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Tech News (2022 week 03)

by Nick Wilson (Quiddity)

The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/03>. 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 at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. 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/2022/03/id>, Deutsch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/03/de>, English, Hausa <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/03/ha>, español <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/03/es>, français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/03/fr>, italiano <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/03/it>, norsk bokmål <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/03/nb>, polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/03/pl>, português <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/03/pt>, português do Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/03/pt-br>, suomi <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/03/fi>, svenska <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/03/sv>, čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/03/cs>, русский <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/03/ru>, українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/03/uk>, עברית <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/03/he>, العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/03/ar>, বাংলা <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/03/bn>, ไทย <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/03/th>, 中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/03/zh>, 日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/03/ja>, ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/03/mni>, 한국어 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/03/ko> 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/2022/03> are available. *Recent changes* - When using WikiEditor <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:WikiEditor> (also known as the 2010 wikitext editor), people will now see a warning if they link to disambiguation pages. If you click "Review link" in the warning, it will ask you to correct the link to a more specific term. You can read more information <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Warn_when_li…> about this completed 2021 Community Wishlist item. - You can automatically subscribe to all of the talk page discussions <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools#subs…> that you start or comment in using DiscussionTools <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Featur…>. You will receive notifications <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Notifications> when another editor replies. This is available at most wikis. Go to your Preferences <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-…> and turn on "Automatically subscribe to topics". [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263819> - When asked to create a new page or talk page section, input fields can be "preloaded" with some text <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Creating_pages_wit…>. This feature is now limited to wikitext pages. This is so users can't be tricked into making malicious edits. There is a discussion about if this feature should be re-enabled <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297725> for some content types. *Changes later this week* - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/wmf.18> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 January. It will be on all wikis from 20 January (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/Roadmap>). *Events* - Community Wishlist Survey 2022 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Surve…> continues. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Surve…> . *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/2022/03> • 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…>.*

21 hours, 5 minutes

Coolest Tool Award 2021: Tomorrow, 17:00 UTC!

by Andre Klapper

Hi everyone! A reminder that the Coolest Tool Award event https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award will happen online tomorrow, Friday 14 January at 17:00 UTC. See https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1642179615 for your timezone. Here is more information about the venues: * The event will be live streamed on Youtube in the MediaWiki channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdnwhDAdrxE * The following venues can be used for socializing: - Youtube live stream chat: https://www.youtube.com/user/watchmediawiki - Twitter #CoolestToolAward : https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CoolestToolAward&f=live - #wmhack Telegram group : https://t.me/wmhack - #wikimedia-hackathon on Libera IRC We hope to see you there! andre, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2021 -- Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

4 days, 23 hours

Tech News (2022 week 02)

by Nick Wilson (Quiddity)

The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/02>. 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 at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. 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/2022/02/id>, Deutsch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/02/de>, English, français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/02/fr>, italiano <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/02/it>, norsk bokmål <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/02/nb>, polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/02/pl>, português <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/02/pt>, português do Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/02/pt-br>, suomi <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/02/fi>, svenska <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/02/sv>, čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/02/cs>, русский <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/02/ru>, українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/02/uk>, עברית <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/02/he>, العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/02/ar>, हिन्दी <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/02/hi>, বাংলা <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/02/bn>, ไทย <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/02/th>, 中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/02/zh>, 日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/02/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/2022/02> are available. *Recent changes* - [image: Advanced item] A oauth_consumer variable has been added to the AbuseFilter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/AbuseFilter> to enable identifying changes made by specific tools. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298281> - [image: Advanced item] Gadgets are now able to directly include JSON pages <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/ResourceLoader/Migration_…>. This means some gadgets can now be configured by administrators without needing the interface administrator permission, such as with the Geonotice gadget. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198758> - [image: Advanced item] Gadgets can now specify page actions <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gadgets#Options> on which they are available. For example, |actions=edit,history will load a gadget only while editing and on history pages. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T63007> - [image: Advanced item] Gadgets can now be loaded on demand with the withgadget URL parameter. This can be used to replace an earlier snippet <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Snippets/Load_JS_and_CSS_…> that typically looks like withJS or withCSS. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T29766> - [image: Advanced item] At wikis where the Mentorship system is configured <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Communities/How_to…>, you can now use the Action API to get a list of a mentor's <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Mentor_dashboard> mentees. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291966> - The heading on the main page can now be configured using MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin> for logged-in users and MediaWiki:Mainpage-title <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Mainpage-title> for logged-out users. Any CSS that was previously used to hide the heading should be removed. [6] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Small_wiki_toolkits/Star…> [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298715> - Four special pages (and their API counterparts) now have a maximum database query execution time of 30 seconds. These special pages are: RecentChanges, Watchlist, Contributions, and Log. This change will help with site performance and stability. You can read more details about this change <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…> including some possible solutions if this affects your workflows. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297708> - The sticky header <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Impro…> has been deployed for 50% of logged-in users on more than 10 wikis <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Impro…>. This is part of the Desktop Improvements <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Impro…>. See how to take part in the project <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Impro…> . *Changes later this week* - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/wmf.17> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 January. It will be on all wikis from 13 January (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/Roadmap>). *Events* - Community Wishlist Survey 2022 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Surve…> begins. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Surve…> . *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/2022/02> • 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…>.*

1 week

Community Wishlist Survey 2022 has begun!

by Szymon Grabarczuk

As you might have noticed, there are banners informing that the Community Wishlist Survey 2022 has begun. I've published a blog post: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/01/10/what-improvements-in-wikimedia-platfo… My request is simple: feel encouraged to do everything and anything mentioned in the blog post, and invite others to do the same. In particular, spread the word outside of wikis - on Telegram groups, Discord channels, affiliate chats - anywhere you deem appropriate. Please let me know if anything needs to be clarified or changed. Thank you! Szymon Grabarczuk (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation

1 week

Tech News (2021, week 50)

by Nick Wilson (Quiddity)

1 week, 1 day

Tech News (2021, week 51)

by Nick Wilson (Quiddity)

4 weeks

Save the date! Coolest Tool Award 2021: Friday, January 14th, 17:00 UTC

by Andre Klapper

Hi everyone! The second edition of the Coolest Tool Award https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award will happen online on Friday 14 January 2022 at 17:00 UTC! See https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1642179615 for your timezone. The awarded tools will be showcased in a virtual event, with broadcasted video and chat channels for socializing. We will send more details and links soon. Save the date, and join us celebrating the great work volunteer developers do for the Wikimedia communities. We hope to see you there! andre, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2021 -- Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

1 month

Tech News (2021, week 49)

by Nick Wilson (Quiddity)

The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2021/49>. 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 at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. 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/2021/49/id>, Deutsch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/49/de>, English, Tiếng Việt <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/49/vi>, español <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/49/es>, français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/49/fr>, italiano <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/49/it>, norsk bokmål <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/49/nb>, polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/49/pl>, português <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/49/pt>, português do Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/49/pt-br>, suomi <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/49/fi>, čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/49/cs>, русский <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/49/ru>, українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/49/uk>, עברית <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/49/he>, العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/49/ar>, हिन्दी <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/49/hi>, বাংলা <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/49/bn>, ไทย <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/49/th>, 中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/49/zh>, 日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/49/ja>, ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/49/mni> 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/2021/49> are available. *Problems* - MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems. *Changes later this week* - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/wmf.12> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 December. It will be on all wikis from 9 December (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/Roadmap>). - At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at Special:MentorDashboard. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Feature_summary>. You can learn more about activating the mentor list <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Communities/How_to…> on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Mentor_dashboard> . - [image: Advanced item] The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API> (which was created in 2008), action=ajax, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T42786> - [image: Advanced item] An old ResourceLoader module, jquery.jStorage, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to mediawiki.storage instead. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143034> *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/2021/49> • 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…>.*

1 month, 1 week

Tech News (2021, week 48)

by Nick Wilson (Quiddity)

1 month, 2 weeks

Anti-vandalism bots

by Sam Walton

Hi, My name's Sam and I'm a Product Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation working on the Moderator Tools project <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Moderator_Tools>. As part of the research for this project I've been exploring anti-vandalism bots in use on different Wikimedia projects, but haven't been able to find any centralised list of such bots. So far I'm aware of ClueBot NG (en.wiki), SeroBOT (es.wiki), and Salebot (fr.wiki, pt.wiki). If you know of any other anti-vandalism bots (i.e. bots which automatically revert edits which are identified as vandalism according to some rules/algorithm), please let me know! I'd also love to know if you have any thoughts about their effectiveness. Thanks, Sam -- Sam Walton Product Manager, The Wikipedia Library swalton(a)wikimedia.org

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