos Wikimedia. La presentación tendrá lugar el 26 de junio a las 13:00 (UTC). Se guardará una grabación para verla más tarde.
Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 26 de junio a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

17:29, 24 de junio de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-27

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Cambios recientes

Ha comenzado el desarrollo de Wikidata Bridge. El objetivo es permitir la edición de Wikidata desde Wikipedia. [96]

Problemas

A veces, las páginas se cargan con lentitud para los usuarios que se dirigen al centro de datos de Ámsterdam. La investigación está en curso. [97]
El servicio de consultas de Wikidata se sobrecargó entre las 11:50 UTC y las 13:15 UTC del 24 de junio. El problema se ha solucionado. [98]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

Podrás leer, pero no editar, todos los wikis durante un breve período de tiempo, a partir del 3 de julio a las 06:00 (UTC). Esto se debe a que se ha trasladado una base de datos. [99]
No habrá implementación de una nueva versión de MediaWiki en los wikis esta semana (calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 3 de julio a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

21:23, 1 de julio de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-28

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios recientes

Para los organizadores de eventos, si solicitan un levantamiento temporal del límite de IP para la creación masiva de cuentas, esto también aumentará el límite de velocidad de edición para esas nuevas cuentas en el evento, lo que evitará otro cuello de botella. [100]
Los administradores de todos los wikis de Wiktionary, Wikivoyage y Wikisource ahora pueden utilizar la nueva función de bloques parciales. [101]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 9 de julio. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 10 de julio. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 11 de julio (según calendario).
El diseño de las ventanas del software de MediaWiki cambiará para los usuarios de escritorio. El diseño será más simple, los botones serán más llamativos y claros, y los botones de cierre serán solo íconos. Esto es como el diseño para dispositivos móviles. Esto afectará a ContentTranslation, VisualEditor, TemplateWizard y otras herramientas. [102]

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 10 de julio a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

Wikidata estará en modo de sólo lectura el 30 de julio desde las 05:00 hasta las 05:30 UTC debido a un cambio de servidor. [103]
Habrá un cambio en el formato de nombre de los nuevos volcados RDF de Wikidata a partir del 15 de julio. [104]

20:12, 8 de julio de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-29

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios recientes

La web móvil contará con herramientas de edición más avanzadas. Ahora, siete Wikipedias más pueden usarlas. Esto funciona para Wikipedia en árabe, indonesio, italiano, persa, japonés, español y tailandés. Puedes probar las herramientas en la web móvil y enviar comentarios. [105]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

El usuario del sistema de filtrado de abusos pronto realizará modificaciones de mantenimiento en los filtros de abusos que no funcionan. Este usuario se llama Edit filtery tiene derechos de administrador. Esto tiene como objetivo solucionar problemas técnicos. No realizará ningún otro cambio. Puede leer más.
La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 16 de julio. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 17 de julio. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 18 de julio (calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 17 de julio a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

La aplicación Wikipedia para Android invitará a los usuarios a añadir títulos a las imágenes de Commons. Solo invitará a los usuarios que hayan añadido una serie de ediciones en la aplicación sin que se haya revertido la acción. Esto es para evitar el spam y las ediciones incorrectas. Puedes leer más y dejar comentarios. [106]

15:29, 15 de julio de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-30

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios recientes

Las comunidades interesadas en facilitar los primeros pasos de los recién llegados ahora pueden beneficiarse de los experimentos del equipo de Growth en sus wikis. Consulta las condiciones y el proceso de solicitud.
El premio a la herramienta más genial de 2019 está buscando nominaciones. Puedes recomendar herramientas antes del 29 de julio. Las herramientas premiadas se presentarán en Wikimania. [107]

Problemas

El lanzamiento de la última versión de MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) ha sido bloqueado para los grupos 1 y 2. [108]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La base de datos de Phabricator se trasladará a un servidor diferente. Las operaciones de escritura se bloquearán el jueves 25 de julio, entre las 05:30 y las 06:00 AM UTC. Las operaciones de lectura no se verán afectadas. [109]
La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 23 de julio. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 24 de julio. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 25 de julio (calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 24 de julio a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

Algunos elementos del editor visual cambiarán a finales de esta semana. Esto facilitará la edición de enlaces, citas y plantillas tanto en la versión de escritorio como en la de dispositivos móviles. [110][111]
Con la búsqueda avanzada activada, podrá elegir el orden de clasificación de los resultados de búsqueda cuando realice una búsqueda. [112][113]
Los usuarios que editen desde direcciones IP incluidas en la lista blanca en una solicitud de levantamiento temporal del límite de IP para la creación masiva de cuentas podrán omitir los CAPTCHA. Esto sucederá en agosto. Si cree que esto no debería suceder por algún motivo, infórmenos.
La variable user_wpzerose eliminará de AbuseFilter. Se proporciona una lista de filtros que necesitan una corrección.

13:07, 22 de julio de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-31

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Problemas

Wikidata estará en modo de sólo lectura el 30 de julio desde las 05:00 hasta las 05:30 UTC debido a un cambio de servidor. [114]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 30 de julio. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 31 de julio. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 1 de agosto (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 31 de julio a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

21:42, 29 de julio de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-32

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 6 de agosto. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 7 de agosto. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 8 de agosto (según calendario).

Problemas

Un cambio en la extensión RelatedArticles la habilitó por accidente para todos, no solo para los usuarios de dispositivos móviles. Esto se ha corregido. [115][116]

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 7 de agosto a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

Hoy en día, todo el mundo puede ver las direcciones IP si alguien edita sin una cuenta. En el futuro, esto podría estar más oculto. Esto es para proteger a los editores no registrados para que menos personas puedan ver su dirección IP. Esto solo sucederá después de que nos aseguremos de que las herramientas para combatir el vandalismo aún puedan ser efectivas. Puedes leer más y comentar.

13:24, 5 de agosto de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-33

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Cambios recientes

Los editores que utilicen el sitio web móvil de Wikipedia pueden optar por nuevas funciones avanzadas a través de la página de configuración. Esto les dará acceso a más enlaces de interfaz, páginas especiales y herramientas. Se agradecen los comentarios en la página de discusión. [117]
Debido a la ausencia de mantenimiento voluntario de la skin Cologne Blue, el enlace para activarla estará oculto. La skin seguirá funcionando, pero se recomienda a los editores que la utilicen que cambien a otra skin. [118]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

Debido a Wikimania, no hay implementación esta semana. [119]

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 13 de agosto a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

El enlace "Elemento Wikidata" se trasladará de la sección "Herramientas" a la sección "En otros proyectos" en todos los proyectos Wikimedia, a partir del 21 de agosto. Anuncio completo, tarea de Phabricator.

18:19, 12 de agosto de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-34

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Noticias tecnológicas

La semana que viene no habrá ningún número de Tech News. El próximo número de Tech News se enviará el 2 de septiembre de 2019.

Problemas

Algunos filtros de abuso dejaron de funcionar debido a un cambio de código. Solo funcionarán las variables de la acción actual. Las variables definidas dentro de una rama pueden no funcionar fuera de esa rama. Puede leer más para ver cómo solucionar los filtros.
Solo se pueden crear seis cuentas por día desde una dirección IP . Entre el 12 y el 15 de agosto, esto era dos cuentas por día debido a un problema de seguridad. Ahora, nuevamente, son seis cuentas por día. [120]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

Solo se puede crear una cantidad limitada de cuentas a partir de una dirección IP . Una dirección IP puede incluirse en la lista blanca para que pueda crear tantas cuentas como sea necesario. Esto es útil en eventos en los que muchas personas nuevas aprenden a editar. Las direcciones IP que están en la lista blanca por este motivo tampoco mostrarán CAPTCHAs cuando cree cuentas. Esto sucederá el miércoles. [121]
La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 20 de agosto. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 21 de agosto. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 22 de agosto (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 21 de agosto a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

Hay una RFC sobre la creación de un nuevo grupo de usuarios global con derecho a editar filtros de abuso. Esto se utilizará para reparar filtros dañados y garantizar que todos los filtros sigan funcionando cuando se produzcan cambios en el software. Puedes leer más y comentar.
Special:Contributions/newbiesYa no funcionará por razones de rendimiento. Mostraba ediciones de cuentas nuevas. Puedes ver esto en el feed de cambios recientes. [122]

15:21, 19 de agosto de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-36

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Cambios recientes

Puedes utilizar la nueva interfaz de termbox si editas Wikidata en un dispositivo móvil. Esto sirve para editar etiquetas, descripciones y alias con mayor facilidad en las páginas móviles. [123]
La nueva versión de MediaWiki se ha implementado durante la última semana.
El cambio de posición del enlace "Elemento Wikidata" en todos los wikis, anunciado previamente, ha sido revertido debido a problemas inesperados de caché. [124]
El límite de reversiones se ha incrementado de 10 a 100 reversiones por minuto. [125]
La versión avanzada de las páginas de revisión de ediciones (Cambios recientes, Lista de seguimiento y Cambios relacionados) ahora incluye dos filtros nuevos. Estos filtros son para "Todos los contenidos" y "Todas las discusiones". Filtrarán la vista solo para esos espacios de nombres. Sin embargo, el filtro "Todas las discusiones" no incluye pseudopáginas de discusión, como discusiones que están en los espacios de nombres Project: o Wikipedia :. Pero sí incluirá cambios que ocurran en Project talk: o Wikipedia talk:. [126]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 3 de septiembre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 4 de septiembre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 5 de septiembre (según calendario).
Cuando inicia sesión, el software verifica su contraseña para ver si cumple con la política de contraseñas . A partir de esta semana, también se quejará si su contraseña es una de las contraseñas más comunes del mundo. Si su contraseña no es lo suficientemente segura, considere cambiarla por una contraseña más segura . [127]

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 4 de septiembre a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

Podrás leer, pero no editar, Wikidata durante 30 minutos el 10 de septiembre a las 05:00 (UTC). [128]
Podrás leer, pero no editar, algunos wikis de tamaño mediano durante un máximo de 30 minutos el 17 de septiembre a las 05:00 (UTC). Podrás ver cuáles son. [129]
Podrás leer, pero no editar, algunas wikis de tamaño mediano durante 30 minutos el 24 de septiembre a las 05:00 (UTC). Podrás ver cuáles son. [130]
Podrás leer, pero no editar, Wikimedia Commons durante un máximo de 30 minutos el 26 de septiembre a las 05:00 (UTC). [131]

09:07, 4 de septiembre de 2019 (UTC)

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Problemas

La semana pasada, Tech News tuvo problemas de entrega. Algunos no recibieron el boletín informativo y otros lo recibieron más de una vez. El problema por el que algunas páginas lo recibieron tres veces ya debería estar solucionado. [132]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 1 de octubre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 2 de octubre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 3 de octubre (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 2 de octubre a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

El equipo de tecnología comunitaria de la Fundación Wikimedia está trabajando en una función de vencimiento de la lista de seguimiento. Esto significa que puedes poner cosas en tu lista de seguimiento por un período de tiempo en lugar de para siempre. Están buscando comentarios sobre las preguntas que tienen.
Especial: Las contribuciones tendrán el aspecto estándar de OOUI. Esto hace que sea más fácil de usar en dispositivos móviles y se parezca a otras Special:páginas. Hay un script que puedes usar para hacer que el formulario sea más pequeño si lo deseas. [133]

16:51, 30 de septiembre de 2019 (UTC)

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Cambios recientes

La función de filtro de abuso ahora tiene un analizador más rápido . Esto es para acortar el tiempo de espera cuando se guarda una edición. [134]

Problemas

Hay un problema en el editor visual cuando se copia o elimina texto con notas al pie. Se solucionará pronto. [135]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 8 de octubre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 9 de octubre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 10 de octubre (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 9 de octubre a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

La encuesta de la lista de deseos de la comunidad tiene un nuevo formato. Se centrará en las wikis que suelen recibir menos apoyo. Probablemente volverá al formato normal el próximo año. No se ha decidido exactamente cómo funcionará este año. Puedes dejar comentarios.
La URL de las páginas principales de Wikimedia podría cambiarse. Esto se debe a que las URL actuales causan varios problemas. Por ejemplo , en su lugar https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Tris_T7/Wikidata:Main_Pagese podría decir https://www.wikidata.org/: Puedes informar a los desarrolladores si esto causaría problemas para tu wiki.
Hay un nuevo boletín de noticias de la comunidad técnica. Puedes leer más sobre el trabajo de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Suscríbete para recibir la información en el futuro.
Outreachy es un programa de pasantías para grupos que están subrepresentados en el ámbito del software libre y de código abierto. En la próxima ronda hay siete proyectos Wikimedia sobre codificación, documentación y control de calidad. Las personas que cumplan los criterios pueden presentar su solicitud. El último día para presentar la solicitud es el 5 de noviembre.

15:36, 7 de octubre de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-42

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Cambios recientes

Ahora puedes usar herramientas de edición más avanzadas en la web móvil. Puedes activarlas y desactivarlas en tus preferencias en la versión móvil. [136]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 15 de octubre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 16 de octubre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 17 de octubre (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 16 de octubre a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

Internet Explorer 6 y 7 ya no son compatibles, lo que significa que los navegadores pueden empezar a tener un aspecto un poco extraño y no recibirán soporte de seguridad. No se pueden leer wikis de Wikimedia en Internet Explorer en Windows XP o versiones de Windows anteriores a Windows XP, ya que casi nadie utiliza estos navegadores. El hecho de que se les dé soporte hizo que los wikis fueran menos seguros para el resto de usuarios. [137]
En el futuro, los títulos de las secciones podrían tener un enlace para compartir. Esto es para que sea más fácil vincular la sección. Puede leer más y debatir.

23:55, 14 de octubre de 2019 (UTC)

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Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios recientes

Ahora, las páginas de ayuda y el entorno de pruebas de la API muestran con mayor claridad cuándo se marcan los módulos de la API como internalinternos. Los módulos de la API marcados como internos probablemente lo eran antes. Era más fácil pasarlos por alto. Debe buscar alternativas que no sean internas. [138]

Problemas

Hay una herramienta de traducción que utilizamos en wikis con más de un idioma. Durante unos días no creaba páginas para nuevos idiomas cuando alguien traducía una página. Los idiomas no se mostraban en la barra de idiomas. Esto se ha solucionado. [139]
El historial y las diferencias pueden mostrar contenido incorrecto. Esto se debe a un problema de caché. Pronto se solucionará. [140]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 22 de octubre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 23 de octubre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 24 de octubre (según calendario).
Las vistas previas de referencias serán una función beta en todas las Wikipedias y en algunos Wikiviajes. Te muestra una vista previa de la nota al pie cuando pasas el cursor sobre el número o haces clic en él. Ha sido una función beta en Wikipedia en alemán y árabe desde abril.

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 23 de octubre. Consulta cómo unirte.

14:42, 21 de octubre de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-44

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios recientes

Puedes publicar propuestas para la encuesta de la lista de deseos de la comunidad. La encuesta decide en qué trabajará el equipo de tecnología de la comunidad. Puedes publicar propuestas hasta el 11 de noviembre. Puedes votar las propuestas desde el 20 de noviembre hasta el 2 de diciembre. Este año, la lista de deseos se centrará en Wikilibros, Wikcionario, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversidad, Wikiespecies, Wikivoyage y Wikinoticias. Puedes leer más sobre el formato de este año.
Los usuarios móviles ahora tienen un diseño específico para su lista de seguimiento. [141][142]
Puedes compartir comentarios e ideas sobre el proyecto de Mejoras del escritorio. El objetivo es hacer que la interfaz sea más fácil de usar para lectores y editores sin eliminar ninguna funcionalidad. El equipo de Lectores Web de la Fundación trabajará en esto durante los próximos dos años.
OOUI ahora permite usar px(píxeles) en lugar de em( em ) para algunos casos específicos. [143][144]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 29 de octubre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 30 de octubre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 31 de octubre (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 30 de octubre a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

No habrá cambios en el software entre el 19 de diciembre y el 2 de enero. La primera versión de MediaWiki del año que viene se publicará la semana del 6 de enero. [145]
Los gadgets y scripts de usuario pueden acceder a variables sobre la página actual en JavaScript. En 2015, esta información se trasladó de las variables globales con nombre wg*a mw.config. Las antiguas variables globales se eliminarán a finales de este año. Puedes obtener más información al respecto y avisar a los desarrolladores si quieres probar esto primero en tu wiki.

16:25, 28 de octubre de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-45

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios recientes

En Special:Contributions, podrías ver hasta 5000 ediciones al mismo tiempo si editabas la URL . Este número se ha reducido a 500. Esto es para detener las solicitudes que dañan los sitios. [146]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiryPuedes establecer la duración predeterminada para bloquear a un usuario de tu wiki. Podrás usar MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ippara establecer una duración de bloqueo predeterminada diferente para editores de IP. [147]
La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 5 de noviembre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 6 de noviembre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 7 de noviembre (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 6 de noviembre a las 15:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

16:48, 4 de noviembre de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-46

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios recientes

MediaWiki2LaTeX puede convertir distintas páginas de un wiki de Wikimedia en un PDF . Ahora puede crear un PDF con alrededor de 5000 páginas. Antes eran 800 páginas.

Cambios a finales de esta semana

No hay nueva versión de MediaWiki esta semana.

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 13 de noviembre a las 16:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

Wikimedia participará en Google Code-in . Este evento está dirigido a estudiantes jóvenes que desean ayudar con el software de código abierto. Puedes leer más. Wikimedianos técnicos con experiencia pueden ser mentores de estudiantes.

22:04, 11 de noviembre de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-47

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Problemas

Podrás leer, pero no editar, algunas wikis durante 30 minutos el 26 de noviembre a las 06:00 (UTC). Podrás ver cuáles son. Probablemente dure mucho menos de 30 minutos. Esto también afectará a la centralauthbase de datos. Esto podría afectar, por ejemplo, al cambio de contraseñas, el inicio de sesión en nuevas wikis, el cambio de correos electrónicos o los cambios de nombre globales. [148]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

Pronto podrás votar las propuestas para la encuesta de la lista de deseos de la comunidad. La encuesta decide en qué trabajará el equipo de tecnología de la comunidad. Puedes votar las propuestas desde el 20 de noviembre hasta el 2 de diciembre. Este año, la lista de deseos se centrará en Wikilibros, Wikcionario, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversidad, Wikiespecies, Wikivoyage y Wikinoticias. Puedes leer más sobre el formato de este año.
No hay nueva versión de MediaWiki esta semana.

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 20 de noviembre a las 16:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

20:17, 18 de noviembre de 2019 (UTC)

Mensaje para los votantes de la ArbCom en las elecciones de 2019

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-48

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios a finales de esta semana

El modo beta móvil se desactivará para tener menos mantenimiento. Los desarrolladores se centrarán en el proyecto de mejoras de escritorio. Puedes activar el modo avanzado de contribuciones móviles si quieres ver las categorías. También puedes volver al principio. Esto se puede hacer con un gadget o un script de usuario . [149]
Parsoid es un software que utilizamos para el editor visual, la traducción de contenido, Flow y la aplicación Android. Se ha reescrito y llegará a las wikis gradualmente durante las próximas dos semanas. Se ha probado, pero puede haber algunas diferencias o vistas previas que no se vean bien. Si ve alguna, puede informarla. [150]
La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en los wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 26 de noviembre. Estará disponible en los demás wikis la semana que viene (según calendario). Esto se debe a que estamos en vacaciones.

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 27 de noviembre a las 16:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

En el futuro, en la vista móvil, podrás cambiar entre el artículo y la página de discusión de una forma nueva: se utilizarán pestañas, algo más parecido a la vista de escritorio. [151]

16:52, 25 de noviembre de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-49

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios recientes

Mix'n'match es una herramienta para conectar elementos de Wikidata con información de otras bases de datos. Puede utilizarse para encontrar temas que faltan en una Wikipedia. Actualmente cuenta con más de 3000 conjuntos de datos. Antes tenía cerca de 2000.

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 3 de diciembre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 4 de diciembre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 5 de diciembre (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 4 de diciembre a las 16:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

Habrá un nuevo esquema para los volcados de XML. Los scripts y las aplicaciones que los utilizan deberán actualizarse. Si no se actualizan, dejarán de funcionar. [152]
La {{REVISIONID}}palabra mágica ya no funcionará en los espacios de nombres de contenido. Esto se debe a razones de rendimiento. Cuando se obtiene una vista previa de una página, devuelve ""(cadena vacía). Cuando se lee una página, devuelve "-"(guión). En el futuro, esto también afectará a otros espacios de nombres. Los próximos son los espacios de nombres de archivos y categorías. [153]

16:59, 2 de diciembre de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-50

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios recientes

Los proyectos de Wikimedia utilizan Translatewiki para traducir la interfaz wiki. Ahora puedes utilizar WatchTranslations para ver los proyectos allí. Recibirás un correo electrónico si faltan traducciones a tu idioma. [154]
Hay un nuevo conjunto de datos que puedes usar. Muestra la cantidad de editores por país por mes para una serie de países. Puedes leer la documentación y descargar el conjunto de datos.

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 10 de diciembre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 11 de diciembre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 12 de diciembre (según calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 11 de diciembre a las 16:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

Puedes probar una nueva herramienta de referencia que permite hacer referencia a diferentes partes de una fuente sin repetir toda la información. Puedes probarla en el clúster beta. Puedes ver un artículo de ejemplo. [155]

16:38, 9 de diciembre de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-51

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Problemas

La extensión Linter te ayuda a encontrar errores técnicos en los artículos. La semana pasada no mostraba cambios nuevos debido a un problema con la API . Ahora está funcionando nuevamente. [156]
Especial: La lista de seguimiento puede volver a mostrar información incorrecta. No siempre muestra qué ediciones se han leído y cuáles no. Esto se debe a un problema en la base de datos. Los desarrolladores están trabajando para resolver el problema. [157]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

Puedes recibir notificaciones por correo electrónico. Puedes recibirlas inmediatamente, un resumen diario o un resumen semanal. Si eliges un resumen, pronto podrás elegir no recibir notificaciones que ya hayas marcado como leídas en la wiki. [158]
La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 17 de diciembre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 18 de diciembre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 19 de diciembre (calendario).

Reuniones

Puedes unirte a la reunión de asesoramiento técnico en IRC. Durante la reunión, los desarrolladores voluntarios pueden pedir asesoramiento. La reunión será el 18 de diciembre a las 16:00 (UTC). Consulta cómo unirte.

Cambios futuros

La función de bloqueos parciales ya es estable. Estará disponible en la mayoría de las wikis el 6 de enero. Tu wiki puede solicitar que esperes. Ponte en contacto con NKohli (WMF) si no la quieres ahora. [159]

00:18, 17 de diciembre de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2019-52

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Noticias tecnológicas

Debido a las vacaciones, el próximo número de Tech News se enviará el 6 de enero de 2020.

Cambios recientes

Todos los usuarios del sitio móvil ahora tienen nuevas funciones. Entre ellas, se incluyen pestañas para páginas y debates, un menú de usuario ampliado y acceso directo a páginas de historial. Estas funciones formaban parte inicialmente del "modo avanzado".

Cambios a finales de esta semana

No habrá una nueva versión de MediaWiki esta semana ni la próxima.

Cambios futuros

Puede utilizar setlangla URL para cambiar el idioma de la interfaz de usuario. Esto ya no sucederá automáticamente. Cuando abra el enlace, se le solicitará que confirme el cambio de idioma. Esto no sucederá si Javascript no funciona en su navegador. [160]

20:08, 23 de diciembre de 2019 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: febrero de 2020

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios a finales de esta semana

Al intentar mover una página, si el título de destino ya existe, se muestra un mensaje de advertencia. El mensaje de advertencia ahora incluirá un enlace al título de destino. [161]
La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 7 de enero. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 8 de enero. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 9 de enero (según calendario).

21:23, 6 de enero de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: marzo de 2020

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Cambios recientes

Ya no podrás leer los wikis de Wikimedia si tu navegador usa un TLS muy antiguo . Esto se debe a que es un problema de seguridad para todos. Puede dar lugar a ataques de degradación . Desde el 9 de diciembre solo verás una advertencia. Pronto el navegador no se conectará a los wikis en absoluto. La mayoría son usuarios de sistemas Android anteriores a la versión 4.4. Puedes leer las recomendaciones del navegador. [162]
Special:LinkSearch se ha movido de la sección "Redireccionar páginas especiales" en Special:SpecialPages a la sección "Listas de páginas". [163]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

Los wikis pueden proteger las páginas de modo que sólo algunos usuarios puedan editarlas. Los niveles de protección estándar son Requerir acceso confirmado o autoconfirmado y Requerir acceso de administrador. Si su wiki utiliza más niveles de protección, el nombre técnico puede cambiarse para estandarizarlo. Esto no afecta lo que ven los usuarios. [164]
La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 14 de enero. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 15 de enero. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 16 de enero (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

Deepcat y Catgraph dejarán de funcionar a finales de enero, ya que ahora se puede utilizar la función de búsqueda normal. [165]
Puede utilizarlo <ref follow="…">para combinar notas a pie de página que se encuentran unas detrás de otras. Está pensado para ser utilizado en libros digitalizados en Wikisource. Si el orden de las notas a pie de página es incorrecto, no se muestra ningún error, pero el <ref> incorrecto se muestra fuera de la lista de <references />. Esto cambiará y verá un mensaje de error en su lugar. [166]

Entrega de mensajes de MediaWiki ( discusión ) 18:40 13 ene 2020 (UTC) [ responder ]

Noticias tecnológicas: abril de 2020

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Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 21 de enero. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 22 de enero. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 23 de enero (calendario).

Cambios futuros

Hay una nueva sugerencia sobre qué se debe mostrar cuando alguien edita sin registrar una cuenta. Esto es para brindarles a los editores no registrados mayor privacidad y hacer que el trabajo antivandalismo se realice más rápido. Puedes enviar comentarios.
Pywikibot es una biblioteca de Python para automatizar el trabajo en wikis. Ya no será compatible con Python 2. Utilice la python2etiqueta si necesita seguir ejecutando scripts de Python 2. El equipo de Pywikibot recomienda encarecidamente migrar a Python 3. Puede obtener ayuda para hacerlo. [167]
El recorte semanal de la rama MediaWiki pronto se automatizará. El momento de este recorte puede cambiar. Puedes comentarlo en Phabricator si esto te afecta. [168]
Podrás leer sobre los próximos eventos técnicos y tutorías para pasantes.

19:42, 20 de enero de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-05

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Problemas

Algunas diferencias móviles tienen problemas. No se muestran un par de botones. Las diferencias de datos estructurados en Commons son confusas. Los desarrolladores están trabajando para solucionarlo. [169][170]
Los administradores de wikis que utilizan discusiones estructuradas no pueden mover las páginas de discusión. Esto es un error. Los desarrolladores están trabajando para solucionarlo. [171]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

No hay nueva versión de MediaWiki esta semana.

Cambios futuros

Hay un código JavaScript en Special:Undelete para administradores que permite seleccionar automáticamente varias casillas de verificación manteniendo presionada la tecla "Shift" y haciendo clic. Este código también se carga por accidente en otras páginas especiales y en artículos. Esto hace que las páginas se carguen más lentamente. Esto se solucionará. Si conoce otras páginas especiales en las que esto sea útil, infórmeselo a los desarrolladores en phab:T232688.

18:53, 27 de enero de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-06

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Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 4 de febrero. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 5 de febrero. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 6 de febrero (según calendario).

20:05, 3 de febrero de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-07

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Cambios recientes

Hay una nueva versión de la aplicación Wikimedia Commons para Android. Debería solucionar el problema de las subidas fallidas. [172]

Problemas

La semana pasada hubo un problema con la nueva versión de MediaWiki. Se eliminaron algunos mensajes por accidente. La nueva versión se retrasó porque se detuvo para solucionar problemas. [173]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La API de acciones de MediaWiki es utilizada por varias herramientas, como bots y gadgets. Algunos códigos de error cambiarán. Algunos valores de parámetros que no siguen el estándar dejarán de funcionar. [174]
La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 11 de febrero. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 12 de febrero. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 13 de febrero (según calendario).

19:12, 10 de febrero de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-08

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Cambios recientes

Las páginas de Wikidata y Commons ahora se cargan más rápido. Puedes leer más sobre el rendimiento de carga de las páginas. [175][176]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 18 de febrero. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 19 de febrero. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 20 de febrero (según calendario).

16:17, 17 de febrero de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-09

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Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 25 de febrero. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 26 de febrero. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 27 de febrero (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

Habrá un botón de respuesta después de cada publicación en una página de discusión si lo deseas. Esta función pronto será una versión beta en las Wikipedias en árabe, francés, holandés y húngaro. Tendrás que activarla si quieres usarla. Esta función estará disponible en más wikis más adelante. Puedes probar el botón de respuesta. Se mostró brevemente antes de lo previsto por error en las cuatro primeras wikis la semana pasada.

21:00, 24 de febrero de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-10

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Problemas

Los lectores que no estaban conectados vieron brevemente la interfaz en un idioma determinado por su navegador. Normalmente debería estar en el idioma de la wiki. Esto ocurrió durante un breve período de tiempo la semana pasada. Esto se debió a un error. [177]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

Si olvida su contraseña, puede solicitar que le envíen una nueva a su dirección de correo electrónico. Debe saber su dirección de correo electrónico o su nombre de usuario. Ahora podrá elegir si desea ingresar tanto su dirección de correo electrónico como su nombre de usuario. Esta será una preferencia. Esto es para recibir menos correos electrónicos de restablecimiento de contraseña solicitados por otra persona. [178]
Cuando solicitaba una nueva contraseña, podía ver si el nombre de usuario no existía en Special:PasswordReset . Ahora, la página mostrará el nombre de usuario que ingresó y le informará que se envió un correo electrónico si el nombre de usuario existe. Esto es para mayor seguridad. [179]
En Special:WhatLinksHere puedes ver qué otras páginas enlazan a una página. Puedes ver si el enlace proviene de una redirección. Ahora puedes ver a qué sección enlaza la redirección. [180]
La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 3 de marzo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 4 de marzo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 5 de marzo (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

Los desarrolladores están trabajando en una nueva interfaz para resolver conflictos de edición en las páginas de discusión. Puedes enviar comentarios. [181]
Se está votando la creación de un nuevo grupo de usuarios llamado administrador de filtros de abuso. La votación se llevará a cabo del 1 al 31 de marzo en Meta.
wgMFSpecialCaseMainPageSe utilizó para el sitio móvil. Quedó obsoleto en 2017. Dejará de funcionar en abril. Los wikis deberían comprobar si lo utilizan. Si lo hacen, deberían solucionarlo. Puedes leer más y pedir ayuda. Esto afecta a 183 wikis. Hay una lista. [182]

00:36, 3 de marzo de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-11

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Cambios recientes

Hay una nueva palabra de búsqueda llamada articletopic. Puedes usarla para buscar artículos sobre un tema específico. Está disponible en las Wikipedias en árabe, checo, inglés y vietnamita. Pronto estará disponible en más Wikipedias. [183][184][185]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 10 de marzo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 11 de marzo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 12 de marzo (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

Hay un plan para establecer nuevos requisitos para las firmas de los usuarios. Puedes enviarnos tus comentarios.
La aplicación de Wikipedia para Android enviará notificaciones automáticas si los usuarios las desean. Esto podría ayudarle a ver, por ejemplo, cuándo alguien escribió en su página de discusión o si se revirtió su edición. Esto estará disponible más adelante este año. [186]

17:15, 9 de marzo de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-12

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Cambios recientes

Hay un nuevo módulo API para cambiar el modelo de contenido de las páginas existentes. Utilícelo action=changecontentmodelpara especificar el nuevo modelo. Puede leer la documentación en mediawiki.org. [187]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 17 de marzo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 18 de marzo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 19 de marzo (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

Si editas una página al mismo tiempo que otra persona, puedes tener un conflicto de edición. Hay una nueva interfaz de dos columnas para que sea más fácil resolver esto. Pronto estará activa de forma predeterminada en las Wikipedias en alemán, árabe y farsi. Estará activa de forma predeterminada en más wikis en los próximos meses. Podrás optar por no usar la nueva interfaz. [188][189]
Puedes ver una propuesta de diseño para responder comentarios de una forma más sencilla.

21:14, 16 de marzo de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-13

Últimas novedades tecnológicas de la comunidad técnica de Wikimedia. Por favor, informe a otros usuarios sobre estos cambios. No todos los cambios le afectarán. Hay traducciones disponibles.

Problemas

Algunos desarrollos serán más lentos de lo planeado. Esto se debe a la pandemia actual . Puedes consultar las nuevas pautas de implementación. Esto es para evitar riesgos cuando algunas personas podrían no estar disponibles.
Se produjo un problema al agregar enlaces interwiki. La herramienta que se utiliza para agregar enlaces interwiki podría sugerir el proyecto incorrecto al que vincular. Esto ya se ha solucionado. [190][191]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 24 de marzo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 25 de marzo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 26 de marzo (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

Existe un proyecto para facilitar la edición a los recién llegados. Los desarrolladores están intentando entender qué iniciativas tienen las distintas Wikipedias para dar la bienvenida a los recién llegados. También quieren saber qué plantillas se utilizan a menudo para las actividades de mantenimiento. Puedes colaborar con este proyecto comprobando si las páginas de tu wiki están incluidas en Wikidata.

17:08, 23 de marzo de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-14

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Cambios recientes

La versión beta de la aplicación Wikipedia para Android ahora puede ayudar a los usuarios a agregar etiquetas en Commons. Estas etiquetas se denominan depicts. [192]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 31 de marzo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 1 de abril. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 2 de abril (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

El reproductor de vídeo cambiará para ser más simple y moderno. La función beta actual se convertirá en el reproductor de vídeo para todos. El reproductor antiguo será eliminado. [193]
Hay un proyecto para hacer que las plantillas sean más fáciles de usar. En las próximas semanas, los desarrolladores presentarán ideas en la página del proyecto. Puedes visitar esa página si estás interesado en dar tu opinión. [194]

17:26, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-15

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

Problems

There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [195]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to. [196]

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19:03, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-16

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

Recent changes

You can now use the articletopic search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic. [197]
You can see wiki tools in the new Tools Gallery. [198]
You can see edits from the Wikimedia Cloud Services in a new dashboard.
When you use filters on a history page you sometimes don't see any edits. There is a text explaining this now. Before it was just empty. [199]
There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog. [200]

Problems

There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest. [201][202][203]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 (calendar).

Future changes

Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed. [204]
The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated <source> tag, as well as the use of the deprecated enclose parameter, will add tracking categories.

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15:31, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-17

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Tech News

The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.

Recent changes

The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills. [205]
Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed. div#content is now .mw-body. div.portal is now .portal. div#footer is now #footer. This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them. [206]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011. [207]
The font in the diffs will change. [208]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar).

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18:45, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-20

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Recent changes

Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr. [209]

Problems

Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [210]
Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [211][212]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via mw.config.exists() or mw.user.tokens.exists(). You can use exists() or get() to check one at a time instead. [213]

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20:41, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-21

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Recent changes

If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. [214][215]

Problems

There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them. [216]
Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [217][218]

Changes later this week

The Wikipedia app for Android can let users add depicts on Commons. The beta version used computer-aided tagging. This was removed to get more specific depicts. [219]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files. [220]
Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction, div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces, div#p-variants and div#footer. They will have to remove div. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5. [221]
Some CSS for the Vector skin has been changed. This affects #p-variants, #p-namespaces, #p-personal, #p-views and #p-cactions. They can no longer use > ul. You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how.

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17:19, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-22

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

Changes later this week

The visual editor will now work in the Modern skin. The changes that needed to happen for this to work could cause problems for some scripts or gadgets. [222]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 27. It will be on all wikis from May 28 (calendar).

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14:18, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-23

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Recent changes

There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos. [223]

Problems

There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May. [224][225][226]
The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed. [227]

Changes later this week

You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon turn them off also in the notifications you get. [228]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all wikis from 4 June (calendar).

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22:32, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-24

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

Recent changes

Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting. [229]
Self-closed tags now work as in the HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them. <b/> is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work. area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect <references /> or <ref />. [230]
There is a banner called WikidataPageBanner. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on MediaWiki:Sitenotice so that editors know to test and style for mobile too. [231][232]

Changes later this week

You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets. [233]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June (calendar).

Future changes

A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [234]

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21:12, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-25

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

Recent changes

Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.

Problems

There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed. [235]
Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed. [236]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (calendar).

Future changes

Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help. [237]
The selectors .menu and .vectorMenu will no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts. .menu should be replaced by ul. .vectorMenu should be replaced by .vector-menu. [238]

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21:38, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-26

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

Problems

There are some new tools to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed. [239]
Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS selectors. .vectorTabs should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs to fix this. [240]

Changes later this week

The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback. [241]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (calendar).

Future changes

A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [242]

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18:49, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-27

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Problems

Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [243]
Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed. [244]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

Future changes

The Modern and Monobook skins use the ID searchGoButton for the go button. This is searchButton for Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change to searchButton in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use searchButton. You can read more and see a list of affected scripts.

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16:31, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-28

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Problems

The Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed. [245]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more. [246]
The iOS Wikipedia app developers are thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help them by answering the survey.
Some rules for user signatures will soon be enforced. Lint errors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.

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20:18, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-29

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Recent changes

Users can thank others for their edits. Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets who harass others using thanks. [247]

Problems

Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week. [248][249]

Changes later this week

Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background. Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using <translate nowrap></translate> on the source page. [250]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (calendar).

Future changes

Wikimedia code review plans to use GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. [251][252][253][254]

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16:30, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-30

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

Recent changes

A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help in Phabricator. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News 2020/24 and 2020/26.

Problems

There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution. [255]
Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events. [256]
Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a browser cookie problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details on Phabricator. [257]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 July. It will be on all wikis from 23 July (calendar).

Future changes

There is a Printable version link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway. [258]

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19:05, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-31

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Recent changes

The Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this. [259]
The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck Use Legacy Vector in your local or global preferences in section Skin preferences. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget directly from mediawiki.org, end users can now choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC.

Problems

The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week. [260][261]
Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed. [262]
Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed. [263]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 (calendar).

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13:53, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-32

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Problems

All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period. [264]
Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago. The problem is now fixed. [265]
There is a problem with the global preferences for the "Use Legacy Vector" option. Developers are working on fixing it. [266]
A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed. [267]

Changes later this week

The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed. [268]
Users' global.js and global.css pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin. [269]
In the MonoBook skin, the searchGoButton identifier is now searchButton. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27.
Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses counter to prevent large archives was changed. [270]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 5. It will be on all wikis from August 6 (calendar).

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15:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-33

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Recent changes

FileImporter and FileExporter became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact. [271]

Problems

The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions and content translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it. [272]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 12. It will be on all wikis from August 13 (calendar).

Future changes

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [273][274]

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16:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-34

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

Recent changes

If you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an undo tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else. [275]
The new OOUI version will not work with Internet Explorer 8. This means the wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was reported in Tech/News/2020/17. This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates other problems. [276]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 August. It will be on all wikis from 20 August (calendar).

Future changes

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis next week. This is a reminder. You can help by translating the announcement message. [277][278]

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20:40, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-35

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Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 August. It will be on all wikis from 27 August (calendar).

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17:59, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-36

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Problems

This is a reminder. All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 14:00 and 15:00 UTC. Please check on the details on the announcement message. [279][280]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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20:08, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-37

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Changes later this week

Normally pages can be moved to a title that has no existing page yet or to a page that has only one revision, which is a redirect to the page to be moved. A new user right allows editors to move pages over one-revision pages that redirect to anywhere. [281]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 September. It will be on all wikis from 10 September (calendar).
All MediaWiki API modules will now use watchlist instead of watch. This was inconsistent before. [282]

Future changes

The Wikipedia Android app team might work on patrolling tools in the future. You can let them know what tools would be useful for you or for less experienced patrollers. See the page on mediawiki.org.
OTRS will be updated to a new version. This will probably take around two days. OTRS agents will not have access to the system during these days. Emails that come in during the update will be delivered when the update is done. The plan is to start around 08:00 UTC on 14 September. This could change. [283]
The Wikipedia Android app will send push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will need Google Play Services to work. It will also be possible to get the app without Google Play Services but push notifications will not work. Google Play Services is also used to make the app work for Android 4.4 users. [284][285]
Wikimedia code review could move to GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. You can take part in the consultation.
Dropdown menus in the Vector skin use a .menu class. This will not work in the future. Scripts can use nav ul instead. .vectorTabs and .vectorMenu will also not work. Some scripts need to be updated. You can read more in Phabricator.

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15:59, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-38

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Problems

The Wikipedia apps briefly showed pages without CSS last week. This meant they looked wrong. It was quickly fixed but cached pages without CSS were shown for a few hours. [286][287]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 September. It will be on all wikis from 17 September (calendar).

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16:18, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-39

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Recent changes

There is a new tag for reverted edits. For example you can see it in the recent changes feed or in the article history. It is added to edits when they have been undone, rollbacked or manually reverted to an older version of the page. [288][289]

Changes later this week

The number of times you can do something in a period of time on wiki is limited. This could be the number of edits per minute or the number of users you email in a day. Some users are not affected by all limits because of their user rights. They could soon see the limit even if it does not affect them. [290]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 September. It will be on all wikis from 24 September (calendar).

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21:26, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-40

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Recent changes

Admins can now see links to diffs of deleted revisions on Special:AbuseLog. This uses the interface of Special:Undelete. [291]
Editors are automatically added to some user groups. For example editors are added to autoconfirmed users when they have edited enough times and long enough. Abuse filters can hinder users from automatically getting user rights for a period of time. They can also remove rights user have. Wikis can now ask to change how long this period of time is for their wiki in Phabricator. It is currently five days. [292]

Problems

Last year some abuse filters stopped working because of a new change. If they tried to use variables that were unavailable for that action they would fail. This has now been fixed. [293]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 September. It will be on all wikis from 1 October (calendar).

Future changes

You can't see the language links to other language versions from the talk page or history page. They are also not shown when you edit an article. This could change. It is not decided if for example the history page should link to another history page or to the article. You can take part in the discussion in Phabricator.
The link colours could change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. You can read more in Phabricator.
In your preferences you can choose to get different notifications on the web or by email. You will see Apps as one of the alternatives later this week. This is because the Android and iOS Wikipedia apps will use push notifications for those who want them. You can see the preferences on the test wiki. The goal is to have push notifications on Android in October and on iOS in early 2021. [294]
You can soon put pages on your watchlist for a limited time. This could be useful if you want to watch something for a shorter time but don't want it on your watchlist forever. It now works on mediawiki.org and will come to more wikis later. You can read more and see when it will come to other wikis.
You can see what Wikimedians think are the best new technical tools this year. You can also nominate them.

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21:23, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-41

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

Recent changes

There is a new tool where you can see which home wiki users have in discussions on Meta. This can help show which communities are not part of the discussion on wikis where we make decisions that affect many other wikis.
You can now thank users for file uploads or for changing the language of a page. [295]

Problems

There were many errors with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new version was rolled back. Updates that should have happened last week are late. [296]
Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [297]
Many pages have JavaScript errors. You can read more and now see a list of user scripts with errors.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 October. It will be on all wikis from 8 October (calendar).
Letters immediately after a link are shown as part of the link. For example the entire word in [[Child]]ren is linked. On Arabic wikis this works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic letters will extend links on Arabic wikis. [298]

Future changes

You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [299]

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16:24, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-42

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Problems

Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last week's updates are also late. [300][301][302]

Changes later this week

Live previews didn't show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This has now been fixed. You can also test CSS and JavaScript pages even if you have the live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well. [303][304]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (calendar).

Future changes

A new stable version of Pywikibot is coming soon. [305]

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15:23, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-43

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

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [306]
In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [307]
Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID #jump-to-nav. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either #siteSub or #mw-content-text. A list of affected scripts is at the top of phab:T265373.

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16:30, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-44

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

Problems

You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on October 27 around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [308]
Last week, links to "diffs" from mobile watchlists and recentchanges were linking to page-revisions instead of diffs. This has now been fixed. [309]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

Since the introduction of the interface administrators user group in 2018, administrators couldn’t view the deleted history of CSS/JS pages. Now they can. [310]
There was a problem with the Change Tags. The software would apply the "Reverted" tag to any page actions such as page-protection changes if they came directly after a reverted edit. This has now been fixed for new edits. [311]
The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias in November. Another announcement will be made once the date is finalized. [312]

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17:37, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-45

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

Recent changes

You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser uses very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It could lead to downgrade attacks. Since October 29, 2020, users who use old TLS versions will not be able to connect to Wikimedia projects. A list of browser recommendations is available. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [313]
There is a new automatic tracking category available: Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments. It collects pages which use the {{formatnum}} parser function with invalid (non-numeric) input, e.g. {{formatnum:TECHNEWS}}. Note that {{formatnum:123,456}} is also invalid input: as described in the documentation, the argument should be unformatted so that it can be reliably and correctly localised. The tracking category will help identify problematic usage and double-formatting. The new tracking category's name can be translated at translatewiki. [314]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 4. It will be on all wikis from November 5 (calendar).
Administrators and stewards will be able to use a special page (Special:CreateLocalAccount) to force local account creation for a global account. This is useful when account creation is blocked for that user (by a block or a filter). [315]
The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias on November 4. This change excludes the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias, plus a few smaller Wikipedias with special circumstances. You can read the help page and the troubleshooting guide for more information. [316]

Future changes

A discussion has been restarted about using a Unicode minus sign (− U+2212) in the output of {{formatnum}} when it is given a negative argument. [317]
In the future IP addresses of unregistered users will not be shown for everyone. They will get an alias instead. There will be a new user right or an opt-in function for more vandal fighters to see the IPs of unregistered users. There would be some criteria for who gets the user right or opt-in. There will also be other new tools to help handle vandalism. This is early in the process and the developers are still collecting information from the communities before they suggest solutions.

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16:08, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-46

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

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

You can see reference previews. This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been a beta feature. It will move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be the first ones. You can let them know if your wiki is interested. [318]
From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the internationalisation library. They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [319][320]

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15:49, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-47

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

Recent changes

Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [321][322]

Changes later this week

If you merged two pages in a namespace where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed. [323]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 November. It will be on all wikis from 19 November (calendar).

Future changes

The Community Wishlist Survey is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.

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15:36, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-48

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

Recent changes

Timestamps in Special:Log are now links. They go to Special:Log for only that entry. This is how timestamps work on for example the history page. [324]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from 1 December. Unclaimed projects can be deleted from 1 January. [325]

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17:17, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-49

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 December. It will be on all wikis from 3 December (calendar).

Future changes

The iOS Wikipedia app will show readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will first be shown only to some iOS app users as a test. [326][327]
The Wiki Replicas can be used for SQL queries. You can use Quarry, PAWS or other ways to do this. To make the Wiki Replicas stable there will be two changes. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. [328]

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17:43, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-50

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

Recent changes

You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [329][330]

Changes later this week

Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [331][332]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all wikis from 10 December (calendar).

Future changes

You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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16:14, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-51

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

Recent changes

There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too. [333]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all wikis from 17 December (calendar).

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21:33, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-52

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

Tech News

Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2021.

Recent changes

The {{citation needed}} template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added. [334]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a <langconvert> tag that can convert a piece of text on a page. [335]
Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January. [336]

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20:52, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-02

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

Recent changes

You can choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed. [337]
You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [338]
Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
- The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [339]
- Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [340]
- When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback. [341]
Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the watchlist to watch will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [342]
Scribunto's file metadata now includes length. [343]
CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50. [344]
There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.

Changes later this week

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

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15:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-03

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all wikis from 21 January (calendar).

Future changes

The Growth team plans to add features to get more visitors to edit to more Wikipedias. You can help translating the interface.
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). [345]
MassMessage posts could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be timestamped you can let the developers know.

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16:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-04

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

Problems

You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech for a short time on 28 January at 09:00 (UTC). [346][347]

Changes later this week

Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [348]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

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18:30, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-05

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

Problems

IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed. [349]

Changes later this week

You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [350]
Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [351][352]
Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55 as well as the 1.2.3.4/27 syntax for IP ranges. [353]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Future changes

Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more. [354][355]
Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be 185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.

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22:38, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-06

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

Recent changes

The Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [356]

Changes later this week

You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [357]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Future changes

When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [358][359]
Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [360]
Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [361]

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17:40, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-07

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

Problems

There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned. [362][363]
Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [364]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).

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17:55, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-08

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

Recent changes

The visual editor will now use MediaSearch to find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better images. [365]
The syntax highlighter now works with more languages: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU. [366]

Problems

Editing a timeline might have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly. [367]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 February. It will be on all wikis from 25 February (calendar).

Future changes

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

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00:16, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-09

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

Recent changes

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

Problems

There was a problem with the job queue. This meant some functions did not save changes and mass messages were delayed. This did not affect wiki edits. [368]
Some editors may not be logged in to their accounts automatically in the latest versions of Firefox and Safari. [369]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 March. It will be on all wikis from 4 March (calendar).

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19:07, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-10

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

Recent changes

Section translation now works on Bengali Wikipedia. It helps mobile editors translate sections of articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis with a smaller number of articles. You can test it and leave feedback.
Flagged revisions now give admins the review right. [370]
When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article. [371]

Problems

Many graphs have JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing. [372]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 March. It will be on all wikis from 11 March (calendar).
The New Discussion tool will soon be a new discussion tools beta feature for on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new discussions. [373]

Future changes

There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates and those who create or maintain them. You can read more.
Reference Previews will become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a setting with Page Previews. If you prefer the Reference Tooltips or Navigation-Popups gadget you can keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown. [374][375]
New JavaScript-based functions will not work in Internet Explorer 11. This is because Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can read more.

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17:50, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-11

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

Recent changes

Wikis that are part of the desktop improvements project can now use a new search function. The desktop improvements and the new search will come to more wikis later. You can also test it early.
Editors who put up banners or change site-wide JavaScript code should use the client error graph to see that their changes has not caused problems. You can read more. [376]

Problems

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 March. It will be on all wikis from 18 March (calendar).

Future changes

You can add a newline or carriage return character to a custom signature if you use a template. There is a proposal to not allow them in the future. This is because they can cause formatting problems. [377][378]
You will be able to read but not edit 12 wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
You can use Quarry for SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. PAWS and other ways to do SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later. [379]

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23:20, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-12

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

Recent changes

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

Problems

You will be able to read but not edit twelve wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This can also affect password changes, logging in to new wikis, global renames and changing or confirming emails. This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 March. It will be on all wikis from 25 March (calendar).
Syntax highlighting colours will change to be easier to read. This will soon come to the first wikis. [380]

Future changes

Flagged revisions will no longer have multiple tags like "tone" or "depth". It will also only have one tier. This was changed because very few wikis used these features and they make the tool difficult to maintain. [381][382]
Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015 this was moved from wg* to mw.config. wg* will soon no longer work. [383]

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16:51, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-13

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

Recent changes

Some very old web browsers don’t work well with the Wikimedia wikis. Some old code for browsers that used to be supported is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. [384]
IRC recent changes feeds have been moved to a new server. Make sure all tools automatically reconnect to irc.wikimedia.org and not to the name of any specific server. Users should also consider switching to the more modern EventStreams. [385]

Problems

When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split. It might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. [386]
Some translatable pages on Meta could not be edited. This was because of a bug in the translation tool. The new MediaWiki version was delayed because of problems like this. [387][388]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 March. It will be on all wikis from 1 April (calendar).

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17:29, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-14

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

Recent changes

Editors can collapse part of an article so you have to click on it to see it. When you click a link to a section inside collapsed content it will now expand to show the section. The browser will scroll down to the section. Previously such links didn't work unless you manually expanded the content first. [389]

Changes later this week

The citoid API will use for example 2010-12-XX instead of 2010-12 for dates with a month but no days. This is because 2010-12 could be confused with 2010-2012 instead of December 2010. This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the Extended Date/Time Format. [390]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 April. It will be on all wikis from 8 April (calendar).

Future changes

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

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19:39, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-16

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

Recent changes

Email to the Wikimedia wikis are handled by groups of Wikimedia editors. These volunteer response teams now use Znuny instead of OTRS. The functions and interface remain the same. The volunteer administrators will give more details about the next steps soon. [391][392]
If you use syntax highlighting, you can see line numbers in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors when editing templates. This is to make it easier to see line breaks or talk about specific lines. Line numbers will soon come to all namespaces. [393][394][395]
Because of a technical change there could be problems with gadgets and scripts that have an edit summary area that looks similar to this one. If they look strange they should use mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.edit.styles') to go back to how they looked before. [396]
The latest version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis last week. There was no Tech News issue last week.

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

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

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16:48, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-17

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

Recent changes

Templates have parameters that can have specific values. It is possible to suggest values for editors with TemplateData. You can soon see them as a drop-down list in the visual editor. This is to help template users find the right values faster. [397][398][399]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 April. It will be on all wikis from 29 April (calendar).

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21:23, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-18

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

Recent changes

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

Problems

The content translation tool did not work for many articles for a little while. This was because of a bug. [400]
Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes. [401]

Changes later this week

Reference Previews will become a default feature on a number of wikis on 5 May. This is later than planned because of some changes. You can use it without using Page Previews if you want to. The earlier plan was to have the preference to use both or none. [402][403]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Future changes

The CSS classes .error, .warning and .success do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead. [404]

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15:42, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-19

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 May. It will be on all wikis from 13 May (calendar).

Future changes

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

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15:09, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-20

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

Recent changes

There is a new toolbar in the Reply tool. It works in the wikitext source mode. You can enable it in your preferences. [405] [406] [407]
Wikimedia mailing lists are being moved to Mailman 3. This is a newer version. For the character encoding to work it will change from UTF-8 to utf8mb3. [408][409]
An earlier issue of Tech News said that the citoid API would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first. [410]

Changes later this week

MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist will be renamed MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist. The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles. [411]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 May. It will be on all wikis from 20 May (calendar).

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13:48, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-21

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

Recent changes

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 May. It will be on all wikis from 27 May (calendar).

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17:05, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-22

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

Problems

There was an issue on the Vector skin with the text size of categories and notices under the page title. It was fixed last Monday. [412]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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17:05, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-23

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 June. It will be on all wikis from 10 June (calendar).

Future changes

The Wikimedia movement uses Phabricator for technical tasks. This is where we collect technical suggestions, bugs and what developers are working on. The company behind Phabricator will stop working on it. This will not change anything for the Wikimedia movement now. It could lead to changes in the future. [413][414][415]
Searching on Wikipedia will find more results in some languages. This is mainly true for when those who search do not use the correct diacritics because they are not seen as necessary in that language. For example searching for Bedusz doesn't find Będusz on German Wikipedia. The character ę isn't used in German so many would write e instead. This will work better in the future in some languages. [416]
The CSRF token parameters in the action API were changed in 2014. The old parameters from before 2014 will stop working soon. This can affect bots, gadgets and user scripts that still use the old parameters. [417][418]

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20:01, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-24

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

Recent changes

Logged-in users on the mobile web can choose to use the advanced mobile mode. They now see categories in a similar way as users on desktop do. This means that some gadgets that have just been for desktop users could work for users of the mobile site too. If your wiki has such gadgets you could decide to turn them on for the mobile site too. Some gadgets probably need to be fixed to look good on mobile. [419]
Language links on Wikidata now works for multilingual Wikisource. [420]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

In the future we can't show the IP of unregistered editors to everyone. This is because privacy regulations and norms have changed. There is now a rough draft of how showing the IP to those who need to see it could work.
German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [421]
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 28 June. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [422][423]

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20:25, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-25

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

Recent changes

The otrs-member group name is now vrt-permissions. This could affect abuse filters. [424]

Problems

You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [425]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 June. It will be on all wikis from 24 June (calendar).

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15:48, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-26

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

Recent changes

Wikis with the Growth features now can configure Growth features directly on their wiki. This uses the new special page Special:EditGrowthConfig. [426]
Wikisources have a new OCR tool. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add .ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; } to your common.css page. [427]

Problems

You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [428][429]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 June. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

Future changes

Threshold for stub link formatting, thumbnail size and auto-number headings can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback.
A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users. [430][431]

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16:31, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-27

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

Tech News

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

Recent changes

AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes. [432]

Problems

InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from archive.is to web.archive.org. [433]

Changes later this week

The tool to find, add and remove templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year. [434][435]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful. [436]

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17:32, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-29

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

Recent changes

The tool to find, add and remove templates was updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It was supposed to come to the first wikis on 7 July. It was delayed to 12 July instead. It will come to more wikis later this year. [437][438]
Special:UnconnectedPages lists pages that are not connected to Wikidata. This helps you find pages that can be connected to Wikidata items. Some pages should not be connected to Wikidata. You can use the magic word __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ on pages that should not be listed on the special page. [439]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

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

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15:30, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-30

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

Recent changes

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 July. It will be on all wikis from 29 July (calendar).

Future changes

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

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21:10, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-31

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

Recent changes

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

Problems

Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 30 minutes. There was a problem with generating dynamic lists of articles on the Russian Wikinews, due to the bulk import of 200,000+ new articles over 3 days, which led to database problems. The problematic feature has been disabled on that wiki and developers are discussing if it can be fixed properly. [440][441]

Changes later this week

When adding links to a page using VisualEditor or the 2017 wikitext editor, disambiguation pages will now only appear at the bottom of search results. This is because users do not often want to link to disambiguation pages. [442]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 August. It will be on all wikis from 5 August (calendar).

Future changes

The team of the Wikipedia app for Android is working on communication in the app. The developers are working on how to talk to other editors and get notifications. You can read more. They are looking for users who want to test the plans. Any editor who has an Android phone and is willing to download the app can do this.
The Beta Feature for Discussion tools will be updated in the coming weeks. You will be able to subscribe to individual sections on a talk page at more wikis. You can test this now by adding ?dtenable=1 to the end of the talk page's URL (example).

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20:45, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-32

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

Problems

You can read but not edit 17 wikis for a few minutes on 10 August. This is planned at 05:00 UTC. This is because of work on the database. [443]

Changes later this week

The Wikimania Hackathon will take place remotely on 13 August, starting at 5:00 UTC, for 24 hours. You can participate in many ways. You can still propose projects and sessions.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 August. It will be on all wikis from 12 August (calendar).
The old CSS <div class="visualClear"></div> will not be supported after 12 August. Instead, templates and pages should use <div style="clear:both;"></div>. Please help to replace any existing uses on your wiki. There are global-search links available at T287962.

Future changes

The Wikipedia Library is a place for Wikipedia editors to get access to sources. There is an extension which has a new function to tell users when they can take part in it. It will use notifications. It will start pinging the first users in September. It will ping more users later. [444]
Vue.js will be the JavaScript framework for MediaWiki in the future. [445]

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16:19, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-33

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

Recent changes

You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet. [446]

Problems

There was a problem on wikis which use the Translate extension. Translations were not updated or were replaced with the English text. The problems have been fixed. [447][448][449]

Changes later this week

A revision tag will soon be added to edits that add links to disambiguation pages. This is because these links are usually added by accident. The tag will allow editors to easily find the broken links and fix them. If your wiki does not like this feature, it can be hidden. [450]
Would you like to help improve the information about tools? Would you like to attend or help organize a small virtual meetup for your community to discuss the list of tools? Please get in touch on the Toolhub Quality Signal Sessions talk page. We are also looking for feedback from tool maintainers on some specific questions.
In the past, edits to any page in your user talk space ignored your mute list, e.g. sub-pages. Starting this week, this is only true for edits to your talk page. [451]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 August. It will be on all wikis from 19 August (calendar).

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19:26, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-34

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

Recent changes

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

Problems

You will be able to read but not edit some wikis for a few minutes on 25 August. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. During this time, operations on the CentralAuth will also not be possible.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 August. It will be on all wikis from 26 August (calendar).

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21:57, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Read-only reminder

A maintenance operation will be performed on Wednesday August 25 06:00 UTC. It should only last for a few minutes.

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

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

A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.

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

20:33, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-35

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

Recent changes

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

Problems

Musical scores were unable to render lyrics in some languages because of missing fonts. This has been fixed now. If your language would prefer a different font, please file a request in Phabricator. [452]

Changes later this week

The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more about this.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 September. It will be on all wikis from 2 September (calendar).

Future changes

You will be able to read but not edit Commons for a few minutes on 6 September. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 13 September. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [453]

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16:00, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-36

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

Recent changes

The wikis that have Growth features deployed have been part of A/B testing since deployment, in which some newcomers did not receive the new features. Now, all of the newcomers on 21 of the smallest of those wikis will be receiving the features. [454]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

In 2017, the provided jQuery library was upgraded from version 1 to 3, with a compatibility layer. The migration will soon finish, to make the site load faster for everyone. If you maintain a gadget or user script, check if you have any JQMIGRATE errors and fix them, or they will break. [455][456]
Last year, the Portuguese Wikipedia community embarked on an experiment to make log-in compulsory for editing. The impact report of this trial is ready. Moving forward, the Anti-Harassment Tools team is looking for projects that are willing to experiment with restricting IP editing on their wiki for a short-term experiment. Learn more.

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15:19, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-37

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

Recent changes

45 new Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. [457]
A majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. The Growth team has published an FAQ page about the features. This translatable FAQ covers the description of the features, how to use them, how to change the configuration, and more.

Problems

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 14 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [458]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 September. It will be on all wikis from 16 September (calendar).
Starting this week, Wikipedia in Italian will receive weekly software updates on Wednesdays. It used to receive the updates on Thursdays. Due to this change, bugs will be noticed and fixed sooner. [459]
You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet. [460]
The syntax highlight tool marks up code with different colours. It now can highlight 23 new code languages. Additionally, golang can now be used as an alias for the Go programming language, and a special output mode has been added to show a program's output. [461][462]

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15:32, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-38

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

Recent changes

Growth features are now deployed to almost all Wikipedias. For the majority of small Wikipedias, the features are only available for experienced users, to test the features and configure them. Features will be available for newcomers starting on 20 September 2021.
MediaWiki had a feature that would highlight local links to short articles in a different style. Each user could pick the size at which "stubs" would be highlighted. This feature was very bad for performance, and following a consultation, has been removed. [463]
A technical change was made to the MonoBook skin to allow for easier maintenance and upkeep. This has resulted in some minor changes to HTML that make MonoBook's HTML consistent with other skins. Efforts have been made to minimize the impact on editors, but please ping Jon (WMF) on wiki or in phabricator if any problems are reported.

Problems

There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of an accidental restart of the search servers. [464]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 September. It will be on all wikis from 23 September (calendar).
The meta=proofreadpage API has changed. The piprop parameter has been renamed to prpiprop. API users should update their code to avoid unrecognized parameter warnings. Pywikibot users should upgrade to 6.6.0. [465]

Future changes

The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "Discussion tools" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. [466]
The previously announced change to how you obtain tokens from the API has been delayed to September 21 because of an incompatibility with Pywikibot. Bot operators using Pywikibot can follow T291202 for progress on a fix, and should plan to upgrade to 6.6.1 when it is released.

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18:30, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-39

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

Recent changes

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

Problems

Some gadgets and user-scripts add items to the portlets (article tools) part of the skin. A recent change to the HTML may have made those links a different font-size. This can be fixed by adding the CSS class .vector-menu-dropdown-noicon. [467]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 September. It will be on all wikis from 30 September (calendar).
The GettingStarted extension was built in 2013, and provides an onboarding process for new account holders in a few versions of Wikipedia. However, the recently developed Growth features provide a better onboarding experience. Since the vast majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features, GettingStarted will be deactivated starting on 4 October. [468]
A small number of users will not be able to connect to the Wikimedia wikis after 30 September. This is because an old root certificate will no longer work. They will also have problems with many other websites. Users who have updated their software in the last five years are unlikely to have problems. Users in Europe, Africa and Asia are less likely to have immediate problems even if their software is too old. You can read more.
You can receive notifications when someone leaves a comment on user talk page or mentions you in a talk page comment. Clicking the notification link will now bring you to the comment and highlight it. Previously, doing so brought you to the top of the section that contained the comment. You can find more information in T282029.

Future changes

The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "Discussion tools" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. See the list of wikis. [469]

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22:20, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-40

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

Recent changes

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 October. It will be on all wikis from 7 October (calendar).
Some gadgets and bots that use the API to read the AbuseFilter log might break. The hidden property will no longer say an entry is implicit for unsuppressed log entries about suppressed edits. If your bot needs to know this, do a separate revision query. Additionally, the property will have the value false for visible entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response. [470]
A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them will be enabled for all production wikis. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist you can let the developers know.

Future changes

You can soon get cross-wiki notifications in the iOS Wikipedia app. You can also get notifications as push notifications. More notification updates will follow in later versions. [471]
The JavaScript variables wgExtraSignatureNamespaces, wgLegalTitleChars, and wgIllegalFileChars will soon be removed from mw.config. These are not part of the "stable" variables available for use in wiki JavaScript. [472]
The JavaScript variables wgCookiePrefix, wgCookieDomain, wgCookiePath, and wgCookieExpiration will soon be removed from mw.config. Scripts should instead use mw.cookie from the "mediawiki.cookie" module. [473]

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16:29, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-41

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

Changes later this week

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

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

Meetings

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

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15:29, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-42

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

Recent changes

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 October. It will be on all wikis from 21 October (calendar).

Future changes

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

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20:52, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-43

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

Recent changes

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 October. It will be on all wikis from 28 October (calendar).

Future changes

Diff pages will have an improved copy and pasting experience. The changes will allow the text in the diff for before and after to be treated as separate columns and will remove any unwanted syntax. [474]
The version of the Liberation fonts used in SVG files will be upgraded. Only new thumbnails will be affected. Liberation Sans Narrow will not change. [475]

Meetings

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

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20:07, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-44

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Recent changes

There is a limit on the amount of emails a user can send each day. This limit is now global instead of per-wiki. This change is to prevent abuse. [476]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 November. It will be on all wikis from 4 November (calendar).

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20:27, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-45

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Recent changes

Mobile IP editors are now able to receive warning notices indicating they have a talk page message on the mobile website (similar to the orange banners available on desktop). These notices will be displayed on every page outside of the main namespace and every time the user attempts to edit. The notice on desktop now has a slightly different colour. [477][478]

Changes later this week

Wikidata will be read-only for a few minutes on 11 November. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [479]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

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

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20:35, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-46

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

Recent changes

Most large file uploads errors that had messages like "stashfailed" or "DBQueryError" have now been fixed. An incident report is available.

Problems

Sometimes, edits made on iOS using the visual editor save groups of numbers as telephone number links, because of a feature in the operating system. This problem is under investigation. [480]
There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error. [481]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 November. It will be on all wikis from 18 November (calendar).

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22:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-47

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

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
The template dialog in VisualEditor and in the new wikitext mode Beta feature will be heavily improved on a few wikis. Your feedback is welcome.

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20:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-48

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 December. It will be on all wikis from 2 December (calendar).

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21:14, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-49

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

MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 December. It will be on all wikis from 9 December (calendar).
At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at Special:MentorDashboard. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project.
The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008), action=ajax, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module. [482]
An old ResourceLoader module, jquery.jStorage, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to mediawiki.storage instead. [483]

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21:58, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-50

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

Recent changes

There are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis, [[WB:]] will go to the local language default for the [[Project:]] namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process. [484]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 December. It will be on all wikis from 16 December (calendar).

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22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-51

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

Tech News

Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 10 January 2022.

Recent changes

Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (<DynamicPageList>) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis. [485]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February. [486]

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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-02

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

Recent changes

A oauth_consumer variable has been added to the AbuseFilter to enable identifying changes made by specific tools. [487]
Gadgets are now able to directly include JSON pages. This means some gadgets can now be configured by administrators without needing the interface administrator permission, such as with the Geonotice gadget. [488]
Gadgets can now specify page actions on which they are available. For example, |actions=edit,history will load a gadget only while editing and on history pages. [489]
Gadgets can now be loaded on demand with the withgadget URL parameter. This can be used to replace an earlier snippet that typically looks like withJS or withCSS. [490]
At wikis where the Mentorship system is configured, you can now use the Action API to get a list of a mentor's mentees. [491]
The heading on the main page can now be configured using MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin for logged-in users and MediaWiki:Mainpage-title for logged-out users. Any CSS that was previously used to hide the heading should be removed. [492] [493]
Four special pages (and their API counterparts) now have a maximum database query execution time of 30 seconds. These special pages are: RecentChanges, Watchlist, Contributions, and Log. This change will help with site performance and stability. You can read more details about this change including some possible solutions if this affects your workflows. [494]
The sticky header has been deployed for 50% of logged-in users on more than 10 wikis. This is part of the Desktop Improvements. See how to take part in the project.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 January. It will be on all wikis from 13 January (calendar).

Events

Community Wishlist Survey 2022 begins. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.

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01:22, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-03

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

Recent changes

When using WikiEditor (also known as the 2010 wikitext editor), people will now see a warning if they link to disambiguation pages. If you click "Review link" in the warning, it will ask you to correct the link to a more specific term. You can read more information about this completed 2021 Community Wishlist item.
You can automatically subscribe to all of the talk page discussions that you start or comment in using DiscussionTools. You will receive notifications when another editor replies. This is available at most wikis. Go to your Preferences and turn on "Automatically subscribe to topics". [495]
When asked to create a new page or talk page section, input fields can be "preloaded" with some text. This feature is now limited to wikitext pages. This is so users can't be tricked into making malicious edits. There is a discussion about if this feature should be re-enabled for some content types.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 January. It will be on all wikis from 20 January (calendar).

Events

Community Wishlist Survey 2022 continues. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.

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19:54, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-04

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 January. It will be on all wikis from 27 January (calendar).
The following languages can now be used with syntax highlighting: BDD, Elpi, LilyPond, Maxima, Rita, Savi, Sed, Sophia, Spice, .SRCINFO.
You can now access your watchlist from outside of the user menu in the new Vector skin. The watchlist link appears next to the notification icons if you are at the top of the page. [496]

Events

You can see the results of the Coolest Tool Award 2021 and learn more about 14 tools which were selected this year.
You can translate, promote, or comment on the proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. Voting will begin on 28 January.

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21:37, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-05

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

Recent changes

If a gadget should support the new ?withgadget URL parameter that was announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specify supportsUrlLoad in the gadget definition (documentation). [497]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 February. It will be on all wikis from 3 February (calendar).

Future changes

A change that was announced last year was delayed. It is now ready to move ahead:
- The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on translatewiki (direct links are available) or by administrators on your wiki.

Events

You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 28 January and 11 February. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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17:41, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-06

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

Recent changes

English Wikipedia recently set up a gadget for dark mode. You can enable it there, or request help from an interface administrator to set it up on your wiki (instructions and screenshot).
Category counts are sometimes wrong. They will now be completely recounted at the beginning of every month. [498]

Problems

A code-change last week to fix a bug with Live Preview may have caused problems with some local gadgets and user-scripts. Any code with skin-specific behaviour for vector should be updated to also check for vector-2022. A code-snippet, global search, and example are available.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 February. It will be on all wikis from 10 February (calendar).

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21:15, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-07

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Recent changes

Purging a category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely. This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong. [499]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 February. It will be on all wikis from 17 February (calendar).
In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [500]

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19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-08

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

Recent changes

Special:Nuke will now provide the standard deletion reasons (editable at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown) to use when mass-deleting pages. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [501]
At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features by default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update their help resources. Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change. [502]
You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search results. This is done with the markup class=notpageimage. For example, [[File:Example.png|class=notpageimage]]. [503]
There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes by date in the mobile skin. While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all the HTML changes is on Phabricator.

Events

Community Wishlist Survey results have been published. The ranking of prioritized proposals is also available.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 February. It will be on all wikis from 24 February (calendar).

Future changes

The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [504][505]
Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions on Wikitech. [506]
Administrators will soon have the option to delete/undelete the associated "talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option will also be available. This was a request from the 2021 Wishlist Survey.

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19:11, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-09

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

Recent changes

When searching for edits by change tags, e.g. in page history or user contributions, there is now a dropdown list of possible tags. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [507]
Mentors using the Growth Mentor dashboard will now see newcomers assigned to them who have made at least one edit, up to 200 edits. Previously, all newcomers assigned to the mentor were visible on the dashboard, even ones without any edit or ones who made hundred of edits. Mentors can still change these values using the filters on their dashboard. Also, the last choice of filters will now be saved. [508][509]
The user group oversight was renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. You may need to update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to Special:Listusers, or uses of NUMBERINGROUP.

Problems

The recent change to the HTML of tracking changes pages caused some problems for screenreaders. This is being fixed. [510]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 March. It will be on all wikis from 3 March (calendar).

Future changes

Working with templates will become easier. Several improvements are planned for March 9 on most wikis and on March 16 on English Wikipedia. The improvements include: Bracket matching, syntax highlighting colors, finding and inserting templates, and related visual editor features.
If you are a template developer or an interface administrator, and you are intentionally overriding or using the default CSS styles of user feedback boxes (the classes: successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox), please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at phab:T300314 if you think you might be affected.

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22:58, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-10

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

Problems

There was a problem with some interface labels last week. It will be fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the support for skins which do not have active maintainers. [511]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).

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21:15, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-11

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

Recent changes

In the Wikipedia Android app it is now possible to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode. [512][513]

Problems

There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days. You can read more on Meta-wiki.
There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then. [514]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
When using uselang=qqx to find localisation messages, it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as "View history". [515]
Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the deleterevision right could access this special page. [516]
On the Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions. [517]

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the IP Masking implementation strategy and next steps. The announcement can be read here.
The Wikipedia Android app developers are working on new functions for user talk pages and article talk pages. [518]

Events

The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.

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22:06, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-12

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

New code release schedule for this week

There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can read more about this project.

Recent changes

You can now set how many search results to show by default in your Preferences. This was the 12th most popular wish in the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. [519]
The Jupyter notebooks tool PAWS has been updated to a new interface. [520]

Future changes

Interactive maps via Kartographer will soon work on wikis using the FlaggedRevisions extension. Please tell us which improvements you want to see in Kartographer. You can take this survey in simple English. [521]

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16:00, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-13

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

Recent changes

There is a simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular database maintenance. It will be performed on 29 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 31 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [522][523]

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19:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-14

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

Problems

For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the Special:RecentChanges feed. This bug has been fixed. [524]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 April. It will be on all wikis from 7 April (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 7 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

Starting next week, Tech News' title will be translatable. When the newsletter is distributed, its title may not be Tech News: 2022-14 anymore. It may affect some filters that have been set up by some communities. [525]
Over the next few months, the "Add a link" Growth feature will become available to more Wikipedias. Each week, a few wikis will get the feature. You can test this tool at a few wikis where "Link recommendation" is already available.

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21:00, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-15

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

Recent changes

There is a new public status page at www.wikimediastatus.net. This site shows five automated high-level metrics where you can see the overall health and performance of our wikis' technical environment. It also contains manually-written updates for widespread incidents, which are written as quickly as the engineers are able to do so while also fixing the actual problem. The site is separated from our production infrastructure and hosted by an external service, so that it can be accessed even if the wikis are briefly unavailable. You can read more about this project.
On Wiktionary wikis, the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [526][527]

Changes later this week

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

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19:43, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-16

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 April. It will be on all wikis from 21 April (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 19 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 21 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the associated "Talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
On selected wikis, 50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents. When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements project. [528]
Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes: successbox, errorbox, warningbox. The styles for those classes and messagebox will be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February issue of Tech News.

Future changes

Kartographer will become compatible with FlaggedRevisions page stabilization. Kartographer maps will also work on pages with pending changes. [529] The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated. [530] [531] [532]

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23:10, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-17

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

Recent changes

On many wikis (group 1), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [533][534]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 April. It will be on all wikis from 28 April (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 26 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Some very old browsers and operating systems are no longer supported. Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in very old browsers like Internet Explorer 9 or 10, Android 4, or Firefox 38 or older. [535]

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22:54, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-18

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

Recent changes

On all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [536][537]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 May. It will be on all wikis from 5 May (calendar).

Future changes

The developers are working on talk pages in the Wikipedia app for iOS. You can give feedback. You can take the survey in English, German, Hebrew or Chinese.
Most wikis will receive an improved template dialog in VisualEditor and New Wikitext mode. [538] [539]
If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme. [540]
Several CSS IDs related to MediaWiki interface messages will be removed. Technical editors should please review the list of IDs and links to their existing uses. These include #mw-anon-edit-warning, #mw-undelete-revision and 3 others.

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19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-19

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

Recent changes

You can now see categories in the Wikipedia app for Android. [541]

Problems

Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [542]
Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change. [543]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [544]
Incompatibility issues with Kartographer and the FlaggedRevs extension will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension on May 24.
The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022).

Future meetings

The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.

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15:21, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-20

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

Changes later this week

Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [545]
The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on all wikis from 19 May (calendar).

Future changes

You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons. [546]

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18:57, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-21

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

Recent changes

Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. [547]
The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [548]

Problems

The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [549]
Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation. [550]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).

Future changes

Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [551]

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00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-22

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

Recent changes

In the AbuseFilter extension, an ip_in_ranges() function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple ip_in_range() expressions joined by | into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [552]
The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 31 May at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [553][554]
The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the uciprange parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit. [555]
A new parser function will be introduced: {{=}}. It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates. [556]

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20:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-23

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
A new str_replace_regexp() function can be used in abuse filters to replace parts of text using a regular expression. [557]

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02:45, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-24

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

Recent changes

All wikis can now use Kartographer maps. Kartographer maps now also work on pages with pending changes. [558][559]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 14 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [560]
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Abkhazian Wikipedia, Achinese Wikipedia, Adyghe Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Akan Wikipedia, Alemannisch Wikipedia, Amharic Wikipedia, Aragonese Wikipedia, Old English Wikipedia, Syriac Wikipedia, Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Asturian Wikipedia, Atikamekw Wikipedia, Avaric Wikipedia, Aymara Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, South Azerbaijani Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [561]
The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [562][563]

Future meetings

The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place today (13 June). The following meetings will take place on: 28 June, 12 July, 26 July.

Future changes

By the end of July, the Vector 2022 skin should be ready to become the default across all wikis. Discussions on how to adjust it to the communities' needs will begin in the next weeks. It will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual basis. Learn more.

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16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-25

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

Recent changes

The Wikipedia App for Android now has an option for editing the whole page at once, located in the overflow menu (three-dots menu ). [564]
Some recent database changes may affect queries using the Quarry tool. Queries for site_stats at English Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata will need to be updated. Read more.
A new user_global_editcount variable can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. [565]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).
Users of non-responsive skins (e.g. MonoBook or Vector) on mobile devices may notice a slight change in the default zoom level. This is intended to optimize zooming and ensure all interface elements are present on the page (for example the table of contents on Vector 2022). In the unlikely event this causes any problems with how you use the site, we'd love to understand better, please ping Jon (WMF) to any on-wiki conversations. [566]

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
Parsoid's HTML output will soon stop annotating file links with different typeof attribute values, and instead use mw:File for all types. Tool authors should adjust any code that expects: mw:Image, mw:Audio, or mw:Video. [567]

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20:17, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-26

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

Recent changes

Wikimedia Enterprise API service now has self-service accounts with free on-demand requests and monthly snapshots (API documentation). Community access via database dumps & Wikimedia Cloud Services continues.
All Wikimedia wikis can now use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua after creating local modules and templates. Discussions are welcome on the project talk page.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 28 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [568]
Some global and cross-wiki services will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 30 June at 06:00 UTC. This will impact ContentTranslation, Echo, StructuredDiscussions, Growth experiments and a few more services. [569]
Users will be able to sort columns within sortable tables in the mobile skin. [570]

Future meetings

The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (28 June). The following meetings will take place on 12 July and 26 July.

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20:01, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-27

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 5 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 7 July at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
This change only affects pages in the main namespace in Wikisource. The Javascript config variable proofreadpage_source_href will be removed from mw.config and be replaced with the variable prpSourceIndexPage. [571]

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19:31, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-28

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

Recent changes

In the Vector 2022 skin, the page title is now displayed above the tabs such as Discussion, Read, Edit, View history, or More. Learn more. [572]
It is now possible to easily view most of the configuration settings that apply to just one wiki, and to compare settings between two wikis if those settings are different. For example: Japanese Wiktionary settings, or settings that are different between the Spanish and Esperanto Wikipedias. Local communities may want to discuss and propose changes to their local settings. Details about each of the named settings can be found by searching MediaWiki.org. [573]
The Anti-Harassment Tools team recently deployed the IP Info Feature as a Beta Feature at all wikis. This feature allows abuse fighters to access information about IP addresses. Please check our update on how to find and use the tool. Please share your feedback using a link you will be given within the tool itself.

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 12 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.

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19:23, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-29

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

Problems

The feature on mobile web for Nearby Pages was missing last week. It will be fixed this week. [574]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).

Future changes

The Technical Decision Forum is seeking community representatives. You can apply on wiki or by emailing [email protected] before 12 August.

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22:58, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-30

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

Recent changes

The www.wikibooks.org and www.wikiquote.org portal pages now use an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [575]

Problems

Last week, some wikis were in read-only mode for a few minutes because of an emergency switch of their main database (targeted wikis). [576]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
The external link icon will change slightly in the skins Vector legacy and Vector 2022. The new icon uses simpler shapes to be more recognizable on low-fidelity screens. [577]
Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. [578]

Future meetings

The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (26 July).

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19:26, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-31

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

Recent changes

Improved LaTeX capabilities for math rendering are now available in the wikis thanks to supporting Phantom tags. This completes part of the #59 wish of the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).
The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 0. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.

Future meetings

This week, three meetings about Vector (2022) with live interpretation will take place. On Tuesday, interpretation in Russian will be provided. On Thursday, meetings for Arabic and Spanish speakers will take place. See how to join.

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21:20, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-32

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

Recent changes

GUS2Wiki copies the information from Special:GadgetUsage to an on-wiki page so you can review its history. If your project isn't already listed on the Wikidata entry for Project:GUS2Wiki you can either run GUS2Wiki yourself or make a request to receive updates. [579]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 9 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 11 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future meetings

The Wikimania Hackathon will take place online from August 12–14. Don't miss the pre-hacking showcase to learn about projects and find collaborators. Anyone can propose a project or host a session. Newcomers are welcome!

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19:48, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-33

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

Recent changes

The Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia community decided to block IP editing from October 2021 to April 2022. The Wikimedia Foundation's Product Analytics team tracked the impact of this change. An impact report is now available.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 August. It will be on all wikis from 18 August (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 16 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 18 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 1. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes. [580][581][582]

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21:07, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-34

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

Recent changes

Two problems with Kartographer maps have been fixed. Maps are no longer shown as empty when a geoline was created via VisualEditor. Geolines consisting of points with QIDs (e.g., subway lines) are no longer shown with pushpins. [583][584]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 25 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The colours of links and visited links will change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. [585]

Future changes

The new [subscribe] button helps newcomers get answers. The Editing team is enabling this tool everywhere. You can turn it off in your preferences. [586]

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00:10, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-35

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

Recent changes

The Realtime Preview is available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 2. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals. Please note that when this Beta feature is enabled, it may cause conflicts with some wiki-specific Gadgets.

Problems

In recent months, there have been inaccurate numbers shown for various Special:Statistics at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed. [587]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 30 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation wants to improve how Wikimedia communities report harmful incidents by building the Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) to make it easy and safe for users to make reports. You can leave comments on the talk page, by answering the questions provided. If you have ever faced a harmful situation that you wanted to report/reported, join a PIRS interview to share your experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

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23:03, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-36

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 6 September at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 8 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
On Special pages that only have one tab, the tab-bar's row will be hidden in the Vector-2022 skin to save space. The row will still show if Gadgets use it. Gadgets that currently append directly to the CSS id of #p-namespaces should be updated to use the mw.util.addPortletLink function instead. Gadgets that style this id should consider also targeting #p-associated-pages, the new id for this row. Examples are available. [588][589]

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23:20, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-37

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

Recent changes

The search servers have been upgraded to a new major version. If you notice any issues with searching, please report them on Phabricator. [590]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).
Syntax highlighting is now tracked as an expensive parser function. Only 500 expensive function calls can be used on a single page. Pages that exceed the limit are added to a tracking category. [591]

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01:48, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-38

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

Recent changes

Two database fields in the templatelinks table are now being dropped: tl_namespace and tl_title. Any queries that rely on these fields need to be changed to use the new normalization field called tl_target_id. See T299417 for more information. This is part of normalization of links tables. [592][593]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar).
In Kartographer maps, you can use icons on markers for common points of interest. On Tuesday, the previous icon set will be updated to version maki 7.2. That means, around 100 new icons will be available. Additionally, all existing icons were updated for clarity and to make them work better in international contexts. [594][595]

Future changes

In a group discussion at Wikimania, more than 30 people talked about how to make content partnership software in the Wikimedia movement more sustainable. What kind of support is acceptable for volunteer developers? Read the summary and leave your feedback.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:14, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-39

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

Recent changes

Parsoid clients should be updated to allow for space-separated multi-values in the rel attribute of links. Further details are in T315209.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 September. It will be on all wikis from 29 September (calendar).
Visual diffs will become available to all users, except at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [596]
Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. [597] [598]
In the Module namespace, pages ending with .json will be treated as JSON, just like they already are in the User and MediaWiki namespaces. [599]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:28, 27 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-40

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

Recent changes

Kartographer maps can now show geopoints from Wikidata, via QID or SPARQL query. Previously, this was only possible for geoshapes and geolines. [600] [601]
The Coolest Tool Award 2022 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 12 October.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar).
Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. (Last week's release was delayed) [602] [603]
The scribunto-console API module will require a CSRF token. This module is documented as internal and use of it is not supported. [5]
The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikimedia projects. Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:22, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-41

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).
On some wikis, Kartographer maps in full size view will be able to display nearby articles. After a feedback period, more wikis will follow. [604][605]

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14:07, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-42

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

Recent changes

The recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in Special:Search will be limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510. [606]
A bug that caused problems in loading article thumbnails in Special:Search has been fixed. Further details are in T320406.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 October. It will be on all wikis from 20 October (calendar).
Lua module authors can use mw.loadJsonData() to load data from JSON pages. [607]
Lua module authors can enable require( "strict" ) to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "Module:No globals" on most wikis. [608]

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated at most wikis. The "reply" button will look different after this change. [609]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:44, 17 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-43

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

Recent changes

There have been some minor visual fixes in Special:Search, regarding audio player alignment and image placeholder height. Further details are in T319230.
On Wikipedias, a new preference has been added to hide article thumbnails in Special:Search. Full details are in T320337.

Problems

Last week, three wikis (French Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Russian Wikipedia) had read-only access for 25 minutes. This was caused by a hardware problem. [610]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 October. It will be on all wikis from 27 October (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 25 October at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 27 October at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Assamese Wikipedia, Bashkir Wikipedia, Balinese Wikipedia, Bavarian Wikipedia, Samogitian Wikipedia, Bikol Central Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Belarusian (Taraškievica) Wikipedia, Bulgarian Wikipedia, Bhojpuri Wikipedia, Bislama Wikipedia, Banjar Wikipedia, Bambara Wikipedia, Bishnupriya Wikipedia, Breton Wikipedia, Bosnian Wikipedia, Buginese Wikipedia, Buryat Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [611]
Starting on Wednesday October 26, 2022, the list of mentors will be upgraded at wikis where Growth mentorship is available. The mentorship system will continue to work as it does now. The signup process will be replaced, and a new management option will be provided. Also, this change simplifies the creation of mentorship systems at Wikipedias. [612][613][614]
Pages with titles that start with a lower-case letter according to Unicode 11 will be renamed or deleted. There is a list of affected pages at m:Unicode 11 case map migration. More information can be found at T292552.
The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikipedias. Learn more.

Future changes

The Reply tool and New Topic tool will soon get a special characters menu. [615]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:21, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-44

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

Recent changes

When using keyboard navigation on a Kartographer map, the focus will become more visible. [616]
In Special:RecentChanges, you can now hide the log entries for new user creations with the filter for "⧼rcfilters-filter-newuserlogactions-label⧽". [617]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 November. It will be on all wikis from 3 November (calendar).
The maps dialog in VisualEditor now has some help texts. [618]
It is now possible to select the language of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor via a dropdown menu. [619]
It is now possible to add a caption to a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [620]
It is now possible to hide the frame of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [621]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:14, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-45

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

Recent changes

An updated version of the Event Registration tool is now available for testing at testwiki and test2wiki. The tool provides features for event organizers and participants. Your feedback is welcome at our project talkpage. More information about the project is available. [622]

Problems

Twice last week, for about 45 minutes, some files and thumbnails failed to load and uploads failed, mostly for logged-in users. The cause is being investigated and an incident report will be available soon.

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:30, 8 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-46

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

Recent changes

At Wikidata, an interwiki link can now point to a redirect page if certain conditions are met. This new feature is called sitelinks to redirects. It is needed when one wiki uses one page to cover multiple concepts but another wiki uses more pages to cover the same concepts. Your feedback on the talkpage of the new proposed guideline is welcome. [623]
The www.wikinews.org, www.wikiversity.org, and www.wikivoyage.org portal pages now use an automated update system. [624]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 November. It will be on all wikis from 17 November (calendar).
There will be a new link to directly "Edit template data" on Template pages. [625]

Future changes

Wikis where mobile DiscussionTools are enabled (these ones) will soon use full CSS styling to display any templates that are placed at the top of talk pages. To adapt these “talk page boxes” for narrow mobile devices you can use media queries, such as in this example. [626]
Starting in January 2023, Community Tech will be running the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) every two years. This means that in 2024, there will be no new proposals or voting.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:53, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-47

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

Recent changes

The display of non-free media in the search bar and for article thumbnails in Special:Search has been deactivated. Further details are in T320661.

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 22 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 24 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:20, 21 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-48

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

Recent changes

A new preference, “Enable limited width mode”, has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also available as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. It allows for increasing the width of the page for logged-out and logged-in users. [627]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 29 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 December at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Mathematical formulas shown in SVG image format will no longer have PNG fall-backs for browsers that don't support them. This is part of work to modernise the generation system. Showing only PNG versions was the default option until in February 2018. [628][629][630]
On some wikis that use flagged revisions, a new checkbox will be added to Special:Contributions that enables you to see only the pending changes by a user. [631]

Future changes

How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change early next week at group1 wikis (but not Wikimedia Commons or Meta-Wiki). This change improves the accessibility of content, and makes it easier to write related CSS. You may need to update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems. [632]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:01, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-49

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 Wikisources use a tool called ProofreadPage. ProofreadPage uses OpenSeadragon which is an open source tool. The OpenSeadragon JavaScript API has been significantly re-written to support dynamically loading images. The functionality provided by the older version of the API should still work but it is no longer supported. User scripts and gadgets should migrate over to the newer version of the API. The functionality provided by the newer version of the API is documented on MediaWiki. [633][634]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:39, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Translation

Hello! Strange request here, but an article about me and my Wikipedia work has been promoted to Good article status at English Wikipedia and nominated for similar status at Spanish Wikipedia. I'm curious if you have any interest in translating the entry for Thai Wikipedia?

Figured I'd ask since your profile suggests you do translation work. Either way, happy editing! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 19:35, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your work here. I'm not sure why, but the page appears to have been moved into draft space and the conflict of interest template I had added to the talk page has been deleted. If the page gets moved back into main space, feel free to add back the COI template or ping me and I'll add myself. Thanks again! --Another Believer _(Talk) 19:24, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-50

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

An A/B test has begun at 15 Wikipedias for DiscussionTools on mobile. Half of the editors on the mobile web site will have access to the Reply tool and other features. [635]
The character = cannot be used in new usernames, to make usernames work better with templates. Existing usernames are not affected. [636]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (calendar).
The HTML markup used by DiscussionTools to show discussion metadata below section headings will be inserted after these headings, not inside of them. This change improves the accessibility of discussion pages for screen reader software. [637]

Events

The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award will happen online on Friday 16 December 2022 at 17:00 UTC! The event will be live-streamed on YouTube in the MediaWiki channel and added to Commons afterwards.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:32, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-51

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

Tech News

Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2023.

Recent changes

On a user's contributions page, you can filter it for edits with a tag like 'reverted'. Now, you can also filter for all edits that are not tagged like that. This was part of a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [638]
A new function has been used for gadget developers to add content underneath the title on article pages. This is considered a stable API that should work across all skins. Documentation is available. [639]
One of our test wikis is now being served from a new infrastructure powered by Kubernetes (read more). More Wikis will switch to this new infrastructure in early 2023. Please test and let us know of any issues. [640]

Problems

Last week, all wikis had no edit access for 9 minutes. This was caused by a database problem. [641]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
The word "Reply" is very short in some languages, such as Arabic ("ردّ"). This makes the Discussion tools button on talk pages difficult to use. An arrow icon will be added to those languages. This will only be visible to editors who have the Beta Feature turned on. [642] [643]

Future changes

Edits can be automatically "tagged" by the system software or the Edit filter configuration system. Those tags link to a help page about the tags. Soon they will also link to Recent Changes to let you see other edits tagged this way. This was a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [644]
The Trust & Safety tools team have shared new plans for building the Private Incident Reporting System. The system will make it easier for editors to ask for help if they are harassed or abused.
Realtime Preview for Wikitext is coming out of beta as an enabled feature for every user of the 2010 Wikitext editor in the week of January 9, 2023. It will be available to use via the toolbar in the 2010 Wikitext editor. The feature was the 4th most popular wish of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021.

Events

You can now register for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, taking place on May 19–21 in Athens, Greece. You can also apply for a scholarship until January 14th.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:58, 19 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-02

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

Recent changes

You can use tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see. Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags. [645]
Special:WhatLinksHere shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket.
You can now use the thanks function on your watchlist and the user contribution page. [646]
A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time. [647]
Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use matrix: to create Matrix links on wiki pages. [648]
You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages. [649]

Changes later this week

Realtime preview for wikitext is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar.
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 10 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 12 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 January. It will be on all wikis from 12 January (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:06, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-03

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

Problems

The URLs in "prev" links on page history now contain diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID] in place of diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]. This is to fix a problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change. [650]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).
Some changes to the appearance of talk pages have only been available on Talk: and User talk: namespaces. These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such as Wikipedia talk:. They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including Wikipedia: pages (e.g., at the Village Pump). You can change your preferences (beta feature). [651]
On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page: namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page: namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page. [652]
The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC. Learn more.

Future changes

The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey, which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can start drafting your proposals in the CWS sandbox.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:08, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-04

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

Problems

Last week, for ~15 minutes, all wikis were unreachable for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a timing issue. [653]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).
If you have the Beta Feature for DiscussionTools enabled, the appearance of talk pages will add more information about discussion activity. [654][655]
The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS), which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts on Monday 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:44, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-05

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

Problems

Last week, for ~15 minutes, some users were unable to log in or edit pages. This was caused by a problem with session storage. [656]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 February. It will be on all wikis from 2 February (calendar).

Future changes

Wikis that use localized numbering schemes for references need to add new CSS. This will help to show citation numbers the same way in all reading and editing modes. If your wiki would prefer to do it yourselves, please see the details and example CSS to copy from, and also add your wiki to the list. Otherwise, the developers will directly help out starting the week of February 5.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:04, 31 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-06

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

Recent changes

In the Vector 2022 skin, logged-out users using the full-width toggle will be able to see the setting of their choice even after refreshing pages or opening new ones. This only applies to wikis where Vector 2022 is the default. [657]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (calendar).
Previously, we announced when some wikis would be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. These switches will not be announced any more, as the read-only time has become non-significant. Switches will continue to happen at 7AM UTC on Tuesdays and Thursdays. [658]
Across all the wikis, in the Vector 2022 skin, logged-in users will see the page-related links such as "What links here" in a new side menu. It will be displayed on the other side of the screen. This change had previously been made on Czech, English, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [659]
Community Wishlist Survey 2023 will stop receiving new proposals on Monday, 6 February 2023, at 18:00 UTC. Proposers should complete any edits by then, to give time for translations and review. Voting will begin on Friday, 10 February.

Future changes

Gadgets and user scripts will be changing to load on desktop and mobile sites. Previously they would only load on the desktop site. It is recommended that wiki administrators audit the gadget definitions prior to this change, and add skins=… for any gadgets which should not load on mobile. More details are available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 10:19, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-07

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

Problems

On wikis where patrolled edits are enabled, changes made to the mentor list by autopatrolled mentors are not correctly marked as patrolled. It will be fixed later this week. [660]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar).
The Reply tool and other parts of DiscussionTools will be deployed for all editors using the mobile site. You can read more about this decision. [661]

Future changes

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [662][663][664]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:47, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-08

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

Problems

Last week, during planned maintenance of Cloud Services, unforeseen complications forced the team to turn off all tools for 2–3 hours to prevent data corruption. Work is ongoing to prevent similar problems in the future. [665]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar).
The voting phase for the Community Wishlist Survey 2023 ends on 24 February at 18:00 UTC. The results of the survey will be announced on 28 February.

Future changes

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [666][667][668]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:56, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-09

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

Problems

Last week, in some areas of the world, there were problems with loading pages for 20 minutes and saving edits for 55 minutes. These issues were caused by a problem with our caching servers due to unforseen events during a routine maintenance task. [669][670]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (calendar).
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [671]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:45, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-10

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

Recent changes

The Community Wishlist Survey 2023 edition has been concluded. Community Tech has published the results of the survey and will provide an update on what is next in April 2023.
On wikis which use LanguageConverter to handle multiple writing systems, articles which used custom conversion rules in the wikitext (primarily on Chinese Wikipedia) would have these rules applied inconsistently in the table of contents, especially in the Vector 2022 skin. This has now been fixed. [672]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (calendar).
A search system has been added to the Preferences screen. This will let you find different options more easily. Making it work on mobile devices will happen soon. [673]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:48, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-11

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (calendar).
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Chavacano de Zamboanga Wikipedia, Min Dong Chinese Wikipedia, Chechen Wikipedia, Cebuano Wikipedia, Chamorro Wikipedia, Cherokee Wikipedia, Cheyenne Wikipedia, Central Kurdish Wikipedia, Corsican Wikipedia, Kashubian Wikipedia, Church Slavic Wikipedia, Chuvash Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [674][675]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:18, 13 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-12

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

Problems

Last week, some users experienced issues loading image thumbnails. This was due to incorrectly cached images. [676]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).
A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will appear on Special:Contributions — some user scripts which previously added this link may cause conflicts. This feature request was voted #17 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
The Special:AbuseFilter edit window will be resizable and larger by default. This feature request was voted #80 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
There will be a new option for Administrators when they are unblocking a user, to add the unblocked user’s user page to their watchlist. This will work both via Special:Unblock and via the API. [677]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on 24 March at 17:00 (UTC). See details and how to join.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:24, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-13

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

Recent changes

The AbuseFilter condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000. [678]
Some Global AbuseFilter actions will no longer apply to local projects. [679]
Desktop users are now able to subscribe to talk pages by clicking on the Subscribe link in the Tools menu. If you subscribe to a talk page, you receive notifications when new topics are started on that talk page. This is separate from putting the page on your watchlist or subscribing to a single discussion. [680]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 March. It will be on all wikis from 30 March (calendar).

Future changes

You will be able to choose visual diffs on all history pages at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [681]
The legacy Mobile Content Service is going away in July 2023. Developers are encouraged to switch to Parsoid or another API before then to ensure service continuity. [682]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:12, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-14

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

Recent changes

The system for automatically creating categories for the Babel extension has had several important changes and fixes. One of them allows you to insert templates for automatic category descriptions on creation, allowing you to categorize the new categories. [683][684][685][686][687]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).
Some older Web browsers will stop being able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can try to upgrade to a newer version. [688]
The deprecated jquery.hoverIntent module has been removed. This module could be used by gadgets and user scripts, to create an artificial delay in how JavaScript responds to a hover event. Gadgets and user scripts should now use jQuery hover() or on() instead. Examples can be found in the migration guide. [689]
Some of the links in Special:SpecialPages will be re-arranged. There will be a clearer separation between links that relate to all users, and links related to your own user account. [690]
You will be able to hide the Reply button in archived discussion pages with a new __ARCHIVEDTALK__ magic word. There will also be a new .mw-archivedtalk CSS class for hiding the Reply button in individual sections on a page. [691][692][693]

Future changes

The Vega software that creates data visualizations in pages, such as graphs, will be upgraded to the newest version in the future. Graphs that still use the very old version 1.5 syntax may stop working properly. Most existing uses have been found and updated, but you can help to check, and to update any local documentation. Examples of how to find and fix these graphs are available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:38, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-15

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

Recent changes

In the visual editor, it is now possible to edit captions of images in galleries without opening the gallery dialog. This feature request was voted #61 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [694]
You can now receive notifications when another user edits your user page. See the "Edits to my user page" option in your Preferences. This feature request was voted #3 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [695]

Problems

There was a problem with all types of CentralNotice banners still being shown to logged-in users even if they had turned off specific banner types. This has now been fixed. [696]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia, Danish Wikipedia, Dinka Wikipedia, Lower Sorbian Wikipedia, Ewe Wikipedia, Greek Wikipedia, Emiliano-Romagnolo Wikipedia, Esperanto Wikipedia, Estonian Wikipedia, Basque Wikipedia, Extremaduran Wikipedia, Tumbuka Wikipedia, Fulah Wikipedia, Finnish Wikipedia, Võro Wikipedia, Fijian Wikipedia, Faroese Wikipedia, Arpitan Wikipedia, Northern Frisian Wikipedia, Friulian Wikipedia, Irish Wikipedia, Guianan Creole Wikipedia, Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia, Galician Wikipedia, Gilaki Wikipedia, Guarani Wikipedia, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Gothic Wikipedia, Gujarati Wikipedia, Manx Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [697][698]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:04, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-16

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

Recent changes

You can now see nearby articles on a Kartographer map with the button for the new feature "Show nearby articles". Six wikis have been testing this feature since October. [699][700]
The Special:GlobalWatchlist page now has links for "mark page as read" for each entry. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [701]

Problems

At Wikimedia Commons, some thumbnails have not been getting replaced correctly after a new version of the image is uploaded. This should be fixed later this week. [702][703]
For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed. [704]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 April. It will be on all wikis from 20 April (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:53, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-17

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

Recent changes

The date-selection menu on pages such as Special:Contributions will now show year-ranges that are in the current and past decade, instead of the current and future decade. This feature request was voted #145 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [705]

Problems

Due to security issues with the Graph extension, graphs have been disabled in all Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Foundation teams are working to respond to these vulnerabilities. [706]
For a few days, it was not possible to save some kinds of edits on the mobile version of a wiki. This has been fixed. [707][708][709]

Changes later this week

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [710]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

Future changes

The Editing team plans an A/B test for a usability analysis of the Talk page project. The planned measurements are available. Your wiki may be invited to participate. Please suggest improvements to the measurement plan at the discussion page.
The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input until May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023 on Meta-wiki.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:02, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-18

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

Recent changes

The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the French and Italian Wikipedias. More languages will be added in the near future. This is part of the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [711][712][713]
The Video2commons tool has been updated. This fixed several bugs related to YouTube uploads. [714]
The Special:Preferences page has been redesigned on mobile web. The new design makes it easier to browse the different categories and settings at low screen widths. You can also now access the page via a link in the Settings menu in the mobile web sidebar. [715]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 May. It will be on all wikis from 4 May (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:43, 2 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-19

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

Recent changes

Last week, Community Tech released the first update for providing better diffs, the #1 request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. This update adds legends and tooltips to inline diffs so that users unfamiliar with the blue and yellow highlights can better understand the type of edits made.
When you close an image that is displayed via MediaViewer, it will now return to the wiki page instead of going back in your browser history. This feature request was voted #65 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [716]
The SyntaxHighlight extension now supports wikitext as a selected language. Old alternatives that were used to highlight wikitext, such as html5, moin, and html+handlebars, can now be replaced. [717]
Preloading text to new pages/sections now supports preloading from localized MediaWiki interface messages. Here is an example at the Czech Wikipedia that uses preload=MediaWiki:July. [718]

Problems

Graph Extension update: Foundation developers have completed upgrading the visualization software to Vega5. Existing community graphs based on Vega2 are no longer compatible. Communities need to update local graphs and templates, and shared lua modules like de:Modul:Graph. The Vega Porting guide provides the most comprehensive detail on migration from Vega2 and here is an example migration. Vega5 has currently just been enabled on mediawiki.org to provide a test environment for communities. [719]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).
Until now, all new OAuth apps went through manual review. Starting this week, apps using identification-only or basic authorizations will not require review. [720]

Future changes

During the next year, MediaWiki will stop using IP addresses to identify logged-out users, and will start automatically assigning unique temporary usernames. Read more at IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation/Updates. You can join the discussion about the format of the temporary usernames. [721]
There will be an A/B test on 10 Wikipedias where the Vector 2022 skin is the default skin. Half of logged-in desktop users will see an interface where the different parts of the page are more clearly separated. You can read more. [722][723]
jquery.tipsy will be removed from the MediaWiki core. This will affect some user scripts. Many lines with .tipsy( can be commented out. OO.ui.PopupWidget can be used to keep things working like they are now. You can read more and read about how to find broken scripts. [724]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:34, 9 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-20

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

Problems

Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN are currently broken. This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing to restore this feature. [725]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 May. It will be on all wikis from 18 May (calendar).
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Gorontalo Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Hakka Chinese Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Upper Sorbian Wikipedia, Haitian Creole Wikipedia, Interlingua Wikipedia, Interlingue Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Iloko Wikipedia, Ingush Wikipedia, Ido Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Inuktitut Wikipedia, Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, Javanese Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [726]

Future changes

There is a recently formed team at the Wikimedia Foundation which will be focusing on experimenting with new tools. Currently they are building a prototype ChatGPT plugin that allows information generated by ChatGPT to be properly attributed to the Wikimedia projects.
Gadget and userscript developers should replace jquery.cookie with mediawiki.cookie. The jquery.cookie library will be removed in ~1 month, and staff developers will run a script to replace any remaining uses at that time. [727]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:43, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-21

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

Recent changes

The "recent edits" time period for page watchers is now 30 days. It used to be 180 days. This was a Community Wishlist Survey proposal. [728]

Changes later this week

An improved impact module will be available at Wikipedias. The impact module is a feature available to newcomers at their personal homepage. It will show their number of edits, how many readers their edited pages have, how many thanks they have received and similar things. It is also accessible by accessing Special:Impact. [729]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).

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16:53, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-22

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

Recent changes

Citations can once again be added automatically from ISBNs, thanks to Zotero's ISBN searches. The current data sources are the Library of Congress (United States), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (French National Library), and K10plus ISBN (German repository). Additional data source searches can be proposed to Zotero. The ISBN labels in the VisualEditor Automatic tab will reappear later this week. [730]
The page Special:EditWatchlist now has "Check all" options to select all the pages within a namespace. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [731]

Problems

For a few days earlier this month, the "Add interlanguage link" item in the Tools menu did not work properly. This has now been fixed. [732]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 May. It will be on all wikis from 1 June (calendar).
VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on small and medium wikis this week. Large wikis will follow in the coming weeks. This is part of the effort to move Parsoid into MediaWiki core. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [733]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:00, 29 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-23

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

Recent changes

The RealMe extension allows you to mark URLs on your user page as verified for Mastodon and similar software.
Citation and footnote editing can now be started from the reference list when using the visual editor. This feature request was voted #2 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [734]
Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference for "Group results by page". This has now been fixed. [735]

Problems

For a few days last week, some tools and bots returned outdated information due to database replication problems, and may have been down entirely while it was being fixed. These issues have now been fixed. [736]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
Bots will no longer be prevented from making edits because of URLs that match the spam blacklist. [737]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:50, 5 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-24

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

Recent changes

The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the Dutch, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias. This was the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [738]
The Search Preview panel has been deployed on four Wikipedias (Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian and Norwegian). The panel will show an image related to the article (if existing), the top sections of the article, related images (coming from MediaSearch on Commons), and eventually the sister projects associated with the article. [739]
The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software. [740]
The default project license has been officially upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0. The software interface messages have been updated. Communities should feel free to start updating any mentions of the old CC BY-SA 3.0 licensing within policies and related documentation pages. [741]

Problems

For three days last month, some Wikipedia pages edited with VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended __TOC__ (or its localized form) added during an edit. There is a listing of affected pages sorted by wiki, that may still need to be fixed. [742]
Currently, the "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is broken. Existing {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords incorrectly appear as missing templates in VisualEditor. Developers are exploring how to fix this. In the meantime, those wishing to edit the default sortkey of a page are advised to switch to source editing. [743]
Last week, an update to the delete form may have broken some gadgets or user scripts. If you need to manipulate (empty) the reason field, replace #wpReason with #wpReason > input. See an example fix. [744]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).
VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on English Wikipedia on Monday, and all other large wikis on Thursday. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [745]

Future changes

From 5 June to 17 July, the Foundation's Security team is holding a consultation with contributors regarding a draft policy to govern the use of third-party resources in volunteer-developed gadgets and scripts. Feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome at Third-party resources policy on meta-wiki.

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MediaWiki message delivery 14:49, 12 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-25

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

Recent changes

Flame graphs are now available in WikimediaDebug. [746][747]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
There is now a toolbar search popup in the visual editor. You can trigger it by typing \ or pressing ctrl + shift + p. It can help you quickly access most tools in the editor. [748][749]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:07, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-26

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

Recent changes

The Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing / to all prop=extlinks responses for bare domains. This is part of the work to remove duplication in the externallinks database table. [750]

Problems

Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours. [751][752]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
The Minerva skin now applies more predefined styles to the .mbox-text CSS class. This enables support for mbox templates that use divs instead of tables. Please make sure that the new styles won't affect other templates in your wiki. [753][754]
Gadgets will now load on both desktop and mobile by default. Previously, gadgets loaded only on desktop by default. Changing this default using the |targets= parameter is also deprecated and should not be used. You should make gadgets work on mobile or disable them based on the skin (with the |skins= parameter in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition) rather than whether the user uses the mobile or the desktop website. Popular gadgets that create errors on mobile will be disabled by developers on the Minerva skin as a temporary solution. [755]
All namespace tabs now have the same browser access key by default. Previously, custom and extension-defined namespaces would have to have their access keys set manually on-wiki, but that is no longer necessary. [756]
The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components. [757]

Future changes

How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change in the coming weeks at group2 wikis. This change improves the accessibility of content. You may need to update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems. [758]

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:17, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-27

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

Recent changes

As part of the rolling out of the audio links that play on click wishlist proposal, small wikis will now be able to use the inline audio player that is implemented by the Phonos extension. [759]
From this week all gadgets automatically load on mobile and desktop sites. If you see any problems with gadgets on your wikis, please adjust the gadget options in your gadget definitions file. [760]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 July. It will be on all wikis from 6 July (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:49, 3 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-28

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 Section-level Image Suggestions feature has been deployed on seven Wikipedias (Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Catalan, Hungarian, Finnish and Norwegian Bokmål). The feature recommends images for articles on contributors' watchlists that are a good match for individual sections of those articles.
Global abuse filters have been enabled on all Wikimedia projects, except English and Japanese Wikipedias (who opted out). This change was made following a global request for comments. [761]
Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool for administrators to help fight spam. It provides a clearer interface for blocking plain domains (and their subdomains), is more easily searchable, and is faster for the software to process for each edit on the wiki. It does not support regex (for complex cases), nor URL path-matching, nor the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist, but otherwise it replaces most of the functionalities of the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. There is a Python script to help migrate all simple domains into this tool, and more feature details, within the tool's documentation. It is available at all wikis except for Meta-wiki, Commons, and Wikidata. [762]
The WikiEditor extension was updated. It includes some of the most frequently used features of wikitext editing. In the past, many of its messages could only be translated by administrators, but now all regular translators on translatewiki can translate them. Please check the state of WikiEditor localization into your language, and if the "Completion" for your language shows anything less than 100%, please complete the translation. See a more detailed explanation.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 July. It will be on all wikis from 13 July (calendar).
The default protocol of Special:LinkSearch and API counterparts has changed from http to both http and https. [763]
Special:LinkSearch and its API counterparts will now search for all of the URL provided in the query. It used to be only the first 60 characters. This feature was requested fifteen years ago. [764]

Future changes

There is an experiment with a ChatGPT plugin. This is to show users where the information is coming from when they read information from Wikipedia. It has been tested by Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians. Soon all ChatGPT plugin users can use the Wikipedia plugin. This is the same plugin which was mentioned in Tech News 2023/20. [765]
There is an ongoing discussion on a proposed Third-party resources policy. The proposal will impact the use of third-party resources in gadgets and userscripts. Based on the ideas received so far, policy includes some of the risks related to user scripts and gadgets loading third-party resources, some best practices and exemption requirements such as code transparency and inspectability. Your feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome until July 17, 2023 on on the policy talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:52, 10 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-29

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

Recent changes

We are now serving 1% of all global user traffic from Kubernetes (you can read more technical details). We are planning to increment this percentage regularly. You can follow the progress of this work.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (calendar).
MediaWiki system messages will now look for available local fallbacks, instead of always using the default fallback defined by software. This means wikis no longer need to override each language on the fallback chain separately. For example, English Wikipedia doesn't have to create en-ca and en-gb subpages with a transclusion of the base pages anymore. This makes it easier to maintain local overrides. [766]
The action=growthsetmentorstatus API will be deprecated with the new MediaWiki version. Bots or scripts calling that API should use the action=growthmanagementorlist API now. [767]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:06, 17 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-30

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

Recent changes

On July 18, the Wikimedia Foundation launched a survey about the technical decision making process for people who do technical work that relies on software that is maintained by the Foundation or affiliates. If this applies to you, please take part in the survey. The survey will be open for three weeks, until August 7. You can find more information in the announcement e-mail on wikitech-l.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 July. It will be on all wikis from 27 July (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:19, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-31

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

Recent changes

The Synchronizer tool is now available to keep Lua modules synced across Wikimedia wikis, along with updated documentation to develop global Lua modules and templates.
The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. For example, you can hide edits that were made using an automated tool. [768][769]
The Wikipedia ChatGPT plugin experiment can now be used by ChatGPT users who can use plugins. You can participate in a video call if you want to talk about this experiment or similar work. [770]

Problems

It was not possible to generate a PDF for pages with non-Latin characters in the title, for the last two weeks. This has now been fixed. [771]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).
Starting on Tuesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Georgian Wikipedia, Kara-Kalpak Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Kabardian Wikipedia, Kabiyè Wikipedia, Kikuyu Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Khmer Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Kashmiri Wikipedia, Colognian Wikipedia, Kurdish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [772]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:53, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-32

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Recent changes

Mobile Web editors can now edit a whole page at once. To use this feature, turn on "⧼Mobile-frontend-mobile-option-amc⧽" in your settings and use the "Edit full page" button in the "More" menu. [773]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:19, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-33

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Recent changes

The Content translation system is no longer using Youdao's machine translation service. The service was in place for several years, but due to no usage, and availability of alternatives, it was deprecated to reduce maintenance overheads. Other services which cover the same languages are still available. [774]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Latin Wikipedia, Ladino Wikipedia, Luxembourgish Wikipedia, Lak Wikipedia, Lezghian Wikipedia, Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia, Ganda Wikipedia, Limburgish Wikipedia, Ligurian Wikipedia, Lombard Wikipedia, Lingala Wikipedia, Latgalian Wikipedia, Latvian Wikipedia, Maithili Wikipedia, Basa Banyumasan Wikipedia, Moksha Wikipedia, Malagasy Wikipedia, Armenian Wikipedia, Kyrgyz Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [775]

Future changes

A few gadgets/user scripts which add icons to the Minerva skin need to have their CSS updated. There are more details available including a search for all existing instances and how to update them.

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MediaWiki message delivery 05:58, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-34

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

Recent changes

The GDrive to Commons Uploader tool is now available. It enables securely selecting and uploading files from your Google Drive directly to Wikimedia Commons. [776]
From now on, we will announce new Wikimedia wikis in Tech News, so you can update any tools or pages.
- Since the last edition, two new wikis have been created:
  - a Wiktionary in Pa'O (wikt:blk:) [777]
  - a Wikisource in Sundanese (s:su:) [778]
- To catch up, the next most recent six wikis are:
  - Wikifunctions (f:) [779]
  - a Wiktionary in Mandailing (wikt:btm:) [780]
  - a Wikipedia in Ghanaian Pidgin (w:gpe:) [781]
  - a Wikinews in Gungbe (n:guw:) [782]
  - a Wiktionary in Kabardian (wikt:kbd:) [783]
  - a Wikipedia in Fante (w:fat:) [784]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).

Future changes

There is an existing stable interface policy for MediaWiki backend code. There is a proposed stable interface policy for frontend code. This is relevant for anyone who works on gadgets or Wikimedia frontend code. You can read it, discuss it, and let the proposer know if there are any problems. [785]

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15:23, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-35

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

Recent changes

As part of the changes for the better diff handling of paragraph splits, improved detection of splits is being rolled out. Over the last two weeks, we deployed this support to group0 and group1 wikis. This week it will be deployed to group2 wikis. [786]
All Special:Contributions pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. [787]
Wikisource users can now use the prpbengalicurrency label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the <pagelist> tag. [788]
Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "Enable the visual editor" is now shown on the "Editing" tab at all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "Beta features" tab at some wikis. The preference "Use the wikitext mode inside the visual editor, instead of a different wikitext editor" is now also shown on the "Editing" tab at all wikis, instead of the "Beta features" tab. [789][790]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar).
New signups for a Wikimedia developer account will start being pushed towards idm.wikimedia.org, rather than going via Wikitech. Further information about the new system is available.
All right-to-left language wikis, plus Korean, Armenian, Ukrainian, Russian, and Bulgarian Wikipedias, will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. This feature will come to more wikis in future weeks. [791]

Future changes

The removal of the DoubleWiki extension is being discussed. This extension currently allows Wikisource users to view articles from multiple language versions side by side when the <=> symbol next to a specific language edition is selected. Comments on this are welcomed at the phabricator task.
A proposal has been made to merge the second hidden-categories list (which appears below the wikitext editing form) with the main list of categories (which is further down the page). More information is available on Phabricator; feedback is welcome!

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MediaWiki message delivery 13:59, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-36

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

Recent changes

EditInSequence, a feature that allows users to edit pages faster on Wikisource has been moved to a Beta Feature based on community feedback. To enable it, you can navigate to the beta features tab in Preferences. [792]
As part of the changes for the Generate Audio for IPA and Audio links that play on click wishlist proposals, the inline audio player mode of Phonos has been deployed to all projects. [793]
There is a new option for Administrators when they are changing the usergroups for a user, to add the user’s user page to their watchlist. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. [794]
One new wiki has been created:
- a Wikipedia in Talysh (w:tly:) [795]

Problems

The LoginNotify extension was not sending notifications since January. It has now been fixed, so going forward, you may see notifications for failed login attempts, and successful login attempts from a new device. [796]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Eastern Mari Wikipedia, Maori Wikipedia, Minangkabau Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Mongolian Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Western Mari Wikipedia, Malay Wikipedia, Maltese Wikipedia, Mirandese Wikipedia, Erzya Wikipedia, Mazanderani Wikipedia, Nāhuatl Wikipedia, Neapolitan Wikipedia, Low German Wikipedia, Low Saxon Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Newari Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Novial Wikipedia, N'Ko Wikipedia, Nouormand Wikipedia, Northern Sotho Wikipedia, Navajo Wikipedia, Nyanja Wikipedia, Occitan Wikipedia, Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia, Oromo Wikipedia, Oriya Wikipedia, Ossetic Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Pangasinan Wikipedia, Pampanga Wikipedia, Papiamento Wikipedia, Picard Wikipedia, Pennsylvania German Wikipedia, Palatine German Wikipedia, Norfuk / Pitkern Wikipedia, Piedmontese Wikipedia, Western Punjabi Wikipedia, Pontic Wikipedia, Pashto Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [797][798]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:32, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-37

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

Recent changes

ORES, the revision evaluation service, is now using a new open-source infrastructure on all wikis except for English Wikipedia and Wikidata. These two will follow this week. If you notice any unusual results from the Recent Changes filters that are related to ORES (for example, "Contribution quality predictions" and "User intent predictions"), please report them. [799]
When you are logged in on one Wikimedia wiki and visit a different Wikimedia wiki, the system tries to log you in there automatically. This has been unreliable for a long time. You can now visit the login page to make the system try extra hard. If you feel that made logging in better or worse than it used to be, your feedback is appreciated. [800]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
The Technical Decision-Making Forum Retrospective team invites anyone involved in the technical field of Wikimedia projects to signup to and join one of their listening sessions on 13 September. Another date will be scheduled later. The goal is to improve the technical decision-making processes.
As part of the changes for the Better diff handling of paragraph splits wishlist proposal, the inline switch widget in diff pages is being rolled out this week to all wikis. The inline switch will allow viewers to toggle between a unified inline or two-column diff wikitext format. [801]

Future changes

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 20 September. 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. [802]
The Enterprise API is launching a new feature called "breaking news". Currently in BETA, this attempts to identify likely "newsworthy" topics as they are currently being written about in any Wikipedia. Your help is requested to improve the accuracy of its detection model, especially on smaller language editions, by recommending templates or identifiable editing patterns. See more information at the documentation page on MediaWiki or the FAQ on Meta.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:06, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-38

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

Recent changes

MediaWiki now has a stable interface policy for frontend code that more clearly defines how we deprecate MediaWiki code and wiki-based code (e.g. gadgets and user scripts). Thank you to everyone who contributed to the content and discussions. [803][804]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [805]
All wikis will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. [806]

Future changes

The team investigating the Graph Extension posted a proposal for reenabling it and they need your input.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:18, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-39

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

Recent changes

The Vector 2022 skin will now remember the pinned/unpinned status for the Table of Contents for all logged-out users. [807]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September (calendar).
The ResourceLoader mediawiki.ui modules are now deprecated as part of the move to Vue.js and Codex. There is a guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex for any tools that use it. More details are available in the task and your questions are welcome there.
Gadget definitions will have a new "namespaces" option. The option takes a list of namespace IDs. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages in the given namespaces.

Future changes

New variables will be added to AbuseFilter: global_account_groups and global_account_editcount. They are available only when an account is being created. You can use them to prevent blocking automatic creation of accounts when users with many edits elsewhere visit your wiki for the first time. [808][809]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on 27 October at 17:00 (UTC). See details and how to join.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:49, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-40

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

Recent changes

There is a new user preference for "Always enable safe mode". This setting will make pages load without including any on-wiki JavaScript or on-wiki stylesheet pages. It can be useful for debugging broken JavaScript gadgets. [810]
Gadget definitions now have a new "contentModels" option. The option takes a list of page content models, like wikitext or css. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages with the given content models.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).

Future changes

The Vector 2022 skin will no longer use the custom styles and scripts of Vector legacy (2010). The change will be made later this year or in early 2024. See how to adjust the CSS and JS pages on your wiki. [811]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:25, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-41

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

Recent changes

One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Fon (w:fon:) [812]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Swahili Wikipedia, Walloon Wikipedia, Waray Wikipedia, Wolof Wikipedia, Kalmyk Wikipedia, Xhosa Wikipedia, Mingrelian Wikipedia, Yiddish Wikipedia, Yoruba Wikipedia, Zhuang Wikipedia, Zeelandic Wikipedia, Min Nan Wikipedia, Zulu Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [813]
At some wikis, newcomers are suggested images from Commons to add to articles without any images. Starting on Tuesday, newcomers at these wikis will be able to add images to unillustrated article sections. The specific wikis are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table. You can learn more about this feature. [814]
In the mobile web skin (Minerva) the CSS ID #page-actions will be replaced with #p-views. This change is to make it consistent with other skins and to improve support for gadgets and extensions in the mobile skin. A few gadgets may need to be updated; there are details and search-links in the task.

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MediaWiki message delivery 14:37, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-42

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

Recent changes

The Unified login system's edge login should now be fixed for some browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera). This means that if you visit a new sister project wiki, you should be logged in automatically without the need to click "Log in" or reload the page. Feedback on whether it's working for you is welcome. [815]
Edit notices are now available within the MobileFrontend/Minerva skin. This feature was inspired by the gadget on English Wikipedia. See more details in T316178.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).

Future changes

In 3 weeks, in the Vector 2022 skin, code related to addPortletLink and #p-namespaces that was deprecated one year ago will be removed. If you notice tools that should appear next to the "Discussion" tab are then missing, please tell the gadget's maintainers to see instructions in the Phabricator task.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:45, 16 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-43

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

Recent changes

There is a new Language and internationalization newsletter, written quarterly. It contains updates on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects, and related support work.
Source map support has been enabled on all wikis. When you open the debugger in your browser's developer tools, you should be able to see the unminified JavaScript source code. [816]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:15, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-44

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 Structured Content team, as part of its project of improving UploadWizard on Commons, made some UX improvements to the upload step of choosing own vs not own work (T347590), as well as to the licensing step for own work (T347756).
The Design Systems team has released version 1.0.0 of Codex, the new design system for Wikimedia. See the full announcement about the release of Codex 1.0.0.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).
Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 2 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for many languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [817][818]
Starting November 1, the impact module (Special:Impact) will be upgraded by the Growth team. The new impact module shows newcomers more data regarding their impact on the wiki. It was tested by a few wikis during the last few months. [819]

Future changes

There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. You can help by reviewing this proposal and sharing what you think about it.
The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:20, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-45

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

Recent changes

In the Vector 2022 skin, the default font-size of a number of navigational elements (tagline, tools menu, navigational links, and more) has been increased slightly to match the font size used in page content. [820]

Problems

Last week, there was a problem displaying some recent edits on a few wikis, for 1-6 hours. The edits were saved but not immediately shown. This was due to a database problem. [821]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar).
The Growth team will reassign newcomers from former mentors to the currently active mentors. They have also changed the notification language to be more user-friendly. [822][823]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:04, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-46

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

Recent changes

Four new wikis have been created:
- a Wikipedia in Moroccan Amazigh (w:zgh:) [824]
- a Wikipedia in Dagaare (w:dga:) [825]
- a Wikipedia in Toba Batak (w:bbc:) [826]
- a Wikiquote in Banjar (q:bjn:) [827]

Problems

Last week, users who previously visited Meta-Wiki or Wikimedia Commons and then became logged out on those wikis could not log in again. The problem is now resolved. [828]
Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved. [829]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar).

Future changes

Reference Previews are coming to many wikis as a default feature. They are popups for references, similar to the PagePreviews feature. You can opt out of seeing them. If you are using the gadgets Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews. Deployment is planned for November 22, 2023.
Canary (also known as heartbeat) events will be produced into Wikimedia event streams from December 11. Streams users are advised to filter out these events, by discarding all events where meta.domain == "canary". Updates to Pywikibot or wikimedia-streams will discard these events by default. [830]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:50, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-47

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

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [831][832]
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Quechua Wikipedia, Romansh Wikipedia, Romani Wikipedia, Rundi Wikipedia, Aromanian Wikipedia, Tarandíne Wikipedia, Rusyn Wikipedia, Kinyarwanda Wikipedia, Sanskrit Wikipedia, Sakha Wikipedia, Santali Wikipedia, Sardinian Wikipedia, Sicilian Wikipedia, Scots Wikipedia, Sindhi Wikipedia, Northern Sami Wikipedia, Sango Wikipedia, Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia, Sinhala Wikipedia, Slovak Wikipedia, Slovenian Wikipedia, Samoan Wikipedia, Somali Wikipedia, Albanian Wikipedia, Serbian Wikipedia, Sranan Tongo Wikipedia, Swati Wikipedia, Southern Sotho Wikipedia, Saterland Frisian Wikipedia, Sundanese Wikipedia, Silesian Wikipedia, Tamil Wikipedia, Tulu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tetum Wikipedia, Tajik Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkmen Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia, Tswana Wikipedia, Tongan Wikipedia, Tok Pisin Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Tsonga Wikipedia, Tatar Wikipedia, Twi Wikipedia, Tahitian Wikipedia, Tuvinian Wikipedia, Udmurt Wikipedia, Uyghur Wikipedia, Uzbek Wikipedia, Venda Wikipedia, Venetian Wikipedia, Veps Wikipedia, West Flemish Wikipedia, Volapük Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [833][834][835]
The Vector 2022 skin will have some minor visual changes to drop-down menus, column widths, and more. These changes were added to four Wikipedias last week. If no issues are found, these changes will proceed to all wikis this week. These changes will make it possible to add new menus for readability and dark mode. Learn more. [836]

Future changes

There is an update on re-enabling the Graph Extension. To speed up the process, Vega 2 will not be supported and only some protocols will be available at launch. You can help by sharing what you think about the plan.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:53, 21 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-48

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [837][838]
MediaWiki's JavaScript system will now allow async/await syntax in gadgets and user scripts. Gadget authors should remember that users' browsers may not support it, so it should be used appropriately. [839]
The deployment of "Add a link" announced last week was postponed. It will resume this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:07, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-49

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 spacing between paragraphs on Vector 2022 has been changed from 7px to 14px to match the size of the text. This will make it easier to distinguish paragraphs from sentences. [840]
The "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is working again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords. [841]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [842][843]
On 6 December, people who have the enabled the preference for "Show discussion activity" will notice the talk page usability improvements appear on pages that include the __NEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word. If you notice any issues, please share them with the team on Phabricator.

Future changes

The Toolforge Grid Engine shutdown process will start on December 14. Maintainers of tools that still use this old system should plan to migrate to Kubernetes, or tell the team your plans on Phabricator in the task about your tool, before that date. [844]
Communities using Structured Discussions are being contacted regarding the upcoming deprecation of Structured Discussions. You can read more about this project, and share your comments, on the project's page.

Events

Registration & Scholarship applications are now open for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 that will take place from 3–5 May in Tallinn, Estonia. Scholarship applications are open until 5 January 2024.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:48, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-50

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 Wikimedia Commons, there are some minor user-interface improvements for the "choosing own vs not own work" step in the UploadWizard. This is part of the Structured Content team's project of improving UploadWizard on Commons. [845][846]

Problems

There was a problem showing the Newcomer homepage feature with the "impact module" and their page-view graphs, for a few days in early December. This has now been fixed. [847][848]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar). [849][850]

Future changes

The 2023 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 5 January 2024, and has an associated privacy statement.

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:11, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-51

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

Tech News

The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2024 because of the holidays.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 December. It will be on all wikis from 21 December (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [851][852]
Starting December 18, it won't be possible to activate Structured Discussions on a user's own talk page using the Beta feature. The Beta feature option remains available for users who want to deactivate Structured Discussions. This is part of Structured Discussions' deprecation work. [853]
There will be full support for redirects in the Module namespace. The "Move Page" feature will leave an appropriate redirect behind, and such redirects will be appropriately recognized by the software (e.g. hidden from Special:UnconnectedPages). There will also be support for manual redirects. [854]

Future changes

The MediaWiki JavaScript documentation is moving to a new format. During the move, you can read the old docs using version 1.41. Feedback about the new site is welcome on the project talk page.
The Wishathon is a new initiative that encourages collaboration across the Wikimedia community to develop solutions for wishes collected through the Community Wishlist Survey. The first community Wishathon will take place from 15–17 March. If you are interested in a project proposal as a user, developer, designer, or product lead, you can register for the event and read more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:16, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-02

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

Recent changes

mediawiki2latex is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can install on your local machine.
The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing. [855]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar). [856][857]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:18, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-03

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

Recent changes

Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. [858]
Gadgets and personal user scripts may now use JavaScript syntax introduced in ES6 (also known as "ES2015") and ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki validates the source code to protect other site functionality from syntax errors, and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers. Previously, Gadgets could use the requiresES6 option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future. [859]
Bot passwords and owner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages. [860]
You can now thank edits made by bots. [861]
An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024 has been published. Please read and give your feedback.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar). [862][863]
Starting on January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions 51–66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately. [864]
The jquery.cookie module was deprecated and replaced with the mediawiki.cookie module last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed. [865]

Future changes

Wikimedia Deutschland is working to make reusing references easier. They are looking for people who are interested in participating in individual video calls for user research in January and February.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:11, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-04

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

Problems

A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed. [866]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 January. It will be on all wikis from 25 January (calendar). [867][868]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:02, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-05

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

Recent changes

Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [869]
There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (calendar). [870][871]
On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new Special:QrCode page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [872]
Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the targets option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the skins option instead. [873]

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:29, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-06

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

Recent changes

The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to the phabricator task.
On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity. Learn more about "action blocks". [874][875]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar). [876][877]
Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [878]

Future changes

24 Wikipedias with Reference Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make Reference Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For 46 Wikipedias with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February, unless there are concerns. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings. [879][880]

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:20, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-07

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

Recent changes

The WDQS Graph Split experiment is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels. [881][882][883] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [884][885]

Problems

There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black; this issue is fixed.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar). [886][887]
As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,[888] tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped. [889]

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MediaWiki message delivery 05:47, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-08

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

Recent changes

If you have the "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails. [890]
There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the task's description.
The maximum file size when using Upload Wizard is now 5 GiB. [891]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar). [892][893]

Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
The CSS filter property can now be used in HTML style attributes in wikitext. [894]

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MediaWiki message delivery 15:35, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-09

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

Recent changes

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. [895]
The mw.config value wgGlobalGroups 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: if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [896]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (calendar). [897][898]

Future changes

The right to change edit tags (changetags) 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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MediaWiki message delivery 19:21, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-10

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

Recent changes

The Special:Book 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. [899]
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.
Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The Gadget and Gadget_definition namespaces and gadgets-definition-edit 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. [900]
A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [901]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar). [902][903]

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. [904]
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 ?useparsoid=1 to your URL (more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info).

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:45, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-11

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar). [905][906]
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. [907]
The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [908]
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. [909]

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. [910][911]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:02, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-12

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

Recent changes

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. [912]
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. [913]
The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [914][915][916]
Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [917]

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. [918]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar). [919][920]
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [921][922]

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MediaWiki message delivery 17:38, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-13

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

Recent changes

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

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar). [923][924]

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:54, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-14

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

Recent changes

Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [925]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar). [926][927]

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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MediaWiki message delivery 03:34, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-15

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.
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. [928][929]
Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [930]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar). [931][932]
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. [933]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:35, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-16

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

Problems

Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [934][935]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [936][937]
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). [938]
A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [939]

Future changes

Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the abuse_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated. [940]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:27, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-17

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

Recent changes

Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [941]
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

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [942][943]

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. [944]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:26, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-18

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

Recent changes

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. 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 ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks. [945]
Seven new wikis have been created:
- a Wikipedia in Betawi (w:bew:) [946]
- a Wikipedia in Kusaal (w:kus:) [947]
- a Wikipedia in Igala (w:igl:) [948]
- a Wiktionary in Karakalpak (wikt:kaa:) [949]
- a Wikisource in Burmese (s:my:) [950]
- a Wikisource in Malay (s:ms:) [951]
- a Wikisource in Georgian (s:ka:) [952]
You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [953]
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 mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [954]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar). [955][956]

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:31, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-19

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

Recent changes

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 ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [957][958]
Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page. [959]
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. [960]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar). [961][962]
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". [963]

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. [964]

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:42, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-20

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

Recent changes

On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word __EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__ to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list. [965]
If you use the user-preference "Show preview without reloading the page", then the template-page feature "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" will now also work without reloading the page. [966]
Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the alt= attribute. This is identical in usage to the alt= attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. [967]
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. [968]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar). [969][970]
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. [971]

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. [972]
Two columns of the pagelinks database table (pl_namespace and pl_title) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new linktarget table instead (lt_namespace and lt_title). In your existing SQL queries:
1. Replace JOIN pagelinks with JOIN linktarget and pl_ with lt_ in the ON statement
2. Below that add JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
- See phab:T222224 for technical reasoning. [973][974]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:56, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-21

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

Recent changes

The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. [975]
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. [976][977]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar). [978][979]
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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MediaWiki message delivery 23:02, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-22

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

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.
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.
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: .collapsible, .multicol, .reflist, .coordinates, .topicon. Further details are available on replacement CSS if it is needed.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar). [980][981]
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. [982]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:13, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-23

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

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. [983]
The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category". [984]
One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Kadazandusun (w:dtp:) [985]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (calendar). [986][987]

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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MediaWiki message delivery 22:33, 3 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-24

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

Recent changes

The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [988]
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.
The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the mw-reference-text class, Parsoid now also adds the reference-text class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [989]

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. [990]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [991][992]
The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a <span class="mw-cite-backlink"> 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. [993]
On multilingual wikis that use the <translate> 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. [994]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:18, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-25

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

Recent changes

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. [995]
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. [996][997]
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. [998]

Problems

Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [999]
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. [1,000]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar). [1,001][1,002]
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. [1,003]
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. [1,004]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:47, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-26

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

Recent changes

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. [1,005]
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. [1,006]

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. [1,007]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar). [1,008][1,009]
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. [1,010]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:30, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-27

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

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. [1,011]
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. [1,012]
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. [1,013][1,014]
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. [1,015]
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 Wikipedia in Mandailing (w:btm:) [1,016]

Problems

Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [1,017]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:57, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-28

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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MediaWiki message delivery 21:30, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-29

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

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

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

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. [1,018]
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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MediaWiki message delivery 01:29, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-30

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

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. [1,019]
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. [1,020]
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. [1,021]

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.

MediaWiki message delivery 00:02, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-31

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

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 Wikivoyage in Czech (voy:cs:) [1,022]

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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MediaWiki message delivery 23:08, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-32

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

Feature news

Two new parser functions will be available this week: {{#dir}} and {{#bcp47}}. These will reduce the need for Template:Dir and Template:BCP47 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. [1,023][1,024]
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.
The new parser is being rolled out on Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikivoyage 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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MediaWiki message delivery 20:41, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-33

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

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. [1,025]
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 Wikipedia in West Coast Bajau (w:bdr:) [1,026]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:19, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Article translation

Hello @Tris T7, I became aware of you through available translators in Wikipedia en-th category. I am approaching you with a request. Could you please translate the article en:Methylmalonic acid into Thai. It would be very interesting for all those who study vitamin B₁₂. Your work would be very kind and I would be very grateful. Thank you very much. Abvdj (talk) 10:09, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-34

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

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. [1,027]
Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the categories property of mw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [1,028][1,029]

Bugs status

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 Talk:WP: so that their titles start with Wikipedia talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ 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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MediaWiki message delivery 00:51, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-35

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

Feature news

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. [1,030]

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

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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MediaWiki message delivery 20:30, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-36

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

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 __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements. [1,031]
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 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. [1,032]
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. [1,033]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:04, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-37

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

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. [1,034][1,035]
Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions entity:getSitelink() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [1,036]

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. [1,037]
Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new MOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with MOS: (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language code mos). [1,038]

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:49, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-38

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

Improvements and Maintenance

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. [1,039]
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. [1,040]
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. [1,041]
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 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes mw-message-box 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 cdx-message group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [1,042]

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. [1,043]

Tech in depth

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.
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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MediaWiki message delivery 23:59, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-39

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

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

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.
It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within <syntaxhighlight> tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax {{…}} are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [1,044]
Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [1,045][1,046]
View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

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

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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MediaWiki message delivery 23:33, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-40

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

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 ?veaction=editsource to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [1,047]
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. [1,048]
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 22 community-submitted 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. [1,049]

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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MediaWiki message delivery 22:17, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-41

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

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. [1,050]

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. [1,051]
View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

It is now possible for <syntaxhighlight> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the copy=1 attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [1,052]
Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [1,053]
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.
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 Wikipedia in Komering (w:kge:) [1,054]
- a Wikipedia in Mooré (m:mos:) [1,055]
- a Wiktionary in Madurese (wikt:mad:) [1,056]
- a Wikiquote in Gorontalo (q:gor:) [1,057]
- a Wikinews in Shan (n:shn:) [1,058]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:39, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-42

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

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. [1,059][1,060]
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 hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [1,061]
View all 20 community-submitted 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. [1,062]
Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [1,063]
Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <bdi> 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. [1,064]

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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MediaWiki message delivery 21:18, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-43

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

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.

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 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week. [1,065][1,066][1,067][1,068][1,069]
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

Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new {{#timef:…}} parser function. For example, {{#timef:now|date|en}} will show as "26 October 2024". Previously, {{#time:…}} could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation. #timef (or #timefl 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. [1,070][1,071]
Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using {{USERLANGUAGE}} instead of using {{int:lang}}. [1,072]
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. [1,073]

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.
La Fundación Wikimedia es ahora socio oficial del programa CVE, que es un esfuerzo internacional para catalogar las vulnerabilidades de seguridad cibernética divulgadas públicamente. Esta asociación permitirá al Equipo de Seguridad publicar de forma instantánea registros de vulnerabilidades y exposiciones comunes (CVE) que afectan al núcleo, las extensiones y los aspectos de MediaWiki, junto con cualquier otro código del que sea responsable la Fundación.
La lista de deseos de la comunidad ahora está probando traducciones automáticas para el contenido de la lista de deseos. Los voluntarios ahora pueden leer versiones traducidas automáticamente de los deseos y participar en las discusiones incluso antes de que lleguen los traductores para traducir el contenido.

Reuniones y eventos

24 de octubre - Seminario web de la serie de conferencias sobre educación wiki: Tecnología de código abierto: creación del panel de control de educación wiki, con la participación de pasantes de Wikimedia y un desarrollador web en el panel.
20–22 de diciembre de 2024: Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 en Odisha, India. Un hackathon para miembros de la comunidad, incluidos desarrolladores, diseñadores y editores de contenido, para crear soluciones técnicas que mejoren las experiencias de los colaboradores.

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