Wikitech-ambassadors March 2024

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Tech News 2024, week 13

by Uzoma Ozurumba

1 month

Tech News 2024, week 12

by Uzoma Ozurumba

1 month, 1 week

Sever switch and read-only time - March 20

by Benoît Evellin (Trizek)

Hello A server switch will happen on March 20, at 14:00 UTC. All wikis will be in read-only mode for a few minutes. We will inform communities as we usually do, through Tech News. Also, a banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the event. We need your assistance to inform your communities through local channels. You can link to the information page we usually use: < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch>. Thank you in advance, Benoît -- Benoît Evellin - Trizek (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

1 month, 1 week

Tech News 2024, week 11

by Uzoma Ozurumba

Other languages: - Bahasa Indonesia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/11/id> - Deutsch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/11/de> - English - Tiếng Việt <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/11/vi> - español <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/11/es> - italiano <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/11/it> - norsk bokmål <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/11/nb> - polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/11/pl> - português <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/11/pt> - português do Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/11/pt-br> - čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/11/cs> - русский <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/11/ru> - українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/11/uk> - עברית <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/11/he> - العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/11/ar> - فارسی <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/11/fa> - 中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/11/zh> - 日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/11/ja> Tech News: 2024-11 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/2024/11> are available. *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.22> 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 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/Roadmap>). [1] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train>[2] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar> - After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Minerva_Neue> 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. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358498> - The active link color in Minerva <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Minerva_Neue> will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358516> - Structured data on Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Structured_da…> 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. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312315> *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. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358233>[7] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch> *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/2024/11> • 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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Tech News 2024, week 10

by Uzoma Ozurumba

Other languages: - Bahasa Indonesia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/10/id> - Deutsch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/10/de> - English - Ghanaian Pidgin <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/10/gpe> - Tiếng Việt <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/10/vi> - español <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/10/es> - français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/10/fr> - italiano <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/10/it> - polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/10/pl> - português <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/10/pt> - português do Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/10/pt-br> - suomi <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/10/fi> - svenska <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/10/sv> - čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/10/cs> - русский <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/10/ru> - עברית <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/10/he> - العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/10/ar> - 中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/10/zh> - 日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/10/ja> - 粵語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/10/yue> Tech News: 2024-10 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/2024/10> are available. *Recent changes* - The Special:Book page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Collection> 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 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Wikisource> . [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358437> - Wikitech <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech> now uses the next-generation Parsoid <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Parsoid> wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the Known Issues discussion page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Parsoid/Parser_Unification/Known_Issues>. You can use the ParserMigration <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:ParserMigration> extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:ParserMigr…> for more details. - Maintenance on etherpad <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/> is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316421>. - Gadgets <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension: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. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T31272> - A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T354847> *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.21> 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 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/Roadmap>). [4] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train>[5] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar> *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. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358233> - The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See Heading HTML changes <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/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 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:ParserMigr…>) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:ParserMigr…> ). *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/2024/10> • 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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