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Do you use Wikidata in Wikimedia sibling projects? Tell us about your experiences
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Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English.
Hello, the
Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
team at Wikimedia Deutschland would like to hear about your experiences using Wikidata in the sibling projects. If you are interested in sharing your opinion and insights, please consider signing up for an interview with us in this
Registration form
Currently, we are only able to conduct interviews in English.
The front page of the form has more details about what the conversation will be like, including how we would
compensate
you for your time.
For more information, visit our
project issue page
where you can also share your experiences in written form, without an interview.
We look forward to speaking with you,
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
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08:53, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-02
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mediawiki2latex
is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can
install
on your local machine.
The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing.
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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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01:19, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
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Reusing references: Can we look over your shoulder?
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Apologies for writing in English.
The Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Deutschland is planning to
make reusing references easier
. For our research, we are looking for wiki contributors willing to show us how they are interacting with references.
The format will be a 1-hour video call, where you would share your screen.
More information here
Interviews can be conducted in English, German or Dutch.
Compensation is available
Sessions will be held in January and February.
Sign up here if you are interested.
Please note that we probably won’t be able to have sessions with everyone who is interested. Our UX researcher will try to create a good balance of wiki contributors, e.g. in terms of wiki experience, tech experience, editing preferences, gender, disability and more. If you’re a fit, she will reach out to you to schedule an appointment.
We’re looking forward to seeing you,
Thereza Mengs (WMDE)
Tech News: 2024-03
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Recent changes
Pages that use the JSON
contentmodel
will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size.
[4]
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.
[5]
Bot passwords
and
owner-only OAuth consumers
can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages.
[6]
You can now
thank
edits made by bots.
[7]
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
).
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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.
[10]
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.
[11]
Future changes
Wikimedia Deutschland is working to
make reusing references easier
. They are looking for people who are interested in participating in
individual video calls for user research in January and February
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00:12, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
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Vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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Hello all,
I am reaching out to you today to announce that the voting period for the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) Charter is now open. Community members may
cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll
now through
2 February 2024
. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the
UCoC Enforcement Guidelines
will find this process familiar.
The
current version of the U4C Charter
is on Meta-wiki with translations available.
Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.
On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
18:09, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
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Protection request
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Please protect and revdel
Index:Колхозонь эряф 1936-06.jpg
: Vandalism by an
LTA
. --
Leonidlednev
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00:52, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
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Semi-protected the index for 6 months and deleted more improper revisions and summaries
after too many IPs abused it despite the dirst semi-protection for 3 months.--
Jusjih
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00:51, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-04
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Problems
A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed.
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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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01:03, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
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Special:Contributions/Im_the_simplest_person
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VOA and XWA, I already reverted some of their edits.
MathXplore
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08:19, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
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Done
Just went thru various WMF sites deleting/reverting/suppressing. Thanks. —
Justin (
ko
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08:46, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
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The user is globally blocked.
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18:27, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-05
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Recent changes
Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change
on Diff
or
on Mediawiki.org
[15]
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
).
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On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a
QR code
that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new
Special:QrCode
page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the
#19 most-voted wish
from the
2023 Community Wishlist Survey
[18]
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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Hello all,
I am reaching out to you today to remind you that the voting period for the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) charter will close on
2 February 2024
. Community members may
cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll
. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the
UCoC Enforcement Guidelines
will find this process familiar.
The
current version of the U4C charter
is on Meta-wiki with translations available.
Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.
On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
17:00, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-06
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Recent changes
The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to
the phabricator task
On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity.
Learn more about "action blocks"
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Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (
calendar
).
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Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed.
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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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19:22, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
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Announcing the results of the UCoC Coordinating Committee Charter ratification vote
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Dear all,
Thank you everyone for following the progress of the Universal Code of Conduct. I am writing to you today to announce the outcome of the
ratification vote
on the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter
. 1746 contributors voted in this ratification vote with 1249 voters supporting the Charter and 420 voters not. The ratification vote process allowed for voters to provide comments about the Charter.
A report of voting statistics and a summary of voter comments will be published on Meta-wiki in the coming weeks.
Please look forward to hearing about the next steps soon.
On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
18:24, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-07
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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.
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Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service.
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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,
[34]
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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Tech News: 2024-08
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Recent changes
If you have the "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails.
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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.
[37]
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
).
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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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Tech News: 2024-09
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Recent changes
The
mobile visual editor
is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis.
Research
shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well.
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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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Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (
calendar
).
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Future changes
The right to change
edit tags
changetags
) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in
this ticket
to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.
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19:23, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-10
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Recent changes
The
Special:Book
page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old
Collection extension
has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the
Wikisource extension
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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.
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A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header.
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Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (
calendar
).
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Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
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The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See
Heading HTML changes
for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add
?useparsoid=1
to your URL (
more info
) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (
more info
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19:47, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
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Report of the U4C Charter ratification and U4C Call for Candidates now available
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Hello all,
I am writing to you today with two important pieces of information. First, the
report of the comments from the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter ratification
is now available. Secondly, the call for candidates for the U4C is open now through April 1, 2024.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please
review the U4C Charter
Per the charter, there are 16 seats on the U4C: eight community-at-large seats and eight regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement.
Read more and submit your application on
Meta-wiki
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
16:25, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-11
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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
).
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After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the
Minerva skin
will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed.
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The active link color in
Minerva
will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices.
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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.
[55]
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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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2024 Selection
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Dear all,
This year, the term of 4 (four) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats.
The
Elections Committee
will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The Board Governance Committee created a Board Selection Working Group from Trustees who cannot be candidates in the 2024 community- and affiliate-selected trustee selection process composed of Dariusz Jemielniak, Nataliia Tymkiv, Esra'a Al Shafei, Kathy Collins, and Shani Evenstein Sigalov [3]. The group is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2024 trustee selection process, and for keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections Committee, Board, and staff are here [4].
Here are the key planned dates:
May 2024: Call for candidates and call for questions
June 2024: Affiliates vote to shortlist 12 candidates (no shortlisting if 15 or less candidates apply) [5]
June-August 2024: Campaign period
End of August / beginning of September 2024: Two-week community voting period
October–November 2024: Background check of selected candidates
Board's Meeting in December 2024: New trustees seated
Learn more about the 2024 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on
this Meta-wiki page
, and make your plan.
Election Volunteers
Another way to be involved with the 2024 selection process is to be an Election Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on this
Meta-wiki page
Best regards,
Dariusz Jemielniak
(Governance Committee Chair, Board Selection Working Group)
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[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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Switching to the Vector 2022 skin
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Hi everyone. We are the
Wikimedia Foundation Web team
. As you may have read in our previous messages across wikis or
here in June 2022
, we have been getting closer to switching every wiki to the Vector 2022 skin as the new default. In our previous conversations with Wikisource communities, we had identified an issue with the Index namespace that prevented switching the skin on.
This issue is now resolved
We are now ready to continue and will be deploying on multilingual Wikisource on Wednesday
April 3, 2024
To learn more about the new skin and what improvements it introduces when compared to the legacy 2010 Vector skin, please
see our documentation
. If you have any issues with the skin after the deployment, if you spot any gadgets not working, or notice any bugs – please contact us! We are also open to joining events like the
Wikisource Community meetings
and talking to you directly. Thank you,
OVasileva (WMF)
and
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15:52, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
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Global ban proposal for Slowking4
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Hello. This is to notify the community that there is an ongoing global ban proposal for
User:Slowking4
who has been active on this wiki. You are invited to participate at
m:Requests for comment/Global ban for Slowking4 (2)
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19:51, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
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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.
All traffic will switch on
20 March
. 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 March 2024.
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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00:01, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
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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.
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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.
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The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes.
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Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating
MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown
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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.
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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
).
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14:00 UTC
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An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in
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new version
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calendar
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Template:Header
is broken
edit
Looks like the
Template:Header
is somewhat broken: errors are displayed on the template page:
Lua error in Module:Header/year at line 432: bad argument #2 to 'inNamespaces' (unrecognized namespace number '114').Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Submit an edit request' not found.
Also, there is an error on author's pages, for example:
Author:Antoine Meyer
, also many (or all) other pages -- error is displayed (in the upper right corner):
Script error: The function "interprojetPart" does not exist.
I guess, all these things happened after recent multiple imports of templates and modules done by
User:Koavf
. I think, these error should be fixed, or those imports should be rollbacked (I don't understand why to import so much stuff from another wikisource without any confidence that they would work here, on the multilang-WS, which has completely different set of tools and settings). --
Nigmont
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21:17, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
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Dang. I was afraid of this and I looked at the transclusions to see if anything broke. I also looked to see if there is any way to "un-import" in MediaWiki and I didn't find one other than to restore from a database, which seems excessive. I'm open to any instruction on how I can fix this directly. As you can see at
Special:Log/import
, the following were imported from en.ws:
Module:Header/sort
(4 revisions)
Template:Plain sister/styles.css
(4 revisions)
Module:Header/attribution
(29 revisions)
Module:ISO 639/overrides
(5 revisions)
Template:Header structure/styles.css
(1 revision) (this one is easy to solve: I can just delete it, but only once it's not being called upon by a module/template)
Module:Header structure
(19 revisions)
Module:Header/year
(11 revisions)
Module:Warning
(3 revisions)
Template:License/styles.css
(23 revisions)
Template:Header/styles.css
(20 revisions)
Template:License grammar
(1 revision) (this one is easy to solve: I can just delete it)
Module:License
(60 revisions)
Template:Center/styles.css
(8 revisions) (deleted: all revisions were imported, {{
center
}} below works)
Module:License scope
(40 revisions)
Module:ISO 639
(23 revisions)
Module:Auto parents
(25 revisions)
Template:PD-UN
(34 revisions) (this created a redlink category and all revisions were via en.ws, so it can be deleted. It was
also used on another page
but the template was not previously imported.)
Module:Optional style
(6 revisions)
Template:Optional style
(3 revisions)
Module:TableTools
(10 revisions)
Template:License scope
(8 revisions)
Template:License
(92 revisions)
Module:Plain sister
(15 revisions)
Module:Header
(152 revisions)
Module:Edition
(39 revisions)
Template:Header
(216 revisions)
Template:Center
(7 revisions) (reverted and CSS above deleted--forensics on this one was easy)
Yuunivorshal Deklarieshan a Yuuman Raits
(5 revisions) (this was the goal, importing all the dependencies was an accident)
I see two options:
Reverse engineer each module and template to restore it without the imported revisions (not sure how to do this, but I will try my best)
Import
more
modules/templates to ensure that they all work the same as en.ws. I will work on this should that be what the consensus is.
I really don't know which one is better and I did try to see what issues there were yesterday and I didn't see any at the time. I'm sorry for any problems anyone is experiencing and I'll put forth the effort to undo them or progress the solution. —
Justin (
ko
vf
22:59, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
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I tried to fix the errors and reverted 3 units to their previous stable states:
19:58, 10 April 2024 diff hist −8,187
Module:Plain sister
reverting to the previous stable state (of 27 July 2020, 00:58 UTC) current
19:53, 10 April 2024 diff hist +33
Template:Plain sister
reverting to the previous stable state (of 27 February 2021, 12:40 UTC) current Tag: Manual revert
19:45, 10 April 2024 diff hist +10,585
Template:Header
reverting to the previous stable state (of 12 June 2021, 01:25 UTC) current
Looks like some errors have disappeared, also the author's page seem to be fixed now. --
Nigmont
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20:24, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
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Thanks. Please ping me if there is more to do: it's my responsibility. —
Justin (
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vf
22:22, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
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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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Minerva skin
on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings.
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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
).
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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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Template:Author
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Since yesterday morning the template author doesn't work properly. it appears this sentence:
Script error: The function "interprojetPart" does not exist
Is it possible correct it? thank you--
Sorry, I hadn't seen that you noticed the error!
I don't understand what to do.
Mizardellorsa
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16:01, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
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It seems that you just need to wait for some days until someone figures out what to do in order to resolve the problem. Most likely you wouldn't remove the error by just changing arguments in the template invocation, something else needs to be changed in the template, and/or modules (or other entities) that are used by it. --
Nigmont
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22:13, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
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I tried to fix the errors and reverted 3 units to their previous stable states:
19:58, 10 April 2024 diff hist −8,187
Module:Plain sister
reverting to the previous stable state (of 27 July 2020, 00:58 UTC) current
19:53, 10 April 2024 diff hist +33
Template:Plain sister
reverting to the previous stable state (of 27 February 2021, 12:40 UTC) current Tag: Manual revert
19:45, 10 April 2024 diff hist +10,585
Template:Header
reverting to the previous stable state (of 12 June 2021, 01:25 UTC) current
Looks like the author's page are fine now... --
Nigmont
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20:24, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
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Thank-you very much for your help!
Mizardellorsa
talk
15:37, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
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Taodiso
edit
moetapele wa mekgahlo ya magaeng ya tsa polokano o nyaka ge o na le maitemogelo go ditshelete
Modiba karabo
talk
06:51, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
reply
probably a nonsense; pls use on pages like this english, thx,
-jkb-
talk
13:41, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
reply
according to the google translator it says in Sotha-languange "
Description:
The leader of the local security forces wants you to have experience in finance" – nonsense as jkb states...
Draco flavus
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20:34, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
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Problems
Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using
Flagged Revisions
, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed.
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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
).
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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).
[84]
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.
[85]
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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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.
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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
Special:MyPage/vector.js
to
Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js
. There are
more technical details
available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia.
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Vote now to select members of the first U4C
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Dear all,
I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through May 9, 2024. Read the information on the
voting page on Meta-wiki
to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please
review the U4C Charter
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
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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:
[93]
a Wikipedia in
Igala
w:igl:
[94]
a Wiktionary in
Karakalpak
wikt:kaa:
[95]
a Wikisource in
Burmese
s:my:
[96]
a Wikisource in
Malay
s:ms:
[97]
a Wikisource in
Georgian
s:ka:
[98]
You can now
watch message groups/projects
on
Translatewiki.net
. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups.
[99]
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.
[100]
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.
[103]
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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
[105]
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.
[106]
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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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".
[109]
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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Recent changes
On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word
to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list.
[111]
If you use the
user-preference
"Show preview without reloading the page", then the template-page feature "Preview page with this template" will now also work without reloading the page.
[112]
Kartographer
maps can now specify an alternative text via the
alt=
attribute. This is identical in usage to the
alt=
attribute in the
image and gallery syntax
. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive.
[113]
The old
Guided Tour
for the "
New Filters for Edit Review
" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people.
[114]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (
calendar
).
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The
Special:Search
results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure.
[117]
Future changes
In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022.
[118]
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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Sign up for the language community meeting on May 31st, 16:00 UTC
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Hello all,
The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you can
sign up on this wiki page
This is a participant-driven meeting, where we share language-specific updates related to various projects, collectively discuss technical issues related to language wikis, and work together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, the topics included the machine translation service (MinT) and the languages and models it currently supports, localization efforts from the Kiwix team, and technical challenges with numerical sorting in files used on Bengali Wikisource.
Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org and
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Relative paths
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unlike other Wikisource editions, multilingual Wikisource lacks relative paths such as
[[./]]
and
[[../]]
. because of that, I'm seeking a support to open a ticket for it in Phabricator.
JnpoJuwan
talk
10:46, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
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Most projects do this. Support
Ignacio Rodríguez
talk
11:42, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
reply
Jon Harald Søby
pinging an admin for support!
JnpoJuwan
talk
22:55, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
reply
Koavf
, I think you would have in interest in this, if you haven't seen it already.
JnpoJuwan
talk
11:14, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
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I support it, for sure. —
Justin (
ko
vf
11:18, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
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bumping this as I'm not familiar with Phabricator, so someone else is free to do that.
JnpoJuwan
talk
15:23, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
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JnpoJuwan
: I have filed
phab:T367674
and added
a patch
for this which I've scheduled for tomorrow morning (UTC).
Jon Harald Søby
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21:29, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
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Merci, Jon. —
Justin (
ko
vf
21:57, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
reply
Ignacio Rodríguez
, @
JnpoJuwan
, @
Koavf
: The change has been deployed just now, so subpage links (below the page title) and relative links should be working now. 👍
Jon Harald Søby
talk
13:12, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
reply
Jon, thank you as well. It is for some ones a good ides.
-jkb-
talk
14:05, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
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Importing templates from English Wikisource
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Multilingual Wikisource is sometimes lacking in important templates or the templates seem to not match other wikis in features. this is something that I want to see fixed, such as in templates as in {{
Information
}} and {{
Header
}}, among others I can list.
JnpoJuwan
talk
10:50, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
reply
We indeed need to reuse templates, but for Intl Wikisource them should be at least multilingual.
Nyuhn
talk
06:12, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
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Unfortunately, importing is extremely complicated, due to a stack of dependencies with other modules and templates. —
Justin (
ko
vf
03:11, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
reply
Please list which to import.--
Jusjih
talk
15:43, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
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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.
[121]
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.
[122]
[123]
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
).
[124]
[125]
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
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Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles
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Feedback invited on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle
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The
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Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see
T365107
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T365119
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addPortlet
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Announcing the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote results. We are following up with the results of the first
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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.
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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”
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User not here to build a better free library
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As I am willing to eventually process
Wikisource:Proposed deletions#Wikisource:Jimbo Wales against attacks on userpages
, would everyone
please
note why @
Zhxy 519
: might
not have been here
to build a better free library? Imagine how bad repetitively reverting the well sourced deadminship four times to illegally keep the adminship on Chinese Wikisource
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would be. This may tempt some users from Chinese Wikisource to "seek asylum" here, like
Wikisource:Proposed deletions#All documents uploaded by User:Sowhat666
that I will further examine.
Thanks
to all of my dear fellow administrators for not deleting either controversial request too fast. Having worked together here for so many years has been so nice.
Sorry
for the bad story from Chinese Wikisource spreading here and the delay posting this section as I was busier elsewhere with more important things, including administering 13 wikis. Hopefully things will get better. but we need more time seeking more effective supports.--
Jusjih
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Despite no recent act here, Zhxy 519 behaved questionably again at
zh:Wikisource:写字间#修改認定長期不活動管理員之時限標準（縮短目前標準改為3個月）
by excessively blocking someone with his illegal adminship with a wheel war. If no one objects, I may consider opening a subpage about this matter.--
Jusjih
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16:16, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
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Thanks to Koavf for having fairly
closed many cases
.--
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00:03, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
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Problems with subpages
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Today I noticed that some problems appeared on newly-created subpages, for example:
Якстере теште/1924/25/Не тевтнеде парстэ эряви содамс волисполкомтнэнень
, also recently edited subpages, for example
Якстере теште/1924/06/Месть корты эрзянь аграном
Category 'Subpages' appeared in the page's categories list, since there are no such category in the Wikisource for now, that category is "red"
The subpage page is not included in the year category
Category:1924 works
, as I expected
It seems to me that it is somewhat connected with recently implemented changes announced and discussed in the topic above:
Relative paths
. Also, it should be noticed that such problems have not yet occurred on similar pages (of the same newspaper) — for example
Якстере теште/1924/25/"Кода сюронь тефне молить"
: that page does not have "red" category 'Subpages' and it is still included in the Category:1924 works.
Can someone comment on these issues (and fix it, if it is possible and needed)?
Jon Harald Søby
: since you created that change: could you be of help with these problems? --
Nigmont
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22:29, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
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Nigmont
: Well, it is and isn't related. All of these category changes actually come from
Template:Header-myv
(which you created, but it seems you copied it from
Template:Header
), and that template has checks (via
Template:Is subpage
) for whether or not a page is a subpage, and categorizes differently based on that. I haven't looked into who added that when, but it must have been intentional (but non-functional on this wiki until the subpages were enabled) – if we want, we can remove those checks to get the "old" behaviour back.
Jon Harald Søby
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23:15, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
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Jon Harald Søby
: thanks for explanation. Yes, you are right: I created that template as a copy (partial) from
Template:Header
, so it inherited some behavior of that template. I resolved these problems — I created hidden
Category:Subpages
so it is not displayed on the content pages; and I removed in
Template:Header-myv
piece of code which had suppressed categorizing subpages in year categories. So it seems to be fine now.
Nigmont
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The new
Community Configuration extension
is available
on Test Wikipedia
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Community Configuration use cases
in the future.
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The dark mode
beta feature
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project talk page
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Problems
Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center.
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report them here
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a test at 11 wikis
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community configurable
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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.
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Problems
You can
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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.
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The voting to ratify the
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The final version of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is
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Voting commenced on SecurePoll on
June 25, 2024
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the latest Web team update
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Logged-in users can now set
global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode
, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis.
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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
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One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in
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Please apply here by August 10
Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new
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Protection request
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Not sure if this is the right place to ask - but would someone kindly protect
National anthem of Russia
? Currently the target of two separate WMF-banned LTAs (
w:en:WP:LTA/GRP
and
w:en:WP:LTA/Wikinger
) - thank you in advance,
Antandrus
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Done
, yep I know this sort of vandalism :-(
-jkb-
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Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results
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After carefully tallying both individual and affiliate votes, the
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As
communicated
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July 9, 23:59 UTC
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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.
The Charter Electoral Commission,
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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
. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed.
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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
analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons.
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Project Updates
Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened
Community Wishlist
. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.
Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on
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How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent
blog post
by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the
WMF Future Audience initiative
, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a
ChatGPT plugin
and
Add a Fact
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Vote now to fill vacancies of the first U4C
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Dear all,
I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through
August 10, 2024
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voting page on Meta-wiki
to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
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Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the
project talkpage
Bugs status
Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week.
These errors
were mainly due to the addition of new
linter
rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
Editors can use the
IP Information tool
to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and
28 other community-submitted tasks
that were resolved last week.
Project updates
There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can
read details about these and other improvements in this summary
There is an
update on the Charts project
. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in
Czech
voy:cs:
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There is a
new Wikimedia Foundation data center
in São Paulo, Brazil which helps to reduce load times.
There is new
user research
on problems with the process of uploading images.
Commons Impact Metrics are
now available
via data dumps and API.
The latest quarterly
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Protection request
edit
Page
State Anthem of the Soviet Union
hist
Reason
: Persistent abuse by globally banned LTAs:
Projects (GRP)
and
Wikinger
. Every edit since the last protection, in May 2023, has been LTA abuse or its removal.
JavaHurricane
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Done
, and thanks,
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Deletion request
edit
Index:ಜೋಕುಲೆ ಉಜ್ಜಾಲ್ - ಜೋಕುಲೆ ಪದಜೊಂಕುಲಿ
reason:Duplicate of
Index:ಜೋಕುಲೆ ಉಜ್ಜಾಲ್ - ಜೋಕುಲೆ ಪದಜೊಂಕುಲಿ.pdf
, accidentally created
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Done
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Two new parser functions will be available this week:
{{
#dir
}}
and
{{
#bcp47
}}
. These will reduce the need for
Template:Dir
and
Template:BCP47
on Commons and allow us to
drop 100 million rows
from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania.
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Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance
Wikipedia:
or
Wikisource:
namespaces) if they understand the
known limitations
. For discussions, users can already use
DiscussionTools
in these namespaces.
The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension"
in TranslateWiki
. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.
Project updates
Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out
a brief survey
or share your thoughts
on the talkpage
. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
The new parser is being rolled out on Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikivoyage were
switched
to Parsoid last week. For more information, see
Parsoid/Parser Unification
There will be more than 200 sessions at Wikimania this week. Here is a summary of some of the
key sessions related to the product and technology area
The latest
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin
is available.
The latest quarterly
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is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more.
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Reminder! Vote closing soon to fill vacancies of the first U4C
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The voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is closing soon. It is open through 10 August 2024. Read the information on
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The U4C is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community input into the committee membership is critical to the success of the UCoC.
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How to change the language of a page?
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Example:
When I click on the page information link on the left menu, it says the page is in English, but it seems that is incorrect and in another language that I do not see listed anywhere in sidebars, header, footer?
Shouldn't there be a much better presentation of the "Language: xxxxxx" somewhere on pages to make it easier to understand which language a page's content is really in?
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Changing the language or content model of a page is something limited to users with advanced permissions. Since I am an admin, I changed it to Swahili from English, which is the default for all pages on this wiki. —
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AbuseFilter
editors and maintainers can now
make a CAPTCHA show if a filter matches an edit
. This allows communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots.
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Stewards
can now specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before
this change
by the
Trust and Safety Product
Team, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.
Project updates
Nominations are open on Wikitech
for new members to refresh the
Toolforge standards committee
. The committee oversees the Toolforge
Right to fork policy
and
Abandoned tool policy
among other duties. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.
One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in
West Coast Bajau
w:bdr:
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Import pages request
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There are a few pages
in this category
that haven't been fully imported yet. Could someone please help fix this and make it possible to import them to
Sundanese Wikisource
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10:22, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
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Coming soon: A new sub-referencing feature – try it!
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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
We want your feedback
to make sure this feature works well for you:
Please try
the current state of development on beta wiki and
let us know what you think
Sign up here
to get updates and/or invites to participate in user research activities.
Wikimedia Deutschland
’s
Technical Wishes
team is planning to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We will reach out to creators/maintainers of tools and templates related to references beforehand.
Please help us spread the message. --
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Feature news
Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new
sub-referencing
feature. You can read more
about the project
and
how to test the prototype
Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for:
DynamicPageList
Kartographer
Phonos
RSS
Score
WikiHiero
. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements.
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Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the
categories
property of
mw.title objects
. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements.
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Bugs status
Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with
Talk:WP:
so that their titles start with
Wikipedia talk:
), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to
Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/
instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in
phab:P67388
Editors who volunteer as
mentors
to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to
a bug fix
. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Project updates
The application deadline for the
Product & Technology Advisory Council
(PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.
The
2024 Coolest Tool Awards
were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the
Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon
. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
The latest
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin
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Box bullets
edit
I'm currently proofreading Bengali Wikisource's
bn:নির্ঘণ্ট:জাতিসংঘ_সম্পর্কে_তোমরা_যা_জানতে_চাও_(২০১৯).pdf
. But at page 6, I found that the bullets in an unordered list are like boxes. How to add such bullets? Thanks.
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Sign up for the language community meeting on August 30th, 15:00 UTC
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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
and reach out to ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org. We look forward to your participation!
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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
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Admin intervention needed for user page vandalism
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A user
has posted on the
Administrators Noticeboard
on enWS looking for administrator assistance here on mulWS. Since mulWS lacks a dedicated admin noticeboard they were unable to locate the appropriate venue here.
The user's user page has been targeted by a vandal (as was previously their user talk page) with fairly distasteful (if obviously false) insults. I have edited it to hide the old revision, but the page needs to be deleted (it has no other history) and both the user page and user talk page semi-protected ("Allow only autoconfirmed") from being created (aka. "salted"). They state in their enWS AN post that they do not plan to be active on this project in the near future so semi-protection (or even fully-protected) user pages should be no inconvenience to anyone.
Pinging the most recently active admins:
Yann
Ooswesthoesbes
Mahagaja
Koavf
Xover
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06:47, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
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Done
I'd previously protected his user talk page and now his user page. Thanks. —
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08:59, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
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Thanks.
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Announcing the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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Original message at wikimedia-l
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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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14:06, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
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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
Special:UnusedTemplates
page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word
__EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__
to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements.
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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
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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,
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Re: Switching to the Vector 2022 skin
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A two minute-long video about Vector 2022
Hello everyone, I'm reaching out on behalf of the
Wikimedia Foundation Web team
responsible for the MediaWiki skins. I'd like to revisit the topic of making Vector 2022 the default here on multilingual Wikisource. I
did post a message about this in March
, but we didn't finalize it back then.
What happened in the meantime? We built
dark mode and different options for font sizes
and made Vector 2022 the default on most wikis. With the not-so-new V22 skin being the default, existing and coming features, like dark mode and
temporary accounts
respectively, will become available for logged-out users here.
So, if no large concerns are raised, we will deploy Vector 2022 here in two weeks, in the week of September 16. Do let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!
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Scholarship Applications Now Open for Wikisource Conference 2025!
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Dear Wikimedians,
We are thrilled to announce that the Wikisource Conference is returning after a decade! It will be held from 14 to 16 February 2025 in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. This event will be a great opportunity for us to come together, share experiences, and discuss the future of Wikisource and its community.
We are now accepting scholarship applications for the Wikisource Conference 2025 to promote diversity and inclusion. Scholarships are open to active contributors, community members, developers, and partners involved with Wikisource or related projects.
Important Details:
Application Period: 1 September 2024 to 20 September 2024
Application Deadline: 20 September 2024
Meta page:
Link
We encourage everyone who is passionate about Wikisource and interested in attending this unique gathering to apply for a scholarship. The selection committee will carefully review all applications, focusing on contributions to the Wikisource project, community engagement, and the potential impact of participation in the conference.
To apply, please fill out the
scholarship application form
. We will provide updates soon for more information about the conference, including program details, speakers, and venue.
If you have any questions or need help with your application, feel free to reach out on the
Meta Talk page
or email us at wikisourceconference@gmail.com.
We look forward to receiving your applications and hope to see many of you in Bali for the Wikisource Conference 2025!
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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
Special:NamespaceInfo
page helps editors understand which
namespaces
exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements.
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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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The
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All traffic will switch on
25 September
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MediaWiki
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A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation.
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 25 September 2024.
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Scholarship Application Deadline Extended for Wikisource Conference 2025!
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Dear Wikimedians,
This message is about the Wikisource Conference, taking place from 14 to 16 February 2025 in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, after a decade-long break. This conference will be a fantastic opportunity to reconnect, share insights, and discuss the future of Wikisource and its vibrant community.
In the spirit of promoting diversity and inclusion, we're pleased to inform you that the deadline for scholarship applications has been
extended to 29 September 2024
If you still need to apply, please
fill out the application form
For any questions or assistance, feel free to contact us via the
Meta Talk page
or by email at wikisourceconference@gmail.com.
We look forward to your applications and hope to see you at the Wikisource Conference 2025!
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As above - I request approval to run this on this wiki (the bot flag would not be needed). The bot will almost never run on this wiki as it doesn't appear to make much use of temporary rights, but this is necessary as this wiki has opted out of
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All wikis will be
read-only
for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at
15:00 UTC
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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the project page
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Dear Wikimedians,
This is a final reminder that the scholarship application deadline for the Wikisource Conference 2025 is 29 September 2024. The conference will take place from 14-16 February 2025 in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, after a decade-long break.
If you haven’t applied yet, please do so by completing the scholarship
application form
by 11:59 AM UTC, 29th September 2024.
For any questions, reach out via the Meta Talk page or email us at wikisourceconference@gmail.com.
We look forward to your participation!
Regards,
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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
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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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Invitation to Participate in Wiki Loves Ramadan Community Engagement Survey
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Dear all,
We are excited to announce the upcoming
Wiki Loves Ramadan
event, a global initiative aimed at celebrating Ramadan by enriching Wikipedia and its sister projects with content related to this significant time of year. As we plan to organize this event globally, your insights and experiences are crucial in shaping the best possible participation experience for the community.
To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is engaging, inclusive, and impactful, we kindly invite you to participate in our community engagement survey. Your feedback will help us understand the needs of the community, set the event's focus, and guide our strategies for organizing this global event.
Survey link:
[.]gle/f66MuzjcPpwzVymu5
Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will make a difference!
Thank you for being a part of our journey to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success.
Warm regards,
User:ZI Jony 03:20, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
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Communities can now request installation of
Automoderator
on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can
read details about the necessary steps
for installation and configuration.
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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.
[202]
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:
[206]
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.
Best regards,
The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group
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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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View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example,
EditCheck
was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.
Updates for technical contributors
Editors who use the Toolforge tool
Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector
will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements.
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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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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
resolved last week
. 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 "
13 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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In depth
The latest quarterly
Growth newsletter
is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
The Wikimedia Foundation is
now an official partner of the CVE program
, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish
common vulnerabilities and exposures
(CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
The
Community Wishlist
is now
testing machine translations
for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.
Meetings and events
24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar -
Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard
, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel.
20–22 December 2024 -
Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024
in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.
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'Wikidata item' link is moving, finally.
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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, -
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
11:29, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
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Request for Deletion of a Misplaced Page
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Hello,
I accidentally created a page in the English Wikisource that was intended for the Korean Wikisource. Could you please delete the following page? The title is
번역:일반인을_위한_파이썬_지침서
Thank you for your assistance!
Vpark45
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05:09, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
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Done
Justin (
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19:01, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
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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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Final Reminder: Join us in Making Wiki Loves Ramadan Success
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Dear all,
We’re thrilled to announce the Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative to celebrate Ramadan by enhancing Wikipedia and its sister projects with valuable content related to this special time of year. As we organize this event globally, we need your valuable input to make it a memorable experience for the community.
Last Call to Participate in Our Survey: To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is inclusive and impactful, we kindly request you to complete our community engagement survey. Your feedback will shape the event’s focus and guide our organizing strategies to better meet community needs.
Survey Link:
Complete the Survey
Deadline: November 10, 2024
Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will truly make a difference!
Volunteer Opportunity
: Join the Wiki Loves Ramadan Team! We’re seeking dedicated volunteers for key team roles essential to the success of this initiative. If you’re interested in volunteer roles, we invite you to apply.
Application Link:
Apply Here
Application Deadline: October 31, 2024
Explore Open Positions: For a detailed list of roles and their responsibilities, please refer to the position descriptions here:
Position Descriptions
Thank you for being part of this journey. We look forward to working together to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success!
Warm regards,
The Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team 05:13, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
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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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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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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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Update on language categorisation
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I want to suggest, to admins and other fellow editors, an overhaul to how the categorisation of languages currently work. currently, all the languages have no cohesive naming system, some have the language code, some have the native name, some have the English name, some have a combination of the previous three.
I propose taking inspiration from English Wiktionary and have language codes mark these pages. category titles may be "xx:title", where xx is a specific language code. similarly, for page translations (like the main page), it may be "page/xx". some examples:
Category:Af Afrikaans (Afrikaans)
→ [[Category:af:All pages]]
Category:Autores in sardu
→ [[Category:sc:Authors]]
Main Page/Shqip
→ [[Main Page/sq]]
the titles themselves may be in the native language or, maybe less ideally to some, in English. the examples above are in English because I don't speak Afrikaans or Sardinian.
JnpoJuwan
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16:14, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
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pinging @
Koavf
, @
Mahagaja
, @
Ooswesthoesbes
, @
Yann
as the most active admins.
JnpoJuwan
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16:38, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
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I have argued in favor of standardizing and landed on the "Language code/native name/English name" standard you have for Afrikaans. Others thought that unilaterally imposing a standard was not wise, so I stopped. I am in favor of more-or-less any scheme that makes these consistent. —
Justin (
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16:51, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
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I'm definitely in favor of some form of standardization using the language code, which is the most unambiguous way of identifying a language. —
Mahāgaja
talk
17:27, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
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I'm in favour of standardisation, but I'd advise against using "code:English" (like sc:Authors). In many case, the languages will get their own domain later on, and that would require moving everything to the native title after importing, which is a horrendously demotivating hurdle to get over.
I personally like the way Incubator does it, simply: code/title (like sc/Autores). This way, you can get all pages of a single language in the PrefixIndex as well. --
Ooswesthoesbes
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18:31, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
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Ooswesthoesbes
either the Wiktionary- or Incubator-styles are good. I would accept either one. and that's a good note that I was thinking about, good to keep it in the native language.
JnpoJuwan
talk
18:45, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
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Please note that whether the colon notation (
Category:sc:Authors
) or the slash version (
Category:sc/Autores
) is chosen, they will result in the first letter of the language code being capitalized (hover over the above links to see it). It’s different from what happens on Wiktionary and Incubator because
on Wiktionary, first letters of page titles aren’t capitalized (so that
wikt:author
and
wikt:Author
are different entries), and
on Incubator, the language code is not at the very beginning of the title (it’s prefixed with the project code – which doesn’t make sense on Wikisource, since everything is Wikisource here).
IMHO this doesn’t look nice, although I don’t have any better idea right now. —
Tacsipacsi
talk
18:28, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
reply
Tacsipacsi
I did have this in mind but ignored it as that's not a huge issue to me.
JnpoJuwan
talk
19:13, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
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Capitalisation of the code is no issue to me either. --
Ooswesthoesbes
talk
08:01, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
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Swahili Wikisource
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Currently both Multilingual Wikisource (
Main Page/Kiswahili
) and Swahili Wikipedia (
sw:w:Wikichanzo:Mwanzo
) claim to be hosting Swahili Wikisource, and both sites have pages not on the other site. This duplication should probably be cleaned up.
Pppery
talk
06:12, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
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Agreed in pciniple. This was also brought up at
incubator:
and is on my to-do. The problem is that some editions of Wikisource have more restrictive about what they allow, so there may be some reason for the Swahili community not porting over certain works. —
Justin (
ko
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07:59, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
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Sign up for the language community meeting on November 29th, 16:00 UTC
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Hello everyone,
The next language community meeting is coming up next week, on November 29th, at 16:00 UTC (Zonestamp! For your timezone <
>). If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page: <
>.
This participant-driven meeting will be organized by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Language Product Localization team and the Language Diversity Hub. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Moore Wikipedia, and the language support track at Wiki Indaba. We will also have members from the Wayuunaiki community joining us to share their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community within our movement. This meeting will have a Spanish interpretation.
Looking forward to seeing you at the language community meeting! Cheers,
Srishti
19:54, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
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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
resolved last week
. For example, a bug was
fixed
in the Android Wikipedia App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.
Updates for technical contributors
There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January.
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