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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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