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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/2023/36> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- EditInSequence
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_EditInSequence>, a feature
that allows users to edit pages faster on Wikisource has been moved to a
Beta Feature based on community feedback. To enable it, you can navigate to
the beta features tab in Preferences
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures>.
[1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308098>
- As part of the changes for the Generate Audio for IPA
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Generate_Audio_for_IPA>
and Audio links that play on click
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Multimedia_and_Commons/Audio_links_that_play_on_click>
wishlist proposals, the inline audio player mode
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Phonos#Inline_audio_player_mode>
of Phonos <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Phonos> has been
deployed to all projects. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336763>
- There is a new option for Administrators when they are changing the
usergroups for a user, to add the user’s user page to their watchlist. This
works both via Special:UserRights
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UserRights> and via the API. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272294>
- One new wiki has been created:
- a Wikipedia in Talysh <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34318> (w:tly:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tly:>) [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T345166>
*Problems*
- The LoginNotify extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:LoginNotify>
was not sending notifications since January. It has now been fixed, so
going forward, you may see notifications for failed login attempts, and
successful login attempts from a new device. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344785>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.25>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It
will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It
will be on all wikis from 7 September (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>"
(Eastern Mari Wikipedia, Maori Wikipedia, Minangkabau Wikipedia, Macedonian
Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Mongolian Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia,
Western Mari Wikipedia, Malay Wikipedia, Maltese Wikipedia, Mirandese
Wikipedia, Erzya Wikipedia, Mazanderani Wikipedia, Nāhuatl Wikipedia,
Neapolitan Wikipedia, Low German Wikipedia, Low Saxon Wikipedia, Nepali
Wikipedia, Newari Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Novial Wikipedia,
N'Ko Wikipedia, Nouormand Wikipedia, Northern Sotho Wikipedia, Navajo
Wikipedia, Nyanja Wikipedia, Occitan Wikipedia, Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia,
Oromo Wikipedia, Oriya Wikipedia, Ossetic Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia,
Pangasinan Wikipedia, Pampanga Wikipedia, Papiamento Wikipedia, Picard
Wikipedia, Pennsylvania German Wikipedia, Palatine German Wikipedia, Norfuk
/ Pitkern Wikipedia, Piedmontese Wikipedia, Western Punjabi Wikipedia,
Pontic Wikipedia, Pashto 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>.
[6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308137>[7]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308138>
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