Tech News: 2024-16
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*Problems*
- Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:FlaggedRevs>,
the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page
moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now
fixed. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361918>[2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361940>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/wmf.1> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be
on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all
wikis from 18 April (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/Roadmap>). [3]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train>[4]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar>
- Default category sort keys
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words#DEFAULTSORT>
will
now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Cite>.
Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a
different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys
already worked). [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40435>
- A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to abuse filters
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter>. It tells how many
seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269769>
*Future changes*
- Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their
tools and features to handle temporary accounts
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts>
. Learn more
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts/For_developers/2024-04_CTA>
.
- Four database fields will be removed from database replicas
(including Quarry <https://quarry.wmcloud.org/>). This affects only the
abuse_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to
be updated. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361996>
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