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*Updates for editors*

- [image: Wishlist item] A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror will be available as a beta feature https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support, template folding https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror#Template_folding, autocompletion https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror#Autocompletion, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the help page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror . - The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such Ctrl+B for bold and Ctrl+I for italics. A full list of all six shortcuts https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:WikiEditor#Keyboard_shortcuts is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T62928 - Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: bswiki, elwiki, euwiki, fawiki, fiwiki, frwikiquote, frwikisource, frwikiversity, frwikivoyage, idwiki, lvwiki, plwiki, ptwiki, urwiki, viwikisource, zhwikisource. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_Discussions/Deprecation. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Trizek_(WMF). - View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected" if it includes a protected variable https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T377765.

*Updates for technical contributors*

- The CodeEditor https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeEditor, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, now offers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T377663 live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing Ctrl+, and un-selecting "Live Autocompletion". - [image: Advanced item] Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check this dashboard https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/K6DEOo5Ik/grafana-graphite-datasource-utilization?orgId=1 and the list in the Description of the task T350592 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350592 to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April. [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/KLUV4IOLRYXPQFWD6WKKJUHMWE77BMSZ/ - [image: Advanced item] The New PreProcessor parser performance report https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/NewPP_parser_report has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279069

*Meetings and events*

- A Language community meeting https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Community_meetings#29_November_2024 will take place November 29 at 16:00 UTC https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1732896000. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, the language support track at Wiki Indaba https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Indaba, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.

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