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Latest *tech news
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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/2023/20> are
available.
*Problems*
- Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33057> are currently broken. This
affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:VisualEditor/User_guide/Citations-Full#Automatic>,
and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing
to restore this feature. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336298>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.9>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 16 May. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 May. It will be on
all wikis from 18 May (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_link>"
(Gorontalo Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Hakka Chinese Wikipedia, Hawaiian
Wikipedia, Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Upper Sorbian
Wikipedia, Haitian Creole Wikipedia, Interlingua Wikipedia, Interlingue
Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Iloko Wikipedia, Ingush Wikipedia, Ido
Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Inuktitut Wikipedia, Jamaican Patois
Wikipedia, Javanese 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_configuration>.
[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308134>
*Future changes*
- There is a recently formed team at the Wikimedia Foundation which will
be focusing on experimenting with new tools. Currently they are building a
prototype ChatGPT plugin that allows information generated by ChatGPT to be
properly attributed
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2023-2024/Draft/Future_Audiences#FA2.2_Conversational_AI>
to the Wikimedia projects.
- Gadget and userscript developers should replace jquery.cookie with
mediawiki.cookie. The jquery.cookie library will be removed in ~1 month,
and staff developers will run a script to replace any remaining uses at
that time. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336018>
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