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Tech News 2024, week 31
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
29 Jul '24
29 Jul '24
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/2024/31
> are available. *Feature news* - Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Sub-referencing
> . *Bugs status* - Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370304
> were mainly due to the addition of new linter <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Linter
> rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing. - Editors can use the IP Information tool <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/…
> to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks…
> that were resolved last week. *Project updates* - There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/316/iterative_improvement…
> . - There is an update on the Charts project <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Chart/Project/U…
>. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions. - One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Czech <
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9056
> (voy:cs: <
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/cs
:>) [1] <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370905
> *Learn more* - There is a new Wikimedia Foundation data center <
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/26/the-journey-to-open-our-first-data-ce…
> in São Paulo, Brazil which helps to reduce load times. - There is new user research <
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/22/the-perplexing-process-of-uploading-i…
> on problems with the process of uploading images. - Commons Impact Metrics are now available <
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/19/commons-impact-metrics-now-available-…
> via data dumps and API. - The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter/2024/July
> is now available. *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/2024/31
> • Get help <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech
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Tech News 2024, week 30
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
23 Jul '24
23 Jul '24
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/2024/30
> are available. *Feature News* - Stewards can now globally block <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Global_blocks
> accounts. Before the change <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T17294
> only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Global_locks
> (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/…
> project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public. - Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:FlaggedRevs
> (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Codex
>. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:MinervaNeue
> was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Codex
> by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [1] <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191156
> - Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalVanishRequest
>. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [2] <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367329
> - Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App <
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/10/%d9%90addressing-vandalism-with-a-tap…
> highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone. - Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics <
https://doc.wikimedia.org/generated-data-platform/aqs/analytics-api/referen…
> analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. [3] <
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/19/commons-impact-metrics-now-available-…
> *Project Updates* - Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist
>. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language. *Learn more* - Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff <
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/17/building-towards-a-robust-multilingua…
> . - How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post <
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/09/on-the-value-of-experimentation/
> by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_Audiences#Objectives_and_Key_Results
>, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_Audiences/Experiments:_conversationa…
> and Add a Fact <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_Audiences/Experiment:Add_a_Fact
>, to help take Wikimedia into the future. *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/2024/30
> • Get help <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech
> • Give feedback <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News
> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <
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>.* You can also get other news from the Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Bul…
>. -- Nick "Quiddity" Wilson (he/him) Movement Communications Specialist Wikimedia Foundation
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Tech News 2024, week 29
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
16 Jul '24
16 Jul '24
Here's the 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/2024/29
> are available. *Tech News survey* - Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey <
https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/758713?lang=en
>. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 3 more days. The survey is covered by this privacy statement <
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Tech_News_Survey_2024_Privacy_S…
>. Some translations are available. *Recent changes* - [image: Advanced item] Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Gerrit
> and GitLab <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/GitLab
>, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab/Migration_status
> page. - The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Product_and_Technology_A…
> (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10 <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Product_and_Technology_A…
> . - Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Andro…
> features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Andro…
>. You can read more about this project on Diff blog <
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/10/%D9%90addressing-vandalism-with-a-tap…
> . - Editors who have access to The Wikipedia Library <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/The_Wikipedia_Library
> can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368865
> them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks
> . *Changes later this week* - This week, dark mode will be available on a number of Wikipedias <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Accessibility…
>, both desktop and mobile, for logged-in and logged-out users. Interface admins and user script maintainers are encouraged to check gadgets and user scripts in the dark mode, to find any hard-coded colors and fix them. There are some recommendations for dark mode compatibility <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Recommendations_for_night…
> to help. *Future changes* - [image: Advanced item] Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/…
> feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Acco…
>. [1] <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T348895
> - Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload <
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Cross-wiki_up…
> and discussion at Commons:Village Pump <
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#Deactivat…
> . *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/2024/29
> • 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…
>.* You can also get other news from the Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Bul…
>. -- Nick "Quiddity" Wilson (he/him) Movement Communications Specialist Wikimedia Foundation
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Tech News 2024, week 28
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
08 Jul '24
08 Jul '24
(Note: Please do take the Survey that is linked in the last entry! Your feedback is important for any changes we might make. Thanks!) 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/2024/28
> are available. *Recent changes* - At the Wikimedia Foundation a new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Chart <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Chart/Project
>. You can subscribe to the newsletter <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Newsletter:Chart_Project
> to get notified about new project updates and other news about Chart. - The CampaignEvents <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/CampaignEvents
> extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on your wiki. This extension helps in managing and making events more visible, giving Event organizers the ability to use tools like the Event registration tool. To learn more about the deployment status and how to request this extension for your wiki, visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-wiki <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/CampaignEvents/Deploymen…
> . - Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/iOS_Sugges…
> feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia. - Thank you to all of the authors <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Product_Insights/Contributor_reten…
> who have contributed to MediaWiki Core. As a result of these contributions, the percentage of authors contributing more than 5 patches has increased by 25% since last year <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Product_Insights/Contributor_reten…
>, which helps ensure the sustainability of the platform for the Wikimedia projects. *Problems* - A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367982
>. *Future changes* - The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/…
> with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts/…
> explaining how to do the update. Learn more <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/…
> . *Tech News survey* - Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey <
https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/758713?lang=en
>. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 1 more week. The survey is covered by this privacy statement <
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Tech_News_Survey_2024_Privacy_S…
>. Some translations are available. *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/2024/28
> • Get help <
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> • Give feedback <
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> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <
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>.* -- Nick "Quiddity" Wilson (he/him) Movement Communications Specialist Wikimedia Foundation
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Tech News 2024, week 27
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
01 Jul '24
01 Jul '24
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/2024/27
> are available. *Recent changes* - Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Surve…
>, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Accessibility…
>. [1] <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366364
> - Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalPreferences#mw-prefsection-re…
>, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. [2] <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341278
> - If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS <
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46441
> features and to send less code to all readers. [3] <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288287
>[4] <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:How_to_make_a_Medi…
> - Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Configuration
>. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Feature_summary
> on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [5] <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366458
> - Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Unicode
>, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in
MediaWiki.org
<
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>. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium <
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