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Tech News: 2023-48[edit]
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. [1][2]
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. [3]- The deployment of "Add a link" announced last week was postponed. It will resume this week.
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:06, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-49[edit]
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. [4]
- The "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is working again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit
{{DEFAULTSORT:...}}keywords. [5]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [6][7]
- 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. [8]
- 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 23:47, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Lua error in Template:Redeye[edit]
Hi, Jarekt, this template has a error due to a bad edit by a newbie. Do you have any way to fix it? 0x0a (talk) 13:54, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I saw that you added a VRTS ticket number to the above file on 13 April 2022, would it be possible to check if the ticket is valid? The user who uploaded the file is now blocked on all Wikimedia sites and their Commons talk page, User talk:Oli2000s, shows two other files they uploaded have been deleted as copyright violations. I investigated after seeing a query at en:Wikipedia:Help desk#how can I remove a photo?. TSventon (talk) 14:10, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- TSventon, Yes I was handling this VRTS ticket, but I do not remember anything about it and no longer have access to VRTS tickets. VRTS ticket mostly means that someone was willing to send an email from a existing email account with presumably real name, stating that they are the copyright owners of that image. If the image and the email does not raise any of many possible red flags, than the statement is taken at the face value and stored in VRTS database. There is no way to know if statements made in the email or the names are true, but it would have been the first time I run into a fraudulent VRTS ticket. I would reach out to active VRTS members and they can have a second look or contact original email address with questions. --Jarekt (talk) 03:35, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-50[edit]
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. [9][10]
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. [11][12]
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). [13][14]
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 02:10, 12 December 2023 (UTC)