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Tech News 2024, week 26
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 24 Jun '24

24 Jun '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/2024/26> are available. *Recent changes* - Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions on the project talkpage <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Reading/Web/Accessibility_for_reading>. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361717> - The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366515> *Problems* - You can copy permanent links to talk page comments <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools#Talk…> by clicking on a comment's timestamp. This feature <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Permalinks> did not always work when the topic title was very long and the link was used as a wikitext link. This has been fixed. Thanks to Lofhi for submitting the bug. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T356196> *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/wmf.11> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/Roadmap>). [4] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train>[5] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar> - Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature on Diff <https://diff.wikimedia.org//2024/01/29/talk-page-permalinks-dont-lose-your-…> or on Mediawiki.org <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools#Talk…>. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T365974> *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/2024/26> • 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…>.* -- Nick "Quiddity" Wilson (he/him) Movement Communications Specialist Wikimedia Foundation

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Heads-up: Diff colour
by Johan Jönsson 19 Jun '24

19 Jun '24

Hey everyone, Something which didn't make it into this week's Tech News: As you might know, the Wikimedia Foundation Web team is working on a night mode <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Accessibility_for_reading>, which is currently available on mobile but continues to be developed. As part of the accessability work around this, the developers made some slight changes to the colour in the diff text, which will be visible on the wikis this week but didn't make it into Tech News until next week. You can read more in phab:T361717 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361717>. Best, *Johan Jönsson*Manager, Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Tech News 2024, week 25
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 17 Jun '24

17 Jun '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/2024/25> are available. *Recent changes* - People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_check#11_June_2024> for more details. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366751> - The new Community Configuration extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CommunityConfig…> is available on Test Wikipedia <https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CommunityConfiguration>. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_configuration#U…> in the future. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323811>[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T360954> - The dark mode beta feature <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeat…> is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Reading/Web/Accessibility_for_reading>. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366370> *Problems* - Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [5] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/2024-06-11_WMCS_Ceph> - Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367463>. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367480> *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/wmf.10> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/Roadmap>). [7] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train>[8] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar> - Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Edit_check#ref> will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361843>. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_check#Reference_Chec…>, the number of citations added more than doubled <https://diff.wikimedia.org/?p=127553> when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_check/Configuration>. [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361843> - Mailing lists <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Mailing_lists> will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. [10] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367521> *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/2024/25> • 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 24
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 10 Jun '24

10 Jun '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/2024/24> are available. *Recent changes* - The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265549> - The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Heading_HTML_changes>. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T13555> so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337286> if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that. - The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Parsoid> changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the mw-reference-text class, Parsoid now also adds the reference-text class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Specs/HTML/2.8.0/Extensions/Cite/Announcement>. [2] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1036705> *Problems* - There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366374> *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/wmf.9> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/Roadmap>). [4] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train>[5] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar> - The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Parsoid> will now generate a <span class="mw-cite-backlink"> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Specs/HTML/2.8.0/Extensions/Cite/Announcement>. [6] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1035809> - On multilingual wikis that use the <translate> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Requesting_wiki_configur…>. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T49177> *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/2024/24> • 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 23
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 03 Jun '24

03 Jun '24

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Tech News 2024, week 22
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 27 May '24

27 May '24

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Tech News 2024, week 21
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 20 May '24

20 May '24

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Tech News 2024, week 20
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 13 May '24

13 May '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/2024/20> are available. *Recent changes* - On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word __EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__ to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344214> - If you use the user-preference <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing> "Show preview without reloading the page", then the template-page feature "Preview page with this template" will now also work without reloading the page. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136907> - Kartographer <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Mylanguage/Extension:Kartographer> maps can now specify an alternative text via the alt= attribute. This is identical in usage to the alt= attribute in the image and gallery syntax <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Images#Syntax>. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328137> - The old Guided Tour <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GuidedTour> for the "New Filters for Edit Review <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements/…>" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217451> *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/wmf.5> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/Roadmap>). [5] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train>[6] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar> - The Special:Search <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search> results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320295> *Future changes* - In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Accessibility…>. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357706> - Two columns of the pagelinks <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:pagelinks_table> database table (pl_namespace and pl_title) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new linktarget <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/special:MyLanguage/Manual:linktarget_table> table instead (lt_namespace and lt_title). In your existing SQL queries: 1. Replace JOIN pagelinks with JOIN linktarget and pl_ with lt_ in the ON statement 2. Below that add JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id - See phab:T222224 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222224> for technical reasoning. [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222224> [10] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T299947> *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/2024/20> • 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 19
by Benoît Evellin (Trizek) 06 May '24

06 May '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/2024/19> are available. *Recent changes* [image: Screenshot of the visual improvements made on talk pages] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Talk_pages_default_look_(April_2023).j…>Example of a talk page with the new design, in French. - The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/18> have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on *Diff* <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/05/02/making-talk-pages-better-for-everyone/>. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing> ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T352087>[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T319146> - Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:WikimediaMessag…> . [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363932> - Wikimedia Enterprise <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Enterprise> has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. [4] <https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/article-sections-and-description/> *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/wmf.4> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/Roadmap>). [5] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train>[6] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar> - When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T237729> *Future changes* - A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Graph>. Details can be found in the latest update <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Graph/Plans> regarding this extension. - Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Add_a_l…>". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304110>. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Community_configur…> . [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308144> *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/2024/19> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe on wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.* -- Benoît Evellin - Trizek (he/him) Movement Communications Specialist (Product & Tech) Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Tech News 2024, week 18
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 29 Apr '24

29 Apr '24

The latest technical newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/18 - 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: Deutsch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/18/de>, English, Ghanaian Pidgin <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/18/gpe>, Tiếng Việt <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/18/vi>, español <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/18/es>, français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/18/fr>, italiano <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/18/it>, norsk bokmål <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/18/nb>, polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/18/pl>, português <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/18/pt>, português do Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/18/pt-br>, svenska <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/18/sv>, čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/18/cs>, русский <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/18/ru>, українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/18/uk>, עברית <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/18/he>, العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/18/ar>, فارسی <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/18/fa>, বাংলা <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/18/bn>, 中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/18/zh> 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/2024/18> are available. *Recent changes* - The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Usabil…>, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing> ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341491> - Seven new wikis have been created: - a Wikipedia in Betawi <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33014> (w:bew: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bew:>) [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357866> - a Wikipedia in Kusaal <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35708> (w:kus: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kus:>) [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T359757> - a Wikipedia in Igala <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35513> (w:igl: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/igl:>) [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361644> - a Wiktionary in Karakalpak <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33541> ( wikt:kaa: <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kaa:>) [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T362135> - a Wikisource in Burmese <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9228> (s:my: <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/my:>) [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361085> - a Wikisource in Malay <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9237> (s:ms: <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/ms:>) [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363039> - a Wikisource in Georgian <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8108> ( s:ka: <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/ka:>) [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363085> - You can now watch message groups/projects <https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Support#Early_access:_Watch_Message_Groups_o…> on Translatewiki.net <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/translatewiki.net>. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T348501> - Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileOptions>. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis <https://night-mode-checker.wmcloud.org/>. See more detailed guidelines <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Accessibility…> . *Problems* - Kartographer <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartograph…> maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [10] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T362531> *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/wmf.3> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/Roadmap>). 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