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*Weekly highlight*

- The Chart extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Chart is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Editors can use this new extension to create interactive data visualizations like bar, line, area, and pie charts. Charts are designed to replace many of the uses of the legacy Graph extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Graph.

*Updates for editors*

- It is now easier to configure automatic citations for your wiki within the visual editor's citation generator https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Citoid/Enabling_Citoid_on_your_wiki. Administrators can now set a default template by using the _default key in the local MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json page (example diff https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Diff/6969653/7646386). Setting this default will also help to future-proof your existing configurations when new item types https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347823 are added in the future. You can still set templates for individual item types as they will be preferred to the default template. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384709 - [image: Recurrent item] View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks .

*Updates for technical contributors*

- Starting the week of June 2, bots logging in using action=login or action=clientlogin will fail more often. This is because of stronger protections against suspicious logins. Bots using bot passwords https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Bot_passwords or using a loginless authentication method such as OAuth https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/OAuth/Owner-only_consumers are not affected. If your bot is not using one of those, you should update it; using action=login without a bot password was deprecated in 2016 https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/3EEMN7VQX5G7WMQI5K2GP5JC2336DPTD/. For most bots, this only requires changing what password the bot uses. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T395205 - From this week, Wikimedia wikis will allow ES2017 features in JavaScript code for official code, gadgets, and user scripts. The most visible feature of ES2017 is async/await syntax, allowing for easier-to-read code. Until this week, the platform only allowed up to ES2016, and a few months before that, up to ES2015. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381537 - [image: Recurrent item] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.45/wmf.4

*Meetings and events*

- Scholarship applications to participate in the GLAM Wiki Conference 2025 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/GLAM_Wiki_2025 are now open. The conference will take place from 30 October to 1 November, in Lisbon, Portugal. GLAM contributors who lack the means to support their participation can apply here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/GLAM_Wiki_2025/Scholarships. Scholarship applications close on June 7th.

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