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*Weekly highlight*

- The Mobile Apps team has released an update https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/Navigation_Refresh#Phase_1:_Creating_a_user_Profile_Menu_(T373714) to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/Navigation_Refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IOS_App_Navigation_refresh_first_phase_05.pngiOS Wikipedia App's profile menu and contents

*Updates for editors*

- Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Content_Discovery_Experiments and subscribe to their newsletter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Newsletter:Web_team%27s_projects . - Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376499 will start to have temporary accounts https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Mylanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User_account_types. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts/For_developers. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts/Updates . - View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks. For example, the South Ndebele https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nr:Main_Page, Pannonian Rusyn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rsk:%D0%93%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BA , Obolo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ann:Uwu, Iban https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/iba:Lambar_Keterubah and Tai Nüa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tdd:%E1%A5%9E%E1%A5%A8%E1%A5%9D%E1%A5%B4_%E1%A5%98%E1%A5%A3%E1%A5%B2_%E1%A5%96%E1%A5%A5%E1%A5%B0 Wikipedia languages were created last week. [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36785[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35660[3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36614[4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33424[5] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36556 - It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z6005 launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikifunctions:Status_updates/2024-10-17#Function_of_the_Week:_select_representation_from_lexeme .

*Updates for technical contributors*

- [image: Advanced item] Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new {{#timef https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions##timef :…}} parser function. For example, {{#timef:now|date|en}} will show as "21 October 2024". Previously, {{#time:…}} could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation. #timef (or #timefl for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223772[7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions##timef - [image: Advanced item] Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words#Localization using {{USERLANGUAGE}} instead of using {{int:lang}}. [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T4085 - The Product and Tech Advisory Council https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Product_and_Technology_Advisory_Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Strategy/Initiatives/Technology_Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. [9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy/Initiatives/Technology_Council

*In depth*

- The latest quarterly Growth newsletter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Newsletters/32 is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects. - The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Security_Team#CNA_Partnership, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of. - The Community Wishlist https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist is now testing machine translations https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist/Updates#October_16,_2024:_Conversations_Made_Easier:_Machine-Translated_Wishes_Are_Here! for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.

*Meetings and events*

- 24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar - Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/N4XTB4G55BUY3M3PNGUAKQWJ7A4UOPAK/, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel. - 20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Indic_Wikimedia_Hackathon_Bhubaneswar_2024 in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.

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