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== Tech News: 2024-27 ==

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* Logged-in users can now set ], thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis.
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* One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in ] (])

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'''Recent changes'''
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== Peter Obi ==

Hi King of Hearts,

I am rewriting the article ] ]. Before I started the expansion, copyediting, etc, I have planned on taking it to GA. Now the problem is, that there isn't any good photo for it. Can you help me get one? At least a visible and good image for the GA. You may be busy but feel free and comfortable to try whenever you have time, it can wait (though I want it like today-yesterday). I trust your skill and talent. Cheers!<span style="font-family:Papyrus; color:#800080;">]</span><sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">] ]</sup> 09:35, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
:Unfortunately, I don't really know a good way to get Nigerian photos beyond searching the usual free-content repositories. You could try to check Flickr for CC-licensed photos or Youtube for CC-licensed videos (from which you can capture a screenshot), but be careful of ]. -- ]]]] 17:54, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

== Corbie ==

Obviously an unintentional error but I would just like to note that Corbie is a female used she/her pronouns during her time on Misplaced Pages. --]] 13:22, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
:Ah sorry, will note that for the future. -- ]]]] 17:52, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

== Tech News: 2024-29 ==

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'''Tech News survey'''
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'''Recent changes'''
* ] Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both ] and ], due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the ] page.
* The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the ] (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. ].
* Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Misplaced Pages App for Android can use the new ] features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, ]. You can ].
* Editors who have access to ] can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation ] them to restore access. You can read more about ].

'''Changes later this week'''
* This week, ], both desktop and mobile, for logged-in and logged-out users. Interface admins and user script maintainers are encouraged to check gadgets and user scripts in the dark mode, to find any hard-coded colors and fix them. There are some ] to help.

'''Future changes'''
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* Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at ] and ].

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== Tech News: 2024-30 ==

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'''Feature News'''
* Stewards can now ] accounts. Before ] only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. ] (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the ] project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
* Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of ] (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and ]. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and ] was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to ] by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers.
* Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via ]. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed.
* Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Misplaced Pages using your phone? highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
* Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons.

'''Project Updates'''
* Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened ]. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.

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* How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the ], where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ] and ], to help take Wikimedia into the future.

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== Tech News: 2024-31 ==

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'''Feature news'''
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'''Bugs status'''
* Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. ] were mainly due to the addition of new ] rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
* Editors can use the ] to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and ] that were resolved last week.

'''Project updates'''
* There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can ].
* There is an ]. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
* One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikivoyage}} in ] (])

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* There is new ] on problems with the process of uploading images.
* Commons Impact Metrics are ] via data dumps and API.
* The latest quarterly ] is now available.

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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.

Feature news

  • Advanced item Two new parser functions will be available this week: {{#dir}} and {{#bcp47}}. These will reduce the need for Template:Dir and Template:BCP47 on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania.
  • Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Misplaced Pages: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.
  • The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.

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  • Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
  • Advanced item The new parser is being rolled out on Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikivoyage were switched to Parsoid last week. For more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification.

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