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/2020/32 are available.
*Problems*
- All queries to the Wikidata Query Service https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Query_Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period. [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20200723-wdqs-outage - Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/30. The problem is now fixed. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257625 - There is a problem with the global preferences https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalPreferences#mw-prefsection-rendering for the "Use Legacy Vector" option. Developers are working on fixing it. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258493 - A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258323
*Changes later this week*
- The video player https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:TimedMediaHandler/VideoJS_Player will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248418 - Users' global.js and global.css pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read documentation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GlobalCssJs#Per-skin_customization for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138727 - [image: Advanced item] In the MonoBook https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:MonoBook skin, the searchGoButton identifier is now searchButton. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/27. - [image: Advanced item] Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses counter to prevent large archives was changed. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215247 - [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.3 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 August. It will be on all wikis from 6 August (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap).
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