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*Weekly highlight*

- Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Chart/Project/Updates and help to test the charts.

*Feature news*

- Editors who use the Special:UnusedTemplates https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UnusedTemplates page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words#EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184633 - Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334163 to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks . - Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373243 - Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298852#10087288.

*Project updates*

- A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API_Policy_Update_2024. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:API_Policy_Update_2024 until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.

*Learn more*

- To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out: - Charts, the successor of Graphs - A secure and extensible tool for data visualization https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2024_-_Ohrid_-_Day_2_-_Charts,_the_successor_of_Graphs_-_A_secure_and_extensible_tool_for_data_visualization.webm (25 mins) – about the above-mentioned Charts project. - State of Language Technology and Onboarding at Wikimedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2024_-_Ohrid_-_Day_3_-_State_of_Language_Technology_and_Onboarding_at_Wikimedia.webm (90 mins) – about some of the language tools that support Wikimedia sites, such as Content https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation /Section Translation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation/Section_translation, MinT https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MinT, and LanguageConverter; also the current state and future of languages onboarding. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368772

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