[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022, week 39)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/40>.
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
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Latest *tech news
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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
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*Recent changes*

   - Kartographer
   

   maps can now show geopoints from Wikidata, via QID or SPARQL query.
   Previously, this was only possible for geoshapes and geolines. [1]
    [2]
   

   - The Coolest Tool Award 2022
   
   is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 12 October.

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will
   be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar
   ).
   - Talk pages on the mobile site
   

   will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew,
   Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide
   more information. (Last week's release was delayed) [3]
    [4]
   
   - The scribunto-console API module will require a CSRF token
   . This
   module is documented as internal and use of it is not supported. [5]
   
   - The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest
   Wikimedia projects. Learn more
   

   .

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022, week 39)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/39>.
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, Esperanto
, Tiếng Việt
, Tyap
, français
, ikirundi
, italiano
, magyar
, polski
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, čeština
, русский
, українська
, עברית
, العربية
, हिन्दी
, বাংলা
, ಕನ್ನಡ
, 中文
, 日本語
, 粵語
, ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ


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*

   - Parsoid clients should be updated to allow for space-separated
   multi-values in the rel attribute of links. Further details are in
   T315209 .

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 September. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 September. It
   will be on all wikis from 29 September (calendar
   ).
   - Visual diffs
   
   will become available to all users, except at the Wiktionaries and
   Wikipedias. [1] 
   - Talk pages on the mobile site
   

   will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew,
   Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide
   more information. [2]  [3]
   
   - In the Module 
   namespace, pages ending with .json will be treated as JSON, just like
   they already are in the User and MediaWiki namespaces. [4]
   

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