Hi,
The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/10>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:Deutsch
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/10/de> • *English* •
Esperanto <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/10/eo> • español
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/10/es> • français
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/10/fr> • lietuvių
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/10/lt> • magyar
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/10/hu> • polski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/10/pl> • português do
Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/10/pt-br> • suomi
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/10/fi> • svenska
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/10/sv> • čeština
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/10/cs> • русский
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/10/ru> • українська
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/10/uk> • עברית
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/10/he> • العربية
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/10/ar> • فارسی
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/10/fa> • বাংলা
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/10/bn> • ไทย
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/10/th> • 中文
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/10/zh> • 日本語
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/10/ja>
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/2020/10> are
available.
*Problems*
- Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language
decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the
wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because
of a bug. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246071>
*Changes later this week*
- If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to
your email address. You need to know your email address or your username.
You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email
address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer
password reset emails someone else asked for. [2]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Password_Reset_Update>
- When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't
exist on Special:PasswordReset
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PasswordReset>. Now the page
will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if
the username exists. This is for better security. [3]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Password_Reset_Update>
- On Special:WhatLinksHere
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere> you can see what
other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You
can now see which section the redirect links to. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103281>
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.22> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 3 March. It will be
on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 March. It will be on all
wikis from 5 March (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- The developers are working on a new interface
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Edit_Conflicts#Edit_conflicts_on_talk_pages>
to
solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Two_Column_Edit_Conflict_View>
. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230231>
- There is a vote
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abuse_filter_manager/vote> on the
creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abuse_filter_manager>. The vote runs
from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
- wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage was used for the mobile site. It was
deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they
use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246401>. This affects 183 wikis.
There is a list <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246401>. [6]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_Gateway/Mobile_homepage_formatting#MFSpecialCaseMainPage>
*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/2020/10> • 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