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Tech News: 2022-27
[編輯]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 5 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 7 July at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
This change only affects pages in the main namespace in Wikisource. The Javascript config variable proofreadpage_source_hrefwill be removed frommw.configand be replaced with the variableprpSourceIndexPage. [1]
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2022年7月4號 (一) 19:32 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-30
[編輯]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 www.wikibooks.org and www.wikiquote.org portal pages now use an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [2]
Problems
- Last week, some wikis were in read-only mode for a few minutes because of an emergency switch of their main database (targeted wikis). [3]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
- The external link icon will change slightly in the skins Vector legacy and Vector 2022. The new icon uses simpler shapes to be more recognizable on low-fidelity screens. [4]
- Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "改封" and "解封用戶" instead of just "封鎖用戶" if the user is already blocked. [5]
Future meetings
- The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (26 July).
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2022年7月25號 (一) 19:27 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-31
[編輯]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
- Improved LaTeX capabilities for math rendering are now available in the wikis thanks to supporting
Phantomtags. This completes part of the #59 wish of the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).
- The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 0. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.
Future changes
- The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
Future meetings
- This week, three meetings about Vector (2022) with live interpretation will take place. On Tuesday, interpretation in Russian will be provided. On Thursday, meetings for Arabic and Spanish speakers will take place. See how to join.
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2022年8月1號 (一) 21:21 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-32
[編輯]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
- GUS2Wiki copies the information from Special:GadgetUsage to an on-wiki page so you can review its history. If your project isn't already listed on the Wikidata entry for Project:GUS2Wiki you can either run GUS2Wiki yourself or make a request to receive updates. [6]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 9 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 11 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Future meetings
- The Wikimania Hackathon will take place online from August 12–14. Don't miss the pre-hacking showcase to learn about projects and find collaborators. Anyone can propose a project or host a session. Newcomers are welcome!
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2022年8月8號 (一) 19:49 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-33
[編輯]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 Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia community decided to block IP editing from October 2021 to April 2022. The Wikimedia Foundation's Product Analytics team tracked the impact of this change. An impact report is now available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 August. It will be on all wikis from 18 August (calendar).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 16 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 18 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 1. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.
Future changes
- The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes. [7][8][9]
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2022年8月15號 (一) 21:08 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-34
[編輯]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
- Two problems with Kartographer maps have been fixed. Maps are no longer shown as empty when a geoline was created via VisualEditor. Geolines consisting of points with QIDs (e.g., subway lines) are no longer shown with pushpins. [10][11]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 25 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- The colours of links and visited links will change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. [12]
Future changes
- The new [留名] button helps newcomers get answers. The Editing team is enabling this tool everywhere. You can turn it off in your preferences. [13]
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2022年8月23號 (二) 00:12 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-35
[編輯]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 Realtime Preview is available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 2. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals. Please note that when this Beta feature is enabled, it may cause conflicts with some wiki-specific Gadgets.
Problems
- In recent months, there have been inaccurate numbers shown for various Special:統計 at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed. [14]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 30 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation wants to improve how Wikimedia communities report harmful incidents by building the Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) to make it easy and safe for users to make reports. You can leave comments on the talk page, by answering the questions provided. If you have ever faced a harmful situation that you wanted to report/reported, join a PIRS interview to share your experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.
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2022年8月29號 (一) 23:05 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-36
[編輯]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 6 September at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 8 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- On Special pages that only have one tab, the tab-bar's row will be hidden in the Vector-2022 skin to save space. The row will still show if Gadgets use it. Gadgets that currently append directly to the CSS id of
#p-namespacesshould be updated to use themw.util.addPortletLinkfunction instead. Gadgets that style this id should consider also targeting#p-associated-pages, the new id for this row. Examples are available. [15][16]
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2022年9月5號 (一) 23:21 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-37
[編輯]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 search servers have been upgraded to a new major version. If you notice any issues with searching, please report them on Phabricator. [17]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).
- Syntax highlighting is now tracked as an expensive parser function. Only 500 expensive function calls can be used on a single page. Pages that exceed the limit are added to a tracking category. [18]
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2022年9月13號 (二) 01:49 (UTC)
技術新聞：2022年第38週
[編輯]最新技術新聞嚟自維基媒體技術社群。請同其他用戶去講呢啲變化。唔係所有嘅變化都會影響到你。翻譯亦已經提供。
最近改動
- 喺
templatelinks表嘅兩個數據庫欄位會被放棄：tl_namespace同埋tl_title。任何基於呢啲欄位嘅查詢需要改用新嘅正規化欄位叫做tl_target_id。睇吓 T299417 有更多細節。呢個係拎表正規化嘅一部份。 [19][20]
今個禮拜遲啲嘅更新
- 測試wiki同埋mediawiki.org會喺9月20號升級做新版嘅MediaWiki。其它唔係維基百科嘅wiki同埋部份維基百科會喺9月21號升級。其餘wiki會喺9月22號升級（睇日曆）。
- 喺Kartographer地圖入面，你可以喺多數景點上面嘅標記用圖示。喺禮拜二，之前嘅圖示套裝將會更新到版本 maki 7.2。噉即係，大約有100個新圖示會用得到。另外，全部現有嘅圖示將會更新同埋更加清楚噉樣喺國際內容度整得更加好。 [21][22]
未來嘅更新
- 喺Wikimania嘅小組討論度，多過30位人講過點樣去用喺維基媒體活動嘅內容合作軟件可持續做。有啲乜嘢嘅支持係可以由義工開發者接受嘅呢？睇個摘要同埋留低你嘅反饋。
MediaWiki message delivery 2022年9月19號 (一) 22:16 (UTC)
技術新聞：2022年第39週
[編輯]最新技術新聞來自維基媒體技術社群。請幫手將爾啲變化話俾其他用戶。唔係所有嘅變化都會影響到你。翻譯亦已經提供。
最近改動
- Parsoid嘅客戶端應該要更新以令到拎嘅
rel屬性容許空白分隔字元。詳請喺T315209入面。
今個禮拜遲啲嘅更新
MediaWiki message delivery 2022年9月27號 (二) 00:30 (UTC)
技術新聞：2022年第40週
[編輯]最新技術新聞來自維基媒體技術社群。請幫手將爾啲變化話俾其他用戶。唔係所有嘅變化都會影響到你。翻譯亦已經提供。
最近改動
- Kartographer地圖依家可以透過Wikidata嘅QID或者SPARQL查詢顯示地理點。之前，只有地理形同埋地理線先至可以拎得到。 [27] [28]
- 最Cool工具賞2022依家睇緊提名。你可以提議工具截至10月12號。
今個禮拜遲啲嘅更新
MediaWiki message delivery 2022年10月4號 (二) 00:23 (UTC)
技術新聞：2022年第41週
[編輯]最新技術新聞來自維基媒體技術社群。請幫手將爾啲變化話俾其他用戶。唔係所有嘅變化都會影響到你。翻譯亦已經提供。
今個禮拜遲啲嘅更新
- 測試wiki同埋mediawiki.org會喺10月11號升級做新版嘅MediaWiki。其它唔係維基百科嘅wiki同埋部份維基百科會喺10月12號升級。其餘wiki會喺10月13號升級（睇日曆）。
- 喺一啲wiki上面，Kartographer地圖嘅全大細視點將會可以顯示附近嘅文章。喺反饋期之後，更多嘅wiki將會跟住噉樣做。 [31][32]
2022年10月10號 (一) 14:08 (UTC)
技術新聞：2022年第42週
[編輯]最新技術新聞來自維基媒體技術社群。請幫手將爾啲變化話俾其他用戶。唔係所有嘅變化都會影響到你。翻譯亦已經提供。
最近改動
- 最近開咗嘅喺Special:Search入面嘅文章縮圖功能將會限制喺維基百科計劃度實行。更多細節喺T320510。 [33]
- 喺Special:Search載入文章縮圖出現問題嘅臭蟲已經修正咗。更多細節喺T320406。
今個禮拜遲啲嘅更新
- 測試wiki同埋mediawiki.org會喺10月18號升級做新版嘅MediaWiki。其它唔係維基百科嘅wiki同埋部份維基百科會喺10月19號升級。其餘wiki會喺10月20號升級（睇日曆）。
- Lua模組可以用
mw.loadJsonData()由JSON版載入數據。 [34] - Lua模組嘅作者可以開
require( "strict" )去加一啲錯去睇可能嘅代碼問題。呢個取代喺多數wiki上面嘅 "Module:No globals" 。 [35]
未來嘅更新
- DiscussionTools嘅試用功能將會喺多數wiki度更新。個「回覆」掣喺呢次嘅改動之後會有唔同嘅外觀。 [36]
MediaWiki message delivery 2022年10月17號 (一) 21:46 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-43
[編輯]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
- There have been some minor visual fixes in Special:Search, regarding audio player alignment and image placeholder height. Further details are in T319230.
- On Wikipedias, a new preference has been added to hide article thumbnails in Special:Search. Full details are in T320337.
Problems
- Last week, three wikis (French Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Russian Wikipedia) had read-only access for 25 minutes. This was caused by a hardware problem. [37]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 October. It will be on all wikis from 27 October (calendar).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 25 October at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 27 October at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Assamese Wikipedia, Bashkir Wikipedia, Balinese Wikipedia, Bavarian Wikipedia, Samogitian Wikipedia, Bikol Central Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Belarusian (Taraškievica) Wikipedia, Bulgarian Wikipedia, Bhojpuri Wikipedia, Bislama Wikipedia, Banjar Wikipedia, Bambara Wikipedia, Bishnupriya Wikipedia, Breton Wikipedia, Bosnian Wikipedia, Buginese Wikipedia, Buryat Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [38]
- Starting on Wednesday October 26, 2022, the list of mentors will be upgraded at wikis where Growth mentorship is available. The mentorship system will continue to work as it does now. The signup process will be replaced, and a new management option will be provided. Also, this change simplifies the creation of mentorship systems at Wikipedias. [39][40][41]
- Pages with titles that start with a lower-case letter according to Unicode 11 will be renamed or deleted. There is a list of affected pages at m:Unicode 11 case map migration. More information can be found at T292552.
- The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikipedias. Learn more.
Future changes
- The Reply tool and New Topic tool will soon get a special characters menu. [42]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2022年10月24號 (一) 21:22 (UTC)
技術新聞：2022年第44週
[編輯]維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺爾啲改動未必影響你，但係唔該幫手傳開去⸺你亦都可以揀其他話嘅版本。
最近改咗
- 睇 Kartographer 地圖嗰陣，如果係用鍵盤操作，鍵盤焦點喺邊而
今 會易睇啲。 [43] - 睇 ｢Special:最近修改｣ 嗰陣，如果唔想睇 ｢某某開咗個戶口｣，而今可以剔走 ｢⧼rcfilters-filter-newuserlogactions-label⧽｣ 篩選條件。 [44]
今個禮拜遲啲會改
- 11月1號起， MediaWiki.org 同所有測試用嘅維基將會行新版嘅 MediaWiki，2號起部份維基百科同所有唔係維基百科嘅維基會行新版，3號起所有維基行新版（睇日曆）。
- 即見編輯嘅 ｢插入地圖｣ 畫面將會加說明。 [45]
- 用即見編輯插入 Kartographer 地圖，地圖嘅語文將會改用 dropdown 揀。 [46]
- 用即見編輯插入 Kartographer 地圖，地圖將會可以加標題。 [47]
- 用即見編輯插入 Kartographer 地圖，地圖將會可以揀唔要外框。 [48]
MediaWiki message delivery 2022年10月31號 (一) 21:15 (UTC)
技術新聞：2022年第45週
[編輯]維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺另有其他話嘅版本揀。
最近改咗
- 新版嘅活動報名架生已經進入測試階段，歡迎大家去測試維基（testwiki）或者測試維基二號（test2wiki）嗰度試下用（無論你係參加定係籌辦活動，都會用到爾件架生嘅功能），試完之後如果想畀意見，可以喺相關嘅計劃嘅討論頁寫畀我哋。詳情請睇計劃嘅網頁。 [49]
問題滙報
- 喺上個禮拜，上載檔案同縮圖嘅功能發生過兩次故障，每次歷時45分鐘左右，主要影響簽咗到嘅用家；故障原因仲調查緊，遲啲會出報告。
今個禮拜遲啲會改
- 冇嘢⸺今個禮拜唔會有新嘅 MediaWiki 版本。
MediaWiki message delivery 2022年11月8號 (二) 00:32 (UTC)
技術新聞：2022年第46週
[編輯]維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺另有其他話嘅版本揀。
最近改咗
- 喺維基數據加拎，而今喺某啲情況下會可以成功咁加一個跳轉頁，爾個新功能叫做加拎去跳轉頁；當一個維基用一版講幾樣嘢，但係第個維基講爾啲嘢分幾版講，就可能要用到爾個功能。用法指引暫時係草稿，勞煩喺草稿嘅討論頁畀啲意見。 [50]
- 更新 www.wikinews.org、www.wikiversity.org 同 www.wikivoyage.org 爾三個入口網站改咗流程，而今係自動更新。 [51]
今個禮拜遲啲會改
- 11月15號起， MediaWiki.org 同所有測試用嘅維基將會行新版嘅 MediaWiki，16號起部份維基百科同所有唔係維基百科嘅維基會行新版，17號起所有維基行新版（睇日曆）。
- 喺模將會可以直接 ｢管理TemplateData｣（即係唔使入模解先管理到）。 [52]
預告未來會有乜改
MediaWiki message delivery 2022年11月14號 (一) 21:54 (UTC)
技術新聞：2022年第47週
[編輯]維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺另有其他話嘅版本揀。
最近改咗
- 無論係用 ｢搵維基百科｣ 欄抑或係用 ｢查嘢｣ 專門版（Special:搜索）搵嘢，都唔會再顯示唔可以自由用嘅圖，詳情請睇 T320661。
今個禮拜遲啲會改
MediaWiki message delivery 2022年11月21號 (一) 23:21 (UTC)
技術新聞：2022年第48週
[編輯]維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺另有其他話嘅版本揀。
最近改咗
- Vector 2022 外觀畫面新加咗個設定，叫 ｢Enable limited width mode⌋；如果你嘅熒光幕有至少1600像素濶，個設定亦都會以一粒掣嘅形式顯示喺熒幕，無論你有冇簽到，都會喺每一頁搵到粒掣。個設定係用來控制用唔用哂熒幕嘅闊度來顯示每一篇文。 [54]
今個禮拜遲啲會改
- 11月29號起， MediaWiki.org 同所有測試用嘅維基將會行新版嘅 MediaWiki，30號起部份維基百科同所有唔係維基百科嘅維基會行新版，12月1號起所有維基行新版（睇日曆）。
- 部分維基將會轉主數據庫，受影響嘅維基喺切換期間會改唔到嘢，爾個狀態只會維持幾分鐘；受影響嘅維基將會分兩批做切換，第一批喺世界協調時11月29號朝早7點，第二批喺12月1號朝早7點。
- 用 SVG 圖像顯示數學公式嘅時候，將唔會再整多張 PNG 圖像畀唔識顯示 SVG 嘅瀏覧器用；咁做係繼2018年2月 PNG 改做唔係預設之後，又一令生成系統現代化嘅工作。 [55][56][57]
- 喺用 Flagged Revisions 嘅維基，用戶貢獻（Special:貢獻）會有新嘅選項，畀你只顯示某用戶未審核嘅編輯。 [58]
預告未來會有乜改
- 下個星期頭一兩日，喺 ｢Group1｣（第一組）維基（維基同享同元維基除外）嵌入媒體（插入聲畫）嗰陣，由解析器生成嘅 HTML 碼將會採用唔同嘅結構，主要係無障礙方面嘅改善，將來寫 CSS 亦都會易好多，但係可能要更新維基嘅 CSS、自訂嘅 CSS、或者某啲架生。你可以睇下邊啲碼會受影響、點樣更新、同有問題點滙報。 [59]
MediaWiki message delivery 2022年11月28號 (一) 20:03 (UTC)
技術新聞：2022年第49週
[編輯]維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺另有其他話嘅版本揀。
最近改咗
- 維基文庫用緊一套叫 ProofreadPage 嘅架生，而 ProofreadPage 又用緊另一套係開源軟件嘅架生，叫 OpenSeadragon。為咗改善動態載入圖像嘅功能，OpenSeadragon 最近大執咗佢嘅 Javascript API。舊 API 應該仲可以用，但係官方已經唔再支援，所以，自訂嘅 Javascript（Userscripts）同用緊嘅架生仔都應該改用新版嘅 API，新版 API 嘅功能說明可以喺 MediaWiki 嘅網站搵到。 [60][61]
今個禮拜遲啲會改
MediaWiki message delivery 2022年12月6號 (二) 00:41 (UTC)
技術新聞：2022年第50週
[編輯]就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺唔想睇粵文？有得揀！
最近嘅事
- 手提版討論頁喺 15 個維基百科開始咗做 A/B 測試，半數用流動網上修改嘅維基友會用到回覆架生同一啲其他功能。 [62]
- 為咗方便啲模處理用戶名嘅時候處理得易啲，從今以後，開新戶口揀名唔准用
=（半形等號）爾個符號，但係現有嘅名就唔受影響。 [63]
今個禮拜遲啲會改
- 12月13號起， MediaWiki.org 同所有測試用嘅維基將會行新版嘅 MediaWiki，14號起部份維基百科同所有唔係維基百科嘅維基會行新版，15號起所有維基行新版（睇日曆）。
- 討論工具用來喺標題下面顯示詮釋資料嘅 HTML，將會由標題元素嘅入面搬去元素嘅後面（純粹影響原始碼，唔影響熒幕顯示）；咁改係為咗改善討論頁嘅無障礙環境，加強同熒幕閱讀器嘅兼容。 [64]
活動
- 第四屆最 Cool 架生大獎將會喺世界協調時 2022年12月16號（星期五）1700 喺網上舉行，到時會喺 MediaWiki 嘅 YouTube 台網上直播，完咗之後直播段片會上載入維基同享。
MediaWiki message delivery 2022年12月12號 (一) 23:34 (UTC)
技術新聞：2022年第51週
[編輯]就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺唔想睇粵文？有得揀！
技術新聞
- 歲晚收爐，下一期嘅《技術新聞》會喺2023年1月9號先至同你見面。
最近嘅事
- 睇用戶貢獻一直都可以用標籤過濾器搵例如 ｢打咗回頭｣ 一類嘅標籤，而今你可以 ｢反選｣ 同標籤相反嘅嘢；爾個功能係2022年度嘅《社羣願望大清單》入面嘅其中一項。 [65]
- 寫架生仔嘅人而今有個新函數可以用，用來喺文章嘅標題下面加資訊，函數嘅介面（API）已經視為成熟，亦都應該可以喺任何嘅外觀畫面用到，說明可以喺 MediaWiki 網站搵到。 [66]
- 其中一個測試用嘅維基而家行緊一個用 Kubernetes 嘅新架構（睇詳情），麻煩大家試下，遇到問題記得回報，因為2023年初會有更多嘅維基轉用新架構。 [67]
問題滙報
- 上個禮拜數據庫曾經發生故障，歷時9分鐘，故障期間所有維基都改唔到文。 [68]
今個禮拜遲啲會改
- 今個同下個禮拜都唔會有新嘅 MediaWiki 版本。
- 由於 ｢回覆｣ 爾個字喺某啲話（例如阿剌伯文嘅 ｢ردّ｣）會短到個回覆掣好難用，所以決定喺爾啲話嘅回覆掣加多個箭咀；如果你冇開測試功能或者冇用討論工具，爾個改動唔會影響你。 [69] [70]
預告未來會有乜改
- 對於被系統或者濫用過濾器管理自動加咗標籤嘅改動，而今嘅做法係標籤會拎去解釋嗰個標籤嘅說明頁；遲啲爾啲標籤會拎返去最近修改，畀你睇最近修改當中有乜其他改動有一樣嘅標籤。爾個新功能係2022年度《社羣願望大清單》嘅其中一項。 [71]
- 負責幫信任與安全團隊整架生嘅小組公佈咗一項新計劃，去建立一個 ｢非公開事故通報系統｣（Private Incident Reporting System），新系統整好之後，編輯維基嘅人如果被人搔擾或者被人蝦，尋求協助將會易啲。
- 維基原始碼嘅 Realtime Preview 已經完成測試，2023年1月9號嘅嗰個禮拜開始，將會變成｢易用編輯架生列｣（2010 Wikitext editor）嘅標準功能，所有用家，只要係用易用編輯架生列，都可以選用。爾個功能係2021年度嘅《社羣願望大清單》之中嘅第四多人想要嘅功能。
活動
- 2023年度維基媒體 Hackathon（編程馬拉松）現已接受報名，有需要嘅報名者可以喺1月14號之前申請獎學金，Hackathon 將會喺5月19至21號喺希臘雅典舉行。
MediaWiki message delivery 2022年12月20號 (二) 00:00 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第02週
[編輯]就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺唔想睇粵文？有得揀！
最近嘅事
- 睇最近修改同睇監視清單嗰陣一向都可以用標籤做篩選，但係只係可以揀睇有邊啲標籤嘅修改；而今你可以掉轉，排除有嗰啲標籤嘅嘢。 [72]
- Special:邊度鏈去呢版（即係 ｢有乜連過嚟｣，即係睇有邊啲版連去某一版嘅功能）而今整咗個幫版名排次序嘅原型，相關討論請去 Phabricator 睇 ticket。
- ｢多謝｣ 功能而今可以喺監視清單同用戶貢獻都用得到。 [73]
- 用搬版功能改版名嘅時候，寫原因而今可以喺清單揀一啲常用嘅原因，等唔使下下都要寫解釋。 [74]
- Matrix 係一個網上傾偈嘅架生，而今你可以喺維基嘅版面度寫
matrix:連去 Matrix。 [75] - 喺多語言嘅維基度睇 ｢最近更改｣，一直都可以篩走翻譯，但係以前翻譯如果係自成一版嘅話會篩唔走，而今爾類子頁面亦都可以篩走。 [76]
本週嘅事
- Realtime preview for wikitext（源碼編輯即時睇下先）可以畀改文嘅你用源碼編輯嘅時候，即時睇睇改咗嘅版面會係乜樣;遲啲，只要你開咗 ｢易用編輯架生列｣（2010 wikitext editor），都會可以用爾個功能，到時，只要喺易用編輯架生列度搵，就會搵到。
- 部分維基將會轉主數據庫，受影響嘅維基喺切換期間會改唔到嘢，爾個狀態只會維持幾分鐘；受影響嘅維基將會分兩批做切換，第一批喺世界協調時1月10號朝早7點，第二批喺12號朝早7點。
- 1月10號起， MediaWiki.org 同所有測試用嘅維基將會行新版嘅 MediaWiki，11號起部份維基百科同所有唔係維基百科嘅維基會行新版，12號起所有維基行新版（睇日曆）。
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年1月10號 (二) 01:07 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第03週
[編輯]就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺唔想睇粵文？有得揀！
故障簡報
- 喺 ｢最近修改｣ 睇紀錄，｢之前｣ 嘅拎而今會寫 ｢
diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID]｣，唔寫 ｢diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]｣。咁改係因為用標籤篩選嘅時候，顯示有乜唔同嗰陣，舊碼會顯示錯誤；新碼修正咗錯誤顯示，但係自訂嘅 script 可能會因此出錯。 [77]
本週嘅事
- 1月17號起， MediaWiki.org 同所有測試用嘅維基將會行新版嘅 MediaWiki，18號起部份維基百科同所有唔係維基百科嘅維基會行新版，19號起所有維基行新版（睇日曆）。
- 喺討論頁，一啲原本只係喺
Talk:同User talk:空間至有嘅外觀改動，將會擴展到其他種類嘅討論頁（例如Wikipedia talk:），但係唔係討論頁嘅其他版面（例如Wikipedia:嘅頁面，例如 ｢城市論壇｣）將會繼續唔改動。喜好可以自訂（可能涉及測試功能）。 [78] - 喺維基文庫，當一幅圖喺 ｢Page｣ 空間（版面空間）放大、縮細或者旭動過，點放大、縮細或者旭動將會記住，日後喺其他 ｢Page｣ 空間嘅版面，只要係連咗去同一個 ｢Index｣ 空間（版面一覽），都會一樣咁放大、縮細或者旭動。 [79]
- 喺英文維基，預設外觀畫面將會改用 Vector 2022，世界協調時1月18號1500生效，詳情睇爾度。
將來嘅事
- 對維基嘅技術有建議？想投票揀架生或者改善方案？2023年度嘅 ｢社羣願望清單｣ 意見調查 將會喺世界協調時2023年1月23號1800開始⸺冇錯，就係下個禮拜！如果你想提交建議書，而今就喺 ｢社羣願望清單｣ 沙盤 開始寫草稿啦！
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年1月17號 (二) 01:10 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第04週
[編輯]就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺唔想睇粵文？有得揀！
故障簡報
- 上星期，所有維基曾經一度離線大約15分鐘，受影響嘅係簽咗到嘅用戶，冇喺瀏覽器快取嘅版面；故障原因係有啲嘢發生嘅次序（timing）出咗錯。 [80]
本週嘅事
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年1月23號 (一) 23:45 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第05週
[編輯]就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺唔想睇粵文？有得揀！
故障簡報
- 上個褿拜發生咗用戶簽唔到到同改唔到文嘅情況，問題持續咗大約15分鐘，原因係儲存對談（session）出咗問題。 [83]
本週嘅事
將來嘅事
- 為咗喺唔同模式睇文同改文嘅時候顯示嘅註釋號碼都一樣樣，所有維基，只要係註釋號碼嘅顯示做過本地化，都要加新嘅 CSS。如果你嘅本地維基打算自己改，麻煩睇詳情、睇 CSS 例碼（用來畀你抄來改），再加你哋維基入個表度；如果表度冇名，開發人員打算喺2月5號嗰個禮拜直接幫手改。
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年1月31號 (二) 00:05 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第6週
[編輯]就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺唔想睇粵文？有得揀！
最近嘅事
- 用 Vector 2022 畫面外觀嘅用家，就算冇簽到，如果用咗控制全熒幕濶度嗰粒掣，就算撳咗重載（Refresh）掣或者去咗第二頁，都會記得你揀咗正常濶定全熒幕濶，不過爾個改動只係適用於 Vector 2022 係預設嘅維基。 [84]
本週嘅事
- 2月7號起， MediaWiki.org 同所有測試用嘅維基將會行新版嘅 MediaWiki，8號起部份維基百科同所有唔係維基百科嘅維基會行新版，9號起所有維基行新版（睇日曆）。
- 先嗰排，當部分維基轉主數據庫，我哋會喺度通知會改唔到嘢幾分鐘。但係我哋發現改唔到嘢嘅時間根本短到微不足道，所以從今以後唔會再出通知，但係爾種轉主數據庫嘅定期維護會繼續喺世界協調時星期二同四嘅朝早7點進行。 [85]
- 喺 Vector 2022 畫面外觀，簽咗到嘅用家會見到例如 ｢有乜連過嚟｣ 之類同版面有關嘅連結搬咗去熒幕嘅另一便，之前淨係捷克文、英文同越南文維基都係咁嘅樣，而今所有維基都會統一咁做。 [86]
- 2023年度 ｢社羣願望清單｣ 意見調查嘅提案截止時間係世界協調時2023年2月6號（星期一）1800，逾期概不受理；如果你有提案，唔該一定要喺截止之前改好你份提案，等其他人有時間翻譯同審核。投票期會喺2月10號（星期五）開始。
將來嘅事
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年2月6號 (一) 10:21 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第7週
[編輯]就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺唔想睇粵文？有得揀！
故障簡報
- 喺開咗編輯巡查機制嘅維基，同時係自動巡查員（autopatroller，即係佢改嘅嘢一律當 ｢巡過｣）嘅導師（mentor），如果改導師名冊（mentor list），系統會錯誤咁嘜個改動做 ｢未巡過｣，問題會喺爾個褿拜遲啲修正。 [87]
本週嘅事
- 2月14號起， MediaWiki.org 同所有測試用嘅維基將會行新版嘅 MediaWiki，15號起部份維基百科同所有唔係維基百科嘅維基會行新版，16號起所有維基行新版（睇日曆）。
- 用流動網上版嘅用家，將會可以用回覆掣同其他討論工具嘅功能，點解咁決定嘅詳情有得睇。 [88]
將來嘅事
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年2月14號 (二) 01:48 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第8週
[編輯]就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺唔想睇粵文？有得揀！
故障簡報
- 上星期同雲端服務做預咗做嘅維修嗰陣，出咗啲冇預期嘅事，為咗防止資料損毀，維修人員被逼將雲端服務上面嘅架生全部閂咗兩三個鐘；目前恁緊計防止同類問題喺將來再度發生。 [92]
本週嘅事
- 2月21號起， MediaWiki.org 同所有測試用嘅維基將會行新版嘅 MediaWiki，22號起部份維基百科同所有唔係維基百科嘅維基會行新版，23號起所有維基行新版（睇日曆）。
- 2023年度 ｢社羣願望清單｣ 意見調查嘅投票階段將會喺世界協調時2月24號1800結束，投票結果將會喺2月28號公佈。
將來嘅事
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年2月21號 (二) 01:57 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第9週
[編輯]就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺唔想睇粵文？有得揀！
故障簡報
本週嘅事
- 2月28號起， MediaWiki.org 同所有測試用嘅維基將會行新版嘅 MediaWiki，3月1號起部份維基百科同所有唔係維基百科嘅維基會行新版，2號起所有維基行新版（睇日曆）。
- 喺3月1號，所有維基將會有幾分鐘唔可以改嘢，預定時間係世界協調時1400。 [98]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年2月27號 (一) 23:47 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第10週
[編輯]就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺唔想睇粵文？有得揀！
最近嘅事
- 2023年度嘅 ｢社羣願望清單｣ 意見調查已經完滿結束，社羣科技小組已經公佈咗調查結果，下一步點做會喺4月公佈。
- 喺有用繁簡轉換嘅維基（基本上即係中文維基百科），如果篇文有特別指定點做轉換，目錄會有時跟指定轉有時唔跟，尤其係用 Vector 2022 嘅時候會特別受影響；爾個故障已經修正。 [99]
本週嘅事
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年3月6號 (一) 23:49 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第11週
[編輯]就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺唔想睇粵文？有得揀！
本週嘅事
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年3月13號 (一) 23:19 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第12週
[編輯]就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺唔想睇粵文？有得揀！
故障簡報
- 上星期，畫面出縮圖發生故障，只係影響咗部分用家，原因係組件之間嘅協調出咗問題，令到快取運作唔正常。 [103]
本週嘅事
- 3月21號起， MediaWiki.org 同所有測試用嘅維基將會行新版嘅 MediaWiki，22號起部份維基百科同所有唔係維基百科嘅維基會行新版，23號起所有維基行新版（睇日曆）。
用戶嘅 Special:貢獻 畫面將會加條拎連去 Special:CentralAuth 畫面（如果自訂腳本加爾條拎，可能會同新功能撞而出問題），爾個改動喺2023年度嘅 ｢社羣願望清單｣ 意見調查排第 17。- Special:濫用過濾器 嘅編輯畫面將會可以校大細，並且預設大細會改到大過而今，爾個改動喺2023年度嘅 ｢社羣願望清單｣ 意見調查排第80。
- 管理員喺解除用戶封鎖個陣，將會可以揀將用戶嘅用戶頁加入監視清單，新功能喺 Special:解封 同 API 都會用到。 [104]
會議通告
- 維基百科流動程式小組將會喺世界協調時3月24號 1700 開會，議題係目前嘅功能同未來嘅發展藍圖，歡迎各位列席，毌須報名，打算列席請睇詳情。
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年3月21號 (二) 01:25 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第13週
[編輯]就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺唔想睇粵文？有得揀！
最近嘅事
- 濫用過濾器過濾條件嘅資源上限上調咗，之前淨得 1000，而今係 2000。 [105]
- 濫用過濾器嘅一啲全域設定將唔會再用喺任何本地維基。 [106]
- 電腦版嘅用戶而今可以用 ｢架撐｣ 選單入面嘅 ｢Subscribe｣ 選項喺討論頁留名；版上留名之後，如果有人喺嗰個討論頁開新討論，你就會收到通知，爾種通知同加嗰版喺監視清單唔同，亦都同喺個別討論留名唔同。 [107]
本週嘅事
將來嘅事
- 喺任何維基詞典同維基百科睇返紀錄，將會可以㨂用 visual differences 睇。 [108]
- Mobile Content Service（流動內容服務）會喺2023年7月退役；為免服務中斷，開發人員唔該轉用 Parsoid 或者第個 API。 [109]
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年3月28號 (二) 01:13 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第14週
[編輯]就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺唔想睇粵文？有得揀！
最近嘅事
本週嘅事
- 4月4號起， MediaWiki.org 同所有測試用嘅維基將會行新版嘅 MediaWiki，5號起部份維基百科同所有唔係維基百科嘅維基會行新版，6號起所有維基行新版（睇日曆）。
- 由今個禮拜開始，有啲舊嘅瀏覽器將會開始喺維基媒體嘅維基唔用得 JavaScript，主要係影響 Internet Explorer 11。如果你部電腦用嘅係舊嘅瀏覽器，你可以試下升級。 [115]
之前已經唔鼓勵用嘅 ｢jquery.hoverIntent｣ 模組已經鏟咗，但係有啲用家自訂嘅架生仔或者手稿可能用咗個模組，用來夾硬整慢 JavaScript 喺 hover 事件嘅反應時間，受影響嘅架生仔同手稿唔該改用 jQuery 嘅 ｢hover()｣ 或者 ｢on()｣ 函數，唔明點做可以睇說明。 [116]- 喺 ｢Special:專門版｣ 入面嘅拎將回排過位，等適用於所有人嘅拎同你淨係適用於你自己戶口嘅拎容易分啲。 [117]
- 歸咗檔嘅討論頁入面，將會有新功能，等你將可以用 ｢
__ARCHIVEDTALK__｣ 魔術字收埋啲回覆掣，你亦都可以用 ｢.mw-archivedtalk｣ 嘅 CSS class 選擇性咁收埋其中一啲討論嘅回覆掣。 [118][119][120]
將來嘅事
- 喺版面負責做資訊可視化（例如畫圖表）嘅 Vega 軟件將會升級至最新版本，仲用緊超舊嘅 1.5 版語法嘅圖表可能會唔再可以正常運作。大部分嘅使用案例已經搵到同修正咗，但係你可以幫手做測試同更新本地維基嘅說明，你可以睇下點搵受影響嘅圖同點做修正。
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年4月3號 (一) 23:39 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第15週
[編輯]就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺唔想睇粵文？有得揀！
最近嘅事
- 用即見編輯嗰陣，如果插入圖集，入面啲圖嘅題而今可以直接改或者喺下面補返，唔使下下撳個圖集畫面出來先改得；爾個新功能喺2023年度嘅 ｢社羣願望清單｣ 意見調查排第六十一. [121]
- 系統而今可以通知你有人改你嘅用戶版，方法係去自訂喜好，再搵 ｢Edits to my user page｣ 選項；爾個新功能喺2023年度嘅 ｢社羣願望清單｣ 意見調查排第三. [122]
故障簡報
本週嘅事
- 4月11號起， MediaWiki.org 同所有測試用嘅維基將會行新版嘅 MediaWiki，12號起部份維基百科同所有唔係維基百科嘅維基會行新版，13號起所有維基行新版（睇日曆）。
- 禮拜三開始將會繼續喺維基百科陸續推出 ｢加拎｣ 功能，今次係輪到摩洛哥阿剌伯文、丹麥文、Dinka、Lower Sorbian、埃維文、希臘文、愛美利亞－羅曼尼亞文、世界語、愛沙尼亞文、巴斯克文、Extremaduran、Tumbuka、Fulah、芬蘭文、佛羅文、斐濟文、法羅文、阿皮坦文、北弗里西亞文、弗留利文、愛爾蘭文、圭亞那歸融話、蘇格蘭蓋爾文、加利西亞文、吉拉克文、瓜拉尼文、Goan Konkani、哥德文、古吉拉特文同萌島文維基百科，受影響社羣可以設定個功能點行。 [124][125]
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年4月10號 (一) 20:05 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第16週
[編輯]就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺唔想睇粵文？有得揀！
最近嘅事
- 新功能 ｢Show nearby articles｣ 掣可以畀你睇一篇文嗰陣睇下喺 Kartographer 地圖上面睇下地理上講附近嘢嘅其他文章，個功能喺上年10月開始已經喺六個維基試用緊。 [126][127]
- ｢Special:GlobalWatchlist｣ 專門版上面每篇文都加咗個 ｢mark page as read｣ 拎；爾個新功能喺2023年度嘅 ｢社羣願望清單｣ 意見調查排第一百六十一。 [128]
故障簡報
- 喺維基同享，一啲圖喺上載新版本之後都係用錯嘅舊版縮圖，爾個問題今個禮拜遲啲應該可以成功修正。 [129][130]
- 過往嘅幾個禮拜，部分嘅外掛架生透過 OAuth 簽到一直都有時得有時唔得，問題已經修正咗。 [131]
本週嘅事
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年4月18號 (二) 01:54 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第17週
[編輯]就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺唔想睇粵文？有得揀！
最近嘅事
- 揀日子嘅選單（例如喺 ｢Special:貢獻｣ 入面嗰隻）而今會顯示今個同上個年代，而唔再會係今個同下個年代；爾個改動喺2023年度嘅 ｢社羣願望清單｣ 意見調查排第一百四十五。 [132]
故障簡報
- 由於統計圖表擴展功能發現保安漏洞，所有維基媒體計劃上面嘅統計圖都已經閂咗唔用得，維基媒體嘅多個小組正喺度積極應對緊相關嘅漏洞。 [133]
- 流動網上版嘅維基出現咗改咗某啲嘢會發佈唔到修改嘅問題，問題持續咗幾日，已經成功修正。 [134][135][136]
本週嘅事
- 喺4月26號，所有維基將會有幾分鐘唔可以改嘢，預定時間係世界協調時1400。 [137]
- 4月25號起， MediaWiki.org 同所有測試用嘅維基將會行新版嘅 MediaWiki，26號起部份維基百科同所有唔係維基百科嘅維基會行新版，27號起所有維基行新版（睇日曆）。
將來嘅事
- 編輯小組計劃分析討論頁嘅易用性，會係用 A/B 測試，計劃中嘅測量準則已經公佈，可能會邀請你嘅維基參與，如果恁到點樣改善測量準則，勞煩喺計劃嘅討論頁畀意見。
- 維基媒體嘅2023-2024年度年報嘅草稿已經寫好，而今接受諮詢，諮詢期直至5月19號，最終版本會喺2023年7月喺元維基公佈。
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年4月24號 (一) 22:03 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第18週
[編輯]就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺唔想睇粵文？有得揀！
最近嘅事
- 幫手查邊個寫咗乜嘢嘅架生 ｢Who Wrote That?｣、｢XTools Authorship｣ 同 ｢XTools Blame｣ 而今支援法文同意大利文維基百科，不日會再加第啲語言；爾個改動喺2023度嘅 ｢社羣願望清單｣ 意見調查排第七。 [138][139][140]
- ｢Video2commons｣ 架生更新咗，修正咗同喺 YouTube 直接攞片有關嘅一啲錯誤。 [141]
- 流動網上版嘅 ｢Special:喜好設定｣ 版嘅已經重新設計，喺窄熒幕睇設定同設定嘅方類會易啲，另外喺側邊亦加咗條拎去爾個畫面。 [142]
本週嘅事
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年5月2號 (二) 01:45 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第19週
[編輯]就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺唔想睇粵文？有得揀！
最近嘅事
- 用 MediaViewer 睇圖嗰陣，撳閂掣而今會返篇文而唔會盲目咁按瀏覽器嘅瀏覽歷史退後；爾個新功能喺2023年度嘅 ｢社羣願望清單｣ 意見調查排第六十五. [143]
- ｢
wikitext｣ 而今係 SyntaxHighlight 擴展功能支援嘅語言之一，以前夾硬要寫 ｢html5｣、｢moin｣、｢html+handlebars｣ 而今可以寫返正寫。 [144] - 喺文章或者段落事先載入文字嘅功能而今可以載入本地化咗嘅 MediaWiki 介面訊息，喺捷克文維基百科有例睇，用咗嘅係
preload=MediaWiki:July。 [145]
故障簡報
- 有關統計圖表擴展功能嘅最新進展：維基媒體嘅開發人員已經將統計圖畫圖軟件升級到 Vega5，但係因為爾個版本同社羣當中用緊嘅 Vega2 統計圖並唔兼容，所以本地維基嘅所有統計圖、模同例如 de:Modul:Graph 嘅公共 Lua 模組全部都要改。點樣由 Vega2 轉 Vega5，目前最詳䀆嘅說明係《Vega Porting guide》，例子可以睇爾個。mediawiki.org 啱啱開咗 Vega5，任何社羣想做測試可以喺嗰度做。 [146]
本週嘅事
- 5月9號起， MediaWiki.org 同所有測試用嘅維基將會行新版嘅 MediaWiki，10號起部份維基百科同所有唔係維基百科嘅維基會行新版，11號起所有維基行新版（睇日曆）。
- 之前，所有新嘅 OAuth app 都要人手睇有冇問題，今個星期開始，用 identification-only 或者基本認證（basic authorization）嘅 app 都唔使睇。 [147]
將來嘅事
- 喺下年，MediaWiki 會停用 IP 位址來記錄冇簽到嘅用戶，取而代之嘅係一種唔會撞名嘅臨時用戶名，詳情睇IP 編輯嘅私隱同防止濫用/最新消息，你可以就臨時用戶名嘅格式參與討論。 [148]
- 10 個預設外觀係 Vector 2022 嘅維基百科會進行A/B 測試，一半用家嘅介面，畫面上面唔同部分會分開得清楚啲，詳情睇爾度。 [149][150]
-
jquery.tipsy將會由 MediaWiki 嘅主程式（core）鏟走，一啲自訂嘅 Javascript（user scripts）會受影響，但係用.tipsy(嘅碼好多都可以就咁閂咗佢（comment out）；如果要保持現有功能可以用OO.ui.PopupWidget替代。詳情睇爾度，另外可以睇埋點搵會壞嘅自訂 Javascript。 [151]
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年5月9號 (二) 00:36 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第20週
[編輯]就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺唔想睇粵文？有得揀！
故障簡報
- 引出處唔用模直接打國際書號壞咗，受影響嘅包括即見編輯嘅 ｢自動｣ 功能同用 citoid 應用程式介面嘅架生同自訂嘅 Javascript（user scripts），功能正在修復之中。 [152]
本週嘅事
- 5月16號起， MediaWiki.org 同所有測試用嘅維基將會行新版嘅 MediaWiki，17號起部份維基百科同所有唔係維基百科嘅維基會行新版，18號起所有維基行新版（睇日曆）。
- 禮拜三開始將會繼續喺維基百科陸續推出 ｢加拎｣ 功能，今次係輪到哥倫打洛文、豪薩文、客家話、夏威夷文、斐濟印地文、克羅地亞文、上索布文、海地歸融話、國際文、西方國際語、依波文、伊洛卡諾文、Ingush、伊多文、冰島文、因紐特文、Jamaican Patois 同爪哇文維基百科，受影響社羣可以設定個功能點行。 [153]
將來嘅事
- 維基媒體基金會最新成立咗研究新架生嘅工作小組，目前整緊一個擴充模組原型，用來畀喺維基媒體嘅轄下維基用用 ChatGPT 幫手寫嘢嗰陣可以正確引用出處。
- 如果有寫架生仔或者自訂 Javascript（userscripts）唔該將 ｢
jquery.cookie｣ 全部改用 ｢mediawiki.cookie｣，因為 ｢jquery.cookie｣ 函式庫會喺大概一個月內鏟走，到時維基媒體嘅工作人員會用機械人將未改嘅改嗮佢。 [154]
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年5月15號 (一) 21:45 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-21
[編輯]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 "recent edits" time period for page watchers is now 30 days. It used to be 180 days. This was a Community Wishlist Survey proposal. [155]
Changes later this week
- An improved impact module will be available at Wikipedias. The impact module is a feature available to newcomers at their personal homepage. It will show their number of edits, how many readers their edited pages have, how many thanks they have received and similar things. It is also accessible by accessing Special:Impact. [156]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).
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2023年5月22號 (一) 16:54 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第22週
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- 打國際標準書號自動引出處嘅功能已經修正咗，功能而今係由 Zotero 提供，資料來源目前係美國嘅國會圖家館（Library of Congress）、法國嘅法國國家圖書館（Bibliothèque nationale de France）同德國嘅 K10plus ISBN，其他資料來源可以直接向 Zotero 提議；即見編輯嘅 ｢自動｣ 畫面今個星期遲啲會提返 ISBN。 [157]
- ｢Special:改監視清單｣ 專門版加咗新選項 ｢剔哂｣，撳一下就揀嗮成個名域（namespace）嘅所有文章；爾個新功能喺2023年度嘅 ｢社羣願望清單｣ 意見調查排第一百六十一。 [158]
故障簡報
- 架撑選單嘅 ｢加新連結｣ 功能喺今個月冇幾耐之前壞咗幾日，已經整返好。 [159]
本週嘅事
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年5月29號 (一) 22:02 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第23週
[編輯]就算啲改動唔影響你，都麻煩你將消息傳開去⸺維基媒體技術社羣帶畀你最新嘅技術新聞⸺唔想睇粵文？有得揀！
最近嘅事
- RealMe 擴展功能推出咗，佢可以幫你喺 Mastodon 同類似系統認證你嘅維基用戶版屬於你自己，詳情請睇說明。
- 用即見編輯，而今可以就咁撳註釋或者參考就直接改；爾個新功能喺2023年度嘅 ｢社羣願望清單｣ 意見調查排第二。 [161]
- 之前，如果有人有條拎連去 ｢最近修改｣ 而條拎入面有篩選條件，如果你撳條拎，系統可能會將你自己喺 ｢將相同頁面嘅結果夾埋｣ 入面定嘅喜好都改埋，爾個問題已經條正。 [162]
故障簡報
- 由於數據嘅複製庫出咗問題，上星期有啲架生同機械人用咗過時資訊，問題持續咗幾日，修正期間亦暫停服務，問題已經修正。 [163]
本週嘅事
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年6月5號 (一) 22:51 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-24
[編輯]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 content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the Dutch, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias. This was the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [165]
- The Search Preview panel has been deployed on four Wikipedias (Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian and Norwegian). The panel will show an image related to the article (if existing), the top sections of the article, related images (coming from MediaSearch on Commons), and eventually the sister projects associated with the article. [166]
- The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software. [167]
- The default project license has been officially upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0. The software interface messages have been updated. Communities should feel free to start updating any mentions of the old CC BY-SA 3.0 licensing within policies and related documentation pages. [168]
Problems
- For three days last month, some Wikipedia pages edited with VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended
__TOC__(or its localized form) added during an edit. There is a listing of affected pages sorted by wiki, that may still need to be fixed. [169] - Currently, the "呢版預設排成" feature in VisualEditor is broken. Existing
{{DEFAULTSORT:...}}keywords incorrectly appear as missing templates in VisualEditor. Developers are exploring how to fix this. In the meantime, those wishing to edit the default sortkey of a page are advised to switch to source editing. [170] - Last week, an update to the delete form may have broken some gadgets or user scripts. If you need to manipulate (empty) the reason field, replace
#wpReasonwith#wpReason > input. See an example fix. [171]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).
- VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on English Wikipedia on Monday, and all other large wikis on Thursday. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [172]
Future changes
- From 5 June to 17 July, the Foundation's Security team is holding a consultation with contributors regarding a draft policy to govern the use of third-party resources in volunteer-developed gadgets and scripts. Feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome at Third-party resources policy on meta-wiki.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年6月12號 (一) 14:51 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第25週
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本週嘅事
![[175]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Visual_editor_toolbar_search_feature.png){kind=link}
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年6月19號 (一) 20:08 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-26
[編輯]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 Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing
/to allprop=extlinksresponses for bare domains. This is part of the work to remove duplication in theexternallinksdatabase table. [177]
Problems
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
- The Minerva skin now applies more predefined styles to the
.mbox-textCSS class. This enables support for mbox templates that use divs instead of tables. Please make sure that the new styles won't affect other templates in your wiki. [180][181] - Gadgets will now load on both desktop and mobile by default. Previously, gadgets loaded only on desktop by default. Changing this default using the
|targets=parameter is also deprecated and should not be used. You should make gadgets work on mobile or disable them based on the skin (with the|skins=parameter in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition) rather than whether the user uses the mobile or the desktop website. Popular gadgets that create errors on mobile will be disabled by developers on the Minerva skin as a temporary solution. [182] - All namespace tabs now have the same browser access key by default. Previously, custom and extension-defined namespaces would have to have their access keys set manually on-wiki, but that is no longer necessary. [183]
- The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components. [184]
Future changes
- How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change in the coming weeks at group2 wikis. This change improves the accessibility of content. You may need to update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems. [185]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年6月26號 (一) 16:18 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-27
[編輯]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
- As part of the rolling out of the audio links that play on click wishlist proposal, small wikis will now be able to use the inline audio player that is implemented by the Phonos extension. [186]
- From this week all gadgets automatically load on mobile and desktop sites. If you see any problems with gadgets on your wikis, please adjust the gadget options in your gadget definitions file. [187]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 July. It will be on all wikis from 6 July (calendar).
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年7月3號 (一) 22:51 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-28
[編輯]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 Section-level Image Suggestions feature has been deployed on seven Wikipedias (Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Catalan, Hungarian, Finnish and Norwegian Bokmål). The feature recommends images for articles on contributors' watchlists that are a good match for individual sections of those articles.
- Global abuse filters have been enabled on all Wikimedia projects, except English and Japanese Wikipedias (who opted out). This change was made following a global request for comments. [188]
- Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool for administrators to help fight spam. It provides a clearer interface for blocking plain domains (and their subdomains), is more easily searchable, and is faster for the software to process for each edit on the wiki. It does not support regex (for complex cases), nor URL path-matching, nor the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist, but otherwise it replaces most of the functionalities of the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. There is a Python script to help migrate all simple domains into this tool, and more feature details, within the tool's documentation. It is available at all wikis except for Meta-wiki, Commons, and Wikidata. [189]
- The WikiEditor extension was updated. It includes some of the most frequently used features of wikitext editing. In the past, many of its messages could only be translated by administrators, but now all regular translators on translatewiki can translate them. Please check the state of WikiEditor localization into your language, and if the "Completion" for your language shows anything less than 100%, please complete the translation. See a more detailed explanation.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 July. It will be on all wikis from 13 July (calendar).
- The default protocol of Special:搵連結 and API counterparts has changed from http to both http and https. [190]
- Special:搵連結 and its API counterparts will now search for all of the URL provided in the query. It used to be only the first 60 characters. This feature was requested fifteen years ago. [191]
Future changes
- There is an experiment with a ChatGPT plugin. This is to show users where the information is coming from when they read information from Wikipedia. It has been tested by Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians. Soon all ChatGPT plugin users can use the Wikipedia plugin. This is the same plugin which was mentioned in Tech News 2023/20. [192]
- There is an ongoing discussion on a proposed Third-party resources policy. The proposal will impact the use of third-party resources in gadgets and userscripts. Based on the ideas received so far, policy includes some of the risks related to user scripts and gadgets loading third-party resources, some best practices and exemption requirements such as code transparency and inspectability. Your feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome until July 17, 2023 on on the policy talk page.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年7月10號 (一) 19:53 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-29
[編輯]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
- We are now serving 1% of all global user traffic from Kubernetes (you can read more technical details). We are planning to increment this percentage regularly. You can follow the progress of this work.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (calendar).
- MediaWiki system messages will now look for available local fallbacks, instead of always using the default fallback defined by software. This means wikis no longer need to override each language on the fallback chain separately. For example, English Wikipedia doesn't have to create
en-caanden-gbsubpages with a transclusion of the base pages anymore. This makes it easier to maintain local overrides. [193] - The
action=growthsetmentorstatusAPI will be deprecated with the new MediaWiki version. Bots or scripts calling that API should use theaction=growthmanagementorlistAPI now. [194]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年7月17號 (一) 23:08 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-30
[編輯]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 July 18, the Wikimedia Foundation launched a survey about the technical decision making process for people who do technical work that relies on software that is maintained by the Foundation or affiliates. If this applies to you, please take part in the survey. The survey will be open for three weeks, until August 7. You can find more information in the announcement e-mail on wikitech-l.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 July. It will be on all wikis from 27 July (calendar).
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年7月25號 (二) 02:20 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-31
[編輯]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 Synchronizer tool is now available to keep Lua modules synced across Wikimedia wikis, along with updated documentation to develop global Lua modules and templates.
- The tag filter on Special:新版 and revision history pages can now be inverted. For example, you can hide edits that were made using an automated tool. [195][196]
- The Wikipedia ChatGPT plugin experiment can now be used by ChatGPT users who can use plugins. You can participate in a video call if you want to talk about this experiment or similar work. [197]
Problems
- It was not possible to generate a PDF for pages with non-Latin characters in the title, for the last two weeks. This has now been fixed. [198]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).
- Starting on Tuesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Georgian Wikipedia, Kara-Kalpak Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Kabardian Wikipedia, Kabiyè Wikipedia, Kikuyu Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Khmer Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Kashmiri Wikipedia, Colognian Wikipedia, Kurdish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [199]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年7月31號 (一) 23:54 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第32週
[編輯]嚟自維基媒體技術社羣嘅最新技術新聞。請將呢啲變動講畀其他用戶知。未必所有改動都會影響到你。更多翻譯喺呢度。
最近更新
- 流動網頁編者而家可以一次過改晒成版。想用呢個功能，請去你嘅喜好設定度開着「⧼Mobile-frontend-mobile-option-amc⧽」，然後由「多啲」menu 度撳個「改曬成版」掣。 [200]
今個禮拜遲啲嘅更新
- 今個禮拜唔會有新嘅 MediaWiki 版本。
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年8月7號 (一) 21:20 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-33
[編輯]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 Content translation system is no longer using Youdao's machine translation service. The service was in place for several years, but due to no usage, and availability of alternatives, it was deprecated to reduce maintenance overheads. Other services which cover the same languages are still available. [201]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).
- Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Latin Wikipedia, Ladino Wikipedia, Luxembourgish Wikipedia, Lak Wikipedia, Lezghian Wikipedia, Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia, Ganda Wikipedia, Limburgish Wikipedia, Ligurian Wikipedia, Lombard Wikipedia, Lingala Wikipedia, Latgalian Wikipedia, Latvian Wikipedia, Maithili Wikipedia, Basa Banyumasan Wikipedia, Moksha Wikipedia, Malagasy Wikipedia, Armenian Wikipedia, Kyrgyz Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [202]
Future changes
- A few gadgets/user scripts which add icons to the Minerva skin need to have their CSS updated. There are more details available including a search for all existing instances and how to update them.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年8月15號 (二) 05:59 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-34
[編輯]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 GDrive to Commons Uploader tool is now available. It enables securely selecting and uploading files from your Google Drive directly to Wikimedia Commons. [203]
- From now on, we will announce new Wikimedia wikis in Tech News, so you can update any tools or pages.
- Since the last edition, two new wikis have been created:
- To catch up, the next most recent six wikis are:
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).
Future changes
- There is an existing stable interface policy for MediaWiki backend code. There is a proposed stable interface policy for frontend code. This is relevant for anyone who works on gadgets or Wikimedia frontend code. You can read it, discuss it, and let the proposer know if there are any problems. [212]
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2023年8月21號 (一) 15:25 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-35
[編輯]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
- As part of the changes for the better diff handling of paragraph splits, improved detection of splits is being rolled out. Over the last two weeks, we deployed this support to group0 and group1 wikis. This week it will be deployed to group2 wikis. [213]
- All Special:貢獻 pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. [214]
- Wikisource users can now use the
prpbengalicurrencylabel to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the<pagelist>tag. [215] - Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "Enable the visual editor" is now shown on the "改嘢" tab at all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "測試功能" tab at some wikis. The preference "Use the wikitext mode inside the visual editor, instead of a different wikitext editor" is now also shown on the "改嘢" tab at all wikis, instead of the "測試功能" tab. [216][217]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar).
- New signups for a Wikimedia developer account will start being pushed towards idm.wikimedia.org, rather than going via Wikitech. Further information about the new system is available.
- All right-to-left language wikis, plus Korean, Armenian, Ukrainian, Russian, and Bulgarian Wikipedias, will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. This feature will come to more wikis in future weeks. [218]
Future changes
- The removal of the DoubleWiki extension is being discussed. This extension currently allows Wikisource users to view articles from multiple language versions side by side when the
<=>symbol next to a specific language edition is selected. Comments on this are welcomed at the phabricator task. - A proposal has been made to merge the second hidden-categories list (which appears below the wikitext editing form) with the main list of categories (which is further down the page). More information is available on Phabricator; feedback is welcome!
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年8月28號 (一) 14:00 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-36
[編輯]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
- EditInSequence, a feature that allows users to edit pages faster on Wikisource has been moved to a Beta Feature based on community feedback. To enable it, you can navigate to the beta features tab in Preferences. [219]
- As part of the changes for the Generate Audio for IPA and Audio links that play on click wishlist proposals, the inline audio player mode of Phonos has been deployed to all projects. [220]
- There is a new option for Administrators when they are changing the usergroups for a user, to add the user’s user page to their watchlist. This works both via Special:用戶權限 and via the API. [221]
- One new wiki has been created:
Problems
- The LoginNotify extension was not sending notifications since January. It has now been fixed, so going forward, you may see notifications for failed login attempts, and successful login attempts from a new device. [223]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).
- Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Eastern Mari Wikipedia, Maori Wikipedia, Minangkabau Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Mongolian Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Western Mari Wikipedia, Malay Wikipedia, Maltese Wikipedia, Mirandese Wikipedia, Erzya Wikipedia, Mazanderani Wikipedia, Nāhuatl Wikipedia, Neapolitan Wikipedia, Low German Wikipedia, Low Saxon Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Newari Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Novial Wikipedia, N'Ko Wikipedia, Nouormand Wikipedia, Northern Sotho Wikipedia, Navajo Wikipedia, Nyanja Wikipedia, Occitan Wikipedia, Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia, Oromo Wikipedia, Oriya Wikipedia, Ossetic Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Pangasinan Wikipedia, Pampanga Wikipedia, Papiamento Wikipedia, Picard Wikipedia, Pennsylvania German Wikipedia, Palatine German Wikipedia, Norfuk / Pitkern Wikipedia, Piedmontese Wikipedia, Western Punjabi Wikipedia, Pontic Wikipedia, Pashto Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [224][225]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年9月4號 (一) 23:33 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-37
[編輯]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
- ORES, the revision evaluation service, is now using a new open-source infrastructure on all wikis except for English Wikipedia and Wikidata. These two will follow this week. If you notice any unusual results from the Recent Changes filters that are related to ORES (for example, "Contribution quality predictions" and "User intent predictions"), please report them. [226]
- When you are logged in on one Wikimedia wiki and visit a different Wikimedia wiki, the system tries to log you in there automatically. This has been unreliable for a long time. You can now visit the login page to make the system try extra hard. If you feel that made logging in better or worse than it used to be, your feedback is appreciated. [227]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
- The Technical Decision-Making Forum Retrospective team invites anyone involved in the technical field of Wikimedia projects to signup to and join one of their listening sessions on 13 September. Another date will be scheduled later. The goal is to improve the technical decision-making processes.
- As part of the changes for the Better diff handling of paragraph splits wishlist proposal, the inline switch widget in diff pages is being rolled out this week to all wikis. The inline switch will allow viewers to toggle between a unified inline or two-column diff wikitext format. [228]
Future changes
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 20 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [229]
- The Enterprise API is launching a new feature called "breaking news". Currently in BETA, this attempts to identify likely "newsworthy" topics as they are currently being written about in any Wikipedia. Your help is requested to improve the accuracy of its detection model, especially on smaller language editions, by recommending templates or identifiable editing patterns. See more information at the documentation page on MediaWiki or the FAQ on Meta.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年9月11號 (一) 21:07 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-38
[編輯]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
- MediaWiki now has a stable interface policy for frontend code that more clearly defines how we deprecate MediaWiki code and wiki-based code (e.g. gadgets and user scripts). Thank you to everyone who contributed to the content and discussions. [230][231]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [232]
- All wikis will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. [233]
Future changes
- The team investigating the Graph Extension posted a proposal for reenabling it and they need your input.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年9月18號 (一) 19:19 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-39
[編輯]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 Vector 2022 skin will now remember the pinned/unpinned status for the Table of Contents for all logged-out users. [234]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September (calendar).
- The ResourceLoader
mediawiki.uimodules are now deprecated as part of the move to Vue.js and Codex. There is a guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex for any tools that use it. More details are available in the task and your questions are welcome there. - Gadget definitions will have a new "namespaces" option. The option takes a list of namespace IDs. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages in the given namespaces.
Future changes
- New variables will be added to AbuseFilter:
global_account_groupsandglobal_account_editcount. They are available only when an account is being created. You can use them to prevent blocking automatic creation of accounts when users with many edits elsewhere visit your wiki for the first time. [235][236]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on 27 October at 17:00 (UTC). See details and how to join.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年9月26號 (二) 16:50 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-40
[編輯]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
- There is a new user preference for "一定啟用安全模式". This setting will make pages load without including any on-wiki JavaScript or on-wiki stylesheet pages. It can be useful for debugging broken JavaScript gadgets. [237]
- Gadget definitions now have a new "contentModels" option. The option takes a list of page content models, like
wikitextorcss. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages with the given content models.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).
Future changes
- The Vector 2022 skin will no longer use the custom styles and scripts of Vector legacy (2010). The change will be made later this year or in early 2024. See how to adjust the CSS and JS pages on your wiki. [238]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年10月3號 (二) 01:26 (UTC)
技術新聞：2023年第41週
[編輯]嚟自維基媒體技術社羣嘅最新技術新聞。請將呢啲變動講畀其他用戶知。未必所有改動都會影響到你。更多翻譯喺呢度。
最近更新
今個禮拜遲啲嘅更新
- 測試wiki同埋mediawiki.org會喺10月10號升級做新版嘅MediaWiki。其它唔係維基百科嘅wiki同埋部份維基百科會喺10月11號升級。其餘wiki會喺10月12號升級（睇日曆）。
- 禮拜三開始將會繼續喺維基百科陸續推出 ｢加拎｣ 功能，今次係輪到Swahili Wikipedia、Walloon Wikipedia、Waray Wikipedia、Wolof Wikipedia、Kalmyk Wikipedia、Xhosa Wikipedia、Mingrelian Wikipedia、Yiddish Wikipedia、Yoruba Wikipedia、Zhuang Wikipedia、Zeelandic Wikipedia、閩南話維基百科、Zulu Wikipedia。受影響社羣可以設定個功能點行。 [240]
- 喺啲維基項目入面，建議新人使用返共享資源入面嘅圖添加到冇任何圖嘅文章入面。由周二開始，呢啲維基項目嘅新人將能夠添加晒啲圖像到冇插圖嘅文部分。特定嘅維基項目列增長團隊部署緊嘅「映像建議」。閣下可以 了解多啲有關此功能嘅信息。 [241]
- 流動網頁版外觀（Minerva）度嘅 CSS ID
#page-actions會俾#p-views取代。呢個改動令佢同其他外觀用埋一樣嘅 ID，改善流動版外觀對各種架撐同擴充功能嘅支援。有啲架撐可能要更新，詳情同搜索連結請睇個 task。
MediaWiki message delivery 2023年10月9號 (一) 14:38 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-42
[編輯]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 Unified login system's edge login should now be fixed for some browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera). This means that if you visit a new sister project wiki, you should be logged in automatically without the need to click "Log in" or reload the page. Feedback on whether it's working for you is welcome. [242]
- Edit notices are now available within the MobileFrontend/Minerva skin. This feature was inspired by the gadget on English Wikipedia. See more details in T316178.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).
Future changes
- In 3 weeks, in the Vector 2022 skin, code related to
addPortletLinkand#p-namespacesthat was deprecated one year ago will be removed. If you notice tools that should appear next to the "Discussion" tab are then missing, please tell the gadget's maintainers to see instructions in the Phabricator task.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年10月16號 (一) 23:46 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-43
[編輯]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
- There is a new Language and internationalization newsletter, written quarterly. It contains updates on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects, and related support work.
- Source map support has been enabled on all wikis. When you open the debugger in your browser's developer tools, you should be able to see the unminified JavaScript source code. [243]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar).
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年10月23號 (一) 23:15 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-44
[編輯]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 Structured Content team, as part of its project of improving UploadWizard on Commons, made some UX improvements to the upload step of choosing own vs not own work (T347590), as well as to the licensing step for own work (T347756).
- The Design Systems team has released version 1.0.0 of Codex, the new design system for Wikimedia. See the full announcement about the release of Codex 1.0.0.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).
- Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 2 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for many languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [244][245]
- Starting November 1, the impact module (Special:Impact) will be upgraded by the Growth team. The new impact module shows newcomers more data regarding their impact on the wiki. It was tested by a few wikis during the last few months. [246]
Future changes
- There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. You can help by reviewing this proposal and sharing what you think about it.
- The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年10月30號 (一) 23:20 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-45
[編輯]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
- In the Vector 2022 skin, the default font-size of a number of navigational elements (tagline, tools menu, navigational links, and more) has been increased slightly to match the font size used in page content. [247]
Problems
- Last week, there was a problem displaying some recent edits on a few wikis, for 1-6 hours. The edits were saved but not immediately shown. This was due to a database problem. [248]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar).
- The Growth team will reassign newcomers from former mentors to the currently active mentors. They have also changed the notification language to be more user-friendly. [249][250]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年11月6號 (一) 21:04 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-46
[編輯]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
- Four new wikis have been created:
Problems
- Last week, users who previously visited Meta-Wiki or Wikimedia Commons and then became logged out on those wikis could not log in again. The problem is now resolved. [255]
- Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved. [256]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar).
Future changes
- Reference Previews are coming to many wikis as a default feature. They are popups for references, similar to the PagePreviews feature. You can opt out of seeing them. If you are using the gadgets Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews. Deployment is planned for November 22, 2023.
- Canary (also known as heartbeat) events will be produced into Wikimedia event streams from December 11. Streams users are advised to filter out these events, by discarding all events where
meta.domain == "canary". Updates to Pywikibot or wikimedia-streams will discard these events by default. [257]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年11月13號 (一) 23:51 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-47
[編輯]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [258][259]
- Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Quechua Wikipedia, Romansh Wikipedia, Romani Wikipedia, Rundi Wikipedia, Aromanian Wikipedia, Tarandíne Wikipedia, Rusyn Wikipedia, Kinyarwanda Wikipedia, Sanskrit Wikipedia, Sakha Wikipedia, Santali Wikipedia, Sardinian Wikipedia, Sicilian Wikipedia, Scots Wikipedia, Sindhi Wikipedia, Northern Sami Wikipedia, Sango Wikipedia, Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia, Sinhala Wikipedia, Slovak Wikipedia, Slovenian Wikipedia, Samoan Wikipedia, Somali Wikipedia, Albanian Wikipedia, Serbian Wikipedia, Sranan Tongo Wikipedia, Swati Wikipedia, Southern Sotho Wikipedia, Saterland Frisian Wikipedia, Sundanese Wikipedia, Silesian Wikipedia, Tamil Wikipedia, Tulu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tetum Wikipedia, Tajik Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkmen Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia, Tswana Wikipedia, Tongan Wikipedia, Tok Pisin Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Tsonga Wikipedia, Tatar Wikipedia, Twi Wikipedia, Tahitian Wikipedia, Tuvinian Wikipedia, Udmurt Wikipedia, Uyghur Wikipedia, Uzbek Wikipedia, Venda Wikipedia, Venetian Wikipedia, Veps Wikipedia, West Flemish Wikipedia, Volapük Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [260][261][262]
- The Vector 2022 skin will have some minor visual changes to drop-down menus, column widths, and more. These changes were added to four Wikipedias last week. If no issues are found, these changes will proceed to all wikis this week. These changes will make it possible to add new menus for readability and dark mode. Learn more. [263]
Future changes
- There is an update on re-enabling the Graph Extension. To speed up the process, Vega 2 will not be supported and only some protocols will be available at launch. You can help by sharing what you think about the plan.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年11月21號 (二) 00:54 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-48
[編輯]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [264][265]
- MediaWiki's JavaScript system will now allow
async/awaitsyntax in gadgets and user scripts. Gadget authors should remember that users' browsers may not support it, so it should be used appropriately. [266] - The deployment of "Add a link" announced last week was postponed. It will resume this week.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年11月27號 (一) 23:07 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-49
[編輯]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 spacing between paragraphs on Vector 2022 has been changed from 7px to 14px to match the size of the text. This will make it easier to distinguish paragraphs from sentences. [267]
- The "呢版預設排成" feature in VisualEditor is working again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit
{{DEFAULTSORT:...}}keywords. [268]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [269][270]
- On 6 December, people who have the enabled the preference for "Show discussion activity" will notice the talk page usability improvements appear on pages that include the
__NEWSECTIONLINK__magic word. If you notice any issues, please share them with the team on Phabricator.
Future changes
- The Toolforge Grid Engine shutdown process will start on December 14. Maintainers of tools that still use this old system should plan to migrate to Kubernetes, or tell the team your plans on Phabricator in the task about your tool, before that date. [271]
- Communities using Structured Discussions are being contacted regarding the upcoming deprecation of Structured Discussions. You can read more about this project, and share your comments, on the project's page.
Events
- Registration & Scholarship applications are now open for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 that will take place from 3–5 May in Tallinn, Estonia. Scholarship applications are open until 5 January 2024.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年12月4號 (一) 23:49 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-50
[編輯]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 Wikimedia Commons, there are some minor user-interface improvements for the "choosing own vs not own work" step in the UploadWizard. This is part of the Structured Content team's project of improving UploadWizard on Commons. [272][273]
Problems
- There was a problem showing the Newcomer homepage feature with the "impact module" and their page-view graphs, for a few days in early December. This has now been fixed. [274][275]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar). [276][277]
Future changes
- The 2023 Developer Satisfaction Survey 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 5 January 2024, and has an associated privacy statement.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年12月12號 (二) 02:11 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-51
[編輯]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
- The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2024 because of the holidays.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 December. It will be on all wikis from 21 December (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [278][279]
- Starting December 18, it won't be possible to activate Structured Discussions on a user's own talk page using the Beta feature. The Beta feature option remains available for users who want to deactivate Structured Discussions. This is part of Structured Discussions' deprecation work. [280]
- There will be full support for redirects in the Module namespace. The "Move Page" feature will leave an appropriate redirect behind, and such redirects will be appropriately recognized by the software (e.g. hidden from Special:UnconnectedPages). There will also be support for manual redirects. [281]
Future changes
- The MediaWiki JavaScript documentation is moving to a new format. During the move, you can read the old docs using version 1.41. Feedback about the new site is welcome on the project talk page.
- The Wishathon is a new initiative that encourages collaboration across the Wikimedia community to develop solutions for wishes collected through the Community Wishlist Survey. The first community Wishathon will take place from 15–17 March. If you are interested in a project proposal as a user, developer, designer, or product lead, you can register for the event and read more.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2023年12月18號 (一) 16:17 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-02
[編輯]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
- mediawiki2latex is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can install on your local machine.
- The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing. [282]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar). [283][284]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年1月9號 (二) 01:18 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-03
[編輯]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
- Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. [285]
- Gadgets and personal user scripts may now use JavaScript syntax introduced in ES6 (also known as "ES2015") and ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki validates the source code to protect other site functionality from syntax errors, and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers. Previously, Gadgets could use the
requiresES6option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future. [286] - Bot passwords and owner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages. [287]
- You can now thank edits made by bots. [288]
- An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024 has been published. Please read and give your feedback.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar). [289][290]
- Starting on January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions 51–66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately. [291]
- The
jquery.cookiemodule was deprecated and replaced with themediawiki.cookiemodule last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed. [292]
Future changes
- Wikimedia Deutschland is working to make reusing references easier. They are looking for people who are interested in participating in individual video calls for user research in January and February.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年1月16號 (二) 00:12 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-04
[編輯]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed. [293]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 January. It will be on all wikis from 25 January (calendar). [294][295]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年1月23號 (二) 01:03 (UTC)
技術新聞：2024年第5週
[編輯]嚟自維基媒體技術社羣嘅最新技術新聞。請將呢啲變動講畀其他用戶知。未必所有改動都會影響到你。更多翻譯喺呢度。
最近改動
- 1月29號星期一起，所有討論版留言嘅時間標記會變做連結。呢條連結會係連去則留言嘅固定連結，就算條留言搬咗去第度，其他用戶都可以搵返。英文維基百科以外嘅所有 wiki 都會受影響。你可以去 Diff 或 Mediawiki.org 度了解詳情。 [296]
- There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (calendar). [297][298]
- 喺2月1號，架撐 menu 度會加條新連結，畀你下載個連去你睇緊嗰版嘅 QR code。想為任何維基媒體 URL 整個 QR code 嘅話，亦會有個新嘅 Special:QrCode 呢版。呢個改動係回應2023年社羣願望清單調查嘅第19高票願望。 [299]
- Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the
targetsoption to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use theskinsoption instead. [300]
MediaWiki message delivery 2024年1月29號 (一) 19:30 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-06
[編輯]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 mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to the phabricator task.
- On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity. Learn more about "action blocks". [301][302]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar). [303][304]
- Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [305]
Future changes
- 24 Wikipedias with Reference Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make Reference Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For 46 Wikipedias with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February, unless there are concerns. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings. [306][307]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年2月5號 (一) 19:21 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-07
[編輯]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 WDQS Graph Split experiment is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels. [308][309][310] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [311][312]
Problems
- There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black; this issue is fixed.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar). [313][314]
- As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,[315] tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped. [316]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年2月13號 (二) 05:48 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-08
[編輯]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
- If you have the "如果我張監視清單入邊嘅版或檔案有修改，用電郵通知我。" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails. [317]
- There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
- Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the task's description.
- The maximum file size when using Upload Wizard is now 5 GiB. [318]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar). [319][320]
- Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
- The CSS
filterproperty can now be used in HTMLstyleattributes in wikitext. [321]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年2月19號 (一) 15:35 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-09
[編輯]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 mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well. [322]
- The mw.config value
wgGlobalGroupsnow only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is:if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [323]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (calendar). [324][325]
Future changes
- The right to change edit tags (
changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年2月26號 (一) 19:22 (UTC)
技術新聞：2024年第10週
[編輯]嚟自維基媒體技術社羣嘅最新技術新聞。請將呢啲變動講畀其他用戶知。未必所有改動都會影響到你。更多翻譯喺呢度。
最近更新
- The
Special:Bookpage (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension. [326] - Wikitech now uses the next-generation Parsoid wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the Known Issues discussion page. You can use the ParserMigration extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation for more details.
- Maintenance on etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket.
- 架生畀界面管理員用CSS同JavaScript整自訂功能。名空間
Gadget同Gadget_definition以及用戶權gadgets-definition-edit喺2015年留位做實驗，但從來冇用到。佢哋喺 Special:Search 同 Special:ListGroupRights 度可以見到。呢啲冇用嘅名空間同用戶權而家拎走曬。冇版要搬到，亦冇需要改任何嘢。 [327] - A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [328]
今個禮拜遲啲嘅更新
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar). [329][330]
遲啲嘅更新
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [331]
- 為改善無障礙性，標題同小節編輯連結嘅HTML標記會喺今年稍後時間更新。詳情請睇Heading HTML changes。新標記即係同新 Parsoid wiki文字解析器嘅輸出一樣。想測試你嘅架生或樣式表嘅話，你可以加
?useparsoid=1落URL度（詳情）或去喜好設定度開着 Parsoid read views（詳情）。
MediaWiki message delivery 2024年3月4號 (一) 19:46 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-11
[編輯]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar). [332][333]
- After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed. [334]
- The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [335]
- Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost. [336]
Future changes
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [337][338]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年3月11號 (一) 23:03 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-12
[編輯]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 notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. [339]
- IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers. [340]
- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [341][342][343]
- Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [344]
Problems
- RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. [345]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar). [346][347]
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [348][349]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年3月18號 (一) 17:38 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-13
[編輯]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
- An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar). [350][351]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年3月25號 (一) 18:55 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-14
[編輯]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
- Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [352]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar). [353][354]
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年4月2號 (二) 03:35 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-15
[編輯]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
- Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
- A new Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
- Initial results of Edit check experiments have been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it. Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check. [355][356]
- Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [357]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar). [358][359]
- New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. [360]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年4月8號 (一) 23:36 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-16
[編輯]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "打咗回頭" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [361][362]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [363][364]
- Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). [365]
- A new variable
page_last_edit_agewill be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [366]
Future changes
- Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
- Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the
abuse_filterandabuse_filter_historytables. Some queries might need to be updated. [367]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年4月15號 (一) 23:28 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-17
[編輯]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
- Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [368]
- You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [369][370]
Future changes
- This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Special:我嘅頁面/vector.js to Special:我嘅頁面/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [371]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年4月22號 (一) 20:26 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-18
[編輯]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
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- 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. [372]
- 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. [380]
- 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. [381]
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). [382][383]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年4月30號 (二) 03:32 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-19
[編輯]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 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. [384][385]
- 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. [386] - 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. [387]
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). [388][389]
- 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". [390]
Future changes
- A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
- Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally. [391]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年5月6號 (一) 16:43 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-20
[編輯]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. [392] - If you use the user-preference "響冇重新加載過個頁面嘅情況下用即時預覽", then the template-page feature "睇下改咗爾個模之後，用到個模嘅版嘅效果：" will now also work without reloading the page. [393]
- Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the
alt=attribute. This is identical in usage to thealt=attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. [394] - 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. [395]
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). [396][397]
- The Special:搜索 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. [398]
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. [399]
- Two columns of the
pagelinksdatabase table (pl_namespaceandpl_title) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the newlinktargettable instead (lt_namespaceandlt_title). In your existing SQL queries:- Replace
JOIN pagelinkswithJOIN linktargetandpl_withlt_in theONstatement - Below that add
JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
- See phab:T222224 for technical reasoning. [400][401]
- Replace
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年5月13號 (一) 23:57 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-21
[編輯]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. [402]
- 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. [403][404]
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). [405][406]
- 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 2024年5月20號 (一) 23:03 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-22
[編輯]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). [407][408]
- 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. [409]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年5月28號 (二) 00:14 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-23
[編輯]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
- It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript. Documentation is available. [410]
- The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "
MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category". [411] - One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Kadazandusun (
w:dtp:) [412]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (calendar). [413][414]
Future changes
- Next week, on wikis with the Vector 2022 skin as the default, logged-out desktop users will be able to choose between different font sizes. The default font size will also be increased for them. This is to make Wikimedia projects easier to read. Learn more.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年6月3號 (一) 22:33 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-24
[編輯]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 software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [415]
- The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). 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 Vector-2022. The developers are still 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.
- The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the
mw-reference-textclass, Parsoid now also adds thereference-textclass for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [416]
Problems
- There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [417]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [418][419]
- The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a
<span class="mw-cite-backlink">wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [420] - On multilingual wikis that use the
<translate>system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [421]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年6月10號 (一) 20:19 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-25
[編輯]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
- People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details. [422]
- The new Community Configuration extension is available on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases in the future. [423][424]
- The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page. [425]
Problems
- Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [426]
- Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here. [427]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar). [428][429]
- Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable. [430]
- Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. [431]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年6月17號 (一) 23:47 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-26
[編輯]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
- Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions on the project talkpage. [432]
- The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode. [433]
Problems
- You can copy permanent links to talk page comments by clicking on a comment's timestamp. This feature did not always work when the topic title was very long and the link was used as a wikitext link. This has been fixed. Thanks to Lofhi for submitting the bug. [434]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar). [435][436]
- Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [437]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年6月24號 (一) 22:31 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-27
[編輯]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
- Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update. [438]
- Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, 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. [439]
- If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [440][441]
- Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [442]
- Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Mandailing (
w:btm:) [443]
Problems
- Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [444]
Future changes
- Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 2 weeks. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年7月1號 (一) 23:58 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-28
[編輯]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
- At the Wikimedia Foundation a new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Chart. You can subscribe to the newsletter to get notified about new project updates and other news about Chart.
- The CampaignEvents extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on your wiki. This extension helps in managing and making events more visible, giving Event organizers the ability to use tools like the Event registration tool. To learn more about the deployment status and how to request this extension for your wiki, visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-wiki.
- Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
- Thank you to all of the authors who have contributed to MediaWiki Core. As a result of these contributions, the percentage of authors contributing more than 5 patches has increased by 25% since last year, which helps ensure the sustainability of the platform for the Wikimedia projects.
Problems
- A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed.
Future changes
- The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation explaining how to do the update. Learn more.
Tech News survey
- Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 1 more week. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年7月8號 (一) 21:30 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-29
[編輯]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News survey
- Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 3 more days. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.
Recent changes
- Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, 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 Migration status page.
- The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (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. Please apply here by August 10.
- Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol 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 contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
- Editors who have access to The Wikipedia Library can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week.
Changes later this week
- This week, dark mode will be available on a number of Wikipedias, 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 recommendations for dark mode compatibility to help.
Future changes
- Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page. [445]
- 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 Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年7月16號 (二) 01:30 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-30
[編輯]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
- Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (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 Temporary Accounts 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 FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [446]
- Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. 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. [447]
- Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App 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 Commons Impact Metrics 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. [448]
Project Updates
- Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist. 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.
Learn more
- Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff.
- How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin and Add a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年7月23號 (二) 00:03 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-31
[編輯]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
- Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.
Bugs status
- Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
- Editors can use the IP Information tool 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 28 other community-submitted tasks 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 read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
- There is an update on the Charts project. 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 Wikivoyage in Czech (
voy:cs:) [449]
Learn more
- There is a new Wikimedia Foundation data center in São Paulo, Brazil which helps to reduce load times.
- There is new user research on problems with the process of uploading images.
- Commons Impact Metrics are now available via data dumps and API.
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年7月29號 (一) 23:09 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-32
[編輯]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
- Two new parser functions will be available this week:
{{#dir}}and{{#bcp47}}. These will reduce the need forTemplate:DirandTemplate:BCP47on 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. [450][451] - Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: 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.
Project updates
- 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.
- 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.
Learn more
- There will be more than 200 sessions at Wikimania this week. Here is a summary of some of the key sessions related to the product and technology area.
- The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available.
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more.
- The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available.
- The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年8月5號 (一) 20:42 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-33
[編輯]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
- AbuseFilter editors and maintainers can now make a CAPTCHA show if a filter matches an edit. This allows communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots. [452]
- Stewards can now specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before this change by the Trust and Safety Product Team, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.
Project updates
- Nominations are open on Wikitech for new members to refresh the Toolforge standards committee. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in West Coast Bajau (
w:bdr:) [453]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年8月12號 (一) 23:20 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-34
[編輯]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
- Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
- Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [454]
- Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the
categoriesproperty ofmw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [455][456]
Bugs status
- Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with
Talk:WP:so that their titles start withWikipedia talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388. - Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
- The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.
Learn more
- The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
- The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年8月20號 (二) 00:52 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-35
[編輯]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
- Administrators can now test the temporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
- Later this week, editors at wikis that use FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface. [457]
Bugs status
- Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will no longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
- Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
- Do you have a project and are willing to provide a three (3) month mentorship for an intern? Outreachy is a twice a year program for people to participate in a paid internship that will start in December 2024 and end in early March 2025, and they need mentors and projects to work on. Projects can be focused on coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, research). See the Outreachy page for more details, and a list of past projects since 2013.
Learn more
- If you're curious about the product and technology improvements made by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, read this recent highlights summary on Diff.
- To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
- Community Configuration - Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together (55 mins) - about the Community Configuration project.
- Future of MediaWiki. A sustainable platform to support a collaborative user base and billions of page views (30 mins) - an overview for both technical and non technical audiences, covering some of the challenges and open questions, related to the platform evolution, stewardship and developer experiences research.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年8月26號 (一) 20:31 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-36
[編輯]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.
Feature news
- Editors who use the Special:未用模 page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word
__EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements. [458] - Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
- Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now. [459]
- Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.
Project updates
- A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.
Learn more
- To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
- Charts, the successor of Graphs - A secure and extensible tool for data visualization (25 mins) – about the above-mentioned Charts project.
- State of Language Technology and Onboarding at Wikimedia (90 mins) – about some of the language tools that support Wikimedia sites, such as Content/Section Translation, MinT, and LanguageConverter; also the current state and future of languages onboarding. [460]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年9月3號 (二) 01:05 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-37
[編輯]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
- Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page. [461][462]
- Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions
entity:getSitelink()andmw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid)will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [463]
Project updates
- Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [464]
- Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new
MOSnamespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning withMOS:(usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language codemos). [465]
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年9月9號 (一) 18:51 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-38
[編輯]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Improvements and Maintenance
- Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.
- The new automated Special:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [466]
- References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed. [467]
- It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. [468]
- Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
- Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes
mw-message-boxneed to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newercdx-messagegroup of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [469]
Technical project updates
- Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible. [470]
Tech in depth
- The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
- To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
- Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are more details and links available in the Phabricator task.
- Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年9月17號 (二) 00:01 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-39
[編輯]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.
Updates for editors
- Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page.
- The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
- It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within
<syntaxhighlight>tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax{{…}}are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [471] - Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [472][473]
- View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- From Wikimedia Enterprise:
- The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on the project's blog post. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.
- The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.
In depth
- The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the WDQS Graph Split project, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly" and "main" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年9月23號 (一) 23:35 (UTC)
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[編輯]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
- Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
- Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding
?veaction=editsourceto the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [474] - For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences. [475]
- The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
- View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.
In depth
- The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes. [476]
Meetings and events
- October 4–6: WikiIndaba Conference's Hackathon in Johannesburg, South Africa
- November 4–6: MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 in Vienna, Austria
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年9月30號 (一) 22:18 (UTC)
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[編輯]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Communities can now request installation of Automoderator 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 read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [477]
Updates for editors
- Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, 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 try it with your mobile device. [478]
- View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- It is now possible for
<syntaxhighlight>code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if thecopy=1attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [479] - Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [480]
- Later this month, temporary accounts 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 these 11 wikis, 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. Guidance on how to update the code is available.
- Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab 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 nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
- Five new wikis have been created:
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年10月7號 (一) 23:41 (UTC)
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[編輯]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
- 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 DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis 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. [486][487]
- WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week 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 hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [488]
- View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.
Updates for technical contributors
- Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector 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. [489]
- Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [490]
- Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a
<bdi>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 not recommended and might break at any time. [491]
In depth
- The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter 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 Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年10月14號 (一) 21:19 (UTC)
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[編輯]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.
Updates for editors
- Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
- Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, 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. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
- View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week. [492][493][494][495][496]
- It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.
Updates for technical contributors
- Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new
{{#timef:…}}parser function. For example,{{#timef:now|date|en}}will show as "28 October 2024". Previously,{{#time:…}}could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation.#timef(or#timeflfor local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [497][498] - Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using
{{USERLANGUAGE}}instead of using{{int:lang}}. [499] - The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. [500]
In depth
- The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
- The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
- The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.
Meetings and events
- 24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar - Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel.
- 20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.
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MediaWiki message delivery 2024年10月21號 (一) 20:51 (UTC)
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[編輯]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 Wikipedia.
- View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pediapress.com, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use Wikimedia Maps to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia. [501]
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. [502] - 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. [503]
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