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Tech News: 2024-12
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*Recent changes*
- The notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in
the Vector 2022 skin
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Vector/2022> main
menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the
Language switcher. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T353619>
- IP info feature
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation/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.
[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341395>
- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the
final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [3]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Obsolete:Toolforge/Grid>[4]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge_Grid_Engine_deprecation>
[5]
<https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/03/14/toolforge-and-grid-engine/>
- Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a
page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown>.
[6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326746>
*Problems*
- RevisionSlider
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/RevisionSlider>
is
an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in
right-to-left
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:RevisionSlider/Developing_a_RTL-accessible_feature_in_MediaWiki_-_what_we%27ve_learned_while_creating_the_RevisionSlider>
languages
reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be
fixed now. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T352169>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.23> 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
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/Roadmap>). [8]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train>[9]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar>
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is
planned at 14:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1710943200>. [10]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358233>[11]
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