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Tech News: 2023-02
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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.
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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.
[2]
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.
[3]
Matrix
is a chat tool. You can now use
matrix:
to create Matrix links on wiki pages.
[4]
You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages.
[5]
Changes later this week
Realtime preview for wikitext
is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar.
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 10 January at 07:00 UTC (
targeted wikis
) and on 12 January at 07:00 UTC (
targeted wikis
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The
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Tech News: 2023-03
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The URLs in "prev" links on page history now contain
diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID]
in place of
diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]
. This is to fix a problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change.
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The
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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
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Some
changes to the appearance of talk pages
have only been available on
Talk:
and
User talk:
namespaces. These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such as
Wikisource talk:
. They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including
Wikisource:
pages (e.g., at the Village Pump). You can
change your preferences
beta feature
).
[7]
On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page: namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page: namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page.
[8]
The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC.
Future changes
The 2023 edition of the
Community Wishlist Survey
, which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can start drafting your proposals in
the CWS sandbox
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Tech News: 2023-04
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Last week, for ~15 minutes, all wikis were unreachable for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a timing issue.
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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
(CWS), which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts on Monday 23 January 2023 at
18:00 UTC
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Tech News: 2023-05
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Last week, for ~15 minutes, some users were unable to log in or edit pages. This was caused by a problem with session storage.
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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
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Tech News: 2023-06
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The
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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
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[15]
Community Wishlist Survey 2023
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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
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Trolling all around
So this well known LTA troll (either Wikinger or What's-his-name) found one obscure WMF project where he is not yet banned and defaced my (thitherto non-existing)
talk page
to insult me: Apparently for the crime of not sharing this troll’s wrong views on pre-Classic Greek letters a few years ago (!), it’s cool to accuse me of c.p. while pinging Jimbo about it (unsuccessfully pinging, that is, for lack of the necessary brackets). So, I want to replace
this nonsense
with a blank page.
But the really clever system in place here in Wikisource, the system that just allowed an IP account to create anew someone’s talk page and let it be added explicit mentions of c.p., has this to say when a user tries to blank their own talk page:
This action has been automatically identified as harmful, and therefore disallowed. If you believe your action was constructive, please inform an administrator of what you were trying to do. A brief description of the abuse rule which your action matched is: don't create empty pages
And to this I have a few choice words myself, but better not add them here, for that too may be harmful.
Tuvalkin
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09:38, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
reply
Tropicalkitty
: Thanks for reverting this sad, sad troll in my talk page. Is there a way of protecting it and/or blocking these IPs? And more generally, shouldn’t there be in place some sort of policy or filter to be triggered when someone, especially an unlogged user, add a mention to c.p. in a new edit?
Tuvalkin
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09:28, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
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Maybe
Koavf
or another Wikisource administrator could fulfill this request at their discretion. I don’t have sufficient permissions on Wikisource to perform blocks or protections in your user space, sorry.
Tropicalkitty
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20:35, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
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Deleted and protected. Sorry that I didn't see this earlier: I've been very active on en.wp lately and have ignored responsibilities on other WMF wikis. —
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20:45, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
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Edit disallowed as spam
Hello,
I just attempted to create a new topic in
Talk:Rolls Series
but my edit was automatically disallowed as spam. I have fifteen years of activity and hundreds of edits on various Wikimedia projects, mainly
English Wikipedia
. My edit isn't spam. (Nor is it self-promotion, as I have nothing to do with "Links Galore" or its author.) Please permit the edit.
RW Dutton
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20:32, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
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Thanks for allowing this.
RW Dutton
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21:44, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-07
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Problems
On wikis where patrolled edits are enabled, changes made to the
mentor list
by autopatrolled mentors are not correctly marked as patrolled. It will be fixed later this week.
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The Reply tool and other parts of
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read more about this decision
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Future changes
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Semi-protection request
Hi. Please semi-protect my user talk page
User talk:Jeff G.
, as the IP vandalism has gotten out of hand. Thanks in advance!
Jeff G.
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11:39, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
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Done
Justin (
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23:49, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
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Weird categorizing in "Pages transcluding nonexistent sections"
I have noticed that recently some pages are added into category (auxiliary I guess)
Category:Pages transcluding nonexistent sections
(not created yet). For example, articles and main pages of newspaper "Yakstere teshte" created by me:
Якстере теште/1924/05
Якстере теште/1924/05/Газета тест аэряви
. I think there is something wrong with this categorising because actually these pages don't use transcluding nonexistent sections. Moreover, some other pages of the same newspaper are not included in that category: e.g. page
Якстере теште/1924/05/Лия масторга
and others. Can someone comment on this categorization?
The English Wikisource seemingly also encountered this event, and it has recently created. @
Tpt
:: you created this category in the English WS — maybe you know: is something broken with that? Will it be fixed soon? --
Nigmont
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12:21, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
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This is a
tracking category
, which collects pages that use LabeledSectionTransclusion is used incorrectly – but it currently collects also pages where it’s used correctly (see
phab:T329432
). Since the category itself will probably remain, I think it can be created, even if no pages it currently contains are indeed broken, and therefore it may get empty when the bug is fixed – it just needs an {{
empty category
}} tag. —
Tacsipacsi
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22:27, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
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Yes, there is currently a bug adding correct usages to the category. A change that should fix this problem will be deployed on Wednesday. Sorry for that.
Tpt
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09:01, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-08
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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
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The voting phase for the
Community Wishlist Survey 2023
ends on
24 February at 18:00 UTC
. The results of the survey will be announced on 28 February.
Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for
14:00 UTC
. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
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This update comes in response to several things:
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Pseudonym
How should I deal with works published under a pseudonym? See
Author:Л._Савельев
and
Koht_jemne_mil̦t_vьjet
. --
Rießler
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09:10, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
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To use an example from en.ws, if someone exclusively wrote under a penname and we know that person's actual identity (e.g. Eric Arthur Blair was "George Orwell" and Samuel Clemens published as "Mark Twain"), we use the penname. If someone wrote under a variety of pseudonyms or used one-off names (e.g. Søren Kierkegaard published under a half-dozen pseudonyms), then we use that person's proper name. So, if this is a one-off, I'd use his real/legal name and make a redirect from the pseudonym. —
Justin (
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19:13, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you very much! --
Rießler
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15:08, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
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Also check
w:List of countries' copyright lengths
while pseudonymous works tend to get regular copyright terms if the identity of the pseudonym is well known.--
Jusjih
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03:01, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
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DjVu
includes a PD work, partly in Kildin Sami language and partly in Akkala Sami, which I would like to transcribe in Wikisource. The OCR done on this document is already very accurate. I'm afraid that this accurate OCR is destroyed if I convert to DjVu. --
Rießler
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12:07, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
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Or perhaps someone can help me to create the relevant pages here, for me to proofread? --
Rießler
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12:18, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
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Here the PDF:
--
Rießler
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14:09, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, @
Rießler
: It is not required to convert a PDF scan file to DjVu, you can use a PDF for proofreading if you want, there is no problem with that. You may use any of those formats as you prefer. Also, I created an index for that file from the Commons:
Index:Махьтвеест Пась-Евангели – Самас.pdf
, is that what do you need? I myself work here on adding text in
Mordvinic languages
(Moksha and Erzya), which are of Finno-Ugric family too, so probably I could do some help to you if you need. --
Nigmont
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19:30, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
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Огромное спасибо! Это страница:
Page:Махьтвеест_Пась-Евангели_–_Самас.pdf/3
does it look alright? --
Rießler
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20:06, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
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I checked the page and found two OCR errors, and fixed; also added
{{nop}}
at the end of the page, because it is needed when paragraph terminates the page, as explained on the template's documentation page:
Template:Nop
. The proofread page (Page:Махьтвеест Пась-Евангели – Самас.pdf/3) now looks good, so I marked it as 'Proofread' while saving the edit. --
Nigmont
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21:13, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you very much for your help! I'll transcribe this work soon, but for testing how this works I've uploaded another work, which is already transcribed locally on my computer and can be added here easily. Look here:
Index:Men_antij_Okțaвr_Revolucia_roвtus̷dɘdь_saamit.pdf
. However, the original scan from the library had the backcover as frontcover. I noticed this first after creating the project in Wikisource. It is corrected in Commons, but how do I fix this here? --
Rießler
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15:08, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
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Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean... Do you mean — that the pages in the file are ordered somewhat wrongly: the back cover page (must be at the end of the file) is currently placed as the 1-st page, and the front cover goes as the 2-nd page? If you mean this, then if you fix the file and change pages' order, and upload a new version (it should be noticed that it hasn't been done yet — the file on the Commons still has that wrong order), then you need to change the pages which you have created here already: page "
Page:Men antij Okțaвr Revolucia roвtus̷dɘdь saamit.pdf/2
" should become as page "/1", the page "/3" would go as "/2" etc. But if you don't want to upload new version — then you can proofread pages as they are now, without changing their current order. It's rather a question of convenience — is it needed to fix the pages order, would it be easy, or maybe it would be easier to leave them as they are ordered now. --
Nigmont
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11:44, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
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Commons
has the corrected order, but in
Index:Men antij Okțaвr Revolucia roвtus̷dɘdь saamit.pdf
I defined page 2 as the cover. I think fixing the pages would be most convenient. Are you admin and can delete current
Page:Men antij Okțaвr Revolucia roвtus̷dɘdь saamit.pdf/1
? (Don't worry about loosing the transcription, I have it locally.) After this I can move the other pages and insert current page one at the end. --
Rießler
talk
) 14:15, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
I understand this now, sorry for bothering you. --
Rießler
talk
14:54, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
reply
No, I am not an admin, so I cannot help with moving the pages, sorry. I can move only pages' content by copy-pasting from page to page, but seemingly you have already done that yourselves, so the problem should be solved now. But if there were a lot of pages (hundred or more) to move, then, of course, it would be better to ask admins to run a script to move them automatically, and to wait when some of them does that. --
Nigmont
talk
15:45, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
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The Community Wishlist Survey 2023 edition has been concluded. Community Tech has
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Remove one vandalism
Hello,
I tried to remove this vandalism:
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, but a filter (
Operator873's Filter
) does not allow me to do it. Could a sysop remove the vandalism?
Regards
NicoScribe
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11:20, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
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Done
by
Operator873
. Thanks! --
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14:51, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-12
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Last week, some users experienced issues loading image thumbnails. This was due to incorrectly cached images.
[33]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (
calendar
).
A link to the user's
Special:CentralAuth
page will appear on
Special:Contributions
— some user scripts which previously added this link may cause conflicts. This feature request was
voted #17 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
The
Special:AbuseFilter
edit window will be resizable and larger by default. This feature request was
voted #80 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
There will be a new option for Administrators when they are unblocking a user, to add the unblocked user’s user page to their watchlist. This will work both via
Special:Unblock
and via the API.
[34]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on
24 March at 17:00 (UTC)
. See
details and how to join
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Recent changes
The
AbuseFilter
condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000.
[35]
Some Global AbuseFilter
actions will no longer apply to local projects.
[36]
Desktop users are now able to subscribe to talk pages by clicking on the Subscribe link in the Tools menu. If you subscribe to a talk page, you receive
notifications
when new topics are started on that talk page. This is separate from putting the page on your watchlist or subscribing to a single discussion.
[37]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 March. It will be on all wikis from 30 March (
calendar
).
Future changes
You will be able to choose
visual diffs
on all
history pages
at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias.
[38]
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.
[45]
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
[46]
Some of the links in
Special:SpecialPages
will be re-arranged. There will be a clearer separation between links that relate to all users, and links related to your own user account.
[47]
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.
[48]
[49]
[50]
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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In the visual editor, it is now possible to edit captions of images in galleries without opening the gallery dialog. This feature request was
voted #61 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
[51]
You can now receive notifications when another user edits your user page. See the "Edits to my user page" option in
your Preferences
. This feature request was
voted #3 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
[52]
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.
[53]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (
calendar
).
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "
Add a link
" (Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia, Danish Wikipedia, Dinka Wikipedia, Lower Sorbian Wikipedia, Ewe Wikipedia, Greek Wikipedia, Emiliano-Romagnolo Wikipedia, Esperanto Wikipedia, Estonian Wikipedia, Basque Wikipedia, Extremaduran Wikipedia, Tumbuka Wikipedia, Fulah Wikipedia, Finnish Wikipedia, Võro Wikipedia, Fijian Wikipedia, Faroese Wikipedia, Arpitan Wikipedia, Northern Frisian Wikipedia, Friulian Wikipedia, Irish Wikipedia, Guianan Creole Wikipedia, Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia, Galician Wikipedia, Gilaki Wikipedia, Guarani Wikipedia, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Gothic Wikipedia, Gujarati Wikipedia, Manx Wikipedia). This is part of the
progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias
. The communities can
configure how this feature works locally
[54]
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Recent changes
You can now see
nearby articles on a Kartographer map
with the button for the new feature "Show nearby articles". Six wikis have been testing this feature since October.
[56]
[57]
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
[58]
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.
[59]
[60]
For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed.
[61]
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 April. It will be on all wikis from 20 April (
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Your wiki will be in read-only soon
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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.
All traffic will switch on
26 April
. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
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 Wednesday 26 April 2023.
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.
GitLab
will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
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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The date-selection menu on pages such as
Special:Contributions
will now show year-ranges that are in the current and past decade, instead of the current and future decade. This feature request was
voted #145 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
[62]
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.
[63]
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.
[64]
[65]
[66]
Changes later this week
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for
14:00 UTC
[67]
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
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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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Seeking volunteers for the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct process
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Hello,
As follow-up to
the message about the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines
by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Vice Chair, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, I am reaching out about the next steps. I want to bring your attention to the next stage of the Universal Code of Conduct process, which is forming a building committee for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). I invite community members with experience and deep interest in community health and governance to nominate themselves to be part of the U4C building committee, which needs people who are:
Community members in good standing
Knowledgeable about movement community processes, such as, but not limited to, policy drafting, participatory decision making, and application of existing rules and policies on Wikimedia projects
Aware and appreciative of the diversity of the movement, such as, but not limited to, languages spoken, identity, geography, and project type
Committed to participate for the entire U4C Building Committee period from mid-May - December 2023
Comfortable with engaging in difficult, but productive conversations
Confidently able to communicate in English
The Building Committee shall consist of volunteer community members, affiliate board or staff, and Wikimedia Foundation staff.
The Universal Code of Conduct has been a process strengthened by the skills and knowledge of the community and I look forward to what the U4C Building Committee creates. If you are interested in joining the Building Committee, please either
sign up on the Meta-Wiki page
, or contact ucocproject
wikimedia.org by May 12, 2023.
Read more on Meta-Wiki
Best regards,
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19:01, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
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Trying to fix typos on Interlingua Wikisource
Hello, I am trying to fix some typos on the Interlingua Wikisource, but my edits are considered spam. The message suggests contacting an administrator, and I asked on the Discord channel, and was told to ask here.
Eowug
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Ok, I can edit the page now.
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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
[68]
[69]
[70]
The
Video2commons
tool has been updated. This fixed several bugs related to YouTube uploads.
[71]
The
Special:Preferences
page has been redesigned on mobile web. The new design makes it easier to browse the different categories and settings at low screen widths. You can also now access the page via a link in the Settings menu in the mobile web sidebar.
[72]
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 May. It will be on all wikis from 4 May (
calendar
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Global ban proposal for Piermark/House of Yahweh/HoY
There is an on-going discussion about a proposal that Piermark/House of Yahweh/HoY be globally banned from editing all Wikimedia projects. You are invited to participate at
Requests for comment/Global ban for Piermark
on Meta-Wiki. Thank you!
U.T.
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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
[73]
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.
[74]
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
[75]
Problems
Graph Extension update: Foundation developers have completed upgrading the visualization software to Vega5. Existing community graphs based on Vega2 are no longer compatible. Communities need to update local graphs and templates, and shared lua modules like
w:de:Modul:Graph
. The
Vega Porting guide
provides the most comprehensive detail on migration from Vega2 and
here is an example migration
. Vega5 has currently just been enabled on mediawiki.org to provide a test environment for communities.
[76]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (
calendar
).
Until now, all new OAuth apps went through manual review. Starting this week, apps using identification-only or basic authorizations will not require review.
[77]
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
[78]
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
[79]
[80]
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
[81]
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Is there pdf browser for wikisource
When openning pdf in wikisource there are in the screen many things other than the pdf page. is there a Gadget or template to view only pdf pages like
Internet Archive
حبيشان
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11:52, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
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You can open PDFs. Most if not all desktop and some mobile browsers (e.g.
Firefox for Android
) natively support displaying PDFs. Isn’t that sufficient? —
Tacsipacsi
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23:05, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
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Tacsipacsi
they are slow when opening a page in the middle of a book or at the end of a book.
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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.
[82]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 May. It will be on all wikis from 18 May (
calendar
).
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "
Add a link
" (Gorontalo Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Hakka Chinese Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Upper Sorbian Wikipedia, Haitian Creole Wikipedia, Interlingua Wikipedia, Interlingue Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Iloko Wikipedia, Ingush Wikipedia, Ido Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Inuktitut Wikipedia, Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, Javanese Wikipedia). This is part of the
progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias
. The communities can
configure how this feature works locally
[83]
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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Request for the Bot-flag
I would like to apply for the bot-flag for
User:DracoBot
. I have to move some pages in the
index
. suppress-redirect is essential for this task. I run already the bot on the PL-Wikisource (
pl:User:DracoBot
. Regards
Draco flavus
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09:04, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
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If there are any other tasks I can happily help.
Draco flavus
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08:17, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
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Support: trusted and technically skilled user; this bot already has a bot flag at plwikisource.
Ankry
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17:03, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
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Sorry for the late reaction. Looks good to me :) --
Ooswesthoesbes
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17:30, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
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OK, see my talk page. If there is no serious objection, I will grant the flag for Dracobot tomorrow.
-jkb-
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Done
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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
[85]
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.
[86]
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
The next stage in the Universal Code of Conduct process is establishing a Building Committee to create the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). The Building Committee has been selected.
Read about the members and the work ahead on Meta-wiki
--
UCoC Project Team
, 04:21, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
w:en:Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Projects
(GRP)
This LTA (also known as GRP) is now active at
Njet, Molotoff
- please protect the page as vandalism, and please revdel the absurd libels. Thanks. --
Quangdat201
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04:41, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
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Done
by Koavf --
Quangdat201
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15:15, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
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Vandal
See
Special:Contribs/KEMONO PANTSU Z
. Thanks.
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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.
[87]
The page
Special:EditWatchlist
now has "Check all" options to select all the pages within a namespace. This feature request was
voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
[88]
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.
[89]
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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Report concerning
User:2001:448A:2022:B44C:D4DB:171A:F24:2080
2001:448A:2022:B44C:D4DB:171A:F24:2080
talk
contribs
global contribs
): Vandalism --
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Vandal 2
Hi, see
FortressBuilder
...
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Recent changes
The
RealMe
extension allows you to mark URLs on your user page as verified for Mastodon and similar software.
Citation and footnote editing can now be started from the reference list when using the visual editor. This feature request was
voted #2 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
[91]
Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference for "Group results by page". This has now been fixed.
[92]
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.
[93]
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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The content attribution tools
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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
[95]
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.
[96]
The
RealMe
extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software.
[97]
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.
[98]
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.
[99]
Currently, the "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is broken. Existing
{{DEFAULTSORT:...}}
keywords incorrectly appear as missing templates in VisualEditor. Developers are exploring how to fix this. In the meantime, those wishing to edit the default sortkey of a page are advised to switch to source editing.
[100]
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
[101]
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.
[102]
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.
[103]
[104]
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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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Recent changes
The Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing
to all
prop=extlinks
responses for bare domains. This is part of the work to remove duplication in the
externallinks
database table.
[107]
Problems
Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours.
[108]
[109]
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.
[110]
[111]
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.
[112]
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.
[113]
The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized
user interface components
[114]
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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Announcing the new Elections Committee members
You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.
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Hello there,
We are glad to announce
the new members and advisors of the Elections Committee
. The
Elections Committee
assists with the design and implementation of the process to select Community- and Affiliate-Selected trustees for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. After an open nomination process, the strongest candidates spoke with the Board and four candidates were asked to join the Elections Committee. Four other candidates were asked to participate as advisors.
Thank you to all the community members who submitted their names for consideration. We look forward to working with the Elections Committee in the near future.
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees,
RamzyM (WMF)
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Recent changes
As part of the rolling out of the
audio links that play on click
wishlist proposal,
small wikis
will now be able to use the
inline audio player
that is implemented by the
Phonos
extension.
[116]
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.
[117]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 July. It will be on all wikis from 6 July (
calendar
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Recent changes
The
Section-level Image Suggestions feature
has been deployed on seven Wikipedias (Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Catalan, Hungarian, Finnish and Norwegian Bokmål). The feature recommends images for articles on contributors' watchlists that are a good match for individual sections of those articles.
Global abuse filters
have been enabled on all Wikimedia projects, except English and Japanese Wikipedias (who opted out). This change was made following a
global request for comments
[118]
Special:BlockedExternalDomains
is a new tool for administrators to help fight spam. It provides a clearer interface for blocking plain domains (and their subdomains), is more easily searchable, and is faster for the software to process for each edit on the wiki. It does not support regex (for complex cases), nor URL path-matching, nor the
MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist
, but otherwise it replaces most of the functionalities of the existing
MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist
. There is a Python script to help migrate all simple domains into this tool, and more feature details, within
the tool's documentation
. It is available at all wikis except for Meta-wiki, Commons, and Wikidata.
[119]
The WikiEditor extension was updated. It includes some of the most frequently used features of wikitext editing. In the past, many of its messages could only be translated by administrators, but now all regular translators on translatewiki can translate them. Please check
the state of WikiEditor localization into your language
, and if the "Completion" for your language shows anything less than 100%, please complete the translation. See
a more detailed explanation
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 July. It will be on all wikis from 13 July (
calendar
).
The default protocol of
Special:LinkSearch
and API counterparts has changed from http to both http and https.
[120]
Special:LinkSearch
and its API counterparts will now search for all of the URL provided in the query. It used to be only the first 60 characters. This feature was requested fifteen years ago.
[121]
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
[122]
There is an ongoing discussion on a
proposed Third-party resources policy
. The proposal will impact the use of third-party resources in gadgets and userscripts. Based on the ideas received so far, policy includes some of the risks related to user scripts and gadgets loading third-party resources, some best practices and exemption requirements such as code transparency and inspectability. Your feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome until July 17, 2023 on
on the policy talk page
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Recent changes
We are now serving 1% of all global user traffic from
Kubernetes
(you can
read more technical details
). We are planning to increment this percentage regularly. You can
follow the progress of this work
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (
calendar
).
MediaWiki
system messages
will now look for available local fallbacks, instead of always using the default fallback defined by software. This means wikis no longer need to override each language on the
fallback chain
separately. For example, English Wikipedia doesn't have to create
en-ca
and
en-gb
subpages with a transclusion of the base pages anymore. This makes it easier to maintain local overrides.
[123]
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.
[124]
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Recent changes
On July 18, the Wikimedia Foundation launched a survey about the
technical decision making process
for people who do technical work that relies on software that is maintained by the Foundation or affiliates. If this applies to you,
please take part in the survey
. The survey will be open for three weeks, until August 7. You can find more information in
the announcement e-mail on wikitech-l
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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 (
calendar
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Deploying the Phonos in-line audio player to your Wiki
Hello!
Apologies if this message is not in your language, ⧼Please help translate⧽ to your language.
This wiki will soon be able to use the
inline audio player
implemented by the
Phonos
extension. This is part of fulfilling a wishlist proposal of providing
audio links that play on click
With the inline audio player, you can add text-to-speech audio snippets to wiki pages by simply using a tag:

The above tag will show the text next to a speaker icon, and clicking on it will play the audio instantly without taking you to another page. A common example where you can use this feature is in adding pronunciation to words as illustrated on the
English Wiktionary
below.
{{
audio
en
En-uk-English.oga
Audio (UK)
}}
Could become:

The inline audio player will be available in your wiki in 2 weeks time; in the meantime, we would like you to
read about the features
and give us feedback or ask questions about it in this
talk page
Thank you!
UOzurumba (WMF)
, on behalf of the Foundation's Language team
02:26, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
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Recent changes
The
Synchronizer
tool is now available to keep Lua modules synced across Wikimedia wikis, along with
updated documentation
to develop global Lua modules and templates.
The tag filter on
Special:NewPages
and revision history pages can now be inverted. For example, you can hide edits that were made using an automated tool.
[125]
[126]
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.
[127]
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.
[128]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (
calendar
).
Starting on Tuesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "
Add a link
" (Georgian Wikipedia, Kara-Kalpak Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Kabardian Wikipedia, Kabiyè Wikipedia, Kikuyu Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Khmer Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Kashmiri Wikipedia, Colognian Wikipedia, Kurdish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia). This is part of the
progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias
. The communities can
configure how this feature works locally
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Recent changes
Mobile Web editors can now
edit a whole page at once
. To use this feature, turn on "⧼Mobile-frontend-mobile-option-amc⧽" in your settings and use the "Edit full page" button in the "More" menu.
[130]
Changes later this week
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Recent changes
The Content translation system is no longer using Youdao's
machine translation service
. The service was in place for several years, but due to no usage, and availability of alternatives, it was deprecated to reduce maintenance overheads. Other services which cover the same languages are still available.
[131]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (
calendar
).
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "
Add a link
" (Latin Wikipedia, Ladino Wikipedia, Luxembourgish Wikipedia, Lak Wikipedia, Lezghian Wikipedia, Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia, Ganda Wikipedia, Limburgish Wikipedia, Ligurian Wikipedia, Lombard Wikipedia, Lingala Wikipedia, Latgalian Wikipedia, Latvian Wikipedia, Maithili Wikipedia, Basa Banyumasan Wikipedia, Moksha Wikipedia, Malagasy Wikipedia, Armenian Wikipedia, Kyrgyz Wikipedia). This is part of the
progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias
. The communities can
configure how this feature works locally
[132]
Future changes
A few gadgets/user scripts which add icons to the Minerva skin need to have their CSS updated. There are more details available including a
search for all existing instances and how to update them
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Recent changes
The
GDrive to Commons Uploader
tool is now available. It enables
securely selecting and uploading files
from your Google Drive directly to Wikimedia Commons.
[133]
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:
[134]
a Wikisource in
Sundanese
s:su:
[135]
To catch up, the next most recent six wikis are:
Wikifunctions (
f:
[136]
a Wiktionary in
Mandailing
wikt:btm:
[137]
a Wikipedia in
Ghanaian Pidgin
w:gpe:
[138]
a Wikinews in
Gungbe
n:guw:
[139]
a Wiktionary in
Kabardian
wikt:kbd:
[140]
a Wikipedia in
Fante
w:fat:
[141]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (
calendar
).
Future changes
There is an existing
stable interface policy
for MediaWiki backend code. There is a
proposed stable interface policy for frontend code
. This is relevant for anyone who works on gadgets or Wikimedia frontend code. You can read it, discuss it, and let the proposer know if there are any problems.
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Recent changes
As part of the changes for the
better diff handling of paragraph splits
, improved detection of splits is being rolled out. Over the last two weeks, we deployed this support to
group0
and group1 wikis. This week it will be deployed to group2 wikis.
[143]
All
Special:Contributions
pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date.
[144]
Wikisource users can now use the
prpbengalicurrency
label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the

tag.
[145]
Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "Enable the visual editor" is now shown on the
"Editing" tab
at all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "Beta features" tab at some wikis. The preference "Use the wikitext mode inside the visual editor, instead of a different wikitext editor" is now also shown on the "Editing" tab at all wikis, instead of the "Beta features" tab.
[146]
[147]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (
calendar
).
New signups for a Wikimedia developer account will start being pushed towards
idm.wikimedia.org
, rather than going via Wikitech.
Further information about the new system is available
All right-to-left language wikis, plus Korean, Armenian, Ukrainian, Russian, and Bulgarian Wikipedias, will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the
Wikimedia URL Shortener
. This feature will come to more wikis in future weeks.
[148]
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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Review the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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Hello all,
I am pleased to share the next step in the
Universal Code of Conduct
work. The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) draft charter
is now ready for your review.
The
Enforcement Guidelines
require a
Building Committee
form to draft a charter that outlines procedures and details for a global committee to be called the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
. Over the past few months, the U4C Building Committee worked together as a group to discuss and draft the U4C charter. The U4C Building Committee welcomes feedback about the draft charter now through 22 September 2023. After that date, the U4C Building Committee will revise the charter as needed and a community vote will open shortly afterward.
Join the conversation during the
conversation hours
or on
Meta-wiki
Best,
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Recent changes
EditInSequence
, a feature that allows users to edit pages faster on Wikisource has been moved to a Beta Feature based on community feedback. To enable it, you can navigate to the
beta features tab in Preferences
[149]
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.
[150]
There is a new option for Administrators when they are changing the usergroups for a user, to add the user’s user page to their watchlist. This works both via
Special:UserRights
and via the API.
[151]
One new wiki has been created:
a Wikipedia in
Talysh
w:tly:
[152]
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.
[153]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (
calendar
).
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "
Add a link
" (Eastern Mari Wikipedia, Maori Wikipedia, Minangkabau Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Mongolian Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Western Mari Wikipedia, Malay Wikipedia, Maltese Wikipedia, Mirandese Wikipedia, Erzya Wikipedia, Mazanderani Wikipedia, Nāhuatl Wikipedia, Neapolitan Wikipedia, Low German Wikipedia, Low Saxon Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Newari Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Novial Wikipedia, N'Ko Wikipedia, Nouormand Wikipedia, Northern Sotho Wikipedia, Navajo Wikipedia, Nyanja Wikipedia, Occitan Wikipedia, Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia, Oromo Wikipedia, Oriya Wikipedia, Ossetic Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Pangasinan Wikipedia, Pampanga Wikipedia, Papiamento Wikipedia, Picard Wikipedia, Pennsylvania German Wikipedia, Palatine German Wikipedia, Norfuk / Pitkern Wikipedia, Piedmontese Wikipedia, Western Punjabi Wikipedia, Pontic Wikipedia, Pashto Wikipedia). This is part of the
progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias
. The communities can
configure how this feature works locally
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Recent changes
ORES
, the revision evaluation service, is now using a new open-source infrastructure on all wikis except for English Wikipedia and Wikidata. These two will follow this week. If you notice any unusual results from the Recent Changes filters that are related to ORES (for example, "Contribution quality predictions" and "User intent predictions"), please
report them
[156]
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.
[157]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (
calendar
).
The
Technical Decision-Making Forum Retrospective
team invites anyone involved in the technical field of Wikimedia projects to signup to and join
one of their listening sessions
on 13 September. Another date will be scheduled later. The goal is to improve the technical decision-making processes.
As part of the changes for the
Better diff handling of paragraph splits
wishlist proposal, the inline switch widget in diff pages is being rolled out this week to all wikis. The inline switch will allow viewers to toggle between a unified inline or two-column diff wikitext format.
[158]
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.
[159]
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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Your wiki will be in read-only soon
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
will switch the traffic between its 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.
All traffic will switch on
20 September
. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
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 Wednesday 20 September 2023.
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IP Masking is comming :-(
Some Infos see
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(in different languages) with some more pages...
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A lot of unsourced texts being added on the multilingual Wikisource
Currently the multilingual Wikisource has not specific rule(s) which require tagging texts added to the Wikisource with information when and where the text being added was published first (or at least, information about when the current version of the work represented on the page was actually published). I have noticed (long ago) that some users do additions of texts without providing publication data for the works they create and save here. For example,
User:Quangdat201
who adds many texts for languages of Russia, but doesn't provide publication information on any texts added by him/her. In my opinion, the multilingual Wikisource should create a rule requiring providing information about publication of the text. At least, it is necessary for texts which are not scan-backed (for text profread from scans it is less needed because publication information can be taken from the scan, though putting publication data on the page in the mainspace would be useful for the scan-backed pages too).
The reasons for such a rule - I tried to describe them
on the talk page of User:Quangdat201
, anyone can read and know them. Unfortunately, Quangdat201 ignored that my message and even didn't respected me so much to give any answer. And this user still continues adding texts for languages of Russia, recently the user started adding texts for Finno-Ugric languaages, for which I am pretty sure that where exist some works which were published much later than their claimed creating year, so calculating copyright status based on the creation year only (as Quangdat201 does) is wrong and can cause adding works which are actually not out of copyright - that is, the works' pages which are actually copyvios.
In addition to that explanation on the Quangdat201's talk page, I can tell one more consideration. When a user adds a text here, he/she has a book or other source of information from which he/she actually has got the text, and that book must have the needed iformation when and where the work (or the current version of the work represented there) was published, so for the user it shouldn't be a problem to put that information in the header of the page being added, because he/she already has (should have) that information. In the case when user doesn't have that information - in that case he/she cannot be sure that the text is out of copyright, and cannot be sure that he doesn't do a copyvio while publishing the text.
One more point: the publication data is also needed not only for avoiding copyright violation, but also for cataloging of versions of works presented in the Wikisource. It is known that significant and pupular works are usually published many times and have many versions, so when a user puts a page with a work and doesn't provide from which book (or other source) this version of work was acquired, it would be hard for future contributors of the Wikisource to find out where the current version of the work has come from, so enforcing the rule - to add the publication data immediately when the page is created, - would save time for future users to find the origin of the version of the work represented on the page.
So I would like to create opinion poll - to know whether users (especially experienced users and admins) agree that the multilingual Wikisource must have a rule requiring providing publication data for newly-added content pages in the mainspace of the Wikisource. As far as I know many (or all) big Wikisources (like English and other ones) have such rules, and I don't see any reason why the multilingual Wikisource should not have such a rule too.
Any comments and opinions are welcomed. --
Nigmont
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09:30, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
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Yep, that is a huge problem. Unsourced, not categorized, fake texts...
-jkb-
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10:36, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
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I fully agree with the suggested rule. Just one more or less stylistic clarification : "...the main namespace (except
maybe
scan-backed pages...". I do not see the point in repeating this data.
Draco flavus
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11:01, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
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Good point, though I always put publication data even on scan-backed pages while adding them in the Moksha and Erzya categories (the languages I am working on), I agree - other language Wikisources may have other preferences and their contributors may decide that repeating that data is not desired. I corrected the wording accordingly (removing the word "maybe"), let's leave scan-backed pages on full discretion of the contributors. --
Nigmont
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13:02, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
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The Polish texts (scan-backed) translude usually the template {{Dane tekstu}}, the publication date is there explicitly given. So the information is still there.
Draco flavus
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14:31, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
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Vote
Do you support the idea that the mutilingual Wikisource needs to have a rule - requiring to provide with publication data all the content pages in the main namespace (except
maybe
scan-backed pages with scans/files having the reqired publication data)?
Support
, as I described above. --
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Support
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Support
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Support
Justin (
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17:17, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
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Support
Ankry
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21:45, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
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Support
. Close this vote as unanimously passed?--
Jusjih
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01:35, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
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Results
Enough time have elapsed from the start of the vote, and all users who voted here supported that the rule should be added. Therefore we have to create the rule and add it somewhere on a Wikisource policy page. I will open a new topic soon -- to discuss what should the rule look like. --
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Hello, new here. I was reading on Wikisource an original text in English and clicked on the equivalent page in another language. It is obvious that the translation was done by users who knew little about the topic and little about literary English, most probably used a translation app. I poked around a little bit more and found a translated version of the text published by a well-respected editor, however still copy-righted. What is the policy of Wikisource in that case? Delete with a note and add a link to the published translation? Best, --
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The rule for providing texts with their sources
According to the voting in the topic above (
A_lot_of_unsourced_texts_being_added_on_the_multilingual_Wikisource
), we need to create the rule and add it somewhere in policy page(s).
First, we need to describe the rule itself. I can propose such text:
All content pages of the main space of the Wikisource, except pages of user-created translations, must be provided with publication data of where and when the work represented on the page was published. This information should be added in the header or beginning of the page.
If the work was published in a book, then the information must contain the book's name and year when the book was published; also (not mandatory) information about the author's, publishing house, city and ISBN if they are known (may be omitted if they are unknown or absent).
If the work was published in a periodical issue, then the information must contain the periodical's name and year when the issue was published; also (not mandatory) the number of the issue in the year (or volume if the periodical is published in volume-based format) and month and day of the periodical issue if any of those are known, also publishing house, city if they are known.
Since I am not a native English speaker, I propose to somebody with native or very good knowledge of English to fix the text given above to make it looking good from the point of English grammar and English sense.
Also a question: should we make some exceptions for this rule -- to point out some cases when giving publication data is not mandatory? I think we need to add some:
As it was remarked during the voting (
User:Draco flavus
pointed out), to put publication data for scan-backed pages should not be mandatory if all required information provided on the proofread index and/or a file from which the work has been proofread.
Also in my opinion, in the case when a work was published as a part of collection or as a part of a periodical issue, and the work's page was created as a subpage of the main page representing the entire book or the periodical issue, then duplication of the information from the root page (given the root page already has publication data for the entire book or periodical issue) on the subpage is not required (but may be done if the contributors want to add it).
Also, publication data IMHO is not required for government works -- such as constitutions of countries, legislative acts and others, that is, works licensed like
PD-USGov
or
PD-RU-exempt
. Freedom from copyright for such acts are not connected with publication year or death year of author's, they are released into Public Domain unconditionally; also in some cases it is not easy to find the first edition where the act was originally published (for example, for acts in Russia there could be some government newspapers where such acts are usually published first). For those reasons, publication data for government acts released into PD by force of laws of the country, is not required, IMHO, we can omit it on those pages.
And one more case that can be an issue: the Wikisource contains specimens of short but well-known works translated in many languages, for example
Pater noster
. Many translations of such works presented here in the multilingual Wikirource are not provided with publication data too. Should we require publication data for such pages too? I am not sure...
And the last point: we should also decide -- where to add the rule after we create it's precise statements, on which page? I would propose to add it to the page
Wikisource:Copyright policy
, because possible copyright violation is the major issue originating from the absence of publishing data on the work's page. Or maybe we should add the rule on some other page?
So, let's discuss all of that. Pinging all who voted: @
-jkb-
Draco flavus
Koavf
Ankry
Jusjih
: other users are welcomed to the discussion too, of course. --
Nigmont
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11:53, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
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This all seems sensible. We should require publication data for non-original translations, such as those
Pater noster
pages as well. —
Justin (
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17:42, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
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Source is important not only to determine whether the copyright expired on the work, but also to determine whether the work is out of copyright (or freely licensed) for other reasons, and to determine whether the work is real in the first place. For this reason, I’d require a source for every work, including
Pater noster
translations and law text. (In case of ProofreadPage scans or individual chapters of works on subpages, the source field on Commons / the source provided at the main page of the work counts as a source, so those cases aren’t exempted either, just we allow not duplicating the same pieces of information all over the place.) On the other hand, not all works were first published in books or periodicals (or maybe the first publication is not known, but the copyright status can be determined without that), so we should say something about works whose known publication is a web page, a flyer, or even a house wall. —
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Move request, revert a previous one
Move page
اومارمیدڭ؟
towards
Wikisource:How does one edit a page
. --
ZandDev
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17:04, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
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Done
How odd. —
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Change content model
Use
Special:ChangeContentModel
to change content model of
Help:Font_size_templates/styles.css
to sanitized-css. --
ZandDev
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Done
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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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FYI: Celebrating 20 years of Wikisource and 3,000+ years of history
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Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (
calendar
). There is no new MediaWiki version next week.
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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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Recent changes
The spacing between paragraphs on Vector 2022 has been changed from 7px to 14px to match the size of the text. This will make it easier to distinguish paragraphs from sentences.
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The "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is working again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit
{{DEFAULTSORT:...}}
keywords.
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Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
).
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Future changes
The
2023 Developer Satisfaction Survey
is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 5 January 2024, and has an associated
privacy statement
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(New) Feature on
Kartographer
: Adding geopoints via QID
Since September 2022, it is possible to create geopoints using a QID. Many wiki contributors have asked for this feature, but it is not being used much. Therefore, we would like to remind you about it. More information can be found on the
project page
. If you have any comments, please let us know on the
talk page
. – Best regards, the team of Technical Wishes at Wikimedia Deutschland
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Tech News
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2024 because of
the holidays
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 December. It will be on all wikis from 21 December (
calendar
). There is no new MediaWiki version next week.
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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
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There will be full support for redirects in the Module namespace. The "Move Page" feature will leave an appropriate redirect behind, and such redirects will be appropriately recognized by the software (e.g. hidden from
Special:UnconnectedPages
). There will also be support for
manual redirects
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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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