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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.
Feature news
Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a newsub-referencing feature. You can read moreabout the project andhow to test the prototype.
Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for:DynamicPageList,Kartographer,Phonos,RSS,Score,WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements.[1]
Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using thecategories property ofmw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements.[2][3]
Bugs status
Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start withTalk:WP: so that their titles start withWikipedia talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them toSpecial:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available inphab:P67388.
Editors who volunteer asmentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks toa bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.
Project updates
The application deadline for theProduct & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.
Learn more
The2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during theWiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
The latestWikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.
I came across a UTRS appeal confirmation email yesterday that was posted on the 15th of August under this username. The last UTRS appeal I submitted was several months ago, before my account was unbanned, and I have not posted anything since. I would appreciate it if you could look into this. ThanksArepTicoustalkcontribs20:28, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
As you may have seen, Arepticous asked about this atUser talk:Deepfriedokra, and I don't think I have anything to add to what Deepfriedokra has said. The unblock request that I handled was in July, whereas what Arepticous was referring to is something completely separate, which happened in August.JBW (talk)09:43, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.
Feature news
Administrators can now test thetemporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Pleaseshare your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
Later this week, editors at wikis that useFlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface.[4]
Bugs status
Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, willno longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.
Project updates
Please review and vote onFocus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
Do you have a project and are willing to provide a three (3) month mentorship for an intern?Outreachy is a twice a year program for people to participate in a paid internship that will start in December 2024 and end in early March 2025, and they need mentors and projects to work on. Projects can be focused on coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, research). See the Outreachy page for more details, and a list of past projects since 2013.
To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You canread more about this project update and help to test the charts.
Feature news
Editors who use theSpecial:UnusedTemplates page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word__EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements.[5]
Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, willnow be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.
Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now.[6]
Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with thenew dropdown menu.
Project updates
A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIshas been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome onthe proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.
Learn more
To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.
Feature news
Starting this week, the standardsyntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on thehelp page.[8][9]
Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functionsentity:getSitelink() andmw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications frominconsistent sitelinks tracking.[10]
Project updates
Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.[11]
Contributors of11 Wikipedias, including English will have a newMOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning withMOS: (usually shortcuts to theManual of Style) are not broken byMooré Wikipedia (language codemos).[12]
Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.
Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following themid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomedMox Eden to the coordinator team.Dhtwiki remains as Lead Coordinator, andMiniapolis andWracking returned as assistant coordinators. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist ourombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be foundhere.
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Progress report: As of 05:14, 11 September 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 233requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,824 articles.
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Please no worries at all if not. I just remember you restoring some a few months ago so I thought I would ask. Genuinely though it is not urgent and not super important so please do not worry about it.DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk)22:31, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
Done! Why on earth would you need a full frontal image for the infobox? The articles about her not her cardy! Therefore we only need the face! By the way I'm attendingRyan Moloneys tour when it comes to Whitley Bay. I have Meet and Greet tickets so hopefully I'll get an image decent enough to replace the current fuzzy one that we have!5 albert square (talk)05:20, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
Thank you! I comoletely agree! It annoys me as the same thing happened toLucy Beale a few years ago, and now the images are extremely long and don't focus on the face...
Are you excited to go on the tour?? 😍😊 And I hope you will be able to meet Ryan (and get a better picture! Haha)
Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.
Improvements and Maintenance
Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area,Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue addingnew wishes.
The new automatedSpecial:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand whichnamespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements.[13]
References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed.[14]
It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so canrequest a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order.[15]
Tool authors can now access ToolsDB'spublic databases from bothQuarry andSuperset. Those databases have always been accessible to everyToolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now bequeried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.
Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classesmw-message-box need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use aglobal-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newercdx-message group of classes as a replacement (seethe relevant Codex documentation, andan example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best.[16]
Technical project updates
Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes.This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible.[17]
Tech in depth
The latest monthlyMediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes details about: research abouthook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There aremore details and links available in the Phabricator task.
Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.
Done5 albert square (talk)17:25, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the
Please review and vote onFocus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
