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*Recent changes*
- The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Who_Wrote_That%3F>,
XTools
Authorship <https://xtools.wmcloud.org/authorship>, and XTools Blame
<https://xtools.wmcloud.org/blame> now support the Dutch, German,
Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias. This was
the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Reading/Extend_%22Who_Wrote_That%3F%22_tool_to_more_wikis>
. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334891>
- The Search Preview panel
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_Data_Across_Wikimedia/Search_Improvements#Search_Preview_panel>
has
been deployed on four Wikipedias (Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian and Norwegian).
The panel will show an image related to the article (if existing), the top
sections of the article, related images (coming from MediaSearch on
Commons), and eventually the sister projects associated with the article.
[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306341>
- The RealMe
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:RealMe#Verifying_a_link_on_non-user_pages>
extension
now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and
similar software. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T324937>
- The default project license has been officially upgraded
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimediaannounce-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/7G6XPWZPQFLZ2JANN3ZX6RT4DVUI3HZQ/>
to
CC BY-SA 4.0. The software interface messages have been updated.
Communities should feel free to start updating any mentions of the old CC
BY-SA 3.0 licensing within policies and related documentation pages. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T319064>
*Problems*
- For three days last month, some Wikipedia pages edited with
VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended __TOC__ (or its
localized form) added during an edit. There is a listing of affected
pages sorted by wiki
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Deployments/T336101_followup>,
that may still need to be fixed. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336101>
- Currently, the "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor
is broken. Existing {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords incorrectly appear as
missing templates in VisualEditor. Developers are exploring how to fix
this. In the meantime, those wishing to edit the default sortkey of a page
are advised to switch to source editing. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337398>
- Last week, an update to the delete form may have broken some gadgets
or user scripts. If you need to manipulate (empty) the reason field,
replace #wpReason with #wpReason > input. See an example fix
<https://cs.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3AGadget-CleanDeleteReasons.js&diff=22859956&oldid=12794189>
. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337809>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.13> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be
on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all
wikis from 15 June (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap>).
- VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on English Wikipedia on
Monday, and all other large
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki-config/browse/master/dblists/large.dblist>
wikis
on Thursday. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if
you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using
VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [8]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320529>
*Future changes*
- From 5 June to 17 July, the Foundation's Security team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Security_Team> is holding a
consultation with contributors regarding a draft policy to govern the use
of third-party resources in volunteer-developed gadgets and scripts.
Feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome at Third-party resources
policy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Third-party_resources_policy>
on
meta-wiki.
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