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I'm ready to contribute, but I don't know which font and software to use to type in Malayalam. Is it Varamozhi?
Can we upload the Malayalam contributions merely by copying and pasting?
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07:20, 20 ജൂൺ 2006 (UTC)
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How to edit the malayalam WiKi
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06:31, 26 ജൂലൈ 2006 (UTC)
മറുപടി
ഒരുക്രമം വേണ്ടേ
തിരുത്തുക
ആരെങ്കിലും ഇത് ക്രമപ്പെടുത്തിയാൽ നന്നായിരുന്നു --
Challiyan
൧൩:൪൨, ൬ December ൨൦൦൬ (UTC)
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wikt:പഴഞ്ചൊൽ നിഘണ്ടു
എന്ന താൾ ആരെങ്കിലും ഇങ്ങോട്ട് ഒന്നു മെർജ് ചെയ്യണേ.. --
Jacob.jose
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04:51, 11 ഏപ്രിൽ 2009 (UTC)
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20:34, 28 മാർച്ച് 2010 (UTC)
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{done} No objections.
Bastique
സംവാദം
05:29, 15 ജനുവരി 2011 (UTC)
മറുപടി
കിരൺ ഗോപിക്ക് അഡ്മിൻ സ്ഥാനം
തിരുത്തുക
സിസോപ്പുകളോ ബ്യൂറോക്രാറ്റുകളോ ഇല്ലാത്ത ഈ വിക്കിയിൽ ഇപ്പോൾ സജീവ ഉപയോക്താവായ
കിരൺ ഗോപിയെ
സിസോപ്പ് സ്ഥാനത്തേക്ക് നിർദ്ദേശിക്കുന്നു. കിരൺ ഗോപിയുടെ സമ്മതവും, മറ്റുപയോക്താക്കളുടെ വോട്ടും ഇതിനു താഴെ രേഖപ്പെടുത്തുക. --
Vssun
talk
02:27, 26 ജൂൺ 2010 (UTC)
മറുപടി
ഈ ചർച്ച/തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പ്,
തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പ് താളിലേക്ക്
മാറ്റിയിരിക്കുന്നു.--
Vssun
talk
02:30, 26 ജൂൺ 2010 (UTC)
മറുപടി
വിക്കി ചൊല്ലുകൾ
തിരുത്തുക
'വിക്കി ചൊല്ലുകൾ' എന്നാണോ, 'വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ' എന്നാണോ പേര് സ്വീകരിക്കാൻ പോകുന്നത്? --
Naveen Sankar
സംവാദം
13:27, 17 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)
മറുപടി
'വിക്കി ചൊല്ലുകൾ' എന്ന നാമമാണ് സ്വീകരിക്കാൻ പോകുന്നത്. --
Kiran Gopi
സംവാദം
13:55, 17 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)
മറുപടി
വിക്കി, ചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്നീ വാക്കുകൾക്കിടയിൽ ഇട (Space) വിടുന്നത് എന്തിനാണെന്നൊന്ന് വിശദീകരിക്കാമോ? വിക്കിപീഡിയയുടെ മുഖത്താളിലും മറ്റുമിപ്പോൾ വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്ന് ചേർത്തെഴുതിയിരിക്കുന്നതായി കാണാം. --
Naveen Sankar
സംവാദം
04:39, 19 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)
മറുപടി
വിക്കി ചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്ന് പറയുമ്പോൾ ഒരു ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് വാക്കും ഒരു മലയാളം വാക്കുമല്ലേ, അത് കൂട്ടിയോജിപ്പിക്കണ്ട എന്നു കരുതിയാണ് 'വിക്കി ചൊല്ലുകൾ' എന്ന നാമം സ്വീകരിച്ചത്. പിന്നെ വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്നു ചേർത്തു പറയുന്നത് ഒരു അഭംഗിയാണുതാനും.--
Kiran Gopi
സംവാദം
08:34, 19 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)
മറുപടി
വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാല, വിക്കിനിഘണ്ടു, വിക്കിപാഠശാല എന്നീ സംരഭങ്ങളുടെ തലക്കെട്ടിൽ ഒരു ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് വാക്കും ഒരു മലയാളം വാക്കുമല്ലേ കൂടിചേരുന്നത്? ഇവിടെ മാത്രം എന്തിനാണ് ഇടയ്ക്ക് സ്പേസ് ഇടുന്നത്? --
Jairodz
സംവാദം
12:27, 12 ഏപ്രിൽ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
പേരു മാറ്റണമെന്നുണ്ടങ്കിൽ ഒരു ചർച്ച തുടങ്ങു, ബഗ്ഗിട്ട് മാറ്റാം.--
കിരൺ
ഗോപി
13:53, 12 ഏപ്രിൽ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Transwiki Import definition
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വിക്കി ചൊല്ലുകളിൽ താഴെകാണുന്ന പദ്ധതികളെ ട്രാൻസ്വിക്കി ഇമ്പോർട്ട് സോഴ്സുകളായി നിർവചിക്കാൻ
ബഗ്ഗ് ഫയൽ ചെയ്തിട്ടുണ്ട്
. എതിർപ്പില്ലെങ്കിൽ ഇവിടെ വോട്ട് രേഖപ്പെടുത്തുക.
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Vssun
സംവാദം
06:03, 24 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)
മറുപടി
അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു
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ജുനൈദ് Junaid
06:54, 24 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)
മറുപടി
അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു
--
Thachan.makan
സംവാദം
06:58, 24 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)
മറുപടി
അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു
--
Rameshng
സംവാദം
08:44, 24 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)
മറുപടി
അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു
--
കിരൺ
ഗോപി
08:44, 24 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)
മറുപടി
അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു
--
Anoopan
സംവാദം
01:34, 26 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)
മറുപടി
പ്രധാനതാളിന്റെ പുതിയ രൂപം
തിരുത്തുക
ചൊല്ലുകളിലെ നിലവിലുള്ള പ്രധാനതാൾ വളരെ പഴയതാണ്, പല പുതിയകാര്യങ്ങളും പ്രധാന താളിൽ ഉൾക്കൊള്ളിക്കണമെന്ന് പല ഉപയോക്താക്കളും
നിർദ്ദേശിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്
. പൂർത്തീകരിച്ച ഒരു പുതിയ പ്രധാന താളിന്റെ രൂപം
ഇവിടെ
കാണാം. എല്ലാവരുടെയും നിർദ്ദേശങ്ങൾ അറിയിക്കുക. അതിനനുസരിച്ച് മാറ്റങ്ങൾ വരുത്താം. --
കിരൺ
ഗോപി
13:25, 24 നവംബർ 2010 (UTC)
മറുപടി
ഒരു ചെറിയ മാറ്റം വരുത്തിയിട്ടുണ്ട്
. ഇനിയും മെച്ചപ്പെടുത്താനാകും എന്ന് കരുതുന്നു. --
Anoopan
സംവാദം
14:18, 24 നവംബർ 2010 (UTC)
മറുപടി
പുതിയതായി ചേർത്ത ആണോ പുതുതായി ആണോ "കൂടുതൽ ശരി
? പുതുതായി എന്നാണ് എനിക്ക് തോന്നുന്നത്.
മഹദ്വചനങ്ങൾ പ്രശസ്തരുടെ മൊഴികൾ ആക്കുന്നതിനെക്കുറീച്ച് എന്തു പറയുന്നു?--
Fuad
സംവാദം
18:19, 24 നവംബർ 2010 (UTC)
മറുപടി
ഉപതലക്കെട്ടുകൾക്ക് കീഴെയുള്ള വിലങ്ങൻ വരകൾ ഒഴിവാക്കിയാൽ നന്നായിരിക്കില്ലേ? --
ജുനൈദ് Junaid
03:07, 25 നവംബർ 2010 (UTC)
മറുപടി
പ്രധാന വർഗ്ഗങ്ങൾ മുകളിലാക്കിയാൽ കുറച്ചുകൂടി നന്നാവുകയില്ലേ?? നിലവിൽ അവയ്ക്ക് വലിയ പ്രാധാന്യം തോനുന്നില്ല. വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലെ പോലെ സ്വാഗത ഫലകത്തിനൊപ്പം അത് നല്കിക്കൂടെ --
അഖിലൻ
സംവാദം
05:46, 26 ഡിസംബർ 2010 (UTC)
മറുപടി
പ്രധാന താൾ മാറുന്നതിനൊപ്പം ലോഗോയു ഒന്ന് മലയാളവത്കരിച്ചുകൂടെ --
അഖിലൻ
സംവാദം
06:08, 26 ഡിസംബർ 2010 (UTC)
മറുപടി
പേര് മാറ്റി വിക്കിമൊഴി എന്നാക്കിയാലോ?
തിരുത്തുക
വിക്കി ക്വാട്ട് (wikiquote) എന്നതാണ് ഇംഗ്ലീഷിലുള്ളത്. അതിനര്ഥം വിക്കി ഉദ്ദരണികൾ എന്നാണല്ലോ? അതുകൊണ്ട് തന്നെ അതിൽ വേദവാക്യങ്ങളായാലും പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലായാലും മഹദ്വചനമായാലും സ്പെയ്സുണ്ട്. എന്നാൽ വിക്കി ചൊല്ല് എന്ന് പേര് നമ്മൾ ഇവിടെ ഉപയോഗിച്ച് വിക്കി ഭാഷയിലില്ലാത്ത അർഥം കല്പിച്ച് വാക്കിനെ വലിച്ചു നീട്ടുകയല്ലെ ചെയ്യുന്നത്?. ചൊല്ല് എന്നതിൻറെ താല്പര്യം ചൊല്ലി പതിഞ്ഞതെന്നാണ്. അഥവാ നിരന്തരം വായ്താരിയായി പ്രചരിച്ചു കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നതാണ് ഭാഷയിൽ ചൊല്ല് എന്നാണ് ഞാൻ മനസ്സിലാക്കുന്നത്. നാട്ടിലൊരു ചൊല്ലുണ്ട് എന്ന് പറഞ്ഞാൽ അവിടെയുള്ള പഴയ ഗ്രന്ഥത്തിലൊരു വരിയുണ്ട് എന്നല്ല. ചൊല്ലിന് ഉദ്ദരണി എന്നർഥമില്ല. അഥവാ ചൊല്ല് വാമൊഴിയാണ് വരമൊഴിയല്ലെന്ന് ചുരുക്കം. ഇവിടെ ചൊല്ലിൽ കടംങ്കഥകളും നാട്ടു പ്രയോഗങ്ങളും പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകളും നാടൻ പാട്ടുകളുമെല്ലാം ശരിയാണ്. എന്നാൽ വേദവാക്യമോ മഹദ്വജനങ്ങളോ ആപ്തവാക്യമോ ചൊല്ലായികൊള്ളണമെന്നില്ല. മാത്രമല്ല ആപ്രയോഗത്തില് തന്നെ ഒരപാകതയുണ്ട്. കിരൺഗോപി നിർമ്മിച്ച
പേജ്
കാണുക.അതിൽ ഇന്നത്തെ മൊഴി, തെരഞ്ഞെടുത്ത മൊഴി എന്നെല്ലാമാണ് കാണുക. അഥവാ ഖുർആനിനെ ഒരു വാക്ക് കൊടുത്തിട്ട് അതിന് മുകളിൽ ഇന്നത്തെ ചൊല്ല് എന്ന് പറയുന്നത് തന്നെ ഒരു സുഖമില്ലല്ലോ. അതു കൊണ്ട് വാമൊഴിയും വരമൊഴിയും ചേരുന്ന മൊഴി യാവും (വിക്കിമൊഴി) ഇവിടെ ഉചിതമാവുകയെന്നതാണ് എന്റെ വിനീതമായ അഭിപ്രായം.നിങ്ങളുടെ അഭിപ്രായവും രേഖപ്പെടുത്തുക.--
Zuhairali
സംവാദം
02:58, 12 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2011 (UTC)
മറുപടി
അത് വേണോ ?
തിരുത്തുക
ചൊല്ലുകൾ പഴയതായിരിക്കണമെന്ന് പറയുന്നതിനോട് സ്നേഹപൂർവ്വം വിയോജിക്കുന്നു സുഹൈർ.
നിഘണ്ടുവിൽ നോക്കുക
ഞാൻ തന്നെ ശബ്ദതാരാവലി നോക്കി ഇട്ടതാണ് :)ഉപദേശം മൊഴി എന്നെല്ലാം അർഥമുണ്ട് ചൊല്ലിനു.
അതിനാൽ മഹദ്വചനങ്ങളും വേദ വാക്യങ്ങളും എല്ലാം പെടും. മാറ്റത്തിനുവേണ്ടി വിക്കിചൊല്ല് വിക്കിമൊഴി ആക്കണോ?--
Fuad
സംവാദം
13:50, 18 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2011 (UTC)
മറുപടി
മഹദ്വചനങ്ങളെല്ലാം ചൊല്ലുകളാവണമെന്നില്ല. വാക്ക്, മൊഴി, കേൾവി എന്നെല്ലാമാണല്ലോ അതിനര്ഥം കാണുന്നത്. സംസാരത്തിലൂടെ പ്രചരിക്കുന്നതിനാണ് ഈ വാക്ക് ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നത്. ചൊല്ലിന്റെ അപരനാമമല്ല മൊഴി. ചൊല്ലും മൊഴിയിലുള്പ്പെടും എന്ന് മാത്രമാണ് താങ്കള് തന്ന ലിങ്കിലൂടെ മനസ്സിലാക്കാനാവുക. എന്നാല് ഗ്രന്ഥങ്ങളില് മാത്രം വരമൊഴിയായി കിടക്കുന്ന ഉദ്ദരണികളുമിതില് വരുമല്ലോ. അത് കൊണ്ടാണ് വാമൊഴിയും വരമൊഴിയും ചേരുന്ന മൊഴി നിര്ദ്ദേശിച്ചത്. ഒന്നു കൂടി കൃത്യമായി പറഞ്ഞാല് ചൊല്ല്=മൊഴി, മൊഴി=ചൊല്ല്, ഉദ്ദരണി--
സുഹൈറലി
സംവാദം
07:16, 22 മാർച്ച് 2011 (UTC)
മറുപടി
വിക്കിമൊഴി
എന്ന പേരാണ് ഈ സംരഭത്തിന് കൂടുതൽ അനയോജ്യമെന്ന് കരുതുന്നു. കൂടുതൽ പേരുടെ അഭിപ്രായങ്ങൾ ആരായണം. --
Jairodz
സംവാദം
08:33, 2 ഡിസംബർ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
'വിക്കിവാങ്മയം' എന്നൊരു പേർ
നിർദ്ദേശിച്ചിരുന്നു.
--
Thachan.makan
സംവാദം
13:57, 3 ഡിസംബർ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
കവിതകളെവിടെയാണ്
തിരുത്തുക
വിക്കിയില് കവിതകളുടെ ഇടമെവിടെയാണ്. വിക്കിചൊല്ലില് തന്നെയാണോ? --
സുഹൈറലി
സംവാദം
07:19, 22 മാർച്ച് 2011 (UTC)
മറുപടി
നാടൻ പാട്ടുകൾ പോലുള്ളവ വിക്കി ചൊല്ലിൽ തന്നെ വരണം. പകർപ്പവകാശം കഴിഞ്ഞ കവിതകൾ വിക്കി ഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിലാണ് വരേണ്ടത്. --
Anoopan
സംവാദം
07:48, 24 മാർച്ച് 2011 (UTC)
മറുപടി
വർഗ്ഗീകരണം
തിരുത്തുക
ഓരോ പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലിനുമായി ഓരോ താൾ തുടങ്ങിയ ശേഷം (ഉള്ളടക്കം ഇല്ലെങ്കിൽ പോലും) അവയെ വർഗ്ഗീകരിച്ചാൽ നിലവിലുള്ളതിലും പെട്ടെന്ന് അവയെ കണ്ടെത്താൻ കഴിയും. പലയിടത്ത് ചേർക്കേണ്ട ബുദ്ധിമുട്ട് ഒഴിവാകുകയും ചെയ്യും
ഉദാ:
ആന മെലിഞ്ഞാൽ തൊഴുത്തിൽ കെട്ടാമോ
എന്ന പഴഞ്ചൊല്ല് 'അക്ഷരമാലാക്രമത്തിൽ' എന്ന താളിലും വിഷയക്രമത്തിൽ തന്നിരിക്കുന്ന താളിൽ 'ജീവികളുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടവ' എന്ന തലകെട്ടിലും വന്നിട്ടുണ്ട്. (അതായത് ഒരെണ്ണം പലയിടത്തായി ഉപയോഗിച്ചു) ഇതിനുപകരമായി പ്രസ്തുതതാളിൽ
വർഗ്ഗം:ആ-ൽ തുടങ്ങുന്ന പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ
വർഗ്ഗം:ആനയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ
എന്നീ വർഗ്ഗങ്ങൾ (കൃത്യമായ വർഗ്ഗവൃക്ഷം നിർമ്മിച്ച ശേഷം) ചേർത്താൽ എളുപ്പമല്ലേ. ഇത് കൂടുതൽ ചൊല്ലുകൾ വരുമ്പോൾ ക്രമീകരിക്കാനുള്ള ഇരട്ടിപ്പണി കുറയ്ക്കുകയും ചെയ്യും. എന്തു പറയുന്നു?. --
അഖിലൻ
സംവാദം
16:04, 13 ജനുവരി 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
വർഗ്ഗം:ആ-ൽ തുടങ്ങുന്ന പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ
എന്ന വർഗ്ഗം വേനമെന്നില്ല, പകരം നിലവിൽ
ശൈലികളിൽ
ചെയ്തിട്ടുള്ളതുപോലെ ഒരോ അക്ഷരത്തിനും ഒരോ താളുണ്ടാക്കാം. അതുപോലെ
ഇതും
കാണുക. --
കിരൺ
ഗോപി
04:47, 16 ജനുവരി 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
ഓരോ പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലിനുമായി ഓരോ താൾഎന്ന ആശയത്തോട് പണ്ടേ എതിർപ്പുള്ള വ്യക്തിയാണ് ഞാൻ. അനാവശ്യമായി താളുകളൂടെ എണ്ണത്തിൽ മേനി പറയാം എന്നല്ലാതെ ഗുണമില്ല. ഒരു ചൊല്ലിന്റെ അർഥം അറീയാൻ അത് ക്ലീക്ക് ചെയ്തു വേറൊരു ഒറ്റ വരി പേജ്ജ് നോക്കേണ്ട ആവശ്യമുണ്ടോ? ആദ്യപേജ്ജീൽ തന്നെ ഒറ്റ വരി വിവരണം കൊടൂത്താൽ പോരെ?--
Fuad
സംവാദം
17:23, 30 ജനുവരി 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
അതെ വിവരണമില്ലങ്കിൽ തലക്കെട്ടുമാത്രമായി താളുകൾ വേണമെന്നില്ല എന്ന പക്ഷക്കാരനാണ് ഞാനും--
കിരൺ
ഗോപി
11:17, 3 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
ഓരോ പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലിനും ഓരോ താൾ വേണ്ട എന്നതിനെ അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു. പല പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകളുടെയും അർത്ഥം വിവരണം കൂടാതെ തന്നെ സ്പഷ്ടമാണ്. വിവരണം ആവശ്യമായവയുടേത് പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്ന താളിൽ തന്നെ പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലിന് താഴെയായി കൊടുക്കാം. --
Jairodz
സംവാദം
09:45, 5 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
/ / പല പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകളുടെയും അർത്ഥം വിവരണം കൂടാതെ തന്നെ സ്പഷ്ടമാണ് / /
പലതിന്റെയും അർത്ഥം നമ്മൾക്ക് സ്പഷ്ടമാണെന്നത് സമ്മതിക്കുന്നു. ഒരു പക്ഷേ അത് വായിക്കുന്നത് ഒരു നാലാം ക്ലാസ്സുകാരൻ ആണെങ്കിലോ? നമ്മൾ സ്പഷ്ടമെന്ന് ചെറുവിരൽ മടക്കി പറയുന്ന പലതും അവന് അങ്ങനെയാവണമെന്നില്ല. അല്ലെങ്കിൽ പല നാടൻ വാക്കുകൾ ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന ചൊല്ലുകൾ വായിക്കുന്നത് ഒരു പരദേശിയായ മലയാളി കുട്ടിയാണെങ്കിലോ? ഈ ചിന്തയാണ് അവലംബിക്കുന്നതെങ്കിൽ നിഘണ്ടുവിലും മറ്റും ദിനംപ്രതി ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന പല പദങ്ങളുടേയും അർത്ഥം നൽകേണ്ടതില്ലായിരുന്നുവല്ലോ?
/ / വിവരണം ആവശ്യമായവയുടേത് പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്ന താളിൽ തന്നെ പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലിന് താഴെയായി കൊടുക്കാം./ /
മലയാളം ചൊല്ലുകളുടെ കാര്യത്തിൽ സമ്പന്നമാണ്. എന്റെ കയ്യിൽ തന്നെ പതിനായിരത്തിലധികം മലയാളം ചൊല്ലുകൾ ചേർത്തിരിക്കുന്ന പുസ്തകം ഉണ്ട്. ഇവ പതിനായിരവും വിക്കിയിലെത്തിയാലത്തെ അവസ്ഥയോ?(അങ്ങനെ സംഭവിക്കട്ടെയെന്ന് ആശിക്കുന്നു) പൂമുഖത്തു തന്നെ പതിനായിരം ചൊല്ലും അവയുടെ അർത്ഥവും പാഠഭേദവും മറ്റും ചേർന്ന് ആകെ കോലാഹലമാവും. പേജ് ലോഡാവാനെടുക്കുന്ന സമയനഷ്ടവും.
ചൊല്ലുകൾ അന്വേഷിച്ചു വരുന്നവർ പലപ്പോഴും വിഷയത്തിലധിഷ്ഠിതമായാവും വരിക. ഉദാ: ഞാറ്റുവേലയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചൊല്ലുകൾ, കൃഷിയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചൊല്ലുകൾ, ഓണവുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്നിങ്ങനെ. അവയെ അങ്ങനെ തന്നെ വർഗ്ഗീകരിച്ച് പട്ടികപ്പെടുത്തണമെന്ന് ഞാൻ വിശ്വസിക്കുന്നു. അല്ലെങ്കിൽ ഇപ്പോൾ കിടക്കുന്ന പോലെ അരയും കോണകവുമില്ലാത്ത അവസ്ഥയിൽ കിടക്കും (വലിയൊരു പരിധിവരെ ഈയിടയ്ക്ക് മാറ്റം സംഭവിച്ചു വന്നിട്ടുണ്ട്) പഴഞ്ചൊല്ല് ശേഖരിച്ച പുസ്തകങ്ങളും പൊതുവേ അത്തരമൊരു വർഗ്ഗീകരണ പ്രകൃയ പിന്തുടരുന്നതായ് കാണാം. (വിഷയാനുബന്ധമായോ അക്ഷരമാലാക്രമത്തിലോ മറ്റോ) ഇത് എളുപ്പമാകെണമെങ്കിൽ അവയ്ക്ക് താൾ നിർമ്മിച്ച് അവശ്യമായ വർഗ്ഗത്തിലുൾപ്പെടുത്തുക തന്നെ വേണം. ചൊല്ലു ചേർത്ത ശേഷം അടിയിൽ വിശദീകരണം ചേർക്കാനാണെങ്കിൽ അവ വരുന്ന പട്ടികയിലെല്ലാം അങ്ങിനെ ചെയ്യേണ്ടി വരും. (മുകളിൽ പറഞ്ഞ ഉദാഹരണം കാണുക) --
അഖിലൻ
സംവാദം
09:30, 6 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
en:English proverbs
കാണുക എങ്ങ്നിനെയാണ് ചെയ്തിരിക്കുന്നത് എന്ന്, വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലെ പോലെ അല്ല വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകളിലെ താളുകളുടെ ക്രമീകരണം, ഞാറ്റുവേലയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചൊല്ലുകൾ ആണ് വേണ്ടതെങ്കിൽ ഞാറ്റുവേല എന്ന താൾ നിർമ്മിച്ച് അതുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചൊല്ലുകൾ ആതാളിൽ ചേർക്കണം. കാക്കയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടചൊല്ലുകൾ കാക്ക എന്നതാൾ നിർമ്മിച്ചോ അല്ലെങ്കിൽ പക്ഷികൾ എന്ന താളിന്റെയുള്ളിലോ ആണ് ചേർക്കേണ്ടത് ഒരു ഉദാഹരണം
ഇവിടെക്കാണാം
. ചൊല്ലുകളിലെ താളുകൾ വിഷയത്തിലധിഷ്ഠിതമായിത്തന്നെ വരണം. ഞാൻ ഉദ്ദേശിച്ചത് അഖിലിന് മനസ്സിലായിക്കാണും എന്നു കരുതുന്നു.
വർഗ്ഗം:തെലുങ്ക് പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ
എന്നത് ആവശ്യമില്ല, പകരം
തെലുങ്ക് പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ
എന്ന താളിൽ ഈ പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ ഉൾപ്പെടുത്തിയാൽ മതിയാകും--
കിരൺ
ഗോപി
05:38, 7 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ തിരക്കി വരുന്ന ബഹു ഭൂരിപക്ഷത്തിനും ചൊല്ലുകളാണ് വേണ്ടത്, അവയുടെ വ്യാഖ്യാനം പിമ്പേ മാത്രമാണ് വരിക. അവശ്യത്തിനു ഉള്ളടക്കം ഉണ്ടെങ്കിൽ എല്ലാ പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകളും കൂടി
തെലുങ്ക് പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ
എന്ന ഒരൊറ്റ താളിൽ ചേർത്ത ചേർക്കുന്നതിലും നല്ലത് ഓരോന്നിനായും പ്രത്യേകം താൾ നിർമ്മിച്ച് അവശ്യമായ വിവരണം നല്കുന്നതല്ലേ? എന്തിനാണ് എല്ലാം കൂടെ ഒരിടത്തിട്ടടിക്കുന്നത്. പ്രത്യേകം വർഗ്ഗവൃക്ഷം നിർമ്മിക്കുന്നത് കൊണ്ട് എന്താണ് പ്രശ്നം? ഇത് ചൊല്ലുകളെ മികച്ച രീതിയിൽ അടുക്കിവയ്ക്കാനല്ലേ സഹായിക്കൂ. ഇത് ഭാവിയിലെ പ്രവർത്തനങ്ങൾ എളുപ്പമാക്കാനല്ലേ സഹായിക്കൂ? താൾ ഉണ്ടാക്കാനുള്ള വിഷമമാണെങ്കിൽ എല്ലാം കൂടി പൂമുഖത്താളിൽ ചേർത്താൽ പോരേ? പുതിയൊരു പഴഞ്ചൊല്ല് ചേർത്താൽ അത് അതുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ഓരോ താളിലും ചേർക്കുന്നതിലും (ഉദാ:
ഞാറ്റുവേലയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചൊല്ലുകൾ
ഓണവുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചൊല്ലുകൾ
...) എത്രയോ എളുപ്പമാണ് അവയിൽ പ്രസ്തുത വർഗ്ഗം ചേർത്ത് മെച്ചപ്പെടുത്തുന്നത്. ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് വിക്കിയേയും മലയാളം വിക്കിയേയും താരതമ്യപ്പെടുത്തുന്നതിനോട് എനിക്ക് യോജിപ്പില്ല.
en:Birds
എന്ന താളിൽ കാണുന്ന അത്രയും ചൊല്ലുകൾ ശേഖരിക്കാൻ തുടങ്ങിയാൽ മലയാളത്തിൽ കാക്കയെക്കുറിച്ച് മാത്രം കാണും. പിന്നെ {{
ഉള്ളടക്കം
}} ഒരു താളിൽ തത്കാലത്തേക്കാണ് ചേർക്കുന്നത്. ഉള്ളടക്കമാകാത്ത താളിനെ
വർഗ്ഗം:ഉള്ളടക്കം ഇല്ലാത്ത താളുകൾ
എന്ന താൾ മുഖാന്തരം എളുപ്പം ലഭ്യമാകുവാൻ മാത്രം. ഒറ്റ ദിവസം കൊണ്ട് എല്ലാ താളിലും ഉള്ളടക്കം ചേർക്കാൻ എനിക്ക് കഴിയുകയില്ല. അത് വരിക്ക് ചെയ്ത് വരുമ്പോൾ എളുപ്പം പൂർത്തിയാക്കാനുള്ള താളുകൾ കണ്ടെത്താനുള്ള ഒരു ഉപാധിയെന്ന് മാത്രമാണ് ഉദ്ദേശിച്ചത്. അതിന്റെ ആവശ്യമില്ലെങ്കിൽ ഒഴിവാക്കാം. --
അഖിലൻ
സംവാദം
18:06, 10 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
മുൻപ് വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്താണന്ന് അറിയാത്ത കാലത്താണ് നമ്മൾ ഒരോ ചൊല്ലുകൾക്കും ഒരോ താൾ തുടങ്ങിയിരുന്നത്, അങ്ങനെയുള്ളവയെല്ലാം മാറ്റേണ്ടതാണ്. എല്ലാതാളുകളും പൂമുഖ താളിൽ ചേർത്താൽ പോരെ എന്നുള്ള ചോദ്യം ബാലിശമല്ലേ? ഒരു വിഷയത്തെ അടിസ്ഥാനമാക്കിയുള്ള ചൊല്ലുകൾ സൂക്ഷിക്കാനാണ് വിക്കി ചൊല്ലുകൾ അത് മികച്ച രീതിയിൽ വർഗ്ഗീകരിക്കുകയും വേണം പക്ഷെ വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലെ പോലെ അല്ല ചെറിയ ചിലമാറ്റങ്ങളുണ്ട് എന്ന് മാത്രം.
ഞാറ്റുവേലയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചൊല്ലുകൾ
ഓണവുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചൊല്ലുകൾ
ഇവ യഥാക്രമം ഞാറ്റുവേല, ഓണം അവയുടെ താളുകളിലാണ് ചേർക്കേണ്ടത്. ചില ഉദാഹരണങ്ങൾ നോക്കൂ
പുസ്തകങ്ങൾ
സ്ത്രീ
കുട്ടികൾ
--
കിരൺ
ഗോപി
05:30, 13 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
മുകളിഉൽ നടന്ന ചർച്ചകളുടെ അടിസ്ഥാനത്തിൽ
വർഗ്ഗം:ജീവികളുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ
എന്നതാളിലെ വിവരങ്ങൾ അതാത് ജീവികളുടെ പേരിൽ ഒരു താൾ ഉണ്ടാക്കി അതിലേക്ക് ലയിപ്പിക്കാം എന്നു കരുതുന്നു.--
കിരൺ
ഗോപി
04:18, 28 മാർച്ച് 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
അനുകൂലം. ജീവികളുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടവ മാത്രമല്ല മറ്റു വർഗ്ഗങ്ങളും കഴിവതും വികേന്ദ്രീകരിച്ച് മെച്ചപ്പെടുത്തണമെന്ന് അഭിപ്രായപ്പെടുന്നു --
അഖിലൻ
സംവാദം
13:08, 3 ഏപ്രിൽ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
വിക്കി ചൊല്ലുകൾ --> വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ
തിരുത്തുക
ഈ സംരഭത്തിന്റെ പേര്
വിക്കി ചൊല്ലുകൾ
എന്നതിൽ നിന്ന്
വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ
എന്നാക്കി മാറ്റണമെന്ന് അഭിപ്രായപ്പെടുന്നു. നിലവിലുള്ള എല്ലാ മലയാളം വിക്കിസംരഭങ്ങളുടെയും (വിക്കിപീഡിയ, വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാല, വിക്കിനിഘണ്ടു, വിക്കിപാഠശാല) പേരിൽ വിക്കി എന്ന വാക്ക് രണ്ടാമത്തെ വാക്കിനോട് ചേർത്താണ് എഴുതിയിരിക്കുന്നത്. ഇതിന് മാത്രം ഇടയ്ക്ക് സ്പേസ് ഇടേണ്ട ആവശ്യമുണ്ടെന്ന് കരുതുന്നില്ല. --
Jairodz
സംവാദം
03:02, 21 ഏപ്രിൽ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്ന് ബഹുവചനം ആവശ്യമുണ്ടോ? വിക്കിചൊല്ല് എന്ന് മാത്രം പോരെ?--
കിരൺ
ഗോപി
03:06, 25 ഏപ്രിൽ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
ചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്നാണ് നല്ലത്. ബഹുവചനം വേണം. --
Vssun
സംവാദം
06:47, 25 ഏപ്രിൽ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
സംരംഭത്തിന്റെ വിലാസം നോക്കു ml.wikiquote എന്നല്ലെ. അവിടേയും ഏകവചനം തന്നെയല്ലെ ഉപയോഗിച്ച് കാണുന്നത്.--
കിരൺ
ഗോപി
07:24, 25 ഏപ്രിൽ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
ബഹുവചനം നിലനിർത്തണം എന്നാണ് എന്റേയും അഭിപ്രായം. ചൊല്ലുകളുടെ ശേഖരമല്ലേ ? ചൊല്ലിന്റെ അല്ലല്ലോ ! വിക്കി കൂട്ടിയോജിപ്പിക്കുന്നത് ആലോചിക്കാവതാണ്. --
Fuad
സംവാദം
17:26, 25 ഏപ്രിൽ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
ബഹുവചനം ഒഴിവാകിയാൽ നെയിംസ്പേസിൽ നിന്ന് ചില്ലക്ഷരം ഒഴിവാക്കാൻ പറ്റും. മറ്റ് മലയാള സംഭരഭങ്ങളും നോക്കു അവയും ഏകവചനം തന്നെ, വിക്കിപീഡിയ, വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാല, വിക്ഷ്ണറി, പാഠശാല ഇവിടെയെല്ലാം തന്നെ ഏകവചനമാണ് പിന്നെ ചൊല്ലുകൾക്ക് മാത്രം ബഹുവചനം എന്തിന്?--
കിരൺ
ഗോപി
11:34, 11 മേയ് 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
ചില്ലക്ഷരം ഒഴിവാക്കാനായി വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്ന പേര് മാറ്റണമെന്ന അഭിപ്രായത്തോട് ശക്തമായി വിയോജിക്കുന്നു. മറ്റ് മലയാളം സംരംഭങ്ങൾ ഏകവചനമാണെന്ന് സമ്മതിക്കുന്നു. വിക്കിപീഡിയയിൽ (എൻസൈക്ലോപീഡിയ എന്ന വാക്ക് ആസ്പദമാക്കിയാൽ) ഒട്ടനവധി ലേഖനങ്ങൾ കാണാം. ഒരു ഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിൽ ഒട്ടനവധി പുസ്തകങ്ങൾ കാണാം. ഒരു നിഘണ്ടുവിൽ ഒട്ടനവധി വാക്കുകളുടെ നിർവചനവും മറ്റും കാണാം. ഒരു പാഠശാലയിൽ ഒട്ടനവധി പഠനസഹായികൾ കാണാം. അതിനാൽ അവയെല്ലാം ഏകവചനം മതിയാകും. അപ്രകാരമുള്ള ഒരു തലക്കെട്ടല്ല വിക്കി ചൊല്ലുകൾക്കുള്ളത്. ഇത് തീർച്ചയായും ചൊല്ലുകളുടെ സഞ്ചയമാണ്. അതിനാൽ പേര്
വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ
എന്നുതന്നെ വേണം. ഇടയിലെ സ്പേസ് മാറ്റുന്നതിനോടും അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു --
അഖിലൻ
സംവാദം
07:52, 2 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്ന് തന്നെ മതി എന്നാണ് എന്റേയും അഭിപ്രായം. --
Jairodz
സംവാദം
08:34, 3 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ
എന്നാക്കി മാറ്റാമെന്ന് കരുതുന്നു. ഇതിനായുള്ള അടുത്ത നടപടി എന്താണ്? --
Jairodz
സംവാദം
02:47, 1 ജൂലൈ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
ബഗ്
ഫയൽ ചെയ്തു.--
കിരൺ
ഗോപി
06:43, 2 ജൂലൈ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
ചെയ്തു കഴിഞ്ഞു
ലോഗോയും കൂടി മലയാളത്തിൽ ആക്കിയാൽ നന്നായിരുന്നു. :-) --
Jairodz
സംവാദം
04:19, 12 ജൂലൈ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
കടങ്കഥകൾ
തിരുത്തുക
കടങ്കഥകൾ ചേർക്കുന്നതിനു ഒരു മാനകം ഉണ്ടാകുന്നതിനു വേണ്ടിയാണ് ഈ സംവാദം. നിലവിൽ
കടങ്കഥകൾ
എന്ന താളിൽ അക്ഷരമാലാ ക്രമത്തിൽ കടങ്കഥകൾ ചേർത്തിരിക്കുന്നത്. അവ വിഷയാസ്പദമായും ചേർക്കാം. അവയിൽ കുറേയെണ്ണത്തിനു പ്രത്യേകമായി താൾ തുടങ്ങിയിട്ടുണ്ട്. ഇങ്ങനെ ഒരു വരിയുള്ള ഉത്തരത്തിനു വേണ്ടി പുതിയൊരു താൾ തുടങ്ങേണ്ട ആവശ്യമുണ്ടോ? അല്ലെങ്കിൽ മുൻപ് പറഞ്ഞ പോലെ ഒരേ ഉത്തരം വരുന്ന കടങ്കഥകളെല്ലാം ഒരുമിച്ച് ഒരേ താളിൽ നൽകിയാൽ പോരെ? --
അഖിലൻ
സംവാദം
08:19, 2 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
ഒരോ കടങ്കഥയ്ക്കും ഓരോ പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലിനും പ്രത്യേക താൾ തുടങ്ങേണ്ട ആവശ്യമില്ല. വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ ആകെ ഒന്ന് വൃത്തിയാക്കിയെടുക്കേണ്ടതായുണ്ട്. --
Jairodz
സംവാദം
03:29, 3 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
ധൈര്യമായി കൈവയ്ക്കൂ ജയ്ദീപ്, താങ്കളുടെ അഭിപ്രായം പ്രകടിപ്പിക്കൂ. ഒരു നയം ഉണ്ടാക്കിയ ശേഷം നമുക്കൊരുമിച്ച് കൈവയ്ക്കാം. --
അഖിലൻ
സംവാദം
08:39, 3 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
സന്തോഷം ഇപ്പോഴെങ്കിലും കടങ്കഥയിൽ ശ്രദ്ധിച്ചു തുടങ്ങിയല്ലോ ....ഒരേ ഉത്തരം വരുന്ന കടങ്കഥകളെല്ലാം ഒരുമിച്ച് ഒരേ താളിൽ നൽകുകയോ അകാരാദിക്രമത്തിൽ കടങ്കഥകൾ നൽകിയശേഷം ഒരേ ഉത്തരം വരുന്നവക്കെല്ലാം കൂടി ഒരു താളിൽ ഉത്തരമെഴുതി ലിങ്ക് നൽകിയാലും മതിയാവില്ലേ
Tonynirappathu
സംവാദം
13:13, 3 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
കടങ്കഥകൾ അകാരാദിയേക്കാളും വിഷയാസ്പദമായി ക്രമീകരിക്കുന്നതാവും നല്ലതെന്ന് കരുതുന്നു. (മറ്റേത് വേണ്ടന്നല്ല) ഇക്കാര്യത്തിൽ മലയാളം വിക്കിമീഡിയൻ കൂടിയായ വി. എം. രാജ്മോഹൻ സാർ എഴുതിയ ഒരു കടങ്കഥ പുസ്തകത്തെ ആധാരമാക്കാം എന്ന് കരുതുന്നു. അതായത് ജീവനുള്ളവയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടവ, ജീവനില്ലാത്തവയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടവ, മറ്റുള്ളവ എന്നിങ്ങനെ. ഇനി ജീവനുള്ളവയിൽ സസ്യങ്ങളുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടവ എന്നും ജന്തുക്കളുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടവയെന്നും (മറ്റുള്ളവ യഥാവിധി - മനോധർമ്മം) ജന്തുക്കളിൽ ആനയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടവ എല്ലാം ഒരേ തലക്കെട്ടിൽ ( അല്ലെങ്കിൽ ഒരേ താളിൽ) ഈ വിധത്തിൽ--
അഖിലൻ
സംവാദം
16:13, 3 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
അങ്ങനെ ക്രമീകരിക്കുന്നത് നല്ലതു തന്നെ. കടങ്കഥയുടെ ഉത്തരം എങ്ങനെയാവും നൽകുക അതേ താളിൽ തന്നെയാണോ ?ഒരോ കടങ്കഥയുടെ ഉത്തരത്തിനും പ്രത്യേക താൾ വേണം എന്ന ചിന്തയാണ് എനിക്കുള്ളത്. ഭാവനയും യുക്തിയും ചേർത്ത് തയാറാക്കുന്ന കടങ്കഥ ഇന്നത്തെ കുട്ടികൾക്ക് മനസ്സിലാകണമെങ്കിൽ വിശദീകരണം കൂടിയേ തീരു.(പല വസ്തുക്കളും അവർ കണ്ടിട്ടുകൂടിയില്ലാത്ത അവസ്ഥയിൽ) ഇപ്പോൾ ഒരു വാക്ക് മാത്രമുള്ള താളുകളിൽ വിശദീകരണവും വിക്കിപീഢിയയിലേക്ക് ലിങ്കും നൽകുന്നതല്ലേ ഉചിതം
Tonynirappathu
സംവാദം
16:33, 3 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
അഖിലൻ പറഞ്ഞ കാര്യങ്ങൾ വർഗ്ഗം കൊണ്ട് ചെയ്യാനാകുന്നതാണ്. എന്റെ അഭിപ്രായത്തിൽ, കടങ്കഥ ഉത്തരത്തിന്റെ അടിസ്ഥാനത്തിൽ താളുകളുണ്ടാക്കി, മുകളിൽപ്പറഞ്ഞരീതിയിൽ വർഗ്ഗീകരിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും നല്ലത്. കടങ്കഥകൾക്ക് നെയിംസ്പേസ് വേണോ എന്ന കാര്യവും ചർച്ചചെയ്യാവുന്നതാണ്. --
Vssun
സംവാദം
16:36, 3 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
ടോണീ. അപ്രകാരം തന്നെ മുൻപോട്ട് പോകുന്നതാണ് നല്ലതെന്ന് എനിക്ക് തോനുന്നു. അതെ ആന എന്ന് ഉത്തരം വരുന്ന കടങ്കഥകളുടെ എല്ലാം കണ്ണി
ആന
എന്ന താളിലേക്ക് നൽകാം.--
അഖിലൻ
സംവാദം
16:37, 3 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
സാങ്കതിക കാര്യങ്ങളെക്കുറിച്ച് ഞാൻ അജ്ഞനാണ് . ഏതായാലും വരും ദിവസങ്ങളിൽ കുറെ കടങ്കഥകൾ കൂട്ടിച്ചേർത്തേക്കാം
Tonynirappathu
സംവാദം
16:49, 3 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
.. ഒറ്റ വരി പേജുകൾ ഒഴിവാക്കാൻ ആവുന്നതെല്ലാം ചെയുക. കടങ്കഥകൾ ഉൾപ്പെടെ. --
Fuad
സംവാദം
17:43, 3 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
മുകളിലെ സംവാദത്തിൽ
വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകളുടെ ഉള്ളടക്കം ഏത് രീതിയിലാണ് എന്ന് വിശദീകരിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. ഒരോ കടങ്കഥകൾക്ക് പ്രത്യേകം താളിന്റെ ആവശ്യമില്ല. നിലവിൽ ശൈലികൾ, പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ ഇവ ക്രമപ്പെടുത്തിയിരിക്കുന്നതുപോലെയാണ് കടങ്കഥകളും ക്രമീകരിക്കേണ്ടത്.--
കിരൺ
ഗോപി
14:15, 6 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
ചൊല്ല് തുടങ്ങുക
തിരുത്തുക
ഇപ്പോൾ നിലവിൽ സൈഡ്ബാറിൽ കൊടുത്തിട്ടുള്ള "ചൊല്ല് തുടങ്ങുക" എന്ന കണ്ണി ആശയക്കുഴപ്പമുണ്ടാക്കുന്നതല്ലേ? ഓരോ ചൊല്ലിനും പ്രത്യേകതാൾ ആവശ്യമില്ല എന്നതല്ലേ നിലവിൽ സ്വീകരിച്ചിട്ടുള്ള നയം. ആ സ്ഥിതിക്ക് "ലേഖനം തുടങ്ങുക" (അല്ലെങ്കിൽ മറ്റെന്തെങ്കിലും വാക്ക്) എന്ന് ഉൾപ്പെടുത്തുന്നതല്ലേ നല്ലത്? --
Jairodz
സംവാദം
18:53, 28 നവംബർ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
ചിഹ്നം
തിരുത്തുക
വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾക്കായി മലയാളത്തിലെഴുതിയ ചിഹ്നം നിർദ്ദേശിക്കുന്നു.
നിലവിൽ ചെരിച്ചെഴുതിയിരിക്കുന്നത് നേരെയാക്കണമെന്ന അഭിപ്രായം കിട്ടിയിട്ടുണ്ട്.
കലാപരമായ ചിഹ്നങ്ങൾ ആർക്കെങ്കിലും നിർദ്ദേശിക്കാമോ
--
Vssun
സംവാദം
09:22, 30 നവംബർ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
ചെരിച്ചെഴുത്തിന്റെ ആവശ്യമില്ല. ഏതു ഫോണ്ടാണ് ഉപയോഗിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നത്? കലാപരം എന്നുകൊണ്ട് എന്താണുദ്ദേശിച്ചത്? --
Jairodz
സംവാദം
06:53, 1 ഡിസംബർ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
ഫോണ്ട് രചന തന്നെയാണ് കട്ടി കൂട്ടാൻ പുറകിൽ ഒരു ലെയർ കൂടിയുണ്ട്. ഒന്ന് സ്ട്രെച്ച് ചെയ്തിട്ടുമുണ്ട്. കലാപരം എന്നുദ്ദേശിച്ചത്, ടെക്സ്റ്റ് പ്രത്യേകതരത്തിൽ വരച്ചുണ്ടാക്കിയോ മറ്റോ. --
Vssun
സംവാദം
11:16, 1 ഡിസംബർ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
ചെരിവ് ഒഴിവാക്കി. --
Vssun
സംവാദം
11:33, 1 ഡിസംബർ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
പേര് ഒന്നുകൂടി തീർച്ചപ്പെടുത്തിയ ശേഷം ലോഗോ സ്വീകരിച്ചാൽ പോരേ? ബഹുവചനത്തെ എതിർത്ത് മെയിലിങ് ലിസ്റ്റിൽ രണ്ട് അഭിപ്രായങ്ങൾ വന്നല്ലോ. മാത്രമല്ല കഴിഞ്ഞ ചർച്ചയിൽ അധികം പേർ പങ്കെടുത്തതുമില്ല. സുഹൈറലി നിർദ്ദേശിച്ച വിക്കിമൊഴി എന്ന പേരിനോടാണ് എനിക്കിപ്പോൾ കൂടുതൽ യോജിപ്പ്.
വിക്കി ചൊല്ലുകൾ
എന്ന ആദ്യമായി പേര് സ്വീകരിക്കാനുള്ള ചർച്ച നടന്നതെവിടെയാണ്? --
Jairodz
സംവാദം
07:36, 2 ഡിസംബർ 2012 (UTC)
മറുപടി
- കാത്തിരിക്കുന്നതിൽ അർത്ഥമൊന്നുമില്ല. ഒരിക്കൽ ചിഹ്നം കസ്റ്റമൈസ് ചെയ്യപ്പെട്ടാൽ, അത് മാറ്റുക എന്നത് പദ്ധതിയുടെ പേര് മാറ്റുന്നതിനേക്കാൾ എളുപ്പമാണ്. --
Vssun
സംവാദം
15:39, 4 ഡിസംബർ 2012 (UTC)
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അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു
ചിഹ്നം എളുപ്പത്തിൽ മാറ്റാമെങ്കിൽ കുഴപ്പമില്ല. :-) വിക്കിപാഠശാലയുടെ ചിഹ്നം കൂടി ലോക്കലൈസ് ചെയ്യാമോ? മലയാളം വിക്കിയുടെ പത്താം വാർഷികത്തിനു മുൻപുതന്നെ മലയാളീകരിച്ച എല്ലാ ചിഹ്നങ്ങളും നിലവിൽ വന്നാൽ നന്നായിരുന്നു. --
Jairodz
സംവാദം
15:50, 4 ഡിസംബർ 2012 (UTC)
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ബഗ് കാണുക
--
Vssun
സംവാദം
13:20, 6 ഡിസംബർ 2012 (UTC)
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ചെയ്തു കഴിഞ്ഞു
--
Vssun
സംവാദം
15:25, 13 ഡിസംബർ 2012 (UTC)
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സബ്പേജ്
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വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകളിൽ ലേഖനനാമമേഖലയിൽ സബ്പേജ് feature enable ചെയ്താൽ നന്നായിരിക്കും. പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ, ശൈലികൾ, ന്യായനിഘണ്ടു തുടങ്ങിയവയിൽ ഉപയോഗപ്രദമായിരിക്കും. --
Jairodz
സംവാദം
07:23, 1 ഡിസംബർ 2012 (UTC)
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Universal Language Selector to replace Narayam and WebFonts extensions
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On June 11, 2013, the
Universal Language Selector
(ULS) will replace the features of Mediawiki extensions Narayam and WebFonts. The ULS provides a flexible way of configuring and delivering language settings like interface language, fonts, and input methods (keyboard mappings).
Please read the
announcement on Meta-Wiki
for more information.
Runab
14:09, 5 ജൂൺ 2013 (UTC)
(posted via
Global message delivery
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Global AbuseFilter
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Hello,
AbuseFilter
is a MediaWiki extension used to detect likely abusive behavior patterns, like pattern vandalism and spam. In 2013,
Global AbuseFilters
were enabled on a limited set of wikis including Meta-Wiki, MediaWiki.org, Wikispecies and (in early 2014) all the "
small wikis
". Recently, global abuse filters were enabled on "
medium sized wikis
" as well. These filters are currently managed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and have shown to be very effective in preventing mass spam attacks across Wikimedia projects. However, there is currently no policy on how the global AbuseFilters will be managed although there are proposals. There is an ongoing
request for comment
on policy governing the use of the global AbuseFilters. In the meantime, specific wikis can opt out of using the global AbuseFilter. These wikis can simply add a request to
this list
on Meta-Wiki. More details can be found on
this page
at Meta-Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on
m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter
Thanks,
PiRSquared17
Glaisher
— 17:34, 14 നവംബർ 2014 (UTC)
Columns for references
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Hello,
At the request of Wikipedia editors, a new feature has been added to MediaWiki. Long lists of references (also called citations or footnotes) will automatically be displayed in columns. This will make it easier for most people to read the references, especially on narrow screens. Short lists of references will not be affected.
I plan to enable this new feature at this wiki on Monday, 24 July 2017. After that date, use the normal
tag on any page with many references to see this feature. If you do not want columns used on that page, then use this wikitext code instead:
If you believe that this new feature is not appropriate for this wiki, or if you need help adjusting templates, then please contact me at
mw:Contributors/Projects/Columns for references
User:Whatamidoing (WMF)
talk
23:17, 23 ജൂലൈ 2017 (UTC)
സുപ്രധാനം: കാര്യനിർവാഹക പ്രവൃത്തികളുടെ സംശോധനം
തിരുത്തുക
Hello. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc. ) was adopted by
global community consensus
in 2013. According to this policy, the
stewards
are reviewing administrators' activity on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis with no inactivity policy. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the
admin activity review
We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):
Fuadaj (administrator)
These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.
However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the
stewards on Meta-Wiki
so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks,
علاء
സംവാദം
11:47, 8 ജനുവരി 2020 (UTC)
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Invitation to participate in the UCoC conversation
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Hello. Apologies for cross-posting, and that you may not be reading this message in your native language: translations of the following announcement may be available on
Meta
. Please help translate to your language. നന്ദി!
We are excited to share
a draft of the Universal Code of Conduct
, which the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees called for earlier this year, for your review and feedback. The discussion will be open until October 6, 2020.
The UCoC Drafting Committee wants to learn which parts of the draft would present challenges for you or your work. What is missing from this draft? What do you like, and what could be improved?
Please join the conversation and share this invitation with others who may be interested to join, too.
To reduce language barriers during the process, you are welcomed to translate this message and the
Universal Code of Conduct/Draft review
. You and your community may choose to provide your opinions/feedback using your local languages.
To learn more about the UCoC project, see the
Universal Code of Conduct
page, and the
FAQ
, on Meta.
Thanks in advance for your attention and contributions,
The Trust and Safety team at Wikimedia Foundation
, 17:55, 10 верасня 2020 (UTC)
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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.
[1]
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.
[2]
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.
[3]
Future changes
The
Reply tool
will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "ചർച്ചാ ഉപകരണങ്ങൾ" in
Beta features
at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in
Editing Preferences
[4]
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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Movement Charter Drafting Committee - Community Elections to take place October 11 - 24
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This is a short message with an update from the Movement Charter process. The call for candidates for the Drafting Committee closed September 14, and we got a diverse range of candidates. The committee will consist of 15 members, and those will be (s)elected via three different ways.
The 15 member committee will be selected with a
3-step process
Election process for project communities to elect 7 members of the committee.
Selection process for affiliates to select 6 members of the committee.
Wikimedia Foundation process to appoint 2 members of the committee.
The community elections will take place between October 11 and October 24. The other process will take place in parallel, so that all processes will be concluded by November 1.
For the full context of the Movement Charter, its role, as well the process for its creation, please
have a look at Meta
. You can also contact us at any time on Telegram or via email (wikimedia2030@wikimedia.org).
Best,
RamzyM (WMF)
02:46, 22 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2021 (UTC)
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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
[5]
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.
[6]
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
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 "ചർച്ചാ ഉപകരണങ്ങൾ" in
Beta features
at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in
Editing Preferences
See the list of wikis.
[7]
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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.
[8]
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.
[9]
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.
[10]
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.
[11]
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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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15:30, 11 ഒക്ടോബർ 2021 (UTC)
മൂവ്മെന്റ് ചാർട്ടർ ഡ്രാഫ്റ്റിംഗ് കമ്മിറ്റിയിലെ അംഗങ്ങൾക്കുള്ള തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിനുള്ള വോട
തിരുത്തുക
മൂവ്മെന്റ് ചാർട്ടർ ഡ്രാഫ്റ്റിംഗ് കമ്മിറ്റിയിലെ അംഗങ്ങൾക്കുള്ള തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിനുള്ള വോട്ടിംഗ് ഇപ്പോൾ തുറന്നിരിക്കുന്നു. ആകെ, ലോകമെമ്പാടും നിന്നുള്ള 70 വിക്കിമീഡിയന്മാർ 7 സീറ്റുകളിലേക്കാണ് ഈ തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിൽ മത്സരിക്കുന്നത്.
വോട്ടിംഗ് ഒക്ടോബർ 12 മുതൽ ഒക്ടോബർ 24, 2021 വരെ (ഭൂമിയിൽ എവിടെയും) തുറന്നിരിക്കുന്നു.
സമിതിയിൽ ആകെ 15 അംഗങ്ങൾ ആണ് ഉണ്ടാവുക: ഓൺലൈൻ കമ്മ്യൂണിറ്റികൾ 7 അംഗങ്ങൾക്ക് വോട്ട് ചെയ്യുന്നു, 6 അംഗങ്ങളെ വിക്കിമീഡിയ അഫിലിയേറ്റുകൾ സമാന്തര പ്രക്രിയയിലൂടെ തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കും, കൂടാതെ 2 അംഗങ്ങളെ വിക്കിമീഡിയ ഫൗണ്ടേഷൻ നിയമിക്കും. 2021 നവംബർ 1-നകം കമ്മിറ്റിയെ കൂട്ടിച്ചേർക്കാനാണ് പദ്ധതി.
നിങ്ങൾ ഇഷ്ടപ്പെടുന്ന ഭാഷയിൽ നിങ്ങളുടെ വോട്ട് അറിയിക്കാൻ ഓരോ സ്ഥാനാർത്ഥിയെയും കുറിച്ച് അറിയുക: <
ഡ്രാഫ്റ്റിംഗ് കമ്മിറ്റിയെക്കുറിച്ച് അറിയുക: <
ഈ തെരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിനായി ഞങ്ങൾ ഒരു വോട്ടിംഗ് ഉപദേശ ആപ്ലിക്കേഷൻ പൈലറ്റ് ചെയ്യുന്നു. ടൂളിലൂടെ സ്വയം ക്ലിക്ക് ചെയ്യുക, ഏത് സ്ഥാനാർത്ഥിയാണ് നിങ്ങളോട് ഏറ്റവും അടുത്തതെന്ന് നിങ്ങൾക്ക് കാണാം! ഇവിടെ പരിശോധിക്കുക: <
മുഴുവൻ അറിയിപ്പും വായിക്കുക: <
സെക്യൂർപോളിൽ വോട്ട് ചെയ്യുക:
ആശംസകളോടെ,
മൂവ്മെന്റ് സ്ട്രാറ്റജി & ഗവേണൻസ് ടീം, വിക്കിമീഡിയ ഫൗണ്ടേഷൻ
05:54, 13 ഒക്ടോബർ 2021 (UTC)
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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
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
. You can also ask the team questions
on Zoom
on
22 October 15:00 UTC
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20:53, 18 ഒക്ടോബർ 2021 (UTC)
താങ്കളുടെ മൂവ്മെന്റ് സ്ട്രാറ്റജി പ്ലാനുകളെ മൂവ്മെന്റ് സ്ട്രാറ്റജി ഇംപ്ലിമെന്റേഷൻ ഗ്രാന്റുകൾക്ക് എങ്ങനെ പിന്തുണയ്ക്കാമെന്ന് അറിയുക
തിരുത്തുക
മൂവ്മെന്റ് സ്ട്രാറ്റജി ഇംപ്ലിമെന്റേഷൻ ഗ്രാന്റുകൾ ഇപ്പോൾ $2,000 USD-ൽ കൂടുതൽ തുക പദ്ധതികൾ ആസൂത്രണം ചെയ്യുന്നത്തിന് നൽകുന്നു.
മൂവ്മെന്റ് സ്ട്രാറ്റജി ഇംപ്ലിമെന്റേഷൻ ഗ്രാന്റുകൾ, മാനദണ്ഡങ്ങൾ, എങ്ങനെ അപേക്ഷിക്കാം
എന്നിവയെക്കുറിച്ച് കൂടുതൽ കണ്ടെത്തുക
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The
Coolest Tool Award 2021
is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 27 October.
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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.
[12]
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.
[13]
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.
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Recent changes
There is a limit on the amount of emails a user can send each day. This limit is now global instead of per-wiki. This change is to prevent abuse.
[14]
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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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പുതിയ പ്രസ്ഥാന ചാർട്ടർ ഡ്രാഫ്റ്റിംഗ് കമ്മിറ്റി അംഗങ്ങളെ കണ്ടുമുട്ടൂ
തിരുത്തുക
കൂടുതൽ ഭാഷകൾ
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പ്രസ്ഥാന ചാർട്ടർ ഡ്രാഫ്റ്റിംഗ് കമ്മിറ്റി തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പും സെലക്ഷൻ പ്രക്രിയകളും പൂർത്തിയായിരിക്കുന്നു.
തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പ് ഫലം പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിച്ചു
. കമ്മിറ്റിയിലേക്ക് ഏഴ് അംഗങ്ങളെ തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കാൻ 1018 പങ്കാളികൾ വോട്ട് ചെയ്തു:
Richard Knipel (Pharos)
Anne Clin (Risker)
Alice Wiegand (Lyzzy)
Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom)
Richard (Nosebagbear)
Ravan J Al-Taie (Ravan)
Ciell (Ciell)
അഫീലിയേറ്റ് പ്രക്രിയ
ആറ് അംഗങ്ങളെ സെലക്ട് ചെയ്തു.
Anass Sedrati (Anass Sedrati)
Érica Azzellini (EricaAzzellini)
Jamie Li-Yun Lin (Li-Yun Lin)
Georges Fodouop (Geugeor)
Manavpreet Kaur (Manavpreet Kaur)
Pepe Flores (Padaguan)
വിക്കിമീഡിയ ഫൗണ്ടേഷൻ രണ്ട് അംഗങ്ങളെ
നിയമിച്ചു
Runa Bhattacharjee (Runab WMF)
Jorge Vargas (JVargas (WMF))
സമിതിയുടെ പ്രവർത്തനം ഉടൻ ആരംഭിക്കും. വൈവിധ്യവും വൈദഗ്ധ്യവും തമ്മിലുള്ള വിടവുകൾ നികത്താൻ സമിതിക്ക് മൂന്ന് അംഗങ്ങളെ കൂടി നിയമിക്കാനാകും.
പ്രസ്ഥാന ചാർട്ടർ
ഡ്രാഫ്റ്റിംഗ് പ്രക്രിയയിൽ ഏർപ്പെടാൻ നിങ്ങൾക്ക് താൽപ്പര്യമുണ്ടെങ്കിൽ,
മെറ്റയിലെ
അപ്ഡേറ്റുകൾ പിന്തുടർന്ന്
ടെലിഗ്രാം ഗ്രൂപ്പിൽ
ചേരുക
നന്ദിയോടെ പ്രസ്ഥാന സ്ട്രാറ്റജി & ഗവേണൻസ് ടീം.
RamzyM (WMF)
02:37, 2 നവംബർ 2021 (UTC)
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Recent changes
Mobile IP editors are now able to receive warning notices indicating they have a talk page message on the mobile website (similar to the orange banners available on desktop). These notices will be displayed on every page outside of the main namespace and every time the user attempts to edit. The notice on desktop now has a slightly different colour.
[15]
[16]
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.
[17]
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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20:36, 8 നവംബർ 2021 (UTC)
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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.
[18]
There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error.
[19]
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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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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20:02, 22 നവംബർ 2021 (UTC)
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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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21:15, 29 നവംബർ 2021 (UTC)
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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.
[20]
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.
[21]
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21:59, 6 ഡിസംബർ 2021 (UTC)
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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
[22]
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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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 (
) 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.
[23]
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.
[24]
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22:05, 20 ഡിസംബർ 2021 (UTC)
Upcoming Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections
തിരുത്തുക
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The Board of Trustees is preparing a call for feedback about the upcoming Board Elections, from January 7 - February 10, 2022.
While details will be finalized the week before the call, we have confirmed at least two questions that will be asked during this call for feedback:
What is the best way to ensure fair representation of emerging communities among the Board?
What involvement should candidates have during the election?
While additional questions may be added, the Movement Strategy and Governance team wants to provide time for community members and affiliates to consider and prepare ideas on the confirmed questions before the call opens. We apologize for not having a complete list of questions at this time. The list of questions should only grow by one or two questions. The intention is to not overwhelm the community with requests, but provide notice and welcome feedback on these important questions.
Do you want to help organize local conversation during this Call?
Contact the
Movement Strategy and Governance team
on Meta, on
Telegram
, or via email at msg
wikimedia.org.
Reach out if you have any questions or concerns. The Movement Strategy and Governance team will be minimally staffed until January 3. Please excuse any delayed response during this time. We also recognize some community members and affiliates are offline during the December holidays. We apologize if our message has reached you while you are on holiday.
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance
Thank you.
Xeno (WMF)
17:39, 27 ഡിസംബർ 2021 (UTC)
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Wiki Loves Folklore is back!
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You are humbly invited to participate in the
Wiki Loves Folklore 2022
an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the
1st till the 28th
of February.
You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and
submitting
them in this commons contest.
You can also
organize a local contest
in your country and support us in translating the
project pages
to help us spread the word in your native language.
Feel free to contact us on our
project Talk page
if you need any assistance.
Kind regards,
Wiki loves Folklore International Team
--
MediaWiki message delivery
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Recent changes
oauth_consumer
variable has been added to the
AbuseFilter
to enable identifying changes made by specific tools.
[25]
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.
[26]
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.
[27]
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
[28]
At wikis where
the Mentorship system is configured
, you can now use the Action API to get a list of a
mentor's
mentees.
[29]
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.
[30]
[31]
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.
[32]
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.
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01:23, 11 ജനുവരി 2022 (UTC)
ബോർഡ് ഓഫ് ട്രസ്റ്റി തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിനെക്കുറിച്ചുള്ള ഫീഡ്ബാക്കിനായുള്ള കോൾ ഇപ്പോൾ തുറന്നിരിക്കുന്നു
തിരുത്തുക
മെറ്റാ-വിക്കിയിൽ ഈ സന്ദേശം കൂടുതൽ ഭാഷകളിലേക്ക് വിവർത്തനം ചെയ്യപ്പെടുന്നത് കാണാം.
കൂടുതൽ ഭാഷകൾ
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ഫീഡ്ബാക്കിനായുള്ള കോൾ: ബോർഡ് ഓഫ് ട്രസ്റ്റി തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പ് ഇപ്പോൾ തുറന്നിരിക്കുന്നു, 2022 ഫെബ്രുവരി 7-ന് അവസാനിക്കും.
ഫീഡ്ബാക്കിനായുള്ള ഈ കോളിലൂടെ, മൂവ്മെന്റ് സ്ട്രാറ്റജി & ഗവേണൻസ് ടീം വ്യത്യസ്തമായ ഒരു സമീപനം സ്വീകരിക്കുകയാണ്. ഈ സമീപനം 2021 മുതലുള്ള കമ്മ്യൂണിറ്റി ഫീഡ്ബാക്ക് ഉൾക്കൊള്ളുന്നു. നിർദ്ദേശങ്ങളുമായി നയിക്കുന്നതിനുപകരം, ബോർഡ് ഓഫ് ട്രസ്റ്റിയിൽ നിന്നുള്ള പ്രധാന ചോദ്യങ്ങളെ ചുറ്റിപ്പറ്റിയാണ് കോൾ രൂപപ്പെടുത്തിയിരിക്കുന്നത്. 2021ലെ ബോർഡ് ഓഫ് ട്രസ്റ്റി തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിനെക്കുറിച്ചുള്ള ഫീഡ്ബാക്കിൽ നിന്നാണ് പ്രധാന ചോദ്യങ്ങൾ വന്നത്. ഈ പ്രധാന ചോദ്യങ്ങളെക്കുറിച്ച് കൂട്ടായ സംഭാഷണത്തിനും സഹകരണ നിർദ്ദേശ വികസനത്തിനും പ്രചോദനം നൽകുക എന്നതാണ് ഉദ്ദേശ്യം.
സംഭാഷണത്തിൽ ചേരുക.
ആശംസകളോടെ,
മൂവ്മെന്റ് സ്ട്രാറ്റജി & ഗവർണൻസ്
CSinha (WMF)
സംവാദം
06:02, 13 ജനുവരി 2022 (UTC)
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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".
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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.
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Greetings from the EWOC Newsletter team and the education team at Wikimedia Foundation. We are very excited to share that we on tenth years of Education Newsletter (
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If your affiliate/language project is developing its own education initiatives, please remember to take advantage of this newsletter to publish your stories with the wider movement that shares your passion for education. You can submit newsletter articles in your own language or submit bilingual articles for the education newsletter. For the month of January the deadline to submit articles is on the 20th January. We look forward to reading your stories.
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Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 5
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Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 5, January 2022
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Welcome to the fifth issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News (formerly known as Universal Code of Conduct News)! This revamped newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct, Movement Strategy Implementation grants, Board elections and other relevant MSG topics.
This Newsletter will be distributed quarterly, while more frequent Updates will also be delivered weekly or bi-weekly to subscribers. Please remember to subscribe
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Call for Feedback about the Board elections
- We invite you to give your feedback on the upcoming WMF Board of Trustees election. This call for feedback went live on 10th January 2022 and will be concluded on 16th February 2022. (
continue reading
Universal Code of Conduct Ratification
- In 2021, the WMF asked communities about how to enforce the Universal Code of Conduct policy text. The revised draft of the enforcement guidelines should be ready for community vote in March. (
continue reading
Movement Strategy Implementation Grants
- As we continue to review several interesting proposals, we encourage and welcome more proposals and ideas that target a specific initiative from the Movement Strategy recommendations. (
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The New Direction for the Newsletter
- As the UCoC Newsletter transitions into MSG Newsletter, join the facilitation team in envisioning and deciding on the new directions for this newsletter. (
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Diff Blogs
- Check out the most recent publications about MSG on Wikimedia Diff. (
continue reading
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Tech News: 2022-04
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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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.
[34]
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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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
).
[35]
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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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.
[36]
Problems
A code-change last week to fix a bug with
Live Preview
may have caused problems with some local gadgets and user-scripts. Any code with skin-specific behaviour for
vector
should be updated to also check for
vector-2022
A code-snippet, global search, and example are available
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 February. It will be on all wikis from 10 February (
calendar
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21:15, 7 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2022 (UTC)
[Announcement] Leadership Development Task Force
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Dear community members,
The
Invest in Skill and Leadership Development
Movement Strategy recommendation indicates that our movement needs a globally coordinated effort to succeed in leadership development.
The
Community Development team
is supporting the creation of a global and community-driven
m:Leadership Development Task Force
Purpose & Structure
). The purpose of the task force is to advise leadership development work.
The team seeks community feedback on what could be the responsibilities of the task force. Also, if any community member wishes to be a part of the 12-member task force, kindly reach out to us. The feedback period is until 25 February 2022.
Where to share feedback?
#1
Interested community members can add their thoughts on the
Discussion page
#2
Interested community members can join a regional discussion on 18 February, Friday through Google Meet.
Date & Time
Friday, 18 February · 7:00 – 8:00 PM IST (
Your Timezone
) (
Add to Calendar
Google Meet link:
Thanks for your time.
Regards,
CSinha (WMF)
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12:09, 9 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2022 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2022-07
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Recent changes
Purging
a category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely. This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong.
[37]
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.
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Tech News: 2022-08
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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
[39]
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.
[40]
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]]
[41]
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.
[42]
[43]
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.
[44]
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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19:12, 21 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2022 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Folklore is extended till 15th March
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Greetings from Wiki Loves Folklore International Team,
We are pleased to inform you that
Wiki Loves Folklore
an international photographic contest on Wikimedia Commons has been extended till the
15th of March 2022
. The scope of the contest is focused on folk culture of different regions on categories, such as, but not limited to, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, etc.
We would like to have your immense participation in the photographic contest to document your local Folk culture on Wikipedia. You can also help with the
translation
of project pages and share a word in your local language.
Best wishes,
International Team
Wiki Loves Folklore
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04:50, 22 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2022 (UTC)
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Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines & Ratification Vote
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In brief:
the
revised Enforcement Guidelines
have been published. Voting to ratify the guidelines will happen from
7 March to 21 March 2022
. Community members can participate in the discussion with the UCoC project team and drafting committee members on 25 February (12:00 UTC) and 4 March (15:00 UTC). Please
sign-up
Details:
The
m:Universal Code of Conduct
(UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire Wikimedia movement. The UCoC and the Enforcement Guidelines were written by
volunteer-staff drafting committees
following community consultations. The revised guidelines were published 24 January 2022.
What’s next?
#1 Community Conversations
To help to understand the guidelines, the
Movement Strategy and Governance
(MSG) team will host conversations with the UCoC project team and drafting committee members on 25 February (12:00 UTC) and 4 March (15:00 UTC). Please
sign-up
Comments about the guidelines can be shared
on the Enforcement Guidelines talk page
. You can comment in any language.
#2 Ratification Voting
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees released a
statement on the ratification process
where eligible voters can support or oppose the adoption of the enforcement guidelines through vote. Wikimedians are invited to
translate and share important information
SecurePoll vote
is scheduled from 7 March to 21 March 2022.
Eligible voters
are invited to answer a poll question and share comments. Voters will be asked if they support the enforcement of the UCoC based on the proposed guidelines.
Thank you.
CSinha (WMF)
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15:43, 22 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2022 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2022-09
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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
[45]
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.
[46]
[47]
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.
[48]
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
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22:59, 28 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2022 (UTC)
The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now closed
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The
Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections
is now closed. This Call ran from 10 January and closed on 16 February 2022. The Call focused on
three key questions
and received broad discussion
on Meta-wiki
, during meetings with affiliates, and in various community conversations. The community and affiliates provided many proposals and discussion points. The
reports
are on Meta-wiki.
This information will be shared with the Board of Trustees and Elections Committee so they can make informed decisions about the upcoming Board of Trustees election. The Board of Trustees will then follow with an announcement after they have discussed the information.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Call for Feedback to help improve Board election processes.
Thank you,
Movement Strategy and Governance
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08:08, 5 മാർച്ച് 2022 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2022-10
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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.
[49]
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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21:16, 7 മാർച്ച് 2022 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends tomorrow
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International photographic contest
Wiki Loves Folklore 2022
ends on 15th March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. This is the last chance of the year to upload images about local folk culture, festival, cuisine, costume, folklore etc on Wikimedia Commons. Watch out our social media handles for regular updates and declaration of Winners.
The writing competition Feminism and Folklore will run till 31st of March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. Write about your local folk tradition, women, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, folklore, and tradition, including ballads, folktales, fairy tales, legends, traditional song and dance, folk plays, games, seasonal events, calendar customs, folk arts, folk religion, mythology etc. on your local Wikipedia. Check if your
local Wikipedia is participating
A special competition called
Wiki Loves Falles
is organised in Spain and the world during 15th March 2022 till 15th April 2022 to document local folk culture and
Falles
in Valencia, Spain. Learn more about it on
Catalan Wikipedia project page
We look forward for your immense co-operation.
Thanks
Wiki Loves Folklore international Team
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14:40, 14 മാർച്ച് 2022 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2022-11
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Translations
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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.
[50]
[51]
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.
[52]
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 "നാൾവഴി കാണുക".
[53]
Access to
പ്രത്യേകം:നാൾപ്പതിപ്പ് മായ്ക്കൽ
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.
[54]
On the
പ്രത്യേകം:മായ്ച്ചവ പുനഃസ്ഥാപനം
pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions.
[55]
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.
[56]
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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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
[57]
The Jupyter notebooks tool
PAWS
has been updated to a new interface.
[58]
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.
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16:01, 21 മാർച്ച് 2022 (UTC)
Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting is now closed
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Greetings,
The ratification voting process for the
revised enforcement guidelines
of the
Universal Code of Conduct
(UCoC) came to a close on 21 March 2022.
Over 2300 Wikimedians voted
across different regions of our movement. Thank you to everyone who participated in this process! The scrutinizing group is now reviewing the vote for accuracy, so please allow up to two weeks for them to finish their work.
The final results from the voting process will be announced
here
, along with the relevant statistics and a summary of comments as soon as they are available. Please check out
the voter information page
to learn about the next steps. You can comment on the project talk page
on Meta-wiki
in any language.
You may also contact the UCoC project team by email: ucocproject
wikimedia.org
Best regards,
CSinha (WMF)
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10:00, 23 മാർച്ച് 2022 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2022-13
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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
).
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Tech News: 2022-14
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Problems
For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the
പ്രത്യേകം:സമീപകാലമാറ്റങ്ങൾ
feed. This bug has been fixed.
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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.
[63]
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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Announcing Indic Hackathon 2022 and Scholarship Applications
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Dear Wikimedians, we are happy to announce that the Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group will be organizing
Indic Hackathon 2022
, a regional event as part of the main
Wikimedia Hackathon 2022
taking place in a hybrid mode during 20-22 May 2022. The event will take place in Hyderabad. The regional event will be in-person with support for virtual participation. As it is with any hackathon, the event’s program will be semi-structured i.e. while we will have some sessions in sync with the main hackathon event, the rest of the time will be upto participants’ interest on what issues they are interested to work on. The event page can be seen on
this page
In this regard, we would like to invite community members who would like to attend in-person to fill out a
form for scholarship application
by 17 April, which is available on the event page. Please note that the hackathon won’t be focusing on training of new skills, and it is expected that applications have some experience/knowledge contributing to technical areas of the Wikimedia movement. Please post on the event talk page if you have any queries.
MediaWiki message delivery
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18:31, 7 ഏപ്രിൽ 2022 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2022-15
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Latest
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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.
[64]
[65]
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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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19:44, 11 ഏപ്രിൽ 2022 (UTC)
Join the South Asia / ESEAP Annual Plan Meeting with Maryana Iskander
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Dear community members,
In continuation of
Maryana Iskander
's
listening tour
, the
Movement Communications
and
Movement Strategy and Governance
teams invite you to discuss the
2022-23 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan
The conversations are about these questions:
The
2030 Wikimedia Movement Strategy
sets a direction toward "knowledge as a service" and "knowledge equity". The Wikimedia Foundation wants to plan according to these two goals. How do you think the Wikimedia Foundation should apply them to our work?
The Wikimedia Foundation continues to explore better ways of working at a regional level. We have increased our regional focus in areas like grants, new features, and community conversations. How can we improve?
Anyone can contribute to the Movement Strategy process. We want to know about your activities, ideas, requests, and lessons learned. How can the Wikimedia Foundation better support the volunteers and affiliates working in Movement Strategy activities?
Date and Time
The meeting will happen via
Zoom
on 24 April (Sunday) at 07:00 UTC (
local time
). Kindly
add the event to your calendar
. Live interpretation will be available for some languages.
Regards,
CSinha (WMF)
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09:56, 17 ഏപ്രിൽ 2022 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2022-16
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Latest
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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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.
[66]
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
[67]
The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated.
[68]
[69]
[70]
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23:11, 18 ഏപ്രിൽ 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-17
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Translations
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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.
[71]
[72]
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.
[73]
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22:56, 25 ഏപ്രിൽ 2022 (UTC)
Call for Candidates: 2022 Board of Trustees Election
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Dear community members,
The
2022 Board of Trustees elections
process has begun. The
Call for Candidates
has been announced.
The Board of Trustees oversees the operations of the Wikimedia Foundation. Community-and-affiliate selected trustees and Board-appointed trustees make up the Board of Trustees. Each trustee serves a three year term. The Wikimedia community has the opportunity to vote for community-and-affiliate selected trustees.
The Wikimedia community will vote to elect two seats on the Board of Trustees in 2022. This is an opportunity to improve the representation, diversity, and expertise of the Board of Trustees.
Kindly
submit your candidacy
to join the Board of Trustees.
CSinha (WMF)
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08:42, 29 ഏപ്രിൽ 2022 (UTC)
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Call for Candidates: 2022 Board of Trustees Election
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Dear community members,
The
2022 Board of Trustees elections
process has begun. The
Call for Candidates
has been announced.
The Board of Trustees oversees the operations of the Wikimedia Foundation. Community-and-affiliate selected trustees and Board-appointed trustees make up the Board of Trustees. Each trustee serves a three year term. The Wikimedia community has the opportunity to vote for community-and-affiliate selected trustees.
The Wikimedia community will vote to elect two seats on the Board of Trustees in 2022. This is an opportunity to improve the representation, diversity, and expertise of the Board of Trustees.
Kindly
submit your candidacy
to join the Board of Trustees.
CSinha (WMF)
സംവാദം
08:52, 29 ഏപ്രിൽ 2022 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2022-18
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Latest
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
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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.
[74]
[75]
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.
[76]
[77]
If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a
colorblind-friendly color scheme
[78]
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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19:33, 2 മേയ് 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-19
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Recent changes
You can now see categories in the
Wikipedia app for Android
[79]
Problems
Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed.
[80]
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.
[81]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
[82]
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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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election 2022 - Call for Election Volunteers
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You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.
കൂടുതൽ ഭാഷകൾ
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The Movement Strategy and Governance team is looking for community members to serve as election volunteers in the upcoming Board of Trustees election.
The idea of the Election Volunteer Program came up during the 2021 Wikimedia Board of Trustees Election. This program turned out to be successful. With the help of Election Volunteers we were able to increase outreach and participation in the election by 1,753 voters over 2017. Overall turnout was 10.13%, 1.1 percentage points more, and 214 wikis were represented in the election.
There were a total of 74 wikis that did not participate in 2017 that produced voters in the 2021 election. Can you help increase the participation even more?
Election volunteers will help in the following areas:
Translate short messages and announce the ongoing election process in community channels
Optional: Monitor community channels for community comments and questions
Volunteers should:
Maintain the friendly space policy during conversations and events
Present the guidelines and voting information to the community in a neutral manner
Do you want to be an election volunteer and ensure your community is represented in the vote? Sign up
here
to receive updates. You can use the
talk page
for questions about translation.
CSinha (WMF)
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10:17, 12 മേയ് 2022 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election 2022 - Call for Election Volunteers
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കൂടുതൽ ഭാഷകൾ
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The Movement Strategy and Governance team is looking for community members to serve as election volunteers in the upcoming Board of Trustees election.
The idea of the Election Volunteer Program came up during the 2021 Wikimedia Board of Trustees Election. This program turned out to be successful. With the help of Election Volunteers we were able to increase outreach and participation in the election by 1,753 voters over 2017. Overall turnout was 10.13%, 1.1 percentage points more, and 214 wikis were represented in the election.
There were a total of 74 wikis that did not participate in 2017 that produced voters in the 2021 election. Can you help increase the participation even more?
Election volunteers will help in the following areas:
Translate short messages and announce the ongoing election process in community channels
Optional: Monitor community channels for community comments and questions
Volunteers should:
Maintain the friendly space policy during conversations and events
Present the guidelines and voting information to the community in a neutral manner
Do you want to be an election volunteer and ensure your community is represented in the vote? Sign up
here
to receive updates. You can use the
talk page
for questions about translation.
CSinha (WMF)
സംവാദം
10:42, 12 മേയ് 2022 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Tech News: 2022-20
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Latest
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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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
[83]
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.
[84]
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18:58, 16 മേയ് 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-21
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Recent changes
Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages.
[85]
The
www.wiktionary.org
portal page now uses an automated update system. Other
project portals
will be updated over the next few months.
[86]
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.
[87]
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.
[88]
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.
[89]
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Tech News: 2022-22
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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.
[90]
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
[91]
[92]
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
[93]
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.
[94]
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Tech News: 2022-23
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Latest
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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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
[95]
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Tech News: 2022-24
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Recent changes
All wikis can now use
Kartographer
maps. Kartographer maps now also work on pages with
pending changes
[96]
[97]
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
).
[98]
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
[99]
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
[100]
[101]
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.
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16:58, 13 ജൂൺ 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-25
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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
).
[102]
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.
A new
user_global_editcount
variable can be used in
abuse filters
to avoid affecting globally active users.
[103]
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.
[104]
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
[105]
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Tech News: 2022-26
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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
).
[106]
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.
[107]
Users will be able to sort columns within sortable tables in the mobile skin.
[108]
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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20:02, 27 ജൂൺ 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-27
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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
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19:32, 4 ജൂലൈ 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-28
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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.
[110]
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
[111]
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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19:24, 11 ജൂലൈ 2022 (UTC)
Propose statements for the 2022 Election Compass
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Hi all,
Community members are invited to
propose statements to use in the Election Compass
for the
2022 Board of Trustees election.
An Election Compass is a tool to help voters select the candidates that best align with their beliefs and views. The community members will propose statements for the candidates to answer using a Lickert scale (agree/neutral/disagree). The candidates’ answers to the statements will be loaded into the Election Compass tool. Voters will use the tool by entering in their answer to the statements (agree/neutral/disagree). The results will show the candidates that best align with the voter’s beliefs and views.
Here is the timeline for the Election Compass:
July 8 - 20: Community members propose statements for the Election Compass
July 21 - 22: Elections Committee reviews statements for clarity and removes off-topic statements
July 23 - August 1: Volunteers vote on the statements
August 2 - 4: Elections Committee selects the top 15 statements
August 5 - 12: candidates align themselves with the statements
August 15: The Election Compass opens for voters to use to help guide their voting decision
The Elections Committee will select the top 15 statements at the beginning of August. The Elections Committee will oversee the process, supported by the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team. MSG will check that the questions are clear, there are no duplicates, no typos, and so on.
Regards,
Movement Strategy & Governance
This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee
CSinha (WMF)
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08:02, 12 ജൂലൈ 2022 (UTC)
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Propose statements for the 2022 Election Compass
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Hi all,
Community members are invited to
propose statements to use in the Election Compass
for the
2022 Board of Trustees election.
An Election Compass is a tool to help voters select the candidates that best align with their beliefs and views. The community members will propose statements for the candidates to answer using a Lickert scale (agree/neutral/disagree). The candidates’ answers to the statements will be loaded into the Election Compass tool. Voters will use the tool by entering in their answer to the statements (agree/neutral/disagree). The results will show the candidates that best align with the voter’s beliefs and views.
Here is the timeline for the Election Compass:
July 8 - 20: Community members propose statements for the Election Compass
July 21 - 22: Elections Committee reviews statements for clarity and removes off-topic statements
July 23 - August 1: Volunteers vote on the statements
August 2 - 4: Elections Committee selects the top 15 statements
August 5 - 12: candidates align themselves with the statements
August 15: The Election Compass opens for voters to use to help guide their voting decision
The Elections Committee will select the top 15 statements at the beginning of August. The Elections Committee will oversee the process, supported by the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team. MSG will check that the questions are clear, there are no duplicates, no typos, and so on.
Regards,
Movement Strategy & Governance
This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee
CSinha (WMF)
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08:13, 12 ജൂലൈ 2022 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2022-29
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Problems
The feature on mobile web for
Nearby Pages
was missing last week. It will be fixed this week.
[112]
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
TDFSupport@wikimedia.org
before 12 August.
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22:59, 18 ജൂലൈ 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-30
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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.
[113]
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
).
[114]
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.
[115]
Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "തടയലിൽ മാറ്റം വരുത്തുക" and "ഉപയോക്താവിനെ പുനഃസ്ഥാപിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു" instead of just "ഉപയോക്താവിനെ തടയുക" if the user is already blocked.
[116]
Future meetings
The next
open meeting with the Web team
about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (26 July).
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19:27, 25 ജൂലൈ 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-31
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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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21:21, 1 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-32
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Recent changes
GUS2Wiki
copies the information from
പ്രത്യേകം: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
[117]
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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19:49, 8 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-33
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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
[118]
[119]
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21:08, 15 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-34
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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.
[121]
[122]
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.
[123]
Future changes
The new [വരിക്കാരാവുക] button
helps newcomers get answers
. The Editing team is enabling this tool everywhere. You can turn it off in
your preferences
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00:12, 23 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2022 (UTC)
WikiConference India 2023: Initial conversations
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Dear Wikimedians,
Hope all of you are doing well. We are glad to inform you to restart the conversation to host the next WikiConference India 2023 after WCI 2020 which was not conducted due to the unexpected COVID-19 pandemic, it couldn't take place. However, we are hoping to reinitiate this discussion and for that we need your involvement, suggestions and support to help organize a much needed conference in February-March of 2023.
The proposed 2023 conference will bring our energies, ideas, learnings, and hopes together. This conference will provide a national-level platform for Indian Wikimedians to connect, re-connect, and establish their collaboration itself can be a very important purpose on its own- in the end it will empower us all to strategize, plan ahead and collaborate- as a movement.
We hope we, the Indian Wikimedia Community members, come together in various capacities and make this a reality. We believe we will take learnings from earlier attempts, improve processes & use best practices in conducting this conference purposefully and fruitfully.
Here is a survey
form
to get your responses on the same notion. Unfortunately we are working with short timelines since the final date of proposal submission is 5 September. We request you please fill out the form by 28th August. After your responses, we can decide if we have the community need and support for the conference. You are also encouraged to add your support on
this page
, if you support the idea.
Regards,
Nitesh Gill
Nivas10798
Neechalkaran
06:39, 24 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2022 (UTC)
മറുപടി
2022 Board of Trustees Community Voting Period is now Open
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Dear community members,
The Community Voting period for the
2022 Board of Trustees election
is now open. Here are some helpful links to get you the information you need to vote:
Try the
Election Compass
, showing how candidates stand on 15 different topics.
Read the
candidate statements
and
answers to Affiliate questions
Learn more about the skills the Board seeks
and how the
Analysis Committee found candidates align with those skills
Watch the videos of the candidates answering questions proposed by the community
.
If you are ready to vote, you may go to
SecurePoll voting page
to vote now.
You may vote from August 23 at 00:00 UTC to September 6 at 23:59 UTC.
To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the
voter eligibility page
Regards,
Movement Strategy and Governance
This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee
CSinha (WMF)
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12:19, 26 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2022 (UTC)
മറുപടി
2022 Board of Trustees Community Voting Period is now Open
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Dear community members,
The Community Voting period for the
2022 Board of Trustees election
is now open. Here are some helpful links to get you the information you need to vote:
Try the
Election Compass
, showing how candidates stand on 15 different topics.
Read the
candidate statements
and
answers to Affiliate questions
Learn more about the skills the Board seeks
and how the
Analysis Committee found candidates align with those skills
Watch the videos of the candidates answering questions proposed by the community
.
If you are ready to vote, you may go to
SecurePoll voting page
to vote now.
You may vote from August 23 at 00:00 UTC to September 6 at 23:59 UTC.
To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the
voter eligibility page
Regards,
Movement Strategy and Governance
This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee
CSinha (WMF)
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12:33, 26 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2022 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2022-35
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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
പ്രത്യേകം:സ്ഥിതിവിവരം
at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed.
[125]
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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23:05, 29 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2022 (UTC)
The 2022 Board of Trustees election Community Voting is about to close
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Hello,
The Community Voting period of the 2022 Board of Trustees election started on August 23, 2022, and will close on September 6, 2022 23:59 UTC. There’s still a chance to participate in this election. If you did not vote, please visit the
SecurePoll voting page
to vote now. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the
voter eligibility page
If you need help in making your decision, here are some helpful links:
Try the
Election Compass
, showing how candidates stand on 15 different topics.
Read the
candidate statements
and
answers to Affiliate questions
Learn more about the skills the Board seek
and how the
Analysis Committee found candidates align with those skills
Watch the videos of the candidates answering questions proposed by the community
Regards,
Movement Strategy and Governance
CSinha (WMF)
സംവാദം
12:39, 1 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2022 (UTC)
മറുപടി
The 2022 Board of Trustees election Community Voting is about to close
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Hello,
The Community Voting period of the 2022 Board of Trustees election started on August 23, 2022, and will close on September 6, 2022 23:59 UTC. There’s still a chance to participate in this election. If you did not vote, please visit the
SecurePoll voting page
to vote now. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the
voter eligibility page
If you need help in making your decision, here are some helpful links:
Try the
Election Compass
, showing how candidates stand on 15 different topics.
Read the
candidate statements
and
answers to Affiliate questions
Learn more about the skills the Board seek
and how the
Analysis Committee found candidates align with those skills
Watch the videos of the candidates answering questions proposed by the community
Regards,
Movement Strategy and Governance
CSinha (WMF)
സംവാദം
12:57, 1 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2022 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Tech News: 2022-36
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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
[126]
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23:22, 5 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-37
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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
[128]
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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
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01:49, 13 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2022 (UTC)
WikiConference India 2023: Proposal to WMF
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Hello everyone,
We are happy to inform you that we have submitted the
Conference & Event Grant proposal for WikiConference India 2023
to the Wikimedia Foundation. We kindly request all the community members to go through the proposal -- including the community engagement survey report, program plan, venue and logistics, participation and scholarships, and the budget, and provide us with your suggestions/comments on the
talk page
. You can endorse the proposal in the
endorsements section
, please do add a rationale for supporting this project.
According to the timeline of the Conference and Event Grants program, the community can review till 23 September 2022, post that we will start integrating all the received feedback to make modifications to the proposal. Depending on the response of community members, an IRC may be hosted next week, especially if there are any questions/concerns that need to be addressed.
We reopened the survey form and if you are still interested in taking part in the survey and you have something in mind to share or want to become a part of the organizing team, please
fill out the form
so we all can work together.
Let us know if you have any questions.
Regards,
Nitesh Gill
Nivas10798
Neechalkaran
07:35, 19 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2022 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2022-38
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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.
[130]
[131]
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.
[132]
[133]
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
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22:16, 19 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2022 (UTC)
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The Vector 2022 skin as the default in two weeks?
തിരുത്തുക
The slides for our presentation at Wikimania 2022
Hello. I'm writing on behalf of the
Wikimedia Foundation Web team
In two weeks, we would like to make the Vector 2022 skin the default on this wiki.
We have been working on it for the past three years. So far, it has been the default on more than 30 wikis, including sister projects, all accounting for more than 1 billion pageviews per month. On average
87% of active logged-in users
of those wikis use Vector 2022.
It would become the default for all logged-out users, and also all logged-in users who currently use Vector legacy. Logged-in users can at any time switch to
any other skins
. No changes are expected for users of these skins.
Top of an article
Vector legacy (current default)
Vector 2022
A section of an article
Vector legacy (current default)
Vector 2022
About the skin
തിരുത്തുക
[Why is a change necessary]
The current default skin meets the needs of the readers and editors as these were 13 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using Wikimedia projects.
The old Vector doesn't meet their needs.
[Objective]
The objective for the new skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It draws inspiration from previous requests, the
Community Wishlist Surveys
, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins.
We reduced PHP code in Wikimedia deployed skins by 75%
. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.
[Changes and test results]
The skin introduces a
series of changes
that improve readability and usability. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.
The sticky header makes it easier to find tools that editors use often. It decreases scrolling to the top of the page by 16%.
The new table of contents makes it easier to navigate to different sections. Readers and editors jumped to different sections of the page 50% more than with the old table of contents. It also looks a bit different on talk pages.
The new search bar is easier to find and makes it easier to find the correct search result from the list. This increased the amount of searches started by 30% on the wikis we tested on.
The skin does not negatively affect pageviews, edit rates, or account creation. There is evidence of increases in pageviews and account creation across partner communities.
[Try it out]
Try out the new skin by going to the appearance tab in
your preferences
and selecting Vector 2022 from the list of skins.
How can editors change and customize this skin?
തിരുത്തുക
It's possible to configure and personalize our changes. We support volunteers who create new gadgets and user scripts. Check out
our repository
for a list of currently available customizations, or add your own.
Our plan
തിരുത്തുക
If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying in the week of October 3, 2022
. If your community would like to request more time to discuss the changes, hit the button and write to us. We can adjust the calendar.
Request for more time to discuss the change
If you'd like ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please ping me here or write on the
talk page of the project
. We will gladly answer! Also,
see our FAQ
. Thank you!
SGrabarczuk (WMF)
talk
04:15, 22 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2022 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2022-39
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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.
[134]
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.
[135]
[136]
In the
ഘടകം
namespace, pages ending with
.json
will be treated as JSON, just like they already are in the ഉപയോക്താവ് and മീഡിയവിക്കി namespaces.
[137]
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Recent changes
Kartographer
maps can now show geopoints from Wikidata, via QID or SPARQL query. Previously, this was only possible for geoshapes and geolines.
[138]
[139]
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)
[140]
[141]
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.
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Tech News: 2022-41
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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.
[142]
[143]
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Recent changes
The recently implemented feature of
article thumbnails in Special:Search
will be limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in
T320510
[144]
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.
[145]
Lua module authors can enable
require( "strict" )
to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "
Module:No globals
" on most wikis.
[146]
Future changes
The
Beta Feature
for
DiscussionTools
will be updated at most wikis. The "മറുപടി" button will look different after this change.
[147]
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Tech News: 2022-43
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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.
[148]
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
[149]
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
[150]
[151]
[152]
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.
Future changes
The
Reply tool
and
New Topic tool
will soon get a
special characters menu
[153]
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21:22, 24 ഒക്ടോബർ 2022 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2022-44
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Recent changes
When using keyboard navigation on a
Kartographer
map, the focus will become more visible.
[154]
In പ്രത്യേകം:സമീപകാലമാറ്റങ്ങൾ, you can now hide the log entries for new user creations with the filter for "⧼rcfilters-filter-newuserlogactions-label⧽".
[155]
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.
[156]
It is now possible to select the language of a
Kartographer
map in VisualEditor via a dropdown menu.
[157]
It is now possible to add a caption to a
Kartographer
map in VisualEditor.
[158]
It is now possible to hide the frame of a
Kartographer
map in VisualEditor.
[159]
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Tech News: 2022-45
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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.
[160]
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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Tech News: 2022-46
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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.
[161]
The
www.wikinews.org
www.wikiversity.org
, and
www.wikivoyage.org
portal pages now use an automated update system.
[162]
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.
[163]
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
[164]
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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21:54, 14 നവംബർ 2022 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2022-47
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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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Tech News: 2022-48
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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.
[165]
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.
[166]
[167]
[168]
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.
[169]
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
[170]
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Tech News: 2022-49
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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
[171]
[172]
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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Tech News: 2022-50
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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 മറുപടി tool and other features.
[173]
The character
cannot be used in new usernames, to make usernames work better with templates. Existing usernames are not affected.
[174]
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.
[175]
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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23:34, 12 ഡിസംബർ 2022 (UTC)
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Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January
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a translatable version of this message on MetaWiki
Hello
The
Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) 2023
, which lets contributors propose and vote for tools and improvements, starts next month on Monday,
23 January 2023, at 18:00 UTC
and will continue annually.
We are inviting you to share your ideas for technical improvements to our tools and platforms. Long experience in editing or technical skills is not required. If you have ever used our software and thought of an idea to improve it, this is the place to come share those ideas!
The dates for the phases of the Survey will be as follows:
Phase 1: Submit, discuss, and revise proposals – Monday, Jan 23, 2023 to Sunday, Feb 6, 2023
Phase 2: WMF/Community Tech reviews and organizes proposals – Monday, Jan 30, 2023 to Friday, Feb 10, 2023
Phase 3: Vote on proposals – Friday, Feb 10, 2023 to Friday, Feb 24, 2023
Phase 4: Results posted – Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023
If you want to start writing out your ideas ahead of the Survey, you can start thinking about your proposals and draft them in
the CWS sandbox
We are grateful to all who participated last year. See you in January 2023!
നന്ദി!
Community Tech,
STei (WMF)
16:44, 15 ഡിസംബർ 2022 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2022-51
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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.
[176]
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
[177]
One of our test wikis
is now being served from a new infrastructure powered by
Kubernetes
). More Wikis will switch to this new infrastructure in early 2023. Please test and let us know of any issues.
[178]
Problems
Last week, all wikis had no edit access for 9 minutes. This was caused by a database problem.
[179]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
The word "മറുപടി" is very short in some languages, such as Arabic ("
ردّ
"). This makes the ചർച്ചാ ഉപകരണങ്ങൾ 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.
[180]
[181]
Future changes
Edits can be automatically "tagged" by the system software or the ദുരുപയോഗ അരിപ്പ കൈകാര്യം 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.
[182]
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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00:00, 20 ഡിസംബർ 2022 (UTC)
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Upcoming vote on the revised Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct
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കൂടുതൽ ഭാഷകൾ
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Hello all,
In mid-January 2023, the
Enforcement Guidelines
for the
Universal Code of Conduct
will undergo a second community-wide ratification vote. This follows
the March 2022 vote
, which resulted in a majority of voters supporting the Enforcement Guidelines. During the vote, participants helped highlight important community concerns. The Board’s
Community Affairs Committee
requested that these areas of concern be reviewed.
The volunteer-led
Revisions Committee
worked hard reviewing community input and making changes. They updated areas of concern, such as training and affirmation requirements, privacy and transparency in the process, and readability and translatability of the document itself.
The revised Enforcement Guidelines can be viewed
here
, and a comparison of changes can be found
here
How to vote?
Beginning
January 17, 2023
, voting will be open.
This page on Meta-wiki
outlines information on how to vote using SecurePoll.
Who can vote?
The
eligibility requirements
for this vote are the same as for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees elections. See the voter information page for more details about voter eligibility. If you are an eligible voter, you can use your Wikimedia account to access the voting server.
What happens after the vote?
Votes will be scrutinized by an independent group of volunteers, and the results will be published on Wikimedia-l, the Movement Strategy Forum, Diff and on Meta-wiki. Voters will again be able to vote and share concerns they have about the guidelines. The Board of Trustees will look at the levels of support and concerns raised as they look at how the Enforcement Guidelines should be ratified or developed further.
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Tech News: 2023-02
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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.
[183]
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.
[184]
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.
[185]
Matrix
is a chat tool. You can now use
matrix:
to create Matrix links on wiki pages.
[186]
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.
[187]
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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Tech News: 2023-03
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Problems
The URLs in "അവസാനത്തെ" 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.
[188]
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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
സംവാദം:
and
ഉപയോക്താവിന്റെ സംവാദം:
namespaces. These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such as
വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ സംവാദം:
. They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including
വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ:
pages (e.g., at the Village Pump). You can
change your preferences
beta feature
).
[189]
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.
[190]
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.
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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Voting Opens on the Revised Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines
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23:59 UTC
on
January 31, 2023
. Please visit the
voter information page
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For more details on the Enforcement Guidelines and the voting process, see our
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Tech News: 2023-04
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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.
[191]
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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.
[192]
[193]
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
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Tech News: 2023-05
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Last week, for ~15 minutes, some users were unable to log in or edit pages. This was caused by a problem with session storage.
[194]
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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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Tech News: 2023-06
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In the
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[195]
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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.
[196]
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.
[197]
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=…
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Global ban for PlanespotterA320/RespectCE
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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.
[198]
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The
new version
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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
[199]
Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for
14:00 UTC
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[200]
[201]
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Tech News: 2023-08
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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.
[203]
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
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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.
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Community feedback-cycle about updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use starts
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Wikimedia Foundation Legal Department
is organizing a feedback-cycle with community members to discuss updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use.
The Terms of Use (ToU)
are the legal terms that govern the use of websites hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. We will be gathering your feedback on a draft proposal from February through April. The draft will be translated into several languages, with written feedback accepted in any language.
This update comes in response to several things:
Implementing the Universal Code of Conduct.
Updating project text to the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license.
Proposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing.
Bringing the Terms of Use in line with current and recently passed laws affecting the Wikimedia Foundation, including the European Digital Services Act
As part of the feedback cycle two office hours will be held: the first on 2 March and the second on 4 April.
For further information, please consult:
The
proposed update of the ToU by comparison
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feedback
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Your wiki will be in read only soon
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മറ്റൊരു ഭാഷയിൽ ഈ സന്ദേശം വായിക്കുക
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അവരുടെ ദ്വിതീയ ഡാറ്റാ സെന്റർ പരീക്ഷിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും. ഒരു ദുരന്തം സംഭവിച്ചാൽ വിക്കിപീഡിയക്കും അനുബന്ധ വിക്കികൾക്കും ഓൺലൈനിൽ തുടരുവാൻ സാധിക്കും എന്നത് ഉറപ്പുവരുത്താൻ വേണ്ടിയാണ് ഈ പരീക്ഷണം നടത്തുന്നത്. എല്ലാം പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നുണ്ടെന്ന് ഉറപ്പാക്കാൻ, വിക്കിമീഡിയ ടെക്നോളജി വിഭാഗത്തിന് ആസൂത്രിതമായ ഒരു പരിശോധന നടത്തേണ്ടതുണ്ട്. ഒരു ഡാറ്റാ സെന്ററിൽ നിന്ന് മറ്റൊന്നിലേക്ക് വിശ്വസനീയമായി മാറാൻ കഴിയുമോ എന്ന് ഈ പരിശോധന തെളിയിക്കും. പരീക്ഷണങ്ങൾക്ക് തയ്യാറെടുക്കുന്നതിനും അപ്രതീക്ഷിതമായി എന്തെങ്കിലും പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ ഉണ്ടായാൽ പരിഹരിക്കുന്നതിനും നിരവധി ടീമുകൾ ആവശ്യമാണ്.
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അവർ എല്ലാ ട്രാഫിക്കും ദ്വിതീയ ഡാറ്റാ സെന്ററിലേക്ക് മാറ്റും.
പരീക്ഷണം
14:00 UTC
(7:30 PM IST) ന് ആരംഭിക്കും
നിർഭാഗ്യവശാൽ,
മീഡിയവിക്കിയിലുള്ള
ചില പരിമിതികൾ മൂലം, എല്ലാ തിരുത്തലുകളും ഈ മാറ്റങ്ങളുടെ സമയത്ത് നിർത്തേണ്ടതാണ്. ഈ തടസ്സത്തിന് ഞങ്ങൾ ക്ഷമ ചോദിക്കുന്നു, ഭാവിയിൽ ഇത് കുറയ്ക്കുന്നതിന് ഞങ്ങൾ പ്രവർത്തിക്കും.
നിങ്ങൾക്ക് ഈ സമയത്ത് എല്ലാ വിക്കികളും വായിക്കാൻ കഴിയും, പക്ഷേ എഡിറ്റുചെയ്യാൻ കഴിയില്ല.
ബുധൻ 1 മാർച്ച് 2023 നിങ്ങൾക്ക് ഒരു മണിക്കൂർ നേരത്തേക്ക് എഡിറ്റുചെയ്യാൻ കഴിയില്ല.
ഈ സമയങ്ങളിൽ നിങ്ങൾ എഡിറ്റുചെയ്യാനോ മറ്റോ ശ്രമിക്കുകയാണെങ്കിൽ, നിങ്ങൾക്ക് ഒരു പിശക് സന്ദേശം കാണാം. ഈ മിനിറ്റുകളിൽ ഒരു എഡിറ്റുകളും നഷ്ടപ്പെടില്ലെന്ന് ഞങ്ങൾ പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കുന്നു, പക്ഷേ ഞങ്ങൾക്ക് ഇത് ഉറപ്പ് നൽകാൻ കഴിയില്ല. നിങ്ങൾക്ക് പിഴവ് സന്ദേശം ലഭിച്ചാൽ എല്ലാം പഴയത് പോലാകുന്നത് വരെ കാത്തിരിക്കുക. അതിനു ശേഷം നിങ്ങളുടെ എഡിറ്റുകൾ സേവ് ചെയ്യുവാൻ കഴിയും. പക്ഷേ, നിങ്ങളുടെ മാറ്റങ്ങളുടെ ഒരു പകർപ്പ് ആദ്യം നിർമ്മിക്കാൻ ഞങ്ങൾ ശുപാർശ ചെയ്യുന്നു.
മറ്റു ഫലങ്ങൾ
പശ്ചാത്തല പ്രവർത്തനങ്ങൾ മന്ദഗതിയിലാകും, ചിലത് ഉപേക്ഷിക്കപ്പെടാം. ചുവന്ന ലിങ്കുകൾ സാധാരണപോലെ അപ്ഡേറ്റ് ചെയ്യപ്പെടില്ല. നിങ്ങൾ മറ്റെവിടെയെങ്കിലും ഇതിനകം ലിങ്ക് ചെയ്തിട്ടുള്ള ഒരു ലേഖനം സൃഷ്ടിക്കുകയാണെങ്കിൽ, സാധാരണയുള്ളതിനേക്കാളും നേരം ആ കണ്ണി ചുവന്നുകിടക്കും. ദീർഘകാലമായി പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്ന ചില സ്ക്രിപ്റ്റുകൾ നിർത്തേണ്ടിവരും.
We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week.
However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
GitLab
will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
ആവശ്യമെങ്കിൽ ഈ പ്രോജക്റ്റ് മാറ്റിവച്ചേക്കാം. ഇതിന്റെ ഷെഡ്യൂൾ
wikitech.wikimedia.orgൽ
ലഭ്യമാണ്. എന്തെങ്കിലും മാറ്റമുണ്ടെങ്കിൽ ഷെഡ്യൂളിൽ പ്രഖ്യാപിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും. ഇതിനെക്കുറിച്ച് ഇനിയും അറിയിപ്പുകൾ ഉണ്ടാവും. ഈ പ്രവർത്തനം നടക്കുന്നതിന് 30 മിനിറ്റ് മുമ്പ് എല്ലാ വിക്കികളിലും ഒരു ബാനർ പ്രദർശിപ്പിക്കും.
ദയവു ചെയ്തു ഈ വിവരം നിങ്ങളുടെ സമൂഹത്തെ അറിയിക്കുക.
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21:21, 27 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-09
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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.
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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
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23:47, 27 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-10
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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.
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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.
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23:49, 6 മാർച്ച് 2023 (UTC)
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Wikimania 2023 Welcoming Program Submissions
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Do you want to host an in-person or virtual session at Wikimania 2023? Maybe a hands-on workshop, a lively discussion, a fun performance, a catchy poster, or a memorable lightning talk?
Submissions are open until March 28
. The event will have dedicated hybrid blocks, so virtual submissions and pre-recorded content are also welcome. If you have any questions, please join us at an upcoming conversation on March 12 or 19, or reach out by email at wikimania@wikimedia.org or on Telegram. More information on-wiki.
Tech News: 2023-11
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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
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23:20, 13 മാർച്ച് 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-12
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Problems
Last week, some users experienced issues loading image thumbnails. This was due to incorrectly cached images.
[214]
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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
പ്രത്യേകം:കേന്ദ്രീകൃത അംഗീകാരം
page will appear on
പ്രത്യേകം:സംഭാവനകൾ
— some user scripts which previously added this link may cause conflicts. This feature request was
voted #17 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
The
പ്രത്യേകം:ദുരുപയോഗയരിപ്പ
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
പ്രത്യേകം:തടയൽനീക്കുക
and via the API.
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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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01:25, 21 മാർച്ച് 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-13
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Recent changes
The
AbuseFilter
condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000.
[216]
Some Global AbuseFilter
actions will no longer apply to local projects.
[217]
Desktop users are now able to subscribe to talk pages by clicking on the വരിക്കാരാവുക link in the ഉപകരണങ്ങൾ 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.
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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.
[219]
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.
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01:13, 28 മാർച്ച് 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-14
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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.
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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.
[226]
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
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Some of the links in
പ്രത്യേകം:പ്രത്യേകതാളുകൾ
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.
[228]
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.
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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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23:39, 3 ഏപ്രിൽ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-15
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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
[232]
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
[233]
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.
[234]
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
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20:05, 10 ഏപ്രിൽ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-16
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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.
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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
[239]
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.
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For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed.
[242]
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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01:54, 18 ഏപ്രിൽ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-17
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Recent changes
The date-selection menu on pages such as
പ്രത്യേകം:സംഭാവനകൾ
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
[243]
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.
[244]
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.
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Changes later this week
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for
14:00 UTC
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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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22:03, 24 ഏപ്രിൽ 2023 (UTC)
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Seeking volunteers for the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct process
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Hello,
As follow-up to
the message about the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines
by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Vice Chair, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, I am reaching out about the next steps. I want to bring your attention to the next stage of the Universal Code of Conduct process, which is forming a building committee for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). I invite community members with experience and deep interest in community health and governance to nominate themselves to be part of the U4C building committee, which needs people who are:
Community members in good standing
Knowledgeable about movement community processes, such as, but not limited to, policy drafting, participatory decision making, and application of existing rules and policies on Wikimedia projects
Aware and appreciative of the diversity of the movement, such as, but not limited to, languages spoken, identity, geography, and project type
Committed to participate for the entire U4C Building Committee period from mid-May - December 2023
Comfortable with engaging in difficult, but productive conversations
Confidently able to communicate in English
The Building Committee shall consist of volunteer community members, affiliate board or staff, and Wikimedia Foundation staff.
The Universal Code of Conduct has been a process strengthened by the skills and knowledge of the community and I look forward to what the U4C Building Committee creates. If you are interested in joining the Building Committee, please either
sign up on the Meta-Wiki page
, or contact ucocproject
wikimedia.org by May 12, 2023.
Read more on Meta-Wiki
Best regards,
Xeno (WMF)
19:01, 26 ഏപ്രിൽ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-18
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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
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The
Video2commons
tool has been updated. This fixed several bugs related to YouTube uploads.
[252]
The
പ്രത്യേകം:ക്രമീകരണങ്ങൾ
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.
[253]
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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01:45, 2 മേയ് 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-19
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Recent changes
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
[254]
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.
[255]
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
[256]
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
w: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.
[257]
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.
[258]
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
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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
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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
and
read about how to find broken scripts
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00:36, 9 മേയ് 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-20
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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.
[263]
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
[264]
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.
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21:45, 15 മേയ് 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-21
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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
[266]
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.
[267]
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 (
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16:55, 22 മേയ് 2023 (UTC)
Selection of the U4C Building Committee
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The next stage in the Universal Code of Conduct process is establishing a Building Committee to create the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). The Building Committee has been selected.
Read about the members and the work ahead on Meta-wiki
--
UCoC Project Team
, 04:21, 27 മേയ് 2023 (UTC)
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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.
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The page
പ്രത്യേകം:ശ്രദ്ധിക്കുന്നവയുടെപട്ടികതിരുത്തുക
now has "എല്ലാം പരിശോധിക്കുക" options to select all the pages within a namespace. This feature request was
voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
[269]
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.
[270]
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.
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22:03, 29 മേയ് 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-23
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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
[272]
Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference for "ഫലങ്ങൾ താളനുസരിച്ച് ഗണങ്ങളാക്കുക". This has now been fixed.
[273]
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.
[274]
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
[275]
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Tech News: 2023-24
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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
[276]
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.
[277]
The
RealMe
extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software.
[278]
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.
[279]
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.
[280]
Currently, the "ഈ താൾ സ്വതേ ഇങ്ങനെ ക്രമപ്പെടുത്തുക" 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.
[281]
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
[282]
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.
[283]
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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Tech News: 2023-25
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Recent changes
Flame graphs are now available in WikimediaDebug.
[284]
[285]
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.
[286]
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Tech News: 2023-26
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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.
[288]
Problems
Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours.
[289]
[290]
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.
[291]
[292]
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.
[293]
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.
[294]
The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized
user interface components
[295]
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
[296]
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16:18, 26 ജൂൺ 2023 (UTC)
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Announcing the new Elections Committee members
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Hello there,
We are glad to announce
the new members and advisors of the Elections Committee
. The
Elections Committee
assists with the design and implementation of the process to select Community- and Affiliate-Selected trustees for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. After an open nomination process, the strongest candidates spoke with the Board and four candidates were asked to join the Elections Committee. Four other candidates were asked to participate as advisors.
Thank you to all the community members who submitted their names for consideration. We look forward to working with the Elections Committee in the near future.
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees,
RamzyM (WMF)
18:00, 28 ജൂൺ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-27
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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.
[297]
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.
[298]
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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22:51, 3 ജൂലൈ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-28
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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
[299]
പ്രത്യേകം: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.
[300]
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
പ്രത്യേകം:കണ്ണികൾ തിരയുക
and API counterparts has changed from http to both http and https.
[301]
പ്രത്യേകം:കണ്ണികൾ തിരയുക
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.
[302]
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
[303]
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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19:53, 10 ജൂലൈ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-29
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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.
[304]
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.
[305]
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23:08, 17 ജൂലൈ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-30
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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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02:20, 25 ജൂലൈ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-31
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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
പ്രത്യേകം:പുതിയ താളുകൾ
and revision history pages can now be inverted. For example, you can hide edits that were made using an automated tool.
[306]
[307]
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.
[308]
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.
[309]
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
[310]
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23:54, 31 ജൂലൈ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-32
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Recent changes
Mobile Web editors can now
edit a whole page at once
. To use this feature, turn on "⧼Mobile-frontend-mobile-option-amc⧽" in your settings and use the "Edit full page" button in the "കൂടുതൽ" menu.
[311]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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21:20, 7 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-33
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Recent changes
The Content translation system is no longer using Youdao's
machine translation service
. The service was in place for several years, but due to no usage, and availability of alternatives, it was deprecated to reduce maintenance overheads. Other services which cover the same languages are still available.
[312]
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
[313]
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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05:59, 15 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-34
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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.
[314]
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:
[315]
a Wikisource in
Sundanese
s:su:
[316]
To catch up, the next most recent six wikis are:
Wikifunctions (
f:
[317]
a Wiktionary in
Mandailing
wikt:btm:
[318]
a Wikipedia in
Ghanaian Pidgin
w:gpe:
[319]
a Wikinews in
Gungbe
n:guw:
[320]
a Wiktionary in
Kabardian
wikt:kbd:
[321]
a Wikipedia in
Fante
w:fat:
[322]
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.
[323]
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15:25, 21 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-35
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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.
[324]
All
പ്രത്യേകം:സംഭാവനകൾ
pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date.
[325]
Wikisource users can now use the
prpbengalicurrency
label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the
tag.
[326]
Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "Enable the visual editor" is now shown on the
"തിരുത്തൽ" tab
at all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "പരീക്ഷണാടിസ്ഥാനത്തിലുള്ള സൗകര്യങ്ങൾ" tab at some wikis. The preference "വ്യത്യസ്തമായ വിക്കിഎഴുത്ത് തിരുത്തൽ സൗകര്യത്തിന് പകരം, കണ്ടുതിരുത്തൽ സൗകര്യത്തിനുള്ളിൽ ഉള്ള വിക്കിഎഴുത്ത് രീതി ഉപയോഗിക്കുക." is now also shown on the "തിരുത്തൽ" tab at all wikis, instead of the "പരീക്ഷണാടിസ്ഥാനത്തിലുള്ള സൗകര്യങ്ങൾ" tab.
[327]
[328]
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.
[329]
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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14:00, 28 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2023 (UTC)
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Review the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
തിരുത്തുക
കൂടുതൽ ഭാഷകൾ
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Hello all,
I am pleased to share the next step in the
Universal Code of Conduct
work. The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) draft charter
is now ready for your review.
The
Enforcement Guidelines
require a
Building Committee
form to draft a charter that outlines procedures and details for a global committee to be called the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
. Over the past few months, the U4C Building Committee worked together as a group to discuss and draft the U4C charter. The U4C Building Committee welcomes feedback about the draft charter now through 22 September 2023. After that date, the U4C Building Committee will revise the charter as needed and a community vote will open shortly afterward.
Join the conversation during the
conversation hours
or on
Meta-wiki
Best,
RamzyM (WMF)
, on behalf of the U4C Building Committee,
15:35, 28 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2023 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Tech News: 2023-36
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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
[330]
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.
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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
പ്രത്യേകം:ഉപയോക്തൃഅവകാശങ്ങൾ
and via the API.
[332]
One new wiki has been created:
a Wikipedia in
Talysh
w:tly:
[333]
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.
[334]
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
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Tech News: 2023-37
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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
[337]
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.
[338]
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.
[339]
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.
[340]
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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21:07, 11 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-38
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tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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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.
[341]
[342]
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.
[343]
All wikis will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the
Wikimedia URL Shortener
[344]
Future changes
The team investigating the Graph Extension posted
a proposal for reenabling it
and they need your input.
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19:19, 18 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-39
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Recent changes
The Vector 2022 skin will now remember the pinned/unpinned status for the Table of Contents for all logged-out users.
[345]
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.
[346]
[347]
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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16:51, 26 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-40
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Recent changes
There is a new
user preference
for "എല്ലായ്പ്പോഴും
സേഫ് മോഡ്
പ്രവർത്തനക്ഷമമാക്കുക". 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.
[348]
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
[349]
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Announcing Indic Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 and Invitation to Participate
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Dear Wikimedians,
The
Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group
is happy to announce
Indic Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 on 16-17 December 2023 in Pondicherry, India
The event is for everyone who contributes to Wikimedia’s technical spaces code developers, maintainers, translators, designers, technical writers and other related technical aspects. Along with that, contributors who don't necessarily contribute to technical spaces but have good understanding of issues on wikis and can work with developers in addressing them can join too. You can come with a project in mind, join an existing project, or create something new with others. The goal of this event is to bring together technical contributors from India to resolve pending technical issues, bugs, brainstorm on tooling ideas, and foster connections between contributors.
We have scholarships to support participation of contributors residing in India. The
scholarship form can be filled at
and will close at 23:59 hrs on 15 October 2023 (Sunday) [IST].
Please reach out to contact
ഫലകം:@indicmediawikidev
.org if you have any questions or need support.
Best, Indic MediaWiki Developers UG, 04:40, 4 ഒക്ടോബർ 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-41
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Recent changes
One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in
Fon
w:fon:
[350]
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
[351]
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.
[352]
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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== Opportunities open for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission, and the Case Review Committee ==
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Hi everyone! The
Affiliations Committee
(AffCom),
Ombuds commission
(OC), and the
Case Review Committee
(CRC) are looking for new members. These volunteer groups provide important structural and oversight support for the community and movement. People are encouraged to nominate themselves or encourage others they feel would contribute to these groups to apply. There is more information about the roles of the groups, the skills needed, and the opportunity to apply on the
Meta-wiki page
On behalf of the Committee Support team,
Keegan (WMF)
talk
16:41, 9 ഒക്ടോബർ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-42
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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.
[353]
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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23:47, 16 ഒക്ടോബർ 2023 (UTC)
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Review and comment on the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package
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Dear all,
Please review and comment on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package from now until 29 October 2023. The selection rules package was based on older versions by the Elections Committee and will be used in the 2024 Board of Trustees selection. Providing your comments now will help them provide a smoother, better Board selection process.
More on the Meta-wiki page
Best,
Katie Chan
Chair of the Elections Committee
01:13, 17 ഒക്ടോബർ 2023 (UTC)
The Vector 2022 skin as the default in two weeks?
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• Please tell other users about these changes
Hello. I'm writing on behalf of the
Wikimedia Foundation Web team
In two weeks, we would like to make the Vector 2022 skin the default on this wiki.
ആഗോള ഐച്ഛികങ്ങൾ
If you prefer keeping the current skin
select "Vector legacy (2010)" on
the appearance tab of the global preferences
and save the change. We encourage you to give the new skin a try, though.
Since I last came to you with this question, many things have changed. The skin is now the default on most Wikipedias, and all logos are done! We have also made some tweaks in the skin itself. Below is the text I've sent to you once, but I'm sending it again, just slightly edited, for those who haven't seen it.
If you know what this is about, jump straight to the section "Our plan":
It would become the default for all logged-out users, and also all logged-in users who currently use Vector legacy as a
local
(but not global) preference. Logged-in users can at any time switch to any other skin. No changes are expected for these skins.
Top of an article
Vector legacy (current default)
Vector 2022
A section of an article
Vector legacy (current default)
Vector 2022
About the skin
തിരുത്തുക
Slides to our Wikimania 2022 presentation.
You may also listen to the recording on YouTube (in English)
[Why is a change necessary]
When the current default skin was created, it reflected the needs of the readers and editors as these were 14 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using the Internet and Wikimedia projects in different ways.
The old Vector does not meet their needs
[Objective]
The objective for the Vector 2022 skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It introduces a series of changes that aim to improve problems new and existing readers and editors were having with the old skin. It draws inspiration from previous user requests, the
Community Wishlist Surveys
, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins.
The PHP code in the other available skins has been reduced by 75%
. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.
[Changes in a nutshell]
The skin introduces changes that improve readability and usability. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.
The limited width and pin-able menus allow to adjust the interface to the screen size, and focus on editing or reading. Logged-in and logged-out users may use a toggle button to keep the full width, though.
The sticky header makes it easier to find tools that editors use often. It decreases scrolling to the top of the page by 16%.
The new table of contents makes it easier to navigate to different sections. Readers and editors jump to different sections of the page 50% more than with the old table of contents. It also looks a bit different on talk pages.
The new search bar is easier to find and makes it easier to find the correct search result from the list. This increased the amount of searches started by 30% on the tested wikis.
The skin does not negatively affect pageviews, edit rates, or account creation. There is evidence of increases in pageviews and account creation across partner communities.
[Customize this skin]
It's possible to configure and personalize our changes. We support volunteers who create new gadgets and user scripts. Check out
the repository
for a list of currently available customizations and changes, or add your own.
Our plan
തിരുത്തുക
If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying on 31 October
. If you'd like to ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please comment in any language. If this is the first comment to my message, make sure to ping me. We will gladly answer! Also, check out
our FAQ
. Thank you!
SGrabarczuk (WMF)
സംവാദം
23:51, 18 ഒക്ടോബർ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-43
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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.
[354]
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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23:16, 23 ഒക്ടോബർ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-44
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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
[355]
[356]
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.
[357]
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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23:21, 30 ഒക്ടോബർ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-45
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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.
[358]
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.
[359]
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.
[360]
[361]
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21:05, 6 നവംബർ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-46
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Recent changes
Four new wikis have been created:
a Wikipedia in
Moroccan Amazigh
w:zgh:
[362]
a Wikipedia in
Dagaare
w:dga:
[363]
a Wikipedia in
Toba Batak
w:bbc:
[364]
a Wikiquote in
Banjar
q:bjn:
[365]
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.
[366]
Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved.
[367]
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.
[368]
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23:52, 13 നവംബർ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-47
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Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
[369]
[370]
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
[371]
[372]
[373]
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.
[374]
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
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00:55, 21 നവംബർ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-48
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calendar
). There is no new MediaWiki version next week.
[375]
[376]
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.
[377]
The deployment of "
Add a link
" announced
last week
was postponed. It will resume this week.
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23:08, 27 നവംബർ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-49
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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.
[378]
The "ഈ താൾ സ്വതേ ഇങ്ങനെ ക്രമപ്പെടുത്തുക" feature in VisualEditor is working again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit
{{DEFAULTSORT:...}}
keywords.
[379]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
[380]
[381]
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.
[382]
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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23:50, 4 ഡിസംബർ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-50
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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
[383]
[384]
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.
[385]
[386]
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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
).
[387]
[388]
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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02:12, 12 ഡിസംബർ 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-51
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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.
[389]
[390]
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
[391]
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
പ്രത്യേകം:UnconnectedPages
). There will also be support for
manual redirects
[392]
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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Tech News: 2024-02
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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.
[393]
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
).
[394]
[395]
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Tech News: 2024-03
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Pages that use the JSON
contentmodel
will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size.
[396]
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.
[397]
Bot passwords
and
owner-only OAuth consumers
can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages.
[398]
You can now
thank
edits made by bots.
[399]
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
).
[400]
[401]
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.
[402]
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.
[403]
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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00:12, 16 ജനുവരി 2024 (UTC)
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Vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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Hello all,
I am reaching out to you today to announce that the voting period for the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) Charter is now open. Community members may
cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll
now through
2 February 2024
. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the
UCoC Enforcement Guidelines
will find this process familiar.
The
current version of the U4C Charter
is on Meta-wiki with translations available.
Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.
On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
18:08, 19 ജനുവരി 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-04
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Problems
A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed.
[404]
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
).
[405]
[406]
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01:03, 23 ജനുവരി 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-05
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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
[407]
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
).
[408]
[409]
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
പ്രത്യേകം:QrCode
page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the
#19 most-voted wish
from the
2023 Community Wishlist Survey
[410]
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.
[411]
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19:32, 29 ജനുവരി 2024 (UTC)
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Last days to vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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Hello all,
I am reaching out to you today to remind you that the voting period for the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) charter will close on
2 February 2024
. Community members may
cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll
. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the
UCoC Enforcement Guidelines
will find this process familiar.
The
current version of the U4C charter
is on Meta-wiki with translations available.
Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.
On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
17:00, 31 ജനുവരി 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-06
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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"
[412]
[413]
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
).
[414]
[415]
Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed.
[416]
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.
[417]
[418]
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19:22, 5 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2024 (UTC)
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Announcing the results of the UCoC Coordinating Committee Charter ratification vote
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Dear all,
Thank you everyone for following the progress of the Universal Code of Conduct. I am writing to you today to announce the outcome of the
ratification vote
on the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter
. 1746 contributors voted in this ratification vote with 1249 voters supporting the Charter and 420 voters not. The ratification vote process allowed for voters to provide comments about the Charter.
A report of voting statistics and a summary of voter comments will be published on Meta-wiki in the coming weeks.
Please look forward to hearing about the next steps soon.
On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
18:24, 12 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-07
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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.
[419]
[420]
[421]
Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service.
[422]
[423]
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
).
[424]
[425]
As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,
[426]
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.
[427]
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05:48, 13 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-08
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Recent changes
If you have the "ഞാൻ ശ്രദ്ധിക്കുന്ന താളുകൾക്കോ പ്രമാണങ്ങൾക്കോ മാറ്റം സംഭവിച്ചാൽ എനിക്കു ഇമെയിൽ അയക്കുക" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails.
[428]
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.
[429]
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
).
[430]
[431]
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.
[432]
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Tech News: 2024-09
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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.
[433]
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")))
[434]
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
).
[435]
[436]
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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19:23, 26 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-10
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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
[437]
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.
[438]
A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header.
[439]
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
).
[440]
[441]
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.
[442]
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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19:47, 4 മാർച്ച് 2024 (UTC)
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Report of the U4C Charter ratification and U4C Call for Candidates now available
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I am writing to you today with two important pieces of information. First, the
report of the comments from the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter ratification
is now available. Secondly, the call for candidates for the U4C is open now through April 1, 2024.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please
review the U4C Charter
Per the charter, there are 16 seats on the U4C: eight community-at-large seats and eight regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement.
Read more and submit your application on
Meta-wiki
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
16:25, 5 മാർച്ച് 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-11
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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
).
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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.
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The active link color in
Minerva
will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices.
[446]
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.
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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.
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23:04, 11 മാർച്ച് 2024 (UTC)
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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2024 Selection
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Dear all,
This year, the term of 4 (four) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats.
The
Elections Committee
will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The Board Governance Committee created a Board Selection Working Group from Trustees who cannot be candidates in the 2024 community- and affiliate-selected trustee selection process composed of Dariusz Jemielniak, Nataliia Tymkiv, Esra'a Al Shafei, Kathy Collins, and Shani Evenstein Sigalov [3]. The group is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2024 trustee selection process, and for keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections Committee, Board, and staff are here [4].
Here are the key planned dates:
May 2024: Call for candidates and call for questions
June 2024: Affiliates vote to shortlist 12 candidates (no shortlisting if 15 or less candidates apply) [5]
June-August 2024: Campaign period
End of August / beginning of September 2024: Two-week community voting period
October–November 2024: Background check of selected candidates
Board's Meeting in December 2024: New trustees seated
Learn more about the 2024 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on
this Meta-wiki page
, and make your plan.
Election Volunteers
Another way to be involved with the 2024 selection process is to be an Election Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on this
Meta-wiki page
Best regards,
Dariusz Jemielniak
(Governance Committee Chair, Board Selection Working Group)
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5] Even though the ideal number is 12 candidates for 4 open seats, the shortlisting process will be triggered if there are more than 15 candidates because the 1-3 candidates that are removed might feel ostracized and it would be a lot of work for affiliates to carry out the shortlisting process to only eliminate 1-3 candidates from the candidate list.
MPossoupe_(WMF)
19:57, 12 മാർച്ച് 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-12
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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.
[450]
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.
[451]
The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes.
[452]
[453]
[454]
Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating
MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown
[455]
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.
[456]
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
).
[457]
[458]
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at
14:00 UTC
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17:39, 18 മാർച്ച് 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-13
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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
).
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18:56, 25 മാർച്ച് 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-14
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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.
[463]
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
).
[464]
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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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03:36, 2 ഏപ്രിൽ 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-15
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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.
[466]
[467]
Readers using the
Minerva skin
on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings.
[468]
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
).
[469]
[470]
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.
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23:37, 8 ഏപ്രിൽ 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-16
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Problems
Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using
Flagged Revisions
, the "പഴയപടിയാക്കി" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed.
[472]
[473]
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
).
[474]
[475]
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).
[476]
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.
[477]
Future changes
Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle
temporary accounts
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.
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23:29, 15 ഏപ്രിൽ 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-17
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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
[479]
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
).
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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
പ്രത്യേകം:എന്റെതാൾ/vector.js
to
പ്രത്യേകം:എന്റെതാൾ/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.
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20:28, 22 ഏപ്രിൽ 2024 (UTC)
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Vote now to select members of the first U4C
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Dear all,
I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through May 9, 2024. Read the information on the
voting page on Meta-wiki
to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please
review the U4C Charter
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
20:20, 25 ഏപ്രിൽ 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-18
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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.
[483]
Seven new wikis have been created:
a Wikipedia in
Betawi
w:bew:
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a Wikipedia in
Kusaal
w:kus:
[485]
a Wikipedia in
Igala
w:igl:
[486]
a Wiktionary in
Karakalpak
wikt:kaa:
[487]
a Wikisource in
Burmese
s:my:
[488]
a Wikisource in
Malay
s:ms:
[489]
a Wikisource in
Georgian
s:ka:
[490]
You can now
watch message groups/projects
on
Translatewiki.net
. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups.
[491]
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.
[492]
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
).
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03:33, 30 ഏപ്രിൽ 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-19
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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.
[495]
[496]
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
[497]
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.
[498]
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
).
[499]
[500]
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".
[501]
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
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16:44, 6 മേയ് 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-20
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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.
[503]
If you use the
user-preference
"പേജ് വീണ്ടും ലോഡുചെയ്യാതെ പ്രിവ്യൂ കാണിക്കുക", then the template-page feature "ഈ ഫലകം ഉപയോഗിച്ച് താൾ എങ്ങനെയുണ്ടെന്ന് കാണുക" will now also work without reloading the page.
[504]
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.
[505]
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.
[506]
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
).
[507]
[508]
The
പ്രത്യേകം:അന്വേഷണം
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.
[509]
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.
[510]
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:
Replace
JOIN pagelinks
with
JOIN linktarget
and
pl_
with
lt_
in the
ON
statement
Below that add
JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
See
phab:T222224
for technical reasoning.
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23:58, 13 മേയ് 2024 (UTC)
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Sign up for the language community meeting on May 31st, 16:00 UTC
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Hello all,
The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you can
sign up on this wiki page
This is a participant-driven meeting, where we share language-specific updates related to various projects, collectively discuss technical issues related to language wikis, and work together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, the topics included the machine translation service (MinT) and the languages and models it currently supports, localization efforts from the Kiwix team, and technical challenges with numerical sorting in files used on Bengali Wikisource.
Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org and
add agenda items to the document here
We look forward to your participation!
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21:22, 14 മേയ് 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-21
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Recent changes
The
Nuke
feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title.
[513]
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.
[514]
[515]
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
).
[516]
[517]
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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23:04, 20 മേയ് 2024 (UTC)
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Feedback invited on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle
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Dear community members,
The
Community Affairs Committee
(CAC) of the
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
invites you to give feedback on a
draft Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle
. This draft Procedure outlines proposed steps and requirements for opening and closing Wikimedia Sibling Projects, and aims to ensure any newly approved projects are set up for success. This is separate from the procedures for opening or closing language versions of projects, which is handled by the
Language Committee
or
closing projects policy
You can find the details on
this page
, as well as the ways to give your feedback from today until the end of the day on
June 23, 2024
, anywhere on Earth.
You can also share information about this with the interested project communities you work with or support, and you can also help us translate the procedure into more languages, so people can join the discussions in their own language.
On behalf of the CAC,
RamzyM (WMF)
02:25, 22 മേയ് 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-22
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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
).
[518]
[519]
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.
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00:15, 28 മേയ് 2024 (UTC)
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Announcing the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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Hello,
The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote results. We are following up with the results of the first
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election
We are pleased to announce the following individuals as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a two-year term:
North America (USA and Canada)
Northern and Western Europe
Ghilt
Latin America and Caribbean
Central and East Europe (CEE)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Middle East and North Africa
Ibrahim.ID
East, South East Asia and Pacific (ESEAP)
0xDeadbeef
South Asia
The following individuals are elected to be community-at-large members of the U4C, fulfilling a one-year term:
Barkeep49
Superpes15
Civvì
Luke081515
Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.
Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. Follow their work on
Meta-wiki
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
08:15, 3 ജൂൺ 2024 (UTC)
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It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript.
Documentation is available
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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
".
[522]
One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in
Kadazandusun
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[523]
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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
).
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[525]
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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.
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22:34, 3 ജൂൺ 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-24
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The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering.
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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
[527]
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.
[528]
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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
).
[529]
[530]
The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations:
Parsoid
will now generate a
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
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On multilingual wikis that use the
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
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20:20, 10 ജൂൺ 2024 (UTC)
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The final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now on Meta
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The final text of the
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What is the Wikimedia Movement Charter?
The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a proposed document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.
Join the Wikimedia Movement Charter “Launch Party”
Join the
“Launch Party”
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June 20, 2024
at
14.00-15.00 UTC
your local time
). During this call, we will celebrate the release of the final Charter and present the content of the Charter. Join and learn about the Charter before casting your vote.
Movement Charter ratification vote
Voting will commence on SecurePoll on
June 25, 2024
at
00:01 UTC
and will conclude on
July 9, 2024
at
23:59 UTC.
You can read more about the
voting process, eligibility criteria, and other details
on Meta.
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Meta talk page
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08:45, 11 ജൂൺ 2024 (UTC)
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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.
[533]
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.
[534]
[535]
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
[536]
Problems
Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center.
[537]
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
[538]
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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
).
[539]
[540]
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
[541]
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.
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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
[543]
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.
[544]
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.
[545]
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
).
[546]
[547]
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
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22:32, 24 ജൂൺ 2024 (UTC)
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Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open – cast your vote
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The voting to ratify the
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The final version of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is
available on Meta in different languages
and attached
here in PDF format
for your reading.
Voting commenced on SecurePoll on
June 25, 2024
at
00:01 UTC
and will conclude on
July 9, 2024
at
23:59 UTC
. Please read more on the
voter information and eligibility details
After reading the Charter, please
vote here
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If you have any questions about the ratification vote, please contact the Charter Electoral Commission at
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10:52, 25 ജൂൺ 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-27
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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
[549]
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.
[550]
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.
[551]
[552]
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.
[553]
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:
[554]
Problems
Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team.
[555]
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23:59, 1 ജൂലൈ 2024 (UTC)
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Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is ending soon
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July 9, 2024
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If you have not voted yet, please vote
on SecurePoll
On behalf of the
Charter Electoral Commission
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03:47, 8 ജൂലൈ 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-28
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At the Wikimedia Foundation a new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with
more secure, easy to use, and extensible Chart
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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.
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21:31, 8 ജൂലൈ 2024 (UTC)
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U4C Special Election - Call for Candidates
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A special election has been called to fill additional vacancies on the U4C. The call for candidates phase is open from now through July 19, 2024.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the
UCoC
. Community members are invited to submit their applications in the special election for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the
U4C Charter
In this special election, according to
chapter 2 of the U4C charter
, there are 9 seats available on the U4C:
four
community-at-large seats and
five
regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement.
No more than two members of the U4C can be elected from the same home wiki
. Therefore, candidates must not have English Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, or Italian Wikipedia as their home wiki.
Read more and submit your application on
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In cooperation with the U4C,
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00:03, 10 ജൂലൈ 2024 (UTC)
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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
[556]
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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01:31, 16 ജൂലൈ 2024 (UTC)
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Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results
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After carefully tallying both individual and affiliate votes, the
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As
communicated
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July 9, 23:59 UTC
. We thank all 2,451 individuals and 129 Affiliate representatives who voted in the ratification process. Your votes and comments are invaluable for the future steps in Movement Strategy.
The final results of the
Wikimedia Movement Charter
ratification voting held between 25 June and 9 July 2024 are as follows:
Individual vote:
Out of 2,451 individuals who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 2,446 have been accepted as valid votes. Among these,
1,710
voted “yes”;
623
voted “no”; and
113
selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 73.30% voted to approve the Charter (1710/2333), while 26.70% voted to reject the Charter (623/2333).
Affiliates vote:
Out of 129 Affiliates designated voters who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 129 votes are confirmed as valid votes. Among these,
93
voted “yes”;
18
voted “no”; and
18
selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 83.78% voted to approve the Charter (93/111), while 16.22% voted to reject the Charter (18/111).
Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation:
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees voted
not to ratify
the proposed Charter during their special Board meeting on July 8, 2024. The Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, Nataliia Tymkiv,
shared the result of the vote, the resolution, meeting minutes and proposed next steps
With this, the Wikimedia Movement Charter in its current revision is
not ratified
We thank you for your participation in this important moment in our movement’s governance.
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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.
[557]
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.
[558]
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.
[559]
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.
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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Vote now to fill vacancies of the first U4C
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Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
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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:
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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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23:10, 29 ജൂലൈ 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-32
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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.
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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
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
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The latest monthly
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20:43, 5 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2024 (UTC)
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Reminder! Vote closing soon to fill vacancies of the first U4C
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The voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is closing soon. It is open through 10 August 2024. Read the information on
the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility
. If you are eligible to vote and have not voted in this special election, it is important that you vote now.
Why should you vote?
The U4C is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community input into the committee membership is critical to the success of the UCoC.
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
In cooperation with the U4C,
--
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15:30, 6 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-33
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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.
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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:
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23:21, 12 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-34
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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00:53, 20 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2024 (UTC)
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Sign up for the language community meeting on August 30th, 15:00 UTC
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The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks—on August 30th at 15:00 UTC. If you're interested in joining, you can
sign up on this wiki page
This participant-driven meeting will focus on sharing language-specific updates related to various projects, discussing technical issues related to language wikis, and working together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, topics included the Language Converter, the state of language research, updates on the Incubator conversations, and technical challenges around external links not working with special characters on Bengali sites.
Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates or discuss challenges? Please add agenda items to the document
here
and reach out to ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org. We look forward to your participation!
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23:20, 22 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-35
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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.
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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.
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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20:33, 26 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2024 (UTC)
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Announcing the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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Hello all,
The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote and the
Elections Committee
have certified the
results
for the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) special election
I am pleased to announce the following individual as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a term until 15 June 2026:
North America (USA and Canada)
Ajraddatz
The following seats were not filled during this special election:
Latin America and Caribbean
Central and East Europe (CEE)
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Asia
The four remaining Community-At-Large seats
Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.
Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. You can follow their work on
Meta-Wiki
On behalf of the U4C and the Elections Committee,
RamzyM (WMF)
14:06, 2 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-36
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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
പ്രത്യേകം:ഉപയോഗിക്കാത്തഫലകങ്ങൾ
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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01:07, 3 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2024 (UTC)
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Have your say: Vote for the 2024 Board of Trustees!
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Hello all,
The voting period for the
2024 Board of Trustees election
is now open. There are twelve (12) candidates running for four (4) seats on the Board.
Learn more about the candidates by
reading their statements
and their
answers to community questions
When you are ready, go to the
SecurePoll
voting page to vote.
The vote is open from September 3rd at 00:00 UTC to September 17th at 23:59 UTC
To check your voter eligibility, please visit the
voter eligibility page
Best regards,
The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group
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12:15, 3 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-37
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Translations
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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
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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
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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.
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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
).
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18:52, 9 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-38
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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
പ്രത്യേകം: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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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00:02, 17 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-39
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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
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.
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Two bugs were fixed in the
GlobalVanishRequest
system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message.
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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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23:36, 23 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-40
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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
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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.
about the changes related to donor experiences.
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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.
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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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Tech News: 2024-41
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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.
[588]
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
[589]
View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
It is now possible for
code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the
copy=1
attribute is
set on the tag
. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements.
[590]
Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML.
[591]
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:
[592]
a Wikipedia in
Mooré
m:mos:
[593]
a Wiktionary in
Madurese
wikt:mad:
[594]
a Wikiquote in
Gorontalo
q:gor:
[595]
a Wikinews in
Shan
n:shn:
[596]
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23:42, 7 ഒക്ടോബർ 2024 (UTC)
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Preliminary results of the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections
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Hello all,
Thank you to everyone who participated in the
2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election
. Close to 6000 community members from more than 180 wiki projects have voted.
The following four candidates were the most voted:
Christel Steigenberger
Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz
Victoria Doronina
Lorenzo Losa
While these candidates have been ranked through the vote, they still need to be appointed to the Board of Trustees. They need to pass a successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the Bylaws. New trustees will be appointed at the next Board meeting in December 2024.
Learn more about the results on Meta-Wiki.
Best regards,
The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group
MPossoupe_(WMF)
08:26, 14 ഒക്ടോബർ 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-42
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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.
[597]
[598]
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.
[599]
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.
[600]
Phabricator
users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again.
Sending email to Phabricator
has been fixed.
[601]
Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a
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.
[602]
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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21:21, 14 ഒക്ടോബർ 2024 (UTC)
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Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees
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Each year, typically from October through December, several of the movement’s committees seek new volunteers.
Read more about the committees on their Meta-wiki pages:
Affiliations Committee (AffCom)
Ombuds commission (OC)
Case Review Committee (CRC)
Applications for the committees open on 16 October 2024. Applications for the Affiliations Committee close on 18 November 2024, and applications for the Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on 2 December 2024. Learn how to apply by
visiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki
. Post to the talk page or email
cst@wikimedia.org
with any questions you may have.
For the Committee Support team,
--
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talk
23:08, 16 ഒക്ടോബർ 2024 (UTC)
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Announcing Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 & scholarship applications
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Dear Wikimedians,
We hope you are well.
We are thrilled to announce the upcoming
Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024
, hosted by the
Indic MediaWiki Developers UG
(aka Indic-TechCom) in collaboration with the
Odia Wikimedians UG
. The event will take place in Bhubaneswar during 20-22 December 2024.
Wikimedia hackathons are spaces for developers, designers, content editors, and other community stakeholders to collaborate on building technical solutions that help improve the experience of contributors and consumers of Wikimedia projects. The event is intended for:
Technical contributors active in the Wikimedia technical ecosystem, which includes developers, maintainers (admins/interface admins), translators, designers, researchers, documentation writers etc.
Content contributors having in-depth understanding of technical issues in their home Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wiktionary, etc.
Contributors to any other FOSS community or have participated in Wikimedia events in the past, and would like to get started with contributing to Wikimedia technical spaces.
We encourage you to follow the essential details & updates on Meta-Wiki regarding this event.
Event Meta-Wiki page:
Scholarship application form:
Click here to apply
(Scholarships are available to assist with your attendance, covering travel, accommodation, food, and related expenses.)
Please read the application guidance on the Meta-Wiki page before applying.
The scholarship application is open until the end of the day 2 November 2024 (Saturday).
If you have any questions, concerns or need any support with the application, please start a discussion on the event talk page or reach out to us contact@indicmediawikidev.org via email.
Best,
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09:35, 19 ഒക്ടോബർ 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-43
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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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.
[603]
[604]
[605]
[606]
[607]
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 "
24 April 2026
". 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.
[608]
[609]
Commons and Meta users can now efficiently
retrieve the user's language
using
{{USERLANGUAGE}}
instead of using
{{int:lang}}
[610]
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.
[611]
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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20:52, 21 ഒക്ടോബർ 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-44
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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.
[612]
Updates for technical contributors
Wikis can use
the Guided Tour extension
to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with
dark mode
. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set
emitTransitionOnStep
to
true
to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag
allowAutomaticBack
to avoid back-buttons they don't want.
[613]
Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the
Nuke Extension
will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier.
[614]
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20:56, 28 ഒക്ടോബർ 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-45
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Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
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Updates for editors
Stewards can now make
global account blocks
cause global
autoblocks
. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the
Temporary Accounts
project. You can read more about the
progress on key features for temporary accounts
[615]
Wikis that have the
CampaignEvents extension enabled
can now use the
Collaboration List
feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of
the 2024/25 annual plan
. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can
follow these steps
or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode.
[616]
View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, on multilingual wikis, users
can now
hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.
Updates for technical contributors
XML
data dumps
have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated.
[617]
In depth
Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for
this work
, you can read about
the deployment plans
. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on
seven other projects
. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to
User:Udehb-WMF
for assistance.
The latest quarterly
Language and Internationalization newsletter
is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.
Meetings and events
MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024
is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.
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20:50, 4 നവംബർ 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-46
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Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
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Updates for editors
On wikis with the
Translate extension
enabled, users will notice that the FuzzyBot will now automatically create translated versions of categories used on translated pages.
[618]
View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the submitted task to use the
SecurePoll extension
for English Wikipedia's special
administrator election
was resolved on time.
[619]
Updates for technical contributors
In
1.44.0-wmf-2
, the logic of Wikibase function
getAllStatements
changed to behave like
getBestStatements
. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable.
[620]
Wikimedia REST API
users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer
MediaWiki REST API
endpoints. The
impacted endpoints
include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related
Phabricator ticket
In depth
Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects
where Automoderator is enabled
can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions.
This Superset dashboard
calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit
the documentation page
for more information about this work.
[621]
Meetings and events
21 November 2024 (
8:00 UTC
16:00 UTC
) -
Community call
with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.
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00:07, 12 നവംബർ 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-47
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Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
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Updates for editors
Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a
redirect
to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects.
[622]
View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example,
Pywikibot
, which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge.
[623]
Updates for technical contributors
On wikis that use the
FlaggedRevs extension
, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this.
[624]
[625]
In depth
There is a new
Diff post
about Temporary Accounts, available in more than 15 languages. Read it to learn about what Temporary Accounts are, their impact on different groups of users, and the plan to introduce the change on all wikis.
Meetings and events
Technical volunteers can now register for the
2025 Wikimedia Hackathon
, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey.
Application for travel and accommodation scholarships
is open from
November 12 to December 10 2024
. The registration for the event will close in mid-April 2025. The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual gathering that unites the global technical community to collaborate on existing projects and explore new ideas.
Join the
Wikimedia Commons community calls
this week to help prioritize support for Commons which will be planned for 2025–2026. The theme will be how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. This is an opportunity for volunteers who work on different things to come together and talk about what matters for the future of the project. The calls will take place
November 21, 2024,
8:00 UTC
and
16:00 UTC
Language community meeting
will take place
November 29, 16:00 UTC
to discuss updates and technical problem-solving.
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Sign up for the language community meeting on November 29th, 16:00 UTC
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Hello everyone,
The next language community meeting is coming up next week, on November 29th, at 16:00 UTC (Zonestamp! For your timezone <
>). If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page: <
>.
This participant-driven meeting will be organized by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Language Product Localization team and the Language Diversity Hub. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Moore Wikipedia, and the language support track at Wiki Indaba. We will also have members from the Wayuunaiki community joining us to share their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community within our movement. This meeting will have a Spanish interpretation.
Looking forward to seeing you at the language community meeting! Cheers,
Srishti
19:54, 21 നവംബർ 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-48
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Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Updates for editors
A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode
syntax highlighter
will be available as a
beta feature
later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support,
template folding
autocompletion
, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the
help page
The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such
Ctrl
for bold and
Ctrl
for italics. A full
list of all six shortcuts
is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement.
[626]
Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis:
bswiki
elwiki
euwiki
fawiki
fiwiki
frwikiquote
frwikisource
frwikiversity
frwikivoyage
idwiki
lvwiki
plwiki
ptwiki
urwiki
viwikisource
zhwikisource
. This is done as part of
StructuredDiscussions deprecation work
. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact
Trizek (WMF)
View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected"
if it includes a protected variable
Updates for technical contributors
The
CodeEditor
, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages,
now offers
live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing
Ctrl
and un-selecting "
Live Autocompletion
".
Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check
this dashboard
and the list in the Description of the
task T350592
to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April.
[627]
The
New PreProcessor parser performance report
has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities.
[628]
Meetings and events
Language community meeting
will take place November 29 at
16:00 UTC
. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, the language support track at
Wiki Indaba
, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.
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22:42, 25 നവംബർ 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-49
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Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Updates for editors
Two new parser functions were added this week. The
{{
#interwikilink
}}
function adds an
interwiki link
and the
{{
#interlanguagelink
}}
function adds an
interlanguage link
. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning with
MOS:
on English Wikipedia
conflict with the
mos
language code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia
Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the
HTTPS Browser Recommendations page
for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects.
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Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis:
arwiki
cawiki
frwiki
mediawikiwiki
orwiki
wawiki
wawiktionary
wikidatawiki
zhwiki
. This is done as part of
StructuredDiscussions deprecation work
. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact
Trizek (WMF)
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This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version
on Testwiki
and read
the November project update
for more details.
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed.
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Updates for technical contributors
In late February, temporary accounts will be rolled out on at least 10 large wikis. This deployment will have a significant effect on the community-maintained code. This is about Toolforge tools, bots, gadgets, and user scripts that use IP address data or that are available for logged-out users. The Trust and Safety Product team wants to identify this code, monitor it, and assist in updating it ahead of the deployment to minimize disruption to workflows. The team asks technical editors and volunteer developers to help identify such tools by adding them to
this list
. In addition, review the
updated documentation
to learn how to adjust the tools. Join the discussions on the
project talk page
or in the
dedicated thread
on the
Wikimedia Community Discord server (in English)
for support and to share feedback.
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Tech News: 2024-50
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Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the
Documentation hub
on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new
#wikimedia-techdocs
IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please
contact the Technical Documentation Team
Updates for editors
Layout change for the Edit Check feature
Later this week,
Edit Check
will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with
new Checks
that appear
while
they are typing. The
initial results
show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples
on Testwiki
and read
the November project update
for more details.
Translators in wikis where the
mobile experience of Content Translation is available
, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "
All collection
" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the
tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to
the step-by-step guide
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The
Nuke
feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a
multiselect filter for namespace selection
. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
The Nuke feature also now
provides links
to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements.
[633]
The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the
Citoid
tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively,
archiveUrl
and
archiveDate
, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an
example of a change in a template
, and a
list of all relevant templates
[634]
One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in
Indonesian
voy:id:
[635]
Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing.
[636]
View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, a bug in the
Add Link
feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases.
[637]
[638]
Updates for technical contributors
Codex
, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage
implementation in PHP
. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through
Composer
, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in
the documentation
. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library.
[639]
Wikimedia REST API
users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on
testwiki
from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related
Phabricator ticket
before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated
RESTBase
system.
The
2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey
is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated
privacy statement
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
[640]
Meetings and events
The next meeting in the series of
Wikimedia Foundation discussions with the Wikimedia Commons community
will take place on
December 12 at 8:00 UTC
and
at 16:00 UTC
. The topic of this call is new media and new contributors. Contributors from all wikis are welcome to attend.
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Tech News: 2024-51
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Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The
CampaignEvents extension
offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the
deployment status page
Updates for editors
Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a
personalized Year in Review
with insights based on their reading and editing history.
Users of the Android Wikipedia App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new
Rabbit Holes
feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
The
global reminder bot
is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See
the technical details page
for more information.
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, a bug was
fixed
in the Android Wikipedia App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.
Updates for technical contributors
There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January.
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Tech News: 2025-03
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The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See
the SUL3 project page
for more details and a timeline.
Updates for editors
On wikis with
PageAssessments
installed, you can now
filter search results
to pages in a given WikiProject by using the
inproject:
keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage, French Wikipedia, Hungarian Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia)
[642]
One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in
Tigre
w:tig:
[643]
View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed.
[644]
Updates for technical contributors
Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting
some page content endpoints
from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the
MediaWiki Interfaces Team
in Phabricator if they arise.
Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs.
Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI
For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for
OAuth 1
and
OAuth 2
returned a JSON object with an integer in its
sub
field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13.
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Many wikis currently use
Cite CSS
to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to
not
clean up your
MediaWiki:Common.css
until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output.
[646]
Meetings and events
The next meeting in the series of
Wikimedia Foundation Community Conversations with the Wikimedia Commons community
will take place on
January 15 at 8:00 UTC
and
at 16:00 UTC
. The topic of this call is defining the priorities in tool investment for Commons. Contributors from all wikis, especially users who are maintaining tools for Commons, are welcome to attend.
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Tech News: 2025-04
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Updates for editors
Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using
Extension:Nuke
. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address.
[647]
On
wikis that use
the
Patrolled edits
feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use
filters
on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings.
[648]
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been
fixed
Updates for technical contributors
The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by
DiscussionTools
, which is used on any regular talk page.
The last group of wikis
(Catalan Wikiquote, Wikimedia Finland, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikibooks, Wikimedia Sweden) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping
Trizek (WMF)
at your wiki.
[649]
The latest quarterly
Technical Community Newsletter
is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.
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01:36, 21 ജനുവരി 2025 (UTC)
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Universal Code of Conduct annual review: provide your comments on the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines
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Please help translate to your language.
I am writing to you to let you know the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines is open now. You can make suggestions for changes through 3 February 2025. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review.
Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C,
you may review the U4C Charter
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
Keegan (WMF)
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01:11, 24 ജനുവരി 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-05
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Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and
13 other questions
to shape the technical direction for next year.
Updates for editors
iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a
personalized Year in Review
feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.
Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in
പ്രത്യേകം:സമീപകാലമാറ്റങ്ങൾ
and
പ്രത്യേകം:പുതിയ താളുകൾ
[650]
Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a
double redirect
). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement.
[651]
Wikimedia wikis allow
WebAuthn
-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is
fragile
and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of
SUL3
(single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected.
[652]
View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
For developers that use the
MediaWiki History dumps
: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the
Temporary Accounts
initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the
mediawiki_user_history
dump, the
anonymous
field will be renamed to
is_anonymous
. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February.
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Reminder: first part of the annual UCoC review closes soon
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This is a reminder that the first phase of the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines will be closing soon. You can make suggestions for changes through
the end of day
, 3 February 2025. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review.
Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta
. After review of the feedback, proposals for updated text will be published on Meta in March for another round of community review.
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
Keegan (WMF)
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00:49, 3 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-06
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Updates for editors
Editors who use the "Special characters" editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki. This change should help make it easier to find the characters you use most often. The feature is in both the 2010 wikitext editor and VisualEditor.
[654]
Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor can now create sublists with correct indentation by selecting the line(s) you want to indent and then clicking the toolbar buttons.
[655]
You can now also insert
tags using a new toolbar button.
[656]
Thanks to user stjn for these improvements.
Help is needed to ensure the
citation generator
works properly on each wiki.
(1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page
MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json
to include entries for
preprint
standard
, and
dataset
; Here are example diffs to replicate
for 'preprint'
and
for 'standard' and 'dataset'
(2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing,
one will need to be added
. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updates
for 'preprint'
and
for 'standard' and 'dataset'
. The new fields that may need to be supported are
archiveID
identifier
repository
organization
repositoryLocation
committee
, and
versionNumber
[657]
One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in
Central Kanuri
w:knc:
[658]
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the
OCR (optical character recognition) tool
used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic.
[659]
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Tech News: 2025-07
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The Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has published
a draft of their recommendations
for the Wikimedia Foundation's Product and Technology department. They have recommended focusing on
mobile experiences
, particularly contributions. They request community
feedback at the talk page
by 21 February.
Updates for editors
The "Special pages" portlet link will be moved from the "Toolbox" into the "Navigation" section of the main menu's sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions at
T385346
[660]
As part of this year's work around improving the ways readers discover content on the wikis, the Web team will be running an experiment with a small number of readers that displays some suggestions for related or interesting articles within the search bar. Please check out
the project page
for more information.
Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (
prefers-reduced-motion
prefers-reduced-transparency
prefers-contrast
, and
forced-colors
). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements.
[661]
View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the പ്രത്യേകം:കേന്ദ്രീകൃത അംഗീകാരം page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards.
[662]
Updates for technical contributors
Wikidata
now supports a special language as a "default for all languages"
for labels and aliases. This is to avoid excessive duplication of the same information across many languages. If your Wikidata queries use labels, you may need to update them as some existing labels are getting removed.
[663]
The function
getDescription
was invoked on every Wiki page read and accounts for ~2.5% of a page's total load time. The calculated value will now be cached, reducing load on Wikimedia servers.
[664]
As part of the RESTBase deprecation
effort
, the
/page/related
endpoint has been blocked as of February 6, 2025, and will be removed soon. This timeline was chosen to align with the deprecation schedules for older Android and iOS versions. The stable alternative is the "
morelike
" action API in MediaWiki, and
a migration example
is available. The MediaWiki Interfaces team
can be contacted
for any questions.
[665]
In depth
The latest quarterly
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is available. It includes: Updates about the "Contribute" menu; details on some of the newest language editions of Wikipedia; details on new languages supported by the MediaWiki interface; updates on the Community-defined lists feature; and more.
The latest
Chart Project newsletter
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Tech News: 2025-08
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Weekly highlight
Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the
പ്രത്യേകം:ഹോംപേജ്
for newcomers. This feature will help newcomers to be informed about editing activities they can participate in. Administrators can create a new event to showcase at
പ്രത്യേകം:CommunityConfiguration
. To learn more about this feature, please read
the Diff post
, have a look
at the documentation
, or contact
the Growth team
Updates for editors
Highlighted talk pages improvements
Starting next week, talk pages at these wikis – Spanish Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia – will get
a new design
. This change was extensively tested as a Beta feature and is the last step of
talk pages improvements
[666]
You can now navigate to view a redirect page directly from its action pages, such as the history page. Previously, you were forced to first go to the redirect target. This change should help editors who work with redirects a lot. Thanks to user stjn for this improvement.
[667]
When a Cite reference is reused many times, wikis currently show either numbers like "1.23" or localized alphabetic markers like "a b c" in the reference list. Previously, if there were so many reuses that the alphabetic markers were all used,
an error message
was displayed. As part of the work to
modernize Cite customization
, these errors will no longer be shown and instead the backlinks will fall back to showing numeric markers like "1.23" once the alphabetic markers are all used.
The log entries for each change to an editor's user-groups are now clearer by specifying exactly what has changed, instead of the plain before and after listings. Translators can
help to update the localized versions
. Thanks to user Msz2001 for these improvements.
A new filter has been added to the
പ്രത്യേകം:സർവ്വനാശം
tool, which allows administrators to mass delete pages, to enable users to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below.
[668]
Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the
പ്രത്യേകം:സർവ്വനാശം
tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements.
[669]
View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, a bug was fixed in the configuration for the AV1 video file format, which enables these files to play again.
[670]
Updates for technical contributors
Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to most Wiktionaries over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyage to Parsoid Read Views last year. For more information, see the
Parsoid/Parser Unification
project page.
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[672]
Developers of tools that run on-wiki should note that
mw.Uri
is deprecated. Tools requiring
mw.Uri
must explicitly declare
mediawiki.Uri
as a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser native
URL
API soon.
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Upcoming Language Community Meeting (Feb 28th, 14:00 UTC) and Newsletter
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Hello everyone!
We’re excited to announce that the next
Language Community Meeting
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Tech News: 2025-09
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Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Updates for editors
Administrators can now customize how the
Babel feature
creates categories using
പ്രത്യേകം:CommunityConfiguration/Babel
. They can rename language categories, choose whether they should be auto-created, and adjust other settings.
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The
wikimedia.org
portal has been updated – and is receiving some ongoing improvements – to modernize and improve the accessibility of our portal pages. It now has better support for mobile layouts, updated wording and links, and better language support. Additionally, all of the Wikimedia project portals, such as
wikibooks.org
, now support dark mode when a reader is using that system setting.
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One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in
Santali
wikt:sat:
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View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, a bug was fixed that prevented clicking on search results in the web-interface for some Firefox for Android phone configurations.
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Meetings and events
The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, February 28th at
14:00 UTC
. This week's meeting will cover: highlights and technical updates on keyboard and tools for the Sámi languages, Translatewiki.net contributions from the Bahasa Lampung community in Indonesia, and technical Q&A. If you'd like to join, simply
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Tech News: 2025-10
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Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Updates for editors
All logged-in editors using the mobile view can now edit a full page. The "Edit full page" link is accessible from the "കൂടുതൽ" menu in the toolbar. This was previously only available to editors using the
Advanced mobile contributions
setting.
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Interface administrators can now help to remove the deprecated Cite CSS code matching "
mw-ref
" from their local
MediaWiki:Common.css
. The list of wikis in need of cleanup, and the code to remove,
can be found with this global search
and in
this example
, and you can learn more about how to help on the
CSS migration project page
. The Cite footnote markers ("
[1]
") are now rendered by
Parsoid
, and the deprecated CSS is no longer needed. The CSS for backlinks ("
mw:referencedBy
") should remain in place for now. This cleanup is expected to cause no visible changes for readers. Please help to remove this code before March 20, after which the development team will do it for you.
When editors embed a file (e.g.
[[File:MediaWiki.png]]
) on a page that is protected with cascading protection, the software will no longer restrict edits to the file description page, only to new file uploads.
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In contrast, transcluding a file description page (e.g.
{{:File:MediaWiki.png}}
) will now restrict edits to the page.
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When editors revert a file to an earlier version it will now require the same permissions as ordinarily uploading a new version of the file. The software now checks for 'reupload' or 'reupload-own' rights,
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and respects cascading protection.
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When administrators are listing pages for deletion with the Nuke tool, they can now also list associated talk pages and redirects for deletion, alongside pages created by the target, rather than needing to manually delete these pages afterwards.
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The
previously noted
update to Single User Login, which will accommodate browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies by moving login and account creation to a central domain, will now roll out to all users during March and April. The team plans to enable it for all new account creation on
Group0
wikis this week. See
the SUL3 project page
for more details and an updated timeline.
Since last week there has been a bug that shows some interface icons as black squares until the page has fully loaded. It will be fixed this week.
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One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in
Sylheti
w:syl:
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View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, a bug was fixed with loading images in very old versions of the Firefox browser on mobile.
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Updates for technical contributors
Detailed code updates later this week:
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02:30, 4 മാർച്ച് 2025 (UTC)
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Universal Code of Conduct annual review: proposed changes are available for comment
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My apologies for writing in English.
Please help translate to your language.
I am writing to you to let you know that
proposed changes
to the
Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines
and
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter
are open for review.
You can provide feedback on suggested changes
through the
end of day
on Tuesday, 18 March 2025. This is the second step in the annual review process, the final step will be community voting on the proposed changes.
Read more information and find relevant links about the process on the UCoC annual review page on Meta
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C,
you may review the U4C Charter
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
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18:51, 7 മാർച്ച് 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-11
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Updates for editors
Editors who use password managers at multiple wikis may notice changes in the future. The way that our wikis provide information to password managers about reusing passwords across domains has recently been updated, so some password managers might now offer you login credentials that you saved for a different Wikimedia site. Some password managers already did this, and are now doing it for more Wikimedia domains. This is part of the
SUL3 project
which aims to improve how our unified login works, and to keep it compatible with ongoing changes to the web-browsers we use.
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The Wikipedia Apps Team is inviting interested users to help improve Wikipedia’s offline and limited internet use. After discussions in
Afrika Baraza
and the last
ESEAP call
, key challenges like search, editing, and offline access are being explored, with upcoming focus groups to dive deeper into these topics. All languages are welcome, and interpretation will be available. Want to share your thoughts?
Join the discussion
or email
aramadan@wikimedia.org
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 19. This is planned at
14:00 UTC
. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were
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Updates for technical contributors
Detailed code updates later this week:
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The latest quarterly
Growth newsletter
is available. It includes: the launch of the Community Updates module, the most recent changes in Community Configuration, and the upcoming test of in-article suggestions for first-time editors.
An old API that was previously used in the Android Wikipedia app is being removed at the end of March. There are no current software uses, but users of the app with a version that is older than 6 months by the time of removal (2025-03-31), will no longer have access to the Suggested Edits feature, until they update their app. You can
read more details about this change
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23:09, 10 മാർച്ച് 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-12
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tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Weekly highlight
Twice a year, around the equinoxes, the Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team performs
a datacenter server switchover
, redirecting all traffic from one primary server to its backup. This provides reliability in case of a crisis, as we can always fall back on the other datacenter.
Thanks to the Listen to Wikipedia
tool, you can hear the switchover take place: Before it begins, you'll hear the steady stream of edits; Then, as the system enters a brief read-only phase, the sound stops for a couple of minutes, before resuming after the switchover. You can
read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog
. If you want to keep an ear out for the next server switchover, listen to the wikis on
March 19 at 14:00 UTC
Updates for editors
The
improved Content Translation tool dashboard
is now available in
10 Wikipedias
and will be available for all Wikipedias
soon
. With
the unified dashboard
, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-based
article suggestion filters
(initially available only for mobile device users); Discover and access the
Community-defined lists
filter, also known as "Collections", from wiki-projects and campaigns.
On Wikimedia Commons, a
new system to select the appropriate file categories
has been introduced: if a category has one or more subcategories, users will be able to click on an arrow that will open the subcategories directly within the form, and choose the correct one. The parent category name will always be shown on top, and it will always be possible to come back to it. This should decrease the amount of work for volunteers in fixing/creating new categories. The change is also available on mobile. These changes are part of planned improvements to the UploadWizard.
The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for the
Multiblocks
feature and a refreshed Special:Block page in late March. Multiblocks enables administrators to impose multiple different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. If you are an admin or steward and would like us to discuss joining the pilot with your community, please leave a message on the
project talk page
Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at
12 Wikipedias
Multi-Check
. Half of the newcomers on these wikis will see all
Reference Checks
during their edit session, while the other half will continue seeing only one. The goal of this test is to see if users are confused or discouraged when shown multiple Reference Checks (when relevant) within a single editing session. At these wikis, the tags used on edits that show References Check will be simplified, as multiple tags could be shown within a single edit. Changes to the tags are documented
on Phabricator
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The
Global reminder bot
, which is a service for notifying users that their temporary user-rights are about to expire, now supports using the localized name of the user-rights group in the message heading. Translators can see the
listing of existing translations and documentation
to check if their language needs updating or creation.
The
GlobalPreferences
gender setting, which is used for how the software should refer to you in interface messages, now works as expected by overriding the local defaults.
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View all 26 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the Wikipedia App for Android had a bug fixed for when a user is browsing and searching in multiple languages.
[693]
Updates for technical contributors
Later this week, the way that Codex styles are loaded will be changing. There is a small risk that this may result in unstyled interface message boxes on certain pages. User generated content (e.g. templates) is not impacted. Gadgets may be impacted. If you see any issues
please report them
. See the linked task for details, screenshots, and documentation on how to fix any affected gadgets.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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23:48, 17 മാർച്ച് 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-13
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Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Weekly highlight
The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking your feedback on the
drafts of the objectives and key results that will shape the Foundation's Product and Technology priorities
for the next fiscal year (starting in July). The objectives are broad high-level areas, and the key-results are measurable ways to track the success of their objectives. Please share your feedback on the talkpage, in any language, ideally before the end of April.
Updates for editors
The
CampaignEvents extension
will be released to multiple wikis (see
deployment plan
for details) in April 2025, and the team has begun the process of engaging communities on the identified wikis. The extension provides tools to organize, manage, and promote collaborative activities (like events, edit-a-thons, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. The extension has three tools:
Event Registration
Collaboration List
, and
Invitation Lists
. It is currently on 13 Wikipedias, including English Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and Spanish Wikipedia, as well as Wikidata. Questions or requests can be directed to the
extension talk page
or in Phabricator (with
#campaigns-product-team
tag).
Starting the week of March 31st, wikis will be able to set which user groups can view private registrants in
Event Registration
, as part of the
CampaignEvents
extension. By default, event organizers and the local wiki admins will be able to see private registrants. This is a change from the current behavior, in which only event organizers can see private registrants. Wikis can change the default setup by
requesting a configuration change
in Phabricator (and adding the
#campaigns-product-team
tag). Participants of past events can cancel their registration at any time.
Administrators at wikis that have a customized
MediaWiki:Sidebar
should check that it contains an entry for the പ്രത്യേക താളുകൾ listing. If it does not, they should add it using
* specialpages-url|specialpages
. Wikis with a default sidebar will see the link moved from the page toolbox into the sidebar menu in April.
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The Minerva skin (mobile web) combines both Notice and Alert notifications within the bell icon (
). There was a long-standing bug where an indication for new notifications was only shown if you had unseen Alerts. This bug is now fixed. In the future, Minerva users will notice a counter atop the bell icon when you have 1 or more unseen Notices and/or Alerts.
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resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
VisualEditor has introduced a
new client-side hook
for developers to use when integrating with the VisualEditor target lifecycle. This hook should replace the existing lifecycle-related hooks, and be more consistent between different platforms. In addition, the new hook will apply to uses of VisualEditor outside of just full article editing, allowing gadgets to interact with the editor in DiscussionTools as well. The Editing Team intends to deprecate and eventually remove the old lifecycle hooks, so any use cases that this new hook does not cover would be of interest to them and can be
shared in the task
Developers who use the
mw.Api
JavaScript library, can now identify the tool using it with the
userAgent
parameter:
var api = new mw.Api( { userAgent: 'GadgetNameHere/1.0.1' } );
. If you maintain a gadget or user script, please set a user agent, because it helps with library and server maintenance and with differentiating between legitimate and illegitimate traffic.
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22:42, 24 മാർച്ച് 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-14
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Updates for editors
The Editing team is working on a new
Edit check
Peacock check
. This check's goal is to identify non-neutral terms while a user is editing a wikipage, so that they can be informed that their edit should perhaps be changed before they publish it. This project is at the early stages, and the team is looking for communities' input:
in this Phabricator task
, they are gathering on-wiki policies, templates used to tag non-neutral articles, and the terms (jargon and keywords) used in edit summaries for the languages they are currently researching. You can participate by editing the table on Phabricator, commenting on the task, or directly messaging
Trizek (WMF)
Single User Login
has now been updated on all wikis to move login and account creation to a central domain. This makes user login compatible with browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies, which have prevented users of some browsers from staying logged in.
View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
Starting on March 31st, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin a limited release of generated OpenAPI specs and a SwaggerUI-based sandbox experience for
MediaWiki REST APIs
. They invite developers from a limited group of non-English Wikipedia communities (Arabic, German, French, Hebrew, Interlingua, Dutch, Chinese) to review the documentation and experiment with the sandbox in their preferred language. In addition to these specific Wikipedia projects, the sandbox and OpenAPI spec will be available on the
on the test wiki REST Sandbox special page
for developers with English as their preferred language. During the preview period, the MediaWiki Interfaces Team also invites developers to
share feedback about your experience
. The preview will last for approximately 2 weeks, after which the sandbox and OpenAPI specs will be made available across all wiki projects.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Sometimes a small,
one line code change
can have great significance: in this case, it means that for the first time in years we're able to run all of the stack serving
maps.wikimedia.org
- a host dedicated to serving our wikis and their multi-lingual maps needs - from a single core datacenter, something we test every time we perform a
datacenter switchover
. This is important because it means that in case one of our datacenters is affected by a catastrophe, we'll still be able to serve the site. This change is the result of
extensive work
by two developers on porting the last component of the maps stack over to
kubernetes
, where we can allocate resources more efficiently than before, thus we're able to withstand more traffic in a single datacenter. This work involved a lot of complicated steps because this software, and the software libraries it uses, required many long overdue upgrades. This type of work makes the Wikimedia infrastructure more sustainable.
Meetings and events
MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025
is happening in Sandusky, USA, and online, from 14–16 May 2025. The workshop will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users. Registration and presentation signup is now available at the workshop's website.
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00:05, 1 ഏപ്രിൽ 2025 (UTC)
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Final proposed modifications to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter now posted
തിരുത്തുക
The proposed modifications to the
Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines
and the U4C Charter
are now on Meta-wiki for community notice
in advance of the voting period. This final draft was developed from the previous two rounds of community review. Community members will be able to vote on these modifications starting on 17 April 2025. The vote will close on 1 May 2025, and results will be announced no later than 12 May 2025. The U4C election period, starting with a call for candidates, will open immediately following the announcement of the review results. More information will be posted on
the wiki page for the election
soon.
Please be advised that this process will require more messages to be sent here over the next two months.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may
review the U4C Charter
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
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02:05, 4 ഏപ്രിൽ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-15
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Updates for editors
From now on,
interface admins
and
centralnotice admins
are technically required to enable
two-factor authentication
before they can use their privileges. In the future this might be expanded to more groups with advanced user-rights.
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View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
The Design System Team is preparing to release the next major version of Codex (v2.0.0) on April 29. Editors and developers who use CSS from Codex should see the
2.0 overview documentation
, which includes guidance related to a few of the breaking changes such as
font-size
line-height
, and
size-icon
The results of the
Developer Satisfaction Survey (2025)
are now available. Thank you to all participants. These results help the Foundation decide what to work on next and to review what they recently worked on.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Meetings and events
The
2025 Wikimedia Hackathon
will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, between 2–4 May. Registration for attending the in-person event will close on 13 April. Before registering, please note the potential need for a
visa
or
e-visa
to enter the country.
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Tech News: 2025-16
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Later this week, the default thumbnail size will be increased from 220px to 250px. This changes how pages are shown in all wikis and has been requested by some communities for many years, but wasn't previously possible due to technical limitations.
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File thumbnails are now stored in discrete sizes. If a page specifies a thumbnail size that's not among the standard sizes (20, 40, 60, 120, 250, 330, 500, 960), then MediaWiki will pick the closest larger thumbnail size but will tell the browser to downscale it to the requested size. In these cases, nothing will change visually but users might load slightly larger images. If it doesn't matter which thumbnail size is used in a page, please pick one of the standard sizes to avoid the extra in-browser down-scaling step.
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Updates for editors
The Wikimedia Foundation are working on a system called
Edge Uniques
which will enable
A/B testing
, help protect against
Distributed denial-of-service attacks
(DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is so that they can more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for.
To improve security for users, a small percentage of logins will now require that the account owner input a one-time password
emailed to their account
. It is recommended that you
check
that the email address on your account is set correctly, and that it has been confirmed, and that you have an email set for this purpose.
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"Are you interested in taking a short survey to improve tools used for reviewing or reverting edits on your Wiki?" This question will be
asked at 7 wikis starting next week
, on Recent Changes and Watchlist pages. The
Moderator Tools team
wants to know more about activities that involve looking at new edits made to your Wikimedia project, and determining whether they adhere to your project's policies.
On April 15, the full Wikidata graph will no longer be supported on
query.wikidata.org
. After this date, scholarly articles will be available through
query-scholarly.wikidata.org
, while the rest of the data hosted on Wikidata will be available through the
query.wikidata.org
endpoint. This is part of the scheduled split of the Wikidata Graph, which was
announced in September 2024
. More information is
available on Wikidata
The latest quarterly
Wikimedia Apps Newsletter
is now available. It covers updates, experiments, and improvements made to the Wikipedia mobile apps.
View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
The latest quarterly
Technical Community Newsletter
is now available. This edition includes: an invitation for tool maintainers to attend the Toolforge UI Community Feedback Session on April 15th; recent community metrics; and recent technical blog posts.
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00:24, 15 ഏപ്രിൽ 2025 (UTC)
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Vote now on the revised UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter
തിരുത്തുക
The voting period for the revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines ("UCoC EG") and the UCoC's Coordinating Committee Charter is open now through the end of 1 May (UTC) (
find in your time zone
).
Read the information on how to participate and read over the proposal before voting
on the UCoC page on Meta-wiki.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review of the EG and Charter was planned and implemented by the U4C. Further information will be provided in the coming months about the review of the UCoC itself. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may
review the U4C Charter
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
In cooperation with the U4C --
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00:35, 17 ഏപ്രിൽ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-17
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Updates for editors
Wikifunctions
is now integrated with
Dagbani Wikipedia
since April 15. It is the first project that will be able to call
functions from Wikifunctions
and integrate them in articles. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of
a stable and global function
, rather than via a local template.
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A new type of lint error has been created:
Empty headings
documentation
). The
Linter extension
's purpose is to identify wikitext patterns that must or can be fixed in pages and provide some guidance about what the problems are with those patterns and how to fix them.
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Updates for technical contributors
Following its publication on HuggingFace, the "Structured Contents" dataset, developed by Wikimedia Enterprise, is
now also available on Kaggle
. This Beta initiative is focused on making Wikimedia data more machine-readable for high-volume reusers. They are releasing this beta version in a location that open dataset communities already use, in order to seek feedback, to help improve the product for a future wider release. You can read more about the overall
Structured Contents project
, and about the
first release that's freely usable
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings and events
The Editing and Machine Learning Teams invite interested volunteers to a video meeting to discuss
Peacock check
, which is the latest
Edit check
that will detect "peacock" or "overly-promotional" or "non-neutral" language whilst an editor is typing. Editors who work with newcomers, or help to fix this kind of writing, or are interested in how we use artificial intelligence in our projects are encouraged to attend. The
meeting will be on April 28, 2025
at
18:00–19:00 UTC
and hosted on Zoom.
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21:00, 21 ഏപ്രിൽ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-18
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Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
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Updates for editors
Event organizers who host collaborative activities on
multiple wikis
, including Bengali, Japanese, and Korean Wikipedias, will have access to the
CampaignEvents extension
this week. Also, admins in the Wikipedia where the extension is enabled will automatically be granted the event organizer right soon. They won't have to manually grant themselves the right before they can manage events as
requested by a community
View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
The release of the next major version of
Codex
, the design system for Wikimedia, is scheduled for 29 April 2025. Technical editors will have access to the release by the week of 5 May 2025. This update will include a number of
breaking changes
and minor
visual changes
. Instructions on handling the breaking and visual changes are documented on
this page
. Pre-release testing is reported in
T386298
, with post-release issues tracked in
T392379
and
T392390
Users of
Wiki Replicas
will notice that the database views of
ipblocks
ipblocks_ipindex
, and
ipblocks_compat
are
now deprecated
. Users can query the
block
and
block_target
new views that mirror the new tables in the production database instead. The deprecated views will be removed entirely from Wiki Replicas in June, 2025.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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In depth
The latest quarterly
Language and Internationalization Newsletter
is now available. This edition includes an overview of the improved
Content Translation Dashboard Tool
support for new languages
highlights from the Wiki Loves Ramadan campaign
results from the Language Onboarding Experiment
, an analysis of topic diversity in articles, and information on upcoming community meetings and events.
Meetings and events
The
Let's Connect Learning Clinic
will take place on
April 29 at 14:30 UTC
. This edition will focus on "Understanding and Navigating Conflict in Wikimedia Projects". You can
register now
to attend.
The
2025 Wikimedia Hackathon
, which brings the global technical community together to connect, brainstorm, and hack existing projects, will take place from May 2 to 4th, 2025, at Istanbul, Turkey.
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19:31, 28 ഏപ്രിൽ 2025 (UTC)
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Vote on proposed modifications to the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter
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The voting period for the revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter closes on 1 May 2025 at 23:59 UTC (
find in your time zone
).
Read the information on how to participate and read over the proposal before voting
on the UCoC page on Meta-wiki.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may
review the U4C Charter
Please share this message with members of your community in your language, as appropriate, so they can participate as well.
In cooperation with the U4C --
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03:41, 29 ഏപ്രിൽ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-19
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tech news
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Weekly highlight
The Wikimedia Foundation has shared the latest draft update to their
annual plan
for next year (July 2025–June 2026). This includes an
executive summary
(also on
Diff
), details about the three main
goals
Infrastructure
Volunteer Support
, and
Effectiveness
),
global trends
, and the
budget
and
financial model
. Feedback and questions are welcome on the
talk page
until the end of May.
Updates for editors
For wikis that have the
CampaignEvents extension enabled
, two new feature improvements have been released:
Admins can now choose which namespaces are permitted for
Event Registration
via
Community Configuration
documentation
). The default setup is for event registration to be permitted in the Event namespace, but other namespaces (such as the project namespace or WikiProject namespace) can now be added. With this change, communities like WikiProjects can now more easily use Event Registration for their collaborative activities.
Editors can now
transclude
the Collaboration List on a wiki page (
documentation
). The Collaboration List is an automated list of events and WikiProjects on the wikis, accessed via പ്രത്യേകം:AllEvents (
example
). Now, the Collaboration List can be added to all sorts of wiki pages, such as: a wiki mainpage, a WikiProject page, an affiliate page, an event page, or even a user page.
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
Developers who use the
moment
library in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like the
Intl
library or the new
mediawiki.DateFormatter
library. The
moment
library has been deprecated and will begin to log messages in the developer console. You can see a global search for current uses, and
ask related questions in this Phabricator task
Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikidata term store tables (
wbt_*
) need to update their code to connect to a separate database cluster. These tables are being split into a separate database cluster. Tools that query those tables via the wiki replicas must be adapted to connect to the new cluster instead.
Documentation and related links are available
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Detailed code updates later this week:
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The latest
Chart Project newsletter
is available. It includes updates on preparing to expand the deployment to additional wikis as soon as this week (starting May 6) and scaling up over the following weeks, plus exploring filtering and transforming source data.
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Tech News: 2025-20
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The
"Get shortened URL"
link on the sidebar now includes a
QR code
. Wikimedia site users can now use it by scanning or downloading it to quickly share and access shared content from Wikimedia sites, conveniently.
Updates for editors
The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a system called
Edge Uniques
, which will enable
A/B testing
, help protect against
distributed denial-of-service attacks
(DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is to help more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for. Tech News has
previously written about this
. The deployment will be gradual. Some might see the Edge Uniques cookie the week of 19 May. You can discuss this on the
talk page
Starting May 19, 2025, Event organisers in wikis with the
CampaignEvents extension
enabled can use
Event Registration
in the project namespace (e.g., Wikipedia namespace, Wikidata namespace). With this change, communities don't need admins to use the feature. However, wikis that don't want this change can remove and add the permitted namespaces at
Special:CommunityConfiguration/CampaignEvents
The Wikipedia project now has a Wikipedia in
Nupe
w:nup:
). This is a language primarily spoken in the North Central region of Nigeria. Speakers of this language are invited to contribute to
new Wikipedia
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
Developers can now access pre-parsed Dutch Wikipedia, amongst others (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) through the
Structured Contents snapshots (beta)
. The content includes parsed Wikipedia abstracts, descriptions, main images, infoboxes, article sections, and references.
The
/page/data-parsoid
REST API endpoint is no longer in use and will be deprecated. It is
scheduled to be turned off
on June 7, 2025.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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The
IPv6 support
is a newly introduced Cloud virtual network that significantly boosts Wikimedia platforms' scalability, security, and readiness for the future. If you are a technical contributor eager to learn more, check out
this blog post
for an in-depth look at the journey to IPv6.
Meetings and events
The 2nd edition of 2025 of
Afrika Baraza
, a virtual platform for African Wikimedians to connect, will take place on
May 15 at 17:00 UTC
. This edition will focus on discussions regarding
Wikimedia Annual planning and progress
The
MENA Connect Community Call
, a virtual meeting for
MENA
Wikimedians to connect, will take place on
May 17 at 17:00 UTC
. You can
register now
to attend.
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Call for Candidates for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
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The results of voting on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter is
available on Meta-wiki
You may now
submit your candidacy to serve on the U4C
through 29 May 2025 at 12:00 UTC. Information about
eligibility, process, and the timeline are on Meta-wiki
. Voting on candidates will open on 1 June 2025 and run for two weeks, closing on 15 June 2025 at 12:00 UTC.
If you have any questions, you can ask on
the discussion page for the election
. -- in cooperation with the U4C,
Keegan (WMF)
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22:07, 15 മേയ് 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-21
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The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers:
Peacock check
. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Peacock language model for the following languages: Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Japanese. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are
invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org
. The deadline to sign up is on May 23, which will be the start date of the test.
Updates for editors
From May 20, 2025,
oversighters
and
checkusers
will need to have their accounts secured with two-factor authentication (2FA) to be able to use their advanced rights. All users who belong to these two groups and do not have 2FA enabled have been informed. In the future, this requirement may be extended to other users with advanced rights.
Multiblocks
will begin mass deployment by the end of the month: all non-Wikipedia projects plus Catalan Wikipedia will adopt Multiblocks in the week of May 26, while all other Wikipedias will adopt it in the week of June 2. Please
contact the team
if you have concerns. Administrators can test the new user interface now on your own wiki by browsing to
പ്രത്യേകം:തടയുക?usecodex=1
, and can test the full multiblocks functionality
on testwiki
. Multiblocks is the feature that makes it possible for administrators to impose different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. See the
help page
for more information.
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Later this week, the
പ്രത്യേകം:പ്രത്യേകതാളുകൾ
listing of almost all special pages will be updated with a new design. This page has been
redesigned
to improve the user experience in a few ways, including: The ability to search for names and aliases of the special pages, sorting, more visible marking of restricted special pages, and a more mobile-friendly look. The new version can be
previewed
at Beta Cluster now, and feedback shared in the task.
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The
Chart extension
is being enabled on more wikis. For a detailed list of when the extension will be enabled on your wiki, please read the
deployment timeline
Wikifunctions
will be deployed on May 27 on five Wiktionaries:
Hausa
Igbo
Bengali
Malayalam
, and
Dhivehi/Maldivian
. This is the second batch of deployment planned for the project. After deployment, the projects will be able to call
functions from Wikifunctions
and integrate them in their pages. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of
a stable and global function
, rather than via a local template.
Later this week, the Wikimedia Foundation will publish a hub for
experiments
. This is to showcase and get user feedback on product experiments. The experiments help the Wikimedia movement
understand new users
, how they interact with the internet and how it could affect the Wikimedia movement. Some examples are
generated video
, the
Wikipedia Roblox speedrun game
and
the Discord bot
View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, there was a bug with creating an account using the API, which has now been fixed.
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Updates for technical contributors
Gadgets and user scripts that interact with
പ്രത്യേകം:തടയുക
may need to be updated to work with the new
manage blocks interface
. Please review the
developer guide
for more information. If you need help or are unable to adapt your script to the new interface, please let the team know on the
talk page
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The
mw.title
object allows you to get information about a specific wiki page in the
Lua
programming language. Starting this week, a new property will be added to the object, named
isDisambiguationPage
. This property allows you to check if a page is a disambiguation page, without the need to write a custom function.
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User script developers can use a
new reverse proxy tool
to load javascript and css from
gitlab.wikimedia.org
with
mw.loader.load
. The tool's author hopes this will enable collaborative development workflows for user scripts including linting, unit tests, code generation, and code review on
gitlab.wikimedia.org
without a separate copy-and-paste step to publish scripts to a Wikimedia wiki for integration and acceptance testing. See
Tool:Gitlab-content on Wikitech
for more information.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Meetings and events
The 12th edition of
Wiki Workshop 2025
, a forum that brings together researchers that explore all aspects of Wikimedia projects, will be held virtually on 21-22 May. Researchers can
register now
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RfC ongoing regarding Abstract Wikipedia (and your project)
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Hello all! We opened a discussion on Meta about a very delicate issue for the development of
Abstract Wikipedia
: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. Since some of the hypothesis involve your project, we wanted to hear your thoughts too.
We want to make the decision process clear: we do not yet know which option we want to use, which is why we are consulting here. We will take the arguments from the Wikimedia communities into account, and we want to consult with the different communities and hear arguments that will help us with the decision. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.
You can read the various hypothesis and have your say at
Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content
. Thank you in advance! --
Sannita (WMF)
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15:27, 22 മേയ് 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-22
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A community-wide discussion about a very delicate issue for the development of
Abstract Wikipedia
is now open on Meta: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. The discussion is open until June 12 at
Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content
, and every opinion is welcomed. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.
Updates for editors
Since last week, on all wikis except
the largest 20
, people using the mobile visual editor will have
additional tools in the menu bar
, accessed using the new
toolbar button. To start, the new menu will include options to add: citations, hieroglyphs, and code blocks. Deployment to the remaining wikis is
scheduled
to happen in June.
The
#ifexist
parser function will no longer register a link to its target page. This will improve the usefulness of
പ്രത്യേകം:ആവശ്യമുള്ള താളുകൾ
, which will eventually only list pages that are the target of an actual red link. This change will happen gradually as the source pages are updated.
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This week, the Moderator Tools team will launch
a new filter to Recent Changes
, starting at Indonesian Wikipedia. This new filter highlights edits that are likely to be reverted. The goal is to help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic edits. Other wikis will benefit from this filter in the future.
Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. Readers of Catalan, Hebrew, and Italian Wikipedias and some sister projects will receive the change between May 21 and mid-June. Readers of other wikis will receive the change later. The goal is to encourage users to read the wikis more.
Some users of the Wikipedia Android app can use a new feature for readers,
WikiGames
, a daily trivia game based on real historical events. The release has started as an A/B test, available to 50% of users in the following languages: English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish.
The
Newsletter extension
that is available on MediaWiki.org allows the creation of
various newsletters
for global users. The extension can now publish new issues as section links on an existing page, instead of requiring a new page for each issue.
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View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
The previously deprecated
ipblocks
views in
Wiki Replicas
will be removed in the beginning of June. Users are encouraged to query the new
block
and
block_target
views instead.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Meetings and events
Wikidata and Sister Projects
is a multi-day online event that will focus on how Wikidata is integrated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. The event runs from May 29 – June 1. You can
read the Program schedule
and
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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 Selection & Call for Questions
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കൂടുതൽ ഭാഷകൾ
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Dear all,
This year, the term of 2 (two) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats.
The Elections Committee will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The Governance Committee, composed of trustees who are not candidates in the 2025 community-and-affiliate-selected trustee selection process (Raju Narisetti, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Lorenzo Losa, Kathy Collins, Victoria Doronina and Esra’a Al Shafei) [3], is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2025 trustee selection process and for keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections Committee, Board, and staff are here [4].
Here are the key planned dates:
May 22 – June 5: Announcement (this communication) and call for questions period [6]
June 17 – July 1, 2025: Call for candidates
July 2025: If needed, affiliates vote to shortlist candidates if more than 10 apply [5]
August 2025: Campaign period
August – September 2025: Two-week community voting period
October – November 2025: Background check of selected candidates
Board’s Meeting in December 2025: New trustees seated
Learn more about the 2025 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on this Meta-wiki page
[link]
Call for Questions
In each selection process, the community has the opportunity to submit questions for the Board of Trustees candidates to answer. The Election Committee selects questions from the list developed by the community for the candidates to answer. Candidates must answer all the required questions in the application in order to be eligible; otherwise their application will be disqualified. This year, the Election Committee will select 5 questions for the candidates to answer. The selected questions may be a combination of what’s been submitted from the community, if they’re alike or related.
[link]
Election Volunteers
Another way to be involved with the 2025 selection process is to be an Election Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on this Meta-wiki page
[link].
Thank you!
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
Best regards,
Victoria Doronina
Board Liaison to the Elections Committee
Governance Committee
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Tech News: 2025-23
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Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Weekly highlight
The
Chart extension
is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Editors can use this new extension to create interactive data visualizations like bar, line, area, and pie charts. Charts are designed to replace many of the uses of the legacy
Graph extension
Updates for editors
It is now easier to configure automatic citations for your wiki within the visual editor's
citation generator
. Administrators can now set a default template by using the
_default
key in the local
MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json
page (
example diff
). Setting this default will also help to future-proof your existing configurations when
new item types
are added in the future. You can still set templates for individual item types as they will be preferred to the default template.
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View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
Starting the week of June 2, bots logging in using
action=login
or
action=clientlogin
will fail more often. This is because of stronger protections against suspicious logins. Bots using
bot passwords
or using a loginless authentication method such as
OAuth
are not affected. If your bot is not using one of those, you should update it; using
action=login
without a bot password was deprecated
in 2016
. For most bots, this only requires changing what password the bot uses.
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From this week, Wikimedia wikis will allow ES2017 features in JavaScript code for official code, gadgets, and user scripts. The most visible feature of ES2017 is
async
await
syntax, allowing for easier-to-read code. Until this week, the platform only allowed up to ES2016, and a few months before that, up to ES2015.
[715]
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Meetings and events
Scholarship applications to participate in the
GLAM Wiki Conference 2025
are now open. The conference will take place from 30 October to 1 November, in Lisbon, Portugal. GLAM contributors who lack the means to support their participation can
apply here
. Scholarship applications close on June 7th.
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📣 Announcing the South Asia Newsletter – Get Involved! 🌏
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Hello Wikimedians of South Asia! 👋
We’re excited to launch the planning phase for the
South Asia Newsletter
– a bi-monthly, community-driven publication that brings news, updates, and original stories from across our vibrant region, to one page!
We’re looking for passionate contributors to join us in shaping this initiative:
Editors/Reviewers – Craft and curate impactful content
Technical Contributors – Build and maintain templates, modules, and other magic on meta.
Community Representatives – Represent your Wikimedia Affiliate or community
If you're excited to contribute and help build a strong regional voice, we’d love to have you on board!
👉 Express your interest though
this link
Please share this with your community members.. Let’s build this together! 💬
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Tech News: 2025-24
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Latest
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Weekly highlight
The
Trust and Safety Product team
is finalizing work needed to roll out
temporary accounts
on large Wikipedias later this month. The team has worked with stewards and other users with extended rights to predict and address many use cases that may arise on larger wikis, so that community members can continue to effectively moderate and patrol temporary accounts. This will be the second of three phases of deployment – the last one will take place in September at the earliest. For more information about the recent developments on the project,
see this update
. If you have any comments or questions, write on the
talk page
, and
join a CEE Catch Up
this Tuesday.
Updates for editors
The
watchlist expiry
feature allows editors to watch pages for a limited period of time. After that period, the page is automatically removed from your watchlist. Starting this week, you can set a preference for the default period of time to watch pages. The
preferences
also allow you to set different default watch periods for editing existing pages, pages you create, and when using rollback.
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Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.
The appearance of talk pages will change at almost all Wikipedias (
some
have already received this design change,
a few
will get these changes later). You can read details about the changes
on
Diff
. It is possible to opt out of these changes
in user preferences
("Show discussion activity").
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Users with specific extended rights (including administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, and stewards) can now have IP addresses of all temporary accounts
revealed automatically
during time-limited periods where they need to combat high-speed account-hopping vandalism. This feature was requested by stewards.
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This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of
a new filter to Recent Changes
, releasing it to several more Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Afrikaans Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include
the rest of the Wikipedias in this project
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View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
AbuseFilter editors active on Meta-Wiki and large Wikipedias are kindly asked to update AbuseFilter to make it compatible with temporary accounts. A link to the instructions and the private lists of filters needing verification are
available on Phabricator
Lua modules now have access to the name of a page's associated thumbnail image, and on
some wikis
to the WikiProject assessment information. This is possible using two new properties on
mw.title objects
, named
pageImage
and
pageAssessments
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Vote now in the 2025 U4C Election
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Eligible voters are asked to participate in the 2025
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
election. More information–including an eligibility check, voting process information, candidate information, and a link to the vote–are available on Meta at the
2025 Election information page
. The vote closes on 17 June 2025 at
12:00 UTC
Please vote if your account is eligible. Results will be available by 1 July 2025. -- In cooperation with the U4C,
Keegan (WMF)
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23:01, 13 ജൂൺ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-25
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You can
nominate your favorite tools
for the sixth edition of the
Coolest Tool Award
. Nominations are anonymous and will be open until June 25. You can re-use the survey to nominate multiple tools.
View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Foundation staff and technical volunteers use Wikimedia APIs to build the tools, applications, features, and integrations that enhance user experiences. Over the coming years, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will be investing in Wikimedia web (HTTP) APIs to better serve technical volunteer needs and protect Wikimedia infrastructure from potential abuse. You can
read more about their plans to evolve the APIs in this Techblog post
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23:38, 16 ജൂൺ 2025 (UTC)
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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 - Call for Candidates
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കൂടുതൽ ഭാഷകൾ
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Hello all,
The
call for candidates for the 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection is now open
from June 17, 2025 – July 2, 2025 at 11:59 UTC [1]. The Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation's work, and each Trustee serves a three-year term [2]. This is a volunteer position.
This year, the Wikimedia community will vote in late August through September 2025 to fill two (2) seats on the Foundation Board. Could you – or someone you know – be a good fit to join the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees? [3]
Learn more about what it takes to stand for these leadership positions and how to submit your candidacy on
this Meta-wiki page
or encourage someone else to run in this year's election.
Best regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi
Chair of the Elections Committee
On behalf of the Elections Committee and Governance Committee
[1]
[2]
[3]
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Tech News: 2025-26
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Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Weekly highlight
This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of
a new filter to Recent Changes
, releasing it to the third and last batch of Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Latin Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include
the rest of the Wikipedias in this project
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Updates for editors
Last week,
temporary accounts
were rolled out on Czech, Korean, and Turkish Wikipedias. This and next week, deployments on larger Wikipedias will follow.
Share your thoughts
about the project.
[724]
Later this week, the Editing team will release
Multi Check
to all Wikipedias (except English Wikipedia). This feature shows multiple
Reference checks
within the editing experience. This encourages users to add citations when they add multiple new paragraphs to a Wikipedia article. This feature was previously available as an A/B test.
The test shows
that users who are shown multiple checks are 1.3 times more likely to add a reference to their edit, and their edit is less likely to be reverted (-34.7%).
[725]
A few pages need to be renamed due to software updates and to match more recent Unicode standards. All of these changes are related to title-casing changes. Approximately 71 pages and 3 files will be renamed, across 15 wikis; the complete list is in
the task
. The developers will rename these pages next week, and they will fix redirects and embedded file links a few minutes later via a system settings update.
View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused pages to scroll upwards when text near the top was selected.
[726]
Updates for technical contributors
Editors can now use Lua modules to filter and transform tabular data for use with
Extension:Chart
. This can be used for things like selecting a subset of rows or columns from the source data, converting between units, statistical processing, and many other useful transformations.
Information on how to use transforms is available
[727]
The
all_links
variable in
AbuseFilter
is now renamed to
new_links
for consistency with other variables. Old usages will still continue to work.
[728]
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The latest quarterly
Growth newsletter
is available. It includes: the recent updates for the "Add a Link" Task, two new Newcomer Engagement Features, and updates to Community Configuration.
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23:21, 23 ജൂൺ 2025 (UTC)
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Sister Projects Task Force reviews Wikispore and Wikinews
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Dear Wikimedia Community,
The
Community Affairs Committee (CAC)
of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees assigned
the Sister Projects Task Force (SPTF)
to update and implement a procedure for assessing the lifecycle of Sister Projects – wiki
projects supported by Wikimedia Foundation (WMF)
A vision of relevant, accessible, and impactful free knowledge has always guided the Wikimedia Movement. As the ecosystem of Wikimedia projects continues to evolve, it is crucial that we periodically review existing projects to ensure they still align with our goals and community capacity.
Despite their noble intent, some projects may no longer effectively serve their original purpose.
Reviewing such projects is not about giving up – it's about responsible stewardship of shared resources
. Volunteer time, staff support, infrastructure, and community attention are finite, and the non-technical costs tend to grow significantly as our ecosystem has entered a different age of the internet than the one we were founded in. Supporting inactive projects or projects that didn't meet our ambitions can unintentionally divert these resources from areas with more potential impact.
Moreover, maintaining projects that no longer reflect the quality and reliability of the Wikimedia name stands for, involves a reputational risk. An abandoned or less reliable project affects trust in the Wikimedia movement.
Lastly,
failing to sunset or reimagine projects that are no longer working can make it much harder to start new ones
. When the community feels bound to every past decision – no matter how outdated – we risk stagnation. A healthy ecosystem must allow for evolution, adaptation, and, when necessary, letting go. If we create the expectation that every project must exist indefinitely, we limit our ability to experiment and innovate.
Because of this, SPTF reviewed two requests concerning the lifecycle of the Sister Projects to work through and demonstrate the review process. We chose Wikispore as a case study for a possible new Sister Project opening and Wikinews as a case study for a review of an existing project. Preliminary findings were discussed with the CAC, and a community consultation on both proposals was recommended.
Wikispore
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The
application to consider Wikispore
was submitted in 2019. SPTF decided to review this request in more depth because rather than being concentrated on a specific topic, as most of the proposals for the new Sister Projects are, Wikispore has the potential to nurture multiple start-up Sister Projects.
After careful consideration, the SPTF has decided
not to recommend
Wikispore as a Wikimedia Sister Project. Considering the current activity level, the current arrangement allows
better flexibility
and experimentation while WMF provides core infrastructural support.
We acknowledge the initiative's potential and seek community input on what would constitute a sufficient level of activity and engagement to reconsider its status in the future.
As part of the process, we shared the decision with the Wikispore community and invited one of its leaders, Pharos, to an SPTF meeting.
Currently, we especially invite feedback on measurable criteria indicating the project's readiness, such as contributor numbers, content volume, and sustained community support. This would clarify the criteria sufficient for opening a new Sister Project, including possible future Wikispore re-application. However, the numbers will always be a guide because any number can be gamed.
Wikinews
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We chose to review Wikinews among existing Sister Projects because it is the one for which we have observed the highest level of concern in multiple ways.
Since the SPTF was convened in 2023, its members have asked for the community's opinions during conferences and community calls about Sister Projects that did not fulfil their promise in the Wikimedia movement.
[1]
[2]
[3]
Wikinews was the leading candidate for an evaluation because people from multiple language communities proposed it. Additionally, by most measures, it is the least active Sister Project, with the greatest drop in activity over the years.
While the Language Committee routinely opens and closes language versions of the Sister Projects in small languages, there has never been a valid proposal to close Wikipedia in major languages or any project in English. This is not true for Wikinews, where there was a proposal to close English Wikinews, which gained some traction but did not result in any action
[4]
[5], see section 5
as well as a draft proposal to close all languages of Wikinews
[6]
Initial metrics
compiled by WMF staff also support the community's concerns about Wikinews.
Based on this report, SPTF recommends a community reevaluation of Wikinews. We conclude that its current structure and activity levels are the lowest among the existing sister projects. SPTF also recommends pausing the opening of new language editions while the consultation runs.
SPTF brings this analysis to a discussion and welcomes discussions of alternative outcomes, including potential restructuring efforts or integration with other Wikimedia initiatives.
Options
mentioned so far (which might be applied to just low-activity languages or all languages) include but are not limited to:
Restructure how Wikinews works and is linked to other current events efforts on the projects,
Merge the content of Wikinews into the relevant language Wikipedias, possibly in a new namespace,
Merge content into compatibly licensed external projects,
Archive Wikinews projects.
Your insights and perspectives are invaluable in shaping the future of these projects. We encourage all interested community members to share their thoughts on the relevant discussion pages or through other designated feedback channels.
Feedback and next steps
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We'd be grateful if you want to take part in a conversation on the future of these projects and the review process. We are setting up two different project pages:
Public consultation about Wikispore
and
Public consultation about Wikinews
. Please participate between 27 June 2025 and 27 July 2025, after which we will summarize the discussion to move forward. You can write in your own language.
I will also host a community conversation 16th July Wednesday 11.00 UTC and 17th July Thursday 17.00 UTC (call links to follow shortly) and will be around at Wikimania for more discussions.
--
Victoria
on behalf of the Sister Project Task Force,
20:57, 27 ജൂൺ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-27
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The
CampaignEvents extension
has been enabled on all Wikipedias. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features:
Event Registration
Collaboration List
, and
Invitation List
. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the
Deployment information page
Updates for editors
AbuseFilter maintainers can now
match against IP reputation data
in
AbuseFilters
. IP reputation data is information about the proxies and VPNs associated with the user's IP address. This data is not shown publicly and is not generated for actions performed by registered accounts.
[729]
Hidden content that is within
collapsible parts of wikipages
will now be revealed when someone searches the page using the web browser's "Find in page" function (Ctrl+F or ⌘F) in supporting browsers.
[730]
[731]
A new feature, called
Favourite Templates
, will be deployed later this week on all projects (except English Wikipedia, which will receive the feature next week), following a piloting phase on Polish and Arabic Wikipedia, and Italian and English Wikisource. The feature will provide a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog, by allowing users to put templates on a special "favourite list". The feature works with both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. The feature is a
community wishlist focus area
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused some Notifications to be sent multiple times.
[732]
Updates for technical contributors
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23:40, 30 ജൂൺ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-28
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Temporary accounts
have been rolled out on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, including German, Japanese, French, and Chinese. Now, about 1/3 of all logged-out activity across wikis is coming from temporary accounts. Users involved in patrolling may be interested in two new documentation pages:
Access to IP
, explaining everything related to access to temporary account IP addresses, and
Repository
with a list of new gadgets and user scripts.
Updates for editors
Anyone can play an experimental new game,
WikiRun
, that lets you race through Wikipedia by clicking from one article to another, aiming to reach a target page in as few steps and in as little time as possible. The project's goal is to explore new ways of engaging readers.
Try playing the game
and let the team know what you think
on the talk page
Users of the Wikipedia Android app in some languages can now play the new
trivia game
Which came first?
is a simple history game where you guess which of two events happened earlier on today's date. It was previously available as an A/B test. It is now available to all users in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, and Chinese. The goal of the feature is to help engage with new generations of readers.
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Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in some languages may see a new tabbed browsing feature that enables you to open multiple tabs while reading. This feature makes it easier to explore related topics and switch between articles. The A/B test is currently running in Arabic, English, and Japanese in selected regions. More details are available on the
Tabbed Browsing project page
Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis can now use
പ്രത്യേകം:VerifyOATHForUser
to check if users have enabled
two-factor authentication
[734]
A new feature related to
Template Recall and Discovery
will be deployed later this week to all Wikimedia projects: a
template category browser
will be introduced to assist users in finding templates to put in their “favourite” list. The browser will allow users to browse a list of templates which have been organised into a given category tree. The feature has been requested by the community
through the Community Wishlist
It is now possible to access watchlist preferences from the watchlist page. Also the redundant button to edit the watchlist has been removed.
[735]
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
As part of
MediaWiki 1.44
there is now a unified built-in Notifications system that makes it easier for developers to send, manage, and customize notifications. Check out the updated documentation at
Manual:Notifications
, information about migration in
T388663
and details on deprecated hooks in
T389624
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Meetings and events
WikidataCon 2025
, the conference dedicated to Wikidata is now open for
session proposals
and for
registration
. This year's event will be held online from October 31 – November 02 and will explore on the theme of "Connecting People through Linked Open Data".
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00:05, 8 ജൂലൈ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-29
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tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
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Updates for editors
Featured templates
, a new feature related to
Template Recall and Discovery
will be deployed this week to all Wikimedia projects: With this feature, editors will be able to quickly access a list of templates that are likely to be useful. These templates will be displayed in a list, under the "featured" tab of the template discovery interface. Administrators can define the list via the Community Configuration interface. The feature fulfills a request by the community
through the Community Wishlist
[736]
[737]
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the request to add Malayalam fonts in the
Wikisource Book Export Tool
was resolved and now, the rendering of Malayalam letters in exported Wikisource books are accurate.
[738]
Updates for technical contributors
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Developers, designers, and all Wikimedians are invited to
submit a project idea
for the Wikimania Hackathon 2025. Read
this Diff blog post
for more details.
Meetings and events
WikiIndaba 2025
scholarship application and program submission is open until 23:59 GMT on July 20. WikiIndaba is a regional conference for African Wikimedians both on the continent and in the diaspora to unite and grow together. Submit
your scholarship application
and
program proposal
now!
WikiCon Brasil 2025
will take place on July 19-20 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The Brazilian community members are encouraged to register and attend!
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20:09, 14 ജൂലൈ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-30
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
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Updates for editors
The Translation Suggestions feature in the
Content Translation tool
now has another level of article filters added to the "
... More
" category. Translators who use the Suggestions feature can now select and receive article suggestions that are customized to geographical locations of their interest using the new "Regions" filter.
[739]
Administrators can now limit "Add a Link" to newcomers. The
"Add a Link"
Structured Task
helps new account holders start editing
, but some communities have requested the ability to restrict it to its intended audience: newcomers. Administrators can configure this setting within the
Community Configuration
feature.
View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
For AbuseFilter editors on
some wikis
, it is now possible to filter edits based on the RevertRisk score of the edit being attempted. It is only populated if the action being evaluated is an edit. For more information, please see the
ORES/AbuseFilter variables
documentation.
The
Beta Cluster
wikis have
been moved
from
beta.wmflabs.org
to
beta.wmcloud.org
. Users may need to update URLs in any tools, or in their password managers. Any related issues can be
reported in the task
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Meetings and events
WikiCite 2025
will take place from 29–31 August, both online and in-person in Bern, Switzerland. The event's goals are to reconnect communities, institutions, and individuals working with open citations, bibliographic data, and the Wikidata/Wikibase ecosystem. Registration is open and the call for proposals will be announced soon.
[740]
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23:42, 21 ജൂലൈ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-31
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Weekly highlight
The Community Tech team will be focusing on wishes related to Watchlists and Recent Changes pages, over the next few months. They are looking for feedback. Please
read the latest update
, and if you have ideas, please
submit a wish
on the topic.
Updates for editors
The Wikimedia Commons community has decided to block
cross-wiki uploads
to Wikimedia Commons, for all users without autoconfirmed rights on that wiki, starting on August 16. This is because of
widespread problems
related to files that are uploaded by newcomers. Users who are affected by this will get an error message with a link to the less restrictive UploadWizard on Commons. Please help translating the
message
or give feedback on the message text. Please also update your local help pages to explain this restriction.
[741]
On wikis with temporary accounts enabled and Meta-Wiki, administrators may now set up a footer for the Special:Contributions pages of temporary accounts, similar to those which can be shown on IP and user-account pages. They may do it by creating the page named
MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-temp
[742]
View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Meetings and events
Wikimania 2025
will run from August 6–9. The
program is available
for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, please
for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:
Temporary Accounts: Enhancing privacy for our unregistered editors
Building a Sustainable Future for Wikimedia Contributors
A dozen visions for wikitext!
Coordinate Across Stakeholders with the Product and Technology Advisory Council
The
MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Fall 2025
will be held 28–30 October 2025 in Hanover, Germany. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend.
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00:26, 29 ജൂലൈ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-32
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Updates for editors
Editors can now enable the
User Info card
. This feature adds an icon next to usernames on history pages and similar user-contribution log pages. When you tap or click on the icon, it displays data related to that user account such as the number of edits, reverted edits, blocks, and more. It's part of a broader project to make it easier for moderators to evaluate account trustworthiness. The feature can be enabled in
your global preferences
, and later this week it will be available in local preferences.
[743]
Everybody is invited to share comments on
Collaborative Contributions
, a project recently launched by the
Connection team
. The project aims to create a new way to display the impact of collaborative editing activities (such as edit-a-thons, backlog drives, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. Post your comments on the
project talk page
[744]
Administrators can now define the default block duration for temporary accounts. To do that, they need to create a page named
MediaWiki:Ipb-default-expiry-temporary-account
and use a value defined in
MediaWiki:Ipboptions
. This allows administrators to easily block temporary accounts for 90 days, which is functionally equivalent to an indefinite block. The advantage of this solution is that it does not clutter Special:BlockList.
More documentation
is available.
[745]
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
Gadgets can now include
.vue
files. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces using
Vue.js
, in particular using
Codex
, the official design system of Wikimedia.
Codex icons
can be loaded through the gadget definition.
The documentation
has examples. For user scripts that use Vue.js, an
API module
now exists to load Codex icons.
[746]
[747]
Module developers can now use a
Lua interface
to simplify the preparation of Lua modules for translation on Meta-Wiki. This improvement makes it easier for translators to find and edit module strings without dealing with raw Lua code. It helps prevent mistakes that could break the module during translation. Module developers and translators are invited to
watch the demo video
, read more about
translatable modules
to understand how it works, refer to Meta-Wiki's
Module:User Wikimedia project
for example usage, and
share their feedback
on how well it addresses the challenges in their workflow. The interface still has some performance issues, so it should not be used in widely used modules yet.
[748]
Developers of external tools that connect to Wikimedia pages must set a user-agent that complies with
the user-agent policy
. This policy will start to be more strongly enforced in August because of external crawlers that are
overusing
Wikimedia's resources. Tools that are hosted on Wikimedia's Toolforge or Cloud VPS will not be affected by this for now, but should still set a user-agent.
More technical details are available
, and related questions are welcome in that task.
Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to some smaller Wikipedias over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyages and Wiktionaries to Parsoid Read Views. For more information, see the
Parsoid/Parser Unification
project page.
[749]
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Meetings and events
Wikimania 2025
will run from August 6–9. The
program is available
for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, please
for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:
Wikimedia’s knowledge infrastructure in a changing internet: Establishing sustainable pathways for content reuse
Wikifunctions is coming soon to a wiki near you!
Shaping the Future of Wikipedia’s Reader Experience
Making Wikipedia More Readable: What Comes Next
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Tech News: 2025-33
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are available.
Updates for editors
The WikiEditor toolbar now includes
its keyboard shortcuts
in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature.
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The
Product and Technology Advisory Council
published a set of
proposed experiments
the Wikimedia Foundation can try to improve communication with community. Feedback on the proposals are welcomed until August 22 on
this talk page
The search bar on the Minerva skin (mobile) has been updated to use the same type-ahead search component that is used on the Vector 2022 skin. There are no changes in search functionality but there are minor visual changes. Specifically, the close-search button has been changed from an "X" to a back arrow. This helps to distinguish it from the other "X" button that is used to clear any text.
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Editors on some wikis will see a new toggle for "Group results by page" on watchlist, related changes, and recent changes pages. This is
an A/B experiment
that is planned to start on August 11, and will run for 3–6 weeks on the Bengali, Chinese, Czech, French, Greek, Portuguese, and Urdu Wikipedias. The experiment will examine how making this feature more discoverable might affect editors' ability to find the edits they are looking for.
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View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
The multiwiki datasets of
Unicode data
have been moved to
Category:Unicode Module Datasets
on Wikimedia Commons, to follow the idea of "One common data source, multiple local wikis". Most wikis have been updated to use the Commons version. You can ask questions at
the talkpage
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Lua code can add warnings when something is wrong, by using the
mw.addWarning()
function. It is now possible to add more than one warning, instead of new warnings replacing old ones. If you maintain a Lua module that used warnings, you should check it still works as expected.
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Tech News: 2025-34
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Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
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Updates for editors
Later this week, people who are logged-in and have the "
Discussion tools
Beta Feature
enabled will gain the ability to "Thank" individual comments directly from talk pages, rather than needing to navigate to page history.
Learn more about this feature
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An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki on 12 August and on English Wikipedia 14 August for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September.
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An A/A test to measure the baseline for reader retention was launched 12 August using
Experimentation Lab
. This measures the percentage of users who revisit a wiki after their initial visit over a 14-day period. No visual changes are expected. The experiment will run through 31 August.
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Five new wikis have been created:
a Wikisource in
Tagalog
s:tl:
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a Wikisource in
Madurese
s:mad:
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a Wikipedia in
Rakhine
w:rki:
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a Wikibooks in
Minangkabau
b:min:
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a Wiktionary in
Standard Moroccan Amazigh
wikt:zgh:
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Tech News: 2025-35
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Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Updates for editors
Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by
TemplateStyles
was updated. For example:
width: fit-content
ruby-align
; relative units such as
lh
; and custom strings in
list-style-type
. These improvements are a
Community Wishlist wish
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On large wikis, the default time period to display edits from, within the Special:RecentChanges page, has been changed from 7 days to 1 day. This is part of a performance improvement project. This should have no user-facing impact due to the quantity of edits on these wikis.
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Administrators can now access the
പ്രത്യേകം:BlockedExternalDomains
page from the
പ്രത്യേകം:CommunityConfiguration
list page. This makes it easier to find.
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Wikimedia Commons videos were not shown in the Videos tab in Google Search. The problem was investigated and reported to Google who have now fixed the issue.
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One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in
Betawi
wikt:bew:
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resolved last week
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Two fields of the
recentchanges database table
are being removed.
rc_new
and
rc_type
are being removed in favor of
rc_source
. Queries to these older fields will start to fail starting this week and developers should use
rc_source
instead. These older fields were deprecated over 10 years ago and should not be in use. This is part of work to improve the performance and stability of queries to the recentchanges table.
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Detailed code updates later this week:
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The latest quarterly
Language and Internationalization Newsletter
is now available. This edition includes: support for new languages in MediaWiki and translatewiki; the start of the Language Onboarding and Development project to help support the growth of new and small wikis; updates on research projects; and more.
Meetings and events
The next
Language Community Meeting
is happening soon, August 29th at
15:00 UTC
. This week's meeting will cover: the Avro keyboard developers from Wikimedia Bangladesh, who were recently awarded a national award for their contributions to this keyboard; and other topics.
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Temporary accounts will be rolled out soon
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Hello, we are the Wikimedia Foundation
Product Safety and Integrity
team. We would like to announce that
we plan to enable
temporary accounts
for this wiki in the week of September 1
Temporary accounts are successfully live on 30 wikis, including many large ones like German, Japanese, and French. The change they bring is especially relevant to logged-out editors, who this feature is designed to protect. But it is also relevant to community members like mentors, patrollers, and admins – anyone who reverts edits, blocks users, or otherwise interacts with logged-out editors as part of keeping the wikis safe and accurate.
Why we are building temporary accounts
Our wikis should be safer to edit by default for logged-out editors. Temporary accounts allow people to continue editing the wikis without creating an account, while avoiding publicly tying their edits to their IP address. We believe this is in the best interest of our logged-out editors, who make valuable contributions to the wikis and who may later create accounts and grow our community of editors, admins, and other roles. Even though the wikis do warn logged-out editors that their IP address will be associated with their edit, many people may not understand what an IP address is, or that it could be used to connect them to other information about them in ways they might not expect.
Additionally, our moderation software and tools rely too heavily on network origin (IP addresses) to identify users and patterns of activity, especially as IP addresses themselves are becoming less stable as identifiers. Temporary accounts allow for more precise interactions with logged-out editors, including more precise blocks, and can help limit how often we unintentionally end up blocking good-faith users who use the same IP addresses as bad-faith users.
How temporary accounts work
Any time a logged-out user publishes an edit on this wiki, a cookie will be set in this user's browser, and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created. This account's name will follow the pattern:
~2025-12345-67
(a tilde, current year, a number). On pages like Recent Changes or page history, this name will be displayed. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser. A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. However, only some logged-in users will be able to see it.
What does this mean for different groups of users?
For logged-out editors
This increases privacy: currently, if you do not use a registered account to edit, then everybody can see the IP address for the edits you made, even after 90 days. That will no longer be possible on this wiki.
If you use a temporary account to edit from different locations in the last 90 days (for example at home and at a coffee shop), the edit history and the IP addresses for all those locations will now be recorded together, for the same temporary account. Users who
meet the relevant requirements
will be able to view this data. If this creates any personal security concerns for you, please contact talktohumanrights at wikimedia.org for advice.
For community members interacting with logged-out editors
A temporary account is uniquely linked to a device. In comparison, an IP address can be shared with different devices and people (for example, different people at school or at work might have the same IP address).
Compared to the current situation, it will be safer to assume that a temporary user's talk page belongs to only one person, and messages left there will be read by them. As you can see in the screenshot, temporary account users will receive notifications. It will also be possible to thank them for their edits, ping them in discussions, and invite them to get more involved in the community.
For users who use IP address data to moderate and maintain the wiki
For patrollers
who track persistent abusers, investigate violations of policies, etc.: Users who
meet the requirements
will be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range (
Special:IPContributions
). They will also have access to useful information about the IP addresses thanks to the
IP Info
feature. Many other pieces of software have been built or adjusted to work with temporary accounts, including AbuseFilter, global blocks, Global User Contributions, and more. (For information for volunteer developers on how to update the code of your tools – see the last part of the message.)
For admins blocking logged-out editors
It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the
autoblock
option.
It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this.
Our requests for you, and next steps
If you know of any tools, bots, gadgets etc. using data about IP addresses or being available for logged-out users, you may want to test if they work on
testwiki
or
test2wiki
. If you are a volunteer developer,
read our documentation for developers
, and in particular, the section on
how your code might need to be updated
If you want to test the temporary account experience, for example just to check what it feels like, go to testwiki or test2wiki and edit without logging in.
Tell us if you know of any difficulties that need to be addressed. We will try to help, and if we are not able, we will consider the available options.
Look at our
previous message
about requirements for users without extended rights who may need access to IP addresses.
To learn more about the project, check out
our FAQ
– you will find many useful answers there. You may also
look at the updates
(we have just posted one) and
subscribe to our new newsletter
. If you'd like to talk to me (Szymon) off-wiki, you will find me on Discord and Telegram. Thank you!
NKohli (WMF)
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21:36, 26 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2025 (UTC)
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ഒരു പകർപ്പവകാശ ലംഘനം നീക്കം ചെയ്യുമ്പോൾ എഡിറ്റ് സംഗ്രഹങ്ങളിൽ ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന ടെംപ്ലേറ്റുകൾ, സാങ്കേതിക പദങ്ങൾ, നയങ്ങൾ എന്നിവയുടെ പട്ടിക തയ്യാറാക്കാൻ എഡിറ്റിംഗ് ടീം ആഗ്രഹിക്കുന്നു. ഇതിലൂടെ പകർപ്പവകാശ പ്രശ്നങ്ങളാൽ തിരികെ കൊണ്ടുവന്ന എഡിറ്റുകളുടെ എണ്ണം തിരിച്ചറിയാൻ സഹായിക്കും. താഴെപ്പറയുന്ന വിക്കികളിലെ കമ്മ്യൂണിറ്റി അംഗങ്ങളെ
T402601
-ൽ ഈ പദങ്ങൾ ചേർക്കാൻ, അല്ലെങ്കിൽ അവരുടെ പട്ടിക
Trizek_(WMF)
-നൊപ്പം പങ്കിടാൻ ക്ഷണിക്കുന്നു: Arabic Wikipedia, Czech Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia. ഈ പ്രോജക്റ്റ് 2025 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 9 വരെ തുറന്നിരിക്കും.
Updates for editors
The
CampaignEvents extension
has been enabled for all Wikisources. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features:
Event Registration
Collaboration List
, and
Invitation List
. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the Deployment information page.
[779]
The lists in the footer of the editing interface, such as "Templates used on this page," will now be organized into columns when there is enough space. This enhancement minimizes scrolling when editing lengthy articles on Wikipedia.
[780]
On September 3rd, 2025 we will increase the sampling percentages of our
group by toggle experiment
of the
Special:RecentChanges
Special:Watchlist
, and
Special:RelatedChanges
pages on the Chinese, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias to 100 percent, allowing more editors to be part of this experiment. This adjustment is intended to ensure we have sufficient data to make informed decisions when evaluating the experiment results.
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Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading on English Wikipedia beginning the week of September 22. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. All non-English wikis received this change in June and July. The goal is to make it easier for users to find articles.
View all 37 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
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Wikifunctions now has a new capability called "lightweight enumeration types", an enumeration type is simply a fixed set of values that's in the type's definition. This capability makes it quick and easy to define such a type, and allows for the reuse of values that are already present in Wikidata. Here is
a newsletter
to learn more.
The latest
Readers Newsletter
is now available. This edition includes: the formation of two new teams — Reader Growth and Reader Experience; insights into declining pageviews and account creations; highlights from the Wikimania Nairobi panel on improving the reading experience; upcoming experiments to engage new and existing readers; and more.
Meetings and events
Spotlight on some Wikimania 2025 Sessions:
Identifying AI-generated text by searching for ISBNs whose checksums fail: Mathias Schindler of WMDE
shared tools to help communities search for these
La durabilité du mouvement Wikimedia face aux défis actuels et futurs
: This session explored how Wikimedia can stay a trusted source of knowledge in the age of generative AI, information overload, and disinformation.
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The Editing team is working on a new check:
Paste check
. This check informs newcomers who paste text into Wikipedia that the content might not be accepted. This check is an effort to increase the likelihood that the new content people are adding to Wikipedia is aligned with the Movement's commitment to offering information under a free content license. This check will soon be tested at a few wikis. If your community is interested in this test, please
tell us in this task
, or
contact the team
Updates for editors
Later this week, users of the "⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽"
beta feature
will be able to use a
linting tool
to see errors or other potential problems in wikitext in real time. See the
help page for more information
[783]
When browsing a wiki (like
en.wikipedia.org
), the software responds in one of two ways: a desktop page, or a redirect to a mobile version on an "m" domain (like
en.m.wikipedia.org
). Over the next three weeks, MediaWiki will start displaying the mobile version to mobile devices directly on the standard domain, without this redirect. This change does not affect existing m-dot URLs, or the "Desktop view" opt-out.
[784]
When an edit changes the categories of a page, the changes to the category membership counts are now happening asynchronously. This improves the speed of saving edits, especially when moving many pages to or from the same category, and reduces the risk of site outages, but it means that the counts can show outdated information for a few minutes.
[785]
Edits on Wikidata to qualifiers (properties and values) and references (properties and values) in a Wikidata item statement will now not add entries to the RecentChanges or Watchlist pages on all other Wikis. This is a temporary change to improve performance while other solutions are created. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged.
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Japanese-language wikis have had a major upgrade to the way that search works. The new search should generally give more accurate and more relevant search results.
[788]
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
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Tech News: 2025-38
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Updates for editors
References lists that are made using the
tag
will now automatically display with columns in Vector 2022 when readers are using its 'standard' settings for text-size and page-width.
[789]
Starting in the week of October 6, on
small wikis
and
medium wikis
that have the
CampaignEvents extension
enabled, all autoconfirmed users will be able to use
Event Registration
as an organizer. No changes will be made for
large wikis
unless requested in Phabricator. This change is being made to make it easier for more people to use Event Registration, especially on wikis that are less likely to have policies related to the Event Organizer right.
Users that search using regular expressions (regex) can now use additional features including:
for the
intitle:
keyword:
metacharacters
for start-of-line (
) and end-of-line (
) anchors
[790]
for both
intitle:
and
insource:
keywords: shorthand
character classes
for digits (
\d
), whitespace (
\s
), and word characters (
\w
); and
escape codes
for line feed (
\r
), newline (
\n
), tab (
\t
), and unicode (e.g.
\uHHHH
).
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When you search for text that looks like an IP, the system will now show search results. It used to take you to the contributions for that IP instead of showing search results.
[792]
All wikis will be read-only
for a few minutes on September 24. This is planned at
15:00 UTC
. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests which happen twice a year. You can
read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog
View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, a bug was fixed that affected users who used the page-tabs to switch from wikitext editing of a section into the visualeditor.
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Updates for technical contributors
The MediaWiki Interfaces team is redesigning the Wikimedia REST API Sandbox with Codex. If you have feedback on improvements for the API documentation or what makes developer experiences smooth (or frustrating), you’re invited to
join an upcoming discovery interview
, or
leave feedback onwiki
Edits to Wikidata aliases (an alternative name for an item or a property) will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged.
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The new
Unicode 17.0
version has been released. The
datasets on Commons
for the
Module:Unicode data
have been updated. Wikipedias that do not use the Commons datasets should either update their own data or switch to the Commons datasets.
Users of the
Wikimedia Enterprise
Structured Contents endpoints can now access
Parsed Tables
. The new Parsed Tables feature extracts and represents Wikipedia tables in structured JSON. This improves machine accessibility as part of the
Structured Contents initiative
. Structured Contents output is freely available through the
On-demand API
, or through Wikimedia Cloud Services.
dataset of English Wikipedia biographical information
from
Wikimedia Enterprise
has been published on Kaggle, for evaluation and research. This provides structured data from more than 1.5 million biographies, including birth and death dates, education, affiliations, careers, awards, and more (from a June 2024 snapshot).
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Scholarship applications
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On September 24th at 15:00 UTC
, all Wikimedia sites users will experience a brief read-only period due to a scheduled
datacenter server switchover
. The Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team will redirect all traffic from one primary server to its backup. You can listen to the switchover using the
"Listen to Wikipedia"
tool, where you will hear edits stop for a few minutes during the read-only phase, then resume. This twice-yearly datacenter server switchover ensures reliability by testing the backup datacenter, so that our sites can stay online even if the primary datacenter fails. You can
read more about the process on the Diff blog
Updates for editors
Editors of
60 more Wiktionaries
will soon be able to call
functions from Wikifunctions
and integrate them into their pages. A function takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, like adding numbers, converting miles to meters, calculating elapsed time, or declining a word into a case. They will join the other
65 Wiktionary language editions
, which already have access to embedded Wikifunctions calls. Later this year, plans are in place to expand to more Wiktionaries and the Incubator.
A new
parser function
has been added:
{{#contentmodel}}
. Template editors and admins can use it to get the localized or canonical name of the
content model
of a specific page. The function makes it easier to create and edit system messages, such as
MediaWiki:editinginterface
, even when you switch types of pages, like wiki, JavaScript, CSS or JSON page.
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Adding or editing a
DISPLAYTITLE
for an article using VisualEditor will no longer be broken. Editors who use VisualEditor mode to modify the
{{DISPLAYTITLE}}
would no longer have the literal text "DISPLAYTITLE" or its localized variant added to their articles. A list of pages that may have been affected and might need cleanup is documented in
this ticket
Beta users of the Wikipedia Android app can now try the redesigned
Activity tab
, which replaces the Edits tab. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.
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Wikifunctions users can now import many essential facts involving
geo-coordinates
quantities
and
time
values from Wikidata. This is made possible by the creation of Wikifunctions types for these values, which makes them available for use by functions in Wikifunctions. Learn more about how this works in
this video
and Wikifunctions'
August 1 newsletter
(for quantities) and
August 22 newsletter
(for geo-coordinates).
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Tech News: 2025-40
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A major software upgrade has been made to
Phabricator
. The update introduces performance improvements, a refreshed search interface, enhancements to Maniphest task search, updates to user profile pages and project workboards, new Herald automation features, as well as general text input, mobile experience improvements and more.
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Updates for editors
The Community Tech team will release the new Community Wishlist extension on October 1, that will improve the way wishes will be submitted. The new extension will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances. The old system will be retired. There will be a brief period of downtime while the extension is deployed and wishes are migrated to the new system. You can read more about this
in the latest update
or you can consult the
current documentation on MediaWiki
As announced
on Diff blog
, the production trial of the
hCaptcha
service for bot detection has begun. The trial is currently using hCaptcha to protect account creation on Chinese, Persian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Turkish Wikipedias, where it will replace our existing
CAPTCHA
(FancyCaptcha). The goal with the trial is to better block bots while also improving usability and accessibility for users who encounter CAPTCHA challenges.
The
CampaignEvents
extension has been
deployed
to Wikimedia Commons. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. On Commons, anyone who is a registered user can use it as an event participant. To use it as an organizer, someone needs to have the
event organizer right
Sub-referencing
, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to German Wikipedia. You can
test the feature
on testwiki or
on betawiki
as well. Please share your thoughts on
using templates in sub-references
or
volunteer to become a pilot wiki
On wikis using the
Mentorship
system, communities can now opt experienced editors out of Mentorship through
പ്രത്യേകം:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship
. Within this setting, communities may define thresholds, based on edit count and account age, to decide when an editor is considered experienced enough to no longer receive Mentorship.
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The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers:
Tone check
. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Tone language model for the following languages: Arabic, Czech, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Farsi, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian and Latvian. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are
invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org
. The deadline to sign up is on October 3, which will be the start date of the test.
The rollout of
multiblocks
had the side effect that non-active block logs may have been shown on പ്രത്യേകം:സംഭാവനകൾ and on blocked users' user and user_talk pages. This issue will be fully resolved in a few days. As part of the fix,
messages prefixed with
sp-contributions-blocked-notice
will be removed and replaced with
those prefixed with
blocked-notice-logextract
in a few weeks. Please help translate the new messages and update any local overrides if needed.
There was a bug with links added using visual editor if they included characters such as
[ ] |
after the fragment identifier (
). They were not encoded properly creating an incorrect link. This has been fixed.
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One new wiki has been created: a Wikiquote in
Malay
q:ms:
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View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the
User Info Card
now displays currently active global lock/blocks.
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Updates for technical contributors
Later this week, editors using Lua modules will be able to use the
mw.title.newBatch
function to look up the existence of up to 25 pages at once, in a way that only increases the
expensive function
count once.
A new
Unsupported Tools Working Group
has been formed as part of ongoing efforts to collectively determine technical work priorities, similar to the
Product & Technology Advisory Council
(PTAC). The working group will help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. For the first cycle, the group will be prioritizing an unsupported Wikimedia Commons tool.
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Tech News: 2025-41
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tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Weekly highlight
Paste Check
is a new Edit Check feature to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content. Starting Wednesday, 8 October,
22 wikis will test Paste Check
. Paste Check will help new volunteers understand and follow the policies and guidelines necessary to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia projects.
Updates for editors
Mobile devices will receive mobile articles directly on the standard domain (like
en.wikipedia.org
), instead of via a redirect to an "m" domain (like
en.m.wikipedia.org
). This change improves performance. This week it will be enabled on Wikipedias. The existing mobile URLs and the "Desktop view" opt-out remain available.
[801]
New
date filters
creationdate:
and
lasteditdate:
, are now available in the wiki search engine. This allows users to filter search results by a page's first or last revision date. The filters support comparison operators (e.g.
>2024
) and relative dates (e.g.
today-1d
), making it easier to find recently updated content or pages within specific age ranges.
[802]
Wikifunctions
now supports rich text in embedded calls across the 150 wikis where it's enabled. To showcase this, the team created a
Latin declination table
that Wiktionary editors can use to automatically generate noun forms, producing clear, formatted results — see an
example output
. If you need any help or have any feedback, please
contact the Wikifunctions Team
[803]
An edit link will now appear inside the categories box on article pages for logged in users, which will directly launch the VisualEditor category dialog.
[804]
View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, there was a problem downloading pdf files last week and that has been resolved.
[805]
Updates for technical contributors
The field
rev_sha1
in the revision database table is being removed in favor of
content_sha1
in the content database table. See
the announcement
for more information.
The
Reader Experience team
will roll out
Dark Mode
user interface on all Wikimedia sites on October 29, 2025. All anonymous users of Wikimedia sites will have the option to activate a color scheme that features light-colored text on a dark background. This is designed to provide a more comfortable reading experience, especially in low-light situations. Template authors and technical contributors are encouraged to
learn how to make pages ready for Dark mode
and address any compatibility issues found in templates in their wiki before the enablement. Please contact the Web team for questions or any support on
this talk page
before the enablement.
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Starting on Monday, October 6, API endpoints under the
rest.php
path will be rerouted through a new internal API Gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the
Service Ops team board
[807]
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17:23, 6 ഒക്ടോബർ 2025 (UTC)
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Have your say: vote for the 2025 Board of Trustees
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Hello all,
The voting period for the
2025 Board of Trustees election
is now open. Candidates are running for two (2) seats on the Board.
To check your voter eligibility, please visit the
voter eligibility page
Learn more about them by
reading their application statements and watch their candidacy videos
When you are ready, go to the
SecurePoll voting page to vote
The vote is open from October 8 at 00:00 UTC to October 22 at 23:59 UTC.
Best regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi
Chair, Elections Committee
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Tech News: 2025-42
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Weekly highlight
Last week, improvements to account security and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. These changes include user interface improvements for
Special:AccountSecurity
, the support of multiple 2FA methods via authenticator apps and portable security keys (previously users could only enable one method), and a new Recovery Codes module which facilitates fewer account lockouts due to lost two-factor apps and devices. As part of the
Account Security
project, work is continuing through the rest of 2025 on further user experience improvements, and support for passkeys as an alternate second factor.
Updates for editors
Another part of the Account security project is making 2FA generally available to all users. Along with editors with advanced privileges, such as administrators and bureaucrats, 40% of editors now have access to 2FA. You can check if you have access at
Special:AccountSecurity
. Instructions for activation are on the linked page. The plan is to continue increasing availability if it is determined that the user support capabilities are able to support global usage.
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This week, users at wikis where talk page
Usability Improvements
are already available by default (everywhere
except
the 12 wikis listed in
T379264
) will gain the ability to Thank a comment directly from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, Thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page. You can
learn more about this change
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Users who have not
verified their email address
will soon be receiving monthly Notification reminders to do so. This is because users who have verified their email can more easily recover their account. These reminders will not be sent if the user is inactive or removes the unverified email from their account.
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View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, a fix was made for an occasional error with saving translated paragraphs in the Content Translation tool, and the related error messages are now easier to see.
[812]
Updates for technical contributors
The Unsupported Tools Working Group has chosen
Video2Commons
as the first tool for its pilot cycle. The group will explore ways to improve and sustain the tool over the coming months.
Learn more on Meta
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18:59, 13 ഒക്ടോബർ 2025 (UTC)
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Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project
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Hello. Please help pick a name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki that will enable users to combine functions from
Wikifunctions
and data from Wikidata in order to generate natural language sentences in any supported languages. These sentences can then be used by any Wikipedia (or elsewhere).
There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with votes beginning on 20 October and 17 November 2025. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on mid-December 2025. If you would like to participate, then
please learn more and vote now
at meta-wiki.
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Tech News: 2025-43
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Updates for editors
To optimize how user data is stored in our databases, the saved preferences of users who haven't logged in for over five years and have fewer than 100 edits will be cleared. When those users return, default settings will apply.
[813]
View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, there was a broken link from the GlobalContributions interface message to the XTools GlobalContributions page which has now been fixed.
[814]
Updates for technical contributors
The work to reroute all traffic to API endpoints under the
rest.php
route through a common API gateway is now complete. If any issues are observed, please file a phabricator ticket to the
Service Ops team board
Edits to Wikidata references or qualifiers will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged.
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Tech News: 2025-44
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Updates for editors
The Wikipedia iOS app has launched an A/B/C test of improvements made to the tabbed browsing feature for select regions and languages. The test, named “More dynamic tabs”, explores new tab experiences and includes “Did you know” and “Because you read” article recommendations. You can
read more on the project page
Autoconfirmed users on
small
and
medium wikis
with the CampaignEvents extension can now use
Event Registration
without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the issue of flashing colors when holding or pressing the arrow keys under the dark mode settings in Vector 2022 has been fixed.
[816]
Updates for technical contributors
The CampaignEvents extension will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. For this rollout, Invitation List will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities.
Visit the deployment page to learn more
The SwaggerUI-based REST sandbox experience is now live on all wiki projects. The sandbox can be accessed through the
പ്രത്യേകം:RestSandbox
page. Please report any issues to the MediaWiki Interfaces team board, or join the discussion on the
project launch
page.
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Transform endpoints with a trailing slash path in the MediaWiki REST API are now marked as deprecated. They will remain functional during this time, but removal is expected by the end of January 2026. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found and tested using the
REST Sandbox
. See the
MediaWiki REST API Deprecation
page for more detailed information about the API deprecation policies and procedures.
A dedicated
changelog now exists for the MediaWiki REST API
. The changelog provides an overview of these changes, making it easier for developers to keep track of improvements and iterations. Announcements will also continue to flow through the standard communication channels, including Tech News and email distribution lists, but can now be more easily referenced from a central location. If you have feedback about the style, structure, or content of this changelog, please
join the discussion
Administrators can delete the tracking category which was previously added by the JsonConfig extension, as it is no longer used. See the categories linked from
Q130635582
. It is OK if there are still pages listed in the category as that is just a caching issue, and they will be automatically cleared out the next time each page is edited.
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19:31, 27 ഒക്ടോബർ 2025 (UTC)
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Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees
തിരുത്തുക
Each year, typically from October through December, several of the movement’s committees seek new volunteers.
Read more about the committees on their Meta-wiki pages:
Affiliations Committee (AffCom)
Ombuds commission (OC)
Case Review Committee (CRC)
Applications for the committees open on October 30, 2025. Applications for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on December 11, 2025. Learn how to apply by
visiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki
. Post to the talk page or email cst
wikimedia.org with any questions you may have.
For the Committee Support team,
MKaur (WMF)
14:13, 30 ഒക്ടോബർ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-45
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Updates for editors
Administrators will now find that
പ്രത്യേകം:നാൾവഴിലയിപ്പിക്കുക
is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start).
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For users with "Automatically subscribe to topics"
enabled in their preferences
, starting a new topic or adding a reply to an existing topic will now subscribe them to replies to that topic. Previously, this would only happen if the DiscussionTools "വിഷയം ചേർക്കുക" or "മറുപടി" widgets were used. When DiscussionTools was originally launched existing accounts were not opted in to automatic topic subscriptions, so this change should primarily affect newer accounts and users who have deliberately changed their preferences since that time.
[820]
Scribunto modules can now be used to
generate SVG images
. This can be used to build charts, graphics and other visualizations dynamically through Lua, reducing the need to compose them externally and upload them as files.
[821]
Wikimedia sites now provide all anonymous users with the option to enable a dark mode color scheme, featuring light-colored text on a dark background. This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments.
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Users with large watchlists have long faced timeouts when editing
Special:EditWatchlist
. The page now loads entries in smaller sections instead of all at once due to a paging update, allowing everyone to edit their watchlists smoothly. As part of the database update, sorting by expiry has been removed because it was over 100× slower than sorting by title. A
community wish
has been created to explore alternative ways to restore sort-by-expiry. If this feature is important to you, please support the wish!
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View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the fixing of the persisting highlighting when using VisualEditor find and replace during a query.
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Updates for technical contributors
Since 2019 the
Wikimedia URL Shortener
at
is available for all Wikimedia wikis to create short links to articles, permalinks, diffs, etc. It is available in the sidebar as "Get shortened URL". There are 30 wikis that also install an older "ShortUrl" extension. The old extension will soon be removed. This means
/s/
URLs will not be advertised under article titles via HTML
class="title-shortlink"
. The
/s/
URLs will keep working.
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On Thursday, October 30, the
MediaWiki Interfaces
and
SRE Service Operations
teams began rerouting Action API traffic through a common API gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the
Service Ops team
board.
MediaWiki Train deployments will pause for the final two weeks of 2025: 22 December and 29 December. Backport windows will also pause between Monday, 22 December 2025 and Thursday, 2 January 2026. A backport window is a scheduled time to add things like bug fixes and configuration changes. There are seven deployment trains remaining for 2025.
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In depth
In 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation reported that AI systems and search engines increasingly use Wikipedia content without driving users to the site, contributing to an 8% drop in human pageviews compared to 2024. After detecting bots disguised as humans, Wikimedia updated its traffic data to reflect this shift. Read more about current user trends on Wikipedia in
a Diff blog post
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19:34, 3 നവംബർ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-46
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Updates for editors
Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.
Starting November 12, users will see a change in the
appearance of talk pages
on
some Wikipedias
. Almost
all wikis
have received this design change;
English Wikipedia
will get these changes later. You can read more
on
Diff
. Users can opt out of these changes
in their user preferences
in "Show discussion activity".
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MediaWiki can now display a
page indicator
automatically while a page is protected. This feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled by
community request
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Using the "പ്രിവ്യൂ കാണുക" or "മാറ്റങ്ങൾ കാണിക്കുക" buttons in the wikitext editor will now carry over certain URL parameters like '
useskin
', '
uselang
' and '
section
'. This update also fixes an issue where, if the browser crashed while previewing an edit to a single section, saving this edit could overwrite the entire page with just that section’s content.
[829]
[830]
[831]
Wikivoyage wikis can use
colored map markers in the article text
. The text of these markers will now be shown in contrasting black or white color, instead of always being white. Local workarounds for the problem can be removed.
[832]
The Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app is now available for all users. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.
[833]
The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment called "Image browsing" to test how to make it easier for readers to browse and discover images on Wikipedia articles. This experiment, a mobile-only A/B test, will go live on English Wikipedia in the week of November 17 and will run for four weeks, affecting 0.05% of users on English wiki. The test launched on November 3 on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting up to 10% of users on those wikis.
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View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example the inability to lock accounts on mobile sites has been fixed.
[835]
Updates for technical contributors
Nominations are open on Wikitech
for new
Toolforge standards committee
members. The committee oversees the Toolforge
Right to fork policy
and
Abandoned tool policy
among other duties. Nominations will remain open through 2025-11-28.
The
JWT issuer field
in
OAuth 2 access tokens
for
SUL wikis
has been changed to
. Old access tokens will still work.
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The
JWT subject field
in
OAuth 2 access tokens
will soon change from
to
mw:
, where
is typically
CentralAuth:
(for
SUL wikis
) or
local:
(for other wikis). This is to avoid conflicts between different user ID types, and to make OAuth 2 access tokens and the
sessionJwt
cookie more similar. Old access tokens will still work.
[837]
MediaWiki's block messages (
blockedtext
blockedtext-partial
autoblockedtext
systemblockedtext
blockedtext-tempuser
autoblockedtext-tempuser
) now support additional parameters indicating whether the user is blocked from editing their own user talk page
$9
or emailing other users
$10
[838]
REL1_45
branch for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git has been created. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.45.0, scheduled for late November 2025. If you are working on a critical bug fix or working on a new feature, you may need to take note of this change.
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The process for generating CirrusSearch dumps has been updated due to slowing performance. If you encounter any issues migrating to the replacement dumps, please contact the Search Platform Team for support.
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Tech News: 2025-47
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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The
Reader Experience team
is experimenting with
reading lists on mobile web
, allowing logged-in readers with no edits to save private lists of articles for later. The experiment is running on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias since the week of 10 November, and will begin on English Wikipedia the week of 17 November.
Users who can’t receive their email verification code during login can now get help by submitting a form on a new special page. This update is part of the
Account Security
initiative. If your account has an email address, please make sure you still have access to it. When logging in from a new device or location without 2FA, you may be asked to enter a 6-digit code sent by email to finish logging in.
One new wiki has been created: a Wikisource in
Minangkabau
s:min:
[842]
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
As part of the
Parser Unification
project, the Content Transform Team rolled out Parsoid as the default parser to many low-traffic Wikipedias and is preparing the next step to high traffic ones. This message is an invitation for you to opt-in to Parsoid, as described in the
Extension:ParserMigration
documentation, and identify any issues you might encounter with your own workflow using bots, gadgets, or user scripts. Please, let us know through the
"Report Visual Bug"
link in the Tools sidebar or create a phab ticket and tag the
Content Transform Team in Phabricator
Unsupported Tools: Several issues with
Video2Commons
have been fixed, including filename-related upload failures, black-video imports, and retry handling. AV1 support has also been added. Ongoing work focuses on backend stability, ffmpeg errors, subtitle imports, metadata handling, and playlist uploads. To track specific tasks, check the
Phabricator board
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Meetings and events
Save the date for the next Wikimedia Hackathon happening in Milan, Italy from May 1–3, 2026. Registration will open in January 2026.
Scholarship applications are currently open
, and will close on November 28, 2025. If you have any questions, please email
hackathon@wikimedia.org
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Reminder: Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project
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Hello. Reminder: Please help to choose name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are:
Abstract Wikipedia, Multilingual Wikipedia, Wikiabstracts, Wikigenerator, Proto-Wiki
. If you would like to participate, then
please learn more and vote now
at meta-wiki.
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Tech News: 2025-48
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Last week, the
Wikimedia Search Team
recreated the "DWIM" (Do What I Mean) gadget functionality server-side, for Russian and Hebrew Wikipedias. This feature adds cross-keyboard suggestions to the standard search-box suggestions. For example, searching for
cxfcnmt
on Russian Wikipedia will now add suggestions for
счастье
("happiness") that the user probably intended. They plan to enable this feature for other Russian and Hebrew wikis this week.
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Later this week, users of the "⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽"
beta feature
will have syntax highlighting available in
DiscussionTools
. This requires that the "Enable editing tools in source mode" preference be set.
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Campaign events extension
– the set of tools for coordinating events and other on-wiki collaborations has now been deployed to all Wikimedia wikis. A new feature known as
Collaborative contribution
to help organizers and participants see the impact of activities has also been added. Join the upcoming
learning session
to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.
View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the bug which stopped CodeReviewBot from working, has now been fixed.
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Updates for technical contributors
Users of Wikimedia API can join a usability study to help validate the new design of Wikimedia REST API sandboxes. Interested participants should fill the
recruitment survey
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The MediaWiki Interfaces team is deprecating XSLT stylesheets within the Action API. Support for
format=xml
&xlst={stylesheet}
will be removed from Wikimedia projects by the end of November, 2025. In addition, it will soon be disabled by default in MediaWiki release versions: v1.43 (LTS), v1.44, and v1.45. Support for XSLT stylesheets will be fully removed from MediaWiki v1.46 (expected to release between April and May 2026).
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The WDQS legacy endpoint (
query-legacy-full.wikidata.org
) will be decommissioned at the end of December 2025, and finally closed down on 7th January 2026. After this date, users should expect requests to query.wikidata.org that require the full graph to fail or return invalid results if they are not rewritten to use SPARQL federation. The team encourages users to ensure that tools and workflows use the supported WDQS endpoints (
- Main graph or
- Scholarly graph). For support with migrating use cases, please review the
Data Access
and
Request a Query
pages for details and assistance on alternative access methods.
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Tech News: 2025-49
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Updates for editors
The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 will be available on December 2 for users of iOS and Android Wikipedia apps, featuring new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs. Learn more on the review's
project page
The Growth team is working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful and informative. Some new text have been drafted for A/B testing and you can help by translating them. See
Phabricator
Add a link
will now be deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias on December 2. Add a link is based on a prediction model that suggests links to be added to articles. While this feature has already been available on most Wikipedias, the prediction model could not support certain languages. A new model has now been developed to handle these languages, and it will be gradually rolled out to other Wikipedias over time. If you would like to know more, please contact
Trizek (WMF)
View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the issue where search boxes on some Commons pages showed no results due to switch from SpecialSearch to MediaSearch, has now been fixed.
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Two new wikis have been created:
a Wikipedia in
Toki Pona
w:tok:
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a Wikiquote in
Nigerian Pidgin
q:pcm:
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Updates for technical contributors
Detailed code updates later this week:
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In depth
The Wikimedia Foundation is in the early stages of exploring approaches to
Article guidance
. The initiative aims to identify interventions that could help new editors easily understand and apply existing Wikipedia practices and policies when creating an article. The project is in the exploration and early experimental design phase. All community members are encouraged to
about the project, and share their thoughts on
the talk page
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Tech News: 2025-50
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Weekly highlight
Anybody who wishes to secure their user account can now use
two-factor authentication
(2FA). This is available to all registered users of all Wikimedia projects. This is part of the
Account Security
initiative. Later, 2FA will be required for all users who can take security- or privacy-sensitive actions.
Updates for editors
Following last week's deployments, the
Add a link
feature, which allows editors to add suggested links during editing, will be available to an additional
33 Wikipedias
starting on 9 December. This expansion is possible thanks to the new prediction model that now supports all languages, including those that were previously not covered. While the feature has been available on most Wikipedias for some time, this rollout brings us closer to using the improved model everywhere. If you have any questions or would like more details please contact
Trizek (WMF)
Last week, the
Search Platform team
added
transliterated
as-you-type search suggestions to Georgian wikis. If there are only a few regular search suggestions, then queries in Latin or Cyrillic script
are now rewritten into Georgian script
to look for more matches. For example, searching for either
bedniereba
or
бедниереба
will now suggest the existing article about
ბედნიერება
("happiness"). You can recommend other languages where transliterated suggestions would be useful
on Phabricator
for future development.
Later this week, a controlled experiment will begin for editors on the 100 largest Wikipedias who are editing a section in the mobile web visual editor. 50% of these editors will notice a new "Edit full page" button that will enable them to expand their editing session to the whole page. This feature is intended to make it easier for people on mobile web to edit any article section, regardless of which section-edit icon they tapped to begin. The experiment will last ~4 weeks. You can find
more details
about the project.
Later this week, the
Reader Growth team
will launch a
mobile web experiment
to expand all article sections by default (currently they are collapsed by default) and pin the section header the user is currently reading to the top of the page. The experiment will affect 10% of users on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
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The
Wikipedia Year in Review 2025
, a feature in the Wikipedia mobile apps (iOS and Android) that provides users with a personalised summary of their engagement with Wikipedia over the year, is now available on the iOS and Android apps. This edition includes expanded personalised insights, improved reading highlights, new donor messaging, and updated designs. Open the app to view your Year in Review and explore your reading journey from 2025.
A recent software bug caused edits made with VisualEditor to make unintended changes to wikitext, including removing whitespace and replacing spaces with underscores in wikilinks inside citations. This was partially fixed last week, and further fixes are in progress. Editors who used VisualEditor between November 28 and December 2 should review their edits for unexpected modifications.
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View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the incorrect handling of URLs copied from the address bar of Microsoft Edge users, has been resolved.
[853]
Updates for technical contributors
Starting this week, users of the "⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽"
beta feature
will have
CodeMirror
as the editor for Lua, JavaScript, CSS, JSON and Vue content models, instead of
CodeEditor
. With this, the
linters
will be upgraded. This is part of a larger effort to eventually replace CodeEditor and provide a consistent code editing experience.
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Developers are encouraged to take the
2025 Developer Satisfaction Survey
, which remains open until 5 January 2026. If you build software for the Wikimedia ecosystem and would like to share your experiences or feedback, your participation is greatly appreciated.
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There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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17:45, 8 ഡിസംബർ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-51
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View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, one of the fixes addressed an issue for temporary accounts adding an external URL, which triggered an hCaptcha request in more cases than intended, and did not display the required popup on the first attempt to publish the edit.
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Updates for technical contributors
To improve database and site performance, external links to Wikimedia projects will no longer be stored in the database. This means they will not be searchable in
പ്രത്യേകം:കണ്ണികൾ തിരയുക
, will not be checked by the Spam Blacklist or AbuseFilter as new links, and will not be in the
externallinks
table on database replicas. In the future this may be extended to other highly-linked trusted websites on a per-wiki basis, such as Creative Commons links on Wikimedia Commons.
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Tech News: 2025-52
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Updates for editors
From January, edit filters
can be set
to automatically suppress their details such as rules and list of attempted edits and actions. This will help oversighters use edit filters to prevent doxxing or other suppressible material.
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The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 12 January 2026 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the crash that occurred when tapping "First Steps" in the Wikipedia Android Year in Review has now been fixed, and the feature opens as expected.
[859]
Updates for technical contributors
Interface elements such as diffs and categories generated by MediaWiki used to have the attribute
data-mw="interface"
to distinguish from wiki content. The attribute has been replaced with
data-mw-interface=""
, to avoid potential conflicts with other
data-mw
attributes, which are generated by Parsoid.
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There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Meetings and events
The
Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026
will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications just opened mid-December and will close in mid-January or earlier if capacity is reached. With space for approximately 100 participants, early application is encouraged.
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21:45, 22 ഡിസംബർ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2026-03
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The Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on
Meta
and
Diff
. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the
talk page
Updates for editors
As part of the current work of Community Tech team on the
Multiple watchlists
project, the display of
EditWatchlist
will be updated as a first step towards multiple watchlists. Additionally, the pagination on
will be updated too, as a part of the work on the
Revamp pagination / page navigation
wish.
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The Global Watchlist
is a MediaWiki
extension
that lets you see your watchlists from different wikis on the same page. It was recently updated to look more like the regular
Watchlist
, such as preparing it for temporary accounts in IP masking (including rerouting user links to contributions pages), making page titles bold, and opening links in edit summaries and tags in new browser tabs.
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[863]
[864]
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View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the issue where global blocks did not have the option to disable sending emails, has now been fixed, and will be available for use in the week of January 13.
[866]
Updates for technical contributors
The
VisualEditor citation tool
and
Reference Previews
now support "map" as a reference type.
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19:33, 12 ജനുവരി 2026 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2026-04
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The tray shown on
Special:Diff
in mobile view has been redesigned. It is now collapsed by default, and incorporates a link to undo the edit being viewed, making it easier for mobile editors and reviewers to take action while keeping the interface uncluttered.
[868]
The Global Watchlist
lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The
extension
continues to improve — it now automatically determines the text direction (ensuring correct display of sites with unusual domain names) and shows detailed descriptions for log actions. Later this week, a new permanent link for page creations and CSS classes for each entry element will be added.
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View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the previously observed issue in Vector 2022, where anchor link targets were obscured by the sticky header, has now been addressed.
[873]
Updates for technical contributors
As mentioned in the
October 2025 deprecation announcement
, MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin sunsetting all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API the week of January 26. Changes are expected to roll out to all wikis on or before January 30th. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found, compared, and tested using the
REST Sandbox
. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in Phabricator to the
#MW-Interfaces-Team board
Interactive reference documentation for the
Wikimedia REST API
has moved. Requests to API docs previously hosted through
RESTBase
(e.g.:
) are now redirected to the
REST Sandbox
The
WMF Wikidata Platform team
(WDP) has published its
January 2026 newsletter
. It includes updates on the legacy full-graph endpoint decommissioning, the User-Agent policy change, the monthly Blazegraph migration office hours, and efforts to reduce regressions caused by the legacy endpoint shutdown. As a reminder, you can
subscribe to the WDP newsletter
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Meetings and events
The
Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026
will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications opened mid-December and will close soon or when capacity is reached. It's a two-day, technically oriented hackathon bringing together Wikimedians from the region. Hope to see you there!
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20:29, 19 ജനുവരി 2026 (UTC)
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Annual review of the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines
തിരുത്തുക
I am writing to you to let you know the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines is open now. You can make suggestions for changes through 9 February 2026. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review.
Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C,
you may review the U4C Charter
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
Keegan (WMF)
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21:02, 19 ജനുവരി 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-05
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Wikimedia Foundation invites comments on
proposed future
of the
Product and Technology Advisory Council
until 28 February.
All users with registered accounts can now use passkeys for
two-factor authentication
(2FA). Passkeys are a simple way to log in without using a second device. They verify the user's identity using a fingerprint, face scan, or a PIN code. To set up a passkey, first set up a regular 2FA method. Currently, to log in with a passkey, users must also use a password. Later this quarter, passwordless login will allow users to log in with a single click and a passkey. Users with advanced rights will also be required to have 2FA enabled. This is part of the
Account Security
project.
Unregistered contributors on blocked IPs or blocked IP ranges can now interact on-wiki to appeal a block by creating a temporary account to appeal a block on the user talk page, unless the "prevent this user from editing their own talk page" is enabled. This solves the problem of logged-out users unable to use the default unblock process via user talk page.
[874]
View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) methods description on the management page has been updated. It is now clearer and easier for users to understand and make use of.
[875]
Updates for technical contributors
A new AbuseFilter variable,
account_type
, has been added to provide a reliable way to determine the account type being created in the
createaccount
and
autocreateaccount
actions. As part of this change, the variable
accountname
has been renamed to
account_name
, and
accountname
is now deprecated. Edit filter managers should update any filters that use hardcoded account type checks or the deprecated variable.
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Image thumbnails that are requested in non-standard sizes, and using non-standard methods such as direct requests to
upload.wikimedia.org/…
will stop working in the near future. This change is to prevent ongoing external abuse by web-scrapers and bots. Some users with custom CSS/JS, Interface Admins who can fix gadgets and local skins, and Tool-authors, will need to update their code to use standard thumbnail sizes.
Details, search-links, and examples of how to fix them, are available in the task
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21:17, 26 ജനുവരി 2026 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2026-06
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Updates for editors
The "താളിന്റെ വിവരങ്ങൾ" feature, which gives validating information about a page (
example
), now automatically includes a table of contents. If there is a local
മീഡിയവിക്കി:Pageinfo-header
page created by individual users, it can now be removed.
[877]
View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, VisualEditor previously added bold or italic formatting inside link descriptions, making the wikicode complex. This has now been fixed.
[878]
Updates for technical contributors
There was no XML dump on 20 January. Additionally, from now on, dumps will be generated once per month only.
[879]
The MediaWiki Interfaces team removed support for all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the
MediaWiki REST API
. All API users currently calling those endpoints are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in phabricator to the
#MW-Interfaces-Team board
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Weekly highlight
Users are reminded that the Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on
Meta
and
Diff
. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the
talk page
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Tech News: 2026-07
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Logged-in contributors who manage large or complex watchlists can now organise and filter watched pages in ways that improve their workflows with the new
Watchlist labels
feature. By adding custom labels (for example: pages you created, pages being monitored for vandalism, or discussion pages) users can more quickly identify what needs attention, reduce cognitive load, and respond more efficiently. This improves watchlist usability, especially for highly active editors.
A new feature available on
Special:Contributions
shows
temporary accounts
that are likely operated by the same person, and so makes patrolling less time-consuming. Upon checking contributions of a temporary account, users with access to temporary account IP addresses can now see a view of contributions from the related temporary accounts. The feature looks up all the IPs associated with a given temporary account within the data retention period and shows all the contributions of all temporary accounts that have used these IPs.
[880]
When editors preview a wikitext edit, the reminder box that they are only seeing a preview (which is shown at the top), now has a grey/neutral background instead of a yellow/warning background. This makes it easier to distinguish preview notes from actual warnings (for example, edit conflicts or problematic redirect targets), which will now be shown in separate warning or error boxes.
[881]
The
Global Watchlist
lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The
extension
continues to improve — it now properly supports more than one Wikibase site, for example both
Wikidata
and
testwikidata
. In addition, issues regarding text direction have been fixed for users who prefer Wikidata or other Wikibase sites in right-to-left (RTL) languages.
[882]
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The automatic "magic links" for ISBN, RFC, and PMID numbers have been
deprecated in wikitext since 2021
due to inflexibility and difficulties with localization. Several wikis have successfully replaced RFC and PMID magic links with equivalent external links, but a template was often required to replace the functionality of the ISBN magic link. There is now a new
built-in parser function
{{#isbn}}
available to replace the basic functionality of the ISBN magic link. This makes it easier for wikis who wish to migrate off of the deprecated magic link functionality to do so.
[884]
Two new wikis have been created:
a Wikipedia in
Jju
w:kaj:
[885]
a Wikipedia in
Nawat
w:ppl:
[886]
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Updates for technical contributors
A new global user group has been created:
Local bots
. It will be used internally by the software to allow community bots to bypass rate limits that are applied to abusive
web scrapers
. Accounts that are approved as bots on at least one Wikimedia wiki will be automatically added to this group. It will not change what user permissions the bot has.
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Meetings and events
The
MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Spring 2026
will be held March 25–27 in Salt Lake City, USA. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend.
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23:30, 9 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2026 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2026-08
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The
SRE Team
will be performing a cleanup of Wikimedia's
Etherpad
instance, the web-based editor for real-time collaborative document editing. All pads will be permanently deleted after 30 April, 2026 – if there are still migration projects in progress at that point the team can revisit the date on a case by case basis. Please create local backups of any content you wish to keep, as deleted data cannot be recovered. This cleanup helps reduce database size and minimize infrastructure footprint. Etherpad will continue to support real-time collaboration, but long-term storage should not be expected. Additional cleanups may occur in the future without prior notice.
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Updates for editors
The Information Retrieval team will be launching an
Android mobile app experiment
that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic and keyword queries. The improvement of on-platform search will enable readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily. The experiment will first be launched on Greek Wikipedia in late February, followed by English, French, and Portuguese in March.
on Diff blog.
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The Reader Growth team will run
an experiment
for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
Previously, site notices (
മീഡിയവിക്കി:Sitenotice
and
മീഡിയവിക്കി:Anonnotice
) would only render on the desktop site. Now, they will render on all platforms. Users on mobile web will now see these notices and be informed. Site administrators should be prepared to test and fix notices on mobile devices to avoid interference with articles. To opt out, interface admins can add
#siteNotice { display: none; }
to
മീഡിയവിക്കി:Minerva.css
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[892]
View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, an issue on
Special:RecentChanges
has been fixed. Previously, clicking hide in the active filters caused the "view new changes since…" button to disappear, though it should have remained visible. The button now behaves as expected.
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Updates for technical contributors
New documentation is now available to help editors debug on-site search features. It supports troubleshooting when pages do not appear in results, when ranking seems unexpected, and when you need to inspect what content is being indexed, helping make search behavior easier to understand and analyze.
[894]
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Tech News: 2026-09
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Reference Check
has been deployed to English Wikipedia, completing its rollout across all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers to add a citation before publishing new content, helping reduce common citation-related reverts and improve verifiability. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web.
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Updates for editors
The
InterwikiSorting extension
, which allowed for the
sorting of interwiki links
, has been undeployed from Wikipedia. As a result, editors who had enabled interwiki link sorting in non-compact mode (full list format) will now see links reordered. The links moving forward will be listed in the alphabetical order of language code.
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Later this week, people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor, will notice a new "Edit full page" button. When tapped, you will be able to edit the entire article. This helps when the change you want to make is outside the section you initially opened.
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The Reader Experience team
is inviting editors to assess whether dark mode should still be considered "beta" on their wiki, based on their experience of how well it functions on desktop and mobile. If the feature is deemed mature, editors can update the interface messages in
MediaWiki:skin-theme-description
and
MediaWiki:Vector-night-mode-beta-tag
to indicate that dark mode is ready and no longer considered beta.
The improved
Activity tab
which displays user-insights is now available to all users of the Wikipedia iOS app (version 7.9.0 and later). Following earlier A/B testing that showed higher account creation among users with access to the feature, it has been rolled out to 100% of users along with some updates. The Activity tab now shows your edited articles in the timeline, offers editing impact insights like contribution counts and article view trends, and customization options to improve in-app experience for users.
View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, a bug that prevented
DiscussionTools
from working on mobile has now been fixed, restoring full functionality.
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Updates for technical contributors
The
Global Watchlist
lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The
extension
that makes this possible continues to improve. The latest upgrade is the inclusion of a
new hook
ext.globalwatchlist.rebuild
, which fires after each watchlist rebuild. This allows you to run gadgets and user scripts for the Special page.
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Tech News: 2026-10
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Wikipedia 25
Birthday mode
is now live on Betawi, Breton, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Gorontalo, Indonesian, Italian, Luxembourgish, Madurese, Sicilian, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese Wikipedias! This limited-time campaign feature celebrates 25 years of Wikipedia with a birthday mascot, Baby Globe. When turned on, Baby Globe is shown on
~2,500 articles
, waiting to be discovered by readers. Communities can choose to turn Birthday mode on by getting consensus from their community and asking an admin to enable the feature and customize it via
community configuration
on the local wiki.
Updates for editors
Sub-referencing
, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to Swedish Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia and
a couple of other wikis
. You can
try the feature
on these projects or on testwiki and
betawiki
. Learnings from the first pilot wiki German Wikipedia have been
published in a report
. Reach out to the Wikimedia Deutschland team if you are
interested in becoming a pilot wiki
Paste Check
will become available at all Wikipedias this week. The feature prompts newcomers who are pasting text they are not likely to have written into VisualEditor to consider whether doing so risks a copyright violation. Paste Check
tags
all edits where it is shown for potential review. Local administrators can configure various aspects of the feature via
പ്രത്യേകം:EditChecks
Research
across 22 wikis found that Paste Check resulted in an 18% decrease in relative reverted-edits compared to the control group. Translators can
help to localize
this and related features.
The
Reader Experience team
will be standardizing the user menu in the top right for all mobile users so that it is closer to the desktop experience. Currently this user menu is only visible to users with Advanced Mobile Controls (AMC) turned on. The only change is that a couple buttons previously in the left-side menu will move to the top right for users who do not have AMC turned on. This change is expected to go out March 9 and seeks to improve the user interface.
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Starting in the week of March 2, the emails sent out when an email address was added, removed, or changed for an account will switch to a substantially nicer and clearer HTML email from the prior plaintext one.
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Notifications are currently limited to 2,000 historic entries per user, and extend back to 2013 when the feature was released. This is going to be changed to only store Notifications from the last 5 years, but up to 10,000 of them. This will help with long-term infrastructure health and help to prevent more recent notifications from disappearing too soon.
[903]
The
Global Watchlist
which lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on a single page continues to see improvements. The latest update improves label usage experience. The
extension
now allows activating the
language fallback system
for Wikidata items without labels in the viewed language, and showing those labels in the user’s preferred Wikidata language if no
uselang=
URL parameter is provided.
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The Wikipedia Android team has started a beta test of
hybrid search
on Greek Wikipedia. Hybrid search capabilities can handle both semantic and keyword queries enabling readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily.
For security reasons, members of certain user groups are
required to have two-factor authentication
(2FA) enabled. Currently, 2FA is required to use the group, but not to be a member of it. Given that this model still has some vulnerabilities, the situation will
gradually change in March
. Members of these groups will be unable to disable last 2FA method on their account, and it will be impossible to add users without 2FA to these groups. Users will still be able to add new authentication methods or remove them, as long as at least one method is continuously enabled. In the second half of March, users without 2FA will be removed from these groups. This applies to: CentralNotice administrators, checkusers, interface administrators, suppressors, Wikidata staff, Wikifunctions staff, WMF Office IT and WMF Trust & Safety. Nothing will change for other users. See the linked task for deployment schedule.
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View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the issue preventing users from creating an instance in
Wikibase.cloud
has now been fixed.
[907]
Updates for technical contributors
To help ensure
fair use of infrastructure
, over the next month the Wikimedia Foundation will implement global API rate limits across our APIs. In early March, stricter limits will be applied to unidentified requests from outside Toolforge/WMCS and API requests that are made from web browsers. In April, higher limits will be applied to identified traffic. These limits are intentionally set as high as possible to minimise impact on the community. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see
Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits
The Wikidata Query Service Linked Data Fragment (LDF) endpoint will be decommissioned in February. This endpoint served limited traffic, which was successfully migrated to other data access methods that were better suited to support existing use cases. The hardware used to support the LDF endpoint will be reallocated to support the ongoing backend migration efforts.
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The new Parsoid parser
continues to be deployed to additional wikis
, improving platform sustainability and making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. Parsoid is now the default parser on 488 WMF wikis (268 Wikipedias), now covering more than 10% of all Wikipedia page views.
The process and criteria for
requesting exceptional access
to the high volume feed of the
Wikimedia Enterprise
APIs (at no cost for mission-aligned usecases),
have now been published
. This is to provide more thorough and clearer documentation for users.
Tech Blog
, the blog dedicated to the Wikimedia technical community
will be migrating
to
Diff
, the community news and event blog. The migration should be complete in April 2026, after which new posts will be accepted for publishing. Readers will be able to access posts – old and new – on the landing page at
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Tech News: 2026-11
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All wikis will be read-only
for a few minutes on Wednesday, 25 March 2026 at
15:00 UTC
. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests,
which happen twice a year
. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies.
Last week, all wikis had 2 hours of read-only time, and extended unavailability for user-scripts and gadgets. This was due to a security incident which has since been resolved. Work is ongoing to prevent re-occurrences. For current information please see the
post on the Stewards' noticeboard
translations
).
Updates for editors
Users facing multiple blocks on mobile will now see the reasons for each block separately, instead of a generic message. This helps them understand why they are blocked and what steps they can take to resolve the issue. For example, users affected for using common VPNs (such as
iCloud Private Relay
) will receive clearer guidance on what they need to do to start editing again.
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Later this week,
Suggestion Mode
will become available as a beta feature within the visual editor at all Wikipedias. This feature proactively suggests various types of actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, and learn about related guidelines. The feature is locally configurable, and can also be locally expanded with custom Suggestions. Current settings can be seen at
Special:EditChecks
and there are
instructions for how administrators can customize
the links to point to local guidelines. The feature is connected to
Edit check
which suggests improvements while someone is writing new content. In the future, the Editing team plans to evaluate the feature's impact with newcomers through a controlled experiment.
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View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the issue where the cursor became misaligned during the use of CodeMirror’s syntax highlighting, which makes wikitext and code easier to read, has now been fixed. This problem specifically affected users who defined a font rule in a custom stylesheet while creating a new topic with DiscussionTools.
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Updates for technical contributors
API rate limiting update: To help ensure
fair use of infrastructure
, global API rate limits will be applied this week to requests without a compliant User-Agent that originate from outside Toolforge/WMCS and to unauthenticated requests made from web browsers. Higher limits will be applied to identified traffic in April. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see
Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits
The new GraphQL API has been released. The API was developed as a flexible alternative to select features of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), to improve developer experience and foster adaptability, and efficient data access. Try it out and
give feedback
. You can also
sign up for usability tests
The
PTAC Unsupported Tools Working Group
continued improvements to
Video2Commons
in February, with fixes addressing authentication errors, large-file handling, task queue visibility, and clearer upload behavior. Work is still ongoing in some areas, including changes related to deprecated server-side uploads. Read
this update
to learn more.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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The Article Guidance team invites experienced Wikipedia editors from selected
pilot wikis
and interested contributors from other Wikipedias to fill out this questionnaire which is available in
Arabic
Bengali
Japanese
Portuguese
Persian
, and
Turkish
. Your answers will help the team customize guidance for less experienced editors and help them learn community policies and practices while creating an article. Learn more
on the project page
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18:52, 9 മാർച്ച് 2026 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2026-12
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Updates for editors
The
⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽
beta feature, also known as
CodeMirror 6
, has been used for wikitext syntax highlighting since November 2024. It will be promoted out of beta by May 2026 in order to bring improvements and new
features
to all editors who use the standard syntax highlighter. If you have any questions or concerns about promoting the feature out of beta,
please share
[912]
Some changes to local user groups are performed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and logged there only. Now, interwiki rights changes will be logged both on Meta-Wiki and the wiki of the target user to make it easier to access a full record of user's rights changes on a local wiki. Past log entries for such changes will be backfilled in the coming weeks.
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On wikis using
Flagged Revisions
, the number of pending changes shown on
പ്രത്യേകം:മുമ്പ് സംശോധനം ചെയ്ത താളുകൾ
previously counted pages which were no longer pending review, because they have been removed from the system without being reviewed, e.g. due to being deleted, moved to a different namespace, or due to wiki configuration changes. The count will be correct now. On some wikis the number shown will be much smaller than before. There should be no change to the list of pages itself.
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Wikifunctions composition language has been rewritten, resulting in a new version of the language. This change aims to increase service stability by reducing the orchestrator's memory consumption. This rewrite also enables substantial latency reduction, code simplification, and better abstractions, which will open the door to later feature additions. Read more about
the changes
Users can now sort search results alphabetically by page title. The update gives an additional option to finding pages more easily and quickly. Previously, results could be sorted by Edit date, Creation date, or Relevance. To use the new option, open 'Advanced Search' on the search results page and select 'Alphabetically' under 'Sorting Order'.
[915]
View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the bug that prevented UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons from importing files from Flickr has now been fixed.
[916]
Updates for technical contributors
A new special page,
പ്രത്യേകം:LintTemplateErrors
, has been created to list transcluded pages that are flagged as containing lint errors to help users discover them easily. The list is sorted by the number of transclusions with errors. For example:
പ്രത്യേകം:LintTemplateErrors/night-mode-unaware-background-color
[917]
Users of the
⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽
beta feature have been using
CodeMirror
instead of
CodeEditor
for syntax highlighting when editing JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue and Lua content pages, for some time now. Along with promoting CodeMirror 6 out of beta, the plan is to replace CodeEditor as the standard editor for these content models by May 2026.
Feedback or concerns are welcome
[918]
The
CodeMirror
JavaScript modules will soon be upgraded to CodeMirror 6. Leading up to the upgrade, loading the
ext.CodeMirror
or
ext.CodeMirror.lib
modules from gadgets and user scripts was deprecated in July 2025. The use of the
ext.CodeMirror.switch
hook was also deprecated in March 2025. Contributors can now make their scripts or gadgets compatible with CodeMirror 6. See the
migration guide
for more information.
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The MediaWiki Interfaces team is expanding coverage of REST API module definitions to include
extension APIs
. REST API modules are groups of related endpoints that can be independently managed and versioned. Modules now exist for
GrowthExperiments
and
Wikifunctions
APIs. As we migrate extension APIs to this structure, documentation will move out of the main MediaWiki OpenAPI spec and REST Sandbox view, and will instead be accessible via module-specific options in the dropdown on the
REST Sandbox
(i.e.,
പ്രത്യേകം:RestSandbox
, available on all wiki projects).
The
Scribunto
extension provides different pieces of information about the wiki where the module is being used via the
mw.site
library. Starting last week, the library also provides a
way
of accessing the
wiki ID
that can be used to facilitate cross-wiki module maintenance.
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Detailed code updates later this week:
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The
2026 Coolest Tool Award
celebrating outstanding community tools, is now open for nominations! Nominate your favorite tool using the
nomination survey
form by 23 March 2026. For more information on privacy and data handling, please see the
survey privacy statement
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19:35, 16 മാർച്ച് 2026 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2026-13
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Wikimedia site users can now log in without a password using passkeys. This is a secure method supported by fingerprint, facial recognition, or PIN. With this change, all users who opt for passwordless login will find it easier, faster, and more secure to log in to their accounts using any device. The new passkey login option currently appears as an autofill suggestion in the username field. An additional
"Log in with passkey" button
will soon be available for users who have already registered a passkey. This update will improve security and user experience. The
screen recording
demonstrates the passwordless login process step by step.
All wikis will be read-only
for a few minutes on Wednesday, 25 March 2026 at
15:00 UTC
. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests,
which happen twice a year
. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies.
Updates for editors
Wikimedia site users can now export their notifications older than 5 years using a
new Toolforge tool
. This will ensure that users retain their important notifications and avoid them being lost based on the planned change to delete notifications older than 5 years, as previously announced.
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Wikipedia editors in Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, and Simple English now have access to Special:PersonalDashboard. This is an
early version of an experience
that introduces newer editors to patrolling workflows, making it easier for them to move from making edits to participating in more advanced moderation work on their project.
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The
Special:Block
now has two minor interface changes. Administrators can now easily perform indefinite blocks through a dedicated radio button in the expiry section. Also, choosing an indefinite expiry provides a different set of common reasons to select from, which can be changed at:
MediaWiki:Ipbreason-indef-dropdown
[923]
Mobile editors
at several wikis
can now see an improved logged-out edit warning, thanks to the recent updates from the Growth team. These changes released last week are part of ongoing efforts and tests to enhance
account creation experience on mobile
and then increase participation.
[924]
View all 36 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the bug that prevented mobile web users from seeing the block information when affected by multiple blocks has been fixed. They can now see messages of all the blocks currently affecting them when they access Wikipedia.
Updates for technical contributors
Images built using Toolforge will soon get the upgraded buildpacks version, bringing support for newer language versions and other upstream improvements and fixes. If you use Toolforge Build Service, review the recent
cloud-announce email
and update your build configuration as necessary to ensure your tools are compatible.
[925]
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The
API Portal
documentation wiki will shut down in June 2026. API keys created on the API Portal will continue to work normally. api.wikimedia.org endpoints will be deprecated gradually starting in July 2026. Documentation on the API Portal is moving to
mediawiki.org
. Learn more on the
project page
Detailed code updates later this week:
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WMDE Technical Wishes
is considering improvements to
automatically generated reference names in VisualEditor
. Please check out the
proposed solutions
and participate in the
request for comment
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16:51, 23 മാർച്ച് 2026 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2026-14
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The Beta version of
Abstract Wikipedia
a new Wikimedia project which is language-independent, was launched last week. The project allows communities to build Wikipedia articles in their native language, which can be readily accessed by other users in their own languages. The wiki is powered by instructions from Wikifunctions and also based on structured content from Wikidata.
Updates for editors
The Growth team is running an A/B test to evaluate a clearer, more user-friendly message that promotes account creation on wikis. Currently when logged-out mobile users begin editing, they see a jarring warning message that can feel abrupt and discouraging. This also presents temporary account editing as the default rather than encouraging account creation. The test is running on ten Wikipedias, including Arabic, French, Spanish and German.
The Wikimedia Apps team is inviting feedback on
how editing should work on the Wikipedia mobile apps
. The discussion focuses on improving how users access editing tools when they tap "Edit". This is part of a broader effort to convert readers who develop an interest in editing, to access a more user-friendly pathway to start contributing.
View all 45 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, an issue where citation fetching from the large newspaper archive
Newspapers.com
was no longer working, due to a block in
Citoid
requests, has now been fixed.
[927]
Updates for technical contributors
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19:25, 30 മാർച്ച് 2026 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2026-15
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The
CampaignEvents extension
now includes a new group goal-setting feature, enabling organizers to set and track event goals such as the number of articles created and participating contributors in real time. Similarly, participants can work toward shared targets and see their collective impact as the event unfolds. The feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Learn more in
the documentation
The new
watchlist labels
feature (announced in
Tech News 2026-07
) is now available via VisualEditor, the source editor, and the 'watchstar' (or watch link, for skins that don't have a star icon). Previously it was only possible to assign labels via
EditWatchlist
. In all three places it is a new field following the expiry field.
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the issue where talk pages on mobile with Parsoid are unusable after empty section headers, has now been fixed.
[928]
Updates for technical contributors
The
sub-referencing feature
, which lets editors add details to an existing reference without duplicating it, will be gradually rolled out to
more wikis
later this year. Wikis using the
Reference Tooltips
gadget are encouraged to update their version (typically at
MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js
as shown
here
) to ensure compatibility. Other reference-related gadgets may also be affected.
[929]
All Wikinews editions will be closed and switched to read-only mode on 4 May 2026. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles can be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions.
The
Action API
has had several formats for requested output. One of them,
format=php
, is being removed soon. Please ensure your scripts or bots use the
JSON format
. This removal should affect very few scripts and bots.
[930]
The
Special:NamespaceInfo
page now includes namespace aliases. For example "WP" for the "Project" ("Wikipedia") namespace on the German Wikipedia.
[931]
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Tech News: 2026-16
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Experienced editors are invited to
test
the
Article guidance
feature, designed to help less-experienced editors create well-structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Testing instructions are
available
. Also, after reviewing
the outlines
, please provide feedback on the
project talk page
. Based on your input, the feature will be refined and transferred to the pilot Wikipedias to translate and adapt. Check out
the video
explaining the feature.
Updates for editors
On most wikis, all autoconfirmed users can now use
Special:ChangeContentModel
page to
create new pages with custom content models
, such as mass message lists, making custom page formats more accessible. Check
Special:ListGroupRights
for the status of your wiki.
[932]
The Growth team has launched an
account creation experiment
to evaluate whether adding an account creation button to the mobile web header increases new account registrations and encourages more mobile users to contribute to the wikis. The experiment is currently live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia, and targets 10% of logged-out mobile web users.
View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, an issue where VisualEditor could get stuck loading on Windows devices with animations turned off, has now been fixed.
[933]
Updates for technical contributors
Starting later this week, ദുരുപയോഗ അരിപ്പ തിരുത്തുന്നവർ who have the
⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽
beta feature enabled will have
CodeMirror
instead of
CodeEditor
as the editor at
Special:AbuseFilter
. This is part of the broader effort to make the user experience more consistent across all editors.
[934]
[935]
Tools and bots that access the
Notifications API
action=query&meta=notifications
) will need to update their OAuth or BotPassword grants to also include access to private notifications.
[936]
Due to a library upgrade, listings on category pages may be displayed out of order starting on Monday, 20th April. A migration script will be run to correct this, and will take hours to days depending on the size of the wiki (up to a week for English Wikipedia).
[937]
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Tech News: 2026-17
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After two years of development,
⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽
, also known as
CodeMirror 6
, is to be promoted out of beta on Tuesday, April 21. It brings better code and wikitext readability, reduction in typing errors, and other
benefits
to all users of the standard syntax highlighter. A huge thank you to volunteer
Bhsd
who developed many of the new features, including
code folding
autocompletion
, and
linting
[938]
A major update to the Wikipedia app for iOS is now rolling out, redesigning the interface to align with Apple's latest "Liquid Glass" visual design.
Download the latest version
and explore the update.
Updates for editors
Reading lists
is a feature which allows readers to save articles to a list for reading later. This feature is now in beta on Arabic, French, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Chinese Wikipedias and by default for all new accounts on all Wikipedias.
An experiment which explores extending
Page Previews to mobile web
will be launched in the week of April 20 on Arabic, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Page Previews are pop-ups that display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and a link to open the full article of a blue link, thereby improving content discovery. The feature is already available on desktop and in the apps.
Read more about this experiment and others
On several wikis, logged-in editors who haven't
confirmed their email addresses
can now see a banner encouraging them to do so. Having the email address confirmed allows a user to restore access to the account if they lose it.
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View all 15 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, an issue where editing very large wiki pages in the 2017 wikitext editor caused slow loading, preview and scrolling lag, and performance issues when selecting, cutting, or pasting content, has now been fixed.
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Updates for technical contributors
As part of the promotion of
CodeMirror
from a beta feature, all users will use
CodeMirror
instead of
CodeEditor
for syntax highlighting when editing JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue and Lua content pages.
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The
mirrors.wikimedia.org
service for Debian and Ubuntu users will sunset and stop working on May 15. The resources for the service will be replaced with new and better options. Some users may need to switch to a different server which should take about a minute.
You can read more
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The
image
and
oldimage
table will be removed from
wikireplicas
. If your tools or queries access
image
or
oldimage
directly, please update them to use the
file
and
filerevision
table before 28 May.
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Following the recent implementation of global API rate limits on unidentified traffic, the Wikimedia Foundation will continue efforts to ensure
fair use of infrastructure
by applying global limits to identified API traffic beginning the last week of April. These limits are intentionally set as high as possible to minimise impact on the community. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see
Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits
and
Frequently Asked Questions
The
Attribution API
is now available as a
beta
. The API fetches information for crediting Wikimedia articles and media files wherever they are used. Reference documentation is available through the REST Sandbox special page available on all Wikimedia wikis (such as the
REST sandbox on English Wikipedia
). Share your feedback on the
project talk page
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