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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/2023/28 are available.
*Recent changes*
- The Section-level Image Suggestions feature https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_Data_Across_Wikimedia/Section-level_Image_Suggestions has been deployed on seven Wikipedias (Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Catalan, Hungarian, Finnish and Norwegian Bokmål). The feature recommends images for articles on contributors' watchlists that are a good match for individual sections of those articles. - Global abuse filters https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Global_AbuseFilter have been enabled on all Wikimedia projects, except English and Japanese Wikipedias (who opted out). This change was made following a global request for comments https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Make_global_abuse_filters_opt-out. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341159 - Special:BlockedExternalDomains https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool for administrators to help fight spam. It provides a clearer interface for blocking plain domains (and their subdomains), is more easily searchable, and is faster for the software to process for each edit on the wiki. It does not support regex (for complex cases), nor URL path-matching, nor the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist, but otherwise it replaces most of the functionalities of the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. There is a Python script to help migrate all simple domains into this tool, and more feature details, within the tool's documentation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:BlockedExternalDomains. It is available at all wikis except for Meta-wiki, Commons, and Wikidata. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337431 - The WikiEditor extension was updated. It includes some of the most frequently used features of wikitext editing. In the past, many of its messages could only be translated by administrators, but now all regular translators on translatewiki can translate them. Please check the state of WikiEditor localization into your language https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:MessageGroupStats?group=ext-wikieditor&messages=&x=D#sortable:0=asc, and if the "Completion" for your language shows anything less than 100%, please complete the translation. See a more detailed explanation https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/D4YELU2DXMZ75PGELUOKXXMFF3FH45XA/ .
*Changes later this week*
- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.17 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 July. It will be on all wikis from 13 July (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap). - The default protocol of Special:LinkSearch https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:LinkSearch and API counterparts has changed from http to both http and https. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T14810 - Special:LinkSearch https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:LinkSearch and its API counterparts will now search for all of the URL provided in the query. It used to be only the first 60 characters. This feature was requested fifteen years ago. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T17218
*Future changes*
- There is an experiment with a ChatGPT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:ChatGPT plugin. This is to show users where the information is coming from when they read information from Wikipedia. It has been tested by Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians. Soon all ChatGPT plugin users can use the Wikipedia plugin. This is the same plugin which was mentioned in Tech News 2023/20 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/20. [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2023-2024/Draft/Future_Audiences#FA2.2_Conversational_AI - There is an ongoing discussion on a proposed Third-party resources policy https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Third-party_resources_policy. The proposal will impact the use of third-party resources in gadgets and userscripts. Based on the ideas received so far, policy includes some of the risks related to user scripts and gadgets loading third-party resources, some best practices and exemption requirements such as code transparency and inspectability. Your feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome until July 17, 2023 on on the policy talk page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Third-party_resources_policy.
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