Wikitech-ambassadors October 2023

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Tech News 2023, week 44

by Nick Wilson (Quiddity)

The latest technical newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/44. Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: Whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next . More information on how to contribute is available. You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. —————————— Other languages: Bahasa Indonesia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/id>, Deutsch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/de>, English, Tiếng Việt <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/vi>, español <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/es>, français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/fr>, italiano <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/it>, norsk bokmål <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/nb>, polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/pl>, português <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/pt>, português do Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/pt-br>, svenska <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/sv>, čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/cs>, русский <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/ru>, українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/uk>, עברית <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/he>, العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/ar>, বাংলা <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/bn>, ಕನ್ನಡ <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/kn>, 中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/zh>, 日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/ja> 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/2023/44> are available. *Recent changes* - The Structured Content team, as part of its project of improving UploadWizard on Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:WMF_support_for_Commons/Upload_W…>, made some UX improvements to the upload step of choosing own vs not own work (T347590 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347590>), as well as to the licensing step for own work (T347756 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347756>). - The Design Systems team has released version 1.0.0 of Codex <https://doc.wikimedia.org/codex/latest/>, the new design system for Wikimedia. See the full announcement about the release of Codex 1.0.0 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Design_Systems_Team/Annou…> . *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.3> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/Roadmap>). - Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:International_Components_for_Unicode>. For a brief period on 2 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for many languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Technical_Opera…>. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T345561>[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267145> - Starting November 1, the impact module (Special:Impact) will be upgraded by the Growth team. The new impact module shows newcomers more data regarding their impact on the wiki. It was tested by a few wikis during the last few months. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336203> *Future changes* - There is a proposed plan <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Graph/Plans#Roa…> for re-enabling the Graph Extension. You can help by reviewing this proposal and sharing what you think about it <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Graph/Plans#c-PPelberg_(WMF)-…> . - The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_configuration_2…>. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T349757> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/44> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.*

5 months, 4 weeks

Dr Shiva Narayan - Micro Nations

by Micro Nation

Hi I am keen to Join as Wikitech Ambassadors Regards Dr. Shiva

6 months

Tech News 2023, week 43

by Nick Wilson (Quiddity)

6 months

Tech News 2023, week 42

by Nick Wilson (Quiddity)

The latest technical newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/42. Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: Whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next . More information on how to contribute is available. You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. —————————— Other languages: Bahasa Indonesia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/id>, Deutsch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/de>, English, Tiếng Việt <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/vi>, español <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/es>, français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/fr>, italiano <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/it>, norsk bokmål <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/nb>, polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/pl>, português <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/pt>, português do Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/pt-br>, svenska <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/sv>, čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/cs>, русский <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/ru>, українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/uk>, עברית <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/he>, العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/ar>, ಕನ್ನಡ <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/kn>, 中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/zh>, 日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/ja> 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/2023/42> are available. *Recent changes* - The Unified login <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Unified_login> system's edge login should now be fixed for some browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera). This means that if you visit a new sister project wiki, you should be logged in automatically without the need to click "Log in" or reload the page. Feedback on whether it's working for you is welcome. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347889> - Edit notices <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Interface/Edit_not…> are now available within the MobileFrontend/Minerva skin. This feature was inspired by the gadget on English Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:EditNoticesOnMobile>. See more details in T316178 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316178>. *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.1> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap>). *Future changes* - In 3 weeks, in the Vector 2022 skin, code related to addPortletLink and #p-namespaces that was deprecated one year ago will be removed. If you notice tools that should appear next to the "Discussion" tab are then missing, please tell the gadget's maintainers to see instructions in the Phabricator task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347907>. *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/42> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.*

6 months, 1 week

First edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter

by Srishti Sethi

Hello everyone, We are thrilled to introduce the first edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter, available at this link: < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Newsletter/20…> [1]. This newsletter is compiled by the Wikimedia Language team. It provides updates from July–September quarter on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects and support efforts, details about community meetings, and contributions ideas to get involved in projects. To stay updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter on its wiki page. If you have any feedback or ideas for topics to feature in the newsletter, please share them on the discussion page, accessible here: < https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Language_enginee…> [2]. Cheers, Srishti [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Newsletter/20… [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Language_enginee… *Srishti Sethi* Senior Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

6 months, 1 week

Tech News 2023, week 41

by Benoît Evellin (Trizek)

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 are available on wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/41>. *Recent changes* - One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Fon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33291> (w:fon: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fon:>) [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347935> *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.30> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap>). - Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Add_a_l…>" (Swahili Wikipedia, Walloon Wikipedia, Waray Wikipedia, Wolof Wikipedia, Kalmyk Wikipedia, Xhosa Wikipedia, Mingrelian Wikipedia, Yiddish Wikipedia, Yoruba Wikipedia, Zhuang Wikipedia, Zeelandic Wikipedia, Min Nan Wikipedia, Zulu Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304110>. The communities can configure how this feature works locally <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Community_configur…> . [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308139> - At some wikis, newcomers are suggested images from Commons to add to articles without any images. Starting on Tuesday, newcomers at these wikis will be able to add images to unillustrated article sections. The specific wikis are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Deployment_table>. You can learn more about this feature. <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Add_an_…> [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T345940> - In the mobile web skin (Minerva) the CSS ID #page-actions will be replaced with #p-views. This change is to make it consistent with other skins and to improve support for gadgets and extensions in the mobile skin. A few gadgets may need to be updated; there are details and search-links in the task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T348267>. *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/41> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.* -- Benoît Evellin - Trizek (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

6 months, 2 weeks

Tech News 2023, week 40

by Nick Wilson (Quiddity)

The latest technical newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/40. Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: Whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next . More information on how to contribute is available. You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. —————————— Other languages: Afrikaans <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/af>, Bahasa Indonesia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/id>, Deutsch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/de>, English, Tiếng Việt <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/vi>, français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/fr>, italiano <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/it>, norsk bokmål <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/nb>, polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/pl>, svenska <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/sv>, čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/cs>, русский <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/ru>, українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/uk>, עברית <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/he>, العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/ar>, 中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/zh>, 日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/ja> 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/2023/40> are available. *Recent changes* - There is a new user preference <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-renderin…> for "Always enable safe mode <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Safemode>". This setting will make pages load without including any on-wiki JavaScript or on-wiki stylesheet pages. It can be useful for debugging broken JavaScript gadgets. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342347> - Gadget definitions now have a new "contentModels" option <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Gadgets#Options>. The option takes a list of page content models, like wikitext or css. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages with the given content models. *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.29> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap>). *Future changes* - The Vector 2022 skin will no longer use the custom styles and scripts of Vector legacy (2010). The change will be made later this year or in early 2024. See how to adjust the CSS and JS pages on your wiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Impro…>. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T331679> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/40> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.*

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