[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022 week 02)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/02>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
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Latest *tech news
* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
 are
available.

*Recent changes*

   - [image: Advanced item] A oauth_consumer variable has been added to the
   AbuseFilter
    to
   enable identifying changes made by specific tools. [1]
   
   - [image: Advanced item] Gadgets are now able to directly include JSON
   pages
   
.
   This means some gadgets can now be configured by administrators without
   needing the interface administrator permission, such as with the Geonotice
   gadget. [2] 
   - [image: Advanced item] Gadgets can now specify page actions
    on which they
   are available. For example, |actions=edit,history will load a gadget
   only while editing and on history pages. [3]
   
   - [image: Advanced item] Gadgets can now be loaded on demand with the
   withgadget URL parameter. This can be used to replace an earlier snippet
   

   that typically looks like withJS or withCSS. [4]
   
   - [image: Advanced item] At wikis where the Mentorship system is
   configured
   
,
   you can now use the Action API to get a list of a mentor's
   
   mentees. [5] 
   - The heading on the main page can now be configured using
   MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin
    for
   logged-in users and MediaWiki:Mainpage-title
    for
   logged-out users. Any CSS that was previously used to hide the heading
   should be removed. [6]
   

   [7] 
   - Four special pages (and their API counterparts) now have a maximum
   database query execution time of 30 seconds. These special pages are:
   RecentChanges, Watchlist, Contributions, and Log. This change will help
   with site performance and stability. You can read more details about
   this change
   

   including 

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Community Wishlist Survey 2022 has begun!

[Szymon Grabarczuk]

As you might have noticed, there are banners informing that the Community
Wishlist Survey 2022 has begun.

I've published a blog post:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/01/10/what-improvements-in-wikimedia-platforms-would-you-like-to-see-help-the-wikimedia-foundation-to-grant-the-communities-wishes/

My request is simple: feel encouraged to do everything and anything
mentioned in the blog post, and invite others to do the same. In
particular, spread the word outside of wikis - on Telegram groups, Discord
channels, affiliate chats - anywhere you deem appropriate.

Please let me know if anything needs to be clarified or changed.

Thank you!

Szymon Grabarczuk (he/him)

Community Relations Specialist

Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Re: Tech News (2021, week 50)

[Sinaider Da f. Silva]

yes ...

2021-12-13 14:28 GMT-08:00, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) :
> The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2021/50>.
> Below is the English version.
>
> You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
> Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
> can add it to the next newsletter at <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.
>
> More information on how to contribute is available at <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
> me directly.
>
> As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
> —
> Other languages: Bahasa Indonesia
> , Deutsch
> , English, Hausa
> , Tiếng Việt
> , français
> , italiano
> , norsk bokmål
> , polski
> , português
> , português do Brasil
> , suomi
> , svenska
> , čeština
> , русский
> , українська
> , עברית
> , العربية
> , हिन्दी
> , ไทย
> , 中文
> , 日本語
> , ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ
> , 한국어
> 
>
> Latest *tech news
> * from the
> Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
> Not all changes will affect you. Translations
>  are
> available.
>
> *Recent changes*
>
>- There are now default short aliases
>
> 
>for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis,
>[[WB:]] will go to the local language default for the [[Project:]]
>namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have
>easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be
>requested via the usual process
>
> .
>[1] 
>
> *Changes later this week*
>
>- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
> of MediaWiki will
>be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 December. It will be on
>non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 December. It will be on
> all
>wikis from 16 December (calendar
>).
>
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