Wikitech-ambassadors February 2024

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Wikipedia Mobile App: Image Recommendations and New Lint Error

by Amal Ramadan

Hello, This is Amal Ramadan, the Sr. Community Relations Specialist supporting the Wikipedia mobile apps team. Our Android team is working on Image Recommendations <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/Image_Recommenda…> that will enhance accessibility and user engagement within the Wikimedia mobile apps; our engineers are adding a new lint error type, which is planned to match images without alt text and are expected to trigger on a large number of pages. It is planned to use this lint category to feed both existing linter-based correction workflows and a "microtask" workflow in the Wikipedia mobile app, where small work tasks can be presented to users in a relevant context. We want to make sure this won’t be disruptive to existing linter system users and that updates to support the new lint type can be coordinated. Our current technical evaluation doesn't expect performance problems from this, but if it's overloading people's workflows, we want to be sure to accommodate those needs. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation as we work towards enhancing the Wikipedia mobile app experience. You can reach out to us with your feedback if there's any at aramadan(a)wikimedia.org Respectfully, *Amal Ramadan* (She\Her) Sr. Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

1 month, 4 weeks

Tech News 2024, week 09

by Uzoma Ozurumba

Other languages: - Bahasa Indonesia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/09/id> - Deutsch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/09/de> - English - Ghanaian Pidgin <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/09/gpe> - Tiếng Việt <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/09/vi> - español <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/09/es> - français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/09/fr> - italiano <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/09/it> - norsk bokmål <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/09/nb> - polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/09/pl> - português do Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/09/pt-br> - svenska <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/09/sv> - čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/09/cs> - русский <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/09/ru> - українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/09/uk> - עברית <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/09/he> - العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/09/ar> - فارسی <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/09/fa> - বাংলা <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/09/bn> - 中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/09/zh> Tech News: 2024-09 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/2024/09> are available. *Recent changes* - The mobile visual editor <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor_on_mobile> is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor_on_mobile/VE…>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. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T352127> - The mw.config <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/ResourceLoader/Core_modul…> 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"))). [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T356008> *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.20> 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 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/Roadmap>). [3] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train>[4] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar> *Future changes* - The right to change edit tags <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual: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 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T355639> to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024. *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/2024/09> • 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…>.*

2 months

Tech News 2024, week 08

by Uzoma Ozurumba

Other languages: - Bahasa Indonesia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/08/id> - Deutsch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/08/de> - English - Ghanaian Pidgin <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/08/gpe> - Tiếng Việt <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/08/vi> - español <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/08/es> - français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/08/fr> - norsk bokmål <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/08/nb> - polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/08/pl> - português <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/08/pt> - português do Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/08/pt-br> - suomi <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/08/fi> - svenska <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/08/sv> - čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/08/cs> - русский <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/08/ru> - українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/08/uk> - עברית <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/08/he> - العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/08/ar> - فارسی <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/08/fa> - বাংলা <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/08/bn> - 中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/08/zh> - 日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/08/ja> Tech News: 2024-08 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/2024/08> are available. *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. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T356984> - There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Vector/2022> on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Vector> 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 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357580>. 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 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T353225>. - The maximum file size when using Upload Wizard <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Upload_Wizard> is now 5 GiB. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191804> *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.19> 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 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/Roadmap>). [3] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train>[4] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar> - Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge_Grid_Engine_deprecation> 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 <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Toolforge/About_Toolforge#Commun…>. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid. - The CSS filter <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/filter> property can now be used in HTML style attributes in wikitext. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308160> *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/2024/08> • 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…>.*

2 months, 1 week

Tech News 2024, week 07

by Uzoma Ozurumba

2 months, 2 weeks

Tech News 2024, week 06

by Uzoma Ozurumba

Translation to other languages are available in this link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/06 Tech News: 2024-06 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/2024/06> are available. *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 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T353388>. - 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" <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_health_initiat…> . [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242541>[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280531> *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.17> 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 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/Roadmap>). [3] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train>[4] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar> - Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T356199> *Future changes* - 24 Wikipedias <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews#24W…> with Reference Tooltips <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reference_Tooltips> as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make Reference Previews <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Reference_Previews> the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For 46 Wikipedias <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews#46W…> with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February, unless there are concerns <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreview….>. 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. [6] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews#Ref…> [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T355312> *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/2024/06> • 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…>.*

2 months, 3 weeks

Language & Internationalization newsletter #02 (January 2024)

by Srishti Sethi

Hello everyone, The second edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter (January 2024) is available at this link: < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Newsletter/20… >. This newsletter is compiled by the Wikimedia Language team. It provides updates from October–December 2023 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… >. Cheers, Srishti On behalf of the WMF Language team *Srishti Sethi* Senior Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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