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Tech News: 2024-18

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

Recent changes

Screenshot of the visual improvements made on talk pages
Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.
  • 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:
  • 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 invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.

Problems

  • Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [10]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar). [11][12]

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:31, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

Administrator changes

readded Nyttend
removed

Bureaucrat changes

removed Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

readded Joe Roe

Oversight changes

removed GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2024)

Papyriform columns in the Luxor Temple
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Ancient Egyptian architecture

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Exploration • Pool (cue sports)

Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations

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May 8: WikiWednesday Salon with new Executive Director

May 8: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly WikiWednesday Salon at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, with an online-based participation option also available. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

This special WikiWednesday will feature a welcome session and beginning of a listening tour by the newly appointed executive director of Wikimedia NYC, the first staff member leading our local non-profit.

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. Meeting info:

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Tech News: 2024-19

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

Recent changes

Screenshot of the visual improvements made on talk pages
Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.
  • The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [13][14]
  • Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page. [15]
  • Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. [16]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar). [17][18]
  • When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [19]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:42, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2024)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Tax return

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Ancient Egyptian architecture • Exploration

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Burnaby South Secondary Update

This notable alumni doesn't appear real and should be removed.

Sarah Mah, amateur soft-core model [1]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnaby_South_Secondary_School Smfun21 (talk) 16:24, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

A message from MistaKoko

Hello, I saw your name listed on (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_administrators_willing_to_provide_copies_of_deleted_articles) and was wondering if you would be able to provide me with the txt from the deleted article BoomCase (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoomCase) If I did the request wrong I do apologize. Do let me know what is needed if so. Thank you.

MistaKoko (talk) 21:05, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-20

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

Recent changes

  • 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. [21]
  • If you use the user-preference "Show preview without reloading the page", then the template-page feature "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" will now also work without reloading the page. [22]
  • 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. [23]
  • 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. [24]

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). [25][26]
  • 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. [27]

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. [28]
  • 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

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:56, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Wondering if you would be willing to install a CT scan viewer?

You can see it working on Commons[31]

It is made up of:

Unclear the exact process for this. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:44, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

@Doc James Pretty cool! Per Wikipedia:Gadget#Proposals this should be proposed at WP:VPT. I've no reservations, but I'm not sure given the narrow use-case that I would support this being a default-on gadget. — MusikAnimal talk 17:34, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
Or actually, if Template:Imagestack (which is a redirect here, btw) puts the page in a unique category, the gadget can be default-on since we can set gadget definition to only load the gadget when viewing pages in that category. — MusikAnimal talk 17:35, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
Yes that makes sense. We are looking at making some improvements and than will apply to VPT. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:17, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 May 2024

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This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2024)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

News program

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Tax return • Ancient Egyptian architecture

Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations

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Hello!

Just in case you didn't get my ping, there's a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Requests for permissions § Script issues? about the PERM script which could use your input. Thanks! Primefac (talk) 14:57, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Replied there. Apologies for the delay. — MusikAnimal talk 22:52, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-21

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

Recent changes

  • The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. [32]
  • New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description. [33][34]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar). [35][36]
  • The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:02, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Hello

Hi @MusikAnimalI would like to have a talk with you if you Can help to create notable topic about Translator and journalist , you can see the news on google + here in English and has a multiple coverage .

Thanks for your time Editorinusa (talk) 14:25, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2024)

Logo used from the 1990s until acquisition by Oracle
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Sun Management Center

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: News program • Tax return

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MusikBot II doesn't use redirect protection templates

So, I noticed in this edit that instead of using {{R semi-protected}} et al., MusikBot II tags redirects with {{pp}}. I think that it's not ideal that the bot does this, since using the WP:rcat adds the page to the more specific category Category:Wikipedia semi-protected redirects which is a subcategory of Category:Wikipedia semi-protected pages. If it's not too difficult to implement, would you consider changing the bot so it uses rcats in that case? Nickps (talk) 01:22, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

@Nickps Any reason {{pp}} (more specifically Module:Protection banner) can't do this automatically? I was under the impression it handles some things automatically, like showing the "edit" vs "pending changes" padlock. Also, I would think the more appropriate fix is to categorize the redirect with one the R template index templates, as those handle categorization automatically and the bot knows to skip pages that use them. — MusikAnimal talk 23:15, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
I'm don't know why Module:Protection banner doesn't handle redirects. Considering rcats already handle them, it was probably too niche of a situation to merit special casing.
As for your other point, the categorisation redirects from {{R template index}} can't handle protection automatically; only {{Rcat shell}} can. The only problem is that bots are not allowed to add that template to uncategorised redirects, so if the bot runs across such a redirect, the only choice it has is to use a protection rcat like {{R semi-protected}} directly. Nickps (talk) 00:38, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-22

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

Recent changes

  • Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see T365107 and T365119.
  • In March 2024 a new addPortlet API was added to allow gadgets to create new portlets (menus) in the skin. In certain skins this can be used to create dropdowns. Gadget developers are invited to try it and give feedback.
  • Some CSS in the Minerva skin has been removed to enable easier community configuration. Interface editors should check the rendering on mobile devices for aspects related to the classes: .collapsible, .multicol, .reflist, .coordinates, .topicon. Further details are available on replacement CSS if it is needed.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar). [37][38]
  • When you visit a wiki where you don't yet have a local account, local rules such as edit filters can sometimes prevent your account from being created. Starting this week, MediaWiki takes your global rights into account when evaluating whether you can override such local rules. [39]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:13, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

June 2: Hacking Sunday (+preview of June 8 Wiknic)

June 2: Hacking Sunday @ Prime Produce

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Hacking Sunday at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. It is intended primarily for technical contributors, though newcomers are welcome as well! The event runs for the whole day, though you are welcome to come by for as little or as long as you'd like.

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Wikimedia's Technical Code of Conduct.

A documentary filmmaker will be in attendance, working on Rabbit Hole, which aims to document Wikipedia's community to showcase how our network tackles important questions about how history is recorded. They will be in attendance to film snippets of this gathering for the documentary. It is completely optional to be a part of the film and there will be protocols in place if you wish to not be filmed. If there are any questions about the filming please reach out to the filmmaker, Meg Vatterott (meg.vatterott@gmail.com).

Meeting info:

P.S. Next up will be Sat June 8 Wiknic on Governors Island!

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