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Tech News: 2024-44
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Misplaced Pages.
- View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pediapress.com, an external service that creates books from Misplaced Pages, can now use Wikimedia Maps to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Misplaced Pages.
Updates for technical contributors
- Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set
emitTransitionOnSteptotrueto fix an old bug. They can use the new flagallowAutomaticBackto avoid back-buttons they don't want. - Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier.
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:53, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
WP:UAA/Bot again
Hi Amanda, It looks like the bot has stopped updating the page could you take a look? Thanks Nobody (talk) 08:13, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
- @1AmNobody24: Thanks for letting me know. Sorry I got busy during the week. An addition to the blacklist shut it down.
- @TTWIDEE and Ahecht: Please do not throw unicode into the script. It's regex dependent even for the comments. Please also make sure that you see a successful report after your changes are implemented or watch my talkpage to know to revert. We are now mass dumping a weeks worth of reports on UAA for admins to handle. -- Amanda (she/her) 19:16, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
- @AmandaNP Sorry about that, and thanks for the tips. When I had looked at the bot code I had though that the colons were being used to split off the other flags before they were treated as a regex, but I guess I read it incorrectly. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 21:40, 2 November 2024 (UTC)- @AmandaNP Looking at the code a bit more, I think it was the semicolon that was messing it up since as the code treated that as the start of a new line. However, it's easier to just leave special characters out of the text rather than experiment further. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 21:44, 2 November 2024 (UTC)- I doubt it's the colon, because the code uses it as a splitter and then it would crash on every other line. I debugged it live and those three lines is the one it stopped on and crashed in a regex search. With it changed, it's fully running now. That said, I did not read that deep into it. -- Amanda (she/her) 21:51, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
- @AmandaNP Looking at the code a bit more, I think it was the semicolon that was messing it up since as the code treated that as the start of a new line. However, it's easier to just leave special characters out of the text rather than experiment further. --Ahecht (TALK
- @AmandaNP Sorry about that, and thanks for the tips. When I had looked at the bot code I had though that the colons were being used to split off the other flags before they were treated as a regex, but I guess I read it incorrectly. --Ahecht (TALK
Administrators' newsletter – November 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
- Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.
Technical news
- Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068
Arbitration
- RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
- The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.
Miscellaneous
- An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
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