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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