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Tech News 2023, week 46
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 13 Nov '23

13 Nov '23

The latest technical newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/46. 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: Bahasa Indonesia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/46/id>, Deutsch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/46/de>, English, Tiếng Việt <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/46/vi>, español <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/46/es>, français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/46/fr>, italiano <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/46/it>, norsk bokmål <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/46/nb>, polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/46/pl>, português <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/46/pt>, português do Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/46/pt-br>, svenska <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/46/sv>, čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/46/cs>, русский <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/46/ru>, українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/46/uk>, עברית <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/46/he>, العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/46/ar>, বাংলা <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/46/bn>, 中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/46/zh>, 日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/46/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/2023/46> are available. *Recent changes* - Four new wikis have been created: - a Wikipedia in Moroccan Amazigh <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7598268> (w:zgh: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/zgh:>) [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350216> - a Wikipedia in Dagaare <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35159> ( w:dga: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dga:>) [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350218> - a Wikipedia in Toba Batak <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33017> ( w:bbc: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bbc:>) [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350320> - a Wikiquote in Banjar <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33151> (q:bjn: <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/bjn:>) [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350217> *Problems* - Last week, users who previously visited Meta-Wiki or Wikimedia Commons and then became logged out on those wikis could not log in again. The problem is now resolved. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350695> - Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350544> *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.5> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/Roadmap>). *Future changes* - Reference Previews are coming to many wikis as a default feature. They are popups for references, similar to the PagePreviews feature <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Page_Previews>. You can opt out <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews#Opt…> of seeing them. If you are using the gadgets <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets> Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews. Deployment <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282999> is planned for November 22, 2023. - Canary (also known as heartbeat) events will be produced into Wikimedia event streams <https://stream.wikimedia.org/?doc#/streams> from December 11. Streams users are advised to filter out these events, by discarding all events where meta.domain == "canary". Updates to Pywikibot <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Pywikibot> or wikimedia-streams <https://github.com/ChlodAlejandro/wikimedia-streams> will discard these events by default. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266798> *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/2023/46> • 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 2023, week 45
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 06 Nov '23

06 Nov '23

The latest technical newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/45. 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: Bahasa Indonesia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/45/id>, Deutsch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/45/de>, English, Tiếng Việt <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/45/vi>, español <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/45/es>, français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/45/fr>, italiano <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/45/it>, norsk bokmål <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/45/nb>, polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/45/pl>, português <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/45/pt>, português do Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/45/pt-br>, svenska <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/45/sv>, čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/45/cs>, русский <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/45/ru>, українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/45/uk>, العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/45/ar>, ไทย <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/45/th>, 中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/45/zh>, 日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/45/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/2023/45> are available. *Recent changes* - In the Vector 2022 skin, the default font-size of a number of navigational elements (tagline, tools menu, navigational links, and more) has been increased slightly to match the font size used in page content. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T346062> *Problems* - Last week, there was a problem displaying some recent edits on a few wikis <https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s5.dblist>, for 1-6 hours. The edits were saved but not immediately shown. This was due to a database problem. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350443> *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.4> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/Roadmap>). - The Growth team will reassign newcomers from former mentors to the currently active mentors <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Structured_mentor_…>. They have also changed the notification language to be more user-friendly. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T330071>[4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327493> *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/2023/45> • 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 2023, week 44
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

The latest technical newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/44. 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: Bahasa Indonesia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/id>, Deutsch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/de>, English, Tiếng Việt <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/vi>, español <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/es>, français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/fr>, italiano <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/it>, norsk bokmål <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/nb>, polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/pl>, português <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/pt>, português do Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/pt-br>, svenska <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/sv>, čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/cs>, русский <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/ru>, українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/uk>, עברית <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/he>, العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/ar>, বাংলা <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/bn>, ಕನ್ನಡ <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/kn>, 中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/zh>, 日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/44/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/2023/44> are available. *Recent changes* - The Structured Content team, as part of its project of improving UploadWizard on Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:WMF_support_for_Commons/Upload_W…>, made some UX improvements to the upload step of choosing own vs not own work (T347590 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347590>), as well as to the licensing step for own work (T347756 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347756>). - The Design Systems team has released version 1.0.0 of Codex <https://doc.wikimedia.org/codex/latest/>, the new design system for Wikimedia. See the full announcement about the release of Codex 1.0.0 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Design_Systems_Team/Annou…> . *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.3> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/Roadmap>). - Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:International_Components_for_Unicode>. For a brief period on 2 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for many languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Technical_Opera…>. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T345561>[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267145> - Starting November 1, the impact module (Special:Impact) will be upgraded by the Growth team. The new impact module shows newcomers more data regarding their impact on the wiki. It was tested by a few wikis during the last few months. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336203> *Future changes* - There is a proposed plan <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Graph/Plans#Roa…> for re-enabling the Graph Extension. You can help by reviewing this proposal and sharing what you think about it <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Graph/Plans#c-PPelberg_(WMF)-…> . - The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_configuration_2…>. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T349757> *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/2023/44> • 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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Dr Shiva Narayan - Micro Nations
by Micro Nation 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

Hi I am keen to Join as Wikitech Ambassadors Regards Dr. Shiva

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Tech News 2023, week 43
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 23 Oct '23

23 Oct '23

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Tech News 2023, week 42
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 16 Oct '23

16 Oct '23

The latest technical newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/42. 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: Bahasa Indonesia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/id>, Deutsch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/de>, English, Tiếng Việt <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/vi>, español <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/es>, français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/fr>, italiano <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/it>, norsk bokmål <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/nb>, polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/pl>, português <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/pt>, português do Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/pt-br>, svenska <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/sv>, čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/cs>, русский <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/ru>, українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/uk>, עברית <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/he>, العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/ar>, ಕನ್ನಡ <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/kn>, 中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/zh>, 日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42/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/2023/42> are available. *Recent changes* - The Unified login <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Unified_login> system's edge login should now be fixed for some browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera). This means that if you visit a new sister project wiki, you should be logged in automatically without the need to click "Log in" or reload the page. Feedback on whether it's working for you is welcome. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347889> - Edit notices <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Interface/Edit_not…> are now available within the MobileFrontend/Minerva skin. This feature was inspired by the gadget on English Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:EditNoticesOnMobile>. See more details in T316178 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316178>. *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.1> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap>). *Future changes* - In 3 weeks, in the Vector 2022 skin, code related to addPortletLink and #p-namespaces that was deprecated one year ago will be removed. If you notice tools that should appear next to the "Discussion" tab are then missing, please tell the gadget's maintainers to see instructions in the Phabricator task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347907>. *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/2023/42> • 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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First edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter
by Srishti Sethi 16 Oct '23

16 Oct '23

Hello everyone, We are thrilled to introduce the first edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter, available at this link: < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Newsletter/20…> [1]. This newsletter is compiled by the Wikimedia Language team. It provides updates from July–September 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…> [2]. Cheers, Srishti [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Newsletter/20… [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Language_enginee… *Srishti Sethi* Senior Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Tech News 2023, week 41
by Benoît Evellin (Trizek) 09 Oct '23

09 Oct '23

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 are available on wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/41>. *Recent changes* - One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Fon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33291> (w:fon: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fon:>) [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347935> *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.30> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap>). - Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Add_a_l…>" (Swahili Wikipedia, Walloon Wikipedia, Waray Wikipedia, Wolof Wikipedia, Kalmyk Wikipedia, Xhosa Wikipedia, Mingrelian Wikipedia, Yiddish Wikipedia, Yoruba Wikipedia, Zhuang Wikipedia, Zeelandic Wikipedia, Min Nan Wikipedia, Zulu Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304110>. The communities can configure how this feature works locally <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Community_configur…> . [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308139> - At some wikis, newcomers are suggested images from Commons to add to articles without any images. Starting on Tuesday, newcomers at these wikis will be able to add images to unillustrated article sections. The specific wikis are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Deployment_table>. You can learn more about this feature. <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Add_an_…> [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T345940> - In the mobile web skin (Minerva) the CSS ID #page-actions will be replaced with #p-views. This change is to make it consistent with other skins and to improve support for gadgets and extensions in the mobile skin. A few gadgets may need to be updated; there are details and search-links in the task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T348267>. *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/2023/41> • 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…>.* -- Benoît Evellin - Trizek (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Tech News 2023, week 40
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

The latest technical newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/40. 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: Afrikaans <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/af>, Bahasa Indonesia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/id>, Deutsch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/de>, English, Tiếng Việt <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/vi>, français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/fr>, italiano <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/it>, norsk bokmål <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/nb>, polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/pl>, svenska <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/sv>, čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/cs>, русский <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/ru>, українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/uk>, עברית <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/he>, العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/ar>, 中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/zh>, 日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40/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/2023/40> are available. *Recent changes* - There is a new user preference <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-renderin…> for "Always enable safe mode <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Safemode>". This setting will make pages load without including any on-wiki JavaScript or on-wiki stylesheet pages. It can be useful for debugging broken JavaScript gadgets. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342347> - Gadget definitions now have a new "contentModels" option <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Gadgets#Options>. The option takes a list of page content models, like wikitext or css. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages with the given content models. *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.29> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap>). *Future changes* - The Vector 2022 skin will no longer use the custom styles and scripts of Vector legacy (2010). The change will be made later this year or in early 2024. See how to adjust the CSS and JS pages on your wiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Impro…>. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T331679> *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/2023/40> • 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 2023, week 39
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 26 Sep '23

26 Sep '23

The latest technical newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/39. 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: Bahasa Indonesia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/39/id>, Deutsch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/39/de>, English, Tiếng Việt <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/39/vi>, français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/39/fr>, italiano <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/39/it>, norsk bokmål <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/39/nb>, polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/39/pl>, português do Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/39/pt-br>, suomi <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/39/fi>, svenska <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/39/sv>, čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/39/cs>, русский <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/39/ru>, українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/39/uk>, עברית <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/39/he>, العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/39/ar>, বাংলা <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/39/bn>, ಕನ್ನಡ <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/39/kn>, 中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/39/zh>, 日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/39/ja>, ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/39/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/2023/39> are available. *Recent changes* - The Vector 2022 skin will now remember the pinned/unpinned status for the Table of Contents for all logged-out users. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316060> *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.28> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap>). - The ResourceLoader mediawiki.ui modules are now deprecated as part of the move to Vue.js and Codex. There is a guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Codex/Migrating_from_MediaWiki_UI> for any tools that use it. More details are available in the task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T346468> and your questions are welcome there. - Gadget definitions will have a new "namespaces" option <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Gadgets#Options>. The option takes a list of namespace IDs. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages in the given namespaces. *Future changes* - New variables will be added to AbuseFilter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter>: global_account_groups and global_account_editcount. They are available only when an account is being created. You can use them to prevent blocking automatic creation of accounts when users with many edits elsewhere visit your wiki for the first time. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T345632>[3] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter/Rul…> *Meetings* - You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on 27 October at 17:00 (UTC) <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1698426015>. See details and how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Office_Hou…> . *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/2023/39> • 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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