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Unua diskuto
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Saluton al ĉiuj (?): mi vidas, ke estas jam libroj.
Kelkaj enhavas kovrilon, kelkaj enhavas resumon de paĝoj, subpaĝoj de kelkaj estas faritaj per /, ... kion ni faras?
Ĉu la libroj pri lingvoj nomiĝus "XXXX-a lingvo" pro formaleco?
Eble mi aldonas alian mesaĝon poste :) --
→ A
ir
on
08:16, 12. Aŭg 2010 (UTC)
Logo
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Eo-logo por Vikilibroj
Karaj, dank'al
Jafeluv
, Vikilibroj nun havas Esperantan logo-bildon. Ĉu iu malkonsentas ke tiu logobildo estu uzata por la Esperanta Vikilibroj? Ĝi anstataŭigos la anglan logobildon (
Wikibooks
, supren maldekstren).
CasteloBranco
diskuto
04:00, 6. Nov 2010 (UTC)
Peto ĉe Meta:
26171
CasteloBranco
diskuto
12:01, 30. Nov 2010 (UTC)
Farita
CasteloBranco
diskuto
22:40, 30. Nov 2010 (UTC)
Permespeto por roboto:
CasteloBot
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Nomo de funkciigisto :
CasteloBranco
diskuto
Projektoj :
eo.vikipedio, eo.wikinews, pt.vikipedio
Softvaro :
AWB
Mi estas administranto en eo.vikipedio, eo.wikinews, kaj pt.vikipedio, kies CasteloBot havas pli ol ses milojn da redaktoj. Ĝi povas helpi korekti artikolojn, ŝanĝi kategoriojn, ŝablonojn, k.t.p (laŭ decido de komunejo). Mi volas plibonigi kaj ampleksigi ĉi tiun projekton, ĉar ĝi estas grave rilataj al aliaj Esperantaj projektoj, kaj ĝi ŝajnas malpli uzata (aŭ granda) ol ĝi eblus. Mi faros kelkajn da redaktoj kiel provo. Dankon,
CasteloBranco
diskuto
07:40, 24. Nov 2010 (UTC)
Farita
(mi ankaŭ erare -ĉar mi eraris pri projekto- igis
Uzanto:Castelobranco
adinistranto, kvankam vi ne petis. Ne malbona afero, ĉu ?
ArnoLagrange
09:40, 1. Dec 2010 (UTC)
Vikinovaĵoj
redakti
La 13-an de novembro,
Vikinovaĵoj
akiris propran lokon kaj estas lanĉita je
. Ĝi estas projekto de la Fondaĵo Vikimedio celanta provizi liberan novaĵretejon. La unua novaĵo en esperantlingva versio estis publikigita la 27-an de februaro 2010, ĉe Kovilo. Dum dek monatoj, la Lingva Komitato de Meta-Vikio diskutis kaj
aprobis
ke la projekto uzu sian propran subdomajnon.
Ni invitas vin kunlabori ankaŭ en tiu frata projekto de Vikilibroj. Ni invitas vin verki artikolojn por Vikinovaĵoj pri temoj, kiuj gravas al vi, interesas vin, aŭ laŭ via opinio, estas tro malkonataj en aliaj novaĵo-fontoj. Por lerni kiel verki artikolojn en Vikinovaĵoj, legu
Vikinovaĵoj bezonas vin
. Por babili aŭ opinii pri la projekto, vi povas uzi nian
Redaktejon
. Se vi serĉas fontojn de aktualaĵoj por helpi vin redakti novaĵojn, vi povas trovi kelkajn en
Fontoj de novaĵoj
. Vi ankaŭ povas kunlabori aldonante novajn fontojn al
tiu paĝo
, aŭ simple
disvastigante la novaĵojn
kun viaj geamikoj el la plejfamaj diskonigaj retpaĝaroj, uzante la butonaron kiu estas en ĉiuj novaĵartikoloj.
Estu bonvena al Vikinovaĵoj, la libera retgazeto! Amike,
CasteloBranco
diskuto
00:37, 1. Dec 2010 (UTC)
La Eta Princo
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Mi ricevis retmesaĝon de Normand Fleury, nome de Kanada Esperanto-Asocio. Li asertas ke la teksto "La Eta Princo", estas kopirajtita. Tial, mi ĝin forigis. La diskuton mi forigos en unu semajno. Ankaŭ, aŭtoraj tekstoj ne taŭgas al Vikilibroj, sed al Vikifontaro, kiu akceptas nur liberajn tekstojn, same kiel Vikilibroj.
CasteloBranco
diskuto
01:32, 21 Jun. 2011 (UTC)
Ŝablonoj de Babelo
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Bonvesperon ! Ĉu iu povus importi kelkajn babelŝablonojn al tiu ĉi projekto? Ni ial ne havas ilin nuntempe. Antaŭe dankon
Tempodivalse
01:44, 7 Jul. 2011 (UTC)
Ŝablono:Ŝakdiagramo
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Saluton,ĉiuj!
Mi volus skribi vikilibron '
Ŝako
'. Por tio mi bezonas uzi
ŝablono:Ŝakdiagramo
, kiu nunmomente ne funkcias. Do mi petas al tiu, kiu povas, aranĝi ĉi-tiun ŝablonon.--
Kavalira
15:11, 8 Okt. 2011 (UTC)
Saluton, Kavalira. Mi ĵus riparis la ŝablonon. Ĝia kodigo estis malĝusta. Do vi metis kodon, kiu devus esti en la dokumento, en la ŝablonon. Tio ne povis funkcii. Amike --
Tlustulimu
20:26, 20 Jan. 2012 (UTC)
Administranto-kandidatiĝo
Kraŭs
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Saluton. Mi volas plibonigi Vikilibrojn. Mi movus netaŭgajn paĝojn al la ĝusta vikio aŭ foriĝus ilin. Ĉu iu kontraŭas?
Kraŭs
diskuto
) 02:28, 27 Apr. 2012 (UTC)
Por
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Kontraŭ
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Komentoj
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Vi ne bezonas administrantan statuson por tion fari. Simple metu {{
forigu
}}-n sur netaŭgajn paĝoj.
CasteloBranco
diskuto
18:40, 27 Apr. 2012 (UTC)
Permespeto por roboto
KuBOT
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funkciigisto:
KuboF
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laboro: alinomigado de paĝoj, korektado de sintakso, ŝanĝado de ŝablonoj kaj kategorioj, laŭ bezono kaj petoj ankaŭ aliaj
programaro: pywikipediabot
Mi jam funkciigas la roboton en la Esperanta Vikipedio, kie ĝi havas super 35 mil redaktoj. La ĉefa tasko por la roboto estos korektado de malnovaj maltaŭgaj nomoj de paĝoj al moderna, en ĉiu funkcianta Vikilibroj uzata, sistemo
Nomo de libro/Nomo de ĉapitro
. Unufoje mi tion faris permane kaj neniam plu mi tion emas sperti... --
KuboF
diskuto
) 19:20, 26 Nov. 2012 (UTC)
Nomo-skemo por libroj
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Mi vidas ĉi tie miksitajn kelkajn nomigajn skemojn, nome:
Nomo de libro/Nomo de ĉapitro
Nomo de libro:Nomo de ĉapitro
Nomo de libro: Nomo de ĉapitro
Nomo de ĉapitro
En ĉiuj evoluitaj Vikilibroj oni uzadas nur la unuan sistemon. Ĝi havas kelkajn avantaĝojn: tuj klaras al kiu libro apartenas la ĉapitro; la sistemo aŭtomate kreas ligilon (metitan tuj sub la titolo) al la baza paĝo, ĉi-kaze al la paĝo de libro. Ĉu ni faru iun oficialan rekomendon pri nomigado de ĉapitroj? Ĉu iu kontraŭas alinomigon al la sistemo
Nomo de libro/Nomo de ĉapitro
? --
KuboF
diskuto
) 14:32, 18 Dec. 2012 (UTC)
Se estas neniu kontraŭo mi komencos alinomigadi librojn laŭ la skemo
Nomo de libro/Nomo de ĉapitro
kaj aldonos tiun nomigskemon kiel oficialan rekomendon por Vikilibristoj. --
KuboF
diskuto
) 17:58, 20 Dec. 2012 (UTC)
Fakte nun mi eksciis ke ekz.
Kuirlibro
uzas sistemon
Nomo de libro:Nomo de ĉapitro
kiu multe pli taŭgas por memstara nomspaco. Laŭ komparo kun la angla Vikilibroj tie estas apartaj nomspacoj por kuirlibro kaj porinfanaj libroj. Infanlibroj ĉe ni ne funkcias sed ĉu krei nomspacon
Kuirlibro
? Estus strangegaĵo krei apartan nomspacon por ĉiu libro do mi preferas ne krei pli ol tri tiajn nomspacojn (nuntempe tio eblas nur por Kuirlibro). --
KuboF
diskuto
) 18:43, 20 Dec. 2012 (UTC)
Por solvo n° 1 --
ArnoLagrange
diskuto
) 21:29, 20 Dec. 2012 (UTC)
Peto pri forigo
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Bonvole forigu la paĝon
Terminareto de la Krea Komunaĵo
. La tradukado realiĝas enkadre de la retservo Transifex (www.transifex.com) kaj en ĝi ekzistas ankaŭ vortaro, kiu helpas rekte dum la laboro, aperigante helpajn tradukojn de unuopaj vortoj, ekzistantaj en la vortaro. Ĉar dum la laboro oni ofte bezonas la tradukojn en vortaro aktualigi kaj alimaniere adapti, mi decidiĝis transloki la vortaron tien, estus ja tre tempraba afero peni sinkronigi tiujn du vortarojn. Krome, mi pensas ke neniu uzis ĉi-tiean terminaron de la Krea Komunaĵo krom mi dum la tradukado. Antaŭdankante --
Petrus Adamus
diskuto
) 15:38, 27 Mar. 2013 (UTC)
Universal language selector
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Saluton,
Universala lingvo-elektilo
(ULS) estis malaktivigita en ĉiuj vikioj de la Fondaĵo Vikimedio antaŭnelonge pro problemoj pri rendimento (
Bugzilla: 46306
). Ĝin nun eblas ŝalti post ensaluto. Vi povas ĝin aktivigi en
Specialaĵo:Preferoj
, kie vi elektu "Ebligi Universalan Lingvo.elektilon".
Tio signifas:
Pluraj vikioj nun estas kun malpli ol optimala subteno por sistem-nivela tiparo
la tiparo OpenDyslexic ne estas disponebla (
fakte por Esperanto tute ne disponebla, sed ja mestas tio prizorgata (KuboF)
Ttt-bazitaj enig-metodaj redaktiloj ne estas disponeblaj (tuŝas ĉiujn uzantojn)
La traduka kromprogramo estas rompita por vikioj, kiuj uzas ĝin por tradukado de paĝoj
Vikidatumoj ne estas disponebla por ĵavaskripta API de ULS
Mi ne scias kiom rapide ĝi estos solvita, sed la espero estas, ke "frue". Se vi konas homojn aŭ projektojn kiuj estos tuŝitaj de tio ĉi, bonvolu kunhavigi la novaĵon.
Whatamidoing (WMF)
diskuto
) 19:03, 21 Jan. 2014 (UTC)
(tradukita de
KuboF
Nova aldonaĵo - PropraProvejo
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Mi ĵus instalis novan aldonaĵon:
PropraProvejo
. Ĝi kreas inter la supraj ligiloj "Diskuto" kaj "Preferoj" novan ligilon kun la teksto "Mia provejo". Per tio ensalutinta uzanto povas rapide aliri propran provejon. Mi ĝin uzas por listigi aferojn pri kiuj mi volas labori aŭ kiujn mi volas memori. Po aktivigi la aldonaĵon iru al
Preferoj
. --
KuboF
diskuto
) 20:53, 5 Jul. 2014 (UTC)
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Propono pri ŝanĝo de x-anstataŭado en vikiaj projektoj
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En la Esperanta Vikipedio nun estis komencita diskuto pri ŝanĝo de farado de ĉapelitaj literoj en Esperantaj viki-projektoj. Mi proponis ekdiskuti tie kaj poste fari saman diskuton en aliaj viki-projektoj, inklude de tiu ĉi. Mi invitas ĉiujn interesiĝantojn veni al
Diskutejo de Esperanta Vikipedio
! Dum via komento bonvolu mencii, ke via ĉefa projekto estas iu alia ol Vikipedio, por bona superrigardo. --
KuboF
diskuto
) 13:30, 17 Feb. 2015 (UTC)
Ŝanĝo de x-anstataŭado en Vikilibroj
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Mi supre menciis proponon pri ŝanĝo de x-anstataŭado en Esperanta Vikipedio. La
koncerna Peto pri komento
finiĝis kun klarega rezulto por ŝanĝi manieron de x-sistemo de malnova al nova per Universala LingvoElektilo. Mi lanĉas la saman diskuton pri ŝanĝo en Esperanta Vikilibroj.
Kiel vi certe scias, Esperantaj viki-projektoj montras Esperantajn ĉapelitajn literojn tute bone, sed dum redaktado de kodo ili aperas uzante x-sistemon. Do, en artikolo estas montrite
eĥoŝanĝo ĉiuĵaŭde
, kvankam la kodo aspektas
ehxosxangxo cxiujxauxde
. Kvankam la funkcio funkcias por kutima redaktado, ĝi ĉiam faras ĝenajn problemojn, kelkajn el ili mi listigas sube.
Tiu ĉi funkcio estis aldonita en fruega komenco de Vikipedio, kiam ankaŭ interreto (en multaj landoj) ne estis signife disvastiĝinta, tajpado de ĉapelitaj literoj per komputilo estis (precipe por neteĥnikistoj) koŝmaro kaj retfoliumiloj estis sufiĉe primitivaj. Mi memoras, ke en tiu tempo mi ankoraŭ uzadis diskedojn... Intertempe la aferoj ege ŝanĝiĝis - nuntempe eblas tute bone tajpi ĉapelitajn literojn en ĉiuj gravaj komputilaj operaciumoj kaj modernaj retfoliumiloj provizas mirindajn eblojn.
Aspekto de Universala LingvoElektilo por Esperanto
Nuntempe en Esperanta Vikilibroj (kaj aliaj projektoj) funkcias etendaĵo
Universala LingvoElektilo
, per kiu ankaŭ eblas tajpi ĉapelitaj literojn, ne nur per x-metodo, sed ankaŭ h-metodo, Zamenhofa h-metodo kaj aliaj
detala priskribo por interesiĝantoj
. Universalan LingvoElektilon vi povas provi dum vi redaktas artikolon - dekstre en tekstujo dum tajpado kaj por kelkaj sekundoj post tajpado aperas kesteto kun sageto, alklaku ĝin, elektu Esperanton kaj iom testu.
Eblas ŝanĝi agordojn de Esperanta Vikilibroj tiel, ke Universala LingvoElektilo estus defaŭlte ŝaltita por ĉiuj kun specifa konverta metodo, ekzemple x-metodo. Por absolutega plejparto de uzantoj, inklude neensalutiĝintaj, tio funkcius preskaŭ same - nura diferenco estus, ke ĉapelitaj literoj montriĝadus jam dum tajpado kaj estus videblaj jam ekde komenco de redaktado. Por tiu funkcio tamen estas bezonata Ĝavoskripto (JavaScript), kiun tamen subtenas ĉiuj modernaj retfoliumiloj.
Kiel funkcias la Universala Lingvo-Selektilo?
Por mallongigi kaj faciligi la diskuton: La
w:Helpo:Universala LingvoElektilo
jam funkcias kaj estas disponebla. Jen kiel ĝi funkcias:
1-a paŝo: Klaku sur la rado sub la iloj
2-a paŝo se estas malŝaltitaj la enigiloj: Klaku sur
ŝalti enigajn ilojn
2-a paŝo selektu "enigo"
3-a paŝo selektu lingvon Esperanto kaj x-metodon
4-a paŝo konservu
5-a paŝo jam vi povas redakti. Tajpante
Cx
aperas
kelkaj problemoj de la eksmoda x-sistemo (aldonu vian!)
problemo pri HotCat
Komunejo
- problemo pri HotCat
Diskutejo
- VarmaKato malvidebligis du fotojn
Diskuto de KuboF
- Blahma atentigas pri la problemo
Diskutejo
- problemo pri
Vivanta antŭvido
, teĥnika fono simila al VarmaKato
problemo dum kopiado de inter viki-projektoj
Diskutejo
(nun eĉ de neesperantisto) kaj
bezonata ŝango
kopiado de vortojn kiel
Linux
aŭ
Bordeaux
de alilingvaj artikoloj rompas la vorton, speciale ĝena ĝi estas en ligiloj
kopiado de tekstoj kaj ŝablonoj al nova Esperanta projekto en
Vikimedia Kovilo
(ekz.
Esperanta Vikivojaĝo
) estas problema, ĉar en Kovilo ne funkcias x-metodo same kiel en Vikipedio
Helpo:Alinomi paĝon
- alinomado de artikolo kun fuŝa ikso estas malsimpla
Diskutejo
- problemo pri dosiernomoj (
bezonata ŝanĝo
Diskuto de KuboF
- problemo de robotistoj
luterum-kontroliloj superflue markas x-vortoj, kio malplifaciligas trovon de vere misliterumita vorto
pri la filozofio malantaŭ la sistemo
Diskutejo
- Fundamenta argumento kontraŭ x-sistemo (kaj por h-sistemo)
Tial mi prezentas proponon malŝalti malnovan x-metodan konvertadon kaj
samtempe
ŝalti novan x-konvertadon per Universala LingvoElektilo. Io tia jam
estis proponita
antaŭ jaro, sed estas necesa konsento de loka komunumo, kion mi faras nun. Bonvolu subteni
unu
eblon el la subaj aŭ/kaj diskuti ĝin tute sube. Laŭ la rezulto mi sciigos evoluigistojn.
Ĉar plej bonus samtempe fari tian ŝanĝon en ĉiuj Esperantaj viki-projektoj, mi komencis la
diskuton en la Esperanta Vikipedio
. Tie estis starigitaj pluraj demandoj kaj klarigitaj neklaraj partoj. Se en la supra mallonga propono estas io neklara, bonvolu unue serĉi la temon en la Vikipedia diskuto. Se post du semajnoj ne estos kontraŭoj, aŭ eĉ estos subteno en ne-Vikipediaj projektoj, mi plu procedos la aferon kaj petos evoluigistojn pri la koncerna ŝanĝo. --
KuboF
diskuto
) 00:45, 14 Mar. 2015 (UTC)
Por malŝalto de malnova x-sistemo kaj ŝalto de Universala LingvoElektilo kun x-metoda anstataŭado
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Por:
kiel proponinto --
KuboF
diskuto
) 00:45, 14 Mar. 2015 (UTC)
Por laso de la nuna stato
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Por malŝalto de malnova x-sistemo kaj ŝalto de Universala LingvoElektilo kun alia anstataŭado ol x-metoda
redakti
(bonvolu tuj mencii kiun anstataŭ-metodon vi preferus)
Sindetenas
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Por tiuj, kiuj interesiĝas pri la afero sed (almenaŭ portempe) ne decidiĝis pri certa eblo.
Diskuto
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Kiel oni alinomas paĝon?
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Mi nun preskaŭ finverkis libron pri la svahila lingvo. La administranto KuboF konsilis min ke mi uzu subpaĝon de mia uzantopaĝo, kaj poste alinomigu tiun paĝon. Mi komencis fari tiel, sed nun mi ne scias kiel oni faras por alinomigi paĝon. Ĉu iu povas helpi min? La paĝo nun nomiĝas Uzanto:Oshifima/Svahila, kaj mi volus ke ĝi estu "Svahila" antaŭ ol mi aldonos subpaĝojn al ĝi.
Oshifima
diskuto
) 14:30, 16 Aŭg. 2015 (UTC)
Mi sukcesis trovi kiel fari. Mi jam alinomigis la paĝon. Mi ne plu bezonas helpon.
Oshifima
diskuto
) 14:23, 18 Aŭg. 2015 (UTC)
Novembraj konkursoj en Vikipedio - tradukado kaj Azio
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Elstaraj kontribuantoj meritas elstaran trofeon
Dum Novembro 2015 okazas en la Esperanta Vikipedio 2 interesaj konkursoj:
Vikipedia traduka konkurso
Dank' al nova traduka helpilo
EnhavTradukado
estas tradukado de artikoloj signife pli facila ol iam ajn antaŭe. Aŭtomata prilaboro de bildoj, kategorioj kaj ligiloj; helpo de maŝina tradukado; proponoj de alilingvaj elstaraj artikoloj kaj aŭtomata konservado de traduko estas kelkaj de plej videblaj funkcioj de tiu helpilo.
EnhavTradukado
vin gvidas tra tuta traduka procezo kaj savas vin de tedaj taskoj. Por plej lertaj kontribuantoj estas preparitaj valoraj premioj, kiel 2 platkomputikoloj, pluraj libroj, muzikaj KDoj, T-ĉemizoj kaj dankletero. La konkurso estas sub aŭspicio de UEA!
Azia Monato
Azio prezentas grandan variecon - troviĝas tie kaj la plej alta kaj la plej malalta punkto sur Tero, plej antikvaj kaj plej modernaj civilizacioj. Krom helpi al tiu tre vasta temo; kontribuantoj kun almenaŭ 5 bonaj artikoloj ricevos desegnitan Vikipedian poŝtokarton.
La du konkursoj kunlaboras kaj vi povas partopreni ilin ambaŭ per la sama agado - sufiĉas per
EnhavTradukado
traduki artikolojn pri Azio kaj aliĝi al la konkursoj (
traduka
Azia
). Aŭ, laŭ via volo vi povas partopreni nur unu el ili. --
KuboF
diskuto
) 00:13, 4 Nov. 2015 (UTC)
Cookbook week
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Hello, I want to tell you that I've made a proposal for a Cookbook event
on this Meta page
I would be happy to see your comment ! Regards
Archi38
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18:20, 15 maj. 2016 (UTC)
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Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list
Compact Language Links
has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). Based on several factors, this shorter list of languages is expected to be more relevant for them and valuable for finding similar content in a language known to them. More information about compact language links can be found in
the documentation
From today onwards, compact language links has been enabled as the default listing of interlanguage links on this wiki. Using the button at the bottom, you will be able to see a longer list of all the languages the article has been written in. The setting for this compact list can be changed by using the checkbox under
User Preferences -> Appearance -> Languages
The compact language links feature has been tested extensively by the Wikimedia Language team, which developed it. However, in case there are any problems or other feedback please let us know on the
project talk page
or on this discussion thread. It is to be noted that on some wikis the presence of an existing older gadget that was used for a similar purpose may cause an interference for compact language list. We would like to bring this to the attention of the admins of this wiki. Full details are on
this phabricator ticket
(in English).
Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use
MassMessage
for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team:
Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF)
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Gerrit
devos signifi, ke post du jaroj, kun helpego de
Ŝablono:U
Ŝablono:U
Ŝablono:U
, kaj
Ŝablono:U
, la deviga uzado de la x‑sistemo dum redaktado, devas baldaux fori. Grandan dankon al ili! Dankon egale al
Ŝablono:U
, kiu verkis
tiun mesaĝon
. --
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En
Special:ActiveUsers
vi povas elekti vidigeblajn uzantojn el specifaj uzantaj grupoj.
[1]
Specialan:UserRights
estas nun videbla de ĉiuj. Antaŭe nur tiuj kiu povus ŝanĝi uzantajn rajtojn povis vidi ĝin. Aliaj uzantoj ricevis eraro-mesaĝon.
[2]
ORES
nun povas montri kun malsamaj koloroj kiom probable difektontan estos redakto al la vikio. Tio funkcias por lingvojn, kiuj trejnis
ORES
por rekoni difektantajn redaktojn.
[3]
Ŝanĝoj dum ĉi tiu semajno
Vi nun vidos kategoriojn kun 0 paĝoj en
Special:Categories
. Antaŭe vi ne vidis malplenajn kategoriojn tie.
[4]
La
nova versio
de MediaWiki estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 6a de decembro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj vikioj ekde 7a de decembro. Ĝi estos sur ĉiuj vikioj ekde 8a de decembro (
kalendaro
).
Kunvenoj
Vi povas aliĝi la sekvantan renkontiĝon kun la VisualEditor teamo. Dum la renkontiĝo, vi povas diri al disvolvistoj, kiujn cimojn opinias vi estas la plej gravaj. La renkontiĝo okazos la
6an de decembro je la 20:00a horo (UTC)
. Vidu
kiel aliĝi
Estontaj ŝanĝoj
La
2016a enketo pri komunuma dezirolisto
decidos kion la teamo de
komunuma teknologio
laboros dum sekvanta jaro. Vi voĉdonas por deziroj sur la
enketo paĝo
ĝis la 12a de decembro. Vi povas vidi kion okazis pri deziroj de lasta jaro sur la
2015a rezulta paĝo
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Uzantoj kiu havas Yahoo retpoŝtaj adresoj ne povus uzi
Specialaĵo:Retpoŝti_uzanton
sendi retpoŝtojn. Tio ĉi nun estis riparita. Retpoŝtoj nun venos el @wikimedia.org adreso. Uzantoj, kiuj ricevas retpoŝton far vi ankoraŭ respondos al via retpoŝta adreso kaj eblos vidi ĝin.
[5]
You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in
Special:TrackingCategories
. This is to help you find pages that could need attention.
[6]
Markup colours for reviewed and pending revisions in
the page history
and
recent changes and logs
now match
Wikimedia standard colours
. The "You have a new message on your talk page" notification will have a slightly different colour.
[7]
Problemoj
Because of work on
cross-wiki watchlists
global renaming
is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well.
[8]
Ŝanĝoj dum ĉi tiu semajno
La
nova versio
de MediaWiki estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 6a de decembro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj vikioj ekde 14a de decembro. Ĝi estos sur ĉiuj vikioj ekde 15a de decembro (
kalendaro
).
Kunvenoj
Vi povas aliĝi la sekvantan renkontiĝon kun la VisualEditor teamo. Dum la renkontiĝo, vi povas diri al disvolvistoj, kiujn cimojn opinias vi estas la plej gravaj. La renkontiĝo okazos la
13an de decembro je la 20:00a horo (UTC)
. Vidu
kiel aliĝi
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kaj poŝtita de
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Tradukoj
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Novaĵoj pri teknologio
Pro la
ferioj
, la sekvanta afero de novaĵoj pri teknologio estos elsendita je la 9a januaro 2017.
La verkistoj de la teknika informilo petas vian opinion. Ĉu vi akiris la informon ke vi deziris dum tiu jaro? Ĉu ni mankis gravan teknikan informaĵon dum 2016? Kio informospeco venis tro malfrue?
Bonvolu diri al ni
! Vi povas skribi per via lingvo. Dankon!
Lastaj ŝanĝoj
Administrantoj kaj traduk-administrantoj nun povas uzi
Specialaĵo:Paĝlingvo
sur vikioj kun la
traduka kromaĵo
. Tio ĉi signifas ke vi povas indiki kion lingvon uzas la paĝo. La traduka kromaĵo uzos tiun lingvon kiel la fonta lingvo kiam vi tradukas. Antaŭe tio estis ĉiam defaŭlte al lingvo de la vikio. Tio ĉi estis kutime Angla.
[9]
Vikioj konektitaj al Vikidatumoj nun povas uzi la funkcioj de sintaksa analizilo
{{#statements: }}
por akiri formatitan datumon. Vi ankaŭ povas uzi
{{#property: }}
por akiri krudan datumon. Vi
povas vidi la diferencon
inter la du ordonoj. Estas ankaŭ similaj novaj funkcioj en Lua.
[10]
Problemoj
Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should. We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the wikis. MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October. Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been affected since 17 November.
[11]
Ŝanĝoj dum ĉi tiu semajno
Neokazas novan version de MediaWiki ĉi tiu semajno. Ankaŭ nekokazos novan version de MediaWiki dum la sekvanta semajno.
Kunvenoj
La sekvanta renkontiĝo kun la VisualEditor teamo estos je la
3a januaro je la 20a horo (UTC)
. Dum la renkontiĝo, vi povas diri al ellaborantoj kiujn cimojn vi opinias kiel la plej gravaj. Vidu
kiel aliĝi
Estontaj ŝanĝoj
La
2016a Enketo pri komunuma mendolisto
estas farita. Ĝi decidas kion la
teamo de komunuma teknologio
laboros dum 2017. Vi povas
konsulti la rezultojn
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Lastaj ŝanĝoj
Vi nun povas uzi
datenaroj en Vikimedia Komunejo
. Vi povas
vidi ekzemplon
kiu estas uzanta
ĉi tiu fonto
[12]
Estas nova elektebla beta trajto de
vikiteksta modo por la vida redaktilo
. Vi povas
provi ĝin nun
Kiam vi ĝisdatigas paĝon kun tradukoj en vikioj kun la
tradukila kromprogramo
la ekzistantaj tradukoj estos markitaj kiel malnoviĝintaj anstataŭ forigitaj.
[13]
La
nova versio
de MediaWiki estis eldonita al ĉiuj vikioj lastsemajne (
kalendaro
).
MoodBar
estis forigita de la Vikimediaj vikioj.
[14]
La
tuja
opcio por la Tipsy aviza ilo estis forigita. Aldonaĵoj kaj uzantaj skriptoj, kiuj uzas ĝin devas esti ĝisdatigita.
[15]
Problemoj
Editors who use Firefox 50 might get logged out or fail to save their edits. This is because of a browser bug. Until this is fixed you can enter
about:config
in the address bar and set
network.cookie.maxPerHost
to 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox.
[16]
Ŝanĝoj dum ĉi tiu semajno
Ne estas nova versio de MediaWiki ĉi tiu semajno pro la
Pintokunveno de vikimediaj disvolvistoj
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Translations
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Recent changes
You can now upload
WebP files
to Commons.
[17]
Problems
video2commons
was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up.
[18]
Changes this week
There is a new
magic word
called
{{PAGELANGUAGE}}
. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators.
[19]
When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu.
[20]
You will be able to use

to write chemical formulas. Before you could use

should be replaced by

[21]
You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown on
Special:UncategorizedCategories
. The list is at
MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist
[22]
The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to
your personal CSS
#wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; }
You can change the number
50
to make it look like you want to.
[23]
Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as
127.0.0.1
. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from
MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason
. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on
Wikimedia Labs
, including
Tool Labs
will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in.
[24]
When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu.
[25]
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
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
January 17 at 20:00 (UTC)
. See
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Lastaj ŝanĝoj
Vi povas vidi liston de la ŝablonoj dum paĝa redaktado per la vida redaktilo.
[26]
Ŝanĝoj dum ĉi tiu semajno
La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.Org ekde 24 januaro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj ekde 25 januaro. Ĝi estos sur ĉiuj vikioj ekde 26 januaro (
kalendaro
).
Teknologia novaĵoj
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kaj poŝtita de
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Lastaj ŝanĝoj
La fasadoj de administrado por
OAuth
nun ŝajnas iomete malsama.
[27]
Ŝanĝoj dum ĉi tiu semajno
ElectronPdfService
estos ebligita defaŭlte en Meta kaj la germana Vikipedio. Tio ĉi estas nova vojo akiri artikolojn kiel PDFaj dosieroj vi povas elŝuti. Ĝi venos al pli da vikioj poste.
[28]
La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.Org ekde 31 januaro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj ekde 1 februaro. Ĝi estos sur ĉiuj vikioj ekde 2 februaro (
kalendaro
).
Estontaj ŝanĝoj
La
teamo de komunuma teknologio
disvolvos pli da iloj por pritrakti turmentadon de Vikimediaj redaktantoj. La celo estas doni al la komunumoj pli bonajn ilojn por trovi, raporti kaj taksi turmentadon. Ili ankaŭ laboros pri pli da efikaj forbanantaj iloj.
[29]
[30]
La Vikimedia teknika komunumo verkas
enketo pri mendolisto de disvolvantoj
. Disvolvantoj povas proponi ideojn antaŭ 31 januaro
23:59 UTC
. Tio estas baldaŭ.
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Tradukoj
estas haveblaj.
Problemoj
La protokolo pri bloko foje montris blokojn kiel estanta multe pli longa ol ili estis. Tio nun estis korektita.
[31]
Ŝanĝoj dum tiu semajno
Vikimediaj paĝoj nun estos pli bonaj pri montri bildojn kiam vi komunigas ilin per socia amaskomunikilaro. Plie, la priskriboj estos malsamaj. Vi povas vidi ekzemplon laŭ
antaŭa
kaj
posta
versio.
[32]
Estas kelkaj ŝanĝoj al la
OOjs UI
. Kelkaj malnovaj funkcioj ne plu efikas aŭ ne efiki kiel ili antaŭe. Tio povus esti rompŝanĝo.
[33]
La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.Org ekde 7 februaro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj ekde 8 februaro. Ĝi estos sur ĉiuj vikioj ekde 9 februaro (
kalendaro
).
Kunvenoj
Vi povas aliĝi la sekvantan renkontiĝon kun la teamo de vidredaktilo. Dum la renkontiĝo, vi povas diri al disvolvistoj, kiujn cimojn opinias vi estas la plej gravaj. La renkontiĝo okazos la
7 februaro je la 20:00a horo (UTC)
. Vidu
kiel aliĝi
Estontaj ŝanĝoj
Tidy
estos anstataŭigita poste dum tiu jaro. Anstataŭe, la HTMLa 5 sintaksanalizanta algoritmon estos uzita por purigi malbonan HTML en vikiteksto. Tiu
kaŭzos problemojn
en multe da vikioj. Ili devas esti korektita antaŭe. Vi povas vidi se via vikio ankoraŭ havas ion korektendan
ĉi tie
por unu el la HTMLaj problemoj. Ĉi tiu listo ne pritraktas ĉiujn problemojn. Vi povas legi pri
pli da problemoj
[34]
[35]
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Lastaj ŝanĝoj
Eventfluos
estas nova vojo montri aktivecon en Vikimediaj vikioj. Nuntempe ĝi funkcias kun la abonfluo de lastatempaj ŝanĝoj. Ĝi traktos pli da aferoj poste. Ĝi anstataŭigos
RCStream
. Iloj kiuj uzas RCStream devus adapti al Eventfluoj antaŭ la 7a julio.
[36]
Problemoj
La
Firefogg
povas kaŭzi problemojn kun la alŝuta helpilo. Tio ne estos riparita, ĉar Firefox ne subtenos Firefogg en la estonteco. La alŝuta helpilo ne plu longe funkcios kun Firefogg.
[37]
Datenbazoj de
Ilaj laboratorioj
kaj
Vikimediaj laboratorioj
estos funkcitene dum 15a februaro. Tio komencos ĉe
17:00 (UTC)
kaj daŭros ĉirkaŭ ses horoj. Kelkaj iloj povus havi problemojn dum aŭ post tiam.
[38]
Ŝanĝoj dum ĉi tiu semajno
The
TwoColConflict
extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It will come to Meta and German Wikipedia this week. It is already available on MediaWiki.org. It will come to more wikis later.
[39]
La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.Org ekde 14 februaro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj ekde 15 februaro. Ĝi estos sur ĉiuj vikioj ekde 16 februaro (
kalendaro
).
Kunvenoj
Vi povas aliĝi la sekvantan renkontiĝon kun la teamo de vidredaktilo. Dum la renkontiĝo, vi povas diri al disvolvistoj, kiujn cimojn opinias vi estas la plej gravaj. La renkontiĝo okazos la
14 februaro je la 20:00a horo (UTC)
. Vidu
kiel aliĝi
Estontaj ŝanĝoj
Paĝaj antaŭprezentoj
estos ebligitaj por ensalutantaj uzantoj en la kataluna, greka, rusa kaj itala Vikipedioj en la mezo de februaro. Paĝaj antaŭprezentoj montras al legantoj mallongan parton de ligita artikolo kiam ili ripozas ilian kursoron sur la ligo. Tio estas por helpi ilin kompreni kion ĝi temas proksimume sen foriri la artikolon ili legas. Paĝaj antaŭprezentoj estis antaŭe nomita
Hovercards
. Ĝi estos disponigita al pli da vikioj poste dum tiu printempo.
[40]
La
mendolisto de disvolvantoj
estas listo kie disvolvantoj prioritatigas ilojn ke ili bezonas. La voĉdonado fermas ĉe la
14a de februaro 23:59 (UTC)
. Tiu procedo estas nur por disvolvantoj.
Review
You can read the
2016 product summary
from the Wikimedia Foundation
Product group
to see what they did with things they said they would work on in the
annual plan
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Recent changes
The edit summary box is now a little bit bigger. This is to make it follow the
Wikimedia design guide
[41]
Changes this week
Page Previews
will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the
Beta Feature
called Hovercards.
[42]
There has been a problem where the
CSS
of
gadgets
has been loading twice. The
Gadgets extension
has two new options:
type
and
peers
. The
type
option solves this problem. You can use
peers
to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about
type
and
peers
[43]
OAuth
will handle blocked users in a more consistent way.
[44]
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
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
21 February at 20:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
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Problems
On 22 February the
wikipedia.org
portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file.
[45]
Changes this week
You will be able to use

to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor.
[46]
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
).
Meetings
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Future changes
You can soon upload 3D files to Commons. The file formats are
AMF
and
STL
. The plan is for this to work later this week but it could be later.
[47]
The name "Wikipedia" will be more obvious at the top of the page when you read Wikipedia in the mobile view. This is because many readers don't realize they are on Wikipedia.
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Recent changes
You can now search on English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis and find words even if you forget the
diacritics
. It also works if you use diacritics in your search but the wiki doesn't.
[50]
When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view.
[51]
Problems
Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed.
[52]
Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user's
Special:Contributions
will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately.
[53]
Changes this week
The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view.
[54]
The "flag the edit in the abuse log" checkbox will be removed from the
abuse filter
interface. This is because the edits are always flagged in the abuse log.
[55]
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
).
Meetings
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7 March at 20:00 (UTC)
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Clarification
The
2017/09 issue of Tech News
mentioned 3D file formats you can soon upload to Commons. The
AMF
format will be available later.
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You will be able to show references from

tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use

tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists.
[56]
[57]
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
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
14 March at 19:00 (UTC)
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how to join
Future changes
Some old
web browsers
will not be able to use
JavaScript
on Wikimedia wikis in the future. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version.
[58]
CSS
in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future.
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Recent changes
The
Save page
button now says
Publish page
or
Publish changes
on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately.
Publish page
is when you save a new page and
Publish changes
when you edit an existing page.
[61]
DMOZ
no longer works. Templates that use DMOZ can be redirected to
archive.org
or another
mirror
. DMOZ has been removed from the
RelatedSites extension
on Wikivoyage.
[62]
You can see monthly page views when you click on
Page information
in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API.
[63]
The
Linter extension
is now on
smaller Wikimedia wikis
. It helps editors find some wikitext errors so they can be fixed. It will come to other Wikimedia wikis later. The extension will be able to find more errors later.
[64]
The
MediaWiki-Vagrant
portable development environment has been updated to use
Debian Jessie
. This means local development and testing will be more like on the majority of Wikimedia production servers.
[65]
Problems
On 15 March some interwiki links to other languages were not correctly sorted. This has been fixed. If you still see pages where the interwiki links are not sorted as they should be, they should be fixed automatically with time or you can edit the page and save it without changing anything. If this doesn't work, please
report it
[66]
Changes this week
When you edit with the visual editor, you will be able to switch the direction you write in from right-to-left to left-to-right as you are editing. This is especially important for editors who edit in languages that write from right to left. You can do this with a tool in the editing menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut
Ctrl
Shift
on PCs or
Cmd
Shift
on Macs.
[67]
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
).
Meetings
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21 marto at 19:00 (UTC)
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When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes.
[68]
Problems
Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed.
[69]
[70]
Changes this week
New filters for Recent changes
will be released on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias and MediaWikiwiki
on March 28
. Other wikis will get it
progressively
. The new filters include
filtering
highlighting
and, on certain wikis,
user intent prediction
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from March 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from March 29. It will be on all wikis from March 30 (
calendar
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Recent changes
The
Konservi paĝon
button now says
Publikigi la paĝon
or
Publikigi la ŝanĝojn
on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately.
Publikigi la paĝon
is when you save a new page and
Publikigi la ŝanĝojn
when you edit an existing page.
[71]
The tracking category
Kategorio:Paĝoj kun ŝablonaj iteracioj
is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template.
[72]
English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a
will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new
IP address
the cookie will block them again.
[73]
Problems
Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed.
[74]
Changes this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
4 April at 19:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on
5 April at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
New filters for Recent changes
will come to Wikidata and Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech and Hebrew Wikipedia on 11 April. The new filters include
filtering
highlighting
and
user intent prediction
. User intent prediction means the filter tries to help editors determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis
will get it later
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Tidy
is going to be replaced with an HTML5 parsing algorithm. Bad HTML in wikitext
would cause problems
on a number of wikis. There is now a
ParserMigration extension
on all wikis that you can use to help clean this up. You can
read more about how you can use it
[76]
Changes this week
Some older
web browsers
will not be able to use
JavaScript
on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version.
[77]
New filters for Recent changes
will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the
user intent prediction filters
for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis
will get it later
[78]
The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters.
[79]
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
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
11 April at 19:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May. This will start at
14:00 (UTC)
. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.
You can read more about this
RevisionSlider
will change how you move between revisions. This will be available on
the test wiki
from 11 April. It will come to other wikis later if users like the change. You can test it and
give feedback
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Recent changes
You can add
?safemode=1
to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal
CSS
and
JavaScript
. Example:
. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them.
[80]
You can now see a list of all autoblocks on
Special:AutoblockList
[81]
The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from
[[File:Wiki.png]]
. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see
how to request a configuration change
. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way.
[82]
Problems
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at
14:00 (UTC)
. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.
You can read more about this
. This will also happen on 3 May.
Changes this week
There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
18 aprilo at 19:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
stats.wikimedia.org
will be replaced. You can
see the new prototype
. You can
leave feedback on this change
Page Previews
will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature
can give feedback
[83]
From next week, user scripts using very old
deprecated
wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see
examples of how to upgrade scripts
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Recent changes
New filters for recent changes
are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can
turn it on in your preferences
. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May.
[86]
When
administrators
bureaucrats
and
stewards
make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time.
Special:UserRights
will have new options for this. You can
read more about user groups.
[87]
Problems
Since the
data centre test
last week the
content translation tool
has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved.
[88]
Changes this week
The
GuidedTour extension
will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit.
[89]
Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The
Cognate extension
will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can
read more about this
[90]
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
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
25 April at 19:00 (UTC)
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Recent changes
The
content translation tool
works again. It was turned off because of a database problem.
[91]
Scripts using very old
deprecated
wikibits functions show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see
examples of how to upgrade scripts
. This is the same thing as Tech News wrote about in issue
2017/16
You need to add
mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' )
block for your scripts also, or add
mediawiki.util
dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in
MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition
[92]
[93]
Problems
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 3 May. This will start at
14:00 (UTC)
. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.
You can read more about this
Changes this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
2 May at 19:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
All Wikimedia wikis will have cookie blocks from May 8. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a
will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new
IP address
the cookie will block them again.
[94]
The
Publikigi la ŝanĝojn
Antaŭrigardo
and
Montri la ŝanĝojn
buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the
OOUI
look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding
&ooui=1
to the URL.
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Problems
Some users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn on
Kaŝi enkategoriigon de paĝoj
in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off
Etendi la atentaron por montri ĉiujn ŝanĝojn, ne nur la plej lastajn
in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from
Special:EditWatchlist/raw
[96]
There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered a
CAPTCHA
. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May.
[97]
Changes this week
When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now say
Visual editing
and
Source editing
instead of
Switch to visual editing
and
Switch to code editing
. This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using.
[98]
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
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
9 May at 19:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users.
[99]
[100]
Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If
-{
is used in
transclusions
or
web addresses
it has to be
escaped
appropriately. You can use
-{
for transclusions and
%2D{
in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use
-{
in a template:
{{1x| sad :-{ face }}
. This is because of some code fixes to the
preprocessor
and affects all wikis.
[101]
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ISBNs
to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that have
enabled Citoid
[103]
The
Two Column Edit Conflict View
is available as a
beta feature
on all wikis. It is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page.
[104]
Problems
The
mediawiki.util
library does not load automatically any more. Your
Special:MyPage/common.js
may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding
mw
loader
using
'mediawiki.util'
).
done
function
(){
as the first line in the file and
});
as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the
2017/18
issue.
[105]
Changes this week
The
RevisionSlider extension
will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences.
[106]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages.
[107]
[108]
Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. If
-{
is used in
transclusions
or
web addresses
it has to be
escaped
appropriately. You can use
-{
for transclusions and
%2D{
in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the
preprocessor
and affects all wikis. You can now see
the full list of wikis with this problem
and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find
false positives
. You can
read more about what to fix
[109]
[110]
Older unreported changes
Your
Meta user page
is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word
__NOGLOBAL__
to your Meta user page to stop this.
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The
new version
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calendar
).
There will be a

tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext
parser
. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can
report new problems
you think are related to this.
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Problems
Last week’s MediaWiki version was rolled back from some wikis because of a problem. This means planned changes did not happen.
[114]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
30 May at 19:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
You will be able to control who can notify you on the Wikimedia wikis. You will have a user blacklist. When you add a user to the blacklist you will not get a
notification
when they mention you. You can
test this on Beta Wikipedia
. You can
read more and give feedback on Meta
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Recent changes
You can see new files on
Special:NewFiles
. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from.
[116]
When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox.
[117]
You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article.
[118]
New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June.
[119]
Problems
The
MediaWiki version
from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen.
[120]
Changes this week
Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the
compact language links
will see languages they have in their
Babel box
on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in
your preferences
[121]
You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions.
[122]
When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead.
[123]
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
).
String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules.
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Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
6 June at 19:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
The
2006 wikitext editor
will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see
a picture of it
. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all.
[125]
[126]
Wikimedia wikis use
OCG
to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is
Electron
. You can
tell the developers
what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too.
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The
Architecture Committee
will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the
draft
that describes the new committee.
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Recent changes
Some wikis have the larger and brighter
OOjs UI
edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long.
[128]
When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results.
[129]
Changes 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
).
Meetings
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13 June at 19:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the
test wiki
. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account.
[130]
Wikimedia wikis use
OCG
to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is
Electron
. You can
tell the developers
what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects.
[131]
Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding
&fuzzy=1
to the end of the web address when looking at
Special:Undelete
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ORES
had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40
UTC
. It has now been fixed.
[134]
Changes this week
irc.wikimedia.org
has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down.
[135]
Special:PageData
will be an entry point for machine-readable page data.
[136]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
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Future changes
CSS
in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. You can now see how the
TemplateStyles extension
works on
Beta Labs
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Recent changes
The <
inputbox
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searchfilter
parameter. You can add values like
searchfilter=insource:foo
. It will add that to the user's search query.
[137]
Changes 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
).
Users will be able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in enhanced watchlist/recent changes. Previously, this was disabled for everyone.
[138]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
27 June at 19:00 (UTC)
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You can join the next WMF Language team office hour, an open session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects. The meeting will be on
27 June at 13:00 UTC
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There was a problem with maps on Wikimedia wikis that used <
mapframe
> when you clicked on the link to another map service. Open Street Map or Google Maps are examples of other map services. If you had marked a place on the map the marker would not be in the same place on the other map service. It was in the middle of the map. This has now been fixed.
[140]
Changes this week
Very old and inactive unpublished translations in the
Content Translation
database will be removed. This is because of technical maintenance. If you have not worked on a translation after 1 January 2016 you will lose it after 6 July. If you want to keep the unfinished translation you need to open it before 6 July with the Content Translation tool. You can continue working on it later. Translations that were started or have been worked on after 1 January 2016 will not be affected.
There is no new Mediawiki version this week.
EventStreams
is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. It works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace
RCStream
. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. Tech News wrote about this in the
2017/07
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Tech News: 2017-28
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There are sometimes links to pages about the same thing on other Wikimedia projects. A Wikipedia article about Berlin can link to the Wikivoyage guide or Wiktionary entry about Berlin. You can now see when that page has a badge. A badge could be the star that shows that an article is a featured article.
[142]
Changes this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 julio. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 julio. It will be on all wikis from 13 julio (
calendar
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Meetings
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11 julio at 19:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
Mobile users will be able to edit Wikipedia without JavaScript. This will make it possible to edit the wikis from older mobile phones. This will probably happen on 18 July for most wikis.
[143]
We will
not use
Tidy
on Wikimedia wikis in the future. It will be replaced by June 2018. It could be earlier. Editors will need to fix pages that could break. You can read the
simplified instructions for editors
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Tech News: 2017-29
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Recent changes
"Wikimedia Labs" is now called "Cloud VPS". "Wikimedia Tool Labs" is now called "Wikimedia Toolforge". This is to help clarify the purpose of these services.
[144]
Problems
On some pages, the Table of Contents is not being shown. It will normally appear if you edit the page again. Investigation is currently ongoing.
[145]
Changes 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
).
Meetings
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18 July at 19:00 (UTC)
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You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is: Migrate to HTML5 section ids.
[146]
The meeting will be on
19 July at 21:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
Page Previews
, currently a Beta Feature, will be enabled for logged-out users for all remaining Wikipedias (with the exception of English and German) the week of 24 July. An A/B test will be run on English Wikipedia to collect data before approaching the community for further discussion.
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CSS
in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. This will make it easier to make templates look good on mobile devices. This now works on
mediawiki.org
and
Wikitech
. It will come to more wikis later.
[148]
[149]
[150]
.mw-ui-constructive
modifier class is deprecated and has been removed.
[151]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 julio. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 julio. It will be on all wikis from 27 julio (
calendar
).
It will be possible to restrict who can send you notifications on a wiki. This new feature will accessible in your preferences,
in the Notifications tab
, on Wednesday, July 26. Please see
the documentation
[152]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
25 julio at 19:00 (UTC)
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You can join the Wikimedia Foundation July 2017 Metrics & Activities Meeting. The meeting is about how Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement are perceived and understood by the world. The meeting will be on
27 julio at 19:00 (UTC)
. See
the agenda and how to join
Future changes
New Filters for Edit Review, at the moment available as a Beta feature,
will be released by default
for the Recent Changes in September.
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Improved search in deleted pages archive
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During Wikimedia Hackathon 2016, the
Discovery
team
worked
on one of the items on the 2015 community wishlist, namely
enabling searching the archive of deleted pages
. This feature is now ready for production deployment, and will be enabled on all wikis, except Wikidata.
Right now, the feature is behind a feature flag - to use it on your wiki, please go to the
Special:Undelete
page, and add
&fuzzy=1
to the URL, like this:
. Then search for the pages you're interested in. There should be more results than before, due to using ElasticSearch indexing (via the CirrusSearch extension).
We plan to enable this improved search by default on all wikis soon (around August 1, 2017). If you have any objections to this - please raise them with the Discovery team via
email
or on this announcement's discussion page. Like most Mediawiki configuration parameters, the functionality can be configured per wiki.
Once the improved search becomes the default, you can still access the old mode using
&fuzzy=0
in the URL, like this:
Please note that since Special:Undelete is an admin-only feature, this search capability is also only accessible to wiki admins.
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Problems
Some pages show the error
Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject
. This problem happens on pages with a
Lua module
that uses Wikidata. The developers are working on fixing the problem. You can fix a page by opening it for editing and then saving without changing anything.
[153]
Wikidata and German Wikipedia could not be edited for an hour on 28 July. You can read why and how we could avoid it in the future in the
incident report
Changes later this week
Some wikis already have the larger and brighter
OOjs UI edit page buttons
. All remaining wikis except Commons will have these from 1 August.
[154]
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
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
1 August at 19:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
The default font in the edit window will soon change for some users. Instead of using the browser default it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices.
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Recent changes
You can now see which Wikipedia language versions are read in a specific country. This tool is called
Wikipedia Views Visualized
[156]
The Architecture Committee is now the
Wikimedia Technical Committee
. You can read the
charter
[157]
Problems
You can get an email when a page on your watchlist was edited. You can choose not to get emails for minor edits. There is a bug that means that you then don't get an email when someone does a normal edit after a minor edit. The developers are working on fixing this. Until it has been fixed you can activate "Sendi al mi ankaŭ retmesaĝojn pro malgrandaj redaktoj de paĝoj kaj dosieroj" at the bottom of "Profilo de uzanto" in your preferences if you want to.
[158]
The thanks button sometimes didn't work for mobile users. This was because of a new bug and has now been fixed.
[159]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 August. It will be on all wikis from 10 August (
calendar
).
Future changes
Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install
Firefox 52 ESR
instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP.
[160]
Links to sections on Wikipedia don't work well in languages that don't use the
Latin script
. The
URL
in the address bar in your browser shows Latin characters like
.D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8
instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months.
[161]
[162]
Wiki pages printed by the web browser "Print" function will have an updated style. This new style will be similar to the when you download a page as PDF. It will be better at showing tables, infoboxes and headings.
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Recent changes
Bureaucrats can now set users as
confirmed
. Previously only stewards could do this on most wikis. Nothing will change for wikis that have previously decided to let administrators set users as confirmed.
[165]
Problems
The symbols in the language list that show that an article is good or featured in that language doesn't work. Links to the Commons category in the sidebar doesn't work either. The developers are working on fixing it.
[166]
[167]
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
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Recent changes
You can now test the new
Timeless skin
on
the test wiki
and
mediawiki.org
. You can turn it on in your preferences. You can report bugs
in Phabricator
. It will come to more wikis soon.
[168]
[169]
Your watchlist can now have the option to unwatch pages. You have to turn this on in your preferences.
[170]
If a table has several columns you can often choose which column you want to use to sort the table. This has not worked for some columns for readers who have used Firefox or Safari. This has now been fixed.
[171]
The
RelatedArticles extension
has shown related pages on Wikivoyages. You will now see the related pages at the end of the article together with an image. Previously the links were in the sidebar. Wikis that want this extension can request it on
Phabricator
Changes later this week
Videos will now be played in the
WebM format
in all browsers. Previously some browsers used
Ogg Theora
(.ogv). If you use Safari, Internet Explorer or Edge you may see slower playback speed at high resolutions. Instead we will get better quality and smaller file size. You can still upload video as Ogg files. They are automatically converted to WebM. This doesn't affect Ogg audio files.
[172]
The default font in the edit window will change for some users this week. Instead of using the browser default, it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices.
[173]
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
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
23 August at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
22 August at 19:00 (UTC)
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Recent changes
Syntax highlighting
is now a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It will come to right-to-left wikis later. This beta feature is based on
CodeMirror
[174]
[175]
You will now
get a notification
when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can turn this off or choose to get an email notification in your preferences. You can also turn on to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address.
[176]
Problems
Some pages show the error
Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject
. This problem happens on pages with a
Lua module
that use Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this problem. You still need to fix pages that were broken before and still show the error message. You can see how
on this page
[177]
Changes later this week
You can block users from sending you notifications.
[178]
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
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
29 August at 19:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the next meeting with the Technical Committee. The topic this week is
Migrate to HTML5 section ids
. The meeting will be on
30 August at 21:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
In the future you will have
global preferences
. This means you could set something in your preferences to work in the same way on all wikis. You will not be forced to use global preferences. The developers are now asking if editors need exceptions. This is where you want to use global settings on almost all wikis, but have some wikis where you want it to work in a different way. If you want this you need to tell the developers now. You can do so on
the talk page
[179]
New filters for edit review
is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September.
[180]
The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 in September 2017. Wikis can
ask on Phabricator
to get it early, so they can help find and solve problems now.
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You can answer the questions here
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Recent changes
The
RevisionSlider
user interface has changed. You can now select revisions by clicking on the bars. You can move the blue knob past the yellow one and the yellow one will move along, and the other way around.
[181]
[182]
Problems
Some users have problems loading very large watchlists. It is working better than earlier but the problem has not been solved. The developers are working on fixing it. Until it has been fixed you can turn on "Etendi la atentaron por montri ĉiujn ŝanĝojn, ne nur la plej lastajn" in your preferences and see if it helps.
[183]
Changes later this week
New filters for edit review
is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September.
[184]
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
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
5 September at 19:00 (UTC)
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You can see a presentation about and discuss the new
Technical Committee
on
5 September at 17:30 (UTC)
. There will be a presentation on
and a discussion in
#wikimedia-office
on
Freenode
. You can use the
web chat
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Recent changes
You can get a
notification
when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis.
[186]
The
Newsletter extension
is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later.
[187]
The
Linter extension
helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category:
tidy-whitespace-bug
. This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more
about using Linter
and the
Tidy whitespace bug
[188]
Problems
Tech News
2017/36
reported about
new filters for edit review
coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead.
[189]
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
).
OOjs UI
will be updated. This could affect some icons. You can
read more about the changes
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
13 September at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
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You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
12 September at 19:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
You can't use
OCG
to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use
Electron
instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can
read more on mediawiki.org
New filters for edit review
are available now on recent changes as a beta feature.
Some of those filters and other features
will be deployed as default features in the coming weeks. Users will be able to opt out in their preferences.
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Recent changes
You can now see contributions from an
IP range
at
Special:Contributions
. Before you could only see contributions from single
IP addresses
. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them.
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Flow has been re-scoped to become
Structured Discussions
and the development
has restarted
. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed.
[193]
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
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
19 September at 18:30 (UTC)
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how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
20 September at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
We are
replacing
Tidy
on Wikimedia wikis. Editors need to fix pages that could break. You can read the
simplified instructions for editors
. Some wikis have already switched. If your wiki would like to switch to the new format now,
you can file a task
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Wikitext
syntax highlighting
is a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. This beta feature is based on
CodeMirror
. You can now search through the entire article with
CTRL
or
cmd
when you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs.
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Administrators on wikis that use
Structured Discussions as a beta feature or by default
can now
create and move
Structured Discussions boards. Structured Discussions was previously called Flow.
[196]
Changes later this week
You now
get a notification
when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences.
[197]
Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser.
[198]
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
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
27 September at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation
Readers department
has proposed changing the mobile website. You can
read more on mediawiki.org
. This would be a big change.
You can't use
OCG
to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can still create PDFs.
Tech News 2017/37
said the function to create PDFs from books would still work. It is now clear it will not work for the next few months. The developers are working on fixing this. You can
read more on mediawiki.org
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You can now use
preload
features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it.
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Changes later this week
If you have turned on "Aŭtomate ŝalti plejparton de betaj funkciojn" you will now get the
2017 wikitext editor
. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature.
[200]
Special:Block
and
Special:Unblock
will get the
OOUI look
[201]
The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October.
[202]
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
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
3 October at 19:00 (UTC)
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
4 October at 15:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can
give feedback on this feature
[203]
The search function has used
fallback languages
for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can
read more and give feedback
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The number of active users listed by
{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}
and on
Special:Statistics
will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too.
[204]
Previously you could create wiki links starting with two colons. Now you need to use one colon. [[::File:X.jpg]] now has to be [[:File:X.jpg]]. There is now a new
Linter category
. You can see a list on
Special:Linterrors/multi-colon-escape
. The
Linter extension
helps you find technical errors in articles. You can read more
about using Linter
[205]
Problems
You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at
06:00 UTC
. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models.
[206]
Changes later this week
The font in the edit window is
monospace
by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week.
[207]
If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can
read more on mediawiki.org
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
).
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10 October at 19:00 (UTC)
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11 October at 15:00 (UTC)
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Recent changes
When you edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's
format
configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in
more powerful ways
if your wiki wants it.
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[209]
The
TwoColConflict
extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now
try out the new interface
on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can
give feedback
to the developers.
Problems
There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis.
[210]
Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this.
[211]
Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed.
[212]
Changes later this week
Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install
Firefox 52 ESR
instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP.
[213]
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
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
17 October at 19:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
18 October at 15:00 (UTC)
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Recent changes
You can use
ccnorm_contains_any
when you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more
in the documentation
[214]
Changes later this week
When you search in some languages the search function could use specific other languages if the first language didn't work. This is called a fallback language. This didn't work properly and created bad searches. The search index is being fixed to work better.
[215]
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
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
24 October at 18:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
25 October at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
There is a
Structured Commons community focus group
for Commons and Wikidata contributors who want to give input on structured data on Wikimedia Commons. You can
to join it.
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Recent changes
You can now block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis.
[217]
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
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
31 October at 18:30 (UTC)
. See
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
1 November at 16:00 (UTC)
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Recent changes
You will no longer see the patrol log on
Special:Log
unless you specifically select it.
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Changes later this week
The
2017 Community Wishlist Survey
begins on 6 November. You can post proposals from
19:00 UTC
and until November 19.
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
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
8 November at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
URLs
that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this:
instead of
. This will soon be fixed. Old links will still work.
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The diff you see when you compare two different versions of a page has changed on
MediaWiki.org
and
the test wiki
. This is to make it easier to find a text change in a moved paragraph. It will hopefully soon come to more wikis. You can
report bugs in Phabricator
[221]
A new user group on Commons will be able to upload
MP3 files
. The plan is to have this user group from 17 November.
[222]
Wikis using Flagged Revisions will get the
New filters for Edit Review
by default on the recent changes pages. It will be possible to opt-out in user preferences.
[223]
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
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
15 November at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
Support for uploading and viewing 3D models is coming soon to Wikimedia Commons. The feature will support the
.STL file format
. You can see an example
on the test wiki
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Recent changes
If you use the Chrome web browser on
Android
you can see a download icon on the mobile website. You can download a formatted PDF. It will work in other mobile browsers in the future.
[225]
The abuse filter now has a function called
get_matches
. You can use it to store matches from regular expressions – one of each capturing group. You can read more
in Phabricator
Problems
Last week's MediaWiki version didn't come to all Wikipedias because of a database crash. It will be on all wikis on 20 November.
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[227]
[228]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
21 November at 19:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
22 November at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
Language converter syntax will no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like
must be replaced. You will have to write
-{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }-
instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week.
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Recent changes
You can now test the new
advanced search function beta feature
on mediawiki.org. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It will come to German and Arabic Wikipedia this week. It will come to more wikis later.
[231]
You can now upload large files with the
Internet Archive upload tool
. Previously you could not upload files larger than 100 MB.
[232]
You can now use the
Timeless skin
on all wikis. You can choose skins in
Special:Preferences#Appearance
[233]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
28 November at 19:30 (UTC)
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
29 November at 16:00 (UTC)
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Recent changes
It is now possible to upload
MP3 files
to Commons. Only users with
MP3 file upload rights
can upload MP3 files.
[234]
You can now use
live updates
for recent changes if you use
the new filters
. This feature updates the filtered recent changes every three seconds when you activate it.
[235]
There is an experimental
onion service
for Wikimedia projects.
[236]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 December. It will be on all wikis from 7 December (
calendar
).
Very old versions of the
Opera Web browser
are no longer supported. This means that technical development will not be tested to make sure it works with those Opera versions. Use Opera 15 or above or another browser if you have problems.
[237]
Almost 170 wikis with no high-priority errors in
Linter
categories will switch to use the
Remex parsing library
. This is
to replace Tidy
. A few larger wikis such as German and Italian Wikipedia will also make this switch. It will happen on 5 December. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018.
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Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
5 December at 19:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
6 December at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
The
2017 Community Wishlist Survey
will decide what the
Community Tech
team will work on next year. You can vote for wishes on the
survey page
until 10 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the
2016 results page
The Community Liaisons team at the Wikimedia Foundation is looking for
active tech ambassadors
. This is to make sure the Wikimedia communities get all the information they need about new features and can be involved in the technical development.
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Invitation to Blocking tools consultation
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Hello all,
The Wikimedia Foundation's
Anti-Harassment Tools team
invites all Wikimedians to
discuss new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools in December 2017
for development work in early 2018.
How can you help?
Share your ideas on the
discussion page
or
send an email to the Anti-Harassment Tools team
Spread the word that the consultation is happening; this is an important discussion for making decisions about improving the blocking tools.
Help with translation.
If you know of previous discussions about blocking tools that happened on your wiki,
share the links.
We are looking forward to learning your ideas.
For the Anti-Harassment Tools team
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URLs
that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this:
instead of
. This has now been fixed on all wikis. Old links will still work.
[241]
A new
tag
marks edits where a redirect was created or removed. This still works when the editor writes something else in the edit summary. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist.
[242]
If you use
Chrome
on
Android
, you can now use the print to PDF button to create a PDF of an article.
[243]
Filter by number of edits or filter by time range have been grouped on a same menu on the recent changes page if you use the new filters. The "Vidi la novajn ŝanĝojn ekde $1" link is now more prominent.
[244]
Some of the web fonts that were provided by the
Universal Language Selector
extension are being removed. This is to reduce the load time on pages. The
web fonts were added many years ago
to help users read text in scripts which did not have fonts or had broken fonts. This is not the case any more. You can
check the status page
for a list of all web fonts and whether they are currently being used and especially for special requirements.
[245]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (
calendar
).
Meetings
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12 December at 19:30 (UTC)
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
13 December at 16:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
You can discuss
new or improved blocking tools
with the Wikimedia Foundation
Anti-Harassment Tools team
. They will work on building better blocking tools. Leave comments on the
talk page
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Because of the
holidays
the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2018.
Problems
When you import a page from another wiki the usernames of the users who edited the article on the wiki you imported it from are shown in the article history. This should link to the users on the original wiki. A script to fix this caused problems for Wikidata and German Wikipedia. It also created a large number of
SUL accounts
on wikis where editors had never edited.
[246]
Some bot owners got email about their bots logging in from a new computer. If this is from one or a couple of wikis, you can turn these messages off
in your preferences
on those wikis until the problem has been solved. If not, you can report more about the problem
in Phabricator
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
19 decembro at 19:30 (UTC)
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Future changes
Files on Commons will have
structured metadata
in the future. The developers are now looking for examples of different kinds of metadata to make sure they are aware of them when they build prototypes for structured data on Commons. You can
read more and help
by giving examples of interesting media files.
The
Structured Commons team
are making sure Commons work with structured data. If you regularly contribute to Commons and Wikidata you can
answer a survey
that helps the team prioritise the tools that are important for the Commons and Wikidata communities. The survey ends on 22 December. You can
read more on Commons
. You can also
help the team decide
on better names for "captions" and "descriptions". This ends on 3 January 2018.
The
2017 Community Wishlist Survey
has now ended. You can
see the results
. They decide what the
Community Tech team
will work on next year.
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Recent changes
On Wikidata, the "konservi" button when you edit is now called "publikigi". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "Konservi paĝon" to "Publikigi la ŝanĝojn". This is to help new editors understand what it does.
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Some edits will get an automatic
tag
on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways.
[249]
Special:UnusedFiles
shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new
Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons
only shows files that are not used on any wiki.
[250]
Structured discussions
now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation
has been updated
[251]
[252]
Problems
Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem.
[253]
With the new filters in the recent changes, "Ekskludi la elektitajn" in "Nomspacoj" did not work for "Konservitaj filtriloj" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again.
[254]
The latest version of
Google Chrome
broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see
#R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9
instead of
#Résumé
even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March).
[255]
Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed.
[256]
Changes later this week
Wikidata will be moved to its own database
servers
. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this
you will be able to read but not edit
Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30
UTC
on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis.
[257]
The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems.
[258]
[259]
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
).
WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one:
ext.wikiEditor
. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed.
[260]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
9 January at 19:30 (UTC)
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how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
10 January at 16:00 (UTC)
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Recent changes
Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the
Translate extension
is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed.
[261]
There is a new
Discourse test support channel
for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development.
[262]
Problems
Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-
ASCII
characters when a page was edited.
[263]
[264]
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
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
16 January at 19:30 (UTC)
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
17 January at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in
Linter
categories will switch to use the
Remex parsing library
. This is
to replace Tidy
. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018.
[265]
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Recent changes
Filters on
Special:RecentChangesLinked
will get the new look similar to on the recent changes page. Special:RecentChangesLinked will also get some new features.
[267]
[268]
Problems
With the new
OOUI look
menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed.
[269]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
24 January at 16:00 (UTC)
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how to join
Future changes
irc.wikimedia.org
will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically.
[270]
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Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
31 January at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation is working on how to get less unmaintained code on Wikimedia wikis. This could be by finding maintainers or removing unmaintained features. They are now
looking for feedback
on what do do with
AbuseFilter
, the
IRC RecentChanges feed
, the
RelatedSites extension
and
TimedMediaHandler
. You can leave feedback on the linked talk pages.
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Recent changes
Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an
editathon
. Wikis can change this if they want to.
[272]
The
Wikidata vandalism dashboard
is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language.
[273]
Info pages for file pages now show the file's
SHA1 hash value
in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded.
[274]
Problems
Special:Export
has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this.
[275]
Changes later this week
When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a
visual diff
of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users.
[276]
When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like
gallery widths="150px"
. You could use
em
or
instead of
px
but it would make no difference. You can now only use
150px
or nothing (
150
). If you write something else, instead of treating it like
px
, it will not work.
[277]
The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of
Jes
or
Ne
it will say
Thank
and
Cancel
. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public.
[278]
Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a
tracking category
for this. Wikis that don't want it
can disable it
[279]
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
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
6 February at 19:30 (UTC)
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how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
7 February at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
The
Education Program extension
will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the
Programs and Events Dashboard
[280]
[281]
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Recent changes
TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please
submit a task on Phabricator
[282]
[283]
[284]
Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for
research on identifying spambots
Changes later this week
You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use
visual diffs
on history pages.
[285]
The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like
{{reflist}}
, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates.
[286]
The abuse filter extension has a new feature
contains_all
that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.
[287]
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
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
13 February at 18:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
14 February at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
The
settings page and beta options
for the mobile website are being improved.
[288]
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Recent changes
The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed.
[289]
[290]
You can now
see statistics
for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table.
[291]
Problems
Linter
is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed.
[292]
Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like
{{sfn}}
are not visible in the references list whilst editing.
[293]
[294]
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
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
20 February at 19:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
21 February at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will
make longer comments possible
[295]
Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can
test a new prototype
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Recent changes
Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly.
[296]
Problems
Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug.
[297]
[298]
Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February
UTC
, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed.
[299]
Special:Statistics
did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated.
[300]
[301]
[302]
Changes later this week
Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version.
[303]
The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the
Remex parsing library
. This is
to replace Tidy
. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018.
[304]
[305]
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 1 March (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
27 February at 19:30 (UTC)
. See
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
28 February at 16:00 (UTC)
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Lastaj ŝanĝoj
Vi nun povas fari pli longan redaktan resumon.
[306]
Ŝanĝoj poste dum tiu semajno
Vi povas
sciigi uzantojn en redaktaj resumojn
. Ili ricevos sciigon kiel se ili estis menciita sur vikia paĝo.
[307]
En
Specialaĵo:Protokolo_pri_misuzado
vi nun povas elekti enlistigi nur agojn kiuj efektive faris redakton. Aliaj agoj estas kiam la filtrilo avertis la redaktoron aŭ blokis la farita de redakto. Estas ankaŭ pli da serĉaj opcioj.
[308]
[309]
Vikioj povas
ebligi Citoid
por provizi aŭtomatan referencan elserĉon en la vida redaktilo kaj la 2017 vikiteksta redaktilo, sed tio estas kompleksa. La ilo nun avertos en la JavaScript konzolo se la agordo ne estas taŭga. Baldaŭ Citoid memmalebligos se la argord ne estas taŭga. Kontrolu ke via vikio estas formita taŭge. Vi povas
peti helpon
se vi bezonas iom.
[310]
La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.Org ekde 6 marto. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 7 marto. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 8 marto (
kalendaro
).
Kunvenoj
Vi povas aliĝi la sekvantan renkontiĝon kun la teamo de vidredaktilo. Dum la renkontiĝo, vi povas diri al disvolvistoj, kiujn cimojn opinias vi estas la plej gravaj. La renkontiĝo okazos la
6 marto je la 19:30a horo (UTC)
. Vidu
kiel aliĝi
Vi povas aliĝi la sekvantan konsilan renkontiĝon per IRC. Dum la renkontiĝo disvolvistoj povas peti konsilojn. La renkontiĝo okazos la
7 marto je la 16:00a horo (UTC)
. Vidu
kiel aliĝi
Estontaj ŝanĝoj
En la estonteco vi estos ebla uzi transvikiaj preferojn. Tio ĉi signifas ke vi povus ŝanĝi preferojn por ĉiuj vikioj anstataŭ devanta ŝanĝi ĝin ĉiu foje por ĉiu vikio. Vi povas nun
testi transvikiajn preferojn
kaj
provizi retrosciigon
Vi nun povas
legi laŭplanajn laborojn pri mapoj
dum 2018. Tio ĉi estos farita dum junio. Vi
povas provizi retrosciigon
pri la laŭplana mapa laboro.
Teknologia novaĵoj
preparita far
tekaj ambasadoroj
kaj poŝtita de
roboto
Kontribui
Traduki
Akiri helpon
Provizi retroinformadojn
Aboni aŭ malaboni
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Plej lastaj
teknologiaj novaĵoj
de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu paroli al aliaj uzantoj pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos al vi.
Tradukoj
estas haveblaj.
Lastaj ŝanĝoj
3D modeloj nun povas esti elŝutita al Commons.
[311]
Paĝaj Antaŭrigardoj
estis ĝisdatigita por uzi
HTML
por antaŭrigardoj. Tio ĉi riparis multajn aferojn.
A/B testojn
estis farita sur Angla kaj Germana Vikipedioj por mezuri kiel ĝi estas uzita. Aliaj ŝanĝoj estis ankaŭ faritaj.
[312]
Kelkaj redaktoj devas esti kontrolita kontraŭ tro da kondiĉoj antaŭ ili povas ekkaŭzi
filtrilon de fitrakto
. Se tio estas la kialo neniu filtrilo estas ekkaŭzita la redakto estos
etikedita
por revizio.
[313]
Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab.
[314]
Problems
The
abuse filter
did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC).
[315]
Changes later this week
You can
notify users in edit summaries
. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week.
[316]
It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in
Special:AbuseFilter
. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users.
[317]
[318]
A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the
Remex parsing library
. This is
to replace Tidy
. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018.
[319]
[320]
[321]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 marto. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 marto. It will be on all wikis from 15 marto (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
13 marto at 19:30 (UTC)
. See
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
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Problems
On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed.
[322]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 marto. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 marto. It will be on all wikis from 22 marto (
calendar
).
Meetings
There is no Editing team meeting this week.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
21 marto at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days.
[323]
[324]
In-Context Help and Onboarding
is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity.
Collaboration team
is expecting feedback and comments on
the project talk page
, especially from people working with newcomers.
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Changes later this week
Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change.
[325]
[326]
The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate.
[327]
TemplateStyles
will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018.
[328]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
27 March at 18:30 (UTC)
. See
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on
28 March at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read
more details
[329]
Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in
Serbian
or
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Recent changes
Template Wizard
script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools,
please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey
Problems
MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version
1.31.0-wmf.26
on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week.
[330]
[331]
[332]
The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed.
[333]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (
calendar
).
User subpages ending in
.json
will now be protected from other people editing them, like
.js
and
.css
pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like
User:Example/mygadget.json
to do this without concerns.
[334]
Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml
on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time.
[335]
[336]
[337]
AbuseFilter
will transition to use
OOUI
starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks.
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Special:AbuseLog
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[341]
You can now search through filter patterns at
Special:AbuseFilter
. You may specify either a plain string or a
regular expression
and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted.
[342]
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You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
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If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can
give your feedback
to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow
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[345]
You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was
one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey
last year.
[346]
The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can
read more details
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Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left).
[348]
Problems
The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed.
[349]
For a week in March rollbacks got both the
rollback
and the
undo
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[350]
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (
calendar
).
Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits.
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You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
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The iOS and Android apps will get
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Profiling statistics for an
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file a phabricator task
to do so.
[352]
Abuse filters
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floats
more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (
===
and
!==
) will be affected leaving the values unchanged.
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (
calendar
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The
new PDF renderer
could not create PDFs from
books
. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki.
PediaPress
will take over development of the books-to-PDF function.
[355]
Pywikibot
will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3.
[356]
Volunteer developers can fill out the
Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey
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The icons in the
2010 wikitext editor
have changed.
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Publish
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ellipsis
. This is to show that pressing
Publish
is not the last step.
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The
new version
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will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of
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will not get this feature in May.
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18:16, 23 apr. 2018 (UTC)
ELiSo partoprenis la Vikimedian Konferencon 2018
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Trovu la 8 esperantistojn kaj vicon da pluŝuloj!
Organizuloj viciĝas
Saluton karaj kunredaktantoj!
Mi ŝatus informi vin, ke lastan semajnfinon, ekde la 20a ĝis la 22a de Aprilo 2018 okazis la
Vikimedia Konferenco 2018
, pinta renkontiĝo de organizita parto de la Vikimedia movado. Kaj kompreneble partoprenis ankaŭ Esperanta Vikimedia grupo
Esperanto kaj Libera Scio
ELiSo
) en konsisto
Ivan Quintero Santacruz
kaj
KuboF Hromoslav
(kaj pluraj esperantistoj reprezentante aliajn organizojn / grupojn).
Dum la konferenco ni multe lernis, diskutis, konektiĝadis kun aliaj aktivuloj, laboris kaj eĉ trovis tempon por amikumi. Okazis tiom multaj aferoj, ke ni bezonos kelkan tempon por ilin pritrakti; ni informos vin iom-post-iom, precipe en la dissendolistoj
eliso
kaj
eliso-anoncoj
(do aliĝu por ricevi novaĵojn plej frue kaj plej komplete!). Sed nun mi alemanŭ prezentos mian koncizan superrigardon.
Mi konscias pri 8 esperantistoj dum la konferenco. Entute partoprenis ĉ. 300 homoj, do esperantistoj jam trapasis la sojlon de 2% kaj transiris de "pioniroj" al "fruaj adoptantoj" (laŭ la teorio de
difuzo de novaj aferoj
).
Entute 6 homoj partoprenis la kunsidon de ELiSo. La raporton mi ankoraŭ preparas, sed mi konscize diru, ke ni decidis puŝi nian grupon al pli alta nivelo kun funkcianta strukturo (pri tio mi sendos memstaran mesaĝon) kaj ĝis 2 jaroj iĝi
Tema Organizo
de la Fondaĵo Vikimedio kaj (dum nedefinita tempo)
Faka Asocio
de UEA.
Ni lernis pri novaj (aŭ nove malkovritaj) iloj por helpi al laboro de redaktantoj kaj organizantoj, ekz.
Mapo de komunumaj kapabloj
w:Ŝablono:Uzanto sandbox+
Stirpanelo por programoj kaj eventoj
kaj
UserViews
. Tio estas vere mojosaj iloj, certe provu ilin!
Granda parto de la konferenco estis la 2a fazo de konsultado por la Strategia direkto de la
Vikimedia movado 2030
. Ĉar estas ĝenerala konsidero, ke per nuntempa laborado ni ne atingos la trovitan vizion, en la tutmonda vikimedia movado komenciĝis tempo de prikonsiderado de ĉio ajn kaj sekve estas akceptataj ankaŭ disrompaj ideoj (ĝis grado de malfondo de ĉiuj komisionoj kaj organizoj). Aŭdiĝis ankaŭ la opinio, ke la internacia vikimedia movado prefere transiru de uzado de la angla al Esperanto, ĉar ĝi estas multe pli justa - la opinion prezentis neesperantisto! Li laŭpete tion deklaris ankaŭ dum videoregistrado - la videon mi publikigos baldaŭ.
Parolante pri videoj... Mi faris kelkajn mallongajn video-monologojn kun kelkaj homoj kun intresaj ideoj. Ĝi estis tre improvizita, ĉar mi ĝin pripensis maljam veturante al la konferenco. Tamen, mi havas plurajn bonajn registraĵojn, kiujn mi publikigados dum sekvaj tagoj (tamen ne tuj) en la YouTube-kanalo de ELiSo, do
ekabonu la kanalon jam nun
por esti sciigita tuj post publikigo (kaj memoru klaki la sonorileton por
vere
ricevi la sciigojn...).
Do, jen fino de tiu ĉi baza sciigo! Nome de nia grupeto de reprezentantoj mi denove dankas pro esperantista subteno de nia partopreno kaj mi antaŭĝojas nian pli intensan kunlaboradon en kaj ekster Vikipedio, kiu ĵuse plikonkretiĝias.
Amike, --
KuboF Hromoslav
diskuto
11:58, 29 apr. 2018 (UTC)
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Helpu puŝi organizon Esperanto kaj Libera Scio al sekva nivelo!
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Aliĝu al la laborgrupo por puŝi ELiSon al sekva nivelo!
Saluton ĉiuj!
En mia antaŭa mesaĝo mi koncize (nu, eble ne tiom koncize...) prezentis superrigardon pri parto de Esperanta agado dum la Vikimedia Konferenco 2018. Pluraj el unuopaj punktoj tamen bezonas aktivan partoprenon de ĝuste vi! Ankaŭ la jena.
Nia grupo estis sub la nomo
Esperanto kaj Libera Scio
oficiale rekonita fare de la Fondaĵo Vikimedio kiel
Vikimedia Uzanto-Grupo
en 2013. Ekde tiam ni funkcias kiel neformala grupo kun distribuita (ni povas diri "laŭokaza") gvidado. Tio certagrade funkcias (ja vidu
niajn ĝisnunajn sukcesojn
kaj nune faratan laboron, ekz.
Vikio amas ZEOjn
). Sed dum la kunsido dum la Konferenco ni unuanime konstatis, ke ni povas atingi pli multe, helpi al pli da homoj kaj disvastigi vikimedion pli foren se ni pli intence zorgos pri bontenado kaj evoluo de niaj strukturo kaj strategio.
Tial ni starigis laborgrupon, kiu nin gvidos tra la procezo de starigo de tiu strukturo. Ni ankaŭ konscias, ke ne ĉiuj povis partopreni dum la konferenco kaj ke indas inkludi homojn kun diversaj kapabloj kaj talentoj por atingi elstaran sukceson!
Tial
ni invitas vin al la laborgrupo por gvidi ELiSon al sekva nivelo!
Kio estos la laboro?
En la laborgrupo ni unue diskutos estontecon de ELiSo. Mi antaŭvidas 2-3 videovokojn kaj intertempan retpoŝtumadon kaj prilaboradon de dokumentoj. Laŭ rezultoj de tiuj diskutoj ni faros sekvajn agojn. Ni ĝenerale supozas, ke ni gvidos verkadon de statuto laŭ kiu ĉiu ELiSano elektos estraron. Detaloj estas por laborgrupa diskuto.
Kiel aliĝi al la laborgrupo?
Ĝis la
13a de Majo 2018 23:59 UTC
deklaru vian intencon aliĝi per retmesaĝo al la dissendolisto
eliso
, al
mi persone
aŭ en la
Diskutejo de la Esperanta Vikipedio
Ĉu aliĝante al la laborgrupo oni eniras estraron?
Ne. La laborgrupo ekzistos por gvidi procezon por ekhavi funkciantan kaj firman strukturon; kiam tio estos atingita, la laborgrupo disiĝos. Membroj de la laborgrupo estas tre bonvenaj kaj invitataj plufunkcii en gvida rolo en ELiSo, sed tio ne estas deviga. Ĉiuokaze, precizan strukturon de estonta ELiSo ni interkonsentos en la laborgrupo kaj ni antaŭvidas diversajn manierojn kiel partopreni en ELiSo, ĉu en "estraro" aŭ ekster ĝi.
Kiuj estas membroj de la laborgrupo?
Dume estas 5 homoj: Leidy Sandoval Galindez,
Juan Quintero Santacruz
Ivan Quintero Santacruz
Mathieu Stumpf Guntz
kaj mi (
KuboF Hromoslav
). Mi volontulis por gvidi la laborgrupon.
Do, se vi volas vidi ELiSon atingadi pli multe kaj labori pli profesie,
aliĝu
Nome de la prepara laborgrupo, --
KuboF Hromoslav
talk
) 12:18, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
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The parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links.
[360]
Problems
We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex
. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can
help fix broken wikitext
to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process
on Phabricator
[361]
Changes later this week
You will be able use
CodeMirror
in the
2017 wikitext editor
on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with
syntax highlighting
. It has previously been a
beta feature
and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right.
[362]
When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date.
[363]
You can soon turn on the
Performance Inspector
in the Redaktado section in your preferences. It shows information about the
performance
of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly.
[364]
There is a new
abuse filter
function called
equals_to_any
. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (
===
) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can
read more on mediawiki.org
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (
calendar
).
Meetings
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2 May at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
The
Wikimedia Cloud Services team
is working on a new project called
Toolhub
. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on
the talk page
or email jhare
Ŝablono:@wikimedia
.org to leave private feedback.
All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the
Remex parsing library
. This is
to replace Tidy
. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018.
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The
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[368]
Problems
The
abuse filters
had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed.
[369]
Changes later this week
The
advanced search function beta feature
will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist.
[370]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (
calendar
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All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the
Remex parsing library
. This is
to replace Tidy
. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018.
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Dynamic maps
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Labels on maps
can also be in different languages.
The new
Advanced Search
interface is now available as a
Beta Feature
on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated.
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Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 May. It will be on all wikis from 17 May (
calendar
).
Meetings
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In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can
give feedback and suggestions
The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it.
Read more on mediawiki.org
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Novaj monpetoj por informado
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Por agado de la organizo
Esperanto kaj Libera Scio
mi malfermis 2 novajn monpetojn ĉe la Fondaĵo Vikimedio:
prezentado de
Vikio Amas ZEOjn
dum UK 2018
novaj, modernaj informiloj pri Vikipedio
Unue, dankon al
Sahaquiel9102
kaj Peter Baláž pro bona kunlaboro, kuncerbumado, ĉiama puŝado kaj helpado! Ni laboris sub tempa streĉo, do mi ĝojas, ke almenaŭ nun mi povas anonci la projektojn.
Emblemo de la fotokonkurso
Vikio amas ZEOjn
Ambaŭ projektoj celas plipopularigi precipe Esperantajn viki-projektojn kaj enhavojn inter esperantistoj. Parte temas ankaŭ pri ĝenerala informado pri vikimedio. Grava parto estas la konkurso
Vikio amas ZEOjn 2018
, kie ni invitas homojn kontribui per fotoj pri ZEOj. Ni supozas vastan informadon al ĝenerala publiko per Vikipedioj - multaj el ili supozeble ekkonos ZEOjn kaj Esperanton por la unua fojo! Por la projekto estis Petro Baláž bonkora kaj akceptis dum UK 2018 prelegi kaj informi pri la projekto.
La dua projekto temas pri kutimaj informaj / instruaj materialoj, kiujn ni uzados dum estontaj prelegoj kaj trejnadoj por helpi al homoj pli bone memori kaj uzi la informojn. Ĉar ankaŭ ni estas nur homoj kaj ne povas plurobliĝi, pripensu ankaŭ vi prelegi kaj trejni pri Vikipedio kaj aliaj vikiaj projektoj. En ELiSo ni laŭeble provizas helpon, per tiu ĉi monpeto strebas pri distribuo de instruaj flugfolioj kaj plurfoje jam sukcese monpetis por helpi financi la vojaĝon.
Fine, se vi ŝatas la agadon,
mi petas vin esprimi vian subteno pri la monpetoj
en la suba sekcio "
Endorsements
", konkrete
prezentado pri ZEOj
kaj
informiloj
. Nia Esperanta grupo jam estas konata en la Vikimedia mondo, sed akcepto de monpetoj dependas ankaŭ de montrita intereso de la komunumo. Antaŭdankon! --
KuboF Hromoslav
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21:41, 17 maj. 2018 (UTC)
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calendar
).
Meetings
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You can now use
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[375]
[376]
It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.
[377]
Wikidata now supports
lexicographical data
. This helps describe words.
There is now a checkbox on
Special:ListUsers
to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
[378]
Some rare invisible Unicode characters have recently been banned from page titles. This includes soft hyphens (U+00AD) and left-to-right (U+2066) and right-to-left (U+2067) isolate markers. Existing pages with these characters will soon be moved by a script.
[379]
There's a new Wikimedia Foundation team to support the Wikimedia technical communities. It's called the Technical Engagement team. Most of the team members did similar work in other teams before this.
[380]
Problems
Some translatable pages are showing old translations instead of latest ones. The cause of this issue has been fixed. We will update all pages automatically to show the latest translations.
[381]
Changes later this week
There will be a new special page named
PasswordPolicies
. This page gives information about the
password rules
for each user group on that wiki.
[382]
A new way to see moved paragraphs in diffs is coming to most wikis. This is to make it easier to find the moved paragraphs and the changes in them.
[383]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 May. It will be on all wikis from 31 May (
calendar
).
Wikis can
enable Citoid
to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. This is complex. The tool will now disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. It has warned about this in the JavaScript console since February. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can
ask for help
if you need it.
[384]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
29 May at 18:30 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
30 May at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
Content Translation
drafts which have not been updated in over a year will be removed. This allows other users to translate those articles.
[385]
A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development.
[386]
Some wikis will switch to use the
Remex parsing library
. This is
to replace Tidy
. It will happen on 30 May and 13 June. Wikis with fewer than 100 linter issues in the main namespace in all high-priority linter categories will switch. This includes Wikidata. Tidy will probably be removed on all wikis in the first week of July.
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Tech News: 2018-23
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Recent changes
The
MonoBook skin
has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different.
[389]
Planet Wikimedia
collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the
Rawdog
feed aggregator
to do this instead of
Planet
[390]
[391]
Redirect links in
Special:WhatLinksHere
now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again.
[392]
Problems
You will not be able to edit some wikis between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. You can see if
your wiki is one of them
MassMessage
did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late.
[393]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 June. It will be on all wikis from 7 June (
calendar
).
Meetings
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5 June at 18:30 (UTC)
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
6 June at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
The
new filters for edit review
tools and interface for watchlists will leave
beta
. This is planned to happen in June or early July.
[394]
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Tech News: 2018-24
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Recent changes
In
the Wikipedia app
for Android or iOS users can create
reading lists
. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome.
[396]
There is a new version of
Pywikibot
. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis.
[397]
Problems
The
MonoBook skin
was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design.
[398]
Changes later this week
The
new filters for edit review
tools and interface for watchlists will leave
beta
. For most wikis this will happen on 18 June. For the rest it will happen on 25 June.
[399]
[400]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 June. It will be on all wikis from 14 June (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the
Readers Web team
IRC office hour. There you can discuss tools to contribute on the mobile web for the existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on
18 June at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
12 June at 18:30 (UTC)
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13 June at 15:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
You will be able to
move local wiki files to Commons
and keep their original data intact. This is
planned to come
to the first wikis in June.
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Update on page issues on mobile web
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Update on page issues on mobile web
Please help translate to your language
Hi everyone. The
Readers web team
has recently begun working on exposing issue templates on the mobile website. Currently, details about issues with page content are generally hidden on the mobile website. This leaves readers unaware of the reliability of the pages they are reading. The goal of this project is to improve awareness of particular issues within an article on the mobile web. We will do this by changing the visual styling of page issues.
So far, we have
drafted a proposal on the design and implementation
of the project. We were also able to run
user testing on the proposed designs
. The tests so far have positive results. Here is a quick summary of what we learned:
The new treatment increases awareness of page issues among participants. This is true particularly when they are in a more evaluative/critical mode.
Page issues make sense to readers and they understand how they work
Readers care about page issues and consider them important
Readers had overwhelmingly positive sentiments towards Wikipedia associated with learning about page issues
Our next step would be to start implementing these changes. We wanted to reach out to you for any concerns, thoughts, and suggestions you might have before beginning development. Please
visit the project page
where we have more information and mockups of how this may look. Please
leave feedback on the talk page
CKoerner (WMF)
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Recent changes
Syntax highlighting
has been a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It is now a normal feature. It is based on
CodeMirror
[401]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
19 June at 18:30 (UTC)
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20 June at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a
PlayStation 3
[402]
[403]
The
new filters for edit review
tools and interface for watchlists will leave
beta
. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July.
[404]
[405]
All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the
Remex parsing library
on 5 July. This is
to replace Tidy
. You
can help
fix remaining errors.
[406]
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Tech News: 2018-26
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Recent changes
PAWS
, our JupyterHub system, got
an upgrade and a logo
. Several bugs should be fixed.
Problems
When a link text was in
italics
or had other formatting you could sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed.
[407]
[408]
Changes later this week
Content translation
users who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create better tools for translating articles.
[409]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 June. It will be on all wikis from 28 June (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
26 June at 18:30 (UTC)
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27 June at 15:00 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2018-27
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Recent changes
The database for
tags
will be changed. This will happen on 2 July on French Wikipedia and 9 July on all other wikis. Please
report
if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge.
[410]
Problems
Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem.
[411]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
3 July at 18:30 (UTC)
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4 July at 15:00 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2018-28
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Recent changes
WebM video files
have smaller file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take longer time.
[412]
The
new filters for edit review
tools and interface for watchlists will leave
beta
. This was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July.
[413]
All wikis now use the
Remex parsing library
instead of
Tidy
. This could cause errors. You
can help
fix the errors.
[414]
Problems
When you rolled back an edit it could get both the
Rollback
and
Undo
tags. This has been fixed.
[415]
Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed.
[416]
Changes later this week
When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label).
[417]
[418]
On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page.
[419]
When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures.
[420]
Structured discussions
toolbars will have more style options.
[421]
When you look at Wikimedia code in
Gerrit
there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening.
[422]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
10 July at 18:30 (UTC)
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
11 July at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
Today all administrators can edit
CSS
and
JavaScript
for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can
[423]
Page previews
will be on by default for new accounts.
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Tech News: 2018-29
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Recent changes
You can now use
global preferences
on Wikimedia wikis. You can set them on the
global preferences page
[425]
You can now see a new log of pages being created at
Special:Log/create
. It includes pages which are later deleted. It is now available on all Wikimedia wikis except Commons and Wikidata.
[426]
You can see how many pageviews a wiki had from specific countries. The
Wikistats2 maps
have now been updated.
[427]
Changes later this week
Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change.
[428]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
July 17 at 18:30 (UTC)
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July 18 at 15:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
Some articles have messages to readers about problems with the article. For example that it does not cite sources or might not be neutral. Readers do not see these messages on the mobile version. The developers now want to show them. You can
read more and leave feedback
You can use

to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead of
prefix:Page name
you will see a text that explains which pages are being searched. You can
read more and leave feedback
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Tech News: 2018-30
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Plej lastaj
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de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri al aliaj uzantoj pri tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj influos vin.
Tradukoj
estas haveblaj.
Lastaj ŝanĝoj
Kiam vi ensalutas al via konto vi povas elekti resti ensalutita. Tiu opciilo nun efikas plibone ol antaŭ ĉe portebla versio por uzantoj sen Ĝavoskripto.
[429]
Vikioj kiuj uzas
Citoido
, aŭtomate povas produkti citaĵojn por svedaj sciigaj retejoj. Tio nur efikas per la vida redaktilo. Tio nun efikas por
radio de sveda publika servo
. Pli da eblecoj okazos. Aliuloj povus uzi tion por aldoni sciigajn retejojn en aliaj lingvoj en la estonteco.
[430]
Kontribuuloj povas fari maksimume po 90 redaktojn por minuto. Tio estas nova ekde lasta monato.
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Ŝanĝoj poste ĉi tiu semajno
La
nova versio
de Mediavikio estos ĉe testaj vikioj kaj mediawiki.org ekde 24 julio. Ĝi estos ĉe ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj ekde 25 julio. Ĝi estos ĉe ĉiuj vikioj ekde 26 julio (
kalendaro
).
Kunvenoj
Vi povas aliĝi la teknikan konsilan renkontiĝon ĉe IRC. Dum la renkontiĝo, volontulaj ellaborantoj povas peti konsilon. La renkontiĝo estos la
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Tech News: 2018-31
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Recent changes
The design on
Special:Log
has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems.
[432]
Problems
Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes.
[433]
[434]
Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed.
[435]
[436]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 julio. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 aŭgusto. It will be on all wikis from 2 aŭgusto (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
31 julio at 18:30 (UTC)
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
1 aŭgusto at 15:00 (UTC)
as well as at
23:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
After
a community discussion
, a new group for users will be created. "
Interface administrators
" will be the only users allowed to edit interface pages like
MediaWiki:Common.css
or
MediaWiki:Common.js
. This is done to avoid technical issues and improve security. That change will be effective by the end of August 2018.
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Tech News: 2018-32
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Recent changes
Special:NewPages
now has the
OOUI look
[437]
Problems
The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July.
[438]
[439]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.
Meetings
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7 August at 18:30 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2018-33
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Recent changes
CSS
in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called
TemplateStyles
. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look.
[440]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
14 August at 18:30 (UTC)
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15 August at 15:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can
. You can leave feedback on the
talk page
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Tech News: 2018-34
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Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
22 August at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
The
2018 Community Wishlist Survey
begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the
Community Tech team
will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
Legacy JavaScript global variables
have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example
Test Wikipedia
or
mediawiki.org
. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can
read the migration guide
to fix old scripts.
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Tech News: 2018-35
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Recent changes
You can now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view.
[443]
Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the
interface admin
user right.
[444]
Problems
Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it.
[445]
Changes later this week
The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand.
[446]
AWB
will stop adding
using AWB
in the edit summary. Instead it will add a
tag
that says
AWB
[447]
Some
abuse filter
variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables
on mediawiki.org
. They have a note which says
Deprecated. Use ... instead
. An example is
article_text
which is now
page_title
[448]
Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is
page_age
[449]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
28 August at 18:30 (UTC)
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
29 August at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at
14:00 (UTC)
. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
You can read more about this
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Tech News: 2018-36
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Recent changes
There is a new user right for users who can edit
CSS
and
JavaScript
for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called
interface administrators
. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages.
[450]
[451]
There will be an
A/B test
on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks.
[452]
[453]
You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of
TemplateStyles
[454]
wp10
in
ORES
is now called
articlequality
[455]
When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed.
[456]
Problems
UploadWizard
had problems with
campaigns
. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed.
[457]
You can get a
notification
when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week.
[458]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
5 September at 15:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation
Readers department
will work on advanced mobile editing. You can
about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also
see the presentation
The RelatedSites extension
will be removed from Wikivoyage.
Unused projects on the
Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server
will
be removed
. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used.
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When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text.
[460]
Problems
Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week.
[461]
Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed.
[462]

did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed.
[463]
{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}
is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with
{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}
would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected.
[464]
When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this.
[465]
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Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at
14:00 (UTC)
. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
You can read more about this
Because of
the data centre test
there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
11 Septmber at 18:30 (UTC)
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
12 September at 15:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
The developers
work on making the wikis work better on mobile phones. There is a list
of common problems when making content easier to read in the mobile view
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The
Wikimedia Commons mobile app
has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs.
[466]
MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests.
[467]
Problems
You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed.
[468]
Changes later this week
Special:AncientPages
can hide disambiguation pages.
[469]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (
calendar
).
Meetings
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19 September at 15:00 (UTC)
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The developers
are testing new mobile web navigation. You can
use it and give feedback
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The
preferences form
will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please
report them on Phabricator
[470]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (
calendar
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Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as
javascript
. You could do this using
?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript
in the
URL
. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security.
[471]
[472]
Problems
New and updated translations from will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system.
[473]
[474]
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 October (
calendar
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Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
3 October at 15:00 (UTC)
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You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on
3 October at 15:00 UTC
. See
how to join
if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.
Future changes
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at
14:00 (UTC)
. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
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The
Education Program extension
was removed from all Wikimedia projects. You can use the
Programs and Events Dashboard
or the
Fountain
instead.
[475]
Problems
There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add
href
where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed.
[476]
Changes later this week
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at
14:00 (UTC)
. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
You can read more about this
Because of
the data centre test
there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.
Meetings
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Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the
server switch
. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix.
[477]
Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from
translatewiki.net
again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again.
[478]
Changes later this week
When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message.
[479]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (
calendar
).
Meetings
There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use
Phabricator
as normal.
[480]
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
17 October at 15:00 (UTC)
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The
new version
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calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
24 October at 15:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
The
Community Wishlist Survey
begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the
Community Tech team
will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
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Mezurilaro de komunuma sano
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La
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bonvolu aliĝi nin je Meta
por diskuti kiel kaj kio la nova projekto devus mezuri!
Ĉi tiu mesaĝo estas ankaŭ havebla en aliaj lingvoj
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You can post proposals for the
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Community Tech team
will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
The wikis now have a
content security policy report
. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future.
[481]
Problems
Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed.
[482]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (
calendar
).
The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from
Special:Preferences
. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the
2010 wikitext editor
[483]
[484]
Meetings
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31 October at 15:00 (UTC)
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You can now use
TemplateWizard
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2010 wikitext editor
and not in the visual editor or the
2017 wikitext editor
. If you click on
you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences.
[485]
Changes later this week
You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can
When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the
Crossref
and
WorldCat
databases and add the top result.
[486]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (
calendar
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Recent changes
Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called
grade C browsers
. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10.
[487]
Problems
You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed.
[488]
[489]
[490]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
14 November at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
You can use the
content translation
tool to translate articles. The developers are working on
a new version
. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations.
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You can vote on proposals in the
Community Wishlist Survey
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Community Tech team
will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
There is an
A/B test
for
sameAs
data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the
metadata
for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks.
[492]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
21 November at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated.
[493]
The
Education Program extension
was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The
database tables
used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page.
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On wikis with
translatable pages
you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use
to create a new page:
/wiki/Page/Subpage
. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages.
[495]
Changes later this week
The
advanced search interface
will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia.
[496]
Special:UnusedCategories
show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the
magic word
__EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__
[497]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
28 November at 16:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
The
mw.util.jsMessage()
function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week.
Look for the warning
Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated
in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains
mw.util.jsMessage
. There is a
migration guide
. It explains how to use
mw.notify
instead.
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Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can
report it on Phabricator
. You can also ask questions
on Meta
. There is a discussion
on Phabricator
about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki.
[499]
Small
SVG images
are now bigger when you see them in
MediaViewer
[500]
You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow.
[501]
When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back.
[502]
[503]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
5 December at 16:00 (UTC)
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Mi ne scias kiel fari ĉapelitajn literojn
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Mi verkis novan libron, "Proksomuma kalkulo". Bedaŭrinde mi skribis ĝin per la x-sistemo, kaj nun mi ne scias, kiel ŝanĝi ĝin. Ĉu iu povas helpi?
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Nun mi mem sukcesis ŝanĝi al ĉapelitaj literoj. Mi ne plu bezonas helpon. Dankon.
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The
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calendar
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New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts.
[504]
[505]
When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off.
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Because of the
holidays
the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.
Recent changes
Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before.
[507]
[508]
Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped.
[509]
The
ParserMigration extension
has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the
Remex parsing library
instead of
Tidy
Problems

tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example

. If a

tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed.
[510]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 December. It will be on all wikis from 20 December (
calendar
).
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Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation
Android app team
are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can
about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell
Dchen (WMF)
you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
tiles.wmflabs.org
and
wma.wmflabs.org
will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes
the mapnik gadget
, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going.
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Vandalismo de
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fuŝis centojn da artikoloj. Nun ĝi estas forbarita en ĉiuj vikioj, sed necesas ankaŭ nuligi liajn fiagoj.
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Recent changes
RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata.
[512]
MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment.
[513]
codesearch.wmflabs.org
has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code.
[514]
On several wikis, an account named "Filtrilo de misuzo" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See
T212268
for more information and future plans.
Problems
In
AbuseFilter
, the "Trafik-limigilo" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed
on mediawiki.org
. A list of broken filters is
on Phabricator
. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them.
[515]
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from January 9. It will be on all wikis from January 10 (
calendar
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Meetings
Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9.
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Recent changes
You can now use
Google Translate
in the
content translation tool
[516]
[517]
You can now add
captions
to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
Earlier a
quoted HTML attribute
had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text.
[518]
[519]
Templates with

could not show the difference between the live template and the
sandbox
version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. has a new
wrapper
parameter now. You can use it for selectors like
.mw-parser-output
[520]
Problems
When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have
tags
. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed.
[521]
Changes later this week
You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new
FileExporter
. It will be a
beta feature
on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you
activate it
and check
your wiki's configuration file
Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage.
[522]
The
AbuseFilter
variable
minor_edit
has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on
Special:AbuseFilter
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Tech News
Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was because of a problem with
MassMessage
. If you did not get last week's issue, you can
read it on Meta
[523]
Recent changes
The
content translation tool
can now use
version 2
as the default version for users who turned on the
beta feature
. For example it adds the tracking category
Paĝoj kun nereviziitaj tradukoj
to translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category in
Special:TrackingCategories
on Wikipedias.
can now convert collects of up to 800 pages to
PDF
EPUB
or
ODT
. Previously this was 200 pages.
Problems
When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17 January and is now fixed.
[524]
MassMessage
is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone.
[525]
[526]
Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This has now been fixed.
[527]
Changes later this week
You will be able to use
template styles
in the
Module
namespace.
[528]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all wikis from 24 January (
calendar
).
Meetings
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23 January at 16:00 (UTC)
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The Wikimedia servers use
HHVM
to run the
PHP
code. They are
going to use PHP7
and stop using HHVM. You can test PHP7 with a
new beta feature
. That way you can
help find and report
problems.
Problems
When someone moves a page to a name that already exists that page that had the name the article is moved to is deleted. For a couple of months this didn't always work. Some users saw an error message instead. This has now been fixed.
[529]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
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It was easy to untick a box by accident in
Special:Preferences
. This will now be fixed.
[530]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 February. It will be on all wikis from 7 February (
calendar
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You can use the
ambox
CSS
class to show page issues to mobile readers. When you use
ambox
there are
classes
you can use.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 February. It will be on all wikis from 14 February (
calendar
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When you
thank
someone on the mobile web you will now have two seconds to cancel the thank. This is in case you clicked on the thank button by accident.
[531]
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 February. It will be on all wikis from 21 February (
calendar
).
Meetings
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20 February at 16:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
There is a proposal to add a red link to mobile search results if there is no page with that name. This is how it works on desktop. You can
leave feedback
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There is a
new version
of the
iOS Wikipedia app
. It has for example
syntax highlighting
and new toolbars to make it easier to write wikitext. It also has night mode, a find-on-page function and other things. You can
give feedback and suggestions
[533]
Changes later this week
When you look at your watchlist or the recent changes page you can use the
new filters for edit review
. There you can choose tags to filter different edits. Empty tags will no longer be shown.
[534]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 February. It will be on all wikis from 28 February (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
27 February at 16:00 (UTC)
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The
Wikipedia app
for Android will invite users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can
and
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The
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calendar
).
Meetings
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6 March at 16:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
You can
give feedback
on the future of talk pages.
The mobile website will use the standard
fonts
on your computer or phone instead of a generic font. This will make it easier to read text in many scripts.
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Pages can use
geocoordinates
from Wikidata with the
mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements
Lua
function or the
#statements
parser function
. If they do, they will now be shown using
a Kartographer

if the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions
on Phabricator
There is now an
EventStream
to see when
links are added or removed
on Wikimedia wikis. You can read the
discussions and plans
Problems
Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (
UTC
). This will start at
15:00 UTC
. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can
see the list of affected wikis
. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed.
[537]
Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed.
[538]
[539]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (
calendar
).
Meetings
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When you use
rollback
you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to
opt in
to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March.
[540]
[541]
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
).
Meetings
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20 March at 16:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can
. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can
tell the developers
[542]
Toolforge
will
shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid
. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a
list of affected tools
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Recent changes
The
new version of the content translation tool
will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version.
[543]
Problems
There was a problem with editing with
Safari
on
iOS
. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed.
[544]
The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on
iOS
devices. This will be fixed soon.
[545]
Wikis can
over-ride interface messages
on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them.
[546]
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
).
Meetings
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27 March at 16:00 (UTC)
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Notifications
tell you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications about
new links to pages you created
. For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this.
[547]
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
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Meetings
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Recent changes
More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can
Admins on French and Polish Wikipedia can
block someone from editing a page or a namespace
. If your wiki wants to get these blocks before they are available to all wikis, you can
tell the developers
[548]
[549]
Problems
You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on
11 April at 05:00 (UTC)
. This is because of a hardware problem. You can
see a list of the affected wikis
[550]
A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back.
[551]
Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed.
[552]
Changes later this week
When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the
visual
and
wikitext
modes on desktop. It also works
on the mobile site
[553]
The Wikimedia wikis will get a
URL shortener
. This will work from 11 April. You can
[554]
The
{{REVISIONID}}
magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return
""
(empty string). When you read a page it will return
"-"
(dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces.
[555]
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
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
10 April at 15:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like
page previews
. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia.
[556]
[557]
The Wikidata
JSON
output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can
read more and see how to test your code
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All wikis now have the
TemplateWizard
for the wikitext editor.
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
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Meetings
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Future changes
Wikidata will get a new
constraint status
called
suggestion
. This
will change
how the
WikibaseQualityConstraints
constraint checking API works.
[558]
[559]
You can test the
depicts
property
for structured data on Commons.
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The
advanced search
function
URL
now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also
add new fields
to the search interface through a
hook
[560]
[561]
[562]
The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version.
[563]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
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Wikipedia articles will have the
sameAs
meta property
. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an
A/B test
[564]
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Lastaj ŝanĝoj
The
Wikipedia app
for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits.
[566]
[567]
Problemoj
Tech News was late last week because of a
MassMessage
bug. Other newsletters had the same problem.
[568]
Changes later this week
You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are.
[569]
When you write a comment in
Structured Discussions
but have not posted it yet your
web browser
will save it in
local storage
instead of
session storage
. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow.
[570]
You will be able to turn off
milestone notifications
. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits.
[571]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 aprilo. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 majo. It will be on all wikis from 2 majo (
calendar
).
Meetings
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1 majo at 15:00 (UTC)
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The Wikidata
wb_terms
table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can
. You can ask for help if you need it.
Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated.
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Problemoj
Special:Watchlist
can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem.
[573]
Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 majo. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 majo. It will be on all wikis from 9 majo (
calendar
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Kunvenoj
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Hello eo-wiki community! (Please help translate to your language)
I recently organized a project to share templates and modules between wiki projects and languages. It allows modules and templates to be “language-neutral”, and store all text translations on Commons. This means that it is enough to copy/paste a template without any changes, and update the translations separately. If someone fixes a bug or adds a new feature in the original module, you can copy/paste it again without any translation work. My bot
DiBabelYurikBot
can help with copying. This way users can spend more time on content, and less time on updating and copying templates. Please see
project page
for details and ask questions on talk page.
P.S. I am
currently running
for the Wikimedia board, focusing on content and support of multi-language communities. If you liked my projects like maps, graphs, or this one, I will be happy to receive your support. (any
registered user group
can vote). Thank you! --
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The
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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
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Recent changes
The report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019
has been published
. Communities are invited to
start phase 2 of the consultation
on their wikis.
Problems
File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed.
[574]
[575]
Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments.
[576]
[577]
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 majo. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 majo. It will be on all wikis from 23 majo (
calendar
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Meetings
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Future changes
The
content translation tool
on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can
tell the language team
[578]
The Wikidata
wbeditentity
API
endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June.
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Big changes to the
replica database
will happen on 3 June. Some tools on
Cloud Services
will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user.
[580]
[581]
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
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Recent changes
You can now write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version.
[582]
There is now a field called
depicts
on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development.
[583]
Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema.
[584]
[585]
Problems
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on
19 June at 05:00 (UTC)
. This is to fix a hardware problem.
[586]
Changes later this week
Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited.
[587]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (
calendar
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Recent changes
When you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by
Proton
. Before this we used
Electron
. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them.
[588]
[589]
The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment.
[590]
Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable
User-Agent
may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly.
[591]
Problems
Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please
report it
[592]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
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Problems
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on
19 June at 05:00 (UTC)
. This is to fix a hardware problem.
[593]
Changes later this week
MIDI
files can soon be played without the
Score extension
. You can then add them with
[[File:Filename.midi]]
. Later
override_midi
and
override_audio
will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score.
[594]
A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in
your preferences
. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems.
[595]
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
).
Meetings
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19 June at 15:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old
wgEnableAPI
and
wgEnableWriteAPI
values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values.
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Problems
The
new version
of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday.
[597]
Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced.
[598]
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
).
Meetings
You can watch or join the next
Wikimedia Language showcase
. It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects. The showcase will be on
26 June at 13:00 (UTC)
. A recording will be kept for later viewing
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Recent changes
The development of
Wikidata Bridge
has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia.
[599]
Problems
Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress.
[600]
Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed.
[601]
Changes later this week
You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database.
[602]
There is no deployment of a new version of MediaWiki on the wikis this week (
calendar
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Meetings
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3 July at 15:00 (UTC)
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Recent changes
For event organizers, if you
request a temporary lift of the IP cap
for mass account creation, this will now also raise the edit rate limit for those new accounts at the event, which will prevent another bottleneck.
[603]
Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new
partial blocks
feature.
[604]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 July. It will be on all wikis from 11 July (
calendar
).
The design of MediaWiki's software windows will change for desktop users. Layout will be simpler, buttons will be bolder and clearer, and close buttons will be just icons. This is like the mobile design. This will affect ContentTranslation, VisualEditor, TemplateWizard, and other tools.
[605]
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
10 July at 15:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch.
[606]
There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July.
[607]
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Recent changes
The mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the mobile web and give feedback.
[608]
Changes later this week
The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called
Filtrilo de misuzo
and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical problems. It will not do any other changes. You
can read more
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all wikis from 18 July (
calendar
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Meetings
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17 July at 15:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
The
Wikipedia app
for Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can
and
leave feedback
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Recent changes
Communities interested by easing newcomers' first steps can now benefit from the Growth team experiments on their wikis. Check
the conditions and the request process
The
Coolest Tool Award 2019
is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools by July 29. The awarded tools will be presented at Wikimania.
[610]
Problems
The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2.
[611]
Changes later this week
Phabricator database will be moved to a different server. Writes will be blocked on Thursday 25 July, between 05:30 and 06:00 AM UTC. Reads will remain unaffected.
[612]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 July. It will be on all wikis from 25 July (
calendar
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Meetings
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24 July at 15:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
Some items in the visual editor
will change later this week. This will make it easier to edit links, citations, and templates on both desktop and mobile.
[613]
[614]
With
advanced search
turned on you will be able to choose the sorting order of the search results when you do a search.
[615]
[616]
Users who edit from IP addresses whitelisted on a
request for temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation
will bypass CAPTCHAs. This will happen in August. If you think this should not happen for some reason, please
let us know
The variable
user_wpzero
will be removed from AbuseFilter.
A list of filters needing a fix is provided
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Problems
Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch.
[617]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 August (
calendar
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The
new version
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calendar
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Problems
A change in
RelatedArticles extension
accidentally enabled it for everyone, not just for mobile users. This has been fixed.
[618]
[619]
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
7 August at 15:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
Today everyone can see
IP addresses
if someone edits without an account. In the future this could be more hidden. This is to protect unregistered editors so fewer can see their IP address. This would only happen after we make sure the tools for vandal fighting can still be effective. You can
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Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new
advanced features
via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools. Feedback on the discussion page is appreciated.
[620]
Due to the absence of volunteer maintenance of Cologne Blue skin, the link to activate it will be hidden. The skin will still work, but editors using it are encouraged to switch to another skin.
[621]
Changes later this week
Due to Wikimania, there is no deployment this week.
[622]
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
13 August at 15:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
The "Wikidata item" link will be moved from "Tools" to "In other projects" section on all Wikimedia projects, starting on August 21.
Full announcement
Phabricator task
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Tech News
There will be no Tech News issue next week. The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 2 September 2019.
Problems
Some abuse filters stopped working because of a code change. Only variables for the current action will work. Variables defined inside a branch may not work outside of that branch. You can
to see how to fix the filters.
Only six accounts can be created from one
IP address
per day. Between 12 August and August 15 this was two accounts per day. This was because of a security issue. It is now six accounts per day again.
[623]
Changes later this week
Only a limited number of accounts can be created from one
IP address
. An IP address can be
whitelisted
so that it can create as many accounts as needed. This is useful at events where many new persons learn to edit. IP addresses that are whitelisted for this reason will also not show
CAPTCHAs
when you create accounts. This will happen on Wednesday.
[624]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 August. It will be on all wikis from 22 August (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
21 August at 15:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
There is an
RFC
about creating a new global user group with the right to edit
abuse filters
. This will be used to fix broken filters and make sure all filters will still work when software changes happen. You can
read more and comment
Special:Contributions/newbies
will no longer be working. This is because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the recent changes feed instead.
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New tools and IP masking
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Hey everyone,
The Wikimedia Foundation wants to work on two things that affect how we patrol changes and handle vandalism and harassment. We want to make the tools that are used to handle bad edits better. We also want to get better privacy for unregistered users so their IP addresses are no longer shown to everyone in the world. We would not hide IP addresses until we have better tools for patrolling.
We have an idea of what tools
could
be working better and how a more limited access to IP addresses would change things, but we need to hear from more wikis. You can read more about the project
on Meta
and
post comments and feedback
. Now is when we need to hear from you to be able to give you better tools to handle vandalism, spam and harassment.
You can post in your language if you can't write in English.
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14:18, 21 aŭg. 2019 (UTC)
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You can use the new
termbox
interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages.
[626]
The
new version
of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week.
The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues.
[627]
The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute.
[628]
The advanced version of the edit review pages (Recent Changes, Watchlist, and Related Changes) now include two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces. However the "All discussions" filter does not include pseudo talk pages, like discussions that are in the
Project:
or
Wikipedia:
namespaces. But it will include changes happening on
Project talk:
or the
Wikipedia talk:
[629]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 septembro. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 septembro. It will be on all wikis from 5 septembro (
calendar
).
When you log in, the software checks your password to see if it follows the
Password policy
. From this week, it will also complain if your password is one of the most common passwords in the world. If your password is not strong enough, please consider to
change your password
for a
stronger password
[630]
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
4 septembro at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikidata for up to 30 minutes on
September 10 at 05:00 (UTC)
[631]
You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes
September 17 at 05:00 (UTC)
. You can
see which wikis
[632]
You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes
September 24 at 05:00 (UTC)
. You can
see which wikis
[633]
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to 30 minutes on
September 26 at 05:00 (UTC)
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Problems
Last week's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The problem where some pages got it three times should now be fixed.
[635]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 oktobro. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 oktobro. It will be on all wikis from 3 oktobro (
calendar
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Meetings
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Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation
Community Tech team
is working on a
watchlist expiry feature
. This means you can put things on your watchlist for a period of time instead of forever. They are looking for
feedback on the questions they have
Special:Contributions
will get the standard
OOUI look
. This makes it easier to use on mobile and makes it look like other
Special:
pages. There is a
script
you can use to make the form smaller if you want to.
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Hello,
In a
recent statement
, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
requested that staff hold a consultation
to "re-evaluat[e] or add community input to the two new office action policy tools (temporary and partial Foundation bans)".
Accordingly, the Foundation's Trust & Safety team invites all Wikimedians
to join this consultation and give their feedback
from 30 September to 30 October.
How can you help?
Suggest how partial and temporary Foundation bans should be used, if they should (eg: On all projects, or only on a subset);
Give ideas about how partial and temporary Foundation bans should ideally implemented, if they should be; and/or
Propose changes to the existing Office Actions policy on partial and temporary bans.
We offer our thanks in advance for your contributions, and we hope to get as much input as possible from community members during this consultation!
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The
abuse filter function
now has a faster
parser
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[637]
Problems
There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text with footnotes. It will be fixed soon.
[638]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 October. It will be on all wikis from 10 October (
calendar
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The
Community Wishlist Survey
has a new format. It will focus on wikis that typically get less support. It will probably go back to the normal format next year. It is not decided exactly how it will work this year. You can
leave feedback
The
URL
of the Wikimedia wiki main pages could be changed. This is because the current URLs cause several problems. For example
would be
instead. You can
tell the developers
if this would cause problems for your wiki.
There is a new
technical community newsletter
. You can read more about the work of Wikimedia's technical community.
to get the information in the future.
Outreachy
is an internship program for groups who are underrepresented in free and open-source software. There are seven Wikimedia projects about coding, documentation and quality assurance in the next round. Persons who fit the criteria
can apply
. The last day to apply is 5 November.
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Recent changes
You can now use
more advanced editing tools
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 October. It will be on all wikis from 17 October (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
16 October at 15:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
Internet Explorer
6 and 7 are no longer
supported
. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They will not get security support. You
can't read
Wikimedia wikis in Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows versions that are older than Windows XP. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them made the wikis less secure for everyone else.
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Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project
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Saluton. The Readers Web team at the WMF will work on some
improvements to the desktop interface
over the next couple of years. The goal is to increase usability without removing any functionality. We have been inspired by changes made by volunteers, but that currently only exist as local gadgets and user scripts, prototypes, and volunteer-led skins. We would like to begin the process of bringing some of these changes into the default experience on all Wikimedia projects.
We are currently in the research stage of this project and are looking for ideas for improvements, as well as feedback on our current ideas and mockups. So far, we have performed interviews with community members at Wikimania. We have gathered lists of previous volunteer and WMF work in this area. We are examining possible technical approaches for such changes.
We would like individual feedback on the following:
Identifying focus areas for the project we have not yet discovered
Expanding the list of existing gadgets and user scripts that are related to providing a better desktop experience. If you can think of some of these from your wiki, please let us know
Feedback on the ideas and mockups we have collected so far
We would also like to gather a list of wikis that would be interested in being test wikis for this project - these wikis would be the first to receive the updates once we’re ready to start building.
When giving feedback, please consider the following goals of the project:
Make it easier for readers to focus on the content
Provide easier access to everyday actions (e.g. search, language switching, editing)
Put things in logical and useful places
Increase consistency in the interface with other platforms - mobile web and the apps
Eliminate clutter
Plan for future growth
As well as the following constraints:
Not touching the content - no work will be done in terms of styling templates or to the structure of page contents themselves
Not removing any functionality - things might move around, but all navigational items and other functionality currently available by default will remain
No drastic changes to the layout - we're taking an evolutionary approach to the changes and want the site to continue feeling familiar to readers and editors
Please give all feedback (in any language) at
mw:Talk:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements
After this round of feedback, we plan on building a prototype of suggested changes based on the feedback we receive. You’ll hear from us again asking for feedback on this prototype.
Dankon!
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API
sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as
internal
. API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives.
[641]
Problems
There is a
translation tool
we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed.
[642]
The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed.
[643]
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (
calendar
).
Reference Previews
will be a beta feature on
all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages
. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
23 October
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Recent changes
You can post proposals for the
Community Wishlist Survey
. The survey decides what the
Community Tech team
will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can
about the format for this year.
Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist.
[644]
[645]
You can share feedback and ideas on the
Desktop Improvements
project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
OOUI
now allows using
px
(pixels) instead of
em
em
) for some specific cases.
[646]
[647]
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 oktobro. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 oktobro. It will be on all wikis from 31 oktobro (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
30 oktobro at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January.
[648]
Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named
wg*
to
mw.config
. The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can
know more about it and tell the developers
if you want to try this out on your wiki first.
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Recent changes
At
Special:Contributions
you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the
URL
. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites.
[649]
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MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry
can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use
MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip
to set a different default block length for IP editors.
[650]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
6 November at 15:00 (UTC)
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Community Wishlist 2020
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La
Enketo pri Komunumaj Deziroj de 2020
estas nun partoprenebla! Tiu estas la procedo, per kiu komunumoj decidas tion, kion
la Komunuma Teknologia teamo
prilaboru la venontan jaron. Ni We encourage everyone submeti proponojn ĝis la templimo
11 novembro
, aŭ komenti aliajn proponojn por poluri ilin.
Ĉi tiun jaron, ni ekskluzive koncentras nian atenton sur pli malgrandajn projektojn (Vikilibron, Vikivortaron, Vikicitaron, Vikifontaron, Vikiversitaton, Vikispeciaron, Vikivojaĝon kaj Vikinovaĵojn).
Ni volas helpi tiujn projektojn kaj signife plibonigi diversajn komunumojn. Se vi estas ano de iuj el tiuj projektoj, bonvolu partopreni en la enketo! Por submeti proponojn, vidu la gvidnormojn en la
enketa paĝo
. Vi povas verki proponon en ajna lingvo, kaj ni tradukos ĝin por vi. Dankon, kaj ni esperas ke ni vidos viajn proponojn!
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MediaWiki2LaTeX
can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a
PDF
. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
13 November at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
Wikimedia will take part in
Google Code-in
. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can
. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.
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Problems
You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes
on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC)
. You can
see which wikis
. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the
centralauth
database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or
global renames
[651]
Changes later this week
You can soon vote on proposals for the
Community Wishlist Survey
. The survey decides what the
Community Tech team
will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can
about the format for this year.
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
20 November at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
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The mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the
desktop improvements
project. You can turn on
advanced mobile contributions mode
if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a
gadget or user script
[652]
Parsoid
is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can
report them
[653]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (
calendar
). This is because of holidays.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
27 November at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view.
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Mix'n'match
is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
4 December at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
There will be a new schema for
XML dumps
. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work.
[655]
The
{{REVISIONID}}
magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns
""
(empty string). When you read a page it returns
"-"
(dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces.
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Recent changes
Wikimedia projects use
Translatewiki
to translate the wiki interface. You can now use
WatchTranslations
to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language.
[657]
There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can
read the documentation
and
download the dataset
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
11 December at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
You can test a new
reference tool
. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the
beta cluster
. You can see
an example article
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Problems
The
Linter extension
helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an
API
problem. It is now working again.
[659]
Special:Watchlist
can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem.
[660]
Changes later this week
You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki.
[661]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
18 December at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
The
partial blocks
feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact
NKohli (WMF)
if you don't want it now.
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Tech News
Because of the
holidays
the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.
Recent changes
All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "
advanced mode
".
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Future changes
You can use
setlang
in the
URL
to change the
user interface language
. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if
Javascript
is not working in your browser.
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When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title.
[664]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 January. It will be on all wikis from 9 January (
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GRAVA: Administranto aktiveco recenzo
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Saluton. A politiko pri la forigo de "antaŭis rajtoj" (administranto, burokrato, ktp) estis adoptita de
tutmonda komunumo konsento
en 2013. Laŭ tiu politiko, la
stevardoj
estas revizii administrantoj 'aktiveco sur ĉiuj Vikimedia Fondaĵo vikioj sen senaktiveco politiko. Por la plej bona de nia scio, via vikio ne havas formalan procezon de migrado "antaŭis rajtoj" de senagaj kontoj. Tio signifas ke la administrantoj prizorgos ĉi laŭ la
Admin aktiveco revizio
Ni determinis ke la jenaj uzantoj renkonti la senaktiveco kriterioj (neniu redaktoj kaj neniu log agoj dum pli ol 2 jaroj):
Castelobranco (administranto)
Tiuj uzantoj ricevos sciigojn frue, petante ilin por iniciati komunumon diskuto se ili volas retener iu aŭ ĉiuj de iliaj rajtoj. Se la uzantoj ne respondi, tiam ilia progresinta rajtoj estos forigitaj per la administrantojn.
Tamen, se vi kiel komunuma ŝatus krei vian propran aktivecon recenzo procezo anstataŭante la suma, volas fari alian decidon pri tiuj neaktivaj rajtoj posedantoj, aŭ jam havas politikon kiu ni maltrafis, tiam bonvolu sciigi la
stevardoj sur Meta-Wiki
tiel ke ni ne scias, procedi kun la rajtoj recenzo en via vikio. Dankon, --
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You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old
TLS
. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to
downgrade attacks
. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the
browser recommendations
[665]
Special:LinkSearch
has been moved from the "Alidirektantaj specialaj paĝoj" section on
Special:SpecialPages
to the "Listoj de paĝoj" section.
[666]
Changes later this week
Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are Permesi nur aŭtomate konfirmitajn uzantojn and Permesi nur administrantojn. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see.
[667]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all wikis from 16 January (
calendar
).
Future changes
Deepcat
and
Catgraph
will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead.
[668]
You can use

to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad was shown outside the list. This will change and you will see an error message instead.
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Hello Folks,
Wiki Loves Love is back again in 2020 iteration as
Wiki Loves Folklore
from 1 February, 2020 - 29 February, 2020. Join us to celebrate the local cultural heritage of your region with the theme of folklore in the international photography contest at
Wikimedia Commons
. Images, videos and audios representing different forms of folk cultures and new forms of heritage that haven’t otherwise been documented so far are welcome submissions in Wiki Loves Folklore. Learn more about the contest at
Meta-Wiki
and
Commons
Kind regards,
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
Tulsi Bhagat
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 January. It will be on all wikis from 23 January (
calendar
).
Future changes
There is a
new suggestion
for what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work go faster. You can
give feedback
Pywikibot
is a Python
library
to automate work on wikis. It will no longer support
Python 2
. Use the
python2
tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can
get help
to do so.
[670]
The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The timing for this cut may change. You can discuss
in Phabricator
if this affects you.
[671]
You can
read about
coming technical events and mentoring interns.
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Movement Learning and Leadership Development Project
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Hello
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Community Development team is seeking to learn more about the way volunteers learn and develop into the many different roles that exist in the movement. Our goal is to build a movement informed framework that provides shared clarity and outlines accessible pathways on how to grow and develop skills within the movement. To this end, we are looking to speak with you, our community to learn about your journey as a Wikimedia volunteer. Whether you joined yesterday or have been here from the very start, we want to hear about the many ways volunteers join and contribute to our movement.
To learn more about the project,
please visit the Meta page
. If you are interested in participating in the project, please complete
this simple Google form
. Although we may not be able to speak to everyone who expresses interest, we encourage you to complete this short form if you are interested in participating!
--
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Problems
Some mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown. Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working on fixing it.
[672]
[673]
Administrators on wikis that use
Structured Discussions
can't move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing it.
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Problems
There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things.
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MediaWiki action API
is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work.
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new version
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Pages on Wikidata and Commons now load faster. You can read more about
page load performance
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Esperanto kaj Libera Scio (ELiSo) formale registrita!
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Kun granda ĝojo mi oficiale anoncas, ke "
Esperanto kaj Libera Scio
" (ELiSo), post jaroj de funkciado kiel neformala grupo, nun ekzistas ankaŭ kiel registrita, formala organizo!
La Ministerio de internaj aferoj de Slovakio, kiel la respondeca institucio pri tiaj registroj, nin registris la 23an de Decembro 2019 (pro granda laborŝarĝo de la ministerio tiutempe mi ricevis la konfirmon nur nun).
Tiu ĉi plia sukcesa paŝo provizas ankaŭ momenton por haltiĝi kaj iom rememori unuflanke, kaj rigardi en estontecon duaflanke. (sube estas nur koncizega superrigardo)
Ekde la unuaj pripensoj pri organizita grupo de Esperantlingvaj vikimedianoj elstare agadis precipe Ziko van Dijk (k.a. la unua instigo pri rekono laŭ tiam nova modelo de organizoj), Arno Lagrange (fina puŝo por rekono), Peter Baláž (k.a. morala, organiza kaj aliaj subtenoj), Marek Blahuš, Universero Trio kaj mi (oficialaj subskribintoj por la kontrakto pri rekono).
Specife por formala registriĝo laboris la Prepara komisiono (Michal Matúšov, Leidy Sandoval Galindez, Juan Quintero Santacruz, Ivan Quintero Santacruz, Mathieu Stumpf Guntz, Michel Castelo Branco, Nicolas Maia kaj Václav Zouzalík). Danke al tiuj ĉiuj homoj ni havis pretajn ĉiujn necesajn aferojn. La oficialaj fondintoj estas Michal Matúšov, Peter Baláž kaj Matthieu Desplantes. Mi deziris, ke pli multaj homoj, kiuj laboris pri la fondo povu esti oficialaj fondintoj (ili ja meritus tion), sed pro la koncernaj leĝoj ni bezonis Slovakianojn. Neoficiale ili ĉiuj tamen tenas tiun honoran lokon! Fine, al la fondo finance helpis Václav Zouzalík, efektive ebligante la fondon. Mi dankas al ĉiuj tiuj homoj, kiuj sindoneme laboris por venigi ELiSon al sekva nivelo!
Ne necesas emfazi, ke formala fondo estas nur unu el multaj paŝoj por atingi nian mision pri mondo, en kiu ĉiu homo povas libere partopreni en la tuta sciaro de homaro. Ni jam nun estas en kontakto kun la Komisiono pri aligitaj organizoj de la Fondaĵo Vikimedio kun la celo esti rekonitaj kiel Vikimedia Tema organizo (simila al Esperantaj Fakaj asocioj) en 2020, kun ŝanĝo de nomo supozeble al Vikimedio Esperanto. Post tiu rekono ni iĝos oficialaj reprezentantoj de Esperanto en la Vikimedia mondo. Kun TEJO ni antaŭnelonge planis komunan partoprenon en interkontinenta projekto kun subvencio de la Eŭropkomisiona programo Erasmo+; pro prokrastita fondo ni ne povis aliĝi, sed ni jam havas bazon por sekva partopreno. Estas antaŭ ni multa laboro kaj en certa tempo nin povos helpi ankaŭ pluraj dungitoj. Dum nia agado ni ne nur faros utilan kaj helpan laboron, sed ni ankaŭ disvolviĝos kiel organizo kaj ankaŭ kiel homoj; ni ankaŭ kontribuos al disvolviĝo de la Esperanta kaj la Vikimedia movadoj (kiel niaj "gepatraj"), sed ankaŭ al pli ĝeneralaj movadoj, kiel la liberkultura kaj la eduka - sur kies ŝultroj ni staras kaj kiuj subtenas nin. Fine, ni ankaŭ memoru, ke ni fakte estas pioniroj! Ni piedbatas kaj montras la vojon al aliaj, kiuj venos post ni, fondos siajn proprajn Esperantlingvajn Vikimediajn organizojn, lernos ankaŭ de ni kaj en sia niĉo suksesos espereble eĉ pli rapide ol ni faris.
La estonteco estas granda kaj vi estas bonvena (plu)kun-iri!
nome de la Prepara komisiono --
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Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug.
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If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for.
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When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on
Special:PasswordReset
. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security.
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On
Special:WhatLinksHere
you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to.
[683]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 marto. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 marto. It will be on all wikis from 5 marto (
calendar
).
Estontaj ŝanĝoj
The developers are working on a
new interface
to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can
give feedback
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There is a
vote
on the creation of a new user group called
abuse filter manager
. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage
was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can
read more and ask for help
. This affects 183 wikis. There is a
list
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Ricevu stipendion por Vikimanio en Tajlando
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Vikimanio 2020 okazos en Bankoko, Tajlando
Resumo
: Sendu vian stipendipeton al
neformala konsultilo
ĝis la 14a de Marto. Niaj aktivuloj ĝin konsultos kaj sendos al vi rimarkojn. Poste ĝin sendu al oficiala stipendi-petilo.
Vikimanio 2020
, la plej granda konferenco kaj festo de la Vikimedia movado, pli kaj pli proksimiĝas - ĝi laŭplane okazos la
5an-9an de Aŭgusto 2020 en Bankoko, Tajlando
La Fondaĵo Vikimedio denove provizas
stipendiojn por partopreno
. Ili kovras partoprenkotizon kaj loĝadon (okaze de parta stipendio) kaj aldone ankaŭ vojaĝon (okaze de plena stipendio). La celo de stipendioj estas igi Vikimanion pli sukcesa konferenco danke al partoprenigo de homoj, kiuj jam pruveble altkvalite kontribuis al la Vikimedia movado, povas siajn spertojn transdoni al aliaj partoprenontoj kaj mem pli spertiĝi.
Limdato
por peti stipendion estas la
17a de Marto 2020 enkalkulante
. Ĉiuj bezonataj informoj kaj
oficiala petilo
estas ĉe
wikimania:2020:Scholarships/eo
Estas rekomendinde unue atente legi la oficialajn informojn por kompreni kion indas skribi.
La organizo Esperanto kaj Libera Scio (ELiSo) volas, ke pli multaj esperantistoj povu partopreni en Vikimanio. Tial ni provizas
amikan konsultadon de stipendipetoj
. Pluraj el ni jam plurfoje sukcese ricevis stipendion, do ni havas certan komprenon kion kaj kiel skribi. Kaj ni pretas helpi vin, por plialtigi viajn ŝancojn! Ĉi-jare la konsultistoj estas Ziko van Dijk kaj KuboF Hromoslav.
Ni bezonas sufiĉan tempon por konsulti vian peton, adekvate respondi al ĝi kaj doni al vi sufiĉan tempon por povi adapti ĝin. Tial sendu vian kontribuon kiel eble plej frue, la
limdato estas la 14a de Marto 2020
Klaku al jena ligilo kaj plenigu la informojn:
Sukceson al via peto! Ni esperas renkonti vin en Bankoko!
KuboF Hromoslav kaj Ziko van Dijk
PS: Pro la nuntempa situacio pri kronviruso estas diskutata kion fari pri Vikimanio 2020. La fina decido estas planata por fino de Marto; dume validas, ke Vikimanio okazos.
--
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Do, fine pro la kronviruso la Vikimanio en Bankoko estas
oficiale ŝovita al 2021
. Tial en 2020 ne okazos Vikimanio (almenaŭ ne kiel ĉeesta renkontiĝo). Dume ne klaras kion fari pri la ĉi-jaraj stipendipetoj, sed la respondeculoj tion traktos en baldaŭa tempo. --
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There is a new search word called
articletopic
. You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon.
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calendar
).
Okazontaj ŝanĝoj
There is a plan for
new requirements for user signatures
. You can
give feedback
The
Wikipedia Android app
will do
push notifications
if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year.
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There is a new
API
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action=changecontentmodel
to specify the new model. You can read the
documentation on mediawiki.org
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The
new version
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calendar
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Future changes
If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is
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10 jaraĝa jubileo de Vikinovaĵoj
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La 18-an de marto
n:eo:Vikinovaĵoj en Esperanto
fariĝos dekjara! La unua artikolo estis
n:eo:Ĉilio: Tertremo kun magnitudo de 8,8 Mw, necerta la nombro de mortintoj
. Hodiaŭ Vikinovaĵoj informas pri la plej rimarkindaj internaciaj eventoj. La 13-an de marto aperis la sepcenta novaĵo kaj la aŭtoroj ne planas ĉesi per tio. Ĉiutage aperas unu, du aŭ eĉ tri novaĵoj, kio estas pli ol en la aglalingva aŭ franclingva sekcioj. Bedaŭrinde inter aktivaj aŭtoroj estas neniu kiu verkas pri la Esperanto-movado kaj tio evidente kaŭzas la maloftan aperon de novaĵoj pri kiel “vivas” Esperanto-mondo. De la alia flanko tio permesas eliri el la kadroj de la Esperanto-komunumo kaj prezenti neŭtralan vidpunkton pri okazaĵoj en la mondo. Estas reprezentantoj de malsamaj landoj inter la aktivaj aŭtoroj de Vikinovaĵoj, kio fakte estas kutima por Esperanto-projekto. Ni sincere gratulas al la aŭtoroj de Vikinovaĵoj pro ilia datreveno kaj invitas ĉiun partopreni en ĉi tiu projekto: Vikinovaĵoj estas la novaĵoj gravaj por ni. --
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en ruslingva parto de Vikinovaĵoj aperis intervjuo okaze de la datreveno:
n:ru:Станислав Белов: у эсперантистов совершенно иное образование, окружение и информационный фон
. --
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Lanĉita konkurso VikiPrintempo COE 2020 - patroprenu, helpu kaj gajnu!
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Partoprenu la konkurson en
Vikivojaĝo
kaj en
Vikipedio
Oni diras, ke ni pli bone konas malproksimajn galaksiojn ol proprajn najbarojn. Kaj tio estas bedaŭrinda! Tial
EliSo
lanĉas la konkurson
VikiPrintempo de Centra kaj Orienta Eŭropo 2020
- samtempe
en
Vikivojaĝo
kaj en
Vikipedio
. Mi invitas vin partopreni la konkurson - verki / traduki artikolojn, tiel helpi esperantistojn per plibonigitaj scioj pri tiu regiono kaj aldone eĉ gajni interesajn premiojn!
La konkursa parto daŭras
ĝis la 30a de Aprilo 2020 23:59 UTK
. La 3 venkontoj gajnos donackartojn valorajn
20-70 eŭrojn
kaj 2 ankaŭ
abonon de Vinilkosmo
kun (ne nur) Esperanta muziko.
Temas jam pri 4a jaro de la konkurso en Esperantaj viki-projektoj. Kompare kun la antaŭaj jaroj estas precipe 6 gravaj ŝanĝoj:
vi
povas
partopreni per artikoloj pri
via lando
- nur estas malpermesataj landoj, kie estas Esperanto oficiala lingvo (ne validas por landoj kun Esperanto kiel minoritata lingvo aŭ kultura heredaĵo)
la konkurso okazas
ankaŭ ĉi tie, en la Esperanta Vikivojaĝo
- por instigi vian partoprenon en Vikivojaĝo vi tie ĉi gajnas 2-oble pli multajn poentojn ol en Vikipedio!
Estas 2
specialaj kategorioj
kun aldonaj premioj - por artikoloj en
Vikivojaĝo
kaj pri
genra egaleco
ne estas starigita minimuma kvanto de aldonita enhavo po artikolo, nek minimuma bezonata kvanto de poentoj por venki (do vi povas venki eĉ per malpli ol 5 artikoloj, malsame ol lastjare)
pli gravas suma kvanto de nova kvalita enhavo ol nombro de artikoloj (vi povas venki ĉu per multaj relative mallongaj artikoloj aŭ per unu tre longa)
kalkulado de poentoj estas pli facila, do vi ne devas zorgi pri matematikaĵoj
Vi povis rimarki, ke la vorto "Vikivojaĝo" ĉi tie ripetiĝis plurfoje. Tio estas intenca! Ĉi-jare grava celo de la konkurso estas atentigi vin pri tiu projekto kaj helpi al disvolviĝo de ĝia komunumo. Vikivojaĝo nuntempe estas en
Vikimedia Kovilo
- kvankam ĝi redakteblas, ĝi ne estas memstara projekto sur propra subdomajno, kio alportas plurajn ĝenojn. Por plenkreskiĝi, Vikivojaĝo bezonas pli aktivan komunumon. Sperto de la Novembra evento "Azia monato" klare montras, kiom povas helpi homo veninta pere de tia ĉi konkurso. Vikivojaĝo bezonas vin! Tamen, ni konscias, ke ekredakti en nova projekto povas esti iom defia.
Por helpi al vi fari tiun unuan paŝon vi havos 2 avantaĝojn
- en Vikivojaĝo vi gajnos poentojn 2-oble pli rapide, kaj aldone povos ricevi specialan premion nur por Vikivojaĝantoj!
Tial mi instigas vin rigardi al Vikivojaĝo kaj partopreni tie. Eble ankaŭ vi post la konkurso ekŝatos la projekton ;-)
Partoprenu en Vikivojaĝo
Partoprenu en Vikipedio
PS1: Por resto de la jaro ni pripensas similajn eventojn pri aliaj kontinentoj. Tamen, dume nur VikiPrintempo COE estas konfirmita kaj provizas sufiĉe grandajn premiojn.
PS2: Se vi volas fari projekton pli celitan al Vikilibroj,
kontaktu EliSo-n
kaj proponu vian projekton aŭ proponon. Ni estas volontuloj, sed ni provos helpi laŭ niaj ebloj (kaj ankaŭ vi estas bonvena en la teamo ;).
--
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Problemoj
Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the
current pandemic
. You can see
the new deployment guidelines
. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed.
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 marto. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 marto. It will be on all wikis from 26 marto (
calendar
).
Okazontaj ŝanĝoj
There is
a project
to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by
checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata
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The beta version of the
Wikipedia app
for Android can now help users
add tags
on Commons. These tags are called
depicts
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 marto. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 aprilo. It will be on all wikis from 2 aprilo (
calendar
).
Okazontaj ŝanĝoj
The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed.
[696]
There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the
project page
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Tech News: 2020-15
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Plej novaj
teknikaj novaĵoj
el la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu sciigi aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos sur vin.
Tradukoj
estas haveblaj.
Problemoj
Ekzistis problemon pri nemontro de uzantopaĝoj en surtablaj komputiloj. Tio okazis pro cimo. Tio estas riparota baldaŭ.
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La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 7 aprilo. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 8 aprilo. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 9 aprilo (
kalendaro
).
Okazontaj ŝanĝoj
MediaVikio uzos pli novan version de
Unikodo
. Kelkaj skribsignoj, kiuj ne havis majusklajn ekvivalentojn antaŭe, nun havas majusklojn. Titoloj komenciĝantaj per tiuj skribsignoj estas movota. Listo de tiuj titoloj estas haveblaj
ĉe Phabricator
. La titoloj estas movotaj de la uzanto
Maintenance script
. Tio komencos je la 13a de Aprilo, 2020. Vi povas alinomi ilin antaŭ tio, se vi volas; la nova titolo povas esti alia ol tiu, al kiu la roboto alinomus.
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Teknikaj novaĵoj
preparitaj de
verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj
kaj afiŝitaj de
roboto
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19:01, 6 apr. 2020 (UTC)
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Tradukoj
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Lastaj ŝanĝoj
Vi nun povas uzi la serĉvorton
articletopic
en ĉiuj Vikipedioj. Ĝi serĉas artikolojn laŭteme.
[700]
Vi povas vidi vikiajn ilojn en la nova
Galerio de Iloj
[701]
Oni povas vidi redaktojn el
Vikimediaj Nubaj Servoj
en nova
stirpanelo
Kiam oni uzas filtrilojn en historia paĝo, oni kelkfoje ne vidas ajnan redakton. Nun teksto klarigas tion.
[702]
Ekzista nova
Vikimedia Teknika Blogo
[703]
Problemoj
Lastasemajne, ekzistis problemon pri la Vikidatuna datumbanko. Kelkaj vikioj ne funkciis dum 20 minutoj. Vikidatumoj kaj aliaj projektoj montris erarmesaĝojn. Intervikiaj ligiloj ne estis montrataj; kelkaj iloj ne funkciis; kaj aliaj problemoj okazis. Iuj el tiuj estis riparitaj rapide. La evoluigantoj estas riparantaj la restantajn problemojn.
[704]
[705]
[706]
Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne
La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 14 aprilo. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 15 aprilo. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 16 aprilo (
kalendaro
).
Okazontaj ŝanĝoj
Kelkaj grafoj ne funkciis en poŝaparatoj. Tio estas baldaŭ riparota.
[707]
La artikola langeto en diskutpaĝoj aŭ alidirektiloj estas ligita al la celo de la alidirekto. Ĝi povus anstae esti ligita al la alidirektiga paĝo mem. Vi rajtas
prikomenti pri tio
Pri paĝoj uzantaj
sintaksoreliefigon
, la uzo de la evitinda etikedo

aŭ de la evitinda parametro
enclose
enmetos spuradan kategorion.
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15:30, 13 apr. 2020 (UTC)
1a Ĝenerala asembleo de ELiSo okazos la 16an de Majo 2020
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Saluton.
La
1a Ĝenerala asembleo de Esperanto kaj Libera Scio
(ELiSo) okazos la
16an de Majo, ekde 18:00 UTK
La anonco estas ankaŭ en nia (provizora) retejo:
meta:Esperanto_kaj_Libera_Scio
La Ĝenerala asembleo estos virtuala por ebligi partoprenon de la tuta mondo. Precizajn instrukciojn por aliĝi ni dissendos en taŭga tempo antaŭ la Asembleo. Por ke vi certe estu sciigita, aliĝu al subtenantoj de ELiSo en
meta:Esperanto_kaj_Libera_Scio#People_interested
kaj al jenaj informaj kanaloj:
retpoŝta dissendolisto
(maloftaj gravaj anoncoj pri la organizo kaj foje pri vikimedi-movadaj aferoj)
Se viaj Esperantaj amikoj aŭ kolegoj interesiĝas pri Vikipedio aŭ libera scio, bv. plusendi al ili tiun ĉi mesaĝon! Ili certe aprezos.
Amike, nome de la Prepara Komisiono, --
KuboF Hromoslav
diskuto
15:15, 15 apr. 2020 (UTC)
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Tradukoj
estas haveblaj.
Teknikaj Novaĵoj
La sekva numero de Teknikaj Novaĵo estos publikigita je la 4a de Majo, 2020.
Lastaj ŝanĝoj
La
ilaro por malgrandaj vikioj
celas helpi malgrandajn vikiojn, kiuj postulas teknikajn kapablojn. Ili povas lerni kaj dissciigi teknikajn kapablojn.
[708]
Trokvalifikitaj CSS-elektiloj en Vikimediaj etosoj estis forigitaj.
div#content
estas nun
.mw-body
div.portal
estas nun
.portal
div#footer
estas nun
#footer
. Tio estas por la kapablo de etosoj uzi
HTML5
-elementojn. Se viaj uzantostiloj aŭ iloj uzis ilin, vi devas ĝisdatigi tiujn.
[709]
Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne
Ne ekzistas nova versio de MediaVikio ĉi-semajne.
Okazontaj ŝanĝoj
Kelkaĵoj en la vikioj eble misaspektos aŭ ne funkcios en
Internet Explorer 8
. Internet Explorer 8 estis eksigita je 2011.
[710]
La tiparo en la diferencoj estos ŝanĝita.
[711]
La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde la 28a de Aprilo venontsemajne. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde la 29a de Aprilo venontsemajne. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde la 30a de Aprilo venontsemajne (
kalendaro
).
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18:44, 20 apr. 2020 (UTC)
Technical maintenance planned
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(Sorry for using English. Please help translate to your language.)
A maintenance operation will be performed on Thursday 30th April at 05:00 AM UTC.
It impacts all wikis and is supposed to last a few minutes.
During this time, new translations may fail, and Notifications may not be delivered. For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check
on Phabricator
A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.
Please help making your community aware of this maintenance operation.
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This is a reminder of the message sent on Monday 27th April.
A maintenance operation will be performed on Thursday 30th April at 05:00 AM UTC.
It impacts all wikis and is supposed to last a few minutes.
During this time, new translations may fail, and Notifications may not be delivered. For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check
on Phabricator
A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.
Please help making your community aware of this maintenance operation.
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15:13, 29 apr. 2020 (UTC)
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Tradukoj
estas haveblaj.
Problemoj
Kelkaj vikioj
estos en nurlega reĝimo dum kelkaj minutoj en la 5a de Majo, Tio okazos ĉirkaŭ
05:00 UTC
. Tio estas pro mastrumado de la datenbankoj.
[712]
Kelkaj vikioj
estos en nurlega reĝimo dum kelkaj minutoj en la 7a de Majo. Tio efikos ankaŭ pri
CentralAuth
. Tio povas, ekzemple, kaŭzi problemojn pri mallokaj alinomadoj, ŝanĝado de pasvortoj, ŝanĝado aŭ konfirmado de via retpoŝta adreso, kaj ensalutado en novajn vikiojn. Tio okazos ĉirkaŭ
05:00 UTC
. Tio estas pro mastrumado de datenbankoj.
[713]
Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne
Vi povas ricevi sciigon, kiam oni kreas ligilon al paĝo kreita de vi. Vi povas malŝalti tiujn sciigojn por individuaj paĝoj.
[714]
La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 5 majo. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 6 majo. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 7 majo (
kalendaro
).
Teknikaj novaĵoj
preparitaj de
verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj
kaj afiŝitaj de
roboto
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16:59, 4 maj. 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-20
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Tradukoj
estas haveblaj.
Lastaj ŝanĝoj
Ĉiu nun rajtas enporti fotojn el
Flickr
al Komunejo per la
Alŝutilo
. Antaŭ tio, nur aŭtomat-patrolantoj en Komunejo rajtis enporti fotojn el Flickr.
[715]
Problemoj
Komunejo
estos en nurlega reĝimo dum kelkaj minutoj en la 12a de Majo. Tio okazos ĉirkaŭ
05:00 UTC
. Tio estas pro mastrumado de la datenbankoj.
[716]
Pluraj vikioj, inkluzive de Vikidatumoj,
estos en nurlega reĝimo dum kelkaj minutoj en la 19a de Majo
05:00 UTC
. La anglalingva Vikipedio estos en nurlega reĝimo dum kelkaj minutoj en la 21a de Majo
05:00 UTC
. Tio estas pro mastrumado de la datenbankoj.
[717]
[718]
Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne
La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 12 majo. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 13 majo. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 14 majo (
kalendaro
).
Okazontaj ŝanĝoj
JavaScript-programetoj kaj akcesoraĵoj ne plu povas kontroli ĉu pluraj ŝlosiloj ekzistas samtemep per
mw.config.exists()
aŭ
mw.user.tokens.exists()
. Vi povas uzi la metodojn
exists()
kaj
get()
por kontroli ŝlosilojn po unu por metodvoko.
[719]
Teknikaj novaĵoj
preparitaj de
verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj
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roboto
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20:40, 11 maj. 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-21
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Tradukoj
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Lastaj ŝanĝoj
Se vi forgesas vian pasvorton, vi povas peti por nova pasvorto sendotan al via retpoŝta adreso. Vi devas scii vian retpoŝtan adreson aŭ vian uzantnomon. Vi povas permesi, ke vi devos provizi kaj la retpoŝtan adreson kaj la uzantnomon. Tio estas ŝanĝebla prefero. Tio celas ricevon de malpli da pasvorto-restarigaj retmesaĝoj petataj de aliuloj. Tio estas nun havebla en ĉiuj Vikimediaj vikioj.
[720]
[721]
Problemoj
Ekzistas cimo, kiu ĝenas uzantojn de iPhone kun
iOS
13 kaj
Safari
. Se vi uzas iPhone por legi aŭ redakti Vikipedion kaj spertas cimojn en la poŝaparata retejo, vi povas
raporti ilin
[722]
Pluraj vikioj, inkluzive de Vikidatumoj,
estos en nurlega reĝimo dum kelkaj minutoj en la 19a de Majo
05:00 UTC
. La anglalingva Vikipedio estos en nurlega reĝimo dum kelkaj minutoj en la 21a de Majo
05:00 UTC
. Tio estas pro mastrumado de la datenbankoj.
[723]
[724]
Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne
La
Vikipedia aplikaĵo
por Android ebligas uzantojn
aldoni
montras-asertojn
en Komunejo. La beta-versio uzis
komputile helpatan etikedfiksadon
. Tio estis forigita por pli specifaj montras-assertoj.
[725]
Ne ekzistas nova versio de MediaVikio ĉi-semajne.
Okazontaj ŝanĝoj
Grafoj
estos bildigataj en la TTT-legilo. Tio uzos
Javascript
. Grafoj, espereble, funkcios pli bone por ĉiuj, tiuj uzas JavaScript. Tio ne funkcios por tiuj, kiuj ne uzas JavaScript.
[726]
Iom da CSS por la etosoj simpliĝis. Tio rilatas al
div#p-personal
div#p-navigation
div#p-interaction
div#p-tb
div#p-lang
div#p-namespaces
div#p-variants
, kaj
div#footer
. Ili ne plu havos la elementon
div
. Vi devos ĝisdatigi viajn akcesoraĵojn, programetojn, aŭ uzantostilojn. Tio estas pro la uzo de
HTML5
[727]
Iom da CSS por
la etoso Vector
ŝanĝiĝis. Tio rilatas al
#p-variants
#p-namespaces
#p-personal
#p-views
and
#p-cactions
. Tiuj ne plu povas uzi
> ul
. Vi eble devas ĝisdatigi viajn akcesoraĵo, programetojn, aŭ uzantostilojn.
Vidu la kielon
Teknikaj novaĵoj
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Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne
La vida redaktilo nun funkcias kun la
etoso Modern
. La ŝanĝoj postulitaj por ebligi tion eble kaŭzas problemojn por kelkaj programetoj aŭ akcesoraĵoj.
[728]
La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 26 majo. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 27 majo. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 28 majo (
kalendaro
).
Teknikaj novaĵoj
preparitaj de
verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj
kaj afiŝitaj de
roboto
Kontribui
Traduki
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Prikomenti
Aboni aŭ malaboni
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Tech News: 2020-23
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Tradukoj
estas haveblaj.
Lastaj ŝanĝoj
Ekzistas nova beta-versio de la
aplikaĵo de Vikimedia Komunejo
por Android. Ĝi havas novan funkcion por zomado, kiam vi spektas bildojn. Ĝi povas ankaŭ sugesti lokojn, kiam vi alŝutas fotojn kun geografiaj etikedoj.
[729]
Problemoj
Okazis problemo pri la datenbanko de Komunejo en la 27a de Majo. Komunejo ne estis redaktebla dum ok minutoj. Pro tiu problemo, la datenbanko estis movita. Tio kaŭzis alian mallongan nurlegeblan periodon en la 29a de Majo.
[730]
[731]
[732]
La
etoso Vector
havis problemon, ke vi ne povis aldoni ligilojn al la artikolo en aliaj lingvoj. Vi ne povis vidi la paragrafon, se ne jam ekzistis ligiloj al aliaj lingvoj. Tio ankaŭ forigis ligilojn al
traduko de enhavo
kaj al lingvaj agordoj. Tio estas nun riparita.
[733]
Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne
Vi povas esti sciigata kiam oni kreas ligilon al paĝo kreita de vi. Vi povas malŝalti sciigojn por individuaj paĝoj. Vi povas ankaŭ tuj malŝalti ilin en la sciigoj ricevitaj de vi.
[734]
La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 2 junio. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 3 junio. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 4 junio (
kalendaro
).
Teknikaj novaĵoj
preparitaj de
verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj
kaj afiŝitaj de
roboto
Kontribui
Traduki
Esti helpata
Prikomenti
Aboni aŭ malaboni
22:30, 1 jun. 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-24
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Tradukoj
estas haveblaj.
Lastaj ŝanĝoj
Kelkaj artikoloj havas tabelojn ordigeblajn diversmaniere. Ekzemple, listo de landoj povas esti ordigita alfabete, sed vi povas alklaki la kolumnon de grandoj por ordigi laŭ grandoj. Se vi alklakas duafoje, ĝi ordigas la la landojn malaorde. Nun, tria alklako restarigos la originalan ordon.
[735]
Sinfermantaj etikedoj
nun funkcias laŭ la specifoj de
HTML5

estas ekzemplo de sinfermanta etikedo. Ĝi estu

. Paĝoj kun tiu eraro estis listitaj en
spura kategorio
ekde 2016. Tiuj estos listitaj en
Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag
. Tio ne efikas sur

aŭ

[736]
Ekzistas rubando nomita
WikidataPageBanner
. Ĝi estas, ekzemple, uzata en Vikivojaĝoj, en la vikio de Vikimedio Rusio, kaj en la Katalunlingva, Eŭsklingva, Galeglingva, kaj Turklingva Vikipedioj. Ĝoi estos nun ankaŭ vidata de vizitantoj vizitantaj per poŝaparatoj. Antaŭ tio, la rubando estis nur videbla per surtablaj komputiloj. La vikioj ĝisdatigu instrukciojn en
MediaWiki:Sitenotice
, por ke redaktantoj scios kiel testi kaj stiligi por poŝaparatoj ankaŭ.
[737]
[738]
Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne
Vi povas nun redakti
AmasMesaĝo
-priskribojn per la
API
. Tio utilas al iloj kaj akcesoraĵoj.
[739]
La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 9 junio. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 10 junio. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 11 junio (
kalendaro
).
Okazontaj ŝanĝoj
Portempa riparo helpis vikiojn igi siajn ĉefpaĝojn pli poŝaparate uzeblaj. Tio ne estas rekomendata ekde 2017. Tio ne funkcios post la 13a de Julio. Vikioj uzu
Ŝablonajn Stilojn
anstataŭe. 118 vikioj devas ripari tion ĉi. Vi povas
legi kaj kontroli, ĉu via vikio estas riparenda
[740]
Teknikaj novaĵoj
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verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj
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21:11, 8 jun. 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-25
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Recent changes
Toolforge
hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from
tools.wmflabs.org
to
toolforge.org
. The routing scheme is moving from
tools.wmflabs.org/toolname
to
toolname.toolforge.org
. You can
read the details
. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can
ask for help
Problems
There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the
Monobook
skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed.
[741]
Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed.
[742]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (
calendar
).
Future changes
Pywikibot
is a Python
library
to automate work on wikis. It will not support
Python 2
after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can
ask for help
[743]
The selectors
.menu
and
.vectorMenu
will no longer work in the
Vector
skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts.
.menu
should be replaced by
ul
.vectorMenu
should be replaced by
.vector-menu
[744]
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Problems
There are some
new tools
to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on
some wikis
. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed.
[745]
Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to
CSS
selectors.
.vectorTabs
should be replaced with
.vector-menu-tabs
to fix this.
[746]
Changes later this week
The developers are working on a
new interface
to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can
give feedback
[747]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (
calendar
).
Future changes
A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use
TemplateStyles
instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can
read more and see if your wiki is affected
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Problems
Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now.
[749]
Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed.
[750]
Changes later this week
The
new version
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calendar
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Future changes
The
Modern
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Monobook
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searchGoButton
for the go button. This is
searchButton
for
Vector
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searchButton
in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use
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Feedback on movement names
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Saluton. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Please help translate to your language if necessary. Dankon!
There are a lot of conversations happening about the future of our movement names. We hope that you are part of these discussions and that your community is represented.
Since 16 June, the Foundation Brand Team has been running a
survey
in 7 languages about
3 naming options
. There are also community members sharing concerns about renaming in a
Community Open Letter
Our goal in this call for feedback is to hear from across the community, so we encourage you to participate in the survey, the open letter, or both. The survey will go through 7 July in all timezones. Input from the survey and discussions will be analyzed and published on Meta-Wiki.
Thanks for thinking about the future of the movement, --
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survey privacy statement
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The
Score
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 July. It will be on all wikis from 9 July (
calendar
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Future changes
Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can
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The
iOS Wikipedia app
developers are thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help them by
answering the survey
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rules for user signatures
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Lint errors
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Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia
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It is my honor to introduce Abstract Wikipedia, a new project that has been unanimously approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Abstract Wikipedia proposes a new way to generate baseline encyclopedic content in a multilingual fashion, allowing more contributors and more readers to share more knowledge in more languages. It is an approach that aims to make cross-lingual cooperation easier on our projects, increase the sustainability of our movement through expanding access to participation, improve the user experience for readers of all languages, and innovate in free knowledge by connecting some of the strengths of our movement to create something new.
This is our first new project in over seven years. Abstract Wikipedia was submitted as a project proposal by Denny Vrandečić in May 2020
after years of preparation and research, leading to a detailed plan and lively discussions in the Wikimedia communities. We know that the energy and the creativity of the community often runs up against language barriers, and information that is available in one language may not make it to other language Wikipedias. Abstract Wikipedia intends to look and feel like a Wikipedia, but build on the powerful, language-independent conceptual models of Wikidata, with the goal of letting volunteers create and maintain Wikipedia articles across our polyglot Wikimedia world.
The project will allow volunteers to assemble the fundamentals of an article using words and entities from Wikidata. Because Wikidata uses conceptual models that are meant to be universal across languages, it should be possible to use and extend these building blocks of knowledge to create models for articles that also have universal value. Using code, volunteers will be able to translate these abstract “articles” into their own languages. If successful, this could eventually allow everyone to read about any topic in Wikidata in their own language.
As you can imagine, this work will require a lot of software development, and a lot of cooperation among Wikimedians. In order to make this effort possible, Denny will join the Foundation as a staff member in July and lead this initiative. You may know Denny as the creator of Wikidata, a long-time community member, a former staff member at Wikimedia Deutschland, and a former Trustee at the Wikimedia Foundation
. We are very excited that Denny will bring his skills and expertise to work on this project alongside the Foundation’s product, technology, and community liaison teams.
It is important to acknowledge that this is an experimental project, and that every Wikipedia community has different needs. This project may offer some communities great advantages. Other communities may engage less. Every language Wikipedia community will be free to choose and moderate whether or how they would use content from this project.
We are excited that this new wiki-project has the possibility to advance knowledge equity through increased access to knowledge. It also invites us to consider and engage with critical questions about how and by whom knowledge is constructed. We look forward to working in cooperation with the communities to think through these important questions.
There is much to do as we begin designing a plan for Abstract Wikipedia in close collaboration with our communities. I encourage you to get involved by going to the project page and joining the new mailing list
. We recognize that Abstract Wikipedia is ambitious, but we also recognize its potential. We invite you all to join us on a new, unexplored path.
Yours,
Katherine Maher (Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation)
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Recent changes
Users can
thank
others for their edits.
Checkusers
can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify
sock puppets
who harass others using thanks.
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Problems
Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week.
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Wikis that are not for one specific language can
translate
pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a
pink background
. Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using

on the source page.
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (
calendar
).
Future changes
Wikimedia code review plans to use
GitLab
. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers.
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Recent changes
A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help
in Phabricator
. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News
2020/24
and
2020/26
Problems
There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution.
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Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events.
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Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a
browser cookie
problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details
on Phabricator
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 July. It will be on all wikis from 23 July (
calendar
).
Future changes
There is a
Presebla versio
link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway.
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Recent changes
The
Starter kit
is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this.
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The first features of the
Desktop Improvements
project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck
Uzu Malnovan Vektoron
in your
local
or
global
preferences in section
Etosaj preferoj
. More improvements are planned.
Feedback is welcome
On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget
directly from mediawiki.org
, end users can now
choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC
Problems
The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week.
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Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed.
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Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed.
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 (
calendar
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Problems
All queries to the
Wikidata Query Service
failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period.
[770]
Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in
Tech News two weeks ago
. The problem is now fixed.
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There is a problem with the
global preferences
for the "Uzu Malnovan Vektoron" option. Developers are working on fixing it.
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A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed.
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The
video player
will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed.
[774]
Users'
global.js
and
global.css
pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read
documentation
for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin.
[775]
In the
MonoBook
skin, the
searchGoButton
identifier is now
searchButton
. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in
T255953
. This was previously mentioned in
issue 27
Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses
counter
to prevent large archives was changed.
[776]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 5. It will be on all wikis from August 6 (
calendar
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Recent changes
FileImporter and FileExporter
became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact.
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Problems
The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in
Structured Discussions
and
content translation
may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it.
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Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 12. It will be on all wikis from August 13 (
calendar
).
Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
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Recent changes
If you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an
undo
tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else.
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The new
OOUI version
will not work with
Internet Explorer 8
. This means the wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was reported in
Tech/News/2020/17
. This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates other problems.
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Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 August. It will be on all wikis from 20 August (
calendar
).
Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis next week. This is a reminder. You can help by
translating the announcement message
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Important: maintenance operation on September 1st
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
will be testing its secondary data centre. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data centre on
Tuesday, September 1st 2020
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, September 1st. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
(15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday September 2).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the week of September 1st, 2020. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this.
Please share this information with your community.
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This is a reminder. All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 14:00 and 15:00 UTC. Please check on the details on
the announcement message
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There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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Normally pages can be moved to a title that has no existing page yet or to a page that has only one revision, which is a redirect to the page to be moved. A new user right allows editors to move pages over one-revision pages that redirect to anywhere.
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 September. It will be on all wikis from 10 September (
calendar
).
All MediaWiki
API
modules will now use
watchlist
instead of
watch
. This was inconsistent before.
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Future changes
The
Wikipedia Android app
team might work on patrolling tools in the future. You can let them know what tools would be useful for you or for less experienced patrollers. See the
page on mediawiki.org
OTRS
will be updated to a new version. This will probably take around two days. OTRS agents will not have access to the system during these days. Emails that come in during the update will be delivered when the update is done. The plan is to start around 08:00 UTC on 14 September. This could change.
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The Wikipedia Android app will send
push notifications
if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will need
Google Play Services
to work. It will also be possible to get the app without Google Play Services but push notifications will not work. Google Play Services is also used to make the app work for
Android 4.4
users.
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Wikimedia code review could move to
GitLab
. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. You can take part in the
consultation
Dropdown menus in
the Vector skin
use a
.menu
class. This will not work in the future. Scripts can use
nav ul
instead.
.vectorTabs
and
.vectorMenu
will also not work. Some scripts need to be updated. You can
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Invitation to participate in the conversation
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Saluton. 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. Dankon!
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
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The
Wikipedia apps
briefly showed pages without
CSS
last week. This meant they looked wrong. It was quickly fixed but cached pages without CSS were shown for a few hours.
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 September. It will be on all wikis from 17 September (
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Recent changes
There is a new tag for reverted edits. For example you can see it in the recent changes feed or in the article history. It is added to edits when they have been undone, rollbacked or manually reverted to an older version of the page.
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The number of times you can do something in a period of time on wiki is limited. This could be the number of edits per minute or the number of users you email in a day. Some users are not affected by all limits because of their user rights. They could soon see the limit even if it does not affect them.
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 September. It will be on all wikis from 24 September (
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Tech News: 2020-40
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Recent changes
Admins can now see links to diffs of deleted revisions on
Special:AbuseLog
. This uses the interface of
Special:Undelete
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Editors are automatically added to some user groups. For example editors are added to
autoconfirmed users
when they have edited enough times and long enough.
Abuse filters
can hinder users from automatically getting user rights for a period of time. They can also remove rights user have. Wikis can now ask to change how long this period of time is for their wiki
in Phabricator
. It is currently five days.
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Problems
Last year
some abuse filters stopped working because of a new change. If they tried to use variables that were unavailable for that action they would fail. This has now been fixed.
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Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 September. It will be on all wikis from 1 October (
calendar
).
Future changes
You can't see the language links to other language versions from the talk page or history page. They are also not shown when you edit an article. This could change. It is not decided if for example the history page should link to another history page or to the article. You can take part in the
discussion in Phabricator
The link colours could change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. You can
read more in Phabricator
In your preferences you can choose to get different notifications on the web or by email. You will see
Apps
as one of the alternatives later this week. This is because the
Android and iOS Wikipedia apps
will use push notifications for those who want them. You can see the
preferences
on the test wiki. The goal is to have push notifications on Android in October and on iOS in early 2021.
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You can soon put pages on your watchlist for a limited time. This could be useful if you want to watch something for a shorter time but don't want it on your watchlist forever. It now works on
mediawiki.org
and will come to more wikis later. You can
and
see when it will come to other wikis
You can see what Wikimedians think are the
best new technical tools this year
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Wiki of functions naming contest
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Saluton. Please help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki where the community can work together on a library of
functions
. The community can create new functions, read about them, discuss them, and share them. Some of these functions will be used to help create language-independent Wikipedia articles that can be displayed in any language, as part of the Abstract Wikipedia project. But functions will also be usable in many other situations.
There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with voting beginning on 29 September and 27 October. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on 8 December. If you would like to participate, then
please learn more and vote now
at meta-wiki. Dankon! --
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There is a
new tool
where you can see which home wiki users have in discussions on Meta. This can help show which communities are not part of the discussion on wikis where we make decisions that affect many other wikis.
You can now thank users for file uploads or for changing the language of a page.
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Problems
There were many errors with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new version was rolled back. Updates that should have happened last week are late.
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Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now.
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Many pages have
JavaScript
errors. You can
and now
see a list of user scripts with errors
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 October. It will be on all wikis from 8 October (
calendar
).
Letters immediately after a link are shown as part of the link. For example the entire word in
[[Child]]ren
is linked. On Arabic wikis this works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic letters will extend links on Arabic wikis.
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Future changes
You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on
27 October around 14:00 (UTC)
. It will probably be shorter than an hour.
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Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric
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Saluton. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Please help translate to your language.
Today the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees starts two calls for feedback. One is about changes to the Bylaws mainly to increase the Board size from 10 to 16 members. The other one is about a trustee candidate rubric to introduce new, more effective ways to evaluate new Board candidates. The Board welcomes your comments through 26 October. For more details,
check the full announcement
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Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last week's updates are also late.
[806]
[807]
[808]
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Live previews
didn't show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This has now been fixed. You can also test
CSS
and
JavaScript
pages even if you have the live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well.
[809]
[810]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (
calendar
).
Future changes
A new stable version of
Pywikibot
is coming soon.
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Tech News: 2020-43
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 October. It will be on all wikis from 22 October (
calendar
).
Future changes
You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on
27 October around 14:00 (UTC)
. It will probably be shorter than an hour.
[812]
In the
AbuseFilter
extension, the
rmspecials()
function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of
rmspecials()
with
rmwhitespace()
wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on
Special:AbuseFilter
to locate its usage.
[813]
Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID
#jump-to-nav
. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either
#siteSub
or
#mw-content-text
. A list of affected scripts is at the top of
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Important: maintenance operation on October 27
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic back to the primary data center on
Tuesday, October 27 2020
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, October 27. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
(14:00 WET, 15:00 CET, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 03:00 NZDT on Wednesday October 28).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the week of October 26, 2020. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
Please share this information with your community.
--
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You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on
October 27 around 14:00 (UTC)
. It will probably be shorter than an hour.
[814]
Last week, links to "diffs" from mobile watchlists and recentchanges were linking to page-revisions instead of diffs. This has now been fixed.
[815]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
Since the introduction of the
interface administrators
user group in 2018, administrators couldn’t view the deleted history of CSS/JS pages. Now they can.
[816]
There was a problem with the
Change Tags
. The software would apply the "Malfarita" tag to any page actions such as page-protection changes if they came directly after a reverted edit. This has now been fixed for new edits.
[817]
The
Reply tool
will be offered as an opt-in
Beta Feature
on most Wikipedias in November. Another announcement will be made once the date is finalized.
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Recent changes
You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser uses very old
TLS
. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It could lead to
downgrade attacks
. Since October 29, 2020, users who use old TLS versions will not be able to connect to Wikimedia projects. A list of
browser recommendations
is available. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects.
[819]
There is a new automatic
tracking category
available:
Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments
. It collects pages which use the
{{formatnum}}
parser function with invalid (non-numeric) input,
e.g.
{{formatnum:TECHNEWS}}
. Note that
{{formatnum:123,456}}
is also invalid input: as described in the
documentation
, the argument should be
unformatted
so that it can be reliably and correctly localised. The tracking category will help identify problematic usage and double-formatting. The new tracking category's name can be
translated at translatewiki
[820]
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 4. It will be on all wikis from November 5 (
calendar
).
Administrators and stewards will be able to use a special page (Special:CreateLocalAccount) to force local account creation for a global account. This is useful when account creation is blocked for that user (by a block or a filter).
[821]
The
Reply tool
will be offered as an opt-in
Beta Feature
on most Wikipedias on November 4. This change excludes the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias, plus a few smaller Wikipedias with special circumstances. You can read
the help page
and
the troubleshooting guide
for more information.
[822]
Future changes
A discussion has been restarted about using a Unicode minus sign (− U+2212) in the output of
{{formatnum}}
when it is given a negative argument.
[823]
In the future
IP addresses of unregistered users will not be shown for everyone
. They will get an alias instead. There will be a new user right or an opt-in function for more vandal fighters to see the IPs of unregistered users. There would be some criteria for who gets the user right or opt-in. There will also be other new tools to help handle vandalism. This is early in the process and the developers are still collecting information from the communities before they suggest solutions.
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Wiki of functions naming contest - Round 2
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Saluton.
Reminder: Please help to choose the name for the new Wikimedia wiki project - the library of functions. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are:
Wikicode, Wikicodex, Wikifunctions, Wikifusion, Wikilambda, Wikimedia Functions
. If you would like to participate, then
please learn more and vote now
at Meta-wiki.
Dankon! --
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Tech News: 2020-46
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There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
You can see
reference previews
. This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been a
beta feature
. It will move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be the first ones. You can
let them know
if your wiki is interested.
[824]
From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the
internationalisation library
. They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can
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Mi kreis Discord-servilon !
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Saluton,
mi kreis
en:Discord (software)
-servilon. Estas babilejo kie ni povas babili, skribe aŭ parolante, pri la vikimediaj projektoj. Vi povas aligi kun tiu ligilo :
[827]
. Nun, la servilo estas malneto, sed vi povas proponi plibonigojn.
Lepticed7
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Recent changes
Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a
library
. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can
[828]
[829]
Changes later this week
If you merged two pages in a
namespace
where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed.
[830]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 November. It will be on all wikis from 19 November (
calendar
).
Future changes
The
Community Wishlist Survey
is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the
Community Tech team
will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.
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Community Wishlist Survey 2021
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La
Enketo pri Komunumaj Deziroj de 2021
estas nun partoprenebla!
Tiu estas la procedo, per kiu komunumoj decidas tion, kion
la Komunuma Teknologia teamo
prilaboru la venontan jaron. Ni We encourage everyone submeti proponojn ĝis la templimo
30 novembro
, aŭ komenti aliajn proponojn por poluri ilin.
The communities will vote on the proposals between 8 decembro and 21 decembro.
La teamo de komunuma teĥnologio zorgas pri iloj por sperta Vikimediaj redaktuloj.
Vi povas verki proponon en ajna lingvo, kaj ni tradukos ĝin por vi. Dankon, kaj ni esperas ke ni vidos viajn proponojn!
SGrabarczuk (WMF)
18:09, 20 nov. 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-48
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Recent changes
Timestamps in
Special:Log
are now links. They go to Special:Log for only that entry. This is how timestamps work on for example the history page.
[831]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
The Wikimedia
Cloud VPS
hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to
claim projects
they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from 1 December. Unclaimed projects can be deleted from 1 January.
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Wikidata descriptions changes to be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist
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As you may know, you can include changes coming from Wikidata in your Watchlist and Recent Changes (
in your preferences
). Until now, this feature didn’t always include changes made on Wikidata descriptions due to the way Wikidata tracks the data used in a given article.
Starting on December 3rd, the Watchlist and Recent Changes will include changes on the descriptions of Wikidata Items that are used in the pages that you watch. This will only include descriptions in the language of your wiki to make sure that you’re only seeing changes that are relevant to your wiki.
This improvement was requested by many users from different projects. We hope that it can help you monitor the changes on Wikidata descriptions that affect your wiki and participate in the effort of improving the data quality on Wikidata for all Wikimedia wikis and beyond.
Note: if you didn’t use the Wikidata watchlist integration feature for a long time, feel free to give it another chance! The feature has been improved since the beginning and the content it displays is more precise and useful than at the beginning of the feature in 2015.
If you encounter any issue or want to provide feedback, feel free to use
this Phabricator ticket
. Thanks!
Lea Lacroix (WMDE)
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The
new version
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calendar
).
Future changes
The
iOS Wikipedia app
will show readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will first be shown only to some iOS app users as a
test
[833]
[834]
The
Wiki Replicas
can be used for
SQL
queries. You can use
Quarry
PAWS
or other ways to do this. To make the Wiki Replicas stable there will be two changes. Cross-database
JOINS
will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think this affects you and you need help you can
post on Phabricator
or on
Wikitech
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2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony on December 11th
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Hello all,
The ceremony of the 2020
Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award
will take place virtually on Friday, December 11th, at 17:00 GMT. This award is highlighting tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects, and the ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to the tools developers and maybe discover new tools!
You will find more information
here
about the livestream and the discussions channels. Thanks for your attention,
Lea Lacroix (WMDE)
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Recent changes
You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function.
[836]
[837]
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Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki.
[838]
[839]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all wikis from 10 December (
calendar
).
Future changes
You can vote on proposals in the
Community Wishlist Survey
between 8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the
Community Tech team
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Ŝablona peto
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Mi ŝatus uzi pli belan kaj interesan ŝablonon
Template:Associated Wikimedia
en esperanto jam ekzistas
Ŝablono:Projektoj
! Ĉu iu povus helpi min?
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Recent changes
There is a
Wikipedia app
for
KaiOS
phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too.
[840]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all wikis from 17 December (
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Community Wishlist Survey 2021
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We invite all registered users to vote on the
2021 Community Wishlist Survey
. You can vote from now until 21 December for as many different wishes as you want.
In the Survey, wishes for new and improved tools for experienced editors are collected. After the voting, we will do our best to grant your wishes. We will start with the most popular ones.
We, the
Community Tech
, are one of the
Wikimedia Foundation
teams. We create and improve editing and wiki moderation tools. What we work on is decided based on results of the Community Wishlist Survey. Once a year, you can submit wishes. After two weeks, you can vote on the ones that you're most interested in. Next, we choose wishes from the survey to work on. Some of the wishes may be granted by volunteer developers or other teams.
You can view and vote all proposals here.
We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!
SGrabarczuk (WMF)
00:51, 15 dec. 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-52
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Because of the
holidays
the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2021.
Recent changes
The
{{citation needed}}
template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added.
[841]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Future changes
You can
propose and discuss
what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
Some wikis use
LanguageConverter
to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a

tag that can convert a piece of text on a page.
[842]
Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in
Special:AbuseLog
. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January.
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Tech News: 2021-02
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Recent changes
You can choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the
CAPTCHA
. This has now been fixed.
[844]
You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry.
[845]
Admins can use the
abuse filter tool
to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later.
[846]
Oversighters
can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on
Special:AbuseLog
. This is how the usual revision deletion works.
[847]
When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
There is a new tool to
build new skins
. You can also
see
existing
skins
. You can
give feedback
[848]
Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the
watchlist
to
watch
will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database.
[849]
Scribunto's
file metadata
now includes length.
[850]
CSS
and
JavaScript
code pages now have link anchors to
line numbers
. You can use wikilinks like
w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50
[851]
There was a
new version
of MediaWiki last week. You can read
a detailed log
of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all wikis from 14 January (
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Tech News: 2021-03
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Plej novaj
teknikaj novaĵoj
el la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu sciigi aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos sur vin.
Tradukoj
estas haveblaj.
Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne
La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 19 januaro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 20 januaro. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 21 januaro (
kalendaro
).
Okazontaj ŝanĝoj
The
Growth team
plans to add features to
get more visitors to edit
to more Wikipedias. You can help
translating the interface
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on
26 January at 07:00 (UTC)
[852]
MassMessage
posts could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be timestamped you can
let the developers know
Teknikaj novaĵoj
preparitaj de
verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj
kaj afiŝitaj de
roboto
Kontribui
Traduki
Esti helpata
Prikomenti
Aboni aŭ malaboni
16:10, 18 jan. 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-04
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Problems
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on
26 January at 07:00 (UTC)
. You will not be able to read or edit
Wikitech
for a short time on
28 January at 09:00 (UTC)
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[854]
Changes later this week
Bracket matching
will be added to the
CodeMirror
syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January.
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new version
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Moving Wikimania 2021 to a Virtual Event
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Wikimania will be a virtual event this year
, and hosted by a wide group of community members. Whenever the next in-person large gathering is possible again,
the ESEAP Core Organizing Team
will be in charge of it. Stay tuned for more information about how
you
can get involved in the planning
process and other aspects of the event.
Please read the longer version of this announcement on wikimedia-l
ESEAP Core Organizing Team, Wikimania Steering Committee, Wikimedia Foundation Events Team
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Project Grant Open Call
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This is the announcement for the
Project Grants program
open call that started on January 11, with the submission deadline of February 10, 2021.
This first open call will be focussed on Community Organizing proposals. A second open call focused on research and software proposals is scheduled from February 15 with a submission deadline of March 16, 2021.
For the Round 1 open call, we invite you to propose grant applications that fall under community development and organizing (offline and online) categories. Project Grant funds are available to support individuals, groups, and organizations to implement new experiments and proven ideas, from organizing a better process on your wiki, coordinating a campaign or editathon series to providing other support for community building. We offer the following resources to help you plan your project and complete a grant proposal:
Weekly proposals clinics via Zoom during the Open Call. Join us for
#Upcoming_Proposal_Clinics|real-time discussions
with Program Officers and select thematic experts and get live feedback about your Project Grants proposal. We’ll answer questions and help you make your proposal better. We also offer these support pages to help you build your proposal:
Video tutorials
for writing a strong application
General
planning page
for Project Grants
Program guidelines and criteria
Program officers are also available to offer individualized proposal support upon request. Contact us if you would like feedback or more information.
We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Put your idea into motion, and
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Please feel free to get in touch with questions about getting started with your grant application, or about serving on the Project Grants Committee. Contact us at projectgrants
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IPv6 addresses
were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since
Special:Contributions
only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed.
[856]
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You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource.
[857]
Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background.
[858]
[859]
Wikis use
abuse filters
to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like
1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55
as well as the
1.2.3.4/27
syntax for IP ranges.
[860]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (
calendar
).
Future changes
Minerva
is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update
MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext
to work on mobile. You can
[861]
[862]
Cloud VPS
and
Toolforge
will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be
185.15.56.1
. This will happen on February 8. You can
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Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 is back!
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You are humbly invited to participate in the
Wiki Loves Folklore 2021
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.
Please support us in translating the
project page
and a
banner message
to help us spread the word in your native language.
Kind regards,
Wiki loves Folklore International Team
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Recent changes
The
Wikipedia app
for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app.
[863]
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You can see edits to chosen pages on
Special:Watchlist
. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The
GlobalWatchlist
extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on
Special:GlobalWatchlist
on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on
Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings
on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis.
[864]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (
calendar
).
Future changes
When admins
protect
pages the form will use the
OOUI look
Special:Import
will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones.
[865]
[866]
Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new
short links
, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your
reading lists
or recording
email bounces
. This is because of database maintenance.
[867]
Last week
Tech News reported that the IP address
Cloud VPS
and
Toolforge
use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead.
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Rezultoj de Kunsidoj de Ĝenerala asembleo de Esperanto kaj Libera Scio en 2020
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En 2020, la Vikimedia organizo
Esperanto kaj Libera Scio
havis 2 Kunsidojn de Ĝenerala asembleo, elektis novajn Estraron kaj Revizian komisionon kaj aprobis plurajn gravajn gvidjn dokumentojn.
Estraro:
Prezidanto: Michal Matúšov (
KuboF Hromoslav
Vic-Prezidanto: Ivan Camilo Quintero Santacruz
Estrarano: Juan Sebastian Quintero Santacruz
Revizia komisiono:
Prezidanto de la Revizia komisiono: Ziko van Dijk
Michel Castelo Branco
Yves Nevelsteen
Krome, gravaj dokumentoj estis akceptitaj:
Jara raporto 2019
Jara plano 2020
Jara buĝeto 2020
Jara plano 2021
Jara buĝeto 2021
Ĝenerale, la Jara plano prezentas minimumon da agado por koncerna jaro. Jam por tiuj ĉi agadoj ni serĉas aldonajn volontulojn (elde simplaj helpantoj ĝi ĉeforganizantoj), sed se vi volas aldone organizi ion plian,
kontaktu nin
! Danke al la tuta teamo, prezidanto
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Problems
There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned.
[869]
[870]
Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new
short links
, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your
reading lists
or recording
email bounces
. This is because of database maintenance.
[871]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (
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Proposal: Set two-letter project shortcuts as alias to project namespace globally
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Hello everyone,
I apologize for posting in English. I would like to inform everyone that I created a new global request for comment (GRFC) at Meta Wiki, which may affect your project:
m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally
In this GRFC, I propose that two-project shortcuts for project names will become a default alias for the project namespace. For instance, on all Wikipedias, WP will be an alias to the Wikipedia: namespace (and similar for other projects). Full list is available in the GRFC.
This is already the case for Wikivoyages, and many individual projects asked for this alias to be implemented. I believe this makes it easier to access the materials in the project namespace, as well as creating shortcuts like
WP:NPOV
, as well as helps new projects to use this feature, without having to figure out how to request site configuration changes first.
As far as I can see, Vikilibroj currently does not have such an alias set. This means that such an alias will be set for you, if the GRFC is accepted by the global community.
I would like to ask all community members to participate in the request for comment at Meta-Wiki, see
m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally
Please feel free to
ask me
if you have any questions about this proposal.
Best regards,
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Recent changes
The visual editor will now use
MediaSearch
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[872]
The
syntax highlighter
now works with more languages:
Futhark
Graphviz
DOT
, CDDL and AMDGPU.
[873]
Problems
Editing a
timeline
might have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly.
[874]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 February. It will be on all wikis from 25 February (
calendar
).
Future changes
There is a
user group
for developers and users interested in working on Wikimedia wikis with the
Rust programming language
. You can join or tell others who want to make your wiki better in the future.
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Wikis using the
Growth team tools
can now show the name of a newcomer's mentor anywhere
through a magic word
. This can be used for welcome messages or userboxes.
A new version of the
VideoCutTool
is now available. It enables cropping, trimming, audio disabling, and rotating video content. It is being created as part of the developer outreach programs.
Problems
There was a problem with the
job queue
. This meant some functions did not save changes and mass messages were delayed. This did not affect wiki edits.
[875]
Some editors may not be logged in to their accounts automatically in the latest versions of Firefox and Safari.
[876]
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 March. It will be on all wikis from 4 March (
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Wikifunctions logo contest
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Tech News: 2021-10
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Recent changes
Section translation
now works on Bengali Wikipedia. It helps mobile editors translate sections of articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis with a smaller number of articles. You can
test it
and
leave feedback
Flagged revisions
now give admins the review right.
[877]
When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article.
[878]
Problems
Many graphs have
JavaScript
errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing.
[879]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 March. It will be on all wikis from 11 March (
calendar
).
The
New Discussion
tool will soon be a new
discussion tools
beta feature for on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new discussions.
[880]
Future changes
There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates and those who create or maintain them. You can
Reference Previews
will become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a setting with
Page Previews
. If you prefer the Reference Tooltips or Navigation-Popups gadget you can keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown.
[881]
[882]
New JavaScript-based functions will not work in
Internet Explorer 11
. This is because Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can
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Recent changes
Wikis that are part of the
desktop improvements
project can now use a new
search function
. The desktop improvements and the new search will come to more wikis later. You can also
test it early
Editors who put up banners or change site-wide
JavaScript
code should use the
client error graph
to see that their changes has not caused problems. You can
[883]
Problems
Due to
database issues
the
Wikimedia Beta Cluster
was read-only for over a day.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 March. It will be on all wikis from 18 March (
calendar
).
Future changes
You can add a
newline
or
carriage return
character to a custom signature if you use a template. There is a proposal to not allow them in the future. This is because they can cause formatting problems.
[884]
[885]
You will be able to read but not edit
12 wikis
for a short period of time on
23 March at 06:00 (UTC)
. This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
You can use
Quarry
for
SQL
queries to the
Wiki Replicas
. Cross-database
JOINS
will no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can
post on Phabricator
or on
Wikitech
PAWS
and other ways to do
SQL
queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later.
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There is a
Wikipedia app
for
KaiOS
phones. They don't have a touch screen so readers navigate with the phone keys. There is now a
simulator
so you can see what it looks like.
The
reply tool
and
new discussion tool
are now available as the "Discussion tools"
beta feature
in almost all wikis except German Wikipedia.
Problems
You will be able to read but not edit
twelve wikis
for a short period of time on
23 marto at 06:00 (UTC)
. This can also affect password changes, logging in to new wikis, global renames and changing or confirming emails. This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 March. It will be on all wikis from 25 March (
calendar
).
Syntax highlighting
colours will change to be easier to read. This will soon come to the
first wikis
[887]
Future changes
Flagged revisions
will no longer have multiple tags like "tone" or "depth". It will also only have one tier. This was changed because very few wikis used these features and they make the tool difficult to maintain.
[888]
[889]
Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015 this was moved from
wg*
to
mw.config
wg*
will soon no longer work.
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Recent changes
Some very old
web browsers
don’t work
well with the Wikimedia wikis. Some old code for browsers that used to be supported is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers.
[891]
IRC recent changes feeds
have been moved to a new server. Make sure all tools automatically reconnect to
irc.wikimedia.org
and not to the name of any specific server. Users should also consider switching to the more modern
EventStreams
[892]
Problems
When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split. It might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a
job queue
problem.
[893]
Some translatable pages on Meta could not be edited. This was because of a bug in the translation tool. The new MediaWiki version was delayed because of problems like this.
[894]
[895]
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 March. It will be on all wikis from 1 April (
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Editors can collapse part of an article so you have to click on it to see it. When you click a link to a section inside collapsed content it will now expand to show the section. The browser will scroll down to the section. Previously such links didn't work unless you manually expanded the content first.
[896]
Changes later this week
The
citoid
API
will use for example
2010-12-XX
instead of
2010-12
for dates with a month but no days. This is because
2010-12
could be confused with
2010-2012
instead of
December 2010
. This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the
Extended Date/Time Format
[897]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 April. It will be on all wikis from 8 April (
calendar
).
Future changes
PAWS
can now connect to the new
Wiki Replicas
. Cross-database
JOINS
will no longer work from 28 April. There is
a new way to connect
to the databases. Until 28 April both ways to connect to the databases will work. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post
on Phabricator
or on
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Universal Code of Conduct – 2021 consultations
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The
Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC)
provides a universal baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire Wikimedia movement and all its projects. The project is currently in Phase 2, outlining clear enforcement pathways. You can read more about the whole project on its
project page
Drafting Committee: Call for applications
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The Wikimedia Foundation is recruiting volunteers to join a committee to draft how to make the code enforceable. Volunteers on the committee will commit between 2 and 6 hours per week from late April through July and again in October and November. It is important that the committee be diverse and inclusive, and have a range of experiences, including both experienced users and newcomers, and those who have received or responded to, as well as those who have been falsely accused of harassment.
To apply and learn more about the process, see
Universal Code of Conduct/Drafting committee
2021 community consultations: Notice and call for volunteers / translators
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From 5 April – 5 May 2021 there will be conversations on many Wikimedia projects about how to enforce the UCoC. We are looking for volunteers to translate key material, as well as to help host consultations on their own languages or projects using suggested
key questions
. If you are interested in volunteering for either of these roles, please
in whatever language you are most comfortable.
To learn more about this work and other conversations taking place, see
Universal Code of Conduct/2021 consultations
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Email to the Wikimedia wikis are handled by groups of Wikimedia editors. These volunteer response teams now use
Znuny
instead of
OTRS
. The functions and interface remain the same. The volunteer administrators will give more details about the next steps soon.
[898]
[899]
If you use
syntax highlighting
, you can see line numbers in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors when editing templates. This is to make it easier to see line breaks or talk about specific lines. Line numbers will soon come to all namespaces.
[900]
[901]
[902]
Because of a technical change there could be problems with gadgets and scripts that have an edit summary area that looks
similar to this one
. If they look strange they should use
mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.edit.styles')
to go back to how they looked before.
[903]
The
latest version
of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis last week. There was no Tech News issue last week.
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
The user group
oversight
will be renamed
suppress
. This is for
technical reasons
. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in two weeks. You can comment
in Phabricator
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Templates have parameters that can have specific values. It is possible to suggest values for editors with
TemplateData
. You can soon see them as a drop-down list in the visual editor. This is to help template users find the right values faster.
[904]
[905]
[906]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 April. It will be on all wikis from 29 April (
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Recent changes
Twinkle
is a gadget on English Wikipedia. It can help with maintenance and patrolling. It can
now be used on other wikis
. You can get Twinkle on your wiki using the
twinkle-starter
GitHub repository.
Problems
The
content translation tool
did not work for many articles for a little while. This was because of a bug.
[907]
Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen
around 06:00 UTC
. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes.
[908]
Changes later this week
Reference Previews
will become a default feature on a number of wikis on 5 May. This is later than planned because of some changes. You can use it without using
Page Previews
if you want to. The earlier plan was to have the preference to use both or none.
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (
calendar
).
Future changes
The
CSS
classes
.error
.warning
and
.success
do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in
MediaWiki:Common.css
or template styles instead.
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Registriĝu kiel interesiĝanto pri Erasmus+
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Kiel promesite en la
Jara plano 2021
, la Estraro de
Esperanto kaj Libera Scio
laboras pri partopreno en projekto subvenciata de Erasmus+ de la Eŭropa Komisiono.
Antaŭ ol mi povos provizi pliajn detalojn, mi ŝatus inviti vin registriĝi kiel interesiĝanto pri partopreno. Tio estas esprimo de ĝenerala intereso partopreni, vi ne devos partopreni jam sekvan projekton. Kiam laboro pri projekto pliprogresos, ni kontaktos unue ĉiujn interesiĝantojn, kiuj registriĝis.
Taskoj de partoprenontoj dependos de konkreta projekto kaj ili estos kominikitaj kun interesiĝantoj antaŭ konfirmo de partopreno. Kutimaj taskoj estas veturo al alia lando por trejnado aŭ alia edukado, kreado de eduka aŭ informa materialo (broŝuro, video ktp), eĉ trejnado de aliaj aktivuloj.
Utiligu vian oportunon kaj
registriĝu ankoraŭ hodiaŭ
Amike, Prezidanto
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calendar
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Future changes
You can see what participants plan to work on at the online
Wikimedia hackathon
22–23 May.
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Recent changes
There is a new toolbar in
the Reply tool
. It works in the wikitext source mode. You can enable it in
your preferences
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Wikimedia
mailing lists
are being moved to
Mailman 3
. This is a newer version. For the
character encoding
to work it will change from
UTF-8
to
utf8mb3
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[916]
An
earlier issue
of Tech News said that the
citoid
API
would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first.
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MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist
will be renamed
MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist
. The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles.
[918]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 May. It will be on all wikis from 20 May (
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The Wikimedia movement has been using
IRC
on a network called
Freenode
. There have been changes around who is in control of the network. The
Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts
have
decided
to move to the new
Libera Chat
network instead. This is not a formal decision for the movement to move all channels but most Wikimedia IRC channels will probably leave Freenode. There is a
migration guide
and ongoing Wikimedia
discussions about this
Changes later this week
The
new version
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Problems
There was an issue on the Vector skin with the text size of categories and notices under the page title. It was fixed last Monday.
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Unesko-konkurso por Junio 2021
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Paco naskiĝas en mensoj kaj koroj de homoj.
UEA kaj ELiSo / VMEO kunigis siajn fortojn por subteni disvastigon de tiuj ĉi valoroj kaj idealoj de Unesko per Esperanto, specife per artikol-redakta konkurso okazanta dum
Junio 2021
en la
Esperanta Vikipedio
Ĝian okazigon instigis rekte Unesko, kiu konsideras Vikipedion taŭga maniero por subteni sian mision. Ni montru al Unesko, kiom tio veras!
Kiel partopreni?
Legu la regulojn, verku / traduku novajn aŭ plibonigu jamajn artikolojn en la Esperanta Vikipedio pri Unesko kaj listigu viajn artikolojn en la konkursa paĝo. Fine UEA sendos premiojn por 5 venkintoj.
w:Projekto:Unesko 2021
PS: Se via amiko aŭ kolego interesiĝus, certe invitu lin / ŝin - vi scias, varbado ;-)
kunorganizanto
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calendar
).
Future changes
The Wikimedia movement uses
Phabricator
for technical tasks. This is where we collect technical suggestions, bugs and what developers are working on. The company behind Phabricator will stop working on it. This will not change anything for the Wikimedia movement now. It could lead to changes in the future.
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[922]
Searching on Wikipedia will find more results in some languages. This is mainly true for when those who search do not use the correct
diacritics
because they are not seen as necessary in that language. For example searching for
Bedusz
doesn't find
Będusz
on German Wikipedia. The character
isn't used in German so many would write
instead. This will work better in the future in some languages.
[923]
The
CSRF token parameters
in the
action API
were changed in 2014. The old parameters from before 2014 will stop working soon. This can affect bots, gadgets and user scripts that still use the old parameters.
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Universal Code of Conduct News – Issue 1
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Issue 1, June 2021
Read the full newsletter
Welcome to the first issue of
Universal Code of Conduct News
! This newsletter will help Wikimedians stay involved with the development of the new code, and will distribute relevant news, research, and upcoming events related to the UCoC.
Please note, this is the first issue of UCoC Newsletter which is delivered to all subscribers and projects as an announcement of the initiative. If you want the future issues delivered to your talk page, village pumps, or any specific pages you find appropriate, you need to
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You can help us by translating the newsletter issues in your languages to spread the news and create awareness of the new conduct to keep our beloved community safe for all of us. Please
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Affiliate consultations
– Wikimedia affiliates of all sizes and types were invited to participate in the UCoC affiliate consultation throughout March and April 2021. (
continue reading
2021 key consultations
– The Wikimedia Foundation held enforcement key questions consultations in April and May 2021 to request input about UCoC enforcement from the broader Wikimedia community. (
continue reading
Roundtable discussions
– The UCoC facilitation team hosted two 90-minute-long public roundtable discussions in May 2021 to discuss UCoC key enforcement questions. More conversations are scheduled. (
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Phase 2 drafting committee
– The drafting committee for the phase 2 of the UCoC started their work on 12 May 2021. Read more about their work. (
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Diff blogs
– The UCoC facilitators wrote several blog posts based on interesting findings and insights from each community during local project consultation that took place in the 1st quarter of 2021. (
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Logged-in users on the mobile web can choose to use the
advanced mobile mode
. They now see categories in a similar way as users on desktop do. This means that some gadgets that have just been for desktop users could work for users of the mobile site too. If your wiki has such gadgets you could decide to turn them on for the mobile site too. Some gadgets probably need to be fixed to look good on mobile.
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Language links on Wikidata now works for
multilingual Wikisource
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Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
In the future we
can't show the IP
of unregistered editors to everyone. This is because privacy regulations and norms have changed. There is now a rough draft of how
showing the IP to those who need to see it
could work.
German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC.
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All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 28 June. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
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The
otrs-member
group name is now
vrt-permissions
. This could affect abuse filters.
[931]
Problems
You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between
5:00 and 5:30 UTC
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new version
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Server switch
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, 29 June 2021. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
(07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday 30 June).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the week of June 28. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
Please share this information with your community.
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Recent changes
Wikis with the
Growth features
now can
configure Growth features directly on their wiki
. This uses the new special page
Special:EditGrowthConfig
[933]
Wikisources have a new
OCR tool
. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add
.ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; }
to your
common.css page
[934]
Problems
You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at
14:00 UTC
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[936]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 June. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (
calendar
).
Future changes
Threshold for stub link formatting
thumbnail size
and
auto-number headings
can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can
read more and give feedback
A toolbar will be added to the
Reply tool
's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users.
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2021 Board of Trustees election
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The
2021 Board of Trustees election
opens 4 August 2021. Candidates from the community were asked to submit their candidacy. After a three week long call for candidates, there are
20 candidates for the 2021 election
The Wikimedia movement has the opportunity to vote for the selection of community-and-affiliate trustees. The Board is expected to select the four most voted candidates to serve as trustees. Voting closes 17 August 2021.
The
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
oversees the Wikimedia Foundation's operations. The Board wants to improve their competences and diversity as a team. They have shared the
areas of expertise
that they are currently missing and hope to cover with new trustees.
How can you get involved?
Learn more about candidates
Organize campaign activities
Vote
Read the
full announcement
Best,
On behalf of the Elections Committee
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Recent changes
AutoWikiBrowser
is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses
JSON
Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage
has moved to
Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON
and
Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config
Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version
has moved to
Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON
. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes.
[939]
Problems
InternetArchiveBot
helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to
Wayback Machine
and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from
archive.is
to
web.archive.org
[940]
Changes later this week
The tool to
find, add and remove templates
will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year.
[941]
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There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
Some Wikimedia wikis use
Flagged Revisions
or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful.
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The tool to
find, add and remove templates
was updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It was supposed to come to the first wikis on 7 July. It was delayed to 12 July instead. It will come to more wikis later this year.
[944]
[945]
Special:UnconnectedPages
lists pages that are not connected to Wikidata. This helps you find pages that can be connected to Wikidata items. Some pages should not be connected to Wikidata. You can use the magic word
__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__
on pages that should not be listed on the special page.
[946]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 July. It will be on all wikis from 22 July (
calendar
).
Future changes
How media is structured in the
parser's
HTML output will soon change. This can affect bots, gadgets, user scripts and extensions. You can
. You can test it on
Testwiki
or
Testwiki 2
The parameters for how you obtain
tokens
in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can
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Recent changes
new version
of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis the week before last week. This was not in Tech News because there was no newsletter that week.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 July. It will be on all wikis from 29 July (
calendar
).
Future changes
If you use the
Monobook skin
you can choose to switch off
responsive design
on mobile. This will now work for more skins. If
⧼monobook-responsive-label⧽
is unticked you need to also untick the new
preference
Ŝalti adaptiĝeman reĝimon
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If your wiki uses markup like

or

without the required
dir
attribute, then these will no longer work in 2 weeks. There is a short-term fix that can be added to your local wiki's Common.css page, which is explained at
T287701
. From now on, all usages should include the full attributes, for example:

or

. This also applies to some other HTML tags, such as
span
or
code
. You can find existing examples on your wiki that need to be updated, using the instructions at
T287701
Reminder: Wikimedia has
migrated to the Libera Chat IRC network
, from the old Freenode network. Local documentation should be updated.
Problems
Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 30 minutes. There was a problem with generating dynamic lists of articles on the Russian Wikinews, due to the bulk import of 200,000+ new articles over 3 days, which led to database problems. The problematic feature has been disabled on that wiki and developers are discussing if it can be fixed properly.
[947]
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Changes later this week
When adding links to a page using
VisualEditor
or the
2017 wikitext editor
disambiguation pages
will now only appear at the bottom of search results. This is because users do not often want to link to disambiguation pages.
[949]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 August. It will be on all wikis from 5 August (
calendar
).
Future changes
The
team of the Wikipedia app for Android
is working on communication in the app. The developers are working on how to talk to other editors and get notifications. You can
. They are looking for users who want to
test the plans
. Any editor who has an Android phone and is willing to download the app can do this.
The
Beta Feature
for Discussion tools will be updated in the coming weeks. You will be able to
subscribe to individual sections
on a talk page at more wikis. You can test this now by adding
?dtenable=1
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Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee
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Movement Strategy announces
the Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee
. The Call opens August 2, 2021 and closes September 1, 2021.
The Committee is expected to represent
diversity in the Movement
. Diversity includes gender, language, geography, and experience. This comprises participation in projects, affiliates, and the Wikimedia Foundation.
English fluency is not required to become a member. If needed, translation and interpretation support is provided. Members will receive an allowance to offset participation costs. It is US$100 every two months.
We are looking for people who have some of the following
skills
Know how to write collaboratively. (demonstrated experience is a plus)
Are ready to find compromises.
Focus on inclusion and diversity.
Have knowledge of community consultations.
Have intercultural communication experience.
Have governance or organization experience in non-profits or communities.
Have experience negotiating with different parties.
The Committee is expected to start with 15 people. If there are 20 or more candidates, a mixed election and selection process will happen. If there are 19 or fewer candidates, then the process of selection without election takes place.
Will you help move Wikimedia forward in this important role? Submit your candidacy
here
. Please contact strategy2030
wikimedia.org with questions.
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05:00 UTC
. This is because of work on the database.
[950]
Changes later this week
The
Wikimania Hackathon
will take place remotely on 13 August, starting at 5:00 UTC, for 24 hours. You can participate in many ways. You can still propose projects and sessions.
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 August. It will be on all wikis from 12 August (
calendar
).
The old CSS

will not be supported after 12 August. Instead, templates and pages should use

. Please help to replace any existing uses on your wiki. There are global-search links available at
T287962
Future changes
The Wikipedia Library
is a place for Wikipedia editors to get access to sources. There is an
extension
which has a new function to tell users when they can take part in it. It will use notifications. It will start pinging the first users in September. It will ping more users later.
[951]
Vue.js
will be the
JavaScript
framework for MediaWiki in the future.
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Recent changes
You can add language links in the sidebar in the
new Vector skin
again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet.
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Problems
There was a problem on wikis which use the Translate extension. Translations were not updated or were replaced with the English text. The problems have been fixed.
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revision tag
will soon be added to edits that add links to
disambiguation pages
. This is because these links are usually added by accident. The tag will allow editors to easily find the broken links and fix them. If your wiki does not like this feature, it can be
hidden
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Would you like to help improve the information about tools? Would you like to attend or help organize a small virtual meetup for your community to discuss the list of tools? Please get in touch on the
Toolhub Quality Signal Sessions
talk page. We are also looking for feedback
from tool maintainers
on some specific questions.
In the past, edits to any page in your user talk space ignored your
mute list
, e.g. sub-pages. Starting this week, this is only true for edits to your talk page.
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 August. It will be on all wikis from 19 August (
calendar
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Universal Code of Conduct - Enforcement draft guidelines review
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The
Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee
would like comments about the
enforcement draft guidelines
for the
Universal Code of Conduct
(UCoC). This review period is planned for 17 August 2021 through 17 October 2021.
These guidelines are not final but you can help move the progress forward. The committee will revise the guidelines based upon community input.
Comments can be shared in any language on the
draft review talk page
and
multiple other venues
. Community members are encouraged to organize conversations in their communities.
There are planned live discussions about the UCoC enforcement draft guidelines:
Wikimania 2021 session
(recorded 16 August)
Conversation hours
- 24 August, 31 August, 7 September @ 03:00 UTC & 14:00 UTC
Roundtable calls
- 18 September @ 03:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC
Summaries of discussions will be posted every two weeks
here
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Recent changes
The
Score
extension (

notation) has been re-enabled on public wikis and upgraded to a newer version. Some musical score functionality may no longer work because the extension is only enabled in "safe mode". The security issue has been fixed and an
advisory published
Problems
You will be able to read but not edit
some wikis
for a few minutes on 25 August. This will happen around
06:00 UTC
. This is for database maintenance. During this time, operations on the CentralAuth will also not be possible.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 August. It will be on all wikis from 26 August (
calendar
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Read-only reminder
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A maintenance operation will be performed on
Wednesday August 25 06:00 UTC
. It should only last for a few minutes.
This will affect your wiki as well as 11 other wikis. During this time, publishing edits will not be possible.
Also during this time, operations on the CentralAuth will not be possible (GlobalRenames, changing/confirming e-mail addresses, logging into new wikis, password changes).
For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check
on Phabricator
A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.
Please help your community to be aware of this maintenance operation. Dankon!
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Recent changes
Some musical score syntax no longer works and may needed to be updated, you can check
Category:Pages with score rendering errors
on your wiki for a list of pages with errors.
Problems
Musical scores were unable to render lyrics in some languages because of missing fonts. This has been fixed now. If your language would prefer a different font, please file a request in Phabricator.
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The parameters for how you obtain
tokens
in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can
about this.
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 September. It will be on all wikis from 2 September (
calendar
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Future changes
You will be able to read but not edit
Commons
for a few minutes on 6 September. This will happen around
05:00 UTC
. This is for database maintenance.
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 13 September. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election has come to an end
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Thank you for participating in the
2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election
! Voting closed August 31 at 23:59. The official data, including the four most voted candidates, will be announced as soon as the
Elections Committee
completes their review of the ballots. The official announcement of the new trustees appointed will happen later, once the selected candidates have been confirmed by the Board.
6,946 community members from 216 wiki projects have voted. This makes 10.2% global participation, 1.1% higher than in the last Board elections. In 2017, 5167 people from 202 wiki projects cast their vote. A full analysis is planned to be published in a few days when the confirmed results are announced. In the meantime, you can check the
data produced during the election
Diversity was an important goal with these elections. Messages about the Board election were translated into 61 languages. This outreach worked well. There were 70 communities with eligible voters voting in this election for the first time. With your help, next year’s Board of Trustees election will be even better.
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Recent changes
The wikis that have
Growth features
deployed have been part of A/B testing since deployment, in which some newcomers did not receive the new features. Now, all of the newcomers on 21 of the smallest of those wikis will be receiving the features.
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Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
In 2017, the provided jQuery library was upgraded from version 1 to 3, with a compatibility layer. The migration will soon finish, to make the site load faster for everyone. If you maintain a gadget or user script, check if you have any JQMIGRATE errors and fix them, or they will break.
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Last year, the Portuguese Wikipedia community embarked on an experiment to make log-in compulsory for editing. The
impact report of this trial
is ready. Moving forward, the Anti-Harassment Tools team is looking for projects that are willing to experiment with restricting IP editing on their wiki for a short-term experiment.
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The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey will happen in January
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Hello everyone,
We hope all of you are as well and safe as possible during these trying times! We wanted to share some news about a change to the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. We would like to hear your opinions as well.
Summary:
We will be running the
Community Wishlist Survey
2022 in January 2022. We need more time to work on the 2021 wishes. We also need time to prepare some changes to the Wishlist 2022. In the meantime, you can use a
dedicated sandbox to leave early ideas for the 2022 wishes
Proposing and wish-fulfillment will happen during the same year
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In the past, the
Community Tech
team has run the Community Wishlist Survey for the following year in November of the prior year. For example, we ran the
Wishlist for 2021
in November 2020. That worked well a few years ago. At that time, we used to start working on the Wishlist soon after the results of the voting were published.
However, in 2021, there was a delay between the voting and the time when we could start working on the new wishes. Until July 2021, we were working on wishes from the
Wishlist for 2020
We hope having the Wishlist 2022 in January 2022 will be more intuitive. This will also give us time to fulfill more wishes from the 2021 Wishlist.
Encouraging wider participation from historically excluded communities
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We are thinking how to make the Wishlist easier to participate in. We want to support more translations, and encourage under-resourced communities to be more active. We would like to have some time to make these changes.
A new space to talk to us about priorities and wishes not granted yet
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We will have gone 365 days without a Wishlist. We encourage you to approach us. We hope to hear from you in the
talk page
, but we also hope to see you at our bi-monthly Talk to Us meetings! These will be hosted at two different times friendly to time zones around the globe.
We will begin our first meeting
September 15th at 23:00 UTC
. More details about the agenda and format coming soon!
Brainstorm and draft proposals before the proposal phase
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If you have early ideas for wishes, you can use the
new Community Wishlist Survey sandbox
. This way, you will not forget about these before January 2022. You will be able to come back and refine your ideas. Remember, edits in the sandbox don't count as wishes!
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What should we do to improve the Wishlist pages?
How would you like to use our new
sandbox?
What, if any, risks do you foresee in our decision to change the date of the Wishlist 2022?
What will help more people participate in the Wishlist 2022?
Answer on the
talk page
(in any language you prefer) or at our Talk to Us meetings.
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic back to the primary data center on
Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, 14 September 2021. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
(07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday, 15 September).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
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.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
Please share this information with your community.
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As we have
recently announced
, we, the team working on the
Community Wishlist Survey
, would like to invite you to an online meeting with us. It will take place on
September 15th, 23:00 UTC
on Zoom, and will last an hour.
Click here to join
Agenda
How we prioritize the wishes to be granted
Why we decided to change the date
from November 2021 to January 2022
Update on the
disambiguation
and the
real-time preview
wishes
Questions and answers
Format
The meeting will not be recorded or streamed. Notes without attribution will be taken and published on Meta-Wiki. The presentation (first three points in the agenda) will be given in English.
We can answer questions asked in English, French, Polish, and Spanish. If you would like to ask questions in advance, add them
on the Community Wishlist Survey talk page
or send to sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.
Natalia Rodriguez
(the
Community Tech
manager) will be hosting this meeting.
Invitation link
Join online
Meeting ID: 898 2861 5390
One tap mobile
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Recent changes
45 new Wikipedias now have access to the
Growth features
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A majority of Wikipedias
now have access to the Growth features. The Growth team
has published an FAQ page
about the features. This translatable FAQ covers the description of the features, how to use them, how to change the configuration, and more.
Problems
All wikis will be read-only
for a few minutes on 14 September. This is planned at
14:00 UTC
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Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 September. It will be on all wikis from 16 September (
calendar
).
Starting this week, Wikipedia in Italian will receive weekly software updates on Wednesdays. It used to receive the updates on Thursdays. Due to this change, bugs will be noticed and fixed sooner.
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You can add language links in the sidebar in
the new Vector skin
again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet.
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The
syntax highlight
tool marks up code with different colours. It now can highlight 23 new code languages. Additionally,
golang
can now be used as an alias for the
Go programming language
, and a special
output
mode has been added to show a program's output.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Future changes
The
Reply tool
will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "Discussion tools" in
Beta features
at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in
Editing Preferences
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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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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
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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.
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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 "Discussion tools" in
Beta features
at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in
Editing Preferences
See the list of wikis.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Voting for the election for the members for the Movement Charter drafting committee is now open
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Voting for the election for the members for the Movement Charter drafting committee is now open. In total, 70 Wikimedians from around the world are running for 7 seats in these elections.
Voting is open from October 12 to October 24, 2021.
The committee will consist of 15 members in total: The online communities vote for 7 members, 6 members will be selected by the Wikimedia affiliates through a parallel process, and 2 members will be appointed by the Wikimedia Foundation. The plan is to assemble the committee by November 1, 2021.
Learn about each candidate to inform your vote in the language that you prefer: <
Learn about the Drafting Committee: <
We are piloting a voting advice application for this election. Click yourself through the tool and you will see which candidate is closest to you! Check at <
Read the full announcement: <
Go vote at SecurePoll on:
Best,
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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
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Recent changes
The
Coolest Tool Award 2021
is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 27 October.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 October. It will be on all wikis from 28 October (
calendar
).
Future changes
Diff pages
will have an improved copy and pasting experience.
The changes
will allow the text in the diff for before and after to be treated as separate columns and will remove any unwanted syntax.
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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.
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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
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The Movement Charter Drafting Committee election and selection processes are complete.
The
election results have been published
. 1018 participants voted to elect seven members to the committee:
Richard Knipel (Pharos)
Anne Clin (Risker)
Alice Wiegand (Lyzzy)
Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom)
Richard (Nosebagbear)
Ravan J Al-Taie (Ravan)
Ciell (Ciell)
The
affiliate process
has selected six members:
Anass Sedrati (Anass Sedrati)
Érica Azzellini (EricaAzzellini)
Jamie Li-Yun Lin (Li-Yun Lin)
Georges Fodouop (Geugeor)
Manavpreet Kaur (Manavpreet Kaur)
Pepe Flores (Padaguan)
The Wikimedia Foundation has
appointed
two members:
Runa Bhattacharjee (Runab WMF)
Jorge Vargas (JVargas (WMF))
The committee will convene soon to start its work. The committee can appoint up to three more members to bridge diversity and expertise gaps.
If you are interested in engaging with
Movement Charter
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Telegram group
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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.
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06:00 UTC
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Future changes
In the future, unregistered editors will be given an identity that is not their
IP address
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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.
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There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne
La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 30 novembro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 1 decembro. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 2 decembro (
kalendaro
).
Teknikaj novaĵoj
preparitaj de
verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj
kaj afiŝitaj de
roboto
Kontribui
Traduki
Esti helpata
Prikomenti
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MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.
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calendar
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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.
[989]
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
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[[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
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Kunfestu la 20-an naskiĝtagon de la Esperanta Vikipedio!
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La Esperanta Vikipedio estis fondita antaŭ 20 jaroj, do ĉi-jare ni festas rondan "naskiĝtagon"!
Kaj ni volas festi ĝin kun vi! La organizo Esperanto kaj Libera Scio / Vikimedio EO tial organizas
VikiFeston
por la 18-a de Decembro 2021, do jam tre baldaŭ!
La festo estor virtuala (por ebligi tutmondan partoprenon) kaj senpaga (kvankam ni instigas al donacoj ;). Ankoraŭ vi povas proponi programeron (aparte se ĝi estas festa / amuza)! La festo okazas kun la subtitolo “
Preter 20 jaroj de la Esperanta Vikipedio
“, do ĝi temos ankaŭ pri aliaj projektoj kaj estonteco.
Aliĝu tuj senpage
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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.
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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
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claim projects
they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February.
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Upcoming Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections
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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
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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.
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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
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Kind regards,
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oauth_consumer
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AbuseFilter
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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.
[995]
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.
[996]
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
[997]
At wikis where
the Mentorship system is configured
, you can now use the Action API to get a list of a
mentor's
mentees.
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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.
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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.
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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
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new version
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calendar
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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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Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections is now open
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The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now open and will close on 7 February 2022.
With this Call for Feedback, the Movement Strategy and Governance team is taking a different approach. This approach incorporates community feedback from 2021. Instead of leading with proposals, the Call is framed around key questions from the Board of Trustees. The key questions came from the feedback about the 2021 Board of Trustees election. The intention is to inspire collective conversation and collaborative proposal development about these key questions.
Join the conversation.
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When using
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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.
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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
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Subscribe to the This Month in Education newsletter - learn from others and share your stories
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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 (
This Month in Education
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subscribing to the newsletter on your talk page
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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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calendar
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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.
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Events
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Coolest Tool Award 2021
and learn more about 14 tools which were selected this year.
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the proposals
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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. (
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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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The
Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines
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Universal Code of Conduct
across the movement. Comments about the guidelines can be shared here or
the Meta-wiki talk page
There will be conversations on Zoom on 4 February 2022 at 15:00 UTC, 25 February 2022 at 12:00 UTC, and 4 March 2022 at 15:00 UTC.
Join the UCoC project team and drafting committee members to discuss the guidelines and voting process
The
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See the voting information page for more details
Thank you to everyone who has participated so far.
Sincerely,
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announced
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supportsUrlLoad
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documentation
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new version
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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
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technical reasons
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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
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Community Tech team
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Tech News: 2022-06
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English Wikipedia recently set up a gadget for dark mode. You can enable it there, or request help from an
interface administrator
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instructions and screenshot
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Category counts are sometimes wrong. They will now be completely recounted at the beginning of every month.
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Problems
A code-change last week to fix a bug with
Live Preview
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vector
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vector-2022
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Leadership Development Task Force: Your feedback is appreciated
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The Community Development team at the Wikimedia Foundation is supporting the creation of a global, community-driven Leadership Development Task Force. The purpose of the task force is to advise leadership development work.
The team is looking for feedback about the responsibilities of the Leadership Development Task Force. This Meta page shares the proposal for a
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Feedback on the proposal will be collected from 7 to 25 February 2022.
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Purging
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The
new version
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calendar
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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
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Special:Nuke
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a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey
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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.
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Events
Community Wishlist Survey results
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The
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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,
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change tags
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a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey
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oversight
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Problems
The recent change to the HTML of
tracking changes
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Remember to Participate in the UCoC Conversations and Ratification Vote!
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vote in SecurePoll from 7 to 21 March 2022
is scheduled as part of the ratification process for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement guidelines. Eligible voters are invited to answer a poll question and share comments.
Read voter information and eligibility details.
During the poll, voters will be asked if they support the enforcement of the Universal Code of Conduct based on the proposed guidelines.
The
Universal Code of Conduct
(UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire movement. The
revised enforcement guidelines
were published 24 January 2022 as a proposed way to apply the policy across the movement. A
Wikimedia Foundation Board statement
calls for a
ratification process
where eligible voters will have an opportunity to support or oppose the adoption of the UCoC Enforcement guidelines in a vote. Wikimedians are invited to
translate and share important information
. For more information about the UCoC, please see the
project page
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frequently asked questions
on Meta-wiki.
There are events scheduled to learn more and discuss:
community panel
recorded on 18 February 2022 shares perspectives from small- and medium-sized community participants.
The
Movement Strategy and Governance
(MSG) team is hosting Conversation Hours on 4 March 2022 at 15:00 UTC. Please
sign-up
to interact with the project team and the drafting committee about the updated enforcement guidelines and the ratification process. See the
Conversation Hour summaries
for notes from 4 February 2022 and 25 February 2022.
You can comment on Meta-wiki talk pages in any language. You may also contact either team by email: msg
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Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting open from 7 to 21 March 2022
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The ratification voting process for the
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Universal Code of Conduct
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Voting commenced on SecurePoll
on 7 March 2022 and will conclude on 21 March 2022. Please
read more on the voter information and eligibility details
The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire movement. The revised enforcement guidelines were published 24 January 2022 as a proposed way to apply the policy across the movement. You can
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You can also comment on Meta-wiki talk pages in any language. You may also contact the team by email: ucocproject
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Hello!
The Movement Strategy and Governance team of the Wikimedia Foundation would like to invite you to the next event about "Regional and Thematic Hubs". The Wikimedia Movement is in the process of understanding what Regional and Thematic Hubs should be. Our workshop in November was a good start (
read the report
), but we're not finished yet.
Over the last weeks we conducted about 16 interviews with groups working on establishing a Hub in their context (
see Hubs Dialogue
). These interviews informed a report that will serve as a foundation for discussion on March 12. The report is planned to be published on March 9.
The event will take place on March 12, 13:00 to 16:00 UTC on Zoom. Interpretation will be provided in French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, and Portuguese. Registration is open, and will close on March 10. Anyone interested in the topic is invited to join us.
More information on the event on Meta-wiki
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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
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Recent changes
In the Wikipedia Android app
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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.
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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.
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The
new version
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calendar
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When
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uselang=qqx
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Specialaĵo:Forigi revizion
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deletelogentry
and
deletedhistory
rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the
deleterevision
right could access this special page.
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On the
Specialaĵo:Restarigi
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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.
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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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Leadership Development Working Group: Apply to join! (14 March to 10 April 2022)
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Thank you to everyone who participated in the feedback period for the
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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
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The Jupyter notebooks tool
PAWS
has been updated to a new interface.
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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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new version
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calendar
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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
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targeted wikis
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Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting is now closed
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The ratification voting process for the
revised enforcement guidelines
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Universal Code of Conduct
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here
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the voter information page
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on Meta-wiki
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new version
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Add a link
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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.
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new version
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calendar
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targeted wikis
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targeted wikis
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Administrators will now have
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11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey
On
selected wikis
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table of contents
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Desktop Improvements
project.
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Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes:
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errorbox
warningbox
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messagebox
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Kartographer
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FlaggedRevisions page stabilization
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pending changes
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Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 6
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Issue 6, April 2022
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Welcome to the sixth issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News! This revamped newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct, Movement Strategy Implementation grants, Board of trustees elections and other relevant MSG topics.
This Newsletter will be distributed quarterly, while the more frequent Updates will also be delivered weekly. Please remember to subscribe
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Leadership Development -
A Working Group is Forming! - The application to join the Leadership Development Working Group closed on April 10th, 2022, and up to 12 community members will be selected to participate in the working group. (
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Universal Code of Conduct Ratification Results are out! -
The global decision process on the enforcement of the UCoC via SecurePoll was held from 7 to 21 March. Over 2,300 eligible voters from at least 128 different home projects submitted their opinions and comments. (
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Movement Discussions on Hubs -
The Global Conversation event on Regional and Thematic Hubs was held on Saturday, March 12, and was attended by 84 diverse Wikimedians from across the movement. (
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Movement Strategy Grants Remain Open! -
Since the start of the year, six proposals with a total value of about $80,000 USD have been approved. Do you have a movement strategy project idea? Reach out to us! (
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The Movement Charter Drafting Committee is All Set! -
The Committee of fifteen members which was elected in October 2021, has agreed on the essential values and methods for its work, and has started to create the outline of the Movement Charter draft. (
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Also, a draft of the
2022-23 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan
has been published. Input is being sought on-wiki and during
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with Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander
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The new player
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targeted wikis
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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.
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The new player
has been a beta feature for over four years.
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The
new version
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calendar
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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.
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colorblind-friendly color scheme
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Recent changes
You can now see categories in the
Wikipedia app for Android
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Problems
Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed.
[1 049]
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.
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Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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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
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Future meetings
The next
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2022 Board of Trustees Call for Candidates
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The Board of Trustees seeks candidates for the 2022 Board of Trustees election.
Read more on Meta-wiki.
The
2022 Board of Trustees election
is here! Please consider submitting your candidacy to serve on the Board of Trustees.
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation's operations. 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 fill two seats on the Board in 2022. This is an opportunity to improve the representation, diversity, and expertise of the Board as a team.
Who are potential candidates? Are you a potential candidate? Find out more on the
Apply to be a Candidate page
Thank you for your support,
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progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias
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configure how this feature works locally
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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
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Future changes
You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons.
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Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages.
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The
www.wiktionary.org
portal page now uses an automated update system. Other
project portals
will be updated over the next few months.
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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.
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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.
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The
new version
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calendar
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Future changes
Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a
proposed technical policy
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Junia konkurso en Vikivojaĝo kaj rilata CentraAtentigo
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okazos konkurso speciale fasonita por helpi al partoprenontoj de Esperantaj renkontiĝoj. Mi ĝin organizas enkadre de Vikimedio EO. Por la konkurso ni partneras kun organizantoj de kelkaj gravaj Esperantaj renkontiĝoj, kaj ili ankaŭ provizas premiojn por venkontoj. Dum la konkurso ni / vi verkos / tradukos vojaĝajn gvidilojn pri lokoj / lingvoj, kiuj helpos al partoprenontoj de Esperantaj renkontiĝoj veturi al la renkontiĝoj pli facile, malmultekoste kaj ĝue. Mi mem kutime uzas (anglan) Vikivojaĝon dum mia veturado, sed la Esperanta versio dume ne estas uzebla por aparte multaj lokoj. Kaj ni volas tion ŝanĝi - ankaŭ per tiu ĉi konkurso
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Por varbi al la konkurso mi
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, kiu laŭplane montriĝadu dum Junio ankaŭ ĉi tie. Se vi havas komenton pri ĝi, bv. esprimu ĝin rekte en la peta paĝo, eĉ en Esperanto. --
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In the
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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.
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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.
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The
new version
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calendar
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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
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The
New Topic Tool
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Preferences
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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
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A new parser function will be introduced:
{{=}}
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equal sign
. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates.
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Revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines
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We'd like to provide an update on the work on the Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct. After the conclusion of the community vote on the guidelines in March, the
Community Affairs committee (CAC)
of the Board
asked that several areas of the guidelines be reviewed for improvements
before the Board does its final review. These areas were identified based on community discussions and comments provided during the vote. The CAC also requested review of the controversial Note in 3.1 of the UCoC itself.
Once more, a big thank you to all who voted, especially to all who left constructive feedback and comments! The project team is working with the Board to establish a timeline for this work, and will communicate this next month.
Members of the two prior
UCoC Drafting Committees
have generously offered their time to help shape improvements to the Guidelines. You can read more about them and their work
here
, as well as read
summaries of their weekly meetings in 2022
Wikimedians have provided many valuable comments together with the vote and in other conversations. Given the size and diversity of the Wikimedia community, there are even more voices out there who can give ideas on how to improve the enforcement guidelines and add even more valuable ideas to the process. To help the Revisions committee identify improvements, input on several questions for the committee’s review is requested. Visit the Meta-wiki pages (
Enforcement Guidelines revision discussions
Policy text revision discussions
) to get your ideas to the Committee - it is very important that viewpoints are heard from different communities before the Committee begins drafting revision proposals.
On behalf of the UCoC project team
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calendar
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A new
str_replace_regexp()
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abuse filters
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regular expression
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All wikis can now use
Kartographer
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pending changes
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new version
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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
).
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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
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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
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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
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Vector 2022
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The
Wikipedia App for Android
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).
[1 071]
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.
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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.
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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
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Wikimedia Enterprise
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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
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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.
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Users will be able to sort columns within sortable tables in the mobile skin.
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calendar
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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
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targeted wikis
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DiscussionTools
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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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In the
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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
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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 (
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Propose statements for the 2022 Election Compass
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Community members in the
2022 Board of Trustees election
are invited to
propose statements to use in the Election Compass.
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/disagree/neutral). 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 team. MSG will check that the questions are clear, there are no duplicates, no typos, and so on.
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance
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Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 7
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Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 7, July-September 2022
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Welcome to the 7th issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News! The newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the implementation of Wikimedia's
Movement Strategy recommendations
, other relevant topics regarding Movement governance, as well as different projects and activities supported by the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team of the Wikimedia Foundation.
The MSG Newsletter is delivered quarterly, while the more frequent
Movement Strategy Weekly
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Movement sustainability
: Wikimedia Foundation's annual sustainability report has been published. (
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Improving user experience
: recent improvements on the desktop interface for Wikimedia projects. (
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Safety and inclusion
: updates on the revision process of the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines. (
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Equity in decisionmaking
: reports from Hubs pilots conversations, recent progress from the Movement Charter Drafting Committee, and a new white paper for futures of participation in the Wikimedia movement. (
continue reading
Stakeholders coordination
: launch of a helpdesk for Affiliates and volunteer communities working on content partnership. (
continue reading
Leadership development
: updates on leadership projects by Wikimedia movement organizers in Brazil and Cape Verde. (
continue reading
Internal knowledge management
: launch of a new portal for technical documentation and community resources. (
continue reading
Innovate in free knowledge
: high-quality audiovisual resources for scientific experiments and a new toolkit to record oral transcripts. (
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Evaluate, iterate, and adapt
: results from the Equity Landscape project pilot (
continue reading
Other news and updates
: a new forum to discuss Movement Strategy implementation, upcoming Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election, a new podcast to discuss Movement Strategy, and change of personnel for the Foundation's Movement Strategy and Governance team. (
continue reading
Thank you for reading!
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Problems
The feature on mobile web for
Nearby Pages
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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
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Future changes
The
Technical Decision Forum
is seeking
community representatives
. You can apply on wiki or by emailing
TDFSupport@wikimedia.org
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The
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www.wikiquote.org
portal pages now use an automated update system. Other
project portals
will be updated over the next few months.
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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
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Changes later this week
The
new version
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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.
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Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "ŝanĝi forbaron" and "Malforbari IP-adreson/nomon" instead of just "Forbari uzanton" if the user is already blocked.
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Hello. To facilitate
steward
granting of bot access, I suggest implementing the
standard bot policy
on this wiki. In particular, this policy allows stewards to automatically flag known interlanguage linking bots (if this page says that is acceptable) or bots that fix double redirects. The policy also enables
global bots
on this wiki (if this page says that is acceptable), which are trusted bots that will be given bot access on every wiki that allows global bots.
This policy makes bot access requesting much easier for local users, operators, and stewards. To implement it we only need to create a redirect to this page from
Project:Bot policy
, and add a line at the top noting that it is used here. If you use or prefer to use a dedicated project page for handling bot flag requests, that is also acceptable. Please read
the text at Meta-Wiki
before commenting. If you object, please say so; I hope to implement in two weeks if there is no objection, since it is particularly written to streamline bot requests on wikis with little or no community interested in bot access requests. Thank you for your consideration. --
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The Affiliate voting process has concluded.
Representatives from each Affiliate organization learned about the candidates by reading candidates’ statements, reviewing candidates’ answers to questions, and considering the candidates’ ratings provided by the Analysis Committee. The selected 2022 Board of Trustees candidates are:
Tobechukwu Precious Friday (
Tochiprecious
Farah Jack Mustaklem (
Fjmustak
Shani Evenstein Sigalov (
Esh77
Kunal Mehta (
Legoktm
Michał Buczyński (
Aegis Maelstrom
Mike Peel (
Mike Peel
You may see more information about the
Results
and
Statistics
of this Board election.
Please take a moment to appreciate the Affiliate Representatives and Analysis Committee members for taking part in this process and helping to grow the Board of Trustees in capacity and diversity. These hours of volunteer work connect us across understanding and perspective. Thank you for your participation.
Thank you to the community members who put themselves forward as candidates for the Board of Trustees. Considering joining the Board of Trustees is no small decision. The time and dedication candidates have shown to this point speaks to their commitment to this movement. Congratulations to those candidates who have been selected. A great amount of appreciation and gratitude for those candidates not selected. Please continue to share your leadership with Wikimedia.
Thank you to those who followed the Affiliate process for this Board election. You may review the results of the Affiliate selection process.
The next part of the Board election process is the community voting period.
You may view the Board election timeline here
. To prepare for the community voting period, there are several things community members can engage with in the following ways:
Read candidates’ statements
and read the candidates’ answers to the questions posed by the Affiliate Representatives.
Propose and select the 6 questions for candidates to answer during their video Q&A
See the
Analysis Committee’s ratings of candidates on each candidate’s statement
Propose statements for the Election Compass
voters can use to find which candidates best fit their principles.
Encourage others in your community to take part in the election.
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance
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Volunteers in the
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vote for statements to use in the Election Compass
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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/disagree/neutral). 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: Volunteers 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
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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.
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GUS2Wiki
copies the information from
Specialaĵo: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
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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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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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The new [aboni] 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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The 2022 Board of Trustees election Community Voting period is now open
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Hi everyone,
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
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
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Invitation to join the Movement Strategy Forum
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Hello everyone,
The
Movement Strategy Forum
(MS Forum) is a multilingual collaborative space for all conversations about Movement Strategy implementation.
We are inviting all Movement participants to collaborate on the MS Forum. The goal of the forum is to build community collaboration, using an inclusive multilingual platform.
The
Movement Strategy
is a collaborative effort to imagine and build the future of the Wikimedia Movement. Anyone can contribute to the Movement Strategy, from a comment to a full-time project.
Join this forum with your Wikimedia account, engage in conversations, and ask questions in your language.
The Movement Strategy and Governance team (MSG) launched the proposal for the MS Forum in May 2022. There was a 2-month community review period, which ended on 24 July 2022. The community review process included several questions that resulted in interesting conversations. You can read the
Community Review Report
We look forward to seeing you at the MS Forum!
Best regards,
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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
Specialaĵo:Statistikoj
at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed.
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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
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The
new version
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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
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Teknikaj Novaĵoj: $jaro-$semajno
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Plej Lasta
teknikaj novaĵoj
de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri al aliaj uzantoj pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj influos vin.
Tradukoj
estas haveblaj.
Lastaj ŝanĝoj
La serĉaj serviloj estis altgradigita al nova grava versio. Se vi rimarkas ajnajn aferojn kun serĉanta, bonvolu raporti ilin sur
Phabricator
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Ŝanĝoj okazontaj ĉi-finsemajne
La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.Org ekde 13 septembro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj ekde 14 septembro. Ĝi estos sur ĉiuj vikioj ekde 15 septembro (
kalendaro
).
Sintakso-markigo
nun estas spurita kiel
multekosta analizila funkcio
. Nur 500 multekostaj funkciovokoj povas esti uzataj sur ununura paĝo. Paĝoj kiuj superas la limon estas aldonitaj al
spura kategorio
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Teknikaj novaĵoj
preparitaj de
verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj
kaj afiŝitaj de
roboto
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Lastaj
teknikaj novaĵoj
el la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri al aliaj uzantoj pri tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin.
Tradukoj
disponeblas.
Lastaj ŝanĝoj
Du datumbazaj kampoj en la
templatelinks
tablo estas nun falintaj:
tl_namespace
kaj
tl_title
. Ajnaj demandoj kiu fidas sur ĉi tiuj kampoj devas esti ŝanĝitaj por uzi la novan normaligan kampon nomita
tl_target_id
. Vidu
T299417
por pli da informoj. Tio ĉi estas parto de
normaligo
de ligaj tabloj.
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Ŝanĝoj okazontaj ĉi-finsemajne
La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.Org ekde 20 septembro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj ekde 21 septembro. Ĝi estos sur ĉiuj vikioj ekde 22 septembro (
kalendaro
).
En
Kartografaj
mapoj, vi povas uzi ikonojn sur signoj por oftaj punktoj de intereso. Marde, la
antaŭa ikona aro
estos ĝisdatigita al
versio maki 7.2
. Tio signifas, ĉirkaŭ 100 novaj ikonoj estos disponeblaj. Cetere, ĉiuj ekzistantaj ikonoj estis ĝisdatigitaj por klareco kaj fari ilin labori pli bone en internaciaj kuntekstoj.
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Estontaj ŝanĝoj
En
grupa diskuto ĉe Vikimanio
, pli ol 30 homoj parolis pri kiel fari kontentan partnerecan softvaron en la Vikimedia movado pli daŭrigebla. Kio speco de subteno estas akceptebla por volontulaj ellaborantoj? Legu la resumon kaj
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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
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[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?
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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
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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!
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Plej novaj
teknikaj novaĵoj
el la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu sciigi aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin.
Tradukoj
estas disponeblaj.
Lastaj ŝanĝoj
Parsoidaj klientoj devus esti ĝisdatigitaj por permesi al spaciala-apartigitaj multi-valoroj en la
rel
eco de ligoj. Pliaj detaloj estas en
T315209
Ŝanĝoj okazontaj ĉi-finsemajne
La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 27 septembro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 28 septembro. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 29 septembro (
kalendaro
).
Vidaj diffs
fariĝos haveblaj al ĉiuj uzantoj, escepte ĉe Vikivortaroj kaj Vikipedioj.
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Diskutpaĝoj en la movebla retejo
ŝanĝiĝos en la Araba, Bangla, Ĉina, Franca, Haitia Kreola, Hebrea, Korea kaj Vjetnama Vikipedioj. Ili devus esti pli facile uzeblaj kaj provizi pli da informoj.
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En la
Modulo
nomspaco, paĝoj finantaj kun
.json
estos traktitaj kiel JSON, tiel, kiel ili jam estas en la Uzanto kaj MediaWiki nomspacoj.
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preparitaj de
verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj
kaj afiŝitaj de
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Tradukoj
estas haveblaj.
Lastaj ŝanĝoj
Kartografaj
mapoj nun povas montri geopunktoj el Vikidata, tra QID aŭ SPARQL demando. Antaŭe, tio ĉi estis nur ebla por geoformoj kaj geolinioj.
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La
Plej bona Ilo Premio 2022
estas serĉanta nomumojn. Vi povas rekomendi ilojn ĝis la 12a de oktobro.
Ŝanĝoj okazontaj ĉi-finsemajne
La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.Org ekde 4 oktobro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj ekde 5 oktobro. Ĝi estos sur ĉiuj vikioj ekde 6 oktobro (
kalendaro
).
Diskutpaĝoj en la movebla retejo
ŝanĝiĝos en la Araba, Bangla, Ĉina, Franca, Haitia Kreola, Hebrea, Korea kaj Vjetnama Vikipedioj. Ili devus esti pli facile uzeblaj kaj provizi pli da informoj. (La liberigo de la pasinta semajno estis prokrastita)
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La
scribunto-console
API modulo postulos
CSRF token
. Ĉi tiu modulo estas dokumentita kiel interna, kaj uzo de ĝi ne estas subtenita.
[5]
La Vektoro 2022 haŭto fariĝos la sendependa trans la plej malgranda Vikimediaj projektoj.
Lerni pli
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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.
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Malferma letero: plibonigu la Vikimedian Komunejon!
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Saluton, Vikimedia Komunejo bezonas riparadon. Nun ekzistas malferma letero kiu alvokas la WMF multe investi, plibonigi la platformon kaj pensi pri gxia estonteco.
Bonvolu rigardi la leteron kaj konsideru subskribi.
Sincere,
Ziko
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Plej lastaj
teknikaj novaĵoj
el la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu sciigi al aliaj uzantoj pri tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin.
Tradukoj
estas haveblaj.
Lastaj ŝanĝoj
La ĵus efektivigita trajto de
artikolaj bildetoj en Specialaĵo:Serĉo
estos nur limigitaj al Vikipediaj projektoj. Pliaj detaloj estas en
T320510
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Cimo kiu kaŭzis problemojn en ŝarĝanta artikola bildeto en Specialaĵo:Serĉo estis riparita. Pliaj detaloj estas en
T320406
Ŝanĝoj okazontaj ĉi-semajne
La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 18 oktobro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 19 oktobro. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 20 oktobro (
kalendaro
).
Lua kapsulaj aŭtoroj povas uzi
mw.loadJsonData()
por ŝarĝi datumon el JSONaj paĝoj.
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Lua kapsulaj aŭtoroj povas ebligi
require( "strict" )
por aldoni erarojn por kelkaj eblaj kodaj problemoj. Tiu ĉi anstataŭas "
Kapsulo:Neniu tuto
" sur plejmultaj vikioj.
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Estontaj ŝanĝoj
La
Beta Ero
por
DiscussionTools
estos ĝisdatigita ĉe plejpartoj de vikioj. La "$responda "$butono" malsamos post la jena ŝanĝo.
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Teknikaj novaĵoj
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verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj
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disponeblas.
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Estis kelkaj negravaj vidaj korektoj en Specialaĵo:Serĉo, koncerne aŭda ludanta vicigo kaj bilda lokokupila alteco. Pliaj detaloj estas en
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Sur Vikipedios, nova
prefero
estis aldonita por kaŝi artikolajn bildetojn en Specialaĵo:Serĉo. Plenaj detaloj estas en
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Problemoj
Lasta semajne, tri vikioj (Franca Vikipedio, Japana Vikipedio, Rusa Vikipedio) legis-nur aliron dum 25 minutoj. Tion ĉi kaŭzis la aparatara problemo.
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Ŝanĝoj okazintaj ĉi-finsemajne
La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.Org ekde 25 oktobro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 26 oktobro. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 27 oktobro (
kalendaro
).
Kelkaj vikioj estos nur en legita dum kelkaj minutoj pro ŝalto de ilia ĉefa datumaro. Ĝi estos elfarita sur 25 oktobro ĉe 07:00 UTC (
celitaj vikioj
) kaj sur 27 oktobro ĉe 7:00 UTC (
celitaj vikioj
).
Komencante merkredon, nova aro de Vikipedioj akiros "
Almeti ligon
" (Asama Vikipedio, Baŝkira Vikipedio, Balia Vikipedio, Bavara Vikipedio, Samogitian Wikipedia, Bikol Central Wikipedia, Belorusa Vikipedio, Belarusian (Taraškievica) Wikipedia, Bulgara Vikipedio, Bhojpuri Wikipedia, Bislama Vikipedio, Banjar Wikipedia, Bambara Vikipedio, Bishnupriya Wikipedia, Bretona Vikipedio, Bosna Vikipedio, Buginese Wikipedia, Buryat Wikipedia, Indonezia Vikipedio). Tio ĉi estas parto de la
progresa deplojo de ĉi tiu ilo al pli da Vikipedioj
. La komunumoj povas
formi kiel ĉi tiu trajto laboras loke
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Komencante merkredon la 26a de oktobro, 2022, la listo de mentoroj estos altgradigita
ĉe vikioj kie Kreskiga mentorado estas havebla
. La sistemo de mentorado daŭros la laboron kiel nun. La aliĝa procezo
estos anstataŭigita
kaj nova administrada opcio estos provizita. Ankaŭ, ĉi tiu ŝanĝo simpligas
la kreon de mentoraj sistemoj ĉe Vikipedioj
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Paĝoj kun titoloj, kiuj komencas kun pli malalta-kaza litero laŭ Unicode 11 estos renomitaj aŭ forigitaj. Estas listo de tuŝitaj paĝoj ĉe
m:Unicode 11 case map migration
. Pliaj informoj povas esti trovitaj ĉe
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La Vektoro 2022 haŭto fariĝos la sendependa trans la plej malgrandaj Vikimedioj.
Lerni pli
Estontaj ŝanĝoj
La
Responda ilo
kaj
Nova Tema ilo
baldaŭ akiros
menuon de specialaj karakteroj
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preparitaj de
verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj
kaj afiŝitaj de
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el la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri al aliaj uzantoj pri tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin.
Tradukoj
disponeblas.
Lastaj ŝanĝoj
Dum la uzo de klavara navigado sur
Kartografa
mapo, la fokuso fariĝos pli videbla.
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En Specialaĵo:Lastaj ŝanĝoj, vi nun povas kaŝi la enirojn por novaj uzantaj kreaĵoj kun la filtrilo por "⧼rcfilters-filter-newuserlogactions-label⧽".
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La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 1 novembro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 2 novembro. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 3 novembro (
kalendaro
).
La
mapaj dialogoj
en VisualEditor akiras kelkajn helpajn tekstojn.
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Eblas nun elekti la lingvon de
Kartografa
mapo en VisualEditor tra malsuprila menuo.
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Eblas nun aldoni titolon al
Kartografa
mapo en VisualEditor.
[1 127]
Eblas nun kaŝi la kadron de
Kartografa
mapo en VisualEditor.
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Teknikaj novaĵoj
preparitaj de
verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj
kaj afiŝitaj de
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Hello all,
During the 2022 Wikimedia Summit, the
Movement Charter Drafting Committee
(MCDC) presented the first outline of the Movement Charter, giving a glimpse on the direction of its future work, and the Charter itself. The MCDC then integrated the initial feedback collected during the Summit. Before proceeding with writing the Charter for the whole Movement, the MCDC wants to interact with community members and gather feedback on the drafts of the three sections: Preamble, Values & Principles, and Roles & Responsibilities (intentions statement). The Movement Charter drafts will be available on the Meta page
here
on November 14, 2022. Community wide consultation period on MC will take place from November 20 to December 18, 2022. Learn more about it
here
With the goal of ensuring that people are well informed to fully participate in the conversations and are empowered to contribute their perspective on the Movement Charter, three
“Ask Me Anything about Movement Charter"
sessions have been scheduled in different time zones. Everyone in the Wikimedia Movement is invited to attend these conversations. The aim is to learn about Movement Charter - its goal, purpose, why it matters, and how it impacts your community. MCDC members will attend these sessions to answer your questions and hear community feedback.
The “Ask Me Anything” sessions accommodate communities from different time zones. Only the presentation of the session is recorded and shared afterwards, no recording of conversations. Below is the list of planned events:
Asia/Pacific
: November 4, 2022 at 09:00 UTC (
your local time
). Interpretation is available in Chinese and Japanese.
Europe/MENA/Sub Saharan Africa
: November 12, 2022 at 15:00 UTC (
your local time
). Interpretation is available in Arabic, French and Russian.
North and South America/ Western Europe
: November 12, 2022 at 15:00 UTC (
your local time
). Interpretation is available in Spanish and Portuguese.
On the
Meta page
you will find more details; Zoom links will be shared 48 hours ahead of the call.
Call for Movement Charter Ambassadors
Individuals or groups from all communities who wish to help include and start conversations in their communities on the Movement Charter are encouraged to become
Movement Charter Ambassadors
(MC Ambassadors). MC Ambassadors will carry out their own activities and get financial support for enabling conversations in their own languages.
Regional facilitators
from the Movement Strategy and Governance team are available to support applicants with MC Ambassadors grantmaking. If you are interested please sign up
here
. Should you have specific questions, please reach out to the MSG team via email: strategy2030@wikimedia.org or on the MS forum.
We thank you for your time and participation.
On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee,
MNadzikiewicz (WMF)
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Ĝisdatigita versio de la
Eventa Registriĝa
ilo estas nun havebla por elprovo ĉe
testwiki
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test2wiki
. La ilo provizas trajtojn por eventaj organizantoj kaj partoprenantoj. Via retrosciigo estas bonvena ĉe nia
projekta diskutpaĝo
. Pliaj informoj pri
la projekto
estas haveblaj.
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Problemoj
Dufoje lasta semajne, por almenaŭ 45 minutoj, kelkaj dosieroj kaj bildetoj malsukcesis ŝarĝi kaj alŝutoj maleblis, plejparte por enregistritaj uzantoj. La kaŭzo estas esplorita kaj raporto pri incidento estos disponebla baldaŭ.
Ŝanĝoj okazintaj ĉi-finsemajne
Estas ne nova MediaWiki versio ĉi tiu semajno.
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Apply for Funding through the Movement Strategy Community Engagement Package to Support Your Community
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The Wikimedia Movement Strategy implementation is a collaborative effort for all Wikimedians.
Movement Strategy Implementation Grants
support projects that take the current state of a
Movement Strategy Initiative
and push it one step forward. If you are looking for an example or some guide on how to engage your community further on Movement Strategy and the Movement Strategy Implementation Grants specifically, you may find this
community engagement package
helpful.
The goal of this community engagement package is to support more people to access the funding they might need for the implementation work. By becoming a recipient of this grant, you will be able to support other community members to develop further grant applications that fit with your local contexts to benefit your own communities. With this package, the hope is to break down language barriers and to ensure community members have needed information on Movement Strategy to connect with each other. Movement Strategy is a two-way exchange, we can always learn more from the experiences and knowledge of Wikimedians everywhere. We can train and support our peers by using this package, so more people can make use of this great funding opportunity.
If this information interests you or if you have any further thoughts or questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to us as your
regional facilitators
to discuss further. We will be more than happy to support you. When you are ready, follow the steps on
this page
to apply. We look forward to receiving your application.
Best regards,
Movement Strategy and Governance Team
Wikimedia Foundation
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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.
[1 130]
The
www.wikinews.org
www.wikiversity.org
, and
www.wikivoyage.org
portal pages now use an automated update system.
[1 131]
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.
[1 132]
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
[1 133]
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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Hi everyone! The Ombuds commission (OC) and the Case Review Committee (CRC) are looking for members. People are encouraged to nominate themselves or encourage others they feel would contribute to these groups to do so. There is more information below about the opportunity and the skills that are needed.
About the Ombuds commission
The Ombuds commission (OC) works on all Wikimedia projects to investigate complaints about violations of the privacy policy, especially in use of
CheckUser
and
Oversight
(also known as Suppression) tools. The Commission mediates between the parties of the investigation and, when violations of the policies are identified, advises the Wikimedia Foundation on best handling. They may also assist the General Counsel, the Chief Executive Officer, or the Board of Trustees of the Foundation in these investigations when legally necessary. For more on the OC's duties and roles,
see Ombuds commission on Meta-Wiki
Volunteers serving in this role should be experienced Wikimedians, active on any project, who have previously used the CheckUser/Oversight tools OR who have the technical ability to understand these tools and the willingness to learn them. They must be able to communicate in English, the common language of the commission. They are expected to be able to engage neutrally in investigating these concerns and to know when to recuse when other roles and relationships may cause conflict. Commissioners will serve
two-year terms
(note that this is different from past years, when the terms have been for one year).
About the Case Review Committee
The Case Review Committee (CRC) reviews appeals of eligible Trust & Safety office actions. The CRC is a critical layer of oversight to ensure that Wikimedia Foundation office actions are fair and unbiased. They also make sure the Wikimedia Foundation doesn’t overstep established practices or boundaries. For more about the role,
see Case Review Committee on Meta-Wiki
We are looking for current or former functionaries and experienced volunteers with an interest in joining this group. Applicants must be fluent in English (additional languages are a strong plus) and willing to abide by the
terms of the Committee charter
. If the work resonates and you qualify, please apply. Committee members will serve
two-year terms
(note that this is different from past years, when the terms have been for one year).
Applying to join either of these groups
Members are required to sign the
Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information
and must be willing to comply with the appropriate Wikimedia Foundation board policies (such as the
access to non-public information policy
and the
Foundation privacy policy
). These positions requires a high degree of discretion and trust. Members must also be over 18 years of age.
If you are interested in serving in either capacity listed above,
please write in English to the Trust and Safety team at ca
wikimedia.org (to apply to the OC) or to the Legal Team at legal
wikimedia.org (to apply to the CRC) with information about:
Your primary projects
Languages you speak/write
Any experience you have serving on committees, whether movement or non-movement
Your thoughts on what you could bring to the OC or CRC if appointed
Any experience you have with the Checkuser or Oversight tools (OC only)
Any other information you think is relevant
The deadline for applications is 31 December 2022 in any timezone.
Please feel free to pass this invitation along to any users who you think may be qualified and interested. Thank you!
On behalf of the Committee Support team,
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La aspekto de nelibera amaskomunikilaro en la serĉa spaco kaj por artikolo thumbnails en Specialaĵo:Serĉo estis malaktivigita. Pliaj detaloj estas en
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Estas ne nova MediaVikia versio ĉi semajne.
Kelkaj vikioj estos legitaj nur dum kelkaj minutoj pro ŝalto de ilia ĉefa datumaro. Ĝi estos elfarita je la 22 novembro ĉe 07:00 UTC (
celitaj vikioj
) kaj je la 24 novembro ĉe 7:00 UTC (
celitaj vikioj
).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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 (
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An
A/B test has begun
at 15 Wikipedias for
DiscussionTools on mobile
. Half of the editors on the
mobile web site
will have access to the Reply tool and other features.
[1 142]
The character
cannot be used in new usernames, to make usernames work better with templates. Existing usernames are not affected.
[1 143]
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
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The HTML markup used by
DiscussionTools
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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.
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Events
The fourth edition of the
Coolest Tool Award
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Friday 16 December 2022 at 17:00 UTC
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MediaWiki channel
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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!
Dankon!
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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.
[1 145]
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
[1 146]
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.
[1 147]
Problems
Last week, all wikis had no edit access for 9 minutes. This was caused by a database problem.
[1 148]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
The word "Reply" is very short in some languages, such as Arabic ("
ردّ
"). This makes the Discussion tools button on talk pages difficult to use. An arrow icon will be added to those languages. This will only be visible to editors who have the
Beta Feature
turned on.
[1 149]
[1 150]
Future changes
Edits can be automatically "tagged" by the system software or the Administrado de filtriloj de misuzo 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.
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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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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.
[1 152]
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.
[1 153]
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.
[1 154]
Matrix
is a chat tool. You can now use
matrix:
to create Matrix links on wiki pages.
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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 (
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Plej lastaj
teknikaj novaĵoj
de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin.
Tradukoj
disponeblas.
Problemoj
La URLs en "antaŭa" ligoj sur paĝa historio nun enhavas
diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID]
en loko de
diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]
. Tio ĉi estas ripari problemon kun ligoj indikanta al neĝusta diffs kiam historio estis filtrita de etikedo. Kelkaj uzantaj skriboj povas rompi rezulte de ĉi tiu ŝanĝo.
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Ŝanĝoj okazintaj ĉi-finsemajne
La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 17 januaro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 18 januaro. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 19 januaro (
kalendaro
).
Kelkaj
ŝanĝoj al la apero de paroladaj paĝoj
nur estis haveblaj sur
Diskuto:
kaj
Uzanto-Diskuto:
nomspacoj. Ĉi tiuj estos etenditaj al alia paroladaj nomspacoj, kiel
Vikilibroj-Diskuto:
. Ili daŭros esti malhaveblaj en ne-paroladaj nomspacoj, inkluzivanta
Vikilibroj:
paĝojn (ekz., ĉe la Vilaĝa Pumpilo). Vi povas
ŝanĝi viajn preferojn
beta ĉefaĵo
).
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Sur Vikifontaroj, kiam bildo estas zumita aŭ mallaŭdita en la Paĝo: nomspaco, la sama zumo kaj pataj fiksoj estos memoritaj por ĉiu Paĝo: nomspacaj paĝoj kiuj estas ligitaj al aparta Indekso: nomspaca paĝo.
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La Vektoro 2022 haŭto fariĝos la sendependa por la anglaj Vikipediaj surtablaj uzantoj. La ŝanĝo okazos la 18an de januaro je 15:00 UTC.
Lerni pli
Okazontaj ŝanĝoj
La 2023 eldono de la
Komunuma Dezirlista Enketo
, kiu invitas kontribuantojn fari teknikajn proponojn kaj voĉdono por iloj kaj plibonigoj, komencas sekvantan semajnon la 23an januaro 2023 je 18:00 UTC. Vi povas komenci redakti viajn proponojn en
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Teknikaj novaĵoj
preparitaj de
verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj
kaj afiŝitaj de
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Problems
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new version
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calendar
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If you have the Beta Feature for
DiscussionTools
enabled, the appearance of talk pages will add more information about discussion activity.
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The 2023 edition of the
Community Wishlist Survey
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Problems
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The
new version
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calendar
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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
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In the
Vector 2022 skin
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The
new version
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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.
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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.
[1 166]
Community Wishlist Survey 2023
will stop receiving new proposals on
Monday, 6 February 2023, at 18:00 UTC
. Proposers should complete any edits by then, to give time for
translations
and review. Voting will begin on Friday, 10 February.
Future changes
Gadgets and user scripts will be changing to load on desktop and mobile sites. Previously they would only load on the desktop site. It is recommended that wiki administrators audit the
gadget definitions
prior to this change, and add
skins=…
for any gadgets which should not load on mobile.
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Per the
Global bans
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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.
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (
calendar
).
The Reply tool and other parts of
DiscussionTools
will be deployed for all editors using the mobile site. You can
read more about this decision
[1 168]
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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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Problems
Last week, during planned maintenance of Cloud Services, unforeseen complications forced the team to turn off all tools for 2–3 hours to prevent data corruption. Work is ongoing to prevent similar problems in the future.
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (
calendar
).
The voting phase for the
Community Wishlist Survey 2023
ends on
24 February at 18:00 UTC
. The results of the survey will be announced on 28 February.
Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for
14:00 UTC
. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
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Legi ĉi tiun mesaĝon en alia lingvo
Please help translate to your language
La
Wikimedia Fundamento
elprovas la ŝaltilon inter ties unua kaj duaranga datumcentroj. Tio certigos, ke Vikipedio kaj la ceteraj Vikimediaj vikioj povas resti enrete eĉ post katastrofo. Por certigi, ke ĉio funkcias, vikimedia teknologia sekcio bezonas okazigi planitan provon. Tiu provo montros, ĉu eblas fidinde transiri de unu datumcentro al la alia. Multaj teamoj devas prepari sin por la provo kaj esti pretaj por solvi iajn ajn neatenditajn problemojn.
Oni ŝaltos la tutan datumtrafikon je la
1 marto
. La provo komenciĝos je
14:00 UTC
Bedaŭrinde pro iuj limoj en
MediaWiki
la tuta redaktado devas esti interrompita dum la ŝaltado. Ni pardonpetas pro ĉi tiu interrompo, kaj ni laboras por mallongigi ĝin kiom plej eble en la estonteco.
Vi povos legi, sed ne redakti, ĉiujn vikiojn dum mallonga tempo.
Vi ne povos redakti dum ĝis unu horo je la merkredo 1 marto 2023.
Se vi provos redakti aŭ konservi dum tiu tempo, vi vidos erarmesaĝon. Ni esperas, ke neniuj redaktoj perdiĝos dum tiuj minutoj, sed ni ne povas garantii tion. Se vi vidos erarmesaĝon, bonvolu atendi ĝis kiam ĉio estos denove en ordo. Tiam vi povos konservi vian redakton. Sed ni rekomendas ke vi faru kopion de viaj ŝanĝoj antaŭe, ĉiaokaze.
Aliaj efikoj
Fonaj taskoj estos malpli rapidaj, kaj eblas ke kelkaj estos rifuzitaj. Eblas ke ruĝaj ligiloj ne estos ĝisdatigataj kun kutima rapideco. Se vi kreas artikolon al kiu jam estas ligilo, tiu ligilo restos ruĝa pli longe ol kutime. Kelkaj longdaŭraj funkcisinsekvoj devos esti haltigitaj.
Antaŭvideble, disdono de kodo okazos same kiel en la ceteraj semajnoj. Tamen, eblas haltoj en la kodo en kelkaj unuopaj okazoj.
GitLab
estos malhavebla dum ĉirkaŭ 90 minutoj.
Ĉi tiu projekto povas esti prokrastita se necese. Vi povas
legi la horaron ĉe wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Ajnaj ŝanĝoj estos anoncitaj en la horaro. Estos pli da informoj pri tio. Rubando estos montrata en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 30 minutoj antaŭ la operacio.
Bonvolu disvastigi ĉi tiun informon en via komunumo.
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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
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calendar
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All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for
14:00 UTC
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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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Wikimania 2023 Welcoming Program Submissions
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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.
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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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Problems
Last week, some users experienced issues loading image thumbnails. This was due to incorrectly cached images.
[1 183]
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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
Specialaĵo:Centra aŭtentigo
page will appear on
Specialaĵo:Kontribuoj
— some user scripts which previously added this link may cause conflicts. This feature request was
voted #17 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
The
Specialaĵo:Filtrilo kontraŭ misuzado
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
Specialaĵo:Malforbari
and via the API.
[1 184]
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
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The
AbuseFilter
condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000.
[1 185]
Some Global AbuseFilter
actions will no longer apply to local projects.
[1 186]
Desktop users are now able to subscribe to talk pages by clicking on the Subscribe link in the Iloj 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.
[1 187]
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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.
[1 188]
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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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.
[1 195]
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
[1 196]
Some of the links in
Specialaĵo:Specialaj paĝoj
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.
[1 197]
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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voted #61 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
[1 201]
You can now receive notifications when another user edits your user page. See the "Redaktojn je mia uzantpaĝo" option in
your Preferences
. This feature request was
voted #3 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
[1 202]
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.
[1 203]
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new version
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calendar
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Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "
Add a link
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progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias
. The communities can
configure how this feature works locally
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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
[1 208]
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.
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The
new version
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The date-selection menu on pages such as
Specialaĵo:Kontribuoj
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
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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.
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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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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
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calendar
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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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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
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Read more on Meta-Wiki
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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.
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The
Specialaĵo:Preferoj
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.
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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 (
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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
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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.
[1 224]
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
[1 225]
Problems
Graph Extension update: Foundation developers have completed upgrading the visualization software to Vega5. Existing community graphs based on Vega2 are no longer compatible. Communities need to update local graphs and templates, and shared lua modules like
de:Modul:Graph
. The
Vega Porting guide
provides the most comprehensive detail on migration from Vega2 and
here is an example migration
. Vega5 has currently just been enabled on mediawiki.org to provide a test environment for communities.
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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.
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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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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.
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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
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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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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
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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.
[1 236]
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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Selection of the U4C Building Committee
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Read about the members and the work ahead on Meta-wiki
--
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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
Specialaĵo:Redakti atentaron
now has "Kontroli ĉion" options to select all the pages within a namespace. This feature request was
voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
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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.
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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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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
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Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference for "Grupigi rezultojn laŭ paĝoj". This has now been fixed.
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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.
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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
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Recent changes
The content attribution tools
Who Wrote That?
XTools Authorship
, and
XTools Blame
now support the Dutch, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias. This was the
#7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
[1 245]
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.
[1 246]
The
RealMe
extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software.
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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.
[1 248]
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.
[1 249]
Currently, the "Ordigi tiun ĉi paĝon defaŭlte kiel" 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.
[1 250]
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
[1 251]
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.
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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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Recent changes
Flame graphs are now available in WikimediaDebug.
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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.
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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.
[1 257]
Problems
Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours.
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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.
[1 260]
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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.
[1 262]
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.
[1 263]
The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized
user interface components
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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
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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,
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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.
[1 266]
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.
[1 267]
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 (
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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
[1 268]
Specialaĵo: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.
[1 269]
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
Specialaĵo:Serĉi ligilon
and API counterparts has changed from http to both http and https.
[1 270]
Specialaĵo:Serĉi ligilon
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.
[1 271]
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
[1 272]
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
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We are now serving 1% of all global user traffic from
Kubernetes
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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.
[1 273]
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.
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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
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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 (
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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
Specialaĵo:Novaj paĝoj
and revision history pages can now be inverted. For example, you can hide edits that were made using an automated tool.
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[1 276]
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.
[1 277]
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.
[1 278]
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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
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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 "Redakti tutan paĝon" button in the "Pli" menu.
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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.
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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
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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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The
GDrive to Commons Uploader
tool is now available. It enables
securely selecting and uploading files
from your Google Drive directly to Wikimedia Commons.
[1 283]
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:
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a Wikisource in
Sundanese
s:su:
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To catch up, the next most recent six wikis are:
Wikifunctions (
f:
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a Wiktionary in
Mandailing
wikt:btm:
[1 287]
a Wikipedia in
Ghanaian Pidgin
w:gpe:
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a Wikinews in
Gungbe
n:guw:
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a Wiktionary in
Kabardian
wikt:kbd:
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a Wikipedia in
Fante
w:fat:
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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.
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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.
[1 293]
All
Specialaĵo:Kontribuoj
pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date.
[1 294]
Wikisource users can now use the
prpbengalicurrency
label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the

tag.
[1 295]
Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "Aktivigu la Vidan redaktilon" is now shown on the
"Redaktado" tab
at all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "Betaj funkcioj" tab at some wikis. The preference "Uzu la vikitekstan modon ene de la Vida redaktilo, anstataŭ alian vikitekstan redaktilon" is now also shown on the "Redaktado" tab at all wikis, instead of the "Betaj funkcioj" tab.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
[1 299]
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.
[1 300]
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
Specialaĵo:Rajtoj de uzantoj
and via the API.
[1 301]
One new wiki has been created:
a Wikipedia in
Talysh
w:tly:
[1 302]
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.
[1 303]
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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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ORES
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report them
[1 306]
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.
[1 307]
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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.
[1 308]
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.
[1 309]
The Enterprise API is launching a new feature called "
breaking news
". Currently in BETA, this attempts to identify likely "newsworthy" topics as they are currently being written about in any Wikipedia. Your help is requested to improve the accuracy of its detection model, especially on smaller language editions, by recommending templates or identifiable editing patterns. See more information at
the documentation page
on MediaWiki or
the FAQ
on Meta.
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MediaWiki 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.
[1 310]
[1 311]
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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.
[1 312]
All wikis will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the
Wikimedia URL Shortener
[1 313]
Future changes
The team investigating the Graph Extension posted
a proposal for reenabling it
and they need your input.
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The Vector 2022 skin will now remember the pinned/unpinned status for the Table of Contents for all logged-out users.
[1 314]
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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.
[1 315]
[1 316]
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
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There is a new
user preference
for "Ĉiam ebligi
sekuran reĝimon
". 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.
[1 317]
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
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One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in
Fon
w:fon:
[1 319]
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new version
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calendar
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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
[1 320]
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.
[1 321]
In the mobile web skin (Minerva) the CSS ID
#page-actions
will be replaced with
#p-views
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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
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[1 322]
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
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#p-namespaces
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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.
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The Vector 2022 skin as the default in two weeks?
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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.
Global preferences
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
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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.
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the repository
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There is a new
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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.
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The
new version
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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
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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.
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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
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A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
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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.
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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.
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new version
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calendar
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The Growth team will reassign newcomers from former mentors to
the currently active mentors
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[ĝis 17-a de Novembro] Subtenu mian kandidatiĝon al AffCom
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: Mi kandidatiĝis por servado en la Komitato pri aligitaj organizoj de la Fondaĵo Vikimedio (AffCom) por helpi solvi ĝiajn problemojn, kiuj dum jaroj damaĝas ankaŭ la Esperantan komunumon. Bonvolu subteni min aldonante {{Strong support}} (forta subteno) ĉe
meta:Affiliations_Committee/Candidates/2023#KuboF_Hromoslav
Karaj, dum lastaj jaroj Vikimedio EO klopodas esti rekonita de la Fondaĵo Vikimedio kiel Tema organizo (nun ni estas Uzanto-Grupo, kio estas malpli alta ŝtupo). Bedaŭrinde tiu ĉi nia klopodo estis haltigita de la
Komitato pri aligitaj organizoj
(AffCom), kiu dum jaroj ne havas sufiĉajn kapacitojn por sia respondeca funkciado. Bedaŭrinde, ilia subakapciteco montriĝis esti tiom drasta, ke ili bezonis ĉ. 5 monatojn de celita plua edukado por taŭge respondi bazlernej-nivelan demandon (konkrete kiam ili decidis haltigi nian rekonon). Mi daŭre komunikas kun AffCom ankaŭ pri aferoj ekster VMEO kaj mi respondece konfirmas, ke AffCom daŭre havas drastajn problemojn - disvastigas malveraĵojn, ne korektas ilin kiam oni atentigas pri tio, fiaskas respondi bazlernej-nivelajn demandojn ks.
Tiu ĉi subkapaciteco de AffCom bedaŭrinde ne nur
kostas monon
al la Fondaĵo Vikimedio (kiu pagas (kaj sufiĉe multe) al siaj dungitoj por provizadi helpon al AffCom, kaj tiu multekosta helpado estas pli alta ol taŭge pro la nekapabloj de AffCom). Sed ĝi ankaŭ
forsuĉas energion de Vikimediaj organizoj kiel Vikimedio EO
. Pro tio la komunumoj de Vikipedio kaj aliaj projektoj ne disvolviĝas tiom bone kaj rapide kiom eblus kun taŭga subteno. Rezulte de tio, la socioj parolantaj ties lingvojn ne edukiĝas tiom rapide, profunde kaj vaste kiom ili povus kun pli bona funkciado de Vikipedioj (kio havas konsekvencojn ekz en nesufiĉe rapida preventado de klimata ŝanĝo, nesufiĉa pacigado de mondo kaj daŭre ĉeesta granda neegaleco).
Mi jam havas tre (fakte tro) multan laboron, sed mi vidas, ke la damaĝo kiun kreas la subkapaciteco de AffCom estas tro maltaŭga kaj detrua ankaŭ por nia Esperanta komunumo. Tial mi decidis kandidatiĝi por AffCom kaj helpi ĝin deinterne. Tio bedaŭrinde prenos iom de mia tempo, kiun mi preferas dediĉi al VMEO, sed samtempe (mi esperas, ke) helpos glatigi la padon kaj kunlaboradon de VMEO kun AffCom, kaj samtempe plifortigos ankaŭ aliajn Vikimediajn organizojn, de kies sukcesoj ni povos profiti (ekz. lernante de ili, aŭ kunlaborante en subvenciataj projektoj de Erasmus+ ktp).
Por tio tamen indas via subteno!
Mi petas,
legu mian kandidatiĝon
kaj se vi subtenas tion, bv. en la parto "
Endorsements (KuboF Hromoslav)
subteni min aldonante {{Strong support}}
(forta subteno) aŭ {{Support}} (subteno), ideale ankaŭ kun certa komento (povas esti en Esperanto ;)
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Mi anticipe dankas vin pro via helpo al mia helpado de disvolvigo de tutmonda Vikimedia komunumo!
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Recent changes
Four new wikis have been created:
a Wikipedia in
Moroccan Amazigh
w:zgh:
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a Wikipedia in
Dagaare
w:dga:
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a Wikipedia in
Toba Batak
w:bbc:
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a Wikiquote in
Banjar
q:bjn:
[1 334]
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.
[1 335]
Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved.
[1 336]
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.
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There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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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
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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.
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Future changes
There is
an update on re-enabling the Graph Extension
. To speed up the process, Vega 2 will not be supported and only
some protocols
will be available at launch. You can help by sharing what you think about the plan.
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new version
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calendar
). There is no new MediaWiki version next week.
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[1 345]
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.
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The deployment of "
Add a link
" announced
last week
was postponed. It will resume this week.
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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.
[1 347]
The "Ordigi tiun ĉi paĝon defaŭlte kiel" feature in VisualEditor is working again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit
{{DEFAULTSORT:...}}
keywords.
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Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
[1 349]
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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.
[1 351]
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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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
[1 352]
[1 353]
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.
[1 354]
[1 355]
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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
).
[1 356]
[1 357]
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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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Tech News
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2024 because of
the holidays
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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.
[1 358]
[1 359]
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
[1 360]
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
Specialaĵo:UnconnectedPages
). There will also be support for
manual redirects
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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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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.
[1 362]
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
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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.
[1 365]
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.
[1 366]
Bot passwords
and
owner-only OAuth consumers
can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages.
[1 367]
You can now
thank
edits made by bots.
[1 368]
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
).
[1 369]
[1 370]
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.
[1 371]
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.
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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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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,
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Problems
A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed.
[1 373]
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
).
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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
[1 376]
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
).
[1 377]
[1 378]
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
Specialaĵo:QrCode
page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the
#19 most-voted wish
from the
2023 Community Wishlist Survey
[1 379]
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.
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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
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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
).
[1 382]
[1 383]
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
Specialaĵo:QrCode
page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the
#19 most-voted wish
from the
2023 Community Wishlist Survey
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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.
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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
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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
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new version
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calendar
).
[1 387]
[1 388]
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
Specialaĵo:QrCode
page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the
#19 most-voted wish
from the
2023 Community Wishlist Survey
[1 389]
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.
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Last days to vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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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,
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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"
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[1 392]
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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
).
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Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed.
[1 395]
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.
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Announcing the results of the UCoC Coordinating Committee Charter ratification vote
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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,
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Recent changes
The
WDQS Graph Split experiment
is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels.
[1 398]
[1 399]
[1 400]
Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service.
[1 401]
[1 402]
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
).
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As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,
[1 405]
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.
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Recent changes
If you have the "Sendi al mi retmesaĝon kiam paĝo aŭ dosiero en mia atentaro estas ŝanĝita" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails.
[1 407]
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.
[1 408]
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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
).
[1 409]
[1 410]
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.
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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.
[1 412]
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")))
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The
new version
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calendar
).
[1 414]
[1 415]
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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
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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
[1 416]
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.
[1 417]
A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header.
[1 418]
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The
new version
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calendar
).
[1 419]
[1 420]
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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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
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more info
) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (
more info
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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
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On behalf of the UCoC project team,
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new version
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calendar
).
[1 422]
[1 423]
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.
[1 424]
The active link color in
Minerva
will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices.
[1 425]
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.
[1 426]
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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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)
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[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.
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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.
[1 429]
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.
[1 430]
The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes.
[1 431]
[1 432]
[1 433]
Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating
MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown
[1 434]
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.
[1 435]
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
).
[1 436]
[1 437]
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at
14:00 UTC
[1 438]
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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
).
[1 440]
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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.
[1 442]
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
).
[1 443]
[1 444]
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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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.
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[1 446]
Readers using the
Minerva skin
on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings.
[1 447]
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
).
[1 448]
[1 449]
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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Problems
Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using
Flagged Revisions
, the "Malfarita" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed.
[1 451]
[1 452]
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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
).
[1 453]
[1 454]
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).
[1 455]
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.
[1 456]
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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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
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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
Specialaĵo:Mia paĝo/vector.js
to
Specialaĵo:Mia paĝo/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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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.
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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.
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Seven new wikis have been created:
a Wikipedia in
Betawi
w:bew:
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a Wikipedia in
Kusaal
w:kus:
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a Wikipedia in
Igala
w:igl:
[1 465]
a Wiktionary in
Karakalpak
wikt:kaa:
[1 466]
a Wikisource in
Burmese
s:my:
[1 467]
a Wikisource in
Malay
s:ms:
[1 468]
a Wikisource in
Georgian
s:ka:
[1 469]
You can now
watch message groups/projects
on
Translatewiki.net
. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups.
[1 470]
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.
[1 471]
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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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.
[1 474]
[1 475]
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
[1 476]
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.
[1 477]
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
).
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[1 479]
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".
[1 480]
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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Plej lastaj
teknikaj novaĵoj
de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin.
Tradukoj
disponeblas.
Lastaj ŝanĝoj
En Vikifontaro estas speciala paĝo listiganta paĝojn de verkoj sen respondaj skanbildoj. Nun vi povas uzi la novan magian vorton
__EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__
por ekskludi iujn paĝojn (listo de eldonoj aŭ tradukoj de verkoj) el tiu listo.
[1 482]
Se vi uzas la
uzanto-prefero
"Montri antaŭrigardojn sen reŝargi la paĝon", tiam la ŝablono-paĝa ĉefaĵo "Antaŭvido de la paĝo kun tiu ŝablono" nun ankaŭ laboros sen reŝarĝante la paĝo.
[1 483]
Kartografo
mapoj nun povas specifi alternativan tekston tra la
alt=
eco. Tio ĉi estas identa en uzado al la
alt=
eco en la
bildo kaj galeria sintakso
. Escepto por ĉi tiu ĉefaĵo estas vikioj kiel Wikivoyage kie la etaj mapoj estas interaktivaj.
[1 484]
La malnova
Gvidita Turneo
por la "
Novaj Filtriloj por Redakti Revizian
" ĉefaĵon estis forigita. Ĝi estis kreita en 2017 por montri homojn kun pli malnovaj kontoj kiel la fasado ŝanĝis kaj nun estis vidita de plejparto de la intencaj homoj.
[1 485]
Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne
La
nova versio
de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 14 majo. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 15 majo. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 16 majo (
kalendaro
).
[1 486]
[1 487]
The
Specialaĵo:Serĉi
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.
[1 488]
Okazontaj ŝanĝoj
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.
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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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[1 491]
Teknikaj novaĵoj
preparitaj de
verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj
kaj afiŝitaj de
roboto
Kontribui
Traduki
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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
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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.
[1 492]
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.
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[1 494]
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
).
[1 495]
[1 496]
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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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.
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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
).
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[1 498]
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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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
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Recent changes
It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript.
Documentation is available
[1 500]
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
".
[1 501]
One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in
Kadazandusun
w:dtp:
[1 502]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (
calendar
).
[1 503]
[1 504]
Future changes
Next week, on wikis with the Vector 2022 skin as the default, logged-out desktop users will be able to choose between different font sizes. The default font size will also be increased for them. This is to make Wikimedia projects easier to read.
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Recent changes
The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering.
[1 505]
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
[1 506]
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.
[1 507]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (
calendar
).
[1 508]
[1 509]
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
[1 510]
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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Hi everyone,
The final text of the
Wikimedia Movement Charter
is now up on Meta in more than 20 languages for your reading.
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”
on
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.
If you have any questions, please leave a comment on the
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Recent changes
People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see
Edit check
for more details.
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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.
[1 513]
[1 514]
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
[1 515]
Problems
Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center.
[1 516]
Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any,
report them here
[1 517]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (
calendar
).
[1 518]
[1 519]
Starting June 18, the
Reference Edit Check
will be deployed to
a new set of Wikipedias
. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During
a test at 11 wikis
, the number of citations added
more than doubled
when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is
community configurable
[1 520]
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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Recent changes
Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions
on the project talkpage
[1 522]
The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode.
[1 523]
Problems
You can
copy permanent links to talk page comments
by clicking on a comment's timestamp.
This feature
did not always work when the topic title was very long and the link was used as a wikitext link. This has been fixed. Thanks to Lofhi for submitting the bug.
[1 524]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (
calendar
).
[1 525]
[1 526]
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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The voting to ratify the
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is now open. The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a 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.
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
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voter information and eligibility details
After reading the Charter, please
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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
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Logged-in users can now set
global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode
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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
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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
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Editors interested in language issues that are related to
Unicode standards
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a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org
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member of the Unicode Consortium
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One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in
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Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team.
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The
CampaignEvents
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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,
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Future changes
The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce
temporary accounts
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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
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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
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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,
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Editors who have access to
The Wikipedia Library
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contacted
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Future changes
Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the
temporary accounts
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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
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After carefully tallying both individual and affiliate votes, the
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As
communicated
by the Charter Electoral Commission, we reached the quorum for both Affiliate and individual votes by the time the vote closed on
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.
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Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via
GlobalVanishRequest
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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
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Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened
Community Wishlist
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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
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How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent
blog post
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WMF Future Audience initiative
, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a
ChatGPT plugin
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Add a Fact
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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
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Bugs status
Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week.
These errors
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linter
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Editors can use the
IP Information tool
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28 other community-submitted tasks
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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
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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
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Two new parser functions will be available this week:
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#dir
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{{
#bcp47
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Template:Dir
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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.
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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 Angla Vikivojaĝo and Hebrea Vikivojaĝo 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
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Stewards
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this change
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Trust and Safety Product
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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
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Hello. For many years, community members have requested an easy way to re-use references with different details. Now, a MediaWiki solution is coming: The new sub-referencing feature will work for wikitext and Visual Editor and will enhance the existing reference system. You can continue to use different ways of referencing, but you will probably encounter sub-references in articles written by other users. More information on
the project page
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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
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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
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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.
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Hi all,
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
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Feature news
Administrators can now test the
temporary accounts
feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please
share your opinions and questions on the project talk page
Later this week, editors at wikis that use
FlaggedRevs
(also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface.
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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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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,
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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
Specialaĵo:Neuzataj ŝablonoj
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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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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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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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
Specialaĵo: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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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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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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'Wikidata item' link is moving. Find out where...
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Ŝablono:Tracked
Hello everyone, a small change will soon be coming to the user-interface of your Wikimedia project.
The
Wikidata item
sitelink
currently found under the
General
section of the
Tools
sidebar menu will move into the
In Other Projects
section.
We would like the Wiki communities feedback so please let us know or ask questions on the
Discussion page
before we enable the change which can take place October 4 2024, circa 15:00 UTC+2.
More information can be found on
the project page
We welcome your feedback and questions.
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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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Weekly highlight
Communities can now request installation of
Automoderator
on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can
read details about the necessary steps
for installation and configuration.
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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
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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.
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Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML.
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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:
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a Wikipedia in
Mooré
m:mos:
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a Wiktionary in
Madurese
wikt:mad:
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a Wikiquote in
Gorontalo
q:gor:
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a Wikinews in
Shan
n:shn:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Phabricator
users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again.
Sending email to Phabricator
has been fixed.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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. For example, the
South Ndebele
Pannonian Rusyn
Obolo
Iban
and
Tai Nüa
Wikipedia languages were created last week.
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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.
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Commons and Meta users can now efficiently
retrieve the user's language
using
{{USERLANGUAGE}}
instead of using
{{int:lang}}
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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.
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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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Hello everyone, I previously wrote on the 27th September to advise that the
Wikidata item
sitelink will change places in the sidebar menu, moving from the
General
section into the
In Other Projects
section. The scheduled rollout date of 04.10.2024 was delayed due to a necessary request for Mobile/MinervaNeue skin. I am happy to inform that the global rollout can now proceed and will occur later today, 22.10.2024 at 15:00 UTC-2.
Please let us know
if you notice any problems or bugs after this change. There should be no need for null-edits or purging cache for the changes to occur. Kind regards, -
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Weekly highlight
Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the
Documentation hub
on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new
#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.
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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
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One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in
Indonesian
voy:id:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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
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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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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)
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One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in
Tigre
w:tig:
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resolved last week
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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.
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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.
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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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Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using
Extension:Nuke
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wikis that use
the
Patrolled edits
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filters
on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings.
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fixed
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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.
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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
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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
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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
Specialaĵo:Lastaj ŝanĝoj
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Specialaĵo:Novaj paĝoj
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
[1 634]
You can now also insert
tags using a new toolbar button. [1 635] 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 [1 636] One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Central Kanuri w:knc: [1 637] 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. [1 638] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 00:08, 4 feb. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-07 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 1 jaro 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight The Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has published a draft of their recommendations for the Wikimedia Foundation's Product and Technology department. They have recommended focusing on mobile experiences , particularly contributions. They request community feedback at the talk page by 21 February. Updates for editors The "Special pages" portlet link will be moved from the "Toolbox" into the "Navigation" section of the main menu's sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions at T385346 [1 639] 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. [1 640] View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week . For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the Specialaĵo:Centra aŭtentigo page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards. [1 641] 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. [1 642] 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. [1 643] 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. [1 644] In depth The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: Updates about the "Contribute" menu; details on some of the newest language editions of Wikipedia; details on new languages supported by the MediaWiki interface; updates on the Community-defined lists feature; and more. The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on the progress towards bringing better visibility into global charts usage and support for categorizing pages in the Data namespace on Commons. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 00:11, 11 feb. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-08 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 1 jaro 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the Specialaĵo:Hejmpaĝo 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 Specialaĵo: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 [1 645] 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. [1 646] 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 Specialaĵo:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to mass delete pages, to enable users to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. [1 647] Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Specialaĵo:Nuke tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements. [1 648] 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. [1 649] 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. [1 650] [1 651] 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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Whether it’s a technical update from your project, a challenge you need help with, or a request for interpretation support, we’d love to hear from you! Feel free to reply to this message or add agenda items to the document here Also, we wanted to highlight that the sixth edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter (January 2025) is available here: Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter/2025/January . This newsletter provides updates from the October–December 2024 quarter on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects and support efforts, details about community meetings, and ideas for contributing to projects. To stay updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter on its wiki page: Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter We look forward to your ideas and participation at the language community meeting, see you there! MediaWiki message delivery 08:28, 22 feb. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-09 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 1 jaro 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto 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 Specialaĵo:CommunityConfiguration/Babel . They can rename language categories, choose whether they should be auto-created, and adjust other settings. [1 653] 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. [1 654] [1 655] [1 656] One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Santali wikt:sat: [1 657] 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. [1 658] Meetings and events The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, February 28th at 14:00 UTC . This week's meeting will cover: highlights and technical updates on keyboard and tools for the Sámi languages, Translatewiki.net contributions from the Bahasa Lampung community in Indonesia, and technical Q&A. If you'd like to join, simply sign up on the wiki page Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 00:41, 25 feb. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-10 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 1 jaro 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto 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 "Redakti tutan paĝon" link is accessible from the "Pli" menu in the toolbar. This was previously only available to editors using the Advanced mobile contributions setting. [1 659] 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. [1 660] In contrast, transcluding a file description page (e.g. {{:File:MediaWiki.png}} ) will now restrict edits to the page. [1 661] 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, [1 662] and respects cascading protection. [1 663] 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. [1 664] 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. [1 665] One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Sylheti w:syl: [1 666] 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. [1 667] Updates for technical contributors Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 02:30, 4 mar. 2025 (UTC) Reply Universal Code of Conduct annual review: proposed changes are available for comment redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 1 jaro 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto 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. 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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. [1 668] [1 669] 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 resolved last week Updates for technical contributors Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki In depth The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: the launch of the Community Updates module, the most recent changes in Community Configuration, and the upcoming test of in-article suggestions for first-time editors. An old API that was previously used in the Android Wikipedia app is being removed at the end of March. There are no current software uses, but users of the app with a version that is older than 6 months by the time of removal (2025-03-31), will no longer have access to the Suggested Edits feature, until they update their app. You can read more details about this change Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 23:09, 10 mar. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-12 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 1 jaro 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight Twice a year, around the equinoxes, the Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team performs a datacenter server switchover , redirecting all traffic from one primary server to its backup. This provides reliability in case of a crisis, as we can always fall back on the other datacenter. Thanks to the Listen to Wikipedia tool, you can hear the switchover take place: Before it begins, you'll hear the steady stream of edits; Then, as the system enters a brief read-only phase, the sound stops for a couple of minutes, before resuming after the switchover. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog . If you want to keep an ear out for the next server switchover, listen to the wikis on March 19 at 14:00 UTC Updates for editors The improved Content Translation tool dashboard is now available in 10 Wikipedias and will be available for all Wikipedias soon . With the unified dashboard , desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-based article suggestion filters (initially available only for mobile device users); Discover and access the Community-defined lists filter, also known as "Collections", from wiki-projects and campaigns. On Wikimedia Commons, a new system to select the appropriate file categories has been introduced: if a category has one or more subcategories, users will be able to click on an arrow that will open the subcategories directly within the form, and choose the correct one. The parent category name will always be shown on top, and it will always be possible to come back to it. This should decrease the amount of work for volunteers in fixing/creating new categories. The change is also available on mobile. These changes are part of planned improvements to the UploadWizard. The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for the Multiblocks feature and a refreshed Special:Block page in late March. Multiblocks enables administrators to impose multiple different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. If you are an admin or steward and would like us to discuss joining the pilot with your community, please leave a message on the project talk page Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at 12 Wikipedias Multi-Check . Half of the newcomers on these wikis will see all Reference Checks during their edit session, while the other half will continue seeing only one. The goal of this test is to see if users are confused or discouraged when shown multiple Reference Checks (when relevant) within a single editing session. At these wikis, the tags used on edits that show References Check will be simplified, as multiple tags could be shown within a single edit. Changes to the tags are documented on Phabricator [1 670] 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. [1 671] 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. [1 672] 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: MediaWiki Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 23:48, 17 mar. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-13 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 1 jaro 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking your feedback on the drafts of the objectives and key results that will shape the Foundation's Product and Technology priorities for the next fiscal year (starting in July). The objectives are broad high-level areas, and the key-results are measurable ways to track the success of their objectives. Please share your feedback on the talkpage, in any language, ideally before the end of April. Updates for editors The CampaignEvents extension will be released to multiple wikis (see deployment plan for details) in April 2025, and the team has begun the process of engaging communities on the identified wikis. The extension provides tools to organize, manage, and promote collaborative activities (like events, edit-a-thons, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. The extension has three tools: Event Registration Collaboration List , and Invitation Lists . It is currently on 13 Wikipedias, including English Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and Spanish Wikipedia, as well as Wikidata. Questions or requests can be directed to the extension talk page or in Phabricator (with #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 Specialaj paĝoj 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. [1 673] 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. [1 674] View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week Updates for technical contributors VisualEditor has introduced a new client-side hook for developers to use when integrating with the VisualEditor target lifecycle. This hook should replace the existing lifecycle-related hooks, and be more consistent between different platforms. In addition, the new hook will apply to uses of VisualEditor outside of just full article editing, allowing gadgets to interact with the editor in DiscussionTools as well. The Editing Team intends to deprecate and eventually remove the old lifecycle hooks, so any use cases that this new hook does not cover would be of interest to them and can be shared in the task Developers who use the 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. [1 675] [1 676] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 22:42, 24 mar. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-14 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 1 jaro 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Updates for editors The Editing team is working on a new Edit check Peacock check . This check's goal is to identify non-neutral terms while a user is editing a wikipage, so that they can be informed that their edit should perhaps be changed before they publish it. This project is at the early stages, and the team is looking for communities' input: in this Phabricator task , they are gathering on-wiki policies, templates used to tag non-neutral articles, and the terms (jargon and keywords) used in edit summaries for the languages they are currently researching. You can participate by editing the table on Phabricator, commenting on the task, or directly messaging Trizek (WMF) Single User Login has now been updated on all wikis to move login and account creation to a central domain. This makes user login compatible with browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies, which have prevented users of some browsers from staying logged in. 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: MediaWiki In depth Sometimes a small, one line code change can have great significance: in this case, it means that for the first time in years we're able to run all of the stack serving 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. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 00:05, 1 apr. 2025 (UTC) Reply Final proposed modifications to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter now posted redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 1 jaro 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto 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, Keegan (WMF) talk 02:04, 4 apr. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-15 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 1 jaro 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Updates for editors From now on, interface admins and centralnotice admins are technically required to enable two-factor authentication before they can use their privileges. In the future this might be expanded to more groups with advanced user-rights. [1 677] 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: MediaWiki Meetings and events The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, between 2–4 May. Registration for attending the in-person event will close on 13 April. Before registering, please note the potential need for a visa or e-visa to enter the country. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 18:52, 7 apr. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-16 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 1 jaro 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight 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. [1 678] 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. [1 679] [1 680] 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. [1 681] "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. Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 00:24, 15 apr. 2025 (UTC) Reply Vote now on the revised UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 1 jaro 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto 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 -- Keegan (WMF) talk 00:34, 17 apr. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-17 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 1 jaro 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto 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 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. [1 682] 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. [1 683] View all 37 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week 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. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 21:00, 21 apr. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-18 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 11 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto 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 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: MediaWiki 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. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 19:31, 28 apr. 2025 (UTC) Reply Vote on proposed modifications to the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 11 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto 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 -- Keegan (WMF) talk 03:40, 29 apr. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-19 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 11 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight The Wikimedia Foundation 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 Specialaĵo: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 [1 684] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki In depth 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. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 00:14, 6 maj. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-20 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 11 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight The "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: MediaWiki In depth 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. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 22:37, 12 maj. 2025 (UTC) Reply Call for Candidates for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 11 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto 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) diskuto 22:06, 15 maj. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-21 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 11 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight The 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 Specialaĵo:Forbari IP-adreson?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. [1 685] Later this week, the Specialaĵo:Specialaj paĝoj 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. [1 686] 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. [1 687] Updates for technical contributors Gadgets and user scripts that interact with Specialaĵo:Forbari IP-adreson 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 [1 688] 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. [1 689] 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: MediaWiki 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 Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 23:12, 19 maj. 2025 (UTC) Reply RfC ongoing regarding Abstract Wikipedia (and your project) redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 11 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto (Apologies for posting in English, if this is not your first language) 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) diskuto 15:26, 22 maj. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-22 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 10 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight 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 Specialaĵo:Dezirataj paĝoj , 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. [1 690] 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. [1 691] 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: MediaWiki 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 Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 20:04, 26 maj. 2025 (UTC) Reply Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 Selection & Call for Questions redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 10 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto More languages Please help translate to your language 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 MediaWiki message delivery diskuto 03:07, 28 maj. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-23 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 10 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight The 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. [1 692] 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. [1 693] 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. [1 694] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki 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. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 23:54, 2 jun. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-24 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 10 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight The 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. [1 695] 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"). [1 696] [1 697] 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. [1 698] 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 [1 699] 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 [1 700] [1 701] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 01:16, 10 jun. 2025 (UTC) Reply Vote now in the 2025 U4C Election redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 10 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Apologies for writing in English. Please help translate to your language 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) talk 23:00, 13 jun. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-25 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 10 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto 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 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: MediaWiki In depth 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 Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 23:38, 16 jun. 2025 (UTC) Reply Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 - Call for Candidates redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 10 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto More languages Please help translate to your language 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] MediaWiki message delivery diskuto 17:43, 17 jun. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-26 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 10 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight 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 [1 702] 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. [1 703] 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%). [1 704] 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. [1 705] 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 [1 706] The all_links variable in AbuseFilter is now renamed to new_links for consistency with other variables. Old usages will still continue to work. [1 707] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki In depth 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. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 23:20, 23 jun. 2025 (UTC) Reply Sister Projects Task Force reviews Wikispore and Wikinews redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 9 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto 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 redakti 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 redakti 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 redakti 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, 20:56, 27 jun. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-27 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 9 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight The 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. [1 708] 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. [1 709] [1 710] 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. [1 711] Updates for technical contributors Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 23:40, 30 jun. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-28 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 9 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight 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. [1 712] 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 Specialaĵo:VerifyOATHForUser to check if users have enabled two-factor authentication [1 713] 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. [1 714] 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 Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki 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". Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 00:05, 8 jul. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-29 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 9 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto 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 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 [1 715] [1 716] 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. [1 717] Updates for technical contributors Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki In depth 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! Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 20:09, 14 jul. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-30 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 9 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Updates for editors The 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. [1 718] 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: MediaWiki 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. [1 719] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 23:42, 21 jul. 2025 (UTC) Reply Teknikaj Novaĵoj: 2025-31 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 8 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Plej lastaj teknikaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin. Tradukoj disponeblas. Weekly highlight La Komunuma Teknologia teamo koncentriĝos pri deziroj rilataj al la paĝoj de Monitorlistoj kaj Recentaj Ŝanĝoj, dum la venontaj kelkaj monatoj. Ili serĉas reagojn. Bonvolu legi la plej novan ĝisdatigon , kaj se vi havas ideojn, bonvolu sendi deziron pri la temo. Updates for editors La Vikimedia Komunumo decidis bloki trans-vikaj aldonoj al Vikimedia Commons, por ĉiuj uzantoj sen aŭtokonfirmitaj rajtoj en tiu vikio, komencante de la 16-a de aŭgusto. Ĉi tio estas pro ampleksaj problemoj rilataj al dosieroj kiuj estas antaŭenigataj de novuloj. Uzantoj, kiuj estas trafitaj de tio, ricevos erarmesaĝon kun ligilo al la malpli restrikta UploadWizard sur Commons. Bonvolu helpi traduki la mesaĝon aŭ doni reagojn pri la mesaĝa teksto. Bonvolu ankaŭ ĝisdatigi viajn lokajn helpaĵojn por klarigi ĉi tiu restrikton. [1 720] En vikioj kun aktivaj provizoraj kontoj kaj Meta-Vikio, administrantoj nun povas meti piednoto por la paĝoj Special:Kontribuoj de provizoraj kontoj, simile al tiuj, kiuj povas esti montrataj en IP- kaj uzantkonto-paĝoj. Ili povas fari tion kreante la paĝon nomitan MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-temp [1 721] View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week Updates for technical contributors Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Meetings and events Wikimania 2025 okazos de la 6-a ĝis la 9-a de aŭgusto. La programo estas havebla por vi ekscii kiujn sesiojn vi volas partopreni. La plej multaj sesioj estos kun viva elsendo, kun esceptoj por tiuj, kiuj montras la ikonon "sen fotilo". Se vi aliĝas rete por rigardi vivaĵojn kaj uzi la interagajn funkciojn, bonvolu registripor libera virtuala bileto. Ekzemple, vi eble estas interesita pri teknikaj sesioj kiel: Intertempaj Kontoj: Plibonigante privatecon por niaj neregistritaj redaktantoj Konstrui Daŭrigeblan Estontecon por Vikimedia Kontribuantoj dekduaj vizioj por vikiteksto! Kordigi Trans Koncernatoj kun la Produkto kaj Teknologio Konsila Konsilio La Konferenco por MediaVikio Uzantoj kaj Ellaborantoj, Falo 2025 okazos de la 28a ĝis la 30a de oktobro 2025 en Hanover, Germanio. Ĉi tiu evento estas organizita de kaj por la tria-partio MediaVikio komunumo. Vi povas proponi sesiojn kaj registri por ĉeesti. Teknikaj novaĵoj preparitaj de verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj kaj afiŝitaj de roboto Kontribui Traduki Esti helpata Prikomenti Aboni aŭ malaboni MediaWiki message delivery 00:26, 29 jul. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-32 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 8 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Updates for editors Editors 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. [1 722] 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 [1 723] 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. [1 724] 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. [1 725] [1 726] 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. [1 727] 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. [1 728] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki 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 Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 03:40, 5 aŭg. 2025 (UTC) Reply Teknikaj Novaĵoj: 2025-33 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 8 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Plej lastaj teknikaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin. Tradukoj disponeblas. Updates for editors La ilobreto de WikiEditor nun inkluzivas siajn klavarajn mallongigojn en la ŝprucigiloj por siaj butonoj. Tio helpos plibonigi la troveblecon de ĉi tiu funkcio. [1 729] La Konsilantaro pri Produkto kaj Teknologio publikigis aron da proponitaj eksperimentoj , kiujn la Fondaĵo Wikimedia povas provi por plibonigi komunikadon kun la komunumo. Reagoj pri la proponoj estas bonvenaj ĝis la 22-a de aŭgusto en ĉi tiu diskutpaĝo La serĉobreto sur la Minerva-haŭto (movebla) estis ĝisdatigita por uzi la saman serĉkomponenton por antaŭa tajpado, kiu estas uzata sur la Vector 2022-haŭto. Ne estas ŝanĝoj en la serĉfunkcio, sed estas negravaj vidaj ŝanĝoj. Specife, la butono por fermi serĉon estis ŝanĝita de "X" al malantaŭenira sago. Ĉi tio helpas distingi ĝin de la alia butono "X", kiu estas uzata por forigi ajnan tekston. [1 730] Redaktantoj en iuj vikioj vidos novan ŝaltilon por "Grupigi rezultojn laŭ paĝo" en la paĝoj pri atentaro, rilataj ŝanĝoj kaj paĝoj de lastatempaj ŝanĝoj. Ĉi tio estas A/B-eksperimento , kiu estas planita komenciĝi la 11-an de aŭgusto kaj daŭros dum 3-6 semajnoj en la bengala, ĉina, ĉeĥa, franca, greka, portugala kaj urdua vikipedioj. La eksperimento ekzamenos kiel pli facile trovebla funkcio povus influi la kapablon de redaktantoj trovi la redaktojn, kiujn ili serĉas. [1 731] View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week Updates for technical contributors La plurvikiaj datumaroj de Unikodaj datumoj estis movitaj al Kategorio:Unikodaj Modulaj Datumaroj en Vikimedia Komunejo, por sekvi la ideon "Unu komuna datumfonto, pluraj lokaj vikioj". Plej multaj vikioj estis ĝisdatigitaj por uzi la Komunejan version. Vi povas fari demandojn ĉe la diskutpaĝo [1 732] Lua-kodo povas aldoni avertojn kiam io estas malĝusta, uzante la funkcion mw.addWarning() . Nun eblas aldoni pli ol unu averton, anstataŭ novaj avertoj anstataŭigantaj malnovajn. Se vi prizorgas Lua-modulon kiu uzis avertojn, vi devus kontroli ĉu ĝi ankoraŭ funkcias kiel atendita. [1 733] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Teknikaj novaĵoj preparitaj de verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj kaj afiŝitaj de roboto Kontribui Traduki Esti helpata Prikomenti Aboni aŭ malaboni MediaWiki message delivery 23:29, 11 aŭg. 2025 (UTC) Reply Teknikaj Novaĵoj: 2025-34 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 8 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Plej lastaj teknikaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin. Tradukoj disponeblas. Updates for editors Poste ĉi-semajne, homoj ensalutintaj kaj ebligitaj per la " Diskutiloj Beta-funkcio povos "Danki" individuajn komentojn rekte de diskutpaĝoj, anstataŭ devi navigi al paĝhistorio. Sciu pli pri ĉi tiu funkcio [1 734] A/B-testo komparanta du versiojn de la donacligilo por komputiloj lanĉiĝis en testwiki la 12-an de aŭgusto kaj en anglalingva Vikipedio la 14-an de aŭgusto por 0.1% de elsalutitaj uzantoj en la retejo por komputiloj. La eksperimento daŭros tri semajnojn kaj finiĝos la 12-an de septembro. [1 735] A/A testo por mezuri la bazlinion por leganta retenado estis lanĉita la 12an de aŭgusto uzante Eksperimentan Laboratorion . Ĉi tio mezuras la procenton de uzantoj, kiuj revizitas vikion post sia unua vizito dum 14-taga periodo. Neniuj vidaj ŝanĝoj estas atendataj. La eksperimento daŭros ĝis la 31a de aŭgusto. [1 736] Kvin novaj vikioj estis kreitaj: Wikisource en la Tagalog s:tl: [1 737] Wikisource en la madura lingvo s:mad: [1 738] Wikipedia en la Raĥino w:rki: [1 739] Wikibooks en la Minangkabau b:min: [1 740] Wiktionary en la Norma maroka amazigh wikt:zgh: [1 741] View all 46 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week Updates for technical contributors Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Teknikaj novaĵoj preparitaj de verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj kaj afiŝitaj de roboto Kontribui Traduki Esti helpata Prikomenti Aboni aŭ malaboni MediaWiki message delivery 00:37, 19 aŭg. 2025 (UTC) Reply Teknikaj Novaĵoj: 2025-35 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 7 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Plej lastaj teknikaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin. Tradukoj disponeblas. Updates for editors Ĉiuj Ŝablonaj aŭtoroj povas nun uzi suplementajn CSS-proprietojn, ekde tiam ke la CSS-sanitiga ilo uzata de TemplateStyles estis ĝisdatigita. Ekzemple: width: fit-content ruby-align ; relativaj unuoj kiel lh ; kaj kutimaj ŝnuroj en list-style-type . Ĉi tiuj plibonigoj estas Komunuma Wishlist deziro [1 742] [1 743] [1 744] [1 745] [1 746] [1 747] [1 748] [1 749] [1 750] [1 751] En grandaj vikioj, la defaŭlta tempo por montri redaktojn en la paĝo Special:RecentChanges estis ŝanĝita de 7 tagoj al 1 tago. Ĉi tio estas parto de projekto por plibonigi la prezentadon. Tio ne devus havi ajnan efikon por uzantoj pro la kvanto de redaktoj en tiuj vikioj. [1 752] Administrantoj nun povas aliri la paĝon Specialaĵo:BlockedExternalDomains el la paĝolisto Specialaĵo:CommunityConfiguration . Tio faciligas la serĉadon. [1 753] La videoj de Vikimedia Komunejo ne estis montritaj en la Videa klapeto en Google Serĉo. La problemo estis esplorita kaj raportita al Google, kiu nun riparis la problemon. [1 754] [1 755] Unu nova vikio estis kreita: Wiktionary en Betawi wikt:bew: [1 756] View all 39 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week Updates for technical contributors Du kampoj de la lastatempaj ŝanĝoj datumbaza tablo estas forigataj. rc_new kaj rc_type estas forigataj favore al rc_source . Demandoj al ĉi tiuj malnovaj kampoj komencos malsukcesi ekde ĉi tiu semajno kaj programistoj devus uzi rc_source anstataŭe. Tiuj malnovaj kampoj estis malakceptitaj pli ol 10 jarojn antaŭe kaj ne devus esti uzataj. Ĉi tio estas parto de la laboro por pluigi la agadon kaj stabilecon de demandoj al la tablo de lastatempaj ŝanĝoj. [1 757] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki In depth La plej lasta kvaronjara Lingvo kaj Internaciiga Informilo estas nun havebla. Ĉi tiu eldono inkluzivas: subteno por novaj lingvoj en MediaWiki kaj translatewiki; la komenco de la Lingva Enfluo kaj Evoluoprojekto por helpi subteni la kreskon de novaj kaj malgrandaj vikioj; ĝisdatigoj pri esplorprojektoj; kaj pli. Meetings and events La sekvanta Lingva Komunuma Renkontiĝo estas okazonta baldaŭ, la 29-an de aŭgusto je 15:00 UTC . La renkontiĝo de ĉi tiu semajno kovros: la Avro klavaraj ellaborantoj de Vikimedio Bangladesh, kiu estis ĵus premiita nacian premion pro siaj kontribuaĵoj al ĉi tiu klavaro; kaj aliaj temoj. Teknikaj novaĵoj preparitaj de verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj kaj afiŝitaj de roboto Kontribui Traduki Esti helpata Prikomenti Aboni aŭ malaboni MediaWiki message delivery 00:12, 26 aŭg. 2025 (UTC) Reply Temporary accounts will be rolled out soon redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 7 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto 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) SGrabarczuk (WMF) 21:35, 26 aŭg. 2025 (UTC) Reply Teknikaj Novaĵoj: 2025-36 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 7 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Plej lastaj teknikaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin. Tradukoj disponeblas. Weekly highlight La Redakta teamo volas kompili liston de ŝablonoj, jargonajn terminojn kaj politikojn uzatajn en la redakta resumo kiam kopirajta malobservado estas forigita. Ĉi tio helpos ilin identigi la nombron de redaktoj revertitaj pro aŭtorrajtaj temoj. Ni invitas komunumajn membrojn de la sekvaj Vikioj listigi ĉi tiujn terminojn en T402601 , aŭ dividi sian liston kun Trizek_(WMF) : Araba Vikipedio, Ĉeĥa Vikipedio, Germana Vikipedio, Angla Vikipedio, Hispana Vikipedio, Persa Vikipedio, Franca Vikipedio, Hebrea Vikipedio, Indonezia Vikipedio, Itala Vikipedio, Japana Vikipedio, Korea Vikipedio, Nederlanda Vikipedio, Pola Vikipedio, Portugala Vikipedio, Turka Vikipedio, Ukraina Vikipedio, Vjetnama Vikipedio, Ĉina Vikipedio. Ĉi tiu projekto estas malferma ĝis la 9-a de septembro 2025. Updates for editors La etendaĵo de Kampanjaj Eventoj estis aktivigita por ĉiuj Vikifontoj. La etendaĵo faciligas organizi kaj partopreni en kunlaboraj agadoj, kiel redaktaj eventoj kaj Vikiprojektoj, sur la vikioj. La etendaĵo havas tri karakterizaĵojn: Eventa Registro Kunlabora Listo , kaj Invitlisto . Por peti la etendaĵon por via wiki, vizitu la paĝon pri Distribuado. [1 758] La listoj en la piedfino de la redaktilo, kiel "Ŝablonoj uzitaj en ĉi tiu paĝo," nun estos organizitaj en kolumnoj kiam estas sufiĉe da spaco. Ĉi tiu plibonigo minimumigas la ruladon kiam oni redaktas longajn artikolojn en Vikipedio. [1 759] La 3-an de septembro 2025 ni pliigos la provantajn procentojn de nia grupo per ŝalta eksperimento de la Special:RecentChanges Special:Watchlist , kaj Special:RelatedChanges paĝoj en la Ĉina, Franca, kaj Portugala Vikipedioj al 100 procentoj, permesante pli da redaktantoj partopreni en ĉi tiu eksperimento. Ĉi tiu ĝustigo celas certigi, ke ni havas sufiĉan datumon por fari informitajn decidojn dum taksado de la eksperimentaj rezultoj. [1 760] [1 761] Kiam oni klakas sur malplenan serĉobendon, uzantoj, kiuj ne estas enlogitaj, vidos sugestojn pri artikoloj por plia legado en la angla Vikipedio ekde la semajno de la 22-a de septembro. La funkcio estos disponebla ĉe ambaŭ komputiloj kaj poŝtelefonoj. Ĉiuj ne-anglaj Vikipedioj ricevis ĉi tiun ŝanĝon en junio kaj julio. La celo estas faciligi al uzantoj trovi artikolojn. Eksciu pli View all 37 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week Updates for technical contributors Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki In depth Wikifunkcioj nun havas novan kapablon nomatan "lumigaj enumeraciaj tipoj", enumeracia tipo estas simple fiksita aro da valoroj en la difino de la tipo. Ĉi tiu kapablo eksplikas rapide kaj facile difini tian tipon, kaj permesas la reutiligon de valoroj, kiuj jam estas ĉeestantaj en Vikidatumoj. Jen Novaĵletero por lerni pli. La plej lasta Informilo por Legantoj nun estas havebla. la formado de du novaj teamoj - Leganto-Kresko kaj Leganto-Sperto; komprenoj pri malkreskantaj paĝvidoj kaj konto-kreadoj; elstaraj punktoj de la panelo en Wikimania Nairobi pri plibonigado de la legado-ŝanĝo; venontaj spertoj por engaĝi novajn kaj ekzistantajn legantojn; kaj pli. Meetings and events Fokuso pri kelkaj sesioj de Wikimania 2025: Identigi AI-generitan tekston per serĉado de ISBNoj kies kontrolsumoj fiaskas: Mathias Schindler de WMDE kunhavitaj iloj por helpi komunumo serĉi tiujn La daŭripovo de la Wikimedia-movado fronte al nunaj kaj estontaj defioj : Ĉi tiu sesio esploris, kiel Vikimedio povas resti fidinda fonto de scio en la epoko de generativa AI, informokvanto, kaj malinformado. Teknikaj novaĵoj preparitaj de verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj kaj afiŝitaj de roboto Kontribui Traduki Esti helpata Prikomenti Aboni aŭ malaboni MediaWiki message delivery 20:50, 1 sep. 2025 (UTC) Reply Teknikaj Novaĵoj: 2025-37 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 7 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Plej lastaj teknikaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin. Tradukoj disponeblas. Weekly highlight La Redakta teamo laborantas pri nova kontrolo: Kopiu kontrolon . Ĉi tiu kontrolo informas novulojn, kiuj aldonas tekston al Vikipedio, ke la enhavo eble ne estos akceptita. Ĉi tiu kontrolo estas en peno pliigi la ŝancon, ke la nova enhavo, kiun homoj aldonas al Vikipedio, kongruas kun la engaĝiĝo de la Movado oferti informon sub libera enhavlicenco. Ĉi tiu kontrolo baldaŭ estos testata en kelkaj vikioj. Se via komunumo interesiĝas pri ĉi tiu testo, bonvolu informi nin en ĉi tiu tasko , aŭ kontakti la teamon Updates for editors Pli malfrue ĉi-semajne, uzantoj de la "⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽" beta karakterizaĵo povos uzi linta ilo por vidi erarojn aŭ aliajn eblajn problemojn en vikiteksto en reala tempo. Vidu la helppaĝo por pli da informoj [1 762] Dum navigado en wiki (kiel en.wikipedia.org ), la programaro reagas en unu el du manieroj: desktopa paĝo, aŭ redirekto al mobilversio sur "m" domajno (kiel en.m.wikipedia.org ). Dum la venontaj tri semajnoj, MediaWiki komencos montri la mobilan version al mobilaj aparatoj rekte sur la norma domajno, sen ĉi tiu redirekto. Ĉi tiu ŝanĝo ne influas ekzistantajn m-punkto URLojn, nek la opcion "Desktopa vidon" malŝalti. Lernu pli [1 763] Kiam redakto ŝanĝas la kategoriojn de paĝo, la ŝanĝoj al la kategoriaj membriĝaj kalkuloj estas nun okazantaj asinkrone. Tio plibonigas la rapidon de konservado de redaktoj, precipe kiam oni movas multajn paĝojn al aŭ el la sama kategorio, kaj reduktas la riskon de ejaj interrompoj, sed tio signifas, ke la nombroj povas montri malnoviĝintan informon dum kelkaj minutoj. [1 764] Redaktoj sur Vikidatumo al kvalifikiloj (propraĵoj kaj valoroj) kaj referencoj (propraĵoj kaj valoroj) en aserto de Vikidatumo nun ne plu aldoniĝos al la paĝo de Lastaj Ŝanĝoj aŭ atentaĵlisto en ĉiuj aliaj Vikipedioj. Ĉi tio estas provizora ŝanĝo por plibonigi elfaron dum aliaj solvoj estas kreataj. La propraj paĝoj de Vikidatumo restas senŝanĝaj. Sciu pli [1 765] [1 766] La japanlingvaj vikioj ricevis grandan ĝisdatigon pri la maniero, kiel la serĉado funkcias. La nova serĉo ĝenerale devus doni pli precizajn kaj pli rilatajn serĉrezultojn. [1 767] View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week Updates for technical contributors Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Teknikaj novaĵoj preparitaj de verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj kaj afiŝitaj de roboto Kontribui Traduki Esti helpata Prikomenti Aboni aŭ malaboni MediaWiki message delivery 01:14, 9 sep. 2025 (UTC) Reply Teknikaj Novaĵoj: 2025-38 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 7 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Plej lastaj teknikaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin. Tradukoj disponeblas. Updates for editors Referencaj listoj, kiuj estas faritaj uzante la etiketo , nun aŭtomate montrigos kun kolumnoj en Vector 2022 kiam legantoj uzas ĝiajn 'normajn' agordojn por tekstograndeco kaj paĝlarĝeco. [1 768] Komencante en la semajno de la 6-a de oktobro, en malgrandaj vikioj kaj meznivelaj vikioj kiuj havas la etendaĵon de Kampanjeventoj ebligita, ĉiuj aŭtokonfirmitaj uzantoj estos kapablaj uzi Eventan Registradon kiel organizanto. Neniuj ŝanĝoj faros por grandaj vikioj krom se petite en Phabricator. Ĉi tiu ŝanĝo estas farita por faciligi al pli multaj homoj uzi Eventan Registradon, precipe en vikioj kiuj malpli verŝajne havas politikojn rilatajn al la rajto de Eventa Organizanto. Scui pli Uzantoj, kiuj serĉas uzante regulajn esprimojn (regex), nun povas uzi kromajn ecojn inkluzive de: por la intitle: ŝlosilvorto: metakarakteroj por komenco de linio ( ) kaj fino de linio ( ) ankroj [1 769] por ambaŭ intitle: kaj insource: ŝlosilvortoj: mallongigo karakteraj klasoj por ciferoj ( \d ), spacoj ( \s ), kaj vortaj karakteroj ( \w ); kaj eskapokodoj por linio elfluado ( \r ), novlinio ( \n ), klapeto ( \t ), kaj unicode (ekzemple \uHHHH ). [1 770] Kiam vi serĉas tekston, kiu aspektas kiel IP, la sistemo nun montros serĉrezultojn. Antaŭe ĝi alportis vin al la kontribuoj por tiu IP anstataŭ montri serĉrezultojn. [1 771] Ĉiuj vikioj estos nur-legeblaj dum kelkaj minutoj la 24-an de septembro. Tio estas planita je 15:00 UTC . Tio estas por la rezervaj testoj de la servilo de la datencentro, kiuj okazas dufoje jare. Vi povas legi pli pri la fono kaj detaloj de ĉi tiu procezo en la Diff blogo View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week Ekzemple, eraro estis fiksita, kiu influis uzantojn, kiuj uzis la paĝ-klapetojn por ŝanĝi de wiki-teksta redaktado de sekcio al la vida redaktoro. [1 772] Updates for technical contributors La teamo pri Mediavikiaj Interfacoj estas restrukturanta la Vikimedia REST API Sandbox kun Codex. Se vi havas rimarkojn pri plibonigoj por la API-dokumentado aŭ kio faras la spertojn de programistoj glataj (aŭ malagrabla), vi estas invitita ĉeesti venontan malkovran intervjuon , aŭ lasi reagojn en vikio Sciu pli Redaktoj al Vikidata aliassetoj (alternativa nomo por elemento aŭ propraĵo) nun estos montritaj en Lasttempaj Ŝanĝoj kaj Observlisto en aliaj vikioj malpli ofte, reduktante malutilajn informadojn. Ĉi tio reduktos la ĝeneralan kvanton de 'bruaj' eniroj. La propraj paĝoj de Vikidata restas senŝanĝaj. Sciu pli [1 773] La nova Unicode 17.0 versio estis liberigita. La datumoj en Vikikomunejo por la Modulo:Unicode datumoj estis ĝisdatigitaj. Vikipedioj, kiuj ne uzas la datumojn de Vikikomunejo, devus aŭ ĝisdatigi siajn proprajn datumojn aŭ ŝanĝi al la datumoj de Vikikomunejo. Uzantoj de la Vikimedia Enterprise Strukturitaj Enhavoj finpunktoj nun povas aliri Analizitajn Tablojn . La nova funkcio de Analizitaj Tabloj ekstraktas kaj reprezentas Vikipediatablojn en strukturita JSON. Ĉi tio plibonigas maŝinan alireblecon kiel parto de la Strukturitaj Enhavoj iniciato . La produktejo de Strukturitaj Enhavoj estas libere havebla tra la Postulebla API , aŭ tra Vikimedia Nubaj Servoj. dataset de biografiaj informoj de la angla Vikipedio de Vikimedia Enterprise estis publikigita en Kaggle, por taksado kaj esplorado. Tio provizas strukturitajn datumojn el pli ol 1.5 milionoj da biografioj, inkluzive naskiĝdaton kaj mortodaton, edukadon, afilaciojn, karierojn, premiojn, kaj pli (el snapshot en Junio 2024). Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Meetings and events Petoj de stipendio por Wikimania 2026 en Parizo, Francio, estas malfermitaj ĝis la 31-a de oktobro. Teknikaj novaĵoj preparitaj de verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj kaj afiŝitaj de roboto Kontribui Traduki Esti helpata Prikomenti Aboni aŭ malaboni MediaWiki message delivery 17:06, 15 sep. 2025 (UTC) Reply Teknikaj Novaĵoj: 2025-39 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 7 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Plej lastaj teknikaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin. Tradukoj disponeblas. Weekly highlight Je la 24a de septembro je la 15:00 UTC , ĉiuj uzantoj de Vikimediaj retejoj spertos mallongan nurlegeblan periodon pro planita ŝanĝo de datumcentra servilo . La teamo pri Fidindeca Inĝenierado (SRE) de la Fondaĵo Vikimedia redirektos la tutan trafikon de unu ĉefa servilo al ĝia rezerva. Vi povas aŭskulti la ŝanĝon per la ilo "Aŭskultu Vikipedion" , kie vi aŭdos redaktojn ĉesi dum kelkaj minutoj dum la nurlegebla fazo, kaj poste rekomenci. Ĉi tiu dufoje-jara ŝanĝo de datumcentra servilo certigas fidindecon per testado de la rezerva datumcentro, por ke niaj retejoj povu resti enrete eĉ se la ĉefa datumcentro paneas. Vi povas legi pli pri la procezo en la blogo Diff Updates for editors Redaktoroj de 60 pliaj Vikivortaroj baldaŭ povos voki funkciojn el Vikivortaroj kaj integri ilin en siajn paĝojn. Funkcio prenas unu aŭ plurajn enigojn kaj transformas ilin en deziratan produkton, kiel adicii nombrojn, konverti mejlojn al metroj, kalkuli pasintan tempon aŭ malgrandigi vorton en kazon. Ili aliĝos al la aliaj 65 Vikivortaj lingvaj eldonoj , kiuj jam havas aliron al enigitaj Vikivortaroj. Poste ĉi-jare, planoj estas efektivigitaj por vastigi al pliaj Vikivortaroj kaj la Inkubatoro. Nova analizila funkcio estis aldonita: {{#contentmodel}} . Ŝablonoredaktistoj kaj administrantoj povas uzi ĝin por akiri la lokalizitan aŭ kanonan nomon de la enhavmodelo de specifa paĝo. La funkcio faciligas krei kaj redakti sistemajn mesaĝojn, kiel ekzemple MediaWiki:editinginterface , eĉ kiam vi ŝanĝas paĝtipojn, kiel vikio, JavaScript, CSS aŭ JSON-paĝo. [1 774] Aldoni aŭ redakti DISPLAYTITLE por artikolo per VisualReditor ne plu estos difektita. Redaktoroj, kiuj uzas VisualReditor-reĝimon por modifi la {{DISPLAYTITLE}} , ne plu havos la laŭvortan tekston "DISPLAYTITLE" aŭ ĝian lokalizitan variaĵon aldonitan al siaj artikoloj. Listo de paĝoj, kiuj eble estis trafitaj kaj eble bezonas purigon, estas dokumentita en ĉi tiu bileto Beta-uzantoj de la Android-aplikaĵo Vikipedio nun povas provi la restrukturitan Agado-langeton , kiu anstataŭigas la langeton Redaktoj. La nova langeto ofertas personecigitajn komprenojn pri legado, redaktado kaj donacado, samtempe simpligante navigadon kaj igante la aplikaĵuzon pli alloga. View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week Updates for technical contributors Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki In depth Uzantoj de Vikifunkcioj nun povas importi multajn esencajn faktojn pri geokoordinatoj kvantoj kaj tempo valoroj el Vikidatumo. Ĉi tio eblas per la kreado de Vikifunkcio-tipoj por ĉi tiuj valoroj, kio igas ilin haveblaj por uzo fare de funkcioj en Vikifunkcioj. Lernu pli pri kiel ĉi tio funkcias en ĉi tiu filmeto kaj la bulteno de la 1-a de aŭgusto de Vikifunkcioj (por kvantoj) kaj la bulteno de la 22-a de aŭgusto (por gekoordinatoj). Teknikaj novaĵoj preparitaj de verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj kaj afiŝitaj de roboto Kontribui Traduki Esti helpata Prikomenti Aboni aŭ malaboni MediaWiki message delivery 22:55, 22 sep. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-40 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 6 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight 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. [1 775] 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 Specialaĵo: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. [1 776] 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 Specialaĵo:Kontribuoj 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. [1 777] One new wiki has been created: a Wikiquote in Malay q:ms: [1 778] View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week . For example, the User Info Card now displays currently active global lock/blocks. [1 779] 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. Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 20:52, 29 sep. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-41 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 6 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight 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. [1 780] 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. [1 781] 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 [1 782] 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. [1 783] 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. [1 784] 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. [1 785] 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 [1 786] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 17:23, 6 okt. 2025 (UTC) Reply Have your say: vote for the 2025 Board of Trustees redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 6 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto 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 MediaWiki message delivery diskuto 04:47, 9 okt. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-42 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 6 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight 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. [1 787] 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 [1 788] 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. [1 789] [1 790] 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. [1 791] 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 Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 18:59, 13 okt. 2025 (UTC) Reply 8-a Kunsido de Ĝenerala asembleo de Vikimedio EO (2025-2) redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 5 monatoj 2 komentoj 1 persono en diskuto Mi invitas vin al la 8-a Kunsido de Ĝenerala asembleo de organizo Vikimedio EO , kiu okazos rete la 16-an de Novembro 2025. Ni traktos precipe la Jarajn planon kaj buĝeton 2026, revizion de la Strategia plano 2025-2026 kaj eventuale ankaŭ aliajn aferojn. La kunsido estas celata al membroj de la organizo, kaj ankaŭ malfermita al Vikimediaj redaktistoj kiel vi. Bv. vidi pliajn informojn kaj aliĝu ĉe la oficiala anonco KuboF Hromoslav diskuto 14:29, 16 okt. 2025 (UTC) Reply Jam ĉi-dimanĉe, la 16-an de Novembro 2025 , ni havos Kunsidon de Ĝenerala asembleo de Vikimedio EO (se vi volas partopreni, bv aliĝi anticipe). Kaj mi havas al vi 2 petojn. Ni serĉas 2 novajn Estraranojn Ni bezonas plivigligi nian Estraron por pli juste distribui internan laboron, esti pli daŭropova kaj pli bone subteni Vikimediajn redaktantojn. Aldone ni bezonas ankaŭ Kasiston kaj Ĝeneralan sekretarion (kiuj povas, sed ne devas esti Estraranoj) kaj ni aprezus ankaŭ plian / rezervan membron de Revizia komisiono. Se vi spertas pri gvidado de neprofitcela, plejparte volontula organizo, kandidatiĝu nun, aŭ plej malfrue dum la kunsido mem. Vidu pliajn detalojn en la artikolo Dokumentoj jam duonpretaj - trastudu ilin antaŭ la kunsido Mi finas verkon de la gravaj dokumentoj, kiujn ni traktos dum la kunsido: Jara plano 2026 - la enhavo preskaŭ pretas per lista formo, ankoraŭ mi plibeligos ĝian prezenton se vi mem volas (kun)gvidi iun aldonan laboron, aldonu ĝin rekte en la viki-paĝon kaj mi ĝin ankoraŭ konsideros Jara buĝeto 2026 - mi atendis stabiligon de la Jara plano, kaj aldonos numerojn probable en sabato vi povas komenti rekte en la dokumento (elektu komentatan tekston kaj premu Ctrl+Alt+M) Revizio de la Strategia plano 2025-2026 - jam estas provizita detala klarigo pri la bezono de revizio, kaj la resuma prezento, al kiu mi aldonos enhavon probable sabate vi povas komenti rekte en la dokumento (elektu komentatan tekston kaj premu Ctrl+Alt+M) Bv. trastudi la dokumentojn antaŭ la kunsido. Ili devus preti sabate antaŭ noktomezo, plej malfrue dimanĉe kelkajn horojn antaŭ la kunsido. Tiel ni dum la kunsido povos fokusiĝi al eventualaj demandoj kaj pli facile trakti aprobon. Mi antaŭĝojas vidi vin dimanĉe. -- KuboF Hromoslav diskuto 21:27, 14 nov. 2025 (UTC) Reply Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 6 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Saluton. 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. Dankon! -- User:Sannita (WMF) talk 11:42, 20 okt. 2025 (UTC) Reply Teknikaj Novaĵoj: 2025-43 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 6 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Plej lastaj teknikaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin. Tradukoj disponeblas. Updates for editors Por optimumigi kiel uzantaj datumoj estas stokitaj en niaj datumbazoj, la konservitaj preferoj de uzantoj kiuj ne ensalutis dum pli ol kvin jaroj kaj havas malpli ol 100 redaktojn estos forigitaj. Kiam tiuj uzantoj revenos, aplikiĝos defaŭltaj agordoj. [1 792] View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week Ekzemple, ekzistis rompita ligilo de la interfaca mesaĝo GlobalContributions al la paĝo XTools GlobalContributions, kiu nun estis riparita. [1 793] Updates for technical contributors La laboro por redirigi ĉiujn trafikojn al API-finpunktoj sub la rest.php itinero tra komuna API-pordego nun estas kompleta. Se iu ajn problemo estas observita, bonvolu submeti phabricator-bileteton al la Servaĵa Operacia teamo tabulo Redaktoj al Wikidata-referencoj aŭ kvalifikiloj nun malpli ofte estos montrataj en LastajŜanĝoj kaj Atentlisto-enkonduktoj en aliaj vikioj, reduktante nenecesajn sciigojn. Ĉi tio reduktos la ĝeneralan kvanton de 'bruaj' eniroj. La propraj paĝoj de Wikidata restos senŝanĝaj. [1 794] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Teknikaj novaĵoj preparitaj de verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj kaj afiŝitaj de roboto Kontribui Traduki Esti helpata Prikomenti Aboni aŭ malaboni MediaWiki message delivery 19:36, 20 okt. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-44 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 5 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Updates for editors The 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. [1 795] 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 Specialaĵo:RestSandbox page. Please report any issues to the MediaWiki Interfaces team board, or join the discussion on the project launch page. [1 796] 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. [1 797] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 19:31, 27 okt. 2025 (UTC) Reply Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 5 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto 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) 14:12, 30 okt. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-45 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 5 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto 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 will now find that Specialaĵo:Unuigi kronologion 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). [1 798] 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 "Aldoni temon" or "Reply" 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. [1 799] 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. [1 800] 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. [1 801] 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! [1 802] 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. [1 803] 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. [1 804] 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. [1 805] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki 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 Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 19:34, 3 nov. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-46 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 5 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto 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 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". [1 806] 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 [1 807] Using the "Antaŭrigardo" or "Montri la ŝanĝojn" 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. [1 808] [1 809] [1 810] 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. [1 811] 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. [1 812] 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. [1 813] View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week . For example the inability to lock accounts on mobile sites has been fixed. [1 814] 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. [1 815] 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. [1 816] 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 [1 817] 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. [1 818] 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. [1 819] [1 820] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 20:37, 10 nov. 2025 (UTC) Reply Teknikaj Novaĵoj: 2025-47 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 5 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Plej lastaj teknikaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin. Tradukoj disponeblas. Updates for editors La teamo de Leganto-Sperto estas eksperimentanta kun leglistoj en poŝtelefona retpaĝo , permesante al ensalutitaj legantoj sen redaktoj konservi privatajn listojn de artikoloj por poste. La eksperimento funkcias en la arabia, ĉina, franca, indonezia kaj vjetnama Vikipedioj ekde la semajno de la 10-a de Novembro, kaj komenciĝos en la angla Vikipedio la semajno de la 17-a de Novembro. Uzantoj, kiuj ne povas ricevi siajn retpoŝtajn konfirmkodojn dum ensaluto, nun povas ricevi helpon per sendado de formularo en nova speciala paĝo. Ĉi tiu ĝisdatigo estas parto de la iniciato Konta Sekureco . Se via konto havas retpoŝtadreson, bonvolu certiĝi, ke vi ankoraŭ havas aliron al ĝi. Kiam vi ensalutas de nova aparato aŭ loko sen 2FA, vi eble estos petita enigi 6-ciferan kodon senditan per retpoŝto por fini la ensaluton. Lernu pli Unu nova vikio estis kreita: Wikisource en Minangkabau s:min: [1 821] View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week Updates for technical contributors Kiel parto de la projekto Unuigo de Analizilo , la Teamo pri Enhavo-Transformo lanĉis Parsoid kiel la defaŭltan analizilon por multaj Vikipedioj kun malalta trafiko kaj preparas la sekvan paŝon al Vikipedioj kun alta trafiko. Ĉi tiu mesaĝo estas invito por via aliĝo al Parsoid, kiel priskribite en la dokumentaro Extension:ParserMigration , kaj identigi iujn ajn problemojn, kiujn vi eble renkontos kun via propra laborfluo uzante robotojn, noviletojn aŭ uzanto-skriptojn. Bonvolu sciigi nin per la ligilo "Raporti Vidan Cimon" en la flanka kolumno Iloj aŭ kreu Phab-bileton kaj etikedu la Teamon pri Enhavo-Transformo en Phabricator Nesubtenataj Iloj: Pluraj problemoj kun Video2Commons estis riparitaj, inkluzive de alŝutaj malsukcesoj rilataj al dosiernomo, importado de nigraj filmetoj kaj reprovado. Subteno por AV1 ankaŭ estis aldonita. Daŭra laboro fokusiĝas al stabileco de la servilo, eraroj de ffmpeg, importado de subtekstoj, metadatena traktado kaj alŝutoj de kantlistoj. Por spuri specifajn taskojn, kontrolu la tabulon Phabricator Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Meetings and events Rezervu la daton por la sekva Wikimedia Hackathon okazonta en Milano, Italio, de la 1a ĝis la 3a de Majo 2026. Registriĝo malfermiĝos en januaro 2026. Petoj por stipendioj nuntempe estas malfermitaj , kaj fermiĝos la 28an de novembro 2025. Se vi havas demandojn, bonvolu sendi retpoŝton al hackathon@wikimedia.org Teknikaj novaĵoj preparitaj de verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj kaj afiŝitaj de roboto Kontribui Traduki Esti helpata Prikomenti Aboni aŭ malaboni MediaWiki message delivery 17:26, 17 nov. 2025 (UTC) Reply Reminder: Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 5 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Saluton. 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. Dankon! -- User:Sannita (WMF) talk 14:21, 20 nov. 2025 (UTC) Reply Teknikaj Novaĵoj: 2025-48 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 4 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Plej lastaj teknikaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin. Tradukoj disponeblas. Updates for editors Pasintsemajne, la Wikimedia Serĉa Teamo recreis la funkciecon de la ilaro "FKMI" (Faru Kion Mi Intencas) sur la servilflanko, por la rusa kaj hebrea Vikipedioj. Ĉi tiu funkcio aldonas sugestojn de trans-klavujara tipo al la normaj sugestoj de serĉujo. Ekzemple, serĉi cxfcnmt en la rusa Vikipedio nun aldonos sugestojn por счастье ("feliĉo"), kiujn la uzanto probable intencis. Ili planas ebligi ĉi tiun funkcion por aliaj rusaj kaj hebreaj vikioj ĉi-semajne. [1 822] Pli poste ĉi-semajne, uzantoj de la "⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽" beta-funkcio havos disponeblan sintaksan aldonan kolorigon en Diskutiloj . Ĉi tio postulas, ke la prefero "Enable editing tools in source mode" estu agordita. [1 823] Kampanjaj eventaj etendoj – la aro de iloj por kunordigi eventojn kaj aliajn kunlaboraĵojn en Vikio nun estis deplojita al ĉiuj Vikimediaj vikioj. Nova funkcio konata kiel Kunlabora kontribuo por helpi organizantojn kaj partoprenantojn vidi la efikon de agadoj ankaŭ estis aldonita. Aliĝu al la venonta lernoklaso por vidi la novan funkcion en ago kaj dividi vian reagojn. View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week Ekzemple, la eraro kiu ĉesis la funkciadon de CodeReviewBot, nun estis riparita. [1 824] Updates for technical contributors Uzantoj de la Wikimedia API povas aliĝi al studo pri uzeblo por helpi validigi la novan dezajnon de la Vikimedia REST API sablonoj. Interesitaj partoprenantoj devus plenigi la rekrutigan enketon [1 825] La MediaWiki-Interfacoj teamo malakceptas XSLT-stilfoliojn ene de la Ago API. Subteno por format=xml &xlst={stylesheet} estos forigita de Vikimedia-projektoj antaŭ la fino de Novembro 2025. Krome, ĝi baldaŭ estos malebligita per defaŭlto en MediaWiki-liberigversioj: v1.43 (LTS), v1.44 kaj v1.45. Subteno por XSLT-stilfolioj estos tute forigita el MediaWiki v1.46 (atendita esti liberigita inter Aprilo kaj Majo 2026). [1 826] La WDQS-heredita fino-punkto ( query-legacy-full.wikidata.org ) estos malaktivigita fine de decembro 2025 kaj finfine fermita la 7-an de januaro 2026. Post ĉi tiu dato, uzantoj devus atendi, ke petoj al query.wikidata.org, kiuj bezonas la plenan grafikon, malsukcesos aŭ redonos malvalidajn rezultojn se ili ne estos re-skribitaj por uzi SPARQL-federacion. La teamo instigas uzantojn certigi, ke iloj kaj laborfluoj uzas la subtenatajn WDQS-fino-punktojn ( - Ĉefa grafeo aŭ - Akademia grafeo). Por subteno pri migriĝo de uzkazoj, bonvolu revizii la Aliro al la datumo kaj Petu demandon paĝojn por detaloj kaj helpo pri alternativaj aliro-metodoj. Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Teknikaj novaĵoj preparitaj de verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj kaj afiŝitaj de roboto Kontribui Traduki Esti helpata Prikomenti Aboni aŭ malaboni MediaWiki message delivery 15:56, 24 nov. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-49 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 4 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Updates for editors The 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. [1 827] Two new wikis have been created: a Wikipedia in Toki Pona w:tok: [1 828] a Wikiquote in Nigerian Pidgin q:pcm: [1 829] Updates for technical contributors Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki 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 Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 18:57, 1 dec. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-50 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 4 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight 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. [1 830] 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. [1 831] 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. [1 832] 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. [1 833] 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. [1 834] There is no new MediaWiki version this week. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 17:45, 8 dec. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-51 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 4 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto 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 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. [1 835] 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 Specialaĵo:Serĉi ligilon , 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. [1 836] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 19:02, 15 dec. 2025 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2025-52 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 4 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Updates for editors From 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. [1 837] 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. [1 838] 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. [1 839] 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. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 21:45, 22 dec. 2025 (UTC) Reply Teknikaj Novaĵoj: 2026-03 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 3 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Plej lastaj teknikaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin. Tradukoj disponeblas. Weekly highlight La Fondaĵo Wikimedia dividis kelkajn gvidajn demandojn por la Jara Plano de julio 2026–junio 2027 pri Meta kaj Diff . Ĉi tiuj fokusiĝas al tutmondaj tendencoj, pli rapida kaj pli sana eksperimentado, pli bona subteno por novuloj, plifortigo de redaktantoj kaj progresintaj uzantoj, plibonigo de kunlaboro inter projektoj, kaj kreskigo kaj retenado de legantaro. Reagoj kaj ideoj estas bonvenaj sur la diskutpaĝo Updates for editors Kiel parto de la nuna laboro de la Komunuma Teknika teamo pri la projekto Pluraj observataj listoj , la vidado de RedaktiAtentolisto estos ĝisdatigita kiel unua paŝo al pluraj observataj listoj. Krome, la paĝnombrigo ĉe Serĉi ankaŭ estos ĝisdatigita, kiel parto de la laboro pri la deziro Renovigi paĝnombrigon / paĝnavigadon [1 840] La Tutmonda Observolisto estas etendaĵo de MediaWiki, kiu ebligas al vi vidi viajn observolistojn el malsamaj vikioj sur la sama paĝo. Ĝi estis ĵus ĝisdatigita por aspekti pli kiel la kutima Observolisto , kiel ekzemple prepari ĝin por provizoraj kontoj en IP-maskado (inkluzive de redirektado de uzantligiloj al kontribuaj paĝoj), grasigi paĝtitolojn, kaj malfermi ligilojn en redaktaj resumoj kaj etikedoj en novaj retumilaj langetoj. [1 841] [1 842] [1 843] [1 844] View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week Ekzemple, la problemo, kie tutmondaj blokoj ne havis la eblon malebligi sendadon de retpoŝtoj, nun estas riparita kaj estos uzebla en la semajno de la 13-a de januaro. [1 845] Updates for technical contributors La citilo VisualEditor kaj Referencaj Antaŭrigardoj nun subtenas "mapon" kiel referenctipon. [1 846] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki MediaWiki Teknikaj novaĵoj preparitaj de verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj kaj afiŝitaj de roboto Kontribui Traduki Esti helpata Prikomenti Aboni aŭ malaboni MediaWiki message delivery 19:33, 12 jan. 2026 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2026-04 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 3 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Updates for editors The 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. [1 847] 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. [1 848] [1 849] [1 850] [1 851] 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. [1 852] 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 Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki 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! Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 20:29, 19 jan. 2026 (UTC) Reply Annual review of the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines redakti 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) talk 21:01, 19 jan. 2026 (UTC) Tech News: 2026-05 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 2 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto 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 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. [1 853] 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. [1 854] 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. [1 855] 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 Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 21:17, 26 jan. 2026 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2026-06 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 2 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Updates for editors The "Informoj pri la paĝo" feature, which gives validating information about a page ( example ), now automatically includes a table of contents. If there is a local MediaWiki:Pageinfo-header page created by individual users, it can now be removed. [1 856] 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. [1 857] Updates for technical contributors There was no XML dump on 20 January. Additionally, from now on, dumps will be generated once per month only. [1 858] 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 Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki 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 Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 17:43, 2 feb. 2026 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2026-07 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 2 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto 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 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. [1 859] 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. [1 860] 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. [1 861] [1 862] 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. [1 863] Two new wikis have been created: a Wikipedia in Jju w:kaj: [1 864] a Wikipedia in Nawat w:ppl: [1 865] View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week 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. [1 866] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki 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. [1 867] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 23:30, 9 feb. 2026 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2026-08 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 2 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight The 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. [1 868] 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. [1 869] 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 ( MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki: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 MediaWiki:Minerva.css [1 870] [1 871] 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. [1 872] 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. [1 873] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 19:17, 16 feb. 2026 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2026-09 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 2 monatoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight 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. [1 874] 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. [1 875] 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. [1 876] [1 877] 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. [1 878] 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. [1 879] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 19:03, 23 feb. 2026 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2026-10 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 1 monato 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight 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 Specialaĵo: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. [1 880] 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. [1 881] 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. [1 882] 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. [1 883] [1 884] 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. [1 885] 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. [1 886] 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. [1 887] 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 Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 17:51, 2 mar. 2026 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2026-11 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 1 monato 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday, 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. [1 888] 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. [1 889] 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. [1 890] 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: MediaWiki In depth 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 Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 18:52, 9 mar. 2026 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2026-12 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 1 monato 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Updates for editors The ⧼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 [1 891] 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. [1 892] On wikis using Flagged Revisions , the number of pending changes shown on Specialaĵo:Malfreŝe kontrolitaj paĝoj 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. [1 893] 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'. [1 894] 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. [1 895] Updates for technical contributors A new special page, Specialaĵo: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: Specialaĵo:LintTemplateErrors/night-mode-unaware-background-color [1 896] 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 [1 897] 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. [1 898] 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., Specialaĵo: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. [1 899] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki In depth 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 Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 19:35, 16 mar. 2026 (UTC) Reply Upcoming deployment of CampaignEvents extension to Wikibooks redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 1 monato 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Hello everyone, We are writing to inform you that the CampaignEvents extension will be deployed to all Wikibooks projects during the week of 23 March 2026 This follows last year’s broader rollout across Wikimedia projects. We realized that Wikibooks was not included at the time, and we’re now addressing that to ensure consistency across all communities. The CampaignEvents extension provides tools to support event and campaign organization on-wiki, including features like on-wiki event registration and collaboration lists(global event list). We welcome any questions, feedback, or concerns you may have. We are also happy to support anyone interested in trying out the tools. Apologies if this message is not in your preferred language. If you’re able to help translate it for your community, please feel free to do so. Udehb-WMF diskuto 18:22, 19 mar. 2026 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2026-13 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 1 monato 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight 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. [1 900] 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. [1 901] 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 [1 902] 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. [1 903] 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. [1 904] [1 905] 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: MediaWiki In depth 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 Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 16:51, 23 mar. 2026 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2026-14 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 24 tagoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight The 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. [1 906] Updates for technical contributors Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 19:25, 30 mar. 2026 (UTC) Reply Saluton mi bezonas helpon redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 19 tagoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto mi verkis kaj komencis tradukadon adaptadon al Esperanto Ĉu iu bonvolas klarigi kiel mi povas efike enkonduki novan libron "Rompita Spegulo Eseo pri Modelo por objekta psiko" ? Clopeau diskuto 04:54, 5 apr. 2026 (UTC) Reply Teknikaj Novaĵoj: 2026-15 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 17 tagoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Plej lastaj teknikaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin. Tradukoj disponeblas. Updates for editors La etendaĵo de KampanjoEventoj nun inkluzivas novan funkcion por starigi grupcelojn, ebligante organizantojn starigi kaj sekvi eventajn celojn kiel la nombro de kreitaj artikoloj kaj partoprenantaj kontribuantoj en reala tempo. Same, partoprenantoj povas labori por komunumaj celoj kaj vidi ilian kolektivan efikon dum la evento disvolviĝas. La funkcio nun disponeblas en ĉiuj vikimediaj vikioj. Lernu pli en la dokumentaro La nova etikedoj por observlisto funkcio (anoncita en Teknikaj Novaĵoj 2026-07 ) nun haveblas per VisualEditor, la fonta redaktilo, kaj la 'observstelo' (aŭ observligo, por haŭtoj kiuj ne havas stelsimbolon). Antaŭe eblis asigni etikedojn nur per EditWatchlist . En ĉiuj tri lokoj ĝi estas nova kampo post la eksvalidiĝa kampo. View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week Ekzemple, la problemo kie la paĝoj de diskutado sur movebla aparato kun Parsoid estas neuzeblaj post malplena sekcia kaplinio, nun estas solvita. [1 907] Updates for technical contributors La sub-referenca funkcio , kiu permesas al redaktistoj aldoni detalojn al ekzistanta referenco sen duobligi ĝin, estos graduale enkondukita al pli da vikioj poste ĉi-jare. Vikioj uzantaj la Reference Tooltips ilon estas instigitaj ĝisdatigi sian version (kutime ĉe MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js kiel montrite ĉi tie ) por certigi kongruecon. Aliaj iloj rilataj al referencoj ankaŭ povas esti influitaj. [1 908] Ĉiuj eldonaĵoj de Wikinews estos fermitaj kaj ŝanĝitaj al nur-lerta reĝimo je la 4-a de majo 2026. La enhavo restos alirebla, sed neniuj novaj redaktaĵoj aŭ artikoloj povas esti aldonitaj. Ĉi tiu fermo estis aprobita de la Estraro de Fiduciuloj de la Vikimedia Fondaĵo post longaj diskutoj. Legu pli La Agado-API havis plurajn formatojn por petata eligo. Unu el ili, format=php , estos baldau forigita. Bonvolu certigi, ke viaj skriptoj aŭ robotoj uzas la JSON-formaton . Ĉi tiu forigo devus influi tre malmultajn skriptojn kaj robotojn. [1 909] La paĝo Special:NamespaceInfo nun inkluzivas nomspacajn kromnomojn. Ekzemple "WP" por la "Projekto" ("Vikipedio") nomspaco en la germana Vikipedio. [1 910] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Teknikaj novaĵoj preparitaj de verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj kaj afiŝitaj de roboto Kontribui Traduki Esti helpata Prikomenti Aboni aŭ malaboni MediaWiki message delivery 16:19, 6 apr. 2026 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2026-16 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 10 tagoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight 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. [1 911] 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. [1 912] Updates for technical contributors Starting later this week, Redaktantoj de misuzadaj filtriloj 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. [1 913] [1 914] 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. [1 915] 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). [1 916] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 15:19, 13 apr. 2026 (UTC) Reply Tech News: 2026-17 redakti Lasta komento: antaŭ 4 tagoj 1 komento 1 persono en diskuto Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight 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 [1 917] 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. [1 918] 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. [1 919] 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. [1 920] 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 [1 921] 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. [1 922] 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 There is no new MediaWiki version this week. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot Contribute Translate Get help Give feedback Subscribe or unsubscribe MediaWiki message delivery 15:00, 20 apr. 2026 (UTC) Reply Elŝutita el " Kategorioj Paĝoj kun skripteraroj Vikilibroj:Uzantoj Vikilibroj Diskutejo Aldoni temon
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