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SEMI-RETIRADO

Mis intereses se han desviado hacia otros lugares. Como era antes, probablemente volveré por dos meses y luego me retiraré nuevamente.

Este usuario ya no es muy activo en Wikipedia.

¡Bienvenido a la aventura de Wikipedia!

¡Hola, KylieInTheSkylie! 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.

• La página de inicio de la aventura de Wikipedia
• El salón de aventuras de Wikipedia
• El nuevo espacio de ayuda del editor de Teahouse
• Páginas de ayuda de Wikipedia

-- 02:56, lunes, 16 de marzo de 2020 ( UTC )

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

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-21

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

• Si olvidas tu contraseña, puedes solicitar que te envíen una nueva a tu dirección de correo electrónico. Para ello, debes saber tu dirección de correo electrónico o tu nombre de usuario. Puedes elegir que sea necesario introducir tanto tu dirección de correo electrónico como tu nombre de usuario. Esta es una preferencia para recibir menos correos electrónicos de restablecimiento de contraseña solicitados por otras personas. Esta opción ya está disponible en todos los wikis de Wikimedia. [1][2]

Problemas

• Hay un error que genera problemas para los usuarios de iPhone con iOS 13 y Safari . Si usas un iPhone para leer o editar Wikipedia y ves errores en el sitio móvil, puedes informarlos. [3]
• Varias wikis, incluida Wikidata, estarán en modo de solo lectura durante unos minutos el 19 de mayo. Esto sucederá alrededor de las 05:00 UTC. La Wikipedia en inglés estará en modo de solo lectura durante unos minutos el 21 de mayo a las 05:00 UTC. Esto es por mantenimiento de la base de datos. [4][5]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• La aplicación Wikipedia para Android permite a los usuarios añadir descripciones en Commons. La versión beta utilizaba etiquetas asistidas por ordenador, pero se eliminó para obtener descripciones más específicas. [6]
• No hay nueva versión de MediaWiki esta semana.

Cambios futuros

• Los gráficos se mostrarán en el navegador del lector. Para ello, se utilizará Javascript . Se espera que los gráficos funcionen mejor para todos los que utilicen Javascript. No funcionará para los usuarios que no utilicen Javascript. Esto no afectará a los diagramas en archivos de imagen. [7]
• Se han simplificado algunos CSS para las máscaras. Esto afecta a div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction, div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces, div#p-variantsy div#footer. Tendrán que eliminar div. Tendrás que actualizar tus gadgets, scripts o estilos de usuario. Esto es para que podamos usar HTML5 . [8]
• Se han modificado algunos CSS para el diseño Vector. Esto afecta #p-variantsa , #p-namespaces, y . Ya no pueden usar . #p-personalEs posible que tengas que actualizar tus gadgets, scripts o estilos de usuario. Consulta cómo.#p-views#p-cactions> ul

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17:18, 18 de mayo de 2020 (UTC)

¡Bienvenido a bordo, compañero!

CaptainEek da una charla a los nuevos miembros de la tripulación sobre la importancia de no pasarse de la raya

¡Ahoy! Bienvenido a bordo del SS Wikipedia, ¡te habla tu capitán! Por la presente, eres nombrado marinero de cubierta en la tripulación del Capitán Eek. Si eres astuto y bueno en la búsqueda de fuentes, no pasará mucho tiempo antes de que te gradúes con tu propio puesto de capitán.

No, pero en serio, me alegro de tenerte como adoptado, parece que te preocupas y quieres involucrarte más. Estoy emocionado de trabajar contigo. Mi forma favorita de ayudar a las personas a convertirse en mejores editores es hacer que trabajes en artículos, a tu propio ritmo, y yo puedo ayudarte en el proceso. Eso significa que puedo guiarte en la búsqueda de fuentes, el formato, la filosofía del contenido y más. Entonces, si pudieras proporcionar una lista de 3 a 5 temas, ya sea con artículos existentes o que te gustaría crear, ¡podemos partir de ahí! Si te gustaría involucrarte en el trabajo de backend, también podemos explorar eso, pero creo que tener un conocimiento sólido de la creación de contenido es fundamental primero.

Siempre que quieras que vea algo, asegúrate de avisarme o dejar una nota en mi página de discusión. Navegación tranquila, CaptainEek ^{Edits ¡Ho Cap'n!} ⚓ 15:37, 20 de mayo de 2020 (UTC) [ responder ]

@ CaptainEek : Estoy feliz de estar a bordo. ¡Voy a buscar un buen ancla para echar! (En serio, me llevará un tiempo conseguir algo de contenido para crear). -Kylie Echa un vistazo | ¿Qué he hecho ? | Háblame 15:45, 20 de mayo de 2020 (UTC) [ responder ]?

@ CaptainEek : Mientras recopilo mis artículos para crear, te pido que elijas un artículo para que yo lo edite o haga. Puede que pase un tiempo hasta que recopile todos mis artículos, ¡pero lo haré! -Kylie Echa un vistazo | ¿Qué he hecho? | Háblame 20:30, 20 de mayo de 2020 (UTC) [ responder ]?

KylieInTheSkylie , dices que te gustan las plantas y, por suerte, hay muchos artículos de plantas de clase stub . Si le echas un vistazo a WP:PLANT (el wikiproyecto de plantas), verás una lista de nuestros artículos y sus calificaciones, así como un montón de otros recursos útiles, incluida una plantilla para un artículo estándar. Al examinar, encontré algunos artículos que serían buenos puntos de partida. Aloe bakeri es un artículo stub que podría ampliarse fácilmente en algunas secciones con solo una fuente o dos, discutiendo la descripción botánica, su historia, su hábitat, etc. Lo mismo ocurre con Chloris virgata , que es una que tenía la intención de ampliar. Los saqué de esta lista, que muestra todos los artículos de plantas de importancia media. CaptainEek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!} ⚓ 23:33, 21 de mayo de 2020 (UTC) [ responder ]

Actualizaciones de Wikipedia hablada

¡Hola KylieInTheSkylie! Espero que este mensaje te encuentre bien y saludable. Estoy trabajando este fin de semana en las páginas del proyecto Spoken Wikipedia para que estén en línea con otros proyectos. Solo quería informarte de antemano que es posible que se creen algunas páginas, se eliminen, se muevan o se produzcan otros problemas. Si tienes alguna pregunta, no dudes en publicarla en mi página de discusión.
Gracias, Galendalia ( discusión ) 16:24, 23 de mayo de 2020 (UTC) Coordinador de WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia [ responder ]

Metro de Calcuta

Criterios: las imágenes están etiquetadas y las imágenes que no son gratuitas tienen fundamentos de uso legítimo: los logotipos no son de uso legítimo. Consulta la página de discusión para obtener más información.
¿Qué hacer aquí? ❯❯❯ SAHA 13:00, 24 de mayo de 2020 (UTC) [ responder ]

Hola, y te agradezco que me hayas planteado esta inquietud. El GAN ​​citado no debería usarse como esquema porque fue retirado antes de que pudiera completarse. -Kylie Echa un vistazo | ¿Qué he hecho ? | Háblame 03:45, 26 de mayo de 2020 (UTC) [ responder ]

KylieInTheSkylie , ok ❯❯❯ SAHA 17:30, 4 de junio de 2020 (UTC) [ responder ]

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-22

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 editor visual ahora funcionará en la apariencia moderna. Los cambios que debían realizarse para que esto funcionara podrían causar problemas para algunos scripts o gadgets. [9]
• La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 26 de mayo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean de Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 27 de mayo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 28 de mayo (según calendario).

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14:17, 25 de mayo de 2020 (UTC)

Boletín de administración – Junio ​​2020

Noticias y actualizaciones para administradores del último mes (mayo de 2020).

Cambios de administrador

Capitán Eek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth

Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL

Comprobar cambios de usuario

SQL

Novedades sobre directrices y políticas

• Una solicitud de comentarios pregunta si el Sistema de solicitud de tickets de desbloqueo (UTRS) debería permitir cualquier solicitud de desbloqueo o solo apelaciones privadas.
• La Fundación Wikimedia anunció que desarrollará un código de conducta universal para todos los proyectos de la Fundación Wikimedia. Existe un debate abierto a nivel local al respecto.

Arbitraje

• Se aprobó una moción para promulgar una restricción de 500/30 sobre los artículos relacionados con la historia de los judíos y el antisemitismo en Polonia durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1933-1945), incluido el Holocausto en Polonia . Las páginas de discusión de artículos en las que se produzcan interrupciones también podrán gestionarse con la restricción indicada.

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Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-23

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

• Existe una nueva versión beta de la aplicación Wikimedia Commons para Android. Tiene una nueva función de zoom cuando miras imágenes. También puede sugerir lugares cuando subes fotos geoetiquetadas. [10]

Problemas

• El 27 de mayo se produjo un problema con la base de datos de Commons. No se pudo editar Commons durante ocho minutos. Debido a este problema, se trasladó la base de datos. Esto provocó otro breve período de solo lectura el 29 de mayo. [11][12][13]
• La interfaz Vector tenía un problema por el cual no se podían agregar enlaces al artículo en otros idiomas. No se podía ver la sección si no había enlaces a otros idiomas. También se eliminaron los enlaces de traducción de contenido y los enlaces a la configuración de idioma. Esto ya se ha solucionado. [14]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• Puedes recibir una notificación cuando alguien enlaza a una página que has creado. Puedes desactivar estas notificaciones para páginas individuales. Pronto podrás desactivarlas también en las notificaciones que recibes. [15]
• La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 2 de junio. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 3 de junio. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 4 de junio (según calendario).

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22:30, 1 de junio de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-24

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

• Algunos artículos tienen tablas que se pueden ordenar de distintas maneras. Por ejemplo, una lista de países se puede ordenar alfabéticamente, pero puedes hacer clic en la columna de tamaño para ordenarlos por tamaño. Si haces clic en la columna una segunda vez, los países se ordenarán de abajo a arriba. Un tercer clic te llevará de nuevo al orden original. [16]
• Las etiquetas autocerradas ahora funcionan como en las especificaciones HTML5 . Esto significa que debería dejar de usar algunas de ellas. <b/>es un ejemplo de una etiqueta autocerrada que no funcionará. area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbrpuede cerrarse automáticamente. Las páginas con etiquetas que no deberían cerrarse automáticamente se han incluido en una categoría de seguimiento desde 2016. Se incluirán en Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag . Esto no afecta <references />a o <ref />. [17]
• Hay un banner llamado WikidataPageBanner. Lo usan, por ejemplo, Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Rusia y las Wikipedias en catalán, vasco, gallego y turco. Ahora también lo podrán ver los visitantes móviles. Antes solo se veía en computadoras de escritorio. Las wikis deberían actualizar las instrucciones MediaWiki:Sitenoticepara que los editores sepan que también deben probar y diseñar para dispositivos móviles. [18][19]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• Ahora puedes editar las descripciones de MassMessage a través de la API . Esto resulta útil para herramientas y gadgets. [20]
• La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 9 de junio. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 10 de junio. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 11 de junio (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

• Una solución temporal ayudó a que las wikis hicieran que sus páginas principales fueran más compatibles con dispositivos móviles. Esto fue en 2012. No se ha recomendado desde 2017. No funcionará después del 13 de julio. Las wikis deberían usar TemplateStyles en su lugar. 118 wikis necesitan solucionar esto. Puedes leer más y ver si tu wiki está afectado. [21]

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21:11, 8 de junio de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-25

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.

Cambios recientes

• Toolforge alberga varias herramientas creadas por la comunidad Wikimedia, como contadores de edición o editores mejorados. Se está cambiando el dominio de tools.wmflabs.org a toolforge.org . El esquema de enrutamiento se está moviendo de tools.wmflabs.org/toolname a toolname.toolforge.org . Puedes leer los detalles. Las herramientas que usan OAuth deberán actualizarse para seguir funcionando. Puedes pedir ayuda.

Problemas

• En la barra lateral de muchas páginas hay un enlace a un elemento de Wikidata. Este desapareció durante un par de días para los usuarios que tienen la skin Monobook. Esto se debió a un error. Ahora se ha corregido. [22]
• La edición, el inicio y el cierre de sesión no funcionaron correctamente durante un breve período la semana pasada. El problema se solucionó rápidamente. [23]

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 junio. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 17 de junio. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 18 de junio (calendario).

Cambios futuros

• Pywikibot es una biblioteca de Python para automatizar el trabajo en wikis. No será compatible con Python 2 después de la nueva versión en julio. También se dejará de admitir Python 3.4 y MediaWiki anteriores a la versión 1.19. Deberías migrar a Python 3. Puedes pedir ayuda. [24]
• Los selectores .menuy .vectorMenuya no funcionarán en la interfaz Vector. Esto puede afectar a los gadgets y a los scripts de usuario. .menu debería reemplazarse por ul. .vectorMenudebería reemplazarse por .vector-menu. [25]

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21:36, 15 de junio de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-26

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

• Hay algunas herramientas nuevas que facilitan a los recién llegados comenzar a editar. Están disponibles en algunas wikis. Estas wikis tuvieron un problema con el editor visual durante un breve período de tiempo la semana pasada. Esto se debió a un error en las nuevas herramientas. Pronto se solucionó. [26]
• Algunos scripts y gadgets de usuario dejaron de funcionar debido a un cambio en los selectores CSS . .vectorTabsdebería reemplazarse con .vector-menu-tabspara solucionar esto. [27]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• Los desarrolladores están trabajando en una nueva interfaz para resolver conflictos de edición en las páginas de discusión. Estará disponible el 24 de junio. Puedes enviar comentarios. [28]
• La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 23 de junio. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 24 de junio. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 25 de junio (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

• Una solución temporal ayudó a que las wikis hicieran que sus páginas principales fueran más compatibles con dispositivos móviles. Esto fue en 2012. No se ha recomendado desde 2017. No funcionará después del 13 de julio. Las wikis deberían usar TemplateStyles en su lugar. 91 wikis aún necesitan solucionar esto. Puedes leer más y ver si tu wiki está afectado. [29]

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18:48, 22 de junio de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-27

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

• Todos cerraron la sesión. Esto se debió a que algunos usuarios vieron las wikis como si hubieran iniciado sesión en la cuenta de otra persona. El problema ya debería estar solucionado. [30]
• Algunos lectores no veían las nuevas ediciones de las páginas. Si la página había sido modificada recientemente, veían una versión anterior de la misma. Esto solo afectaba a los lectores que habían cerrado la sesión. Duró diez días. Ya se ha solucionado. [31]

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 junio. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 1 de julio. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 1 de julio (calendario).

Cambios futuros

• Las máscaras Modern y Monobook usan el ID searchGoButtondel botón Ir. Esto es searchButtonpara Vector. Para tener el mismo ID para todas las máscaras, también cambiará a searchButtonen Monobook y Modern. Esto afectará a los gadgets y scripts de usuario. Ocurrirá el 23 de julio. Deberían actualizarse para usar searchButton. Puedes leer más y ver una lista de scripts afectados.

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16:30, 29 de junio de 2020 (UTC)

Boletín de noticias para administradores – Julio 2020

Noticias y actualizaciones para administradores del último mes (junio de 2020).

Novedades sobre directrices y políticas

• Se está tramitando una solicitud de comentarios para eliminar el criterio de eliminación rápida de T2 (plantilla que tergiversa la política establecida) .

Noticias técnicas

• Las plantillas de protección en las páginas del espacio principal ahora son agregadas automáticamente por Usuario:MusikBot II ( BRFA ).

Arbitraje

• Tras la prohibición de un editor por parte de la WMF el año pasado, el Comité de Arbitraje decidió realizar una convocatoria de propuestas sobre acoso en la wiki . La convocatoria de propuestas se publicó en Wikipedia:Comité de Arbitraje/Convocatoria de propuestas contra el acoso y está abierta a comentarios de la comunidad.
• El caso de Medicina fue cerrado , con un recurso que autorizaba sanciones discrecionales estándar para todas las discusiones sobre precios y fijación de precios de medicamentos farmacéuticos y para ediciones que agregaran, cambiaran o eliminaran precios o fijación de precios de medicamentos farmacéuticos de los artículos .

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Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-28

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.

Problemas

• La extensión Score ha sido deshabilitada por ahora debido a un problema de seguridad. Volverá a funcionar tan pronto como se haya solucionado el problema de seguridad. [32]

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 julio. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 8 de julio. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 9 de julio (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

• Wikipedia es un nuevo proyecto de Wikimedia. Recopilará información independiente del idioma que se pueda leer fácilmente en diferentes idiomas. Se basa en Wikidata. El nombre es preliminar. Puedes leer más. [33]
• Los desarrolladores de la aplicación Wikipedia para iOS están pensando en nuevas herramientas experimentales. Si usas un iPhone, puedes ayudarlos respondiendo la encuesta.
• Pronto se aplicarán algunas reglas para las firmas de los usuarios. Ya no se permitirán errores de pelusa ni HTML no válido en las firmas de los usuarios. No se permitirá la sustitución anidada. Se requerirá un enlace a su página de usuario, página de discusión de usuario o contribuciones de usuario. Puede comprobar si su firma funciona con las nuevas reglas. Esto se debe a que las firmas pueden causar problemas para las herramientas u otro texto en la página.

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20:17, 6 de julio de 2020 (UTC)

Mención en Kaniyar

Hola, mencioné que eres Talk:Kaniyar#Revert pero parece que has cambiado de nombre, por lo que el ping no se habrá realizado. - Sitush ( discusión ) 05:29, 10 de julio de 2020 (UTC) [ responder ]

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-29

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

• Los usuarios pueden agradecer a los demás por sus ediciones. Los usuarios verificados ahora pueden ver los datos de usuario relacionados con esa acción. Esto puede ayudar a identificar a los títeres que acosan a los demás mediante agradecimientos. [34]

Problemas

• Hace un par de semanas, se desconectó a todos los usuarios para solucionar un problema de seguridad. El problema no se solucionó por completo. Por este motivo, la semana pasada se desconectó a todos nuevamente. [35][36]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• Las wikis que no son para un idioma específico pueden traducir páginas. A veces, partes de las traducciones están desactualizadas o faltan. Las traducciones desactualizadas se marcan con un fondo rosa . Las traducciones faltantes también se marcarán en el futuro. Este marcado a veces puede romper cosas. Pronto se puede desactivar usando <translate nowrap></translate>en la página de origen. [37]
• La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 14 de julio. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 15 de julio. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 16 de julio (calendario).

Cambios futuros

• La revisión del código de Wikimedia prevé utilizar GitLab . Se alojaría en los servidores de Wikimedia. [38][39][40][41]

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16:29, 13 de julio de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-30

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

• Una solución temporal ayudó a que las wikis hicieran que sus páginas principales fueran más compatibles con dispositivos móviles. Esto fue en 2012. No se ha recomendado desde 2017. La carcasa especial de la página principal para dispositivos móviles dejó de funcionar el 14 de julio. 60 wikis ahora tienen páginas principales que no funcionan bien en dispositivos móviles. Puedes ver cuáles son, cómo solucionarlo y cómo obtener ayuda en Phabricator. Este es el mismo problema que se informó en Tech News 2020/24 y 2020/26.

Problemas

• Hay un problema con los enlaces entre idiomas. Los enlaces entre idiomas son los enlaces que te ayudan a encontrar una página específica en un idioma diferente. La clasificación no funciona. Los desarrolladores están trabajando en una solución. [42]
• Algunos usuarios siguen recibiendo notificaciones del mismo evento. Algunas de ellas son eventos antiguos. [43]
• Algunos usuarios tienen problemas para iniciar sesión. Probablemente se trate de un problema con las cookies del navegador . Los desarrolladores están trabajando para resolver el problema. Si tienes problemas para iniciar sesión, puedes ver los detalles en Phabricator. [44]

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 julio. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 22 de julio. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 23 de julio (calendario).

Cambios futuros

• Hay un Printable versionenlace. Desaparecerá. Esto se debe a que los navegadores web actuales pueden crear una versión imprimible o mostrar cómo se verá de todos modos en la versión impresa. [45]

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19:13, 20 de julio de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-31

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

• El kit de inicio ya está disponible para las comunidades wiki. Esta página enumera recursos técnicos, herramientas y recomendaciones. Estos son esenciales para operar un proyecto wiki. Esto es útil principalmente para wikis más pequeños donde la comunidad tiene experiencia limitada con esto. [46]
• Las primeras características del proyecto Desktop Improvements están disponibles para los usuarios registrados en todas las wikis. Para usarlas, desmarque la opción Usar vector heredado en sus preferencias locales o globales en la sección Preferencias de apariencia . Se planean más mejoras. Agradecemos sus comentarios.
• En varios wikis, está disponible un gadget UTCLiveClock. Para los wikis que importan el gadget directamente desde mediawiki.org, los usuarios finales ahora pueden elegir una zona horaria diferente para mostrar en lugar de UTC.

Problemas

• El tren de implementación de MediaWiki ha sido bloqueado esta semana. [47][48]
• El robot de notificación de traducción enviaba el mismo mensaje varias veces a cada traductor. Esto se ha solucionado. [49]
• Algunos usuarios recibían la misma notificación varias veces. Este problema se ha solucionado. [50]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 28 de julio. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean de Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 29 de julio. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 30 de julio (según calendario).

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13:51, 27 de julio de 2020 (UTC)

Boletín de administración – Agosto 2020

Noticias y actualizaciones para administradores del último mes (julio de 2020).

Cambios de administrador

Fénix rojo

Euríalo • SQL

Jujutacular • Monty845 • Rettetast • Madchester

Cambios en la supervisión

Ventilador GB

Keegan • Opabinia regalis • Caos premeditado

Novedades sobre directrices y políticas

• Hay una solicitud abierta de comentarios para decidir si se debe aumentar la duración mínima durante la cual debe permanecer abierta una discusión sobre una sanción (actualmente 24 horas).
• El criterio de eliminación rápida T2 (plantilla que tergiversa la política establecida) ha sido derogado tras una solicitud de comentarios .
• El criterio de eliminación rápida X2 (páginas creadas mediante la herramienta de traducción de contenidos) ha sido derogado tras un debate .
• Existe una propuesta para restringir la eliminación propuesta a los usuarios confirmados .

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Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-32

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.

Problemas

• Todas las consultas al servicio de consultas de Wikidata fallaron entre las 17:50 y las 17:59 UTC del jueves 23 de julio. Algunas consultas fallaron durante un período más largo. [51]
• Los enlaces entre idiomas se ordenaron incorrectamente durante las últimas semanas. Este problema también se mencionó en Tech News hace dos semanas. El problema ya está solucionado. [52]
• Hay un problema con las preferencias globales para la opción "Usar vector heredado". Los desarrolladores están trabajando para solucionarlo. [53]
• Un error en la extensión Wikibase había desactivado los tipos de protección "mover" y "crear" en el espacio de nombres principal (Galería) de Wikimedia Commons. No se pudieron agregar nuevas protecciones y las protecciones existentes no se aplicaron, lo que permitió algunos movimientos y creaciones de páginas que no deberían haber sido posibles. Esto ya se ha solucionado. [54]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• El reproductor de video cambiará para ser más simple y moderno. Esta semana, la función beta actual se convertirá en el reproductor de video para todos en la mayoría de las wikis que no sean Wikipedia. El reproductor antiguo será eliminado. [55]
• Los usuarios global.jsy global.csslas páginas ahora también se cargarán en el sitio móvil. Puedes leer la documentación sobre cómo evitar aplicar estilos al diseño móvil. [56]
• En la interfaz MonoBook, el searchGoButtonidentificador ahora es searchButton. Esto puede afectar a los gadgets CSS y JS. Las instrucciones de migración se pueden encontrar en T255953. Esto se mencionó anteriormente en el problema 27.
• Los operadores de bots pueden usar Pywikibot para archivar discusiones regularmente. counterSe modificó el comportamiento cuando el bot usa para evitar archivos grandes. [57]
• La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 4 de agosto. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean de Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 5 de agosto. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 6 de agosto (calendario).

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15:42, 3 de agosto de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-33

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

• FileImporter y FileExporter se convirtieron en funciones estándar en todos los wikis durante la primera semana de agosto. Te ayudan a transferir archivos desde wikis locales a Wikimedia Commons con la información y el historial de los archivos originales intactos. [58]

Problemas

• La interfaz móvil muestra un mensaje en la parte inferior de la página sobre quién editó por última vez. Este mensaje mostraba texto wiki sin formato. Esto ya se ha solucionado. Algunos mensajes en Discusiones estructuradas y en la traducción de contenido pueden seguir apareciendo como texto wiki sin formato. Los desarrolladores están trabajando en ello. [59]

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 agosto. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean de Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 12 de agosto. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 13 de agosto (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

• El 1 de septiembre, todos los wikis serán de solo lectura durante unos minutos. Está previsto que esto ocurra entre las 13:30 y las 15:30 UTC. Se publicará más información en Tech News y también se publicará en wikis individuales en las próximas semanas. [60][61]

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16:06, 10 de agosto de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-34

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.

Cambios recientes

• Si revierte una edición utilizando el enlace de deshacer, su edición se marcará con una undoetiqueta. Esto ahora solo sucederá si no cambia nada en la ventana de edición antes de publicar la acción de deshacer. Esto es para evitar que los usuarios marquen ediciones como deshacer cuando en realidad están haciendo otra cosa. [62]
• La nueva versión de OOUI no funcionará con Internet Explorer 8. Esto significa que las wikis tendrán un aspecto extraño y no funcionarán bien en Internet Explorer 8. Esto se informó en Tech/News/2020/17. Esto se debe a que mantener las wikis funcionando con navegadores muy antiguos crea otros problemas. [63]

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 agosto. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 19 de agosto. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 20 de agosto (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

• El 1 de septiembre, todos los wikis serán de solo lectura durante unos minutos. Está previsto que esto ocurra entre las 13:30 y las 15:30 UTC. Se publicará más información en Tech News y también se publicará en wikis individuales la próxima semana. Esto es un recordatorio. Puedes ayudar traduciendo el mensaje del anuncio. [64][65]

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20:41, 17 de agosto de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-35

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 25 de agosto. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 26 de agosto. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 27 de agosto (según calendario).

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17:58, 24 de agosto de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-36

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

• Este es un recordatorio. Todas las wikis serán de solo lectura durante unos minutos el 1 de septiembre. Esto está previsto entre las 14:00 y las 15:00 UTC. Consulta los detalles en el mensaje de anuncio. [66][67]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• No hay nueva versión de MediaWiki esta semana.

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20:08, 31 de agosto de 2020 (UTC)

Boletín de noticias para administradores – Septiembre 2020

Noticias y actualizaciones para administradores del último mes (agosto de 2020).

Cambios de administrador

Eddie891

Angela • Jcw69 • Simplemente descansando • Philg88 • Viajero

Comprobar cambios de usuario

SQL

Novedades sobre directrices y políticas

• Tras una solicitud de comentarios , la duración mínima de las discusiones sobre la prohibición de un sitio se aumentó de 24 a 72 horas.
• Se está realizando una solicitud de comentarios para determinar si los editores pagos deben o deberían utilizar los artículos para el proceso de creación.
• Se abre una solicitud de comentarios para resolver inconsistencias entre los procesos de redacción y de alternativa a la eliminación .

Arbitraje

• Se abre una solicitud de comentarios para brindar la oportunidad de modificar la estructura, las reglas y los procedimientos de la elección del Comité de Arbitraje de Wikipedia en inglés de 2020 y para resolver cualquier problema no cubierto por las reglas existentes.
• Una solicitud abierta de comentarios pregunta si los árbitros activos pueden formar parte del Comité de Revisión de Casos de Confianza y Seguridad o de la comisión del Defensor del Pueblo.

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Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-37

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Cambios a finales de esta semana

• Normalmente, las páginas se pueden mover a un título que aún no tiene una página existente o a una página que solo tiene una revisión, lo que es una redirección a la página que se va a mover. Un nuevo derecho de usuario permite a los editores mover páginas sobre páginas de una sola revisión que redireccionan a cualquier lugar. [68]
• La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 8 de septiembre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 9 de septiembre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 10 de septiembre (según calendario).
• Todos los módulos de la API de MediaWiki utilizarán ahora watchlisten lugar de watch. Esto no era coherente antes. [69]

Cambios futuros

• El equipo de la aplicación de Wikipedia para Android podría trabajar en herramientas de patrullaje en el futuro. Puedes informarles qué herramientas serían útiles para ti o para los patrullajes con menos experiencia. Consulta la página en mediawiki.org.
• OTRS se actualizará a una nueva versión. Probablemente esto llevará alrededor de dos días. Los agentes de OTRS no tendrán acceso al sistema durante esos días. Los correos electrónicos que lleguen durante la actualización se entregarán cuando la actualización esté completa. El plan es comenzar alrededor de las 08:00 UTC del 14 de septiembre. Esto podría cambiar. [70]
• La aplicación de Wikipedia para Android enviará notificaciones push si los usuarios las desean. Esto podría ayudarte a ver, por ejemplo, cuándo alguien escribió en tu página de discusión o si tu edición fue revertida. Para que esto funcione, necesitarás los Servicios de Google Play . También será posible obtener la aplicación sin los Servicios de Google Play, pero las notificaciones push no funcionarán. Los Servicios de Google Play también se utilizan para que la aplicación funcione para los usuarios de Android 4.4 . [71][72]
• La revisión del código de Wikimedia podría trasladarse a GitLab . Se alojaría en los servidores de Wikimedia. Puedes participar en la consulta.
• Los menús desplegables en la interfaz Vector utilizan una .menuclase. Esto no funcionará en el futuro. Los scripts pueden utilizar nav ulen su lugar .vectorTabsy .vectorMenutampoco funcionarán. Algunos scripts deben actualizarse. Puede leer más en Phabricator.

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15:59, 7 de septiembre de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-38

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 semana pasada, las aplicaciones de Wikipedia mostraron brevemente páginas sin CSS , lo que significaba que se veían mal. Se solucionó rápidamente, pero las páginas almacenadas en caché sin CSS se mostraron durante algunas horas. [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 15 de septiembre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 16 de septiembre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 17 de septiembre (según calendario).

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16:18, 14 de septiembre de 2020 (UTC)

¡Feliz cumpleaños!

Nominación de MfD de Plantilla:Página de discusión de usuarios

Plantilla:Página de discusión de usuarios, una página que usted creó o a la que contribuyó sustancialmente, ha sido nominada para su eliminación . Sus opiniones sobre el tema son bienvenidas; puede participar en la discusión agregando sus comentarios en Wikipedia:Miscelánea para eliminación/Plantilla:Página de discusión de usuarios y asegúrese de firmar sus comentarios con cuatro tildes (~~~~). Usted es libre de editar el contenido de Plantilla:Página de discusión de usuarios durante la discusión, pero no debe eliminar la plantilla de miscelánea para eliminación de la parte superior de la página; dicha eliminación no finalizará la discusión sobre eliminación. Gracias. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Hablar con Andy ; Ediciones de Andy 08:38, 15 de septiembre de 2020 (UTC) [ responder ]

Propuesta de eliminación de Plantilla:Página de discusión de usuarios

La plantilla:Página de discusión del usuario askings ha sido nominada para su eliminación . Se le invita a comentar la discusión en la entrada de la plantilla en la página Plantillas para discusión . Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Hablar con Andy ; Ediciones de Andy 10:25, 16 de septiembre de 2020 (UTC) [ responder ]

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-39

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 etiqueta para las ediciones revertidas. Por ejemplo, puedes verla en el feed de cambios recientes o en el historial de artículos. Se agrega a las ediciones cuando se han deshecho, revertido o revertido manualmente a una versión anterior de la página. [75][76]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• La cantidad de veces que se puede hacer algo en un período de tiempo en una wiki es limitada. Puede ser la cantidad de ediciones por minuto o la cantidad de usuarios a los que se envía un correo electrónico en un día. Algunos usuarios no se ven afectados por todos los límites debido a sus derechos de usuario. Pronto podrían ver el límite incluso si no los afecta. [77]
• La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 22 de septiembre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 23 de septiembre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 24 de septiembre (calendario).

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21:26, 21 de septiembre de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-40

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 administradores ahora pueden ver enlaces a las diferencias de las revisiones eliminadas en Special:AbuseLog . Esto utiliza la interfaz de Special:Undelete . [78]
• Los editores se añaden automáticamente a algunos grupos de usuarios. Por ejemplo, los editores se añaden a los usuarios confirmados automáticamente cuando han editado suficientes veces y durante el tiempo suficiente. Los filtros de abuso pueden impedir que los usuarios obtengan automáticamente derechos de usuario durante un período de tiempo. También pueden eliminar los derechos que tienen los usuarios. Los wikis ahora pueden solicitar cambiar la duración de este período de tiempo para su wiki en Phabricator. Actualmente es de cinco días. [79]

Problemas

• El año pasado algunos filtros de abuso dejaron de funcionar debido a un nuevo cambio. Si intentaban usar variables que no estaban disponibles para esa acción, fallaban. Esto ya se ha solucionado. [80]

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 septiembre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 30 de septiembre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 1 de octubre (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

• No se pueden ver los enlaces a otras versiones en otros idiomas desde la página de discusión o la página de historial. Tampoco se muestran cuando se edita un artículo. Esto podría cambiar. No se ha decidido si, por ejemplo, la página de historial debe vincularse a otra página de historial o al artículo. Puedes participar en la discusión en Phabricator.
• Los colores de los enlaces pueden cambiar. Esto es para que la diferencia entre los enlaces y el resto del texto sea más clara. Puedes leer más en Phabricator.
• En tus preferencias puedes elegir recibir distintas notificaciones en la web o por correo electrónico. Verás Appscomo una de las alternativas a finales de esta semana. Esto se debe a que las aplicaciones de Wikipedia para Android e iOS utilizarán notificaciones push para aquellos que las deseen. Puedes ver las preferencias en la wiki de prueba. El objetivo es tener notificaciones push en Android en octubre y en iOS a principios de 2021. [81]
• Pronto podrás añadir páginas a tu lista de seguimiento por un tiempo limitado. Esto puede resultar útil si quieres ver algo durante un tiempo más corto pero no quieres que esté en tu lista de seguimiento para siempre. Ahora funciona en mediawiki.org y llegará a más wikis más adelante. Puedes leer más y ver cuándo llegará a otras wikis.
• Puedes ver cuáles son las mejores herramientas técnicas nuevas que los wikipedistas consideran este año. También puedes nominarlas.

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21:23, 28 de septiembre de 2020 (UTC)

Boletín de noticias para administradores – Septiembre 2020

Noticias y actualizaciones para administradores del último mes (septiembre de 2020).

Cambios de administrador

Ajpolino • LuK3

Jack McBarn

Anuncio Orientem • Harej • Lid • Lomn • Mentoz86 • Oliver Pereira • XJaM

No hay tiempo → No hay tiempo

Novedades sobre directrices y políticas

• Una solicitud de comentarios encontró consenso en que la incubación como alternativa a la eliminación generalmente solo debería recomendarse cuando la elaboración de un borrador sea apropiada, es decir 1) si el resultado de una discusión sobre la eliminación es elaborar un borrador; o 2) si el artículo es de nueva creación .

Noticias técnicas

• El registro de filtros ahora proporciona enlaces para ver las diferencias de las revisiones eliminadas (phab:T261630).

Arbitraje

• Ha comenzado el proceso de designación de usuarios y supervisores de CheckUser 2020. El período de consulta comunitaria se llevará a cabo del 27 de septiembre al 7 de octubre.
• Tras una solicitud de comentarios , los miembros del Comité en funciones no podrán formar parte de la Comisión del Defensor del Pueblo ni del Comité de Revisión de Casos de la WMF. El Comité de Arbitraje aprobó una moción para implementar esos resultados en sus procedimientos .

Misceláneas

• El borrador del Código de Conducta Universal está abierto a la revisión y comentarios de la comunidad hasta el 6 de octubre de 2020.
• Las acciones de la Oficina ahora pueden ser apeladas ante el Comité Provisional de Revisión de Casos de Confianza y Seguridad.

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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

• Hay una nueva herramienta que permite ver qué usuarios de la wiki principal participan en las discusiones de Meta. Esto puede ayudar a mostrar qué comunidades no forman parte de las discusiones en las wikis en las que tomamos decisiones que afectan a muchas otras wikis.
• Ahora puedes agradecer a los usuarios por subir archivos o por cambiar el idioma de una página. [82]

Problemas

• La semana pasada hubo muchos errores con la nueva versión de MediaWiki. La nueva versión fue revertida. Las actualizaciones que deberían haberse realizado la semana pasada están retrasadas. [83]
• Todos cerraron la sesión. Esto se debió a que un usuario informó que había iniciado sesión en la cuenta de otra persona. El problema ya debería estar solucionado. [84]
• Muchas páginas tienen errores de JavaScript . Puedes leer más y ver una lista de scripts de usuario con errores .

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 octubre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 7 de octubre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 8 de octubre (según calendario).
• Las letras que aparecen inmediatamente después de un enlace se muestran como parte del mismo. Por ejemplo, [[Child]]rense incluye un enlace en la palabra completa. En las wikis árabes, esto funciona tanto al principio como al final de una palabra. Anteriormente, en las wikis árabes, los números y otros caracteres Unicode que no eran letras se mostraban como parte del enlace al principio de una palabra, pero no al final. Ahora, solo las letras latinas y árabes ampliarán los enlaces en las wikis árabes. [85]

Cambios futuros

• Podrás leer, pero no editar, las wikis durante una hora aproximadamente el 27 de octubre a las 14:00 (UTC). Probablemente será menos de una hora. [86]

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16:24, 5 de octubre de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-42

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

• Debido a los problemas con la versión de MediaWiki hace dos semanas, las actualizaciones de la semana pasada también llegaron tarde. [87][88][89]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• Las vistas previas en vivo no mostraban las plantillas utilizadas en la vista previa si acababa de editar una sección. Esto ya se ha solucionado. También puede probar páginas CSS y JavaScript incluso si tiene habilitada la vista previa en vivo. Anteriormente, esto no funcionaba bien. [90][91]
• La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 13 de octubre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 14 de octubre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 15 de octubre (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

• Próximamente estará disponible una nueva versión estable de Pywikibot. [92]

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15:23, 12 de octubre de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-43

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 20 de octubre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 21 de octubre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 22 de octubre (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

• Podrás leer, pero no editar, las wikis durante una hora aproximadamente el 27 de octubre a las 14:00 (UTC). Probablemente será menos de una hora. [93]
• En la extensión AbuseFilter, la rmspecials()función se actualizará pronto para que no elimine el carácter "espacio". Se recomienda a las wikis que incluyan todos los usos de rmspecials()with rmwhitespace()siempre que sea necesario para mantener el comportamiento de los filtros sin cambios. Puede utilizar la función de búsqueda en Special:AbuseFilter para localizar su uso. [94]
• Algunos gadgets y scripts de usuario utilizan el div HTML con el ID #jump-to-nav. Este div se eliminará pronto. Los encargados del mantenimiento deben reemplazar estos usos con #siteSubo #mw-content-text. En la parte superior de phab:T265373 se incluye una lista de los scripts afectados.

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16:30, 19 de octubre de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-44

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.

Problemas

• Podrás leer, pero no editar, las wikis durante una hora aproximadamente el 27 de octubre a las 14:00 (UTC). Probablemente será menos de una hora. [95]
• La semana pasada, los enlaces a "diffs" de listas de seguimiento de dispositivos móviles y cambios recientes enlazaban a revisiones de páginas en lugar de a diffs. Esto ya se ha solucionado. [96]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• No hay nueva versión de MediaWiki esta semana.

Cambios futuros

• Desde la introducción del grupo de usuarios de administradores de interfaz en 2018, los administradores no podían ver el historial de eliminación de páginas CSS/JS. Ahora sí pueden hacerlo. [97]
• Había un problema con las etiquetas de cambio . El software aplicaba la etiqueta "Revertido" a cualquier acción de página, como cambios de protección de página, si se producían directamente después de una edición revertida. Esto ya se ha solucionado para las nuevas ediciones. [98]
• La herramienta Responder se ofrecerá como una función beta opcional en la mayoría de las Wikipedias en noviembre. Se realizará otro anuncio una vez que se concrete la fecha. [99]

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17:37, 26 de octubre de 2020 (UTC)

Boletín de noticias para administradores – Noviembre 2020

Noticias y actualizaciones para administradores del último mes (octubre de 2020).

Novedades sobre directrices y políticas

• Las sanciones comunitarias ahora autorizan a los administradores a colocar bajo semiprotección indefinida cualquier artículo sobre un concurso de belleza, o biografía de una persona conocida como concursante de un concurso de belleza, que haya sido editado por una cuenta sockpuppet o sockpuppet desconectada , para que se registre en WP:GS/PAGEANT .

Noticias técnicas

• Los administradores de sistema podrán volver a ver el historial eliminado de páginas JS/CSS; esto estaba restringido a los administradores de interfaz cuando se introdujo ese grupo.
• El módulo de bloques de Twinkle ahora incluye la capacidad de señalar el caso específico al aplicar un bloque y/o plantilla de sanciones discrecionales .
• Los administradores podrán usar Special:CreateLocalAccount para crear una cuenta local para un usuario global cuya creación automática no se puede realizar localmente (por ejemplo, mediante un filtro o un bloqueo de rango). Los administradores que no estén seguros de si dicha creación es adecuada deben comunicarse con un checkuser.

Arbitraje

• El proceso de elección del Comité de Arbitraje de 2020 ha comenzado. Los editores que cumplan con los requisitos podrán postularse como candidatos desde el 8 de noviembre hasta el 17 de noviembre. El período de votación se extenderá desde el 23 de noviembre hasta el 6 de diciembre.
• La convocatoria de propuestas contra el acoso concluyó con un resumen de los comentarios proporcionados.

Misceláneas

• Un recordatorio de que se autorizan sanciones discrecionales estándar para todas las ediciones sobre la política de los Estados Unidos posterior a 1932 y personas estrechamente relacionadas con ella, y para todas las páginas relacionadas con ella. ( Caso de arbitraje American Politics 2 ).

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Cambios recientes

• Ya no podrás leer wikis de Wikimedia si tu navegador usa TLS muy antiguo . Esto se debe a que es un problema de seguridad para todos. Podría dar lugar a ataques de degradación . Desde el 29 de octubre de 2020, los usuarios que usan versiones antiguas de TLS no podrán conectarse a los proyectos de Wikimedia. Hay disponible una lista de recomendaciones de navegadores. Todos los sistemas operativos y navegadores modernos siempre pueden acceder a los proyectos de Wikimedia. [100]
• Hay una nueva categoría de seguimiento automático disponible: Páginas con argumentos de formato no numéricos . Recopila páginas que utilizan la {{formatnum}}función de análisis sintáctico con una entrada no válida (no numérica), por ejemplo {{formatnum:TECHNEWS}} . Tenga en cuenta que {{formatnum:123,456}}también es una entrada no válida: como se describe en la documentación, el argumento no debe tener formato para que se pueda localizar de forma fiable y correcta. La categoría de seguimiento ayudará a identificar el uso problemático y el doble formato. El nombre de la nueva categoría de seguimiento se puede traducir en translatewiki. [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 3 de noviembre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean de Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 4 de noviembre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 5 de noviembre (según calendario).
• Los administradores y administradores podrán usar una página especial (Special:CreateLocalAccount) para forzar la creación de una cuenta local para una cuenta global. Esto es útil cuando la creación de una cuenta está bloqueada para ese usuario (por un bloqueo o un filtro). [102]
• La herramienta Responder se ofrecerá como una función Beta opcional en la mayoría de las Wikipedias el 4 de noviembre. Este cambio excluye las Wikipedias en inglés, ruso y alemán, además de algunas Wikipedias más pequeñas con circunstancias especiales. Puede leer la página de ayuda y la guía de resolución de problemas para obtener más información. [103]

Cambios futuros

• Se ha reiniciado una discusión sobre el uso de un signo menos Unicode (− U+2212) en la salida {{formatnum}}cuando se le da un argumento negativo. [104]
• En el futuro, las direcciones IP de los usuarios no registrados no se mostrarán a todo el mundo, sino que se les asignará un alias. Habrá un nuevo derecho de usuario o una función de suscripción voluntaria para que más combatientes antivandálicos puedan ver las IP de los usuarios no registrados. Habrá algunos criterios para determinar quién obtiene el derecho de usuario o la suscripción voluntaria. También habrá otras herramientas nuevas para ayudar a controlar el vandalismo. Esto es una etapa temprana del proceso y los desarrolladores todavía están recopilando información de las comunidades antes de sugerir soluciones.

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16:08, 2 de noviembre de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-46

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 a finales de esta semana

• No hay nueva versión de MediaWiki esta semana.

Cambios futuros

• Puedes ver vistas previas de referencias. Esto muestra una vista previa de la nota al pie cuando pasas el cursor sobre ella. Esta ha sido una función beta. Saldrá de la fase beta y se habilitará de forma predeterminada. Habrá una opción para no usarla. Los desarrolladores están buscando wikis pequeños o medianos para que sean los primeros. Puedes informarles si tu wiki está interesado. [105]
• A partir del 16 de noviembre, las categorías no se ordenarán por un breve período de tiempo. Esto se debe a que los desarrolladores están actualizando a una nueva versión de la biblioteca de internacionalización . Utilizarán un script para corregir las categorías existentes. Esto puede tardar unas horas o unos días, según el tamaño de la wiki. Puedes leer más al respecto. [106][107]

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15:48, 9 de noviembre de 2020 (UTC)

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Cambios recientes

• Los listados en las páginas de categorías se ordenan en cada wiki para ese idioma usando una biblioteca . Durante un breve período el 16 de noviembre, los cambios en las categorías no se ordenarán correctamente para la mayoría de los idiomas. Esto se debe a que los desarrolladores están actualizando a una nueva versión de la biblioteca. Luego usarán un script para corregir las categorías existentes. Esto llevará unas horas o unos días dependiendo de qué tan grande sea la wiki. Puedes leer más. [108][109]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• Si fusionabas dos páginas en un espacio de nombres donde las páginas no pueden redirigir, esto solía romper el historial de fusiones. Esto se solucionará ahora. [110]
• La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 17 de noviembre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 18 de noviembre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 19 de noviembre (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

• La encuesta de la lista de deseos de la comunidad ya está abierta para recibir propuestas. La encuesta decide en qué trabajará el equipo de tecnología de la comunidad. Puedes publicar propuestas del 16 al 30 de noviembre. Puedes votar las propuestas del 8 al 21 de diciembre.

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15:36, 16 de noviembre de 2020 (UTC)

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Cambios recientes

• Las marcas de tiempo en Special:Log ahora son enlaces. Van a Special:Log solo para esa entrada. Así es como funcionan las marcas de tiempo, por ejemplo, en la página del historial. [111]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• No hay nueva versión de MediaWiki esta semana.

Cambios futuros

• El VPS de Wikimedia Cloud aloja proyectos técnicos para el movimiento Wikimedia. Los desarrolladores deben reclamar los proyectos que utilizan, ya que los proyectos antiguos y sin uso se eliminan una vez al año. Los proyectos no reclamados se pueden cerrar a partir del 1 de diciembre y se pueden eliminar a partir del 1 de enero. [112]

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17:17, 23 de noviembre de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-49

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 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 diciembre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 2 de diciembre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 3 de diciembre (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

• La aplicación de Wikipedia para iOS mostrará a los lectores más información sobre el historial de los artículos. Podrán ver las nuevas actualizaciones y ver más fácilmente cómo ha cambiado el artículo con el tiempo. Se trata de un experimento. Al principio, se mostrará solo a algunos usuarios de la aplicación para iOS a modo de prueba . [113][114]
• Las Wiki Replicas se pueden utilizar para consultas SQL . Puedes utilizar Quarry, PAWS u otras formas de hacerlo. Para que las Wiki Replicas sean estables, habrá dos cambios. La posibilidad de realizar consultas entre bases de datos JOINSya no funcionará. También puedes consultar una base de datos únicamente si te conectas a ella directamente. Esto sucederá en febrero de 2021. Si crees que esto te afecta y necesitas ayuda, puedes publicar en Phabricator o en Wikitech. [115]

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17:43, 30 de noviembre de 2020 (UTC)

Boletín de administración – Diciembre 2020

Noticias y actualizaciones para administradores del último mes (noviembre de 2020).

Cambios de administrador

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Cambios en la interfaz del administrador

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Novedades sobre directrices y políticas

• Hay una solicitud de comentarios en curso para eliminar T3 (instancias duplicadas y codificadas) como criterio de eliminación rápida o eliminar su período de espera de siete días.

Noticias técnicas

• La votación de las propuestas de la Encuesta de Lista de Deseos de la Comunidad de 2021, que determina en qué software trabajará el equipo de Tecnología Comunitaria de la Fundación Wikimedia el próximo año, se llevará a cabo del 8 al 21 de diciembre. En particular, hay secciones relacionadas con los administradores y la lucha contra el acoso.

Arbitraje

• La votación en las elecciones del Comité de Arbitraje de 2020 está abierta para los editores elegibles hasta el lunes 7 de diciembre de 2020 a las 23:59 UTC. Revise los candidatos y, si lo desea, envíe sus elecciones en la página de votación .

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Cambios recientes

• Ahora puedes poner páginas en tu lista de seguimiento por un período de tiempo limitado. Algunas wikis ya tenían esta función. [116][117]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• La información de Wikidata que se utiliza en una página wiki se puede mostrar en los cambios recientes y listas de seguimiento de un wiki de Wikimedia. Para ver esto, debe activar la opción de mostrar las ediciones de Wikidata en su lista de seguimiento en las preferencias. Los cambios en la descripción de Wikidata en el idioma de un wiki de Wikimedia se mostrarán en los cambios recientes y listas de seguimiento. Esto no mostrará las ediciones en idiomas que no sean relevantes para su wiki. [118][119]
• La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 8 de diciembre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 9 de diciembre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 10 de diciembre (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

• Puedes votar propuestas en la encuesta de la lista de deseos de la comunidad entre el 8 y el 21 de diciembre. La encuesta decide en qué trabajará el equipo de tecnología de la comunidad.

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16:14, 7 de diciembre de 2020 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-51

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.

Cambios recientes

• Existe una aplicación de Wikipedia para teléfonos con sistema operativo KaiOS . Se lanzó en India en septiembre y ahora también se puede descargar en otros países. [120]

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 diciembre. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 16 de diciembre. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 17 de diciembre (según calendario).

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Noticias tecnológicas: 2020-52

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Noticias tecnológicas

• Debido a las vacaciones, el próximo número de Tech News se enviará el 11 de enero de 2021.

Cambios recientes

• La {{citation needed}}plantilla muestra cuándo una afirmación en un artículo de Wikipedia necesita una fuente. Si hace clic en ella cuando edita con el editor visual, aparece una ventana emergente que lo explica. Ahora también puede mostrar el motivo y cuándo se agregó. [121]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

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

Cambios futuros

• Puedes proponer y discutir qué mejoras técnicas se deben realizar en la información geográfica, como coordenadas, mapas u otras cosas relacionadas.
• Algunas wikis utilizan LanguageConverter para cambiar entre sistemas de escritura o variantes de un idioma. Esto solo se puede hacer para toda la página. Habrá una <langconvert>etiqueta que pueda convertir un fragmento de texto en una página. [122]
• Los supervisores y administradores pueden ocultar entradas en Special:AbuseLog . Pronto podrán ocultar varias entradas a la vez usando casillas de verificación. Esto funciona como ocultar ediciones normales. Esto sucederá a principios de enero. [123]

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20:52, 21 de diciembre de 2020 (UTC)

Boletín de administración – Enero 2021

Noticias y actualizaciones para administradores del último mes (diciembre de 2020).

Novedades sobre directrices y políticas

• El criterio de eliminación rápida T3 (duplicación e instancias codificadas) ha sido derogado tras una solicitud de comentarios .

Noticias técnicas

• Ahora puedes poner páginas en tu lista de seguimiento por un período de tiempo limitado.

Arbitraje

• Por moción , se han autorizado temporalmente sanciones discrecionales estándar para todas las páginas relacionadas con el Cuerno de África (definido como Etiopía, Somalia, Eritrea, Yibuti y áreas adyacentes si están involucradas en disputas relacionadas) . La efectividad de las sanciones discrecionales puede evaluarse a solicitud de cualquier editor después del 1 de marzo de 2021 (o antes si existe una buena razón).
• Tras las elecciones del Comité de Arbitraje de 2020 , los siguientes editores han sido designados para el Comité de Arbitraje: Barkeep49 , BDD , Bradv , CaptainEek , L235 , Maxim , Primefac .

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Noticias tecnológicas: febrero de 2021

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

• Puede elegir que se le recuerde cuando no haya agregado un resumen de edición. Esto se puede hacer en sus preferencias. Esto podría entrar en conflicto con el CAPTCHA . Esto ya se ha solucionado. [124]
• Puede crear vínculos a entradas de registro específicas. Puede obtener estos vínculos, por ejemplo, haciendo clic en las marcas de tiempo del registro. Hasta ahora, dichos vínculos a entradas de registro privadas no mostraban ninguna entrada, incluso si tenía permiso para verlas. Los vínculos ahora muestran la entrada. [125]
• Los administradores pueden usar la herramienta de filtro de abuso para evitar automáticamente ediciones incorrectas. La semana pasada se produjeron tres cambios:
  • La interfaz de edición de filtros ahora muestra errores de sintaxis mientras escribes. Esto es similar a las páginas de JavaScript. También muestra una advertencia para las expresiones regulares que coinciden con la cadena vacía. Más adelante se agregarán nuevas advertencias. [126]
  • Los supervisores ahora pueden ocultar varias entradas del registro de filtros a la vez mediante casillas de verificación en Special:AbuseLog . Así es como funciona la eliminación de revisión habitual. [127]
  • Cuando un filtro coincide con demasiadas acciones después de haber sido modificado, se "limita". Las acciones más potentes se desactivan. Esto es para evitar que muchos editores se bloqueen cuando un administrador comete un error. El administrador recibirá ahora una notificación sobre esta "limitación".
• Hay una nueva herramienta para crear nuevas apariencias. También puedes ver las apariencias existentes y enviar comentarios. [128]
• Los bots que utilizan la API ya no vigilan las páginas automáticamente según las preferencias de la cuenta. La configuración de la API watchlistseguirá watchfuncionando. Esto es para reducir el tamaño de los datos de la lista de vigilancia en la base de datos. [129]
• Los metadatos de los archivos de Scribunto ahora incluyen la longitud. [130]
• Las páginas de códigos CSS y JavaScript ahora tienen enlaces anclados a los números de línea. Puedes usar enlaces wiki como w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50 . [131]
• La semana pasada se publicó una nueva versión de MediaWiki. Puedes leer un registro detallado de los 763 cambios. La mayoría de ellos son muy pequeños y no te afectarán.

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 enero. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 13 de enero. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 14 de enero (según calendario).

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15:41, 11 de enero de 2021 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: marzo de 2021

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 19 de enero. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 20 de enero. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 21 de enero (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

• El equipo de Growth planea agregar funciones para que más visitantes editen más Wikipedias. Puedes ayudar a traducir la interfaz.
• Podrás leer, pero no editar, Wikimedia Commons durante un breve periodo de tiempo a partir del 26 de enero a las 07:00 (UTC). [132]
• En el futuro, las publicaciones de MassMessage podrían tener una marca de tiempo automática. Esto se debe a que los remitentes de MassMessage ahora pueden enviar páginas mediante MassMessage. Las páginas son más difíciles de firmar. Si hay momentos en los que una publicación de MassMessage no debería tener una marca de tiempo, puedes informar a los desarrolladores.

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16:09, 18 de enero de 2021 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: abril de 2021

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 un breve periodo de tiempo el 26 de enero a las 07:00 (UTC). No podrás leer ni editar Wikitech durante un breve periodo de tiempo el 28 de enero a las 09:00 (UTC). [133][134]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• Se añadirá la coincidencia de corchetes al resaltador de sintaxis de CodeMirror en las primeras wikis. Las primeras wikis serán la Wikipedia en alemán y en catalán y, tal vez, otras wikis de Wikimedia. Esto sucederá el 27 de enero. [135]
• La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 26 de enero. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 27 de enero. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 28 de enero (según calendario).

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18:29, 25 de enero de 2021 (UTC)

Boletín de administración – febrero de 2021

Noticias y actualizaciones para administradores del último mes (enero de 2021).

Arbitraje

• Las sanciones discrecionales estándar autorizadas para la política estadounidense fueron enmendadas por una moción para cubrir la política de los Estados Unidos y las personas estrechamente relacionadas después de 1992 , reemplazando el límite de 1932.

Misceláneas

• La votación para las elecciones de delegados electorales de 2021 comenzará el 5 de febrero de 2021 a las 14:00 (UTC) y finalizará el 26 de febrero de 2021 a las 13:59 (UTC). El proceso de confirmación de los delegados electorales actuales se está llevando a cabo en paralelo. Puede comprobar automáticamente su elegibilidad para votar.
• Wikipedia ya lleva 20 años de existencia y ¡recientemente vio su milmillonésima edición!

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Noticias tecnológicas: mayo de 2021

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

• Las direcciones IPv6 se escribían en minúsculas en los diffs. Esto provocaba que los enlaces no funcionaran, ya que Special:Contributions solo aceptaba letras mayúsculas para las direcciones IP. Esto se ha solucionado. [136]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• Pronto podrás utilizar Wikidata para vincular a páginas de Wikisource multilingüe. [137]
• A menudo, los editores utilizan un "espacio indivisible" para crear un espacio entre dos elementos al leerlos, pero que se muestren juntos. Esto se puede utilizar para evitar un salto de línea. Ahora podrá agregar nuevos caracteres a través de la herramienta de caracteres especiales en los editores de 2010, 2017 y visuales. El carácter se mostrará en el editor visual como un espacio con un fondo gris. [138][139]
• Los wikis utilizan filtros de abuso para impedir que se realicen ediciones incorrectas. Los encargados del mantenimiento de filtros ahora pueden utilizar sintaxis como 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55así también la 1.2.3.4/27sintaxis para rangos de IP. [140]
• La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 2 de febrero. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 3 de febrero. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 4 de febrero (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

• Minerva es la apariencia que usan los wikis de Wikimedia para el tráfico móvil. Cuando una página está protegida y no puedes editarla, normalmente puedes leer el código fuente de la wiki. Esto no funciona en Minerva en dispositivos móviles. Esto se está solucionando. Algunos textos pueden superponerse. Esto se debe a que tu comunidad necesita actualizar MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext para que funcione en dispositivos móviles. Puedes leer más. [141][142]
• Cloud VPS y Toolforge cambiarán la dirección IP que utilizan para contactar con las wikis. La nueva dirección IP será 185.15.56.1. Esto ocurrirá el 8 de febrero. Puedes leer más.

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Noticias tecnológicas: 2021-06

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 recientes

• La aplicación Wikipedia para Android ahora tiene listas de seguimiento y páginas de discusión en la aplicación. [143]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• Puedes ver las modificaciones de las páginas seleccionadas en Special:Watchlist . Puedes añadir páginas a tu lista de seguimiento en cada wiki que quieras. La extensión GlobalWatchlist llegará a Meta el 11 de febrero. Allí podrás ver las entradas de las páginas vigiladas en diferentes wikis en la misma página. La nueva lista de seguimiento se encontrará en Special:GlobalWatchlist en Meta. Puedes elegir qué wikis quieres vigilar y otras preferencias en Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings en Meta. Puedes vigilar hasta cinco wikis. [144]
• La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 9 de febrero. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 10 de febrero. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 11 de febrero (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

• Cuando los administradores protegen las páginas, el formulario utilizará el aspecto OOUI. Special:Import también tendrá el nuevo aspecto. Esto hará que sea más fácil usarlos en teléfonos móviles. [145][146]
• Algunos servicios no funcionarán durante un breve período de tiempo a partir de las 07:00 UTC del 17 de febrero. Es posible que haya problemas con nuevos enlaces cortos, nuevas traducciones, nuevas notificaciones, la incorporación de nuevos elementos a sus listas de lectura o el registro de rebotes de correo electrónico . Esto se debe al mantenimiento de la base de datos. [147]
• La semana pasada, Tech News informó que la dirección IP que utilizan Cloud VPS y Toolforge para comunicarse con las wikis cambiará el 8 de febrero. Esto se ha retrasado, pero sucederá más adelante. [148]

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17:40, 8 de febrero de 2021 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2021-07

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.

Problemas

• Hubo problemas con las versiones recientes de MediaWiki. Debido a que las actualizaciones causaron problemas, los desarrolladores volvieron a una versión anterior. Algunas actualizaciones y nuevas funciones llegarán más tarde de lo previsto. [149][150]
• Algunos servicios no funcionarán durante un breve período de tiempo a partir de las 07:00 UTC del 17 de febrero. Es posible que haya problemas con nuevos enlaces cortos, nuevas traducciones, nuevas notificaciones, la incorporación de nuevos elementos a sus listas de lectura o el registro de rebotes de correo electrónico . Esto se debe al mantenimiento de la base de datos. [151]

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 febrero. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 17 de febrero. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 18 de febrero (según calendario).

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Noticias tecnológicas: 2021-08

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

• El editor visual ahora utilizará MediaSearch para buscar imágenes. Puedes buscar imágenes en Commons en el editor visual cuando busques ilustraciones. Esto es para ayudar a los editores a encontrar mejores imágenes. [152]
• El resaltador de sintaxis ahora funciona con más lenguajes: Futhark , Graphviz / DOT , CDDL y AMDGPU. [153]

Problemas

• Es posible que al editar una línea de tiempo se haya eliminado todo el texto. Esto se debió a un error y se ha solucionado. Es posible que deba editar la línea de tiempo nuevamente para que se muestre correctamente. [154]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 23 de febrero. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 24 de febrero. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 25 de febrero (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

• Existe un grupo de usuarios para desarrolladores y usuarios interesados ​​en trabajar en wikis de Wikimedia con el lenguaje de programación Rust . Puedes unirte o contárselo a otros que quieran mejorar tu wiki en el futuro.

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Noticias tecnológicas: 2021-09

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

• Los wikis que utilizan las herramientas del equipo de crecimiento ahora pueden mostrar el nombre del mentor de un recién llegado en cualquier lugar mediante una palabra mágica. Esto se puede utilizar para mensajes de bienvenida o casillas de usuario.
• Ya está disponible una nueva versión de VideoCutTool, que permite cortar, recortar, desactivar el audio y rotar contenido de vídeo. Se está creando como parte de los programas de divulgación para desarrolladores.

Problemas

• Hubo un problema con la cola de trabajos. Esto provocó que algunas funciones no guardaran los cambios y que los mensajes masivos se demoraran. Esto no afectó las ediciones de la wiki. [155]
• Es posible que algunos editores no inicien sesión en sus cuentas automáticamente en las últimas versiones de Firefox y Safari. [156]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 2 de marzo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 3 de marzo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 4 de marzo (según calendario).

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Boletín de administración – marzo de 2021

Noticias y actualizaciones para administradores del último mes (febrero de 2021).

Cambios de administrador

T. J. M. Smith

¡Boing! dijo Zebedee • Hiberniantears • El tonto de Lear • Sólo • WGFinley

Cambios en la interfaz del administrador

Amanda NP

Novedades sobre directrices y políticas

• Se ha abierto una solicitud de comentarios que propone un proceso para que la comunidad revoque los permisos administrativos. Esto sigue a una solicitud de comentarios de 2019 a favor de la creación de una política de este tipo.
• Se está realizando una solicitud de comentarios para eliminar el subcriterio a de F7 (reclamo de uso justo no válido) , que cubre la eliminación inmediata de medios no libres con etiquetas de uso justo no válidas.
• Se ha solicitado un comentario para otorgar a los usuarios que trasladan páginas el delete-redirectderecho de usuario, que permite trasladar una página mediante una redirección de una sola revisión, independientemente del destino de esa redirección. La propuesta completa se encuentra en Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect .
• Una solicitud de comentarios pregunta si los operadores del sistema pueden colocar la plantilla de aviso de edición de Sanciones generales/Enfermedad del coronavirus 2019 en páginas dentro del alcance que no tienen sanciones específicas de la página .
• Hay una discusión en curso sobre la protección automática del artículo destacado de cada día con protección de cambios pendientes .

Noticias técnicas

• Al bloquear una dirección IPv6 con Twinkle , ahora hay una casilla de verificación con la opción de bloquear solo el rango /64 . Al hacerlo, aún puede dejar una plantilla de bloqueo en la página de discusión de la dirección IP única inicial.
• Al proteger una página con Twinkle, ahora puedes agregar una nota si lo hiciste en respuesta a una solicitud en WP:RfPP e incluso vincular a la revisión específica.
• Se han informado varios problemas con Cambios pendientes . La mayoría de los problemas relacionados con la configuración de la protección parecen haberse resuelto (phab:T273317), pero persisten otros problemas relacionados con la aceptación automática de ediciones (phab:T275322) .

Arbitraje

• Por moción , las sanciones discrecionales autorizadas originalmente en el caso GamerGate ahora se autorizan en el nuevo caso Género y sexualidad , con sanciones autorizadas para todas las ediciones y todas las páginas relacionadas con cualquier disputa o controversia relacionada con el género y las personas asociadas. Las sanciones emitidas en el marco de GamerGate ahora se consideran sanciones de género y sexualidad.
• El caso de los kurdos y el Kurdistán fue cerrado , autorizándose sanciones discrecionales estándar para los temas de los kurdos y el Kurdistán, interpretados en sentido amplio .

Misceláneas

• Tras las elecciones de administradores de 2021, los siguientes editores han sido designados como administradores: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles y Wiki13.

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Noticias tecnológicas: 2021-10

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 recientes

• La traducción de secciones ahora funciona en la Wikipedia en bengalí. Ayuda a los editores móviles a traducir secciones de artículos. Esta función estará disponible en más wikis más adelante. El primer enfoque se centra en las wikis activas con una menor cantidad de artículos. Puedes probarla y dejar comentarios.
• Las revisiones marcadas ahora otorgan a los administradores el derecho de revisión. [157]
• Cuando alguien enlaza a un artículo de Wikipedia en Twitter, ahora se mostrará una vista previa del artículo. [158]

Problemas

• Muchos gráficos tienen errores de JavaScript . Los editores de gráficos pueden comprobar sus gráficos en la consola de desarrollador de su navegador después de editarlos. [159]

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 marzo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 10 de marzo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 11 de marzo (según calendario).
• La nueva herramienta de discusión pronto será una nueva función beta de las herramientas de discusión en la mayoría de las Wikipedias. El objetivo es facilitar el inicio de nuevas discusiones. [160]

Cambios futuros

• Habrá una serie de cambios para facilitar el trabajo con plantillas. Algunos de ellos se implementarán en las primeras wikis en marzo. Otros cambios se implementarán en las primeras wikis en junio. Esto es aplicable tanto a quienes usan plantillas como a quienes las crean o mantienen. Puedes leer más.
• Las vistas previas de referencia se convertirán en una función predeterminada en algunas wikis el 17 de marzo. Compartirán una configuración con las vistas previas de página. Si prefieres el gadget de información sobre herramientas de referencia o de ventanas emergentes de navegación, puedes seguir usándolos. En ese caso, no se mostrarán las vistas previas de referencia. [161][162]
• Las nuevas funciones basadas en JavaScript no funcionarán en Internet Explorer 11. Esto se debe a que Internet Explorer es un navegador antiguo que no funciona con la forma en que se escribe JavaScript hoy en día. Todo lo que funciona en Internet Explorer 11 hoy seguirá funcionando en Internet Explorer por ahora. Puede leer más.

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Noticias tecnológicas: 2021-11

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

• Los wikis que forman parte del proyecto de mejoras del escritorio ahora pueden usar una nueva función de búsqueda. Las mejoras del escritorio y la nueva función de búsqueda estarán disponibles en más wikis más adelante. También puedes probarla antes.
• Los editores que coloquen banners o modifiquen el código JavaScript de todo el sitio deberían utilizar el gráfico de errores del cliente para comprobar que sus cambios no han causado problemas. Puede leer más al respecto. [163]

Problemas

• Debido a problemas con la base de datos, el clúster Beta de Wikimedia estuvo en modo de solo lectura durante más de un día.

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 marzo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 17 de marzo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 18 de marzo (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

• Puede agregar un carácter de nueva línea o de retorno de carro a una firma personalizada si utiliza una plantilla. Existe una propuesta para no permitirlos en el futuro, ya que pueden causar problemas de formato. [164][165]
• Podrás leer, pero no editar, 12 wikis durante un breve período de tiempo el 23 de marzo a las 06:00 (UTC). Esto podría llevar 30 minutos, pero probablemente será mucho más rápido.
• Puedes usar Quarry para realizar consultas SQL a las Réplicas Wiki. La función de bases de datos cruzadas JOINSdejará de funcionar a partir del 23 de marzo. Habrá un nuevo campo para especificar la base de datos a la que conectarse. Si crees que esto te afecta y necesitas ayuda, puedes publicar en Phabricator o en Wikitech. PAWS y otras formas de realizar consultas SQL a las Réplicas Wiki se verán afectadas más adelante. [166]

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Noticias tecnológicas: 2021-12

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 recientes

• Existe una aplicación de Wikipedia para teléfonos con sistema operativo KaiOS . No tienen pantalla táctil, por lo que los lectores navegan con las teclas del teléfono. Ahora hay un simulador para que puedas ver cómo se ve.
• La herramienta de respuesta y la nueva herramienta de discusión ahora están disponibles como función beta "Herramientas de discusión" en casi todos los wikis excepto Wikipedia en alemán.

Problemas

• Podrás leer, pero no editar, doce wikis durante un breve período de tiempo el 23 de marzo a las 06:00 (UTC). Esto también puede afectar a los cambios de contraseña, el inicio de sesión en wikis nuevos, los cambios de nombre globales y el cambio o confirmación de correos electrónicos. Esto podría llevar 30 minutos, pero probablemente será mucho más rápido.

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 23 de marzo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 24 de marzo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 25 de marzo (según calendario).
• Los colores de resaltado de sintaxis cambiarán para que resulte más fácil de leer. Esta característica se incorporará pronto a las primeras wikis. [167]

Cambios futuros

• Las revisiones marcadas ya no tendrán múltiples etiquetas como "tono" o "profundidad". También tendrán un solo nivel. Esto se modificó porque muy pocas wikis usaban estas características y dificultaban el mantenimiento de la herramienta. [168][169]
• Los gadgets y los scripts de usuario pueden acceder a variables sobre la página actual en JavaScript. En 2015, esto se trasladó de wg*a mw.config. wg*Pronto dejará de funcionar. [170]

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Noticias tecnológicas: 2021-13

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

• Algunos navegadores web muy antiguos no funcionan bien con los wikis de Wikimedia. Se está eliminando parte del código antiguo de los navegadores que solían ser compatibles. Esto podría causar problemas en esos navegadores. [171]
• Los feeds de cambios recientes de IRC se han trasladado a un nuevo servidor. Asegúrese de que todas las herramientas se vuelvan a conectar automáticamente a irc.wikimedia.orgun servidor específico y no al nombre de este. Los usuarios también deberían considerar cambiar a EventStreams, que es más moderno. [172]

Problemas

• Cuando se mueve una página que muchos editores tienen en su lista de seguimiento, el historial puede dividirse. También puede que no sea posible moverla nuevamente por un tiempo. Esto se debe a un problema con la cola de trabajos . [173]
• Algunas páginas traducibles de Meta no se pudieron editar debido a un error en la herramienta de traducción. La nueva versión de MediaWiki se retrasó debido a problemas como este. [174][175]

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 marzo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 31 de marzo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 1 de abril (según calendario).

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17:29, 29 de marzo de 2021 (UTC)

Boletín de noticias para administradores – Abril 2021

Noticias y actualizaciones para administradores del último mes (marzo de 2021).

Cambios de administrador

Alejandría • Happyme22 • RexxS

Novedades sobre directrices y políticas

• A raíz de una solicitud de comentarios , el subcriterio a de F7 (reclamo de uso justo no válido) ha quedado obsoleto; cubría la eliminación inmediata de medios no libres con etiquetas de uso justo no válidas.
• A raíz de una solicitud de comentarios , a los encargados de mover páginas se les concedió el delete-redirectderecho de usuario, que permite mover una página a través de una redirección de revisión única, independientemente del objetivo de esa redirección.

Noticias técnicas

• Cuando se mueve una página que muchos editores tienen en su lista de seguimiento, el historial puede dividirse y es posible que no sea posible moverla nuevamente por un tiempo. Esto se debe a un problema con la cola de trabajos . (T278350)
• Se está eliminando el código para dar soporte a algunos navegadores web muy antiguos. Esto podría causar problemas en esos navegadores. (T277803)

Arbitraje

• La consulta comunitaria sobre el procedimiento de sanciones discrecionales del Comité de Arbitraje está abierta hasta el 25 de abril.

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Noticias tecnológicas: 2021-14

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 recientes

• Los editores pueden contraer parte de un artículo, de modo que tengas que hacer clic en él para verlo. Cuando haces clic en un enlace a una sección dentro de un contenido contraído, ahora se expandirá para mostrar la sección. El navegador se desplazará hacia abajo hasta la sección. Anteriormente, estos enlaces no funcionaban a menos que primero expandieras manualmente el contenido. [176]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• La API de citoid utilizará, por ejemplo, 2010-12-XXen lugar de 2010-12para fechas con mes pero sin días. Esto se debe a que 2010-12podría confundirse con 2010-2012en lugar de December 2010. Esto se denomina nivel 1 en lugar de nivel 0 en el formato de fecha y hora extendido. [177]
• La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 6 de abril. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 7 de abril. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 8 de abril (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

• PAWS ya puede conectarse a las nuevas Wiki Replicas. La conexión entre bases de datos JOINSdejará de funcionar a partir del 28 de abril. Hay una nueva forma de conectarse a las bases de datos. Hasta el 28 de abril funcionarán ambas formas de conectarse a las bases de datos. Si crees que esto te afecta y necesitas ayuda, puedes publicar en Phabricator o en Wikitech.

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19:38, 5 de abril de 2021 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2021-16

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

• Los correos electrónicos a los wikis de Wikimedia son manejados por grupos de editores de Wikimedia. Estos equipos de respuesta voluntarios ahora usan Znuny en lugar de OTRS. Las funciones y la interfaz siguen siendo las mismas. Los administradores voluntarios darán más detalles sobre los próximos pasos pronto. [178][179]
• Si utiliza el resaltado de sintaxis, podrá ver los números de línea en los editores de wikitexto de 2010 y 2017 al editar plantillas. Esto es para que sea más fácil ver los saltos de línea o hablar sobre líneas específicas. Los números de línea pronto estarán disponibles en todos los espacios de nombres. [180][181][182]
• Debido a un cambio técnico, podrían surgir problemas con los gadgets y scripts que tengan un área de resumen de edición similar a esta. Si tienen un aspecto extraño, deberían mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.edit.styles')volver a su aspecto anterior. [183]
• La última versión de MediaWiki llegó a los wikis de Wikimedia la semana pasada. La semana pasada no hubo ningún número de Tech News.

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• No hay nueva versión de MediaWiki esta semana.

Cambios futuros

• El grupo de usuarios oversightcambiará de nombre suppresspor razones técnicas. Este es el nombre técnico. No afecta a cómo se llaman los editores con este derecho de usuario en la wiki. Está previsto que esto ocurra en dos semanas. Puedes comentar en Phabricator si tienes objeciones.

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16:47, 19 de abril de 2021 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2021-17

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Cambios recientes

• Las plantillas tienen parámetros que pueden tener valores específicos. Es posible sugerir valores para los editores con TemplateData. Pronto podrás verlos como una lista desplegable en el editor visual. Esto es para ayudar a los usuarios de plantillas a encontrar los valores correctos más rápido. [184][185][186]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 27 de abril. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 28 de abril. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 29 de abril (calendario).

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21:23, 26 de abril de 2021 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2021-18

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

• Twinkle es un gadget de la Wikipedia en inglés. Puede ayudar con el mantenimiento y el patrullaje. Ahora se puede utilizar en otras wikis. Puedes obtener Twinkle en tu wiki usando el repositorio de GitHub twinkle-starter.

Problemas

• La herramienta de traducción de contenido no funcionó para muchos artículos durante un tiempo debido a un error. [187]
• Algunas cosas no funcionarán durante aproximadamente un minuto el 5 de mayo. Esto sucederá alrededor de las 06:00 UTC. Esto afectará a la herramienta de traducción de contenido y a las notificaciones, entre otras cosas. Esto se debe a una actualización para evitar fallas. [188]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• Las vistas previas de referencia se convertirán en una función predeterminada en varias wikis el 5 de mayo. Esto es más tarde de lo previsto debido a algunos cambios. Puede utilizarlas sin utilizar las vistas previas de página si lo desea. El plan anterior era tener la preferencia de utilizar ambas o ninguna. [189][190]
• 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).

Cambios futuros

• Las clases CSS.error y no funcionan para lectores móviles si no se han definido específicamente en su wiki. A partir de junio, no funcionarán para lectores de escritorio. Esto puede afectar a los gadgets y las plantillas. Las clases se pueden definir en .warningMediaWiki :Common.css o en los estilos de plantilla. [191].success

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15:42, 3 de mayo de 2021 (UTC)

Boletín de noticias para administradores – Mayo 2021

Noticias y actualizaciones para administradores del último mes (abril de 2021).

Cambios de administrador

Encantador • Carlossuarez46

Cambios en la interfaz del administrador

Rabia

Novedades sobre directrices y políticas

• Luego de una RfC , se llegó al consenso de que se permiten las apelaciones de terceros, pero se desaconsejan.
• La convocatoria de propuestas de políticas de desysop de 2021 se cerró sin consenso. Se había logrado consenso en una convocatoria de propuestas anterior para un procedimiento de desysop basado en la comunidad, aunque el procedimiento propuesto en la convocatoria de propuestas de 2021 no obtuvo consenso.

Noticias técnicas

• El grupo de usuarios oversightpasará a llamarse suppress. Esto se debe a razones técnicas. Puede comentar en T112147 si tiene objeciones.

Arbitraje

• Se cerró la consulta comunitaria sobre el procedimiento de sanciones discrecionales del Comité de Arbitraje, y se espera que a principios de junio o principios de julio se publique un borrador inicial basado en los comentarios de la consulta ahora cerrada para que la comunidad lo revise.

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Noticias tecnológicas: 2021-19

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.

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 mayo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 12 de mayo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 13 de mayo (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

• Podrás ver en qué planean trabajar los participantes en el hackathon en línea de Wikimedia del 22 al 23 de mayo.

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15:08, 10 de mayo de 2021 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2021-20

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 barra de herramientas en la herramienta Responder. Funciona en el modo de fuente wikitexto. Puedes habilitarla en tus preferencias . [192] [193] [194]
• Las listas de correo de Wikimedia se están trasladando a Mailman 3. Esta es una versión más nueva. Para que la codificación de caracteres funcione, cambiará de UTF-8a utf8mb3. [195][196]
• En un número anterior de Tech News se decía que la API de citoid manejaría las fechas con un mes pero sin días de una manera nueva. Esto se ha revertido por ahora. Es necesario que haya más discusión sobre cómo afecta a diferentes wikis primero. [197]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklistSe cambiará el nombre de MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylistla lista. La lista se puede copiar con el nuevo nombre. Esto ocurrirá el 19 de mayo para algunas wikis y el 20 de mayo para otras wikis. La mayoría de las wikis no lo utilizan. Enumera imágenes que nunca se deben usar como miniaturas para artículos. [198]
• La nueva versión de MediaWiki estará disponible en wikis de prueba y en MediaWiki.org a partir del 18 de mayo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 19 de mayo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 20 de mayo (según calendario).

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13:48, 17 de mayo de 2021 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2021-21

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

• El movimiento Wikimedia ha estado usando IRC en una red llamada Freenode . Ha habido cambios en cuanto a quién controla la red. Los contactos del grupo IRC de Wikimedia han decidido trasladarse a la nueva red Libera Chat . No se trata de una decisión formal del movimiento de trasladar todos los canales, pero la mayoría de los canales IRC de Wikimedia probablemente abandonarán Freenode. Hay una guía de migración y hay discusiones en curso sobre este tema en Wikimedia.

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 mayo. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 26 de mayo. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 27 de mayo (según calendario).

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17:05, 24 de mayo de 2021 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2021-22

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

• Había un problema en la interfaz Vector con el tamaño del texto de las categorías y los avisos debajo del título de la página. Se solucionó el lunes pasado. [199]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• No hay nueva versión de MediaWiki esta semana.

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17:04, 31 de mayo de 2021 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2021-23

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 8 de junio. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 9 de junio. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 10 de junio (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

• El movimiento Wikimedia utiliza Phabricator para tareas técnicas. Aquí es donde recopilamos sugerencias técnicas, errores y en qué están trabajando los desarrolladores. La empresa que está detrás de Phabricator dejará de trabajar en él. Esto no cambiará nada para el movimiento Wikimedia por ahora. Podría dar lugar a cambios en el futuro. [200][201][202]
• En algunos idiomas, la búsqueda en Wikipedia arrojará más resultados. Esto es especialmente cierto cuando quienes realizan la búsqueda no utilizan los diacríticos correctos porque no se consideran necesarios en ese idioma. Por ejemplo, si se busca " Beduszno se obtienen resultados Będuszen la Wikipedia en alemán", ya que el carácter ęno se utiliza en alemán, por lo que muchos escribirían een su lugar. Esto funcionará mejor en el futuro en algunos idiomas. [203]
• Los parámetros del token CSRF en la API de acción se modificaron en 2014. Los parámetros anteriores a 2014 dejarán de funcionar pronto. Esto puede afectar a los bots, gadgets y scripts de usuario que aún utilizan los parámetros antiguos. [204][205]

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20:01, 7 de junio de 2021 (UTC)

Boletín de administración – Junio ​​2021

Noticias y actualizaciones para administradores del último mes (mayo de 2021).

Cambios de administrador

Ashleyyoursmile • Menos a menos que

Husond • MattWade • MJCdetroit • Carioca • Vague Rant • Kingboyk • Thunderboltz • Gwen Gale • AniMate • SlimVirgin (fallecido)

Novedades sobre directrices y políticas

• Se llegó a un consenso para descontinuar Wikipedia:Asistencia del editor .
• A raíz de una solicitud de comentarios, el espacio de nombres Libro quedó obsoleto.

Noticias técnicas

• Wikimedia utilizaba anteriormente la red IRC Freenode . Sin embargo, debido a los cambios en el control de la red y a los informes de una toma de control forzosa por parte de varios exmiembros del personal, los contactos del grupo IRC de Wikimedia decidieron trasladarse a la nueva red Libera Chat . Se ha informado de que los canales relacionados con Wikimedia en Freenode han sido tomados por la fuerza si dirigían a los miembros a Libera. Hay una guía de migración y debates en Wikimedia sobre esto.

Arbitraje

• Tras una solicitud de aclaración , el Comité de Arbitraje modificó la Solución 5 del caso Antisemitismo en Polonia . Esto significa que las expectativas de fuentes son una sanción discrecional en lugar de estar presentes en todos los artículos. También detalla el uso de la página de discusión o el Tablón de anuncios de fuentes confiables para discutir fuentes en disputa.

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Noticias tecnológicas: 2021-24

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 usuarios que hayan iniciado sesión en la web móvil pueden optar por utilizar el modo móvil avanzado. Ahora ven las categorías de forma similar a como lo hacen los usuarios de la versión de escritorio. Esto significa que algunos gadgets que antes solo estaban disponibles para los usuarios de la versión de escritorio también podrían funcionar para los usuarios del sitio móvil. Si su wiki tiene estos gadgets, puede decidir activarlos también para el sitio móvil. Es probable que sea necesario corregir algunos gadgets para que se vean bien en el móvil. [206]
• Los enlaces de idiomas en Wikidata ahora funcionan para Wikisource multilingüe. [207]

Cambios a finales de esta semana

• No hay nueva versión de MediaWiki esta semana.

Cambios futuros

• En el futuro no podremos mostrar la IP de editores no registrados a todo el mundo, ya que las normas y regulaciones de privacidad han cambiado. Ahora hay un borrador de cómo podría funcionar mostrar la IP a quienes necesitan verla.
• La Wikipedia en alemán, Wikivoyage en inglés y otras 29 wikis más pequeñas estarán en modo de solo lectura durante unos minutos el 22 de junio. Está previsto que esto ocurra entre las 5:00 y las 5:30 UTC. [208]
• Durante la semana del 28 de junio, todos los wikis serán de solo lectura durante unos minutos. Más adelante se publicará más información en Tech News. También se publicará en wikis individuales en las próximas semanas. [209][210]

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20:25, 14 de junio de 2021 (UTC)

Noticias tecnológicas: 2021-25

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Cambios recientes

• El otrs-membernombre del grupo ahora es vrt-permissions. Esto podría afectar los filtros de abuso. [211]

Problemas

• Podrás leer, pero no editar, la Wikipedia en alemán, Wikivoyage en inglés y otras 29 wikis más pequeñas durante unos minutos el 22 de junio. Está previsto que esto ocurra entre las 5:00 y las 5:30 UTC. [212]

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 junio. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 23 de junio. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 24 de junio (calendario).

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Noticias tecnológicas: 2021-26

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Cambios recientes

• Los wikis con funciones de crecimiento ahora pueden configurar funciones de crecimiento directamente en su wiki. Para ello, se utiliza la nueva página especial Special:EditGrowthConfig. [213]
• Wikisources tiene una nueva herramienta de OCR. Si no quieres ver el botón "extraer texto" en Wikisource, puedes agregarlo .ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; }a tu página common.css . [214]

Problemas

• Podrás leer, pero no editar, los wikis de Wikimedia durante unos minutos el 29 de junio. Está previsto que esto ocurra a las 14:00 UTC. [215][216]

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 junio. Estará disponible en wikis que no sean Wikipedia y en algunas Wikipedias a partir del 30 de junio. Estará disponible en todos los wikis a partir del 1 de julio (según calendario).

Cambios futuros

• Threshold for stub link formatting, thumbnail sizey auto-number headingsse pueden configurar en las preferencias. Son costosos de mantener y pocos editores los usan. Los desarrolladores están planeando eliminarlos. Eliminarlos hará que las páginas se carguen más rápido. Puedes leer más y dar tu opinión.
• Se añadirá una barra de herramientas al modo de fuente de wikitexto de la herramienta Responder. Esto facilitará la creación de vínculos a páginas y la comunicación con otros usuarios. [217][218]

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16:31, 28 de junio de 2021 (UTC)

Boletín de noticias para administradores – Julio 2021

Noticias y actualizaciones para administradores del último mes (junio de 2021).

Novedades sobre directrices y políticas

• Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
• An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

Technical news

• IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

Arbitration

• The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.

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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. [219]

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. [220]

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. [221][222]
• 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. [223]

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17:31, 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. [224][225]
• 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. [226]

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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21:09, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

Technical news

• Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)

Arbitration

• Following an amendment request, the committee has clarified that the Talk page exception to the 500/30 rule in remedy 5 of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 case does not apply to requested move discussions.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2021 Board of Trustees elections from 4 August to 17 August. Four community elected seats are up for election.

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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. [227][228]

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. [229]
• 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. [230]

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. [231]
• Vue.js will be the JavaScript framework for MediaWiki in the future. [232]

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16:18, 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. [233]

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. [234][235][236]

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. [237]
• 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. [238]
• 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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19:25, 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. [239]

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. [240]

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15:59, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).

Administrator changes

Jake Wartenberg

Emperor • Viridian Bovary

Ashleyyoursmile → Viridian Bovary

Guideline and policy news

• Feedback is requested on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement draft by the Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee.
• A RfC is open on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on high-risk templates.
• A discussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
• A RfC on the next steps after the trial of pending changes on TFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.

Technical news

• The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.

Miscellaneous

• The 2021 RfA review is now open for comments.

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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. [241]

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. [242][243]
• 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. [244]
• 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. [245]

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. [246]
• 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. [247]
• 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. [248][249]

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15:31, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

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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. [250]
• 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. [251]

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. [252]

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. [253]
• 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. [254]

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. [255]
• 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. [256]

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22:20, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, extended confirmed protection may be used preemptively on certain high-risk templates.
• Following a discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.

Technical news

• DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features.

Arbitration

• A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
• Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
• The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

Miscellaneous

• Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
• The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.

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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. [257]
• 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. [258]
• 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. [259]
• 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. [260]

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16:28, 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. [261]
• 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. [262]

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)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

Guideline and policy news

• Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

Technical news

• Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.

Arbitration

• GeneralNotability, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections. Ivanvector and John M Wolfson are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves to stand in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections from 07 November 2021 until 16 November 2021.

Miscellaneous

• The 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.

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Tech News: 2021-44

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

• 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. [263]

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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20:26, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-45

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

Recent changes

• Mobile IP editors are now able to receive warning notices indicating they have a talk page message on the mobile website (similar to the orange banners available on desktop). These notices will be displayed on every page outside of the main namespace and every time the user attempts to edit. The notice on desktop now has a slightly different colour. [264][265]

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. [266]
• 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. [267]
• There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error. [268]

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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21:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).

Administrator changes

A Train • Berean Hunter • Epbr123 • GermanJoe • Sanchom • Mysid

Technical news

• Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
• The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
• The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.

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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. [269]
• 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. [270]

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21:57, 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. [271]

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. [272]

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. [273]

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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

Guideline and policy news

• Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.

• Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.

Arbitration

• Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Cabayi, Donald Albury, Enterprisey, Izno, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Wugapodes.

Miscellaneous

• The functionaries email list (functionaries-enlists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.

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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. [274]
• 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. [275]
• 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. [276]
• 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. [277]
• At wikis where the Mentorship system is configured, you can now use the Action API to get a list of a mentor's mentees. [278]
• 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. [279] [280]
• 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. [281]
• 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". [282]
• 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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19:53, 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. [283]

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). [284]

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)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.

Technical news

• The user group oversight will be renamed suppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
• The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration

• Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
• The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
• A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.

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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. [285]

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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21:14, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-07

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

• 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. [286]

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. [287]

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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. [288]
• 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. [289]
• 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]]. [290]
• 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. [291][292]
• 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. [293]
• 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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19:10, 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. [294]
• 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. [295][296]
• 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. [297]

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)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
• A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news

• The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
• Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
• The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)

Arbitration

• Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
• Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
• The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.

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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. [298]

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. [299][300]

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. [301]

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". [302]
• 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. [303]
• 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. [304]

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. [305]

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. [306]
• The Jupyter notebooks tool PAWS has been updated to a new interface. [307]

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. [308]

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15:59, 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). [309][310]

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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. [311]

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. [312]
• 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)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.

Technical news

• Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)
• When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)

Arbitration

• Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
• A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
• A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.

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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. [313][314]

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. [315]
• 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. [316] The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated. [317] [318] [319]

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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. [320][321]

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. [322]

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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. [323][324]

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. [325] [326]
• If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme. [327]
• 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. [328]

Problems

• Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [329]
• 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. [330]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [331]
• 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)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
• Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

Technical news

• The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
• A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

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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. [332]
• 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. [333]

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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. [334]
• The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [335]

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. [336]
• 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. [337]

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. [338]

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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. [339]
• 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. [340][341]
• 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. [342]
• 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. [343]

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20:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.

Technical news

• Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
• The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
• An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.

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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. [344]

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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. [345][346]

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). [347]
• 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. [348]
• 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. [349][350]

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 ). [351]
• 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. [352]

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. [353]

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. [354]

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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). [355]
• 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. [356]
• Users will be able to sort columns within sortable tables in the mobile skin. [357]

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. [358]

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19:30, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

Technical news

• user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.

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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. [359]
• 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. [360]
• 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. [361]

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. [362]

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). [363]

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. [364]
• 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. [365]

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)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

Administrator changes

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Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
• An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

• The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
• Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
• Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
• Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

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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. [366]

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. [367][368][369]

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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. [370][371]

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. [372]

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. [373]

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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. [374]

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)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
• An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news

• The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
• The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
• The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
• Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.

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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. [375][376]

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23:19, 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. [377]

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. [378]

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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. [379][380]

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. [381][382]

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. [383]
• 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. [384] [385]
• In the Module namespace, pages ending with .json will be treated as JSON, just like they already are in the User and MediaWiki namespaces. [386]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:28, 27 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – October 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
• Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
• Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.

Technical news

• The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

Arbitration

• Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
• A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
• The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.

Miscellaneous

• An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
• You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
• An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
• Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete.

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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. [387] [388]
• 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) [389] [390]
• 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 00:21, 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. [391][392]

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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. [393]
• 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. [394]
• Lua module authors can enable require( "strict" ) to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "Module:No globals" on most wikis. [395]

Future changes

• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated at most wikis. The "reply" button will look different after this change. [396]

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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. [397]

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. [398]
• 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. [399][400][401]
• 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. [402]

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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. [403]
• In Special:RecentChanges, you can now hide the log entries for new user creations with the filter for "⧼rcfilters-filter-newuserlogactions-label⧽". [404]

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. [405]
• It is now possible to select the language of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor via a dropdown menu. [406]
• It is now possible to add a caption to a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [407]
• It is now possible to hide the frame of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [408]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:13, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – November 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).

Administrator changes

• 
  • Isabelle Belato
  • Whpq
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• 
  • Atama
  • Astronautics~enwiki
  • Athaenara
  • Eddie891
  • GraemeL
  • Marianocecowski
  • Natalya
  • Pratyeka
  • SB Johnny

Interface administrator changes

• TheresNoTime
• Ragesoss

CheckUser changes

• 
  • Blablubbs
  • Firefly
• Joe Roe

Oversight changes

• DGG

Guideline and policy news

• The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
• An RfC is open to discuss having open requests for adminship automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has entered the proposed decision stage.
• AmandaNP, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections. Xaosflux and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
• You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators.
• Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like {{rangeblock|create=yes}} or {{uw-ublock|contains profanity}}.

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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. [409]

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. [410]
• The www.wikinews.org, www.wikiversity.org, and www.wikivoyage.org portal pages now use an automated update system. [411]

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. [412]

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. [413]
• 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 23:19, 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. [414]

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. [415][416][417]
• 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. [418]

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. [419]

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).

Administrator changes

• Eddie891
• Euryalus
• TheresNoTime

• Alex.muller
• Excirial
• RedWordSmith
• Ron Ritzman
• TheresNoTime
• Stephen

Interface administrator changes

TheresNoTime

TheresNoTime

CheckUser changes

TheresNoTime

Oversight changes

TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus has been found in an RfC to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week.
• The article creation at scale RfC has been closed.
• An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.

Technical news

• A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449)

Arbitration

• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
• The proposed decision for the 2021-22 review of the discretionary sanctions system is open.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
• A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add /64 to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.

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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. [420][421]

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]

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. [422]
• The character = cannot be used in new usernames, to make usernames work better with templates. Existing usernames are not affected. [423]

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. [424]

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. [425]
• 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. [426]
• 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. [427]

Problems

• Last week, all wikis had no edit access for 9 minutes. This was caused by a database problem. [428]

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. [429] [430]

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. [431]
• 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]

Administrators' newsletter – January 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

Administrator changes

• ComplexRational
• Extraordinary Writ

Stephen

• Andrew Yong
• Dbenbenn
• DESiegel
• GlassCobra
• Joe Decker
• Nancy
• Pathoschild
• StuffOfInterest
• William Pietri
• Wwwwolf
• Xdamr

Interface administrator changes

Nihiltres

CheckUser changes

Moneytrees

• Ivanvector
• SilkTork

Oversighter changes

• GeneralNotability
• Moneytrees

• Guerillero
• SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.

Arbitration

• Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork.
• The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
• Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.

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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. [432]
• 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. [433]
• 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. [434]
• Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use matrix: to create Matrix links on wiki pages. [435]
• 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. [436]

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. [437]

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). [438]
• 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. [439]
• 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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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. [440]

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. [441][442]
• 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. [443]

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 00:03, 31 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – February 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
• Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.

Technical news

• The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
• In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
• Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.

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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. [444]

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. [445]
• 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. [446]
• 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. [447]

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. [448]

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. [449][450][451]

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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. [452]

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. [453][454][455]

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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. [456][457]

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. [458]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:45, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – March 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
• Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
• A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.

Technical news

• The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.

Arbitration

• Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
• The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
• A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.

Miscellaneous

• The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
• Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
• The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a [p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.

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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. [459]

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. [460]

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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. [461][462]

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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. [463]

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. [464]

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. [465]
• Some Global AbuseFilter actions will no longer apply to local projects. [466]
• 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. [467]

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. [468]
• 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. [469]

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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. [470][471][472][473][474]

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. [475]
• 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. [476]
• 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. [477]
• 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. [478][479][480]

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]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Technical news

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
• The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
• A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration

• The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
• A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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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. [481]
• 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. [482]

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. [483]

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. [484][485]

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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. [486][487]
• 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. [488]

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. [489][490]
• For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed. [491]

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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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. [492]

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. [493]
• 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. [494][495][496]

Changes later this week

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [497]
• 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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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. [498][499][500]
• The Video2commons tool has been updated. This fixed several bugs related to YouTube uploads. [501]
• 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. [502]

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]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.

Arbitration

• The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.

Miscellaneous

• The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.

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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. [503]
• 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. [504]
• 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. [505]

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. [506]

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. [507]

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. [508]
• 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. [509][510]
• 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. [511]

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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. [512]

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. [513]

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. [514]

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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. [515]

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. [516]
• 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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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. [517]
• 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. [518]

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. [519]

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. [520]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:59, 29 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – June 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
• As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

Technical news

• Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

Miscellaneous

• Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.

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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. [521]
• 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. [522]

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. [523]

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. [524]

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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. [525]
• 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. [526]
• The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software. [527]
• 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. [528]

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. [529]
• 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. [530]
• 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. [531]

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. [532]

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 14:48, 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. [533][534]

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. [535][536]

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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. [537]

Problems

• Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours. [538][539]

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. [540][541]
• 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. [542]
• 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. [543]
• The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components. [544]

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. [545]

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:17, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

Administrator changes

Novem Linguae

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• MBisanz
• Penwhale
• Raul654
• Roadrunner
• Viridae
• Yannismarou

Bureaucrat changes

MBisanz

Guideline and policy news

• Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.

Technical news

• Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

Arbitration

• Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

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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. [546]
• 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. [547]

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. [548]
• 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. [549]
• 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. [550]
• 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. [551]

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. [552]
• 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. [553]
• 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. [554]

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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 02:18, 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. [555][556]
• 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. [557]

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. [558]

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. [559]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:52, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-32

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

• 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. [560]

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]

Administrators' newsletter – August 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).

Administrator changes

Firefangledfeathers

• AlisonW
• Amberrock
• Closedmouth
• Scottywong

Interface administrator changes

Novem Linguae

Technical news

• The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)

Arbitration

• The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
• The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.

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Tech News: 2023-33

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 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. [561]

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. [562]

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. [563]
• 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:) [564]
    • a Wikisource in Sundanese (s:su:) [565]
  • To catch up, the next most recent six wikis are:
    • Wikifunctions (f:) [566]
    • a Wiktionary in Mandailing (wikt:btm:) [567]
    • a Wikipedia in Ghanaian Pidgin (w:gpe:) [568]
    • a Wikinews in Gungbe (n:guw:) [569]
    • a Wiktionary in Kabardian (wikt:kbd:) [570]
    • a Wikipedia in Fante (w:fat:) [571]

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. [572]

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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. [573]
• All Special:Contributions pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. [574]
• Wikisource users can now use the prpbengalicurrency label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the <pagelist> tag. [575]
• 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. [576][577]

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. [578]

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 13:58, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
• A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that [s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

Technical news

• Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)

Arbitration

• The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

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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. [579]
• 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. [580]
• 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. [581]
• One new wiki has been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Talysh (w:tly:) [582]

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. [583]

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. [584][585]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:31, 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. [586]
• 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. [587]

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. [588]

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. [589]
• 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. [590][591]

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. [592]
• All wikis will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. [593]

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. [594]

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. [595][596]

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. [597]
• 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. [598]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:25, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

Technical news

• Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)

Arbitration

• Remedy 9 ("MarioProtIV topic ban") of the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones case has been rescinded.

Miscellaneous

• The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.

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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:) [599]

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. [600]
• 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. [601]
• 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. [602]
• 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. [603]

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 23:14, 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. [604][605]
• 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. [606]

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 23:19, 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. [607]

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. [608]

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. [609][610]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:03, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

0xDeadbeef

Tamzin

Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

• Ragesoss
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• 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.
• There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
• Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
• Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
• Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
• Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
• Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
• An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous

• The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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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:) [611]
  • a Wikipedia in Dagaare (w:dga:) [612]
  • a Wikipedia in Toba Batak (w:bbc:) [613]
  • a Wikiquote in Banjar (q:bjn:) [614]

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. [615]
• Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved. [616]

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. [617]

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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. [618][619]
• 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. [620][621][622]
• 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. [623]

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. [624][625]
• 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. [626]
• The deployment of "Add a link" announced last week was postponed. It will resume this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:06, 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. [627]
• 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. [628]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [629][630]
• 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. [631]
• 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]

Administrators' newsletter – December 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

Administrator changes

• Ganesha811
• JPxG

• Ajpolino
• Lourdes
• Mairi
• RockMFR
• Somno
• WilyD

Beeblebrox → Just Step Sideways

CheckUser changes

• Beeblebrox
• Opabinia regalis

Oversight changes

• Beeblebrox
• Opabinia regalis

Guideline and policy news

• Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
• The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

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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. [632][633]

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. [634][635]

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). [636][637]

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 02:10, 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. [638][639]
• 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. [640]
• 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. [641]

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]

Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

Administrator changes

Clovermoss

Dennis Brown

• Julia W
• Marasmusine
• PBS

CheckUser changes

• Aoidh
• HJ Mitchell
• Sdrqaz
• Spicy
• ToBeFree
• Vanamonde93
• Z1720

Maxim

• Enterprisey
• Izno
• SilkTork

Oversighter changes

• Aoidh
• Firefly
• Sdrqaz
• ToBeFree
• Z1720

Maxim

• Enterprisey
• Izno
• SilkTork

Arbitration

• Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
• The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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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. [642]

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). [643][644]

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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. [645]
• 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. [646]
• Bot passwords and owner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages. [647]
• You can now thank edits made by bots. [648]
• 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). [649][650]
• 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. [651]
• 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. [652]

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. [653]

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). [654][655]

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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. [656]
• 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). [657][658]
• 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. [659]
• 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. [660]

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:29, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

Administrator changes

• Red-tailed hawk
• Robertsky

• Ameliorate!
• Ancheta Wis
• Anthony Bradbury (deceased)
• Cobi
• Ev
• Moondyne
• Worm That Turned

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

CheckUser changes

Wugapodes

Interface administrator changes

• Enterprisey
• Izno

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
• Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
• Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
• The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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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". [661][662]

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). [663][664]
• Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [665]

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. [666][667]

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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. [668][669][670] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [671][672]

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). [673][674]
• As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,[675] 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. [676]

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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. [677]
• 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. [678]

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). [679][680]

• 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. [681]

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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. [682]
• 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"))). [683]

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). [684][685]

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]

Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
• Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous

• The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

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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. [686]
• 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. [687]
• A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [688]

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). [689][690]

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. [691]
• 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). [692][693]
• 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. [694]
• The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [695]
• 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. [696]

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. [697][698]

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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. [699]
• 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. [700]
• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [701][702][703]
• Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [704]

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. [705]

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). [706][707]
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [708][709]

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MediaWiki message delivery 17:37, 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). [710][711]

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:54, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

• Kbdank71
• Kosack
• NrDg
• TLSuda

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

• Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

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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. [712]

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). [713][714]

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. [715][716]
• Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [717]

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). [718][719]
• 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. [720]

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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. [721][722]

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). [723][724]
• 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). [725]
• 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. [726]

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. [727]

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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. [728]
• 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). [729][730]

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. [731]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:25, 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. [732]
• Seven new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Betawi (w:bew:) [733]
  • a Wikipedia in Kusaal (w:kus:) [734]
  • a Wikipedia in Igala (w:igl:) [735]
  • a Wiktionary in Karakalpak (wikt:kaa:) [736]
  • a Wikisource in Burmese (s:my:) [737]
  • a Wikisource in Malay (s:ms:) [738]
  • a Wikisource in Georgian (s:ka:) [739]
• You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [740]
• 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. [741]

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). [742][743]

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:31, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

Administrator changes

Nyttend

• JohnOwens
• Killiondude
• MelanieN
• Nihonjoe

Bureaucrat changes

Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

Joe Roe

Oversight changes

GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news

• Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

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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. [744][745]
• 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. [746]
• 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. [747]

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). [748][749]
• 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". [750]

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. [751]

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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. [752]
• 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. [753]
• 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. [754]
• 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. [755]

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). [756][757]
• 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. [758]

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. [759]
• 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. [760][761]

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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. [762]
• 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. [763][764]

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). [765][766]
• 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). [767][768]
• 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. [769]

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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. [770]
• 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". [771]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Kadazandusun (w:dtp:) [772]

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). [773][774]

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 22:32, 3 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

Graham Beards

• Deskana
• Mets501
• Staxringold

Bureaucrat changes

• Deskana
• Warofdreams

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

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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. [775]
• 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. [776]

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. [777]

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). [778][779]
• 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. [780]
• 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. [781]

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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. [782]
• 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. [783][784]
• 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. [785]

Problems

• Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [786]
• 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. [787]

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). [788][789]
• 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. [790]
• 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. [791]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:46, 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. [792]
• 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. [793]

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. [794]

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). [795][796]
• 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. [797]

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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. [798]
• 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. [799]
• 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. [800][801]
• 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. [802]
• 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:) [803]

Problems

• Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [804]

Future changes

• 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 2 weeks. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:57, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

Administrator changes

• Elli
• HouseBlaster
• Pickersgill-Cunliffe

• Brianga
• De728631
• Georgewilliamherbert
• Hyacinth (deceased)
• ProveIt
• The Night Watch

Technical news

• Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)

Miscellaneous

• The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more

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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

• 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 1 more week. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:29, 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. [805]
• 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 01:28, 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. [806]
• 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. [807]
• 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. [808]

Project Updates

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

Learn more

• Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff.
• How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin and Add a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.

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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:) [809]

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. [810][811]
• 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: 2024-32

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. [812][813]
• 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 20:42, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

Isabelle Belato

• Ian.thomson
• Modussiccandi

Interface administrator changes

Izno

CheckUser changes

Barkeep49

Technical news

• Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
• Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ

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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. [814]
• 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:) [815]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:19, 12 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. [816]
• 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. [817][818]

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 00:50, 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. [819]

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 20:29, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

Pppery

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

Oversighter changes

Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

• Courcelles
• GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
• Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
• The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.

Miscellaneous

• Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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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. [820]
• 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. [821]
• 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. [822]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:03, 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. [823][824]
• 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. [825]

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. [826]
• 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). [827]

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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. [828]
• 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. [829]
• 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. [830]
• 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. [831]

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. [832]

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

A screenshot of the interface for the Alt Text suggested-edit feature

• Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page.
• The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
• 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. [833]
• Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [834][835]
• 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. [836]
• 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. [837]
• 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. [838]

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 22:16, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

Administrator changes

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• Good Olfactory
• Hesperian
• I JethroBT
• TommyBoy
• Woody

CheckUser changes

• Barkeep49
• Izno

• Doug Weller
• Spicy

Guideline and policy news

• Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
• Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
• An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
• Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).

Miscellaneous

• If you are interested in stopping spammers, please put MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist on your watchlist, and help out when you can.

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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. [839]

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. [840]
• 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. [841]
• Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [842]
• 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:) [843]
  • a Wikipedia in Mooré (m:mos:) [844]
  • a Wiktionary in Madurese (wikt:mad:) [845]
  • a Wikiquote in Gorontalo (q:gor:) [846]
  • a Wikinews in Shan (n:shn:) [847]

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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. [848][849]
• 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. [850]
• 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. [851]
• Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [852]
• 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. [853]

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 21:17, 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.

iOS Wikipedia App's profile menu and contents

Updates for editors

• Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
• Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
• View all 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. [854][855][856][857][858]
• 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 "28 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. [859][860]
• Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using {{USERLANGUAGE}} instead of using {{int:lang}}. [861]
• 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. [862]

In depth

• The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
• The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
• The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.

Meetings and events

• 24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar - Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel.
• 20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:49, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-44

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

Updates for editors

• Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Wikipedia.
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pediapress.com, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use Wikimedia Maps to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia. [863]

Updates for technical contributors

• Los wikis pueden usar la extensión Guided Tour para ayudar a los recién llegados a entender cómo editar. La extensión Guided Tours ahora funciona con el modo oscuro. Los encargados del mantenimiento de Guided Tour pueden revisar sus recorridos para ver que nada se vea extraño. También pueden configurarlos emitTransitionOnSteppara truecorregir un error antiguo. Pueden usar la nueva bandera allowAutomaticBackpara evitar los botones de retroceso que no desean. [864]
• Los administradores de los proyectos Wikimedia que utilizan la extensión Nuke notarán que las eliminaciones masivas realizadas con esta herramienta tienen la etiqueta "Nuke". Este cambio facilitará la revisión y el análisis de las eliminaciones realizadas con la herramienta. [865]

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