Hi,
The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/24>gt;.
Below is the English version.
You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>gt;.
More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>gt;. You can also contact
me directly.
As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
—————————————————————————————
Other languages: *English* • Esperanto
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/24/eo> • Nederlands
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/24/nl> • español
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/24/es> • français
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/24/fr> • italiano
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/24/it> • magyar
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/24/hu> • polski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/24/pl> • português do
Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/24/pt-br> • suomi
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/24/fi> • svenska
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/24/sv> • čeština
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/24/cs> • русский
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/24/ru> • српски / srpski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/24/sr> • українська
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/24/uk> • עברית
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/24/he> • العربية
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/24/ar> • ไทย
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/24/th> • 中文
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/24/zh> • 日本語
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/24/ja> • 한국어
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/24/ko>
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/2020/24> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For
example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click
on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a
second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead.
A third click will now take you back to the original sorting. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226697>
- Self-closed tags
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Lint_errors/self-closed-tag>
now
work as in the HTML5 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:HTML5>
specifications.
This means you should stop using some of them. <b/> is an example of a
self-closed tag that won't work. area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img,
input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr can be self-closed.
Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a
tracking category <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25885956> since 2016.
They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag>.
This doesn't affect <references /> or <ref />. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134423>
- There is a banner called WikidataPageBanner. It is for example used by
the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and
Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before
this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on
MediaWiki:Sitenotice so that editors know to test and style for mobile
too. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254534>[4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254295>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Advanced item] You can now edit MassMessage
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MassMessage>
descriptions
through the API
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Application_programming_interface>.
This is useful for tools and gadgets. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226929>
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.36> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia
wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11
June (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile
friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will
not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:TemplateStyles>
instead.
118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is
affected <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254287>. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254287>
*Tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared
by Tech News writers
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and
posted by bot
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery>
• Contribute
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute>
• Translate
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/24> • Get
help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.*
//Johan Jönsson