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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them has been enabled for the following 10 wikis: mediawiki.org, the Italian, Catalan, Hebrew and Vietnamese Wikipedias, French Wikisource, and English Wikivoygage, Wikibooks, Wiktionary and Wikinews. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist on those wikis you can let the developers know.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 October. It will be on all wikis from 7 October (calendar).
Some gadgets and bots that use the API to read the AbuseFilter log might break. The hiddenproperty will no longer say an entry isimplicitfor unsuppressed log entries about suppressed edits. If your bot needs to know this, do a separate revision query. Additionally, the property will have the valuefalsefor visible entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response. [1]- A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them will be enabled for all production wikis. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist you can let the developers know.
Future changes
- You can soon get cross-wiki notifications in the iOS Wikipedia app. You can also get notifications as push notifications. More notification updates will follow in later versions. [2]
- The JavaScript variables
wgExtraSignatureNamespaces,wgLegalTitleChars, andwgIllegalFileCharswill soon be removed frommw.config. These are not part of the "stable" variables available for use in wiki JavaScript. [3] - The JavaScript variables
wgCookiePrefix,wgCookieDomain,wgCookiePath, andwgCookieExpirationwill soon be removed from mw.config. Scripts should instead usemw.cookiefrom the "mediawiki.cookie" module. [4]
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16:28, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
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 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 October. It will be on all wikis from 14 October (calendar).
- The "auto-number headings" preference is being removed. You can read phab:T284921 for the reasons and discussion. This change was previously announced. A JavaScript snippet is available which can be used to create a Gadget on wikis that still want to support auto-numbering.
Meetings
- You can join a meeting about the Desktop Improvements. A demonstration version of the newest feature will be shown. The event will take place on Tuesday, 12 October at 16:00 UTC. See how to join.
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15:28, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi editor
Hi can u suggest approval to this wiki page I’ve been waiting for a long time to see appear when I search for it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1045490040 Fahad naji00 (talk) 23:41, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
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
- Toolhub is a catalogue to make it easier to find software tools that can be used for working on the Wikimedia projects. You can read more.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 October. It will be on all wikis from 21 October (calendar).
Future changes
- The developers of the Wikipedia Android app are working on communication in the app. You can now answer questions in survey to help the development.
- 3–5% of editors may be blocked in the next few months. This is because of a new service in Safari, which is similar to a proxy or a VPN. It is called iCloud Private Relay. There is a discussion about this on Meta. The goal is to learn what iCloud Private Relay could mean for the communities.
- Wikimedia Enterprise is a new API for those who use a lot of information from the Wikimedia projects on other sites. It is a way to get big commercial users to pay for the data. There will soon be a copy of the Wikimedia Enterprise dataset. You can read more. You can also ask the team questions on Zoom on 22 October 15:00 UTC.
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20:52, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
Pluto
Sorry about that, it was an accident. Maybe something went wrong when I tried to edit a huge page all at once and I should turn on the option to get an edit link for the lede section. :( Double sharp (talk) 07:52, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
CWB feature request: csv data to Commons
 | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
Hi @Bamyers99, love your CleanupWorklistBot (and have been using it for years!) Are you taking feature requests? Per the prior link, I've started graphing cleanup issue counts as a motivational tool. I think it would be a natural inclusion for most active WikiProject/noticeboard home pages and would have farther reach if it didn't have to be generated manually. If your bot could update .tab files at Commons, we'd be able to automatically generate these on-wiki using Template:Graph:Lines. Might you be interested or is this an idea for WP:BOTREQ? czar 00:42, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
- @Czar: I am not interested in making the bot update a wiki. I have enhanced the history page to display a graph. Sample for WikiProject Michigan history. The rest of the graphs will get created during the run next Tuesday. --Bamyers99 (talk) 00:32, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
User:AlexNewArtBot/Children
If you want User:AlexNewArtBot/Children to collect articles about children, you should change it. Nobody born in the 1990s is a child, and it's missing the entire 2010s decade. —Lights and freedom (talk ~ contribs) 05:19, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
- @Lights and freedom: I have updated the search rules so that the years are no longer hardcoded. --Bamyers99 (talk) 22:45, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
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 Coolest Tool Award 2021 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 27 October.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 October. It will be on all wikis from 28 October (calendar).
Future changes
- Diff pages will have an improved copy and pasting experience. The changes will allow the text in the diff for before and after to be treated as separate columns and will remove any unwanted syntax. [5]
- The version of the Liberation fonts used in SVG files will be upgraded. Only new thumbnails will be affected. Liberation Sans Narrow will not change. [6]
Meetings
- You can join a meeting about the Community Wishlist Survey. News about the disambiguation and the real-time preview wishes will be shown. The event will take place on Wednesday, 27 October at 14:30 UTC. See how to join.
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20:06, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
TemplateParametersTool report unique results
Hey Bamyers, I was wondering if there was a way to increase the amount of unique results shown in the TemplateParametersTool report, maybe shown in a sub-page? The list in the report is very helpful in quickly searching the values of some parameters for incorrect input but it currently does not show any values if there are more than 50 unique results. Gonnym (talk) 07:37, 29 October 2021 (UTC)