| Revision as of 21:17, 14 October 2024 view sourceMediaWiki message delivery (talk | contribs)Bots3,133,055 edits →Tech News: 2024-42: new sectionTag: MassMessage delivery← Previous edit | Latest revision as of 01:16, 25 December 2024 view source ClueBot III (talk | contribs)Bots1,372,463 editsm Archiving 1 discussion to User talk:AmandaNP/Archives/2024. (BOT) | ||
| (47 intermediate revisions by 13 users not shown) | |||
| Line 21: | Line 21: | ||
| {{TOC right}} | {{TOC right}} | ||
| == |
== Season's Greetings == | ||
| <div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#FF4646; background-color:#F6F0F7; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:7px; border-radius:1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);;" class="plainlinks">]]]{{Center|]}} | |||
| '''Hello AmandaNP:''' Enjoy the ''']''' and ''']''' if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Misplaced Pages. Cheers, ] (]) 01:54, 23 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
| ]{{paragraph break}} | |||
| </div> | |||
| <div style="padding-left: 2em; margin-top: 1em; font-size: 88%; font-style: italic">Spread the WikiLove; use {{tls|Season's Greetings}} to send this message</div>{{-}} | |||
| == A barnstar for you! == | |||
| <section begin="technews-2024-W41"/><div class="plainlinks"> | |||
| Latest ''']''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. ] are available. | |||
| {| style="border: 1px solid gray; background-color: #fdffe7;" | |||
| '''Weekly highlight''' | |||
| |rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:middle;" | ] | |||
| * Communities can now request installation of ] on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can ] for installation and configuration. | |||
| |rowspan="2" | | |||
| |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Admin's Barnstar''' | |||
| '''Updates for editors''' | |||
| |- | |||
| * Translators in wikis where ], can now customize their articles suggestion list from 41 filtering options when using the tool. This topic-based article suggestion feature makes it easy for translators to self-discover relevant articles based on their area of interest and translate them. You can . | |||
| |style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For taking care of the socking ]. Your hard work is appreciated. ] (]) 04:48, 23 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
| * View all {{formatnum:12}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:12|task|tasks}} that were ]. | |||
| |} | |||
| '''Updates for technical contributors''' | |||
| * It is now possible for <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki><syntaxhighlight></nowiki></code></bdi> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>copy=1</nowiki></code></bdi> attribute is ]. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. | |||
| * Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. | |||
| * ] Later this month, ] will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on ], and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. ]. | |||
| * ] Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools ] and ] to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through ] firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on ], ] and ]. | |||
| * Five new wikis have been created: | |||
| ** a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in ] (]) | |||
| ** a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in ] (]) | |||
| ** a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wiktionary}} in ] (]) | |||
| ** a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikiquote}} in ] (]) | |||
| ** a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikinews}} in ] (]) | |||
| ''''']''' prepared by ] and posted by ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ].'' | |||
| </div><section end="technews-2024-W41"/> | |||
| <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">]</bdi> 23:38, 7 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
| <!-- Message sent by User:Quiddity (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/search/?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=27557422 --> | |||
| == Tech News: 2024-42 == | |||
| <section begin="technews-2024-W42"/><div class="plainlinks"> | |||
| Latest ''']''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. ] are available. | |||
| '''Updates for editors''' | |||
| * The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by ], which is used on any regular talk page. ] are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. | |||
| * WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A ] on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">''hastemplate''</bdi> and <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">''incategory''</bdi> keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. | |||
| * View all {{formatnum:20}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:20|task|tasks}} that were ]. For example, ] was installed at Russian Misplaced Pages, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles. | |||
| '''Updates for technical contributors''' | |||
| * Editors who use the Toolforge tool ] will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. | |||
| * ] users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. ] has been fixed. | |||
| * ] Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <code><nowiki><bdi></nowiki></code> element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is ] and might break at any time. | |||
| '''In depth''' | |||
| * The latest monthly ] is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more. | |||
| * The latest quarterly ] is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more. | |||
| ''''']''' prepared by ] and posted by ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ].'' | |||
| </div><section end="technews-2024-W42"/> | |||
| <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">]</bdi> 21:17, 14 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
| <!-- Message sent by User:Quiddity (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/search/?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=27597254 --> | |||
Latest revision as of 01:16, 25 December 2024
 | Editing without logging in or an autoconfirmed account requires you to use the IP SubpageBecause of vandals and illegitimate users posting messages to my talkpage, my talkpage has been protected and redirects you to post your message on the IP subpage. If you are a legitimate IP user attempting to contact me, my apologies, and I will be as prompt as I can in responding to your messages. -- Amanda (she/her) |
 | This user talk page might be watched by friendly talk page stalkers, which means that someone other than me might reply to your query. Their input is welcome and their help with messages that I cannot reply to quickly is appreciated. |
| Archives |
|---|
|
Season's Greetings
.jpg)
.jpg)
Hello AmandaNP: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Misplaced Pages. Cheers, AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 01:54, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
,_cropped.jpg)
A barnstar for you!
|
The Admin's Barnstar | |
| For taking care of the socking here. Your hard work is appreciated. JeffSpaceman (talk) 04:48, 23 December 2024 (UTC) |