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*Updates for editors*

- On wikis with the Translate extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Translate enabled, users will notice that the FuzzyBot will now automatically create translated versions of categories used on translated pages. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285463 - View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks. For example, the submitted task to use the SecurePoll extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:SecurePoll for English Wikipedia's special administrator election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Administrator_elections was resolved on time. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T371454

*Updates for technical contributors*

- [image: Advanced item] In 1.44.0-wmf-2 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.44/wmf.2, the logic of Wikibase function getAllStatements changed to behave like getBestStatements. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270851 - Wikimedia REST API https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/ users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:REST_API endpoints. The impacted endpoints https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374683 include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374683.

*In depth*

- Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Moderator_Tools/Automoderator#Usage can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard https://superset.wmcloud.org/superset/dashboard/unified-automoderator-activity-dashboard/ calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Moderator_Tools/Automoderator/Unified_Activity_Dashboard for more information about this work. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T369488

*Meetings and events*

- 21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Event:Commons_community_discussion_-_21_November_2024_8:00_UTC & 16:00 UTC https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Event:Commons_community_discussion_-_21_November_2024_16:00_UTC) - Community call https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:WMF_support_for_Commons/Commons_community_calls with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.

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