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== Tech News: 2024-50 == |
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Latest ''']''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. ] are available. |
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'''Weekly highlight''' |
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* Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the ] on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">#wikimedia-techdocs</bdi> IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please ]. |
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'''Updates for editors''' |
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* Later this week, ] will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with ] that appear ''while'' they are typing. The ] show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted. |
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* The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples ] and read ] for more details. |
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* Translators in wikis where the ], can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <code dir=ltr><nowiki><page-collection> </page-collection></nowiki></code> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to ]. |
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* The ] feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a ]. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion. |
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* The Nuke feature also now ] to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements. |
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* The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the ] tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, <code dir=ltr>archiveUrl</code> and <code dir=ltr>archiveDate</code>, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an , and a . |
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* One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikivoyage}} in ] (]) |
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* Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing. |
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* ] View all {{formatnum:19}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:19|task|tasks}} that were ]. For example, a bug in the ] feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases. |
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'''Updates for technical contributors''' |
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* ], the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage ]. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through , with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in ]. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library. |
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* users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on ] from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related ] before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated ] system. |
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* The 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 3 January 2025, and has an associated ]. |
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* There is no new MediaWiki version this week. |
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'''Meetings and events''' |
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* The next meeting in the series of ] will take place on ] and ]. The topic of this call is new media and new contributors. Contributors from all wikis are welcome to attend. |
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''''']''' prepared by ] and posted by ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ].'' |
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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">]</bdi> 22:13, 9 December 2024 (UTC) |
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== ''The Signpost'': 12 December 2024 == |
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<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2;"> {{Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/2024-12-12}} </div><!--Volume 20, Issue 17, manually published--> <div class="hlist" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> * ''']''' * ] * ] * ] (]) 21:56, 12 December 2024 (UTC) </div></div> |
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== Tech News: 2024-51 == |
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Latest ''']''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. ] are available. |
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'''Weekly highlight''' |
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* Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The ] offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the ]. |
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'''Updates for editors''' |
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* Users of the iOS Misplaced Pages App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a ] with insights based on their reading and editing history. |
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* Users of the Android Misplaced Pages App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new ] feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles. |
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* The ] is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See ] for more information. |
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* The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year. |
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* ] View all {{formatnum:27}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:27|task|tasks}} that were ]. For example, a bug was ] in the Android Misplaced Pages App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped. |
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'''Updates for technical contributors''' |
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* There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January. |
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''''']''' prepared by ] and posted by ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ].'' |
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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">]</bdi> 22:22, 16 December 2024 (UTC) |
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