[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News 2024, week 20

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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
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*Recent changes*

   - On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without
   corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word
   __EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__ to exclude certain pages (list of editions or
   translations of works) from that list. [1]
   
   - If you use the user-preference
   
   "Show preview without reloading the page", then the template-page feature
   "Preview page with this template" will now also work without reloading the
   page. [2] 
   - Kartographer
   
   maps can now specify an alternative text via the alt= attribute. This is
   identical in usage to the alt= attribute in the image and gallery syntax
   .
   An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature
   maps are interactive. [3] 
   - The old Guided Tour
   
   for the "New Filters for Edit Review
   
"
   feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older
   accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of
   the intended people. [4] 

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on
   all wikis from 16 May (calendar
   ). [5]
   [6]
   
   - The Special:Search 
   results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility,
   instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search
   results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure. [7]
   

*Future changes*

   - In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width
   (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line
   large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector
   2022. Learn more
   
.
   [8] 
   - Two columns of the pagelinks
   
   database table (pl_namespace and pl_title) are being dropped soon. Users
   must use two columns of the new linktarget
   
   table instead (lt_namespace and lt_title). In your existing SQL queries:
  1. Replace JOIN pagelinks with JOIN linktarget and pl_ with lt_ in
  the ON statement
  2. Below that add JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
   - See phab:T24  for
  technical reasoning. [9] 
  [10] 

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News 2024, week 18

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

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*Recent changes*

   - The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis:
   Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian
   Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean
   Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai
   Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia.
   These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design,
   for one year. As this test gave positive results
   
,
   the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is
   possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences
   
   ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in
   the coming weeks. [1] 
   - Seven new wikis have been created:
  - a Wikipedia in Betawi  (w:bew:
  ) [2]
  
  - a Wikipedia in Kusaal  (w:kus:
  ) [3]
  
  - a Wikipedia in Igala  (w:igl:
  ) [4]
  
  - a Wiktionary in Karakalpak  (
  wikt:kaa: ) [5]
  
  - a Wikisource in Burmese  (s:my:
  ) [6]
  
  - a Wikisource in Malay  (s:ms:
  ) [7]
  
  - a Wikisource in Georgian  (
  s:ka: ) [8]
  
   - You can now watch message groups/projects
   

   on Translatewiki.net
   .
   Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in
   these groups. [9] 
   - Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in
   users who opt into the advanced mode
   . This is the
   early release of the feature. Technical editors are 

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News 2024, week 17

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

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*Recent changes*

   - Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged
   

   to try structured tasks. Structured tasks
   

   have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention
   
.
   [1] 
   - You can nominate your favorite tools
   
   for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open
   until May 10.

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on
   all wikis from 25 April (calendar
   ). [2]
   [3]
   

*Future changes*

   - This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022
   skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For
   user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents
   of Special:MyPage/vector.js
    to
   Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js
   . There
   are more technical details
   

   available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of
   technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your
   community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [4]
   

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News 2024, week 05

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

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*Recent changes*

   - Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will
   become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows
   users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was
   moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English
   Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff
   

   or on Mediawiki.org
   
.
   [1] 
   - There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam
   bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please
   comment on the task . Staff
   are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics
   such as account creations and edit counts.

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will
   be on all wikis from 1 February (calendar
   ). [2]
   [3]
   
   - On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR
   code  that links to the page
   you are viewing. There will also be a new Special:QrCode
    page to create QR codes
   for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish
   

   from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
   .
   [4] 
   - Gadgets
   
   which only work in some skins have sometimes used the targets option to
   limit where you can use them. 

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News 2024, week 04

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at
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*Problems*

   - A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the
   uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed. [1]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 January. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 January. It will
   be on all wikis from 25 January (calendar
   ). [2]
   [3]
   

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News 2024, week 03

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at
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*Recent changes*

   - Pages that use the JSON contentmodel
   
   will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will
   significantly reduce the page size. [1]
   
   - Gadgets
   
   and personal user scripts may now use JavaScript syntax introduced in ES6
   (also known as "ES2015") and ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki validates the source
   code to protect other site functionality from syntax errors, and to ensure
   scripts are valid in all supported browsers
   .
   Previously, Gadgets could use the requiresES6 option. This option is no
   longer needed and will be removed in the future. [2]
   
   - Bot passwords
   
   and owner-only OAuth consumers
   

   can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages. [3]
   
   - You can now thank
   
   edits made by bots. [4] 
   - An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024 has
   been published
   
.
   Please read and give your feedback.

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will
   be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar
   ). [5]
   [6]
   
   - Starting on January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia
   wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions
   51–66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or
   Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately. [7]
   
   - The jquery.cookie module was deprecated and replaced with the
   mediawiki.cookie module last year. A script has now been run to replace
   any remaining 

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News 2024, week 02

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

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*Recent changes*

   - mediawiki2latex  is a tool that
   converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The
   code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also
   an optional Docker container you can install
   

   on your local machine.
   - The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will
   slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing.
   [1] 

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will
   be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar
   ). [2]
   [3]
   

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News 2023, week 50

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at
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*Recent changes*

   - On Wikimedia Commons, there are some minor user-interface improvements
   for the "choosing own vs not own work" step in the UploadWizard. This is
   part of the Structured Content team's project of improving UploadWizard
   on Commons
   
.
   [1] [2]
   

*Problems*

   - There was a problem showing the Newcomer homepage
   

   feature with the "impact module" and their page-view graphs, for a few days
   in early December. This has now been fixed. [3]
   [4]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It
   will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar
   ). [5]
   [6]
   

*Future changes*

   - The 2023 Developer Satisfaction Survey
    is seeking the
   opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if
   you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The
   survey is open until 5 January 2024, and has an associated privacy
   statement
   

   .

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News 2023, week 49

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*Recent changes*

   - The spacing between paragraphs on Vector 2022 has been changed from
   7px to 14px to match the size of the text. This will make it easier to
   distinguish paragraphs from sentences. [1]
   
   - The "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is working
   again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit
   {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords. [2]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [3]
   [4]
   
   - On 6 December, people who have the enabled the preference for "Show
   discussion activity" will notice the talk page usability improvements
   

   appear on pages that include the __NEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word. If you
   notice any issues, please share them with the team on Phabricator
   .

*Future changes*

   - The Toolforge Grid Engine shutdown process
   
   will start on December 14. Maintainers of tools that still use this old
   system  should plan to
   migrate to Kubernetes, or tell the team your plans on Phabricator in the
   task about your tool, before that date. [5]
   

   - Communities using Structured Discussions
   
   are being contacted regarding the upcoming deprecation of Structured
   Discussions
   
.
   You can read more about this project, and share your comments, on the
   project's page
   

   .

*Events*

   - Registration & Scholarship applications are now open for the Wikimedia
   Hackathon 2024
   
   that will take place from 3–5 May in Tallinn, Estonia. Scholarship
   applications are open until 5 January 2024.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News 2023, week 48

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The latest technical newsletter is now available at
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*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It
   will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar
   ). There is no
   new MediaWiki version next week. [1]
   [2]
   
   - MediaWiki's JavaScript system will now allow async/await syntax in
   gadgets and user scripts. Gadget authors should remember that users'
   browsers may not support it, so it should be used appropriately. [3]
   
   - The deployment of "Add a link
   
"
   announced last week
   
   was postponed. It will resume this week.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News 2023, week 47

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, čeština
, русский
, українська
, עברית
, العربية
, 中文
, 日本語


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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
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*Changes later this week*

   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [1]
   [2]
   
   - Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link
   
"
   (Quechua Wikipedia, Romansh Wikipedia, Romani Wikipedia, Rundi Wikipedia,
   Aromanian Wikipedia, Tarandíne Wikipedia, Rusyn Wikipedia, Kinyarwanda
   Wikipedia, Sanskrit Wikipedia, Sakha Wikipedia, Santali Wikipedia,
   Sardinian Wikipedia, Sicilian Wikipedia, Scots Wikipedia, Sindhi Wikipedia,
   Northern Sami Wikipedia, Sango Wikipedia, Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia, Sinhala
   Wikipedia, Slovak Wikipedia, Slovenian Wikipedia, Samoan Wikipedia, Somali
   Wikipedia, Albanian Wikipedia, Serbian Wikipedia, Sranan Tongo Wikipedia,
   Swati Wikipedia, Southern Sotho Wikipedia, Saterland Frisian Wikipedia,
   Sundanese Wikipedia, Silesian Wikipedia, Tamil Wikipedia, Tulu Wikipedia,
   Telugu Wikipedia, Tetum Wikipedia, Tajik Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkmen
   Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia, Tswana Wikipedia, Tongan Wikipedia, Tok Pisin
   Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Tsonga Wikipedia, Tatar Wikipedia, Twi
   Wikipedia, Tahitian Wikipedia, Tuvinian Wikipedia, Udmurt Wikipedia, Uyghur
   Wikipedia, Uzbek Wikipedia, Venda Wikipedia, Venetian Wikipedia, Veps
   Wikipedia, West Flemish Wikipedia, Volapük Wikipedia). This is part
of the progressive
   deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias
   . The communities can configure
   how this feature works locally
   
.
   [3] [4]
   [5]
   
   - The Vector 2022 skin will have some minor visual changes to drop-down
   menus, column widths, and more. These changes were added to four Wikipedias
   last week. If no issues are found, these changes will proceed to all wikis
   this week. These changes will make it possible to add new menus for
   readability and dark mode. Learn more
   
.
   [6] 

*Future changes*

   - There is an update on re-enabling the Graph Extension
   
.
   To speed up the process, Vega 2 will not be supported and only some
   protocols  will be available
   at launch. You can help by sharing what you think about the plan.

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*Recent changes*

   - Four new wikis have been created:
  - a Wikipedia in Moroccan Amazigh
   (w:zgh:
  ) [1]
  
  - a Wikipedia in Dagaare  (
  w:dga: ) [2]
  
  - a Wikipedia in Toba Batak  (
  w:bbc: ) [3]
  
  - a Wikiquote in Banjar  (q:bjn:
  ) [4]
  

*Problems*

   - Last week, users who previously visited Meta-Wiki or Wikimedia Commons
   and then became logged out on those wikis could not log in again. The
   problem is now resolved. [5] 
   - Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong
   font size. The problem is now resolved. [6]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It
   will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar
   ).

*Future changes*

   - Reference Previews are coming to many wikis as a default feature. They
   are popups for references, similar to the PagePreviews feature
   . You
   can opt out
   

   of seeing them. If you are using the gadgets
   
   Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews.
   Deployment  is planned for
   November 22, 2023.
   - Canary (also known as heartbeat) events will be produced into Wikimedia
   event streams  from December
   11. Streams users are advised to filter out these events, by discarding all
   events where meta.domain == "canary". Updates to Pywikibot
    or
   wikimedia-streams 
   will discard these events by default. [7]
   

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   - In the Vector 2022 skin, the default font-size of a number of
   navigational elements (tagline, tools menu, navigational links, and more)
   has been increased slightly to match the font size used in page content.
   [1] 

*Problems*

   - Last week, there was a problem displaying some recent edits on a few
   wikis
   ,
   for 1-6 hours. The edits were saved but not immediately shown. This was due
   to a database problem. [2] 

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will
   be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar
   ).
   - The Growth team will reassign newcomers from former mentors to the
   currently active mentors
   
.
   They have also changed the notification language to be more user-friendly.
   [3] [4]
   

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can add it to the next newsletter at
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*Recent changes*

   - The Structured Content team, as part of its project of improving
   UploadWizard on Commons
   
,
   made some UX improvements to the upload step of choosing own vs not own
   work (T347590 ), as well as
   to the licensing step for own work (T347756
   ).
   - The Design Systems team has released version 1.0.0 of Codex
   , the new design system for
   Wikimedia. See the full announcement about the release of Codex 1.0.0
   

   .

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will
   be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar
   ).
   - Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language
   using a library
   .
   For a brief period on 2 November, changes to categories will not be sorted
   correctly for many languages. This is because the developers are upgrading
   to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the
   existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on
   how big the wiki is. You can read more
   
.
   [1] [2]
   
   - Starting November 1, the impact module (Special:Impact) will be
   upgraded by the Growth team. The new impact module shows newcomers more
   data regarding their impact on the wiki. It was tested by a few wikis
   during the last few months. [3]
   

*Future changes*

   - There is a proposed plan
   

   for re-enabling the Graph Extension. You can help by reviewing this
   proposal and sharing what you think about it
   

   .
   - The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit
   MediaWiki configuration directly
   
.
   This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A
   technical RfC 

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*Recent changes*

   - There is a new Language and internationalization newsletter
   
,
   written quarterly. It contains updates on new feature development,
   improvements in various language-related technical projects, and related
   support work.
   - Source map support has been enabled on all wikis. When you open the
   debugger in your browser's developer tools, you should be able to see the
   unminified JavaScript source code. [1]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will
   be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar
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*Recent changes*

   - The Unified login
   
   system's edge login should now be fixed for some browsers (Chrome, Edge,
   Opera). This means that if you visit a new sister project wiki, you should
   be logged in automatically without the need to click "Log in" or reload the
   page. Feedback on whether it's working for you is welcome. [1]
   
   - Edit notices
   

   are now available within the MobileFrontend/Minerva skin. This feature was
   inspired by the gadget on English Wikipedia
   . See
   more details in T316178 .

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will
   be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar
   ).

*Future changes*

   - In 3 weeks, in the Vector 2022 skin, code related to addPortletLink
   and #p-namespaces that was deprecated one year ago will be removed. If
   you notice tools that should appear next to the "Discussion" tab are then
   missing, please tell the gadget's maintainers to see instructions in the
   Phabricator task .

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*Recent changes*

   - The Vector 2022 skin will now remember the pinned/unpinned status for
   the Table of Contents for all logged-out users. [1]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It
   will be on all wikis from 28 September (calendar
   ).
   - The ResourceLoader mediawiki.ui modules are now deprecated as part of
   the move to Vue.js and Codex. There is a guide for migrating from
   MediaWiki UI to Codex
    for
   any tools that use it. More details are available in the task
    and your questions are
   welcome there.
   - Gadget definitions will have a new "namespaces" option
   
.
   The option takes a list of namespace IDs. Gadgets that use this option will
   only load on pages in the given namespaces.

*Future changes*

   - New variables will be added to AbuseFilter
   :
   global_account_groups and global_account_editcount. They are available
   only when an account is being created. You can use them to prevent blocking
   automatic creation of accounts when users with many edits elsewhere visit
   your wiki for the first time. [2]
   [3]
   


*Meetings*

   - You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams.
   During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future
   roadmap. The meeting will be on 27 October at 17:00 (UTC)
   . See details and how to join
   

   .

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*Recent changes*

   - MediaWiki now has a stable interface policy for frontend code
    that
   more clearly defines how we deprecate MediaWiki code and wiki-based code
   (e.g. gadgets and user scripts). Thank you to everyone who contributed to
   the content and discussions. [1]
   [2]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It
   will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar
   ).
   - All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 20. This is
   planned at 14:00 UTC.
   
   [3] 
   - All wikis will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of
   that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener
   .
   [4] 

*Future changes*

   - The team investigating the Graph Extension posted a proposal for
   reenabling it
    and they
   need your input.

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*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 

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*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] 
   - 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*

   - 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
   
"
   (Eastern Mari Wikipedia, Maori Wikipedia, Minangkabau Wikipedia, Macedonian
   Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Mongolian Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia,
   Western Mari Wikipedia, Malay Wikipedia, Maltese Wikipedia, Mirandese
   Wikipedia, Erzya Wikipedia, Mazanderani Wikipedia, Nāhuatl Wikipedia,
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is the English version.
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   - The Content translation system is no longer using Youdao's machine
   translation service
   
.
   The service was in place for several years, but due to no usage, and
   availability of alternatives, it was deprecated to reduce maintenance
   overheads. Other services which cover the same languages are still
   available. [1] 

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will
   be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar
   ).
   - Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link
   
"
   (Latin Wikipedia, Ladino Wikipedia, Luxembourgish Wikipedia, Laki
   Wikipedia, Lezghian Wikipedia, Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia, Ganda
   Wikipedia, Limburgish Wikipedia, Ligurian Wikipedia, Lombard Wikipedia,
   Lingala Wikipedia, Latgalian Wikipedia, Latvian Wikipedia, Maithili
   Wikipedia, Basa Banyumasan Wikipedia, Moksha Wikipedia, Malagasy Wikipedia,
   Armenian Wikipedia, Kyrgyz Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive
   deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias
   . The communities can configure
   how this feature works locally
   
.
   [2] 

*Future changes*

   - A few gadgets/user scripts which add icons to the Minerva skin need to
   have their CSS updated. There are more details available including a search
   for all existing instances and how to update them
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   - Mobile Web editors can now edit a whole page at once
   
.
   To use this feature, turn on "Advanced mode" in your settings and use the
   "Edit full page" button in the "More" menu. [1]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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*Recent changes*

   - The Synchronizer  tool is
   now available to keep Lua modules synced across Wikimedia wikis,
along with updated
   documentation
    to
   develop global Lua modules and templates.
   - The tag filter on Special:NewPages
    and revision history
   pages can now be inverted. For example, you can hide edits that were made
   using an automated tool. [1] 
   [2] 
   - The Wikipedia ChatGPT 
   plugin experiment can now be used by ChatGPT users who can use plugins. You
   can participate in a video call
   

   if you want to talk about this experiment or similar work. [3]
   


*Problems*

   - It was not possible to generate a PDF for pages with non-Latin
   characters in the title, for the last two weeks. This has now been fixed.
   [4] 

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on
   all wikis from 3 August (calendar
   ).
   - Starting on Tuesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link
   
"
   (Georgian Wikipedia, Kara-Kalpak Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Kabardian
   Wikipedia, Kabiyè Wikipedia, Kikuyu Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Khmer
   Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Kashmiri Wikipedia, Colognian Wikipedia,
   Kurdish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive
   deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias
   . The communities can configure
   how this feature works locally
   
.
   [5] 

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*Recent changes*

   - On July 18, the Wikimedia Foundation launched a survey about the technical
   decision making process
    for people
   who do technical work that relies on software that is maintained by the
   Foundation or affiliates. If this applies to you, please take part in
   the survey . The
   survey will be open for three weeks, until August 7. You can find more
   information in the announcement e-mail on wikitech-l
   

   .

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 July. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 July. It will be on
   all wikis from 27 July (calendar
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*Recent changes*

   - We are now serving 1% of all global user traffic from Kubernetes
    (you can read more technical
   details ).
   We are planning to increment this percentage regularly. You can follow
   the progress of this work .

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on
   all wikis from 20 July (calendar
   ).
   - MediaWiki system messages
   
   will now look for available local fallbacks, instead of always using the
   default fallback defined by software. This means wikis no longer need to
   override each language on the fallback chain
   

   separately. For example, English Wikipedia doesn't have to create en-ca
   and en-gb subpages with a transclusion of the base pages anymore. This
   makes it easier to maintain local overrides. [1]
   
   - The action=growthsetmentorstatus API will be deprecated with the new
   MediaWiki version. Bots or scripts calling that API should use the
   action=growthmanagementorlist API now. [2]
   

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News 2023, week 28

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*Recent changes*

   - The Section-level Image Suggestions feature
   

   has been deployed on seven Wikipedias (Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian,
   Catalan, Hungarian, Finnish and Norwegian Bokmål). The feature recommends
   images for articles on contributors' watchlists that are a good match for
   individual sections of those articles.
   - Global abuse filters
   
   have been enabled on all Wikimedia projects, except English and Japanese
   Wikipedias (who opted out). This change was made following a global
   request for comments
   
.
   [1] 
   - Special:BlockedExternalDomains
    is a
   new tool for administrators to help fight spam. It provides a clearer
   interface for blocking plain domains (and their subdomains), is more easily
   searchable, and is faster for the software to process for each edit on the
   wiki. It does not support regex (for complex cases), nor URL path-matching,
   nor the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist
   , but
   otherwise it replaces most of the functionalities of the existing
   MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist
   . There is a
   Python script to help migrate all simple domains into this tool, and more
   feature details, within the tool's documentation
   
.
   It is available at all wikis except for Meta-wiki, Commons, and Wikidata.
   [2] 
   - The WikiEditor extension was updated. It includes some of the most
   frequently used features of wikitext editing. In the past, many of its
   messages could only be translated by administrators, but now all regular
   translators on translatewiki can translate them. Please check the state
   of WikiEditor localization into your language
   
,
   and if the "Completion" for your language shows anything less than 100%,
   please complete the translation. See a more detailed explanation
   

   .

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News 2023, week 27

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   - As part of the rolling out of the audio links that play on click
   

   wishlist proposal, small wikis
   
   will now be able to use the inline audio player
   

   that is implemented by the Phonos
    extension. [1]
   
   - From this week all gadgets automatically load on mobile and desktop
   sites. If you see any problems with gadgets on your wikis, please adjust
   the gadget options
   
   in your gadget definitions file. [2]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 July. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 July. It will be on
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*Recent changes*

   - The Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing /
   to all prop=extlinks responses for bare domains. This is part of the
   work to remove duplication in the externallinks database table. [1]
   

*Problems*

   - Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours. [2]
   [3]
   


*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on
   all wikis from 29 June (calendar
   ).
   - The Minerva skin now applies more predefined styles to the .mbox-text
   CSS class. This enables support for mbox templates that use divs instead of
   tables. Please make sure that the new styles won't affect other templates
   in your wiki. [4]
   
   [5] 
   - Gadgets will now load on both desktop and mobile by default.
   Previously, gadgets loaded only on desktop by default. Changing this
   default using the |targets= parameter is also deprecated and should not
   be used. You should make gadgets work on mobile or disable them based on
   the skin (with the |skins= parameter in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition)
   rather than whether the user uses the mobile or the desktop website.
   Popular gadgets that create errors on mobile will be disabled by developers
   on the Minerva skin as a temporary solution. [6]
   
   - All namespace tabs now have the same browser access key
   
   by default. Previously, custom and extension-defined namespaces would have
   to have their access keys set manually on-wiki, but that is no longer
   necessary. [7] 
   - The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the
   standardized user interface components
   . [8]
   

*Future changes*

   - How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change in the
   coming weeks at group2 wikis
   . This
   change improves the accessibility of content. You may need to update your
   site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to
   check, how to update the code, and 

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*Recent changes*

   - Flame graphs are now available in WikimediaDebug. [1]
   

   [2]
   


*Changes later this week*

   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
   - There is now a toolbar search popup in the visual editor. You can
   trigger it by typing \ or pressing ctrl + shift + p. It can help you
   quickly access most tools in the editor. [3]
   

   [4] 

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   - The RealMe
   
   extension allows you to mark URLs on your user page as verified for
   Mastodon and similar software.
   - Citation and footnote editing can now be started from the reference
   list when using the visual editor. This feature request was voted #2 in
   the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
   
.
   [1] 
   - Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with
   filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference
   for "Group results by page". This has now been fixed. [2]
   

*Problems*

   - For a few days last week, some tools and bots returned outdated
   information due to database replication problems, and may have been down
   entirely while it was being fixed. These issues have now been fixed. [3]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on
   all wikis from 8 June (calendar
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   - Bots will no longer be prevented from making edits because of URLs
   that match the spam blacklist
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   - Citations can once again be added automatically from ISBNs, thanks to
   Zotero's ISBN searches. The current data sources are the Library of
   Congress (United States), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (French
   National Library), and K10plus ISBN (German repository). Additional data
   source searches can be proposed to Zotero
   . The
   ISBN labels in the VisualEditor Automatic tab
   

   will reappear later this week. [1]
   
   - The page Special:EditWatchlist
    now has "Check
   all" options to select all the pages within a namespace. This feature
   request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
   
.
   [2] 

*Problems*

   - For a few days earlier this month, the "Add interlanguage link" item
   in the Tools menu did not work properly. This has now been fixed. [3]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 May. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 May. It will be on
   all wikis from 1 June (calendar
   ).
   - VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on small
   

   and medium
   

   wikis this week. Large wikis will follow in the coming weeks. This is part
   of the effort to move Parsoid into MediaWiki core. The change should have
   no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or
   other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the
   phabricator ticket linked here. [4]
   

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*Problems*

   - Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN
    are currently broken. This
   affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab
   
,
   and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing
   to restore this feature. [1] 

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 May. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 May. It will be on
   all wikis from 18 May (calendar
   ).
   - Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link
   
"
   (Gorontalo Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Hakka Chinese Wikipedia, Hawaiian
   Wikipedia, Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Upper Sorbian
   Wikipedia, Haitian Creole Wikipedia, Interlingua Wikipedia, Interlingue
   Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Iloko Wikipedia, Ingush Wikipedia, Ido
   Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Inuktitut Wikipedia, Jamaican Patois
   Wikipedia, Javanese Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive
   deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias
   . The communities can configure
   how this feature works locally
   
.
   [2] 

*Future changes*

   - There is a recently formed team at the Wikimedia Foundation which will
   be focusing on experimenting with new tools. Currently they are building a
   prototype ChatGPT plugin that allows information generated by ChatGPT to be
   properly attributed
   

   to the Wikimedia projects.
   - Gadget and userscript developers should replace jquery.cookie with
   mediawiki.cookie. The jquery.cookie library will be removed in ~1 month,
   and staff developers will run a script to replace any remaining uses at
   that time. [3] 

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*Recent changes*

   - When you close an image that is displayed via MediaViewer, it will now
   return to the wiki page instead of going back in your browser history. This
   feature request was voted #65 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
   
.
   [1] 
   - The SyntaxHighlight
   
   extension now supports wikitext as a selected language. Old alternatives
   that were used to highlight wikitext, such as html5, moin, and
   html+handlebars, can now be replaced. [2]
   
   - Preloading text to new pages/sections
   

   now supports preloading from localized MediaWiki interface messages. Here
   is an example
   

   at the Czech Wikipedia that uses preload=MediaWiki:July. [3]
   

*Problems*

   - Graph Extension update: Foundation developers have completed upgrading
   the visualization software to Vega5. Existing community graphs based on
   Vega2 are no longer compatible. Communities need to update local graphs and
   templates, and shared lua modules like de:Modul:Graph
   . The Vega Porting guide
    provides the most
   comprehensive detail on migration from Vega2 and here is an example
   migration
   
.
   Vega5 has currently just been enabled on mediawiki.org to provide a test
   environment for communities. [4]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be
   on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all
   wikis from 11 May (calendar
   ).
   - Until now, all new OAuth apps went through manual review. Starting
   this week, apps using identification-only or basic authorizations will not
   require review. [5] 

*Future changes*

   - During the next year, MediaWiki will stop using IP addresses to
   identify logged-out users, and will start automatically assigning unique
   

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   - The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?
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XTools
   Authorship , and XTools Blame
    now support the French and Italian
   Wikipedias. More languages will be added in the near future. This is part
   of the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
   
.
   [1] [2]
   [3]
   
   - The Video2commons
   
   tool has been updated. This fixed several bugs related to YouTube uploads.
   [4] 
   - The Special:Preferences
    page has been
   redesigned on mobile web. The new design makes it easier to browse the
   different categories and settings at low screen widths. You can also now
   access the page via a link in the Settings menu in the mobile web sidebar.
   [5]
   


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   wikis from 4 May (calendar
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   - The date-selection menu on pages such as Special:Contributions
    will now show
   year-ranges that are in the current and past decade, instead of the current
   and future decade. This feature request was voted #145 in the 2023
   Community Wishlist Survey
   
.
   [1] 

*Problems*

   - Due to security issues with the Graph extension
   ,
   graphs have been disabled in all Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Foundation
   teams are working to respond to these vulnerabilities. [2]
   
   - For a few days, it was not possible to save some kinds of edits on the
   mobile version of a wiki. This has been fixed. [3]
   [4]
   [5]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is
   planned for 14:00 UTC . [6]
   
   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on
   all wikis from 27 April (calendar
   ).

*Future changes*

   - The Editing team plans an A/B test for a usability analysis of the
   Talk page project
   
.
   The planned measurements are available
   
.
   Your wiki may be invited to participate
   . Please suggest improvements
   to the measurement plan at the discussion page
   .
   - The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for
   comment and input
   

   until May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023 on Meta-wiki.

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   - You can now see nearby articles on a Kartographer map
   

   with the button for the new feature "Show nearby articles". Six wikis have
   been testing this feature since October. [1]
   

   [2] 
   - The Special:GlobalWatchlist
    page now has
   links for "mark page as read" for each entry. This feature request was voted
   #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
   
.
   [3] 

*Problems*

   - At Wikimedia Commons, some thumbnails have not been getting replaced
   correctly after a new version of the image is uploaded. This should be
   fixed later this week. [4] [5]
   
   - For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems
   with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed. [6]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 April. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 April. It will be on
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   - In the visual editor, it is now possible to edit captions of images in
   galleries without opening the gallery dialog. This feature request was voted
   #61 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
   
.
   [1] 
   - You can now receive notifications when another user edits your user
   page. See the "Edits to my user page" option in your Preferences
   .
   This feature request was voted #3 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
   
.
   [2] 

*Problems*

   - There was a problem with all types of CentralNotice banners still
   being shown to logged-in users even if they had turned off
   

   specific banner types. This has now been fixed. [3]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on
   all wikis from 13 April (calendar
   ).
   - Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link
   
"
   (Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia, Danish Wikipedia, Dinka Wikipedia, Lower
   Sorbian Wikipedia, Ewe Wikipedia, Greek Wikipedia, Emiliano-Romagnolo
   Wikipedia, Esperanto Wikipedia, Estonian Wikipedia, Basque Wikipedia,
   Extremaduran Wikipedia, Tumbuka Wikipedia, Fulah Wikipedia, Finnish
   Wikipedia, Võro Wikipedia, Fijian Wikipedia, Faroese Wikipedia, Arpitan
   Wikipedia, Northern Frisian Wikipedia, Friulian Wikipedia, Irish Wikipedia,
   Guianan Creole Wikipedia, Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia, Galician Wikipedia,
   Gilaki Wikipedia, Guarani Wikipedia, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Gothic
   Wikipedia, Gujarati Wikipedia, Manx Wikipedia). This is part of the
progressive
   deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias
   . The communities can configure
   how this feature works locally
   
.
   [4] [5]
   

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   - The system for automatically creating categories for the Babel
   
   extension has had several important changes and fixes. One of them allows
   you to insert templates for automatic category descriptions on creation,
   allowing you to categorize the new categories. [1]
   [2]
   [3]
   [4]
   [5]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on
   all wikis from 6 April (calendar
   ).
   - Some older Web browsers 
   will stop being able to use JavaScript
    on Wikimedia wikis from
   this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. If you have
   an old web browser on your computer you can try to upgrade to a newer
   version. [6] 
   - The deprecated jquery.hoverIntent module has been removed. This module
   could be used by gadgets and user scripts, to create an artificial delay in
   how JavaScript responds to a hover event. Gadgets and user scripts should
   now use jQuery hover() or on() instead. Examples can be found in
the migration
   guide
   
.
   [7] 
   - Some of the links in Special:SpecialPages
    will be
   re-arranged. There will be a clearer separation between links that relate
   to all users, and links related to your own user account. [8]
   
   - You will be able to hide the Reply button
   

   in archived discussion pages with a new __ARCHIVEDTALK__ magic word.
   There will also be a new .mw-archivedtalk CSS class for hiding the Reply
   button in individual sections on a page. [9]
   [10]
   [11]
   


*Future changes*

   - The Vega software that creates data visualizations in pages, such as
   graphs, will be 

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   - The AbuseFilter
   
   condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000. [1]
   
   - Some Global AbuseFilter
   

   actions will no longer apply to local projects. [2]
   
   - Desktop users are now able to subscribe to talk pages by clicking on
   the Subscribe link in the Tools menu. If you subscribe to a talk page, you
   receive notifications
    when
   new topics are started on that talk page. This is separate from putting the
   page on your watchlist or subscribing to a single discussion. [3]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 March. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 March. It will be on
   all wikis from 30 March (calendar
   ).

*Future changes*

   - You will be able to choose visual diffs
   
   on all history pages
   
   at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [4]
   
   - The legacy Mobile Content Service
    is going away in
   July 2023. Developers are encouraged to switch to Parsoid or another API
   before then to ensure service continuity. [5]
   


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   - Last week, some users experienced issues loading image thumbnails.
   This was due to incorrectly cached images. [1]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on
   all wikis from 23 March (calendar
   ).
   - A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth
    page will appear
   on Special:Contributions
    — some user
   scripts which previously added this link may cause conflicts. This feature
   request was voted #17 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
   

   .
   - The Special:AbuseFilter
    edit window will
   be resizable and larger by default. This feature request was voted #80
   in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
   

   .
   - There will be a new option for Administrators when they are unblocking
   a user, to add the unblocked user’s user page to their watchlist. This will
   work both via Special:Unblock
    and via the API. [2]
   

*Meetings*

   - You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams.
   During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future
   roadmap. The meeting will be on 24 March at 17:00 (UTC)
   . See details and how to join
   

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The latest technical newsletter is now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/11. 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
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, čeština
, русский
, українська
, עברית
, العربية
, فارسی
, বাংলা
, ಕನ್ನಡ
, ไทย
, 中文
, 日本語
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, 한국어


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*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on
   all wikis from 16 March (calendar
   ).
   - Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link
   
"
   (Chavacano de Zamboanga Wikipedia, Min Dong Chinese Wikipedia, Chechen
   Wikipedia, Cebuano Wikipedia, Chamorro Wikipedia, Cherokee Wikipedia,
   Cheyenne Wikipedia, Central Kurdish Wikipedia, Corsican Wikipedia,
   Kashubian Wikipedia, Church Slavic Wikipedia, Chuvash Wikipedia, Welsh
   Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive
   deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias
   . The communities can configure
   how this feature works locally
   
.
   [1] [2]
   

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2023, week 10)

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The latest technical newsletter is now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/10. 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
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directly.
As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
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, español
, français
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, suomi
, svenska
, čeština
, русский
, українська
, עברית
, العربية
, فارسی
, বাংলা
, ಕನ್ನಡ
, ไทย
, 中文
, 日本語
, 粵語
, ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ
, 한국어


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*Recent changes*

   - The Community Wishlist Survey 2023 edition has been concluded.
   Community Tech has published the results
   

   of the survey and will provide an update on what is next in April 2023.
   - On wikis which use LanguageConverter
    to
   handle multiple writing systems, articles which used custom conversion
   rules in the wikitext (primarily on Chinese Wikipedia) would have these
   rules applied inconsistently in the table of contents, especially in the
   Vector 2022 skin. This has now been fixed. [1]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on
   all wikis from 9 March (calendar
   ).
   - A search system has been added to the Preferences screen
   . This will let you
   find different options more easily. Making it work on mobile devices will
   happen soon. [2] 

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2023, week 09)

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The latest technical newsletter is now available at
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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
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Ikinyarwanda , Tiếng
Việt , français
, italiano
, polski
, čeština
, русский
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, українська
, עברית
, العربية
, فارسی
, বাংলা
, ಕನ್ನಡ
, ไทย
, 中文
, 日本語
, 粵語
, ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ
, 한국어


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*Problems*

   - Last week, in some areas of the world, there were problems with
   loading pages for 20 minutes and saving edits for 55 minutes. These issues
   were caused by a problem with our caching servers due to unforseen events
   during a routine maintenance task. [1]
   [2]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be
   on all wikis from 2 March (calendar
   ).
   - All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is
   planned for 14:00 UTC . [3]
   

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Ready for translation: Tech News #9 (2023)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/09

Direct translation link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate=page-Tech%2FNews%2F2023%2F09=page


We plan to send the newsletter on Monday afternoon (UTC), i.e. Monday
morning PT. The existing translations will be posted on the wikis in
that language. Deadlines:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/For_contributors#The_deadlines

There may be more edits by late Friday (PT) but the existing content should
generally remain fairly stable. I will let you know on Friday in any
case.

Let us know if you have any questions, comments or concerns. As
always, we appreciate your help and feedback.

(If you haven't translated Tech News previously, see this email:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/translators-l/2017-January/003773.html

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2023, week 08)

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The latest technical newsletter is now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/08. 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 .
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, српски / srpski
, українська
, עברית
, العربية
, فارسی
, বাংলা
, ಕನ್ನಡ
, ไทย
, 中文
, 日本語
, 粵語
, ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ
, 한국어


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*Problems*

   - Last week, during planned maintenance of Cloud Services, unforeseen
   complications forced the team to turn off all tools for 2–3 hours to
   prevent data corruption. Work is ongoing to prevent similar problems in the
   future. [1] 

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It
   will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar
   ).
   - The voting phase for the Community Wishlist Survey 2023
   

   ends on 24 February at 18:00 UTC
   . The results of the survey
   will be announced on 28 February.

*Future changes*

   - All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is
   planned for 14:00 UTC . More
   information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on
   individual wikis in the coming weeks. [2]
   [3]
   [4]
   

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2023, week 07)

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The latest technical newsletter is now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/07. 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
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As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
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, italiano
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, čeština
, русский
, українська
, עברית
, العربية
, فارسی
, गोंयची कोंकणी /
Gõychi Konknni ,
বাংলা , ಕನ್ನಡ
, ไทย
, 中文
, 日本語
, 粵語
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, 한국어


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*Problems*

   - On wikis where patrolled edits are enabled, changes made to the mentor
   list
   

   by autopatrolled mentors are not correctly marked as patrolled. It will be
   fixed later this week. [1] 

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It
   will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar
   ).
   - The Reply tool and other parts of DiscussionTools
   

   will be deployed for all editors using the mobile site. You can read
   more about this decision
   
.
   [2] 

*Future changes*

   - All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is
   planned for 14:00 UTC . More
   information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on
   individual wikis in the coming weeks. [3]
   [4]
   [5]
   

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2023, week 06)

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The latest technical newsletter is now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/06. 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
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As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
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, italiano
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, suomi
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, русский
, українська
, עברית
, العربية
, فارسی
, বাংলা
, 中文
, 日本語
, 粵語
, ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ
, 한국어


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*Recent changes*

   - In the Vector 2022 skin
   
,
   logged-out users using the full-width toggle will be able to see the
   setting of their choice even after refreshing pages or opening new ones.
   This only applies to wikis where Vector 2022 is the default. [1]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will
   be on all wikis from 9 February (calendar
   ).
   - Previously, we announced when some wikis would be in read-only for a
   few minutes because of a switch of their main database. These switches will
   not be announced any more, as the read-only time has become
   non-significant. Switches will continue to happen at 7AM UTC on Tuesdays
   and Thursdays. [2] 
   - Across all the wikis, in the Vector 2022 skin, logged-in users will
   see the page-related links such as "What links here" in a new side menu
   
.
   It will be displayed on the other side of the screen. This change had
   previously been made on Czech, English, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [3]
   
   - Community Wishlist Survey 2023
   

   will stop receiving new proposals on Monday, 6 February 2023, at 18:00
   UTC . Proposers should
   complete any edits by then, to give time for translations
   

   and review. Voting will begin on Friday, 10 February.

*Future changes*

   - Gadgets and user scripts will be changing to load on desktop and
   mobile sites. Previously they would only load on the desktop site. It is
   recommended that wiki administrators audit the gadget definitions
    prior to
   this change, and add skins=… for any gadgets which should not load on
   mobile. More details are available
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The latest technical newsletter is now available at
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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
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, русский
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, ಕನ್ನಡ
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Latest *tech news
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*Problems*

   - Last week, for ~15 minutes, some users were unable to log in or edit
   pages. This was caused by a problem with session storage. [1]
   


*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 January. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 February. It will
   be on all wikis from 2 February (calendar
   ).

*Future changes*

   - Wikis that use localized numbering schemes for references need to add
   new CSS. This will help to show citation numbers the same way in all
   reading and editing modes. If your wiki would prefer to do it yourselves,
   please see the details and example CSS to copy from
   
,
   and also add your wiki to the list. Otherwise, the developers will directly
   help out starting the week of February 5.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2023, week 04)

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The latest technical newsletter is now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/04. Below
is the English version.
You can help write the next newsletter: Whenever you see information about
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can add it to the next newsletter at
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*Problems*

   - Last week, for ~15 minutes, all wikis were unreachable for logged-in
   users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a timing issue. [1]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will
   be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar
   ).
   - If you have the Beta Feature for DiscussionTools
   
   enabled, the appearance of talk pages will add more information about
   discussion activity. [2]
   

   [3] 
   - The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey
   

   (CWS), which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for
   tools and improvements, starts on Monday 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2023, week 03)

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The latest technical newsletter is now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/03. 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
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, русский
, українська
, עברית
, العربية
, فارسی
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, 中文
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Latest *tech news
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*Problems*

   - The URLs in "prev" links on page history now contain
diff=prev=[revision
   ID] in place of diff=[revision ID]=[revision ID]. This is to fix a
   problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by
   a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change. [1]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will
   be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar
   ).
   - Some changes to the appearance of talk pages
   

   have only been available on Talk: and User talk: namespaces. These will
   be extended to other talk namespaces, such as Meta talk:. They will
   continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including Meta: pages
   (e.g., at the Village Pump). You can change your preferences
   

   (beta feature
   
).
   [2] 
   - On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page:
   namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page:
   namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page.
   [3]
   

   - The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia
   desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC. Learn
   more .

*Future changes*

   - The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey
   
,
   which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools
   and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can
   start drafting your proposals in the CWS sandbox
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2023, week 02)

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The latest technical newsletter is now available at
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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
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More information on how to contribute is available
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As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
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*Recent changes*

   - You can use tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your
   watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see.
   Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags.
   [1] 
   - Special:WhatLinksHere
    shows all pages
   that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype
    for how to sort those pages alphabetically.
   You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket
   .
   - You can now use the thanks
   
   function on your watchlist and the user contribution page. [2]
   
   - A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a
   dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you
   don't have to write the explanation every time. [3]
   
   - Matrix 
   is a chat tool. You can now use matrix: to create Matrix links on wiki
   pages. [4] 
   - You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on
   multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also
   hide subpages which are translation pages. [5]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - Realtime preview for wikitext
   

   is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It
   will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it
   in the editor toolbar.
   - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch
   of their main database. It will be performed on 10 January at 07:00
UTC (targeted
   wikis
   )
   and on 12 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis
   ).
   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 January. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 January. It will
   be on all wikis from 12 January (calendar
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is the English version.
You can help write the next newsletter: Whenever you see information about
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can add it to the next newsletter at
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contact me directly.
As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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*Tech News*

   - Because of the holidays
    the next
   issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2023.

*Recent changes*

   - On a user's contributions page, you can filter it for edits with a tag
   like 'reverted'. Now, you can also filter for all edits that are not tagged
   like that. This was part of a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [1]
   
   - A new function has been used for gadget developers to add content
   underneath the title on article pages. This is considered a stable API that
   should work across all skins. Documentation is available
   
.
   [2] 
   - One of our test wikis  is now being
   served from a new infrastructure powered by Kubernetes
    (read more
   ). More
   Wikis will switch to this new infrastructure in early 2023. Please test and
   let us know of any issues. [3]
   

*Problems*

   - Last week, all wikis had no edit access for 9 minutes. This was caused
   by a database problem. [4]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
   - The word "Reply" is very short in some languages, such as Arabic
   ("ردّ"). This makes the Discussion tools button on talk pages difficult to
   use. An arrow icon will be added to those languages. This will only be
   visible to editors who have the Beta Feature
   

   turned on. [5]
    [6]
   

*Future changes*

   - Edits can be automatically "tagged" by the system software or the
   Abuse filter management system. Those tags link to a help page about the
   tags. Soon they will also link to Recent Changes to let you see other edits
   tagged this way. This was a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [7]
   
   - The Trust & Safety tools team have shared new plans
   

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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/50>.
Below is the English version.
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*Recent changes*

   - An A/B test has begun
   
   at 15 Wikipedias for DiscussionTools on mobile
   
.
   Half of the editors on the mobile web site
    will have access to
   the Reply tool and other features. [1]
   
   - The character = cannot be used in new usernames, to make usernames
   work better with templates. Existing usernames are not affected. [2]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It
   will be on all wikis from 15 December (calendar
   ).
   - The HTML markup used by DiscussionTools
   
   to show discussion metadata below section headings
   

   will be inserted after these headings, not inside of them. This change
   improves the accessibility of discussion pages for screen reader software.
   [3] 

*Events*

   - The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award
   
   will happen online on Friday 16 December 2022 at 17:00 UTC
   ! The event will be
   live-streamed on YouTube in the MediaWiki channel
    and added to Commons
   afterwards.

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Below is the English version.
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*Recent changes*

   - The Wikisources use a tool called ProofreadPage. ProofreadPage uses
   OpenSeadragon which is an open source tool. The OpenSeadragon JavaScript
   API has been significantly re-written to support dynamically loading
   images. The functionality provided by the older version of the API should
   still work but it is no longer supported. User scripts and gadgets should
   migrate over to the newer version of the API. The functionality provided by
   the newer version of the API is documented on MediaWiki
   .
   [1] [2]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will
   be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar
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Below is the English version.
You can help write the next newsletter: Whenever you see information about
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*Recent changes*

   - A new preference, “Enable limited width mode”, has been added to
the Vector
   2022 skin
   
.
   The preference is also available as a toggle on every page if your monitor
   is 1600 pixels or wider. It allows for increasing the width of the page for
   logged-out and logged-in users. [1]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It
   will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar
   ).
   - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch
   of their main database. It will be performed on 29 November at
07:00 UTC (targeted
   wikis
   )
   and on 1 December at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis
   ).
   - Mathematical formulas shown in SVG image format will no longer have
   PNG fall-backs for browsers that don't support them. This is part of work
   to modernise the generation system. Showing only PNG versions was the
   default option until in February 2018. [2]
   

   [3] [4]
   
   - On some wikis  that use
   flagged revisions, a new checkbox will be added
   

   to Special:Contributions that enables you to see only the pending changes
   
   by a user. [5] 

*Future changes*

   - How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change early
   next week at group1 wikis
    (but
   not Wikimedia Commons or Meta-Wiki). This change improves the accessibility
   of content, and makes it easier to write related CSS. You may need to
   update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are 

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You can help write the next newsletter: Whenever you see information about
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*Recent changes*

   - The display of non-free media in the search bar and for article
   thumbnails in Special:Search has been deactivated. Further details are in
   T320661 .

*Changes later this week*

   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
   - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch
   of their main database. It will be performed on 22 November at
07:00 UTC (targeted
   wikis
   )
   and on 24 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis
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*Recent changes*

   - At Wikidata, an interwiki link can now point to a redirect page if
   certain conditions are met. This new feature is called sitelinks to
   redirects
   
.
   It is needed when one wiki uses one page to cover multiple concepts but
   another wiki uses more pages to cover the same concepts. Your feedback
   on the talkpage
   

   of the new proposed guideline is welcome. [1]
   
   - The www.wikinews.org, www.wikiversity.org, and www.wikivoyage.org
   portal pages now use an automated update system. [2]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 November. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 November. It
   will be on all wikis from 17 November (calendar
   ).
   - There will be a new link to directly "Edit template data" on Template
   pages. [3] 

*Future changes*

   - Wikis where mobile DiscussionTools
   
   are enabled (these ones
   
)
   will soon use full CSS styling to display any templates that are placed at
   the top of talk pages. To adapt these “talk page boxes” for narrow mobile
   devices you can use media queries, such as in this example
   
.
   [4] 
   - Starting in January 2023, Community Tech
    will
   be running the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) every two years
   
.
   This means that in 2024, there will be no new proposals or voting.

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*Recent changes*

   - An updated version of the Event Registration
   
   tool is now available for testing at testwiki
    and test2wiki
   . The tool provides features for
   event organizers and participants. Your feedback is welcome at our project
   talkpage
   
.
   More information about the project
   

   is available. [1] 

*Problems*

   - Twice last week, for about 45 minutes, some files and thumbnails
   failed to load and uploads failed, mostly for logged-in users. The cause is
   being investigated and an incident report will be available soon.

*Changes later this week*

   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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*Recent changes*

   - When using keyboard navigation on a Kartographer
   

   map, the focus will become more visible. [1]
   
   - In Special:RecentChanges, you can now hide the log entries for new
   user creations with the filter for "New users". [2]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 November. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 November. It will
   be on all wikis from 3 November (calendar
   ).
   - The maps dialog
   

   in VisualEditor now has some help texts. [3]
   
   - It is now possible to select the language of a Kartographer
   

   map in VisualEditor via a dropdown menu. [4]
   
   - It is now possible to add a caption to a Kartographer
   

   map in VisualEditor. [5] 
   - It is now possible to hide the frame of a Kartographer
   

   map in VisualEditor. [6] 

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, українська
, עברית
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*Recent changes*

   - There have been some minor visual fixes in Special:Search, regarding
   audio player alignment and image placeholder height. Further details are in
   T319230 .
   - On Wikipedias, a new preference
   

   has been added to hide article thumbnails in Special:Search. Full details
   are in T320337 .

*Problems*

   - Last week, three wikis (French Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Russian
   Wikipedia) had read-only access for 25 minutes. This was caused by a
   hardware problem. [1] 

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 October. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 October. It will
   be on all wikis from 27 October (calendar
   ).
   - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch
   of their main database. It will be performed on 25 October at 07:00
UTC (targeted
   wikis
   )
   and on 27 October at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis
   ).
   - Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link
   
"
   (Assamese Wikipedia, Bashkir Wikipedia, Balinese Wikipedia, Bavarian
   Wikipedia, Samogitian Wikipedia, Bikol Central Wikipedia, Belarusian
   Wikipedia, Belarusian (Taraškievica) Wikipedia, Bulgarian Wikipedia,
   Bhojpuri Wikipedia, Bislama Wikipedia, Banjar Wikipedia, Bambara Wikipedia,
   Bishnupriya Wikipedia, Breton Wikipedia, Bosnian Wikipedia, Buginese
   Wikipedia, Buryat Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia). This is part of
the progressive
   deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias
   . The communities can configure
   how this feature works locally
   
.
   [2] 
   - Starting on Wednesday October 26, 2022, the list of mentors will be
   upgraded at wikis where Growth mentorship is available
   . The mentorship system will
   continue to work as it does now. The signup process will be replaced
   
,
   and a new management option will be provided. Also, this change
simplifies 

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*Recent changes*

   - The recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in
   Special:Search  will be
   limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510
   . [1]
   

   - A bug that caused problems in loading article thumbnails in
   Special:Search has been fixed. Further details are in T320406
   .

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 October. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 October. It will
   be on all wikis from 20 October (calendar
   ).
   - Lua module authors can use mw.loadJsonData()
   

   to load data from JSON pages. [2]
   
   - Lua module authors can enable require( "strict" )
   

   to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "Module:No
   globals " on most wikis. [3]
   

*Future changes*

   - The Beta Feature
   

   for DiscussionTools
   
   will be updated at most wikis. The "reply" button will look different after
   this change. [4] 

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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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*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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*Recent changes*

   - Two database fields in the templatelinks table are now being dropped:
   tl_namespace and tl_title. Any queries that rely on these fields need to
   be changed to use the new normalization field called tl_target_id. See
   T299417  for more
   information. This is part of normalization
    of links tables.
   [1]
   

   [2]
   


*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It
   will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar
   ).
   - In Kartographer
   

   maps, you can use icons on markers for common points of interest. On
   Tuesday, the previous icon set
   

   will be updated to version maki 7.2
   
.
   That means, around 100 new icons will be available. Additionally, all
   existing icons were updated for clarity and to make them work better in
   international contexts. [3] 
   [4]
   


*Future changes*

   - In a group discussion at Wikimania
   
,
   more than 30 people talked about how to make content partnership software
   in the Wikimedia movement more sustainable. What kind of support is
   acceptable for volunteer developers? Read the summary and leave your
   feedback
   

   .

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*Recent changes*

   - The search servers have been upgraded to a new major version. If you
   notice any issues with searching, please report them on Phabricator
   . [1]
   


*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It
   will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar
   ).
   - Syntax highlighting
   
   is now tracked as an expensive parser function
   
.
   Only 500 expensive function calls can be used on a single page. Pages that
   exceed the limit are added to a tracking category
   
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   - The new version 
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   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It
   will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar
   ).
   - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch
   of their main database. It will be performed on 6 September at
07:00 UTC (targeted
   wikis
   )
   and on 8 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis
   ).
   - On Special pages that only have one tab, the tab-bar's row will be
   hidden in the Vector-2022 skin to save space. The row will still show if
   Gadgets use it. Gadgets that currently append directly to the CSS id of
   #p-namespaces should be updated to use the mw.util.addPortletLink
   
   function instead. Gadgets that style this id should consider also targeting
   #p-associated-pages, the new id for this row. Examples are available
   . [1]
   [2]
   

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*Recent changes*

   - The Realtime Preview
   

   is available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 2
   .
   This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist
   Survey proposals
   
.
   Please note that when this Beta feature is enabled, it may cause conflicts
   with some wiki-specific Gadgets.

*Problems*

   - In recent months, there have been inaccurate numbers shown for various
   Special:Statistics 
   at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed. [1]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will
   be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar
   ).
   - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch
   of their main database. It will be performed on 30 August at 07:00
UTC (targeted
   wikis
   )
   and on 1 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis
   ).

*Future changes*

   - The Wikimedia Foundation wants to improve how Wikimedia communities
   report harmful incidents by building the Private Incident Reporting
   System (PIRS)
   

   to make it easy and safe for users to make reports. You can leave comments
   on the talk page, by answering the questions provided
   
.
   If you have ever faced a harmful situation that you wanted to
   report/reported, join a PIRS interview to share your experience. To
sign up please
   email 
Madalina
   Ana .

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   - Two problems with Kartographer
   

   maps have been fixed. Maps are no longer shown as empty when a geoline was
   created via VisualEditor. Geolines consisting of points with QIDs (e.g.,
   subway lines) are no longer shown with pushpins. [1]
   [2]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will
   be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar
   ).
   - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch
   of their main database. It will be performed on 25 August at 7:00
UTC (targeted
   wikis
   ).
   - The colours of links and visited links will change. This is to make
   the difference between links and other text more clear. [3]
   

*Future changes*

   - The new [subscribe] button helps newcomers get answers
   
.
   The Editing team is enabling this tool everywhere. You can turn it
off in your
   preferences
   
.
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*Recent changes*

   - The Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia community decided to block IP editing
   from October 2021 to April 2022. The Wikimedia Foundation's Product
   Analytics team tracked the impact of this change. An impact report
   

   is now available.

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 August. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 August. It will
   be on all wikis from 18 August (calendar
   ).
   - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch
   of their main database. It will be performed on 16 August at 07:00
UTC (targeted
   wikis
   )
   and on 18 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis
   ).
   - The Realtime Preview
   

   will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 1
   .
   This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist
   Survey proposals
   

   .

*Future changes*

   - The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools
   
   will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can
   see some of the proposed changes
   
.
   [1]
   
   [2]
   

   [3] 

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   - GUS2Wiki
   
   copies the information from Special:GadgetUsage
    to an on-wiki page
   so you can review its history. If your project isn't already listed
on the Wikidata
   entry for Project:GUS2Wiki 
   you can either run GUS2Wiki yourself or make a request to receive updates
   
.
   [1] 

*Changes later this week*

   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
   - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch
   of their main database. It will be performed on 9 August at 07:00
UTC (targeted
   wikis
   )
   and on 11 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis
   ).

*Future meetings*

   - The Wikimania Hackathon
    will
   take place online from August 12–14. Don't miss the pre-hacking showcase
   
   to learn about projects and find collaborators. Anyone can propose a
   project  or host
   a session
   .
   Newcomers are welcome
   
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022, week 31)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/31>.
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
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, русский
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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*

   - Improved LaTeX capabilities for math rendering
   

   are now available in the wikis thanks to supporting Phantom tags. This
   completes part of the #59 wish
   

   of the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on
   all wikis from 4 August (calendar
   ).
   - The Realtime Preview
   

   will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 0
   .
   This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist
   Survey proposals
   

   .

*Future changes*

   - The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools
   
   will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can
   see some of the proposed changes
   

   .

*Future meetings*

   - This week, three meetings about Vector (2022)
   

   with live interpretation will take place. On Tuesday, interpretation in
   Russian will be provided. On Thursday, meetings for Arabic and Spanish
   speakers will take place. See how to join
   

   .

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022, week 30)

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The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/30>.
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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, français
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, magyar
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, suomi
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, русский
, українська
, עברית
, العربية
, বাংলা
, 中文
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, ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ


Latest *tech news
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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
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*Recent changes*

   - The www.wikibooks.org and www.wikiquote.org portal pages now use an
   automated update system. Other project portals
    will be updated over
   the next few months. [1] 

*Problems*

   - Last week, some wikis were in read-only mode for a few minutes because
   of an emergency switch of their main database (targeted wikis
   ).
   [2] 

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on
   all wikis from 28 July (calendar
   ).
   - The external link icon will change slightly in the skins Vector legacy
   and Vector 2022. The new icon uses simpler shapes to be more recognizable
   on low-fidelity screens. [3] 
   - Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "Change block"
   and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already
   blocked. [4] 

*Future meetings*

   - The next open meeting with the Web team
   

   about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (26 July).

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022, week 29)

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Other languages: Bahasa Indonesia
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, français
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, polski
, português
, português do Brasil
, suomi
, svenska
, čeština
, русский
, українська
, עברית
, العربية
, فارسی
, বাংলা
, ไทย
, 中文
, 日本語
, ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ


Latest *tech news
* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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*Problems*

   - The feature on mobile web for Nearby Pages
   
   was missing last week. It will be fixed this week. [1]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on
   all wikis from 21 July (calendar
   ).

*Future changes*

   - The Technical Decision Forum
    is
   seeking community representatives
   
.
   You can apply on wiki or by emailing tdfsupp...@wikimedia.org before 12
   August.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022, week 28)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/28>.
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.
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, čeština
, русский
, українська
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, فارسی
, বাংলা
, 中文
, 日本語


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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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*Recent changes*

   - In the Vector 2022 skin
   
,
   the page title is now displayed above the tabs such as Discussion, Read,
   Edit, View history, or More. Learn more
   
.
   [1] 
   - It is now possible to easily view most of the configuration settings
   that apply to just one wiki, and to compare settings between two wikis if
   those settings are different. For example: Japanese Wiktionary settings
   , or settings that
   are different between the Spanish and Esperanto Wikipedias
   . Local
   communities may want to discuss and propose changes
   

   to their local settings. Details about each of the named settings can be
   found by searching MediaWiki.org
   . [2]
   
   - The Anti-Harassment Tools team recently deployed
   

   the IP Info Feature as a Beta Feature at all wikis
   
.
   This feature allows abuse fighters to access information about IP
   addresses. Please check our update on how to find and use the tool
   
.
   Please share your feedback using a link you will be given within the tool
   itself.

*Changes later this week*

   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
   - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch
   of their main database. It will be performed on 12 July at 07:00
UTC (targeted
   wikis
   ).

*Future changes*

   - The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools
   
   will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can
   see some of the proposed changes
   

   .

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022, week 27)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/27>.
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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, português do Brasil
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, עברית
, العربية
, فارسی
, বাংলা
, 日本語


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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on
   all wikis from 7 July (calendar
   ).
   - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch
   of their main database. It will be performed on 5 July at 07:00 UTC
(targeted
   wikis
   )
   and on 7 July at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis
   ).
   - The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools
   
   will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can
   see some of the proposed changes
   

   .
   - This change only affects pages in the main namespace in Wikisource.
   The Javascript config variable proofreadpage_source_href will be removed
   from mw.config
   

   and be replaced with the variable prpSourceIndexPage. [1]
   

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022, week 26)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/26>.
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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, italiano
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, українська
, עברית
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, 한국어


Latest *tech news
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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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*Recent changes*

   - Wikimedia Enterprise
   
   API service now has self-service accounts with free on-demand requests and
   monthly snapshots (API documentation
   ). Community access via database
   dumps & Wikimedia Cloud Services
   

   continues.
   - All Wikimedia wikis can now use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua
   
   after creating local modules and templates. Discussions are welcome on
   the project talk page
   

   .

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on
   all wikis from 30 June (calendar
   ).
   - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch
   of their main database. It will be performed on 28 June at 06:00
UTC (targeted
   wikis
   ).
   [1] 
   - Some global and cross-wiki services will be in read-only for a few
   minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on
   30 June at 06:00 UTC. This will impact ContentTranslation, Echo,
   StructuredDiscussions, Growth experiments and a few more services. [2]
   
   - Users will be able to sort columns within sortable tables in the
   mobile skin. [3] 

*Future meetings*

   - The next open meeting with the Web team
   

   about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (28 June). The following
   meetings will take place on 12 July and 26 July.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022, week 25)

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The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
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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
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 English, español
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, русский
, українська
, עברית
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, فارسی
, বাংলা
, 中文
, 日本語
, 한국어


Latest *tech news
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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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*Recent changes*

   - The Wikipedia App for Android
   

   now has an option for editing the whole page at once, located in the
   overflow menu (three-dots menu ). [1]
   
   - Some recent database changes may affect queries using the Quarry tool
   . Queries for site_stats
   at English Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata will need to be updated. Read
   more .
   - A new user_global_editcount variable can be used in abuse filters
    to avoid affecting
   globally active users. [2] 

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on
   all wikis from 23 June (calendar
   ).
   - Users of non-responsive skins (e.g. MonoBook or Vector) on mobile
   devices may notice a slight change in the default zoom level. This is
   intended to optimize zooming and ensure all interface elements are present
   on the page (for example the table of contents on Vector 2022). In the
   unlikely event this causes any problems with how you use the site, we'd
   love to understand better, please ping Jon (WMF)
    to any on-wiki
   conversations. [3] 

*Future changes*

   - The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools
   
   will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can
   see some of the proposed changes
   

   .
   - Parsoid's HTML output will soon stop annotating file links with
   different typeof attribute values, and instead use mw:File for all
   types. Tool authors should adjust any code that expects: mw:Image,
   mw:Audio, or mw:Video. [4] 

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022, week 24)

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The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
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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 <
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More information on how to contribute is available at <
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, suomi
, svenska
, čeština
, Ελληνικά
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*Recent changes*

   - All wikis can now use Kartographer
   
   maps. Kartographer maps now also work on pages with pending changes
   .
   [1]
   

   [2] 

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on
   all wikis from 16 June (calendar
   ).
   - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch
   of their main database. It will be performed on 14 June at 06:00
UTC (targeted
   wikis
   ).
   [3] 
   - Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link
   
"
   (Abkhazian Wikipedia, Achinese Wikipedia, Adyghe Wikipedia, Afrikaans
   Wikipedia, Akan Wikipedia, Alemannisch Wikipedia, Amharic Wikipedia,
   Aragonese Wikipedia, Old English Wikipedia, Aramaic Wikipedia, Egyptian
   Arabic Wikipedia, Asturian Wikipedia, Atikamekw Wikipedia, Avaric
   Wikipedia, Aymara Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, South Azerbaijani
   Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to
   more Wikipedias . The
   communities can configure how this feature works locally
   
.
   [4] 
   - The New Topic Tool
   

   will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis
   soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences
   
.
   [5]
   

   [6] 

*Future meetings*

   - The next open meeting with the Web team
   

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022, week 23)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/23>.
Below is the English version.
You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
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can add it to the next newsletter at <
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, русский
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*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on
   all wikis from 9 June (calendar
   ).
   - A new str_replace_regexp() function can be used in abuse filters
    to replace parts
   of text using a regular expression
   . [1]
   

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022, week 21)

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The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
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Below is the English version.
You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
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, русский
, українська
, עברית
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, فارسی
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Latest *tech news
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*Recent changes*

   - Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access
   Special:Block directly from user pages. [1]
   
   - The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update
   system. Other project portals
    will be updated over
   the next few months. [2] 

*Problems*

   - The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers.
   Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting
   May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship,
   in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [3]
   
   - Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load
   it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked
   on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via
   Special:ContentTranslation. [4]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on
   all wikis from 26 May (calendar
   ).

*Future changes*

   - Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback
on a proposed
   technical policy
   
   aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [5]
   

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022, week 20)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/20>.
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.
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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.

*Changes later this week*

   - Some wikis can soon use the add a link
   

   feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are Catalan Wikipedia,
   Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål
   Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish
   Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive
   deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias
   . The communities can configure
   how this feature works locally
   
.
   [1] 
   - The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022
   
   will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also
   local hackathon meetups
   

   in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States.
   Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn
   new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work
   on.
   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on
   all wikis from 19 May (calendar
   ).

*Future changes*

   - You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor.
   Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons. [2]
   


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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022, week 18)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/18>.
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 <
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, русский
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, עברית
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, فارسی
, 中文
, 日本語
, ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ
, 한국어


Latest *tech news
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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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*Recent changes*

   - On all remaining wikis
    (group 2), the
   software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old
   player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this
   change. The new player
   

   has been a beta feature for over four years. [1]
   [2]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 May. It will be
   on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 May. It will be on all
   wikis from 5 May (calendar
   ).

*Future changes*

   - The developers are working on talk pages in the Wikipedia app for iOS
   . You can give
   feedback .
   You can take the survey in English, German, Hebrew or Chinese.
   - Most wikis
   

   will receive an improved template dialog
   

   in VisualEditor and New Wikitext mode. [3]
    [4]
   
   - If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon
   activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme
   
.
   [5] 
   - Several CSS IDs related to MediaWiki interface messages will be
   removed. Technical editors should please review the list of IDs and
   links to their existing uses .
   These include #mw-anon-edit-warning, #mw-undelete-revision and 3 others.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022, week 17)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/17>.
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 <
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, 粵語


Latest *tech news
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Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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*Recent changes*

   - On many wikis 
   (group 1), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now
   changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become
   wider after this change. The new player
   

   has been a beta feature for over four years. [1]
   [2]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 April. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 April. It will be on
   all wikis from 28 April (calendar
   ).
   - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch
   of their main database. It will be performed on 26 April at 07:00
UTC (targeted
   wikis
   ).
   - Some very old browsers and operating systems are no longer supported.
   Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in very old browsers
   like Internet Explorer 9 or 10, Android 4, or Firefox 38 or older. [1]
   

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022, week 16)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/16>.
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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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.
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, 한국어


Latest *tech news
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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 April. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 April. It will be on
   all wikis from 21 April (calendar
   ).
   - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch
   of their main database. It will be performed on 19 April at 07:00
UTC (targeted
   wikis
   )
   and on 21 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis
   ).
   - Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the
   associated "Talk" page
   

   when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is
   also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community
   Wishlist Survey
   

   .
   - On selected wikis
   
,
   50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents
   
.
   When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the
   same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements
   

   project. [1] 
   - Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS
   classes: successbox, errorbox, warningbox. The styles for those classes
   and messagebox will be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects
   wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within
   site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these
   classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February
   issue of Tech News
   .

*Future changes*

   - Kartographer
   
   will become compatible with FlaggedRevisions page stabilization
   .
   Kartographer maps will also work on pages with pending changes
   

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022, week 15)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/15>.
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
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, বাংলা
, 中文
, 日本語
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, 한국어


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*Recent changes*

   - There is a new public status page at www.wikimediastatus.net. This
   site shows five automated high-level metrics where you can see the overall
   health and performance of our wikis' technical environment. It also
   contains manually-written updates for widespread incidents, which are
   written as quickly as the engineers are able to do so while also fixing the
   actual problem. The site is separated from our production infrastructure
   and hosted by an external service, so that it can be accessed even if the
   wikis are briefly unavailable. You can read more about this project
   
   .
   - On Wiktionary wikis, the software to play videos and audio files on
   pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players
   will become wider after this change. The new player
   

   has been a beta feature for over four years. [1]
   [2]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on
   all wikis from 14 April (calendar
   ).

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022, week 14)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/14>.
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 <
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, русский
, українська
, עברית
, العربية
, فارسی
, ગુજરાતી
, 中文
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, 한국어


Latest *tech news
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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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*Problems*

   - For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were
   not tagged in the Special:RecentChanges
    feed. This bug
   has been fixed. [1] 

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 April. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 April. It will be on
   all wikis from 7 April (calendar
   ).
   - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch
   of their main database. It will be performed on 7 April at 7:00 UTC
(targeted
   wikis
   ).

*Future changes*

   - Starting next week, Tech News' title will be translatable. When the
   newsletter is distributed, its title may not be Tech News: 2022-14
   anymore. It may affect some filters that have been set up by some
   communities. [2] 
   - Over the next few months, the "Add a link
   
"
   Growth feature will become available to more Wikipedias
   . Each week, a few wikis will
   get the feature. You can test this tool at a few wikis where "Link
   recommendation" is already available
   
   .

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022, week 13)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/13>.
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 <
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, العربية
, فارسی
, ไทย
, 中文
, 日本語
, ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ


Latest *tech news
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*Recent changes*

   - There is a simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for
   macOS users, Sunflower
   .

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on
   all wikis from 31 March (calendar
   ).
   - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular
   database maintenance. It will be performed on 29 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted
   wikis
   )
   and on 31 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis
   ).
   [1] [2]
   

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022, week 11)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/11>.
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 <
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, русский
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, עברית
, لعربية
, বাংলা
, ไทย
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, ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ


Latest *tech news
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*Recent changes*

   - In the Wikipedia Android app it is now possible
   

   to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are
   easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode. [1]
   [2]
   

*Problems*

   - There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from
   June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are
   incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most
   affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days.
You can read
   more on Meta-wiki
   

   .
   - There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were
   unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read
   pages but could not edit or access uncached content then. [3]
   


*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on
   all wikis from 17 March (calendar
   ).
   - When using uselang=qqx to find localisation messages
   
,
   it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as
   "View history". [4] 
   - Access to Special:RevisionDelete
    has been
   expanded to include users who have deletelogentry and deletedhistory
   rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the
   deleterevision right could access this special page. [5]
   
   - On the Special:Undelete
    pages for diffs and
   revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the
   list of revisions. [6] 

*Future changes*

   - The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the IP Masking implementation
   strategy and next steps. The announcement can be read here
   

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022, week 10)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/10>.
Below is the English version.
You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
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Latest *tech news
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*Problems*

   - There was a problem with some interface labels last week. It will be
   fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the
   support for skins which do not have active maintainers. [1]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on
   all wikis from 10 March (calendar
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022, week 7)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/07>.
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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*Recent changes*

   - Purging
    a
   category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely.
   This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong. [1]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 February. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 February. It
   will be on all wikis from 17 February (calendar
   ).
   - [image: Advanced item] In the AbuseFilter
   
   extension, the rmspecials() function has been updated so that it does
   not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of
   rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters'
   behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on
   Special:AbuseFilter 
   to locate its usage. [2] 

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2021, week 6)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/06>.
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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*Recent changes*

   - English Wikipedia recently set up a gadget for dark mode. You can
   enable it there, or request help from an interface administrator
   
   to set it up on your wiki (instructions and screenshot
   ).
   - Category counts are sometimes wrong. They will now be completely
   recounted at the beginning of every month. [1]
   

*Problems*

   - A code-change last week to fix a bug with Live Preview
   
   may have caused problems with some local gadgets and user-scripts. Any code
   with skin-specific behaviour for vector should be updated to also check
   for vector-2022. A code-snippet, global search, and example are available
   .

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version 
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 February. It
   will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 February. It will
   be on all wikis from 10 February (calendar
   ).

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022 week 04)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/04>.
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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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.

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, polski
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, português do Brasil
, suomi
, svenska
, čeština
, русский
, українська
, עברית
, العربية
, বাংলা
, ไทย
, 中文
, 日本語
, ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ
, 한국어


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*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
    of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 January. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 January. It will be on all
   wikis from 27 January (calendar
   ).
   - The following languages can now be used with syntax highlighting
   
:
   BDD, Elpi, LilyPond, Maxima, Rita, Savi, Sed, Sophia, Spice, .SRCINFO.
   - You can now access your watchlist from outside of the user menu in the new
   Vector skin
   
.
   The watchlist link appears next to the notification icons if you are at the
   top of the page. [1] 

*Events*

   - You can see the results of the Coolest Tool Award 2021
   
   and learn more about 14 tools which were selected this year.
   - You can translate, promote
   
,
   or comment on the proposals
   

   in the Community Wishlist Survey. Voting will begin on 28 January.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2022 week 03)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/03>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
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, norsk bokmål
, polski
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, suomi
, svenska
, čeština
, русский
, українська
, עברית
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, বাংলা
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, 中文
, 日本語
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, 한국어


Latest *tech news
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*Recent changes*

   - When using WikiEditor
   
   (also known as the 2010 wikitext editor), people will now see a warning if
   they link to disambiguation pages. If you click "Review link" in the
   warning, it will ask you to correct the link to a more specific term. You
   can read more information
   

   about this completed 2021 Community Wishlist item.
   - You can automatically subscribe to all of the talk page discussions
   

   that you start or comment in using DiscussionTools
   
.
   You will receive notifications
    when
   another editor replies. This is available at most wikis. Go to your
   Preferences
   

   and turn on "Automatically subscribe to topics". [1]
   
   - When asked to create a new page or talk page section, input fields can
   be "preloaded" with some text
   
.
   This feature is now limited to wikitext pages. This is so users can't be
   tricked into making malicious edits. There is a discussion about if this
   feature should be re-enabled 
   for some content types.

*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
    of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 January. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 January. It will be on all
   wikis from 20 January (calendar
   ).

*Events*

   - Community Wishlist Survey 2022
   

   continues. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools
   and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January
   18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more
   

[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.

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, suomi
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, čeština
, русский
, українська
, עברית
, العربية
, हिन्दी
, বাংলা
, ไทย
, 中文
, 日本語


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*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] Tech News (2021, week 51)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2021/51>.
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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More information on how to contribute is available at <
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, português do Brasil
, suomi
, svenska
, čeština
, русский
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, עברית
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, বাংলা
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*Tech News*

   - Because of the holidays
    the next
   issue of Tech News will be sent out on 10 January 2022.

*Recent changes*

   - Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension () are
   now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This
   is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an
   outage on all wikis. [1]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

*Future changes*

   - The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who
   edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you
   are interested
   .
   - [image: Advanced item] The Wikimedia Cloud VPS
    hosts technical
   projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects
    they
   use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year.
   Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February. [2]
   


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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2021, week 50)

[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
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More information on how to contribute is available at <
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, suomi
, svenska
, čeština
, русский
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, हिन्दी
, ไทย
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*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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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2021, week 49)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2021/49>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
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, русский
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*Problems*

   - MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last
   week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.

*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
    of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 December. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 December. It will be on all
   wikis from 9 December (calendar
   ).
   - At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at
   Special:MentorDashboard. It allows registered mentors, who take care of
   newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It
   is part of the Growth features
   .
   You can learn more about activating the mentor list
   

   on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project
   
   .
   - [image: Advanced item] The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action
   API  (which was created in 2008),
   action=ajax, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it
   will need to switch to the corresponding API module. [1]
   
   - [image: Advanced item] An old ResourceLoader module, jquery.jStorage,
   which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or
   bots using it will need to switch to mediawiki.storage instead. [2]
   

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2021, week 48)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2021/48>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
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More information on how to contribute is available at <
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*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
    of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 November. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 December. It will be on all
   wikis from 2 December (calendar
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2021, week 46)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2021/46>.
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You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
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, polski
, português
, português do Brasil
, suomi
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*Recent changes*

   - Most large file uploads
   

   errors that had messages like "stashfailed" or "DBQueryError" have now
   been fixed. An incident report
   

   is available.

*Problems*

   - Sometimes, edits made on iOS using the visual editor save groups of
   numbers as telephone number links, because of a feature in the operating
   system. This problem is under investigation. [1]
   
   - There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did
   not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error. [2]
   


*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
    of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 November. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 November. It will be on all
   wikis from 18 November (calendar
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2021, week 45)

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2021/45>.
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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More information on how to contribute is available at <
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, polski
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*Recent changes*

   - Mobile IP editors are now able to receive warning notices indicating
   they have a talk page message on the mobile website (similar to the orange
   banners available on desktop). These notices will be displayed on every
   page outside of the main namespace and every time the user attempts to
   edit. The notice on desktop now has a slightly different colour. [1]
   [2]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - Wikidata will be read-only 
   for a few minutes on 11 November. This will happen around 06:00 UTC
   . This is for database
   maintenance. [3] 
   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

*Future changes*

   - In the future, unregistered editors will be given an identity that is
   not their IP address . This
   is for legal reasons. A new user right will let editors who need to know
   the IPs of unregistered accounts to fight vandalism, spam, and harassment,
   see the IP. You can read the suggestions for how that identity could work
   

   and discuss on the talk page
   

   .

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