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Latest tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2021/02> are
available.
Recent changes
- You can choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary.
This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the
CAPTCHA <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:CAPTCHA>. This has now been
fixed. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T12729>
- You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for
example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to
private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view
private log entries. The links now show the entry. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269761>
- Admins can use the abuse filter tool
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter> to
automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
- The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you
type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for
regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings
will be added
later. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187686>
- Oversighters
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Meta:Oversighters>
can
now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on
Special:AbuseLog <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog>.
This is how the usual revision deletion works. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260904>
- When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it
is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid
many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The
administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
- [image: Advanced item] There is a new tool to build new skins
<https://skins.wmflabs.org/?#/add>. You can also see
<https://skins.wmflabs.org/?#/> existing skins
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Skins>. You
can give feedback <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:Jdlrobson>.
[5]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-December/094130.html>
- [image: Advanced item] Bots using the API no longer watch pages
automatically based on account preferences. Setting the watchlist to
watch will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data
in the database. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258108>
- [image: Advanced item] Scribunto's
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Scribunto> file
metadata
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#File_metadata>
now
includes length. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209679>
- [image: Advanced item] CSS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:CSS> and
JavaScript <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript> code pages now
have link anchors to line numbers
<https://patchdemo.wmflabs.org/wikis/40e4795d4448b55a6d8c46ff414bcf78/w/index.php/MediaWiki:En.js#L-125>.
You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50>. [8]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T29531>
- [image: Recurrent item] There was a new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.25> of MediaWiki last
week. You can read a detailed log
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.25/Changelog> of all
763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.
Changes later this week
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.26> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all
wikis from 14 January (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
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