[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News 2023, week 37

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/37. 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. 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*

   - ORES , the
   revision evaluation service, is now using a new open-source infrastructure
   on all wikis except for English Wikipedia and Wikidata. These two will
   follow this week. If you notice any unusual results from the Recent Changes
   filters that are related to ORES (for example, "Contribution quality
   predictions" and "User intent predictions"), please report them
   . [1]
   
   - When you are logged in on one Wikimedia wiki and visit a different
   Wikimedia wiki, the system tries to log you in there automatically. This
   has been unreliable for a long time. You can now visit the login page to
   make the system try extra hard. If you feel that made logging in better or
   worse than it used to be, your feedback is appreciated. [2]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It
   will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar
   ).
   - The Technical Decision-Making Forum Retrospective
   
   team invites anyone involved in the technical field of Wikimedia projects
   to signup to and join one of their listening sessions
   
   on 13 September. Another date will be scheduled later. The goal is to
   improve the technical decision-making processes.
   - As part of the changes for the Better diff handling of paragraph splits
   

   wishlist proposal, the inline switch widget in diff pages is being rolled
   out this week to all wikis. The inline switch will allow viewers to toggle
   between a unified inline or two-column diff wikitext format. [3]
   

*Future changes*

   - All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 20 September. This is
   planned at 14:00 UTC.
   
   More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on
   individual wikis in the coming weeks. [4]
   
   - The Enterprise API is 

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Re: Tech News 2023, week 36

[Zygmund, Benjamin Pascal]

Please unsubscribe me from this technical newsletter. The linked unsubscribe 
mechanic doesn’t work.

Greetings
Benjamin Zygmund


Von: Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. September 2023 01:38
An: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects 

Betreff: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News 2023, week 36

The latest technical newsletter is now available at 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/36. 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. You can also contact me 
directly.
As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
——
Other languages: Bahasa 
Indonesia, 
Deutsch, English, Tiếng 
Việt, 
Türkçe, 
dansk, 
français, norsk 
bokmål, 
polski, 
suomi, 
svenska, 
čeština, 
русский, 
українська, 
עברית, 
العربية, 
हिन्दी, 
বাংলা, 
ಕನ್ನಡ, 
中文, 
日本語

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

  *   
EditInSequence, a 
feature that allows users to edit pages faster on Wikisource has been moved to 
a Beta Feature based on community feedback. To enable it, you can navigate to 
the beta features tab in 
Preferences.
 [1]
  *   [Das Bild wurde vom Absender entfernt.] As part of the changes for the 
Generate Audio for 
IPA
 and Audio links that play on 
click
 wishlist proposals, the inline audio player 
mode
 of Phonos has been deployed 
to all projects. [2]
  *   There is a new option for Administrators when they are changing the 
usergroups for a user, to add the user’s user page to their watchlist. This 
works both via 
Special:UserRights and via 
the API. [3]
  *   One new wiki has been created:

 *   a Wikipedia in Talysh 
(w:tly:) 
[4]

Problems

  *   The LoginNotify 
extension
 was not sending notifications since January. It has now been fixed, so going 
forward, you may see notifications for failed login attempts, and successful 
login attempts from a new device. [5]

Changes later this week

  *   [Das Bild wurde vom Absender entfernt.] The new 
version of MediaWiki will 
be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on 
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all 
wikis from 7 September 
(calendar).
  *   Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a 
link"