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Tech News: 2023-02

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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

  • You can use tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see. Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags. [1]
  • Special:WhatLinksHere shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket.
  • You can now use the thanks function on your watchlist and the user contribution page. [2]
  • A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time. [3]
  • Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use matrix: to create Matrix links on wiki pages. [4]
  • You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages. [5]

Changes later this week

  • Realtime preview for wikitext is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar.
  •   Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 10 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 12 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 January. It will be on all wikis from 12 January (calendar).

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Tech News: 2023-03

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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.

Problems

  •   The URLs in "prev" links on page history now contain diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID] in place of diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]. This is to fix a problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change. [6]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).
  • Some changes to the appearance of talk pages have only been available on Talk: and User talk: namespaces. These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such as Wikisource talk:. They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including Wikisource: pages (e.g., at the Village Pump). You can change your preferences (beta feature). [7]
  • On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page: namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page: namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page. [8]
  • The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC. Learn more.

Future changes

  • The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey, which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can start drafting your proposals in the CWS sandbox.

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Tech News: 2023-04

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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.

Problems

  • Last week, for ~15 minutes, all wikis were unreachable for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a timing issue. [9]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).
  • If you have the Beta Feature for DiscussionTools enabled, the appearance of talk pages will add more information about discussion activity. [10][11]
  • The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS), which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts on Monday 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC.

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Tech News: 2023-05

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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.

Problems

  • Last week, for ~15 minutes, some users were unable to log in or edit pages. This was caused by a problem with session storage. [12]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 February. It will be on all wikis from 2 February (calendar).

Future changes

  •   Wikis that use localized numbering schemes for references need to add new CSS. This will help to show citation numbers the same way in all reading and editing modes. If your wiki would prefer to do it yourselves, please see the details and example CSS to copy from, and also add your wiki to the list. Otherwise, the developers will directly help out starting the week of February 5.

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Tech News: 2023-06

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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

  • In the Vector 2022 skin, logged-out users using the full-width toggle will be able to see the setting of their choice even after refreshing pages or opening new ones. This only applies to wikis where Vector 2022 is the default. [13]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (calendar).
  • Previously, we announced when some wikis would be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. These switches will not be announced any more, as the read-only time has become non-significant. Switches will continue to happen at 7AM UTC on Tuesdays and Thursdays. [14]
  • Across all the wikis, in the Vector 2022 skin, logged-in users will see the page-related links such as "What links here" in a new side menu. It will be displayed on the other side of the screen. This change had previously been made on Czech, English, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [15]
  • Community Wishlist Survey 2023 will stop receiving new proposals on Monday, 6 February 2023, at 18:00 UTC. Proposers should complete any edits by then, to give time for translations and review. Voting will begin on Friday, 10 February.

Future changes

  •   Gadgets and user scripts will be changing to load on desktop and mobile sites. Previously they would only load on the desktop site. It is recommended that wiki administrators audit the gadget definitions prior to this change, and add skins=… for any gadgets which should not load on mobile. More details are available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 10:21, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Trolling all around

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So this well known LTA troll (either Wikinger or What's-his-name) found one obscure WMF project where he is not yet banned and defaced my (thitherto non-existing) talk page to insult me: Apparently for the crime of not sharing this troll’s wrong views on pre-Classic Greek letters a few years ago (!), it’s cool to accuse me of c.p. while pinging Jimbo about it (unsuccessfully pinging, that is, for lack of the necessary brackets). So, I want to replace this nonsense with a blank page.

But the really clever system in place here in Wikisource, the system that just allowed an IP account to create anew someone’s talk page and let it be added explicit mentions of c.p., has this to say when a user tries to blank their own talk page:

This action has been automatically identified as harmful, and therefore disallowed. If you believe your action was constructive, please inform an administrator of what you were trying to do. A brief description of the abuse rule which your action matched is: don't create empty pages

And to this I have a few choice words myself, but better not add them here, for that too may be harmful. Tuvalkin (talk) 09:38, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Tropicalkitty: Thanks for reverting this sad, sad troll in my talk page. Is there a way of protecting it and/or blocking these IPs? And more generally, shouldn’t there be in place some sort of policy or filter to be triggered when someone, especially an unlogged user, add a mention to c.p. in a new edit? Tuvalkin (talk) 09:28, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe Koavf or another Wikisource administrator could fulfill this request at their discretion. I don’t have sufficient permissions on Wikisource to perform blocks or protections in your user space, sorry. Tropicalkitty (talk) 20:35, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Deleted and protected. Sorry that I didn't see this earlier: I've been very active on en.wp lately and have ignored responsibilities on other WMF wikis. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:45, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Edit disallowed as spam

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Hello,

I just attempted to create a new topic in Talk:Rolls Series but my edit was automatically disallowed as spam. I have fifteen years of activity and hundreds of edits on various Wikimedia projects, mainly English Wikipedia. My edit isn't spam. (Nor is it self-promotion, as I have nothing to do with "Links Galore" or its author.) Please permit the edit. RW Dutton (talk) 20:32, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for allowing this. RW Dutton (talk) 21:44, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-07

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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.

Problems

  • On wikis where patrolled edits are enabled, changes made to the mentor list by autopatrolled mentors are not correctly marked as patrolled. It will be fixed later this week. [16]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar).
  • The Reply tool and other parts of DiscussionTools will be deployed for all editors using the mobile site. You can read more about this decision. [17]

Future changes

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [18][19][20]

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Semi-protection request

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Hi. Please semi-protect my user talk page User talk:Jeff G., as the IP vandalism has gotten out of hand. Thanks in advance! Jeff G. (talk) 11:39, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:49, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Weird categorizing in "Pages transcluding nonexistent sections"

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I have noticed that recently some pages are added into category (auxiliary I guess) Category:Pages transcluding nonexistent sections (not created yet). For example, articles and main pages of newspaper "Yakstere teshte" created by me: Якстере теште/1924/05, Якстере теште/1924/05/Газета тест аэряви. I think there is something wrong with this categorising because actually these pages don't use transcluding nonexistent sections. Moreover, some other pages of the same newspaper are not included in that category: e.g. page Якстере теште/1924/05/Лия масторга and others. Can someone comment on this categorization?

The English Wikisource seemingly also encountered this event, and it has recently created. @Tpt:: you created this category in the English WS — maybe you know: is something broken with that? Will it be fixed soon? --Nigmont (talk) 12:21, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This is a tracking category, which collects pages that use LabeledSectionTransclusion is used incorrectly – but it currently collects also pages where it’s used correctly (see phab:T329432). Since the category itself will probably remain, I think it can be created, even if no pages it currently contains are indeed broken, and therefore it may get empty when the bug is fixed – it just needs an {{empty category}} tag. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 22:27, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, there is currently a bug adding correct usages to the category. A change that should fix this problem will be deployed on Wednesday. Sorry for that. Tpt (talk) 09:01, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-08

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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.

Problems

  • Last week, during planned maintenance of Cloud Services, unforeseen complications forced the team to turn off all tools for 2–3 hours to prevent data corruption. Work is ongoing to prevent similar problems in the future. [21]

Changes later this week

Future changes

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [22][23][24]

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Community feedback-cycle about updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use starts

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Hello everyone,

Wikimedia Foundation Legal Department is organizing a feedback-cycle with community members to discuss updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use.

The Terms of Use (ToU) are the legal terms that govern the use of websites hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. We will be gathering your feedback on a draft proposal from February through April. The draft will be translated into several languages, with written feedback accepted in any language.

This update comes in response to several things:

  • Implementing the Universal Code of Conduct
  • Updating project text to the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license
  • Proposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing
  • Bringing our terms in line with current and recently passed laws affecting the Foundation, including the European Digital Services Act

As part of the feedback cycle two office hours will be held, the first on March 2, the second on April 4.

For further information, please consult:

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Team, --AAkhmedova (WMF) (talk) 12:59, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Pseudonym

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How should I deal with works published under a pseudonym? See Author:Л._Савельев and Koht_jemne_mil̦t_vьjet. --Rießler (talk) 09:10, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

To use an example from en.ws, if someone exclusively wrote under a penname and we know that person's actual identity (e.g. Eric Arthur Blair was "George Orwell" and Samuel Clemens published as "Mark Twain"), we use the penname. If someone wrote under a variety of pseudonyms or used one-off names (e.g. Søren Kierkegaard published under a half-dozen pseudonyms), then we use that person's proper name. So, if this is a one-off, I'd use his real/legal name and make a redirect from the pseudonym. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:13, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much! --Rießler (talk) 15:08, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Also check w:List of countries' copyright lengths while pseudonymous works tend to get regular copyright terms if the identity of the pseudonym is well known.--Jusjih (talk) 03:01, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

DjVu

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http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2016050411419 includes a PD work, partly in Kildin Sami language and partly in Akkala Sami, which I would like to transcribe in Wikisource. The OCR done on this document is already very accurate. I'm afraid that this accurate OCR is destroyed if I convert to DjVu. --Rießler (talk) 12:07, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Or perhaps someone can help me to create the relevant pages here, for me to proofread? --Rießler (talk) 12:18, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Here the PDF: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Махьтвеест_Пась-Евангели_–_Самас.pdf --Rießler (talk) 14:09, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, @Rießler: It is not required to convert a PDF scan file to DjVu, you can use a PDF for proofreading if you want, there is no problem with that. You may use any of those formats as you prefer. Also, I created an index for that file from the Commons: Index:Махьтвеест Пась-Евангели – Самас.pdf, is that what do you need? I myself work here on adding text in Mordvinic languages (Moksha and Erzya), which are of Finno-Ugric family too, so probably I could do some help to you if you need. --Nigmont (talk) 19:30, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Огромное спасибо! Это страница: Page:Махьтвеест_Пась-Евангели_–_Самас.pdf/3 does it look alright? --Rießler (talk) 20:06, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I checked the page and found two OCR errors, and fixed; also added {{nop}} at the end of the page, because it is needed when paragraph terminates the page, as explained on the template's documentation page: Template:Nop. The proofread page (Page:Махьтвеест Пась-Евангели – Самас.pdf/3) now looks good, so I marked it as 'Proofread' while saving the edit. --Nigmont (talk) 21:13, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much for your help! I'll transcribe this work soon, but for testing how this works I've uploaded another work, which is already transcribed locally on my computer and can be added here easily. Look here: Index:Men_antij_Okțaвr_Revolucia_roвtus̷dɘdь_saamit.pdf. However, the original scan from the library had the backcover as frontcover. I noticed this first after creating the project in Wikisource. It is corrected in Commons, but how do I fix this here? --Rießler (talk) 15:08, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean... Do you mean — that the pages in the file are ordered somewhat wrongly: the back cover page (must be at the end of the file) is currently placed as the 1-st page, and the front cover goes as the 2-nd page? If you mean this, then if you fix the file and change pages' order, and upload a new version (it should be noticed that it hasn't been done yet — the file on the Commons still has that wrong order), then you need to change the pages which you have created here already: page "Page:Men antij Okțaвr Revolucia roвtus̷dɘdь saamit.pdf/2" should become as page "/1", the page "/3" would go as "/2" etc. But if you don't want to upload new version — then you can proofread pages as they are now, without changing their current order. It's rather a question of convenience — is it needed to fix the pages order, would it be easy, or maybe it would be easier to leave them as they are ordered now. --Nigmont (talk) 11:44, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Commons has the corrected order, but in Index:Men antij Okțaвr Revolucia roвtus̷dɘdь saamit.pdf I defined page 2 as the cover. I think fixing the pages would be most convenient. Are you admin and can delete current Page:Men antij Okțaвr Revolucia roвtus̷dɘdь saamit.pdf/1? (Don't worry about loosing the transcription, I have it locally.) After this I can move the other pages and insert current page one at the end. --Rießler (talk) 14:15, 5 March 2023 (UTC)I understand this now, sorry for bothering you. --Rießler (talk) 14:54, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
No, I am not an admin, so I cannot help with moving the pages, sorry. I can move only pages' content by copy-pasting from page to page, but seemingly you have already done that yourselves, so the problem should be solved now. But if there were a lot of pages (hundred or more) to move, then, of course, it would be better to ask admins to run a script to move them automatically, and to wait when some of them does that. --Nigmont (talk) 15:45, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your wiki will be in read only soon

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The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

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Tech News: 2023-09

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Problems

  • Last week, in some areas of the world, there were problems with loading pages for 20 minutes and saving edits for 55 minutes. These issues were caused by a problem with our caching servers due to unforseen events during a routine maintenance task. [25][26]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (calendar).
  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [27]

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Tech News: 2023-10

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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

  • The Community Wishlist Survey 2023 edition has been concluded. Community Tech has published the results of the survey and will provide an update on what is next in April 2023.
  • On wikis which use LanguageConverter to handle multiple writing systems, articles which used custom conversion rules in the wikitext (primarily on Chinese Wikipedia) would have these rules applied inconsistently in the table of contents, especially in the Vector 2022 skin. This has now been fixed. [28]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (calendar).
  • A search system has been added to the Preferences screen. This will let you find different options more easily. Making it work on mobile devices will happen soon. [29]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:49, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Remove one vandalism

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Hello,

I tried to remove this vandalism: [30], but a filter (Operator873's Filter) does not allow me to do it. Could a sysop remove the vandalism?

Regards NicoScribe (talk) 11:20, 13 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  Done by Operator873. Thanks! --NicoScribe (talk) 14:51, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimania 2023 Welcoming Program Submissions

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Do you want to host an in-person or virtual session at Wikimania 2023? Maybe a hands-on workshop, a lively discussion, a fun performance, a catchy poster, or a memorable lightning talk? Submissions are open until March 28. The event will have dedicated hybrid blocks, so virtual submissions and pre-recorded content are also welcome. If you have any questions, please join us at an upcoming conversation on March 12 or 19, or reach out by email at wikimania@wikimedia.org or on Telegram. More information on-wiki.

Tech News: 2023-11

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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.

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (calendar).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Chavacano de Zamboanga Wikipedia, Min Dong Chinese Wikipedia, Chechen Wikipedia, Cebuano Wikipedia, Chamorro Wikipedia, Cherokee Wikipedia, Cheyenne Wikipedia, Central Kurdish Wikipedia, Corsican Wikipedia, Kashubian Wikipedia, Church Slavic Wikipedia, Chuvash Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [31][32]

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Tech News: 2023-12

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Problems

  • Last week, some users experienced issues loading image thumbnails. This was due to incorrectly cached images. [33]

Changes later this week

Meetings

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Tech News: 2023-13

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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

  • The AbuseFilter condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000. [35]
  • Some Global AbuseFilter actions will no longer apply to local projects. [36]
  • Desktop users are now able to subscribe to talk pages by clicking on the Subscribe link in the Tools menu. If you subscribe to a talk page, you receive notifications when new topics are started on that talk page. This is separate from putting the page on your watchlist or subscribing to a single discussion. [37]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 March. It will be on all wikis from 30 March (calendar).

Future changes

  • You will be able to choose visual diffs on all history pages at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [38]
  •   The legacy Mobile Content Service is going away in July 2023. Developers are encouraged to switch to Parsoid or another API before then to ensure service continuity. [39]

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Tech News: 2023-14

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Recent changes

  • The system for automatically creating categories for the Babel extension has had several important changes and fixes. One of them allows you to insert templates for automatic category descriptions on creation, allowing you to categorize the new categories. [40][41][42][43][44]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).
  • Some older Web browsers will stop being able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can try to upgrade to a newer version. [45]
  •   The deprecated jquery.hoverIntent module has been removed. This module could be used by gadgets and user scripts, to create an artificial delay in how JavaScript responds to a hover event. Gadgets and user scripts should now use jQuery hover() or on() instead. Examples can be found in the migration guide. [46]
  • Some of the links in Special:SpecialPages will be re-arranged. There will be a clearer separation between links that relate to all users, and links related to your own user account. [47]
  • You will be able to hide the Reply button in archived discussion pages with a new __ARCHIVEDTALK__ magic word. There will also be a new .mw-archivedtalk CSS class for hiding the Reply button in individual sections on a page. [48][49][50]

Future changes

  • The Vega software that creates data visualizations in pages, such as graphs, will be upgraded to the newest version in the future. Graphs that still use the very old version 1.5 syntax may stop working properly. Most existing uses have been found and updated, but you can help to check, and to update any local documentation. Examples of how to find and fix these graphs are available.

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Tech News: 2023-15

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  • There was a problem with all types of CentralNotice banners still being shown to logged-in users even if they had turned off specific banner types. This has now been fixed. [53]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia, Danish Wikipedia, Dinka Wikipedia, Lower Sorbian Wikipedia, Ewe Wikipedia, Greek Wikipedia, Emiliano-Romagnolo Wikipedia, Esperanto Wikipedia, Estonian Wikipedia, Basque Wikipedia, Extremaduran Wikipedia, Tumbuka Wikipedia, Fulah Wikipedia, Finnish Wikipedia, Võro Wikipedia, Fijian Wikipedia, Faroese Wikipedia, Arpitan Wikipedia, Northern Frisian Wikipedia, Friulian Wikipedia, Irish Wikipedia, Guianan Creole Wikipedia, Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia, Galician Wikipedia, Gilaki Wikipedia, Guarani Wikipedia, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Gothic Wikipedia, Gujarati Wikipedia, Manx Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [54][55]

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Tech News: 2023-16

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  • At Wikimedia Commons, some thumbnails have not been getting replaced correctly after a new version of the image is uploaded. This should be fixed later this week. [59][60]
  •   For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed. [61]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 April. It will be on all wikis from 20 April (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:54, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your wiki will be in read-only soon

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The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

All traffic will switch on 26 April. The test will start at 14:00 UTC.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

  • You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday 26 April 2023.
  • If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

  • Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
  • We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
  • GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community.

MediaWiki message delivery 00:42, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-17

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Problems

  • Due to security issues with the Graph extension, graphs have been disabled in all Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Foundation teams are working to respond to these vulnerabilities. [63]
  • For a few days, it was not possible to save some kinds of edits on the mobile version of a wiki. This has been fixed. [64][65][66]

Changes later this week

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [67]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:03, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Seeking volunteers for the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct process

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Hello,

As follow-up to the message about the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Vice Chair, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, I am reaching out about the next steps. I want to bring your attention to the next stage of the Universal Code of Conduct process, which is forming a building committee for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). I invite community members with experience and deep interest in community health and governance to nominate themselves to be part of the U4C building committee, which needs people who are:

  • Community members in good standing
  • Knowledgeable about movement community processes, such as, but not limited to, policy drafting, participatory decision making, and application of existing rules and policies on Wikimedia projects
  • Aware and appreciative of the diversity of the movement, such as, but not limited to, languages spoken, identity, geography, and project type
  • Committed to participate for the entire U4C Building Committee period from mid-May - December 2023
  • Comfortable with engaging in difficult, but productive conversations
  • Confidently able to communicate in English

The Building Committee shall consist of volunteer community members, affiliate board or staff, and Wikimedia Foundation staff.

The Universal Code of Conduct has been a process strengthened by the skills and knowledge of the community and I look forward to what the U4C Building Committee creates. If you are interested in joining the Building Committee, please either sign up on the Meta-Wiki page, or contact ucocproject wikimedia.org by May 12, 2023. Read more on Meta-Wiki.

Best regards,

Xeno (WMF) 19:01, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Trying to fix typos on Interlingua Wikisource

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Hello, I am trying to fix some typos on the Interlingua Wikisource, but my edits are considered spam. The message suggests contacting an administrator, and I asked on the Discord channel, and was told to ask here. Eowug (talk) 22:50, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I can edit the page now. Eowug (talk) 23:18, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-18

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  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 May. It will be on all wikis from 4 May (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:45, 2 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Global ban proposal for Piermark/House of Yahweh/HoY

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There is an on-going discussion about a proposal that Piermark/House of Yahweh/HoY be globally banned from editing all Wikimedia projects. You are invited to participate at Requests for comment/Global ban for Piermark on Meta-Wiki. Thank you! U.T. (talk) 12:36, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-19

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Problems

  • Graph Extension update: Foundation developers have completed upgrading the visualization software to Vega5. Existing community graphs based on Vega2 are no longer compatible. Communities need to update local graphs and templates, and shared lua modules like w:de:Modul:Graph. The Vega Porting guide provides the most comprehensive detail on migration from Vega2 and here is an example migration. Vega5 has currently just been enabled on mediawiki.org to provide a test environment for communities. [76]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).
  •   Until now, all new OAuth apps went through manual review. Starting this week, apps using identification-only or basic authorizations will not require review. [77]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:36, 9 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Is there pdf browser for wikisource

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When openning pdf in wikisource there are in the screen many things other than the pdf page. is there a Gadget or template to view only pdf pages like Internet Archive? حبيشان (talk) 11:52, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You can open PDFs. Most if not all desktop and some mobile browsers (e.g. Firefox for Android) natively support displaying PDFs. Isn’t that sufficient? —Tacsipacsi (talk) 23:05, 16 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Tacsipacsi they are slow when opening a page in the middle of a book or at the end of a book. حبيشان (talk) 08:29, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-20

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Problems

  • Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN are currently broken. This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing to restore this feature. [82]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 May. It will be on all wikis from 18 May (calendar).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Gorontalo Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Hakka Chinese Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Upper Sorbian Wikipedia, Haitian Creole Wikipedia, Interlingua Wikipedia, Interlingue Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Iloko Wikipedia, Ingush Wikipedia, Ido Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Inuktitut Wikipedia, Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, Javanese Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [83]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:45, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Request for the Bot-flag

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I would like to apply for the bot-flag for User:DracoBot. I have to move some pages in the index. suppress-redirect is essential for this task. I run already the bot on the PL-Wikisource (pl:User:DracoBot. Regards Draco flavus (talk) 09:04, 16 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If there are any other tasks I can happily help. Draco flavus (talk) 08:17, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support: trusted and technically skilled user; this bot already has a bot flag at plwikisource. Ankry (talk) 17:03, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for the late reaction. Looks good to me :) --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 17:30, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  Done -jkb- (talk) 08:17, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-21

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  • 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. [86]
  •   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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16:55, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Selection of the U4C Building Committee

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The next stage in the Universal Code of Conduct process is establishing a Building Committee to create the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). The Building Committee has been selected. Read about the members and the work ahead on Meta-wiki.

-- UCoC Project Team, 04:21, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

w:en:Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Projects (GRP)

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This LTA (also known as GRP) is now active at Njet, Molotoff - please protect the page as vandalism, and please revdel the absurd libels. Thanks. --Quangdat201 (talk) 04:41, 28 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  Done by Koavf --Quangdat201 (talk) 15:15, 29 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Vandal

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See Special:Contribs/KEMONO PANTSU Z. Thanks. Styyx (talk) 21:24, 28 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-22

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  • For a few days earlier this month, the "Add interlanguage link" item in the Tools menu did not work properly. This has now been fixed. [89]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 May. It will be on all wikis from 1 June (calendar).
  • VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on small and medium wikis this week. Large wikis will follow in the coming weeks. This is part of the effort to move Parsoid into MediaWiki core. 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. [90]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:03, 29 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Report concerning User:2001:448A:2022:B44C:D4DB:171A:F24:2080

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2001:448A:2022:B44C:D4DB:171A:F24:2080 (talk • contribs • global contribs): Vandalism --Ameisenigel (talk) 14:51, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Vandal 2

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Hi, see FortressBuilder... Draco flavus (talk) 17:29, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-23

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  • The RealMe extension allows you to mark URLs on your user page as verified for Mastodon and similar software.
  •   Citation and footnote editing can now be started from the reference list when using the visual editor. This feature request was voted #2 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [91]
  • Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference for "Group results by page". This has now been fixed. [92]

Problems

  • For a few days last week, some tools and bots returned outdated information due to database replication problems, and may have been down entirely while it was being fixed. These issues have now been fixed. [93]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
  • Bots will no longer be prevented from making edits because of URLs that match the spam blacklist. [94]

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Tech News: 2023-24

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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. [95]
  • 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. [96]
  • The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software. [97]
  • 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. [98]

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. [99]
  • Currently, the "Sort this page by default as" 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. [100]
  •   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 #wpReason with #wpReason > input. See an example fix. [101]

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. [102]

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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Tech News: 2023-25

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Recent changes

  •   Flame graphs are now available in WikimediaDebug. [103][104]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
  • There is now a toolbar search popup in the visual editor. You can trigger it by typing \ or pressing ctrl + shift + p. It can help you quickly access most tools in the editor. [105][106]

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Tech News: 2023-26

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Recent changes

  •   The Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing / to all prop=extlinks responses for bare domains. This is part of the work to remove duplication in the externallinks database table. [107]

Problems

  • Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours. [108][109]

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-text CSS 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. [110][111]
  •   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. [112]
  • 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. [113]
  • The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components. [114]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:18, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Announcing the new Elections Committee members

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Hello there,

We are glad to announce the new members and advisors of the Elections Committee. The Elections Committee assists with the design and implementation of the process to select Community- and Affiliate-Selected trustees for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. After an open nomination process, the strongest candidates spoke with the Board and four candidates were asked to join the Elections Committee. Four other candidates were asked to participate as advisors.

Thank you to all the community members who submitted their names for consideration. We look forward to working with the Elections Committee in the near future.

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees,

RamzyM (WMF) 18:00, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-27

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  •   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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Tech News: 2023-28

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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

  • 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. [118]
  • 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. [119]
  • 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:LinkSearch and API counterparts has changed from http to both http and https. [120]
  • Special:LinkSearch 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. [121]

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. [122]
  • 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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Tech News: 2023-29

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  •   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-ca and en-gb subpages with a transclusion of the base pages anymore. This makes it easier to maintain local overrides. [123]
  •   The action=growthsetmentorstatus API will be deprecated with the new MediaWiki version. Bots or scripts calling that API should use the action=growthmanagementorlist API now. [124]

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Tech News: 2023-30

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  •   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 02:20, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Deploying the Phonos in-line audio player to your Wiki

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Hello!

Apologies if this message is not in your language, ⧼Please help translate⧽ to your language.

This wiki will soon be able to use the inline audio player implemented by the Phonos extension. This is part of fulfilling a wishlist proposal of providing audio links that play on click.

With the inline audio player, you can add text-to-speech audio snippets to wiki pages by simply using a tag: 

<phonos file="audio file" label="Listen"/>

The above tag will show the text next to a speaker icon, and clicking on it will play the audio instantly without taking you to another page. A common example where you can use this feature is in adding pronunciation to words as illustrated on the English Wiktionary below. 

{{audio|en|En-uk-English.oga|Audio (UK)}}

Could become: 

<phonos file="En-uk-English.oga" label="Audio (UK)"/>

The inline audio player will be available in your wiki in 2 weeks time; in the meantime, we would like you to read about the features and give us feedback or ask questions about it in this talk page.

Thank you!

UOzurumba (WMF), on behalf of the Foundation's Language team

02:26, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-31

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  •   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:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. For example, you can hide edits that were made using an automated tool. [125][126]
  • 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. [127]

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. [128]

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. [129]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:54, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-32

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  • Mobile Web editors can now edit a whole page at once. To use this feature, turn on "⧼Mobile-frontend-mobile-option-amc⧽" in your settings and use the "Edit full page" button in the "More" menu. [130]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:20, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-33

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  • 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. [131]

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  •   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. [132]

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MediaWiki message delivery 05:59, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-34

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  •   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).

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15:25, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-35

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  •   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. [143]
  •   All Special:Contributions pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. [144]
  • Wikisource users can now use the prpbengalicurrency label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the <pagelist> tag. [145]
  • Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "Enable the visual editor" is now shown on the "Editing" tab at all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "Beta features" 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 "Editing" tab at all wikis, instead of the "Beta features" tab. [146][147]

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  •   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. [148]

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 14:00, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Review the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

I am pleased to share the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct work. The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) draft charter is now ready for your review.

The Enforcement Guidelines require a Building Committee form to draft a charter that outlines procedures and details for a global committee to be called the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). Over the past few months, the U4C Building Committee worked together as a group to discuss and draft the U4C charter. The U4C Building Committee welcomes feedback about the draft charter now through 22 September 2023. After that date, the U4C Building Committee will revise the charter as needed and a community vote will open shortly afterward.

Join the conversation during the conversation hours or on Meta-wiki.

Best,

RamzyM (WMF), on behalf of the U4C Building Committee, 15:35, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-36

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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. [153]

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. [154][155]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:33, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-37

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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

  • 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. [156]
  • 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. [157]

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  •   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. [158]

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. [159]
  • 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 21:07, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your wiki will be in read-only soon

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The Wikimedia Foundation will switch the traffic between its data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

All traffic will switch on 20 September. The test will start at 14:00 UTC.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

  • You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday 20 September 2023.
  • If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

  • Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
  • We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
  • GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community.

Trizek_(WMF) (talk) 09:24, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-38

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  •   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. [160][161]

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  •   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. [162]
  • All wikis will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. [163]

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:19, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-39

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Recent changes

  • The Vector 2022 skin will now remember the pinned/unpinned status for the Table of Contents for all logged-out users. [164]

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.ui modules 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_groups and global_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. [165][166]

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:51, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

IP Masking is comming :-(

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Some Infos see IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation (in different languages) with some more pages... -jkb- (talk) 19:08, 2 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-40

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Recent changes

  • There is a new user preference for "Always enable safe mode". 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. [167]
  •   Gadget definitions now have a new "contentModels" option. The option takes a list of page content models, like wikitext or css. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages with the given content models.

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  •   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).

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:26, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A lot of unsourced texts being added on the multilingual Wikisource

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Currently the multilingual Wikisource has not specific rule(s) which require tagging texts added to the Wikisource with information when and where the text being added was published first (or at least, information about when the current version of the work represented on the page was actually published). I have noticed (long ago) that some users do additions of texts without providing publication data for the works they create and save here. For example, User:Quangdat201 who adds many texts for languages of Russia, but doesn't provide publication information on any texts added by him/her. In my opinion, the multilingual Wikisource should create a rule requiring providing information about publication of the text. At least, it is necessary for texts which are not scan-backed (for text profread from scans it is less needed because publication information can be taken from the scan, though putting publication data on the page in the mainspace would be useful for the scan-backed pages too).

The reasons for such a rule - I tried to describe them on the talk page of User:Quangdat201, anyone can read and know them. Unfortunately, Quangdat201 ignored that my message and even didn't respected me so much to give any answer. And this user still continues adding texts for languages of Russia, recently the user started adding texts for Finno-Ugric languaages, for which I am pretty sure that where exist some works which were published much later than their claimed creating year, so calculating copyright status based on the creation year only (as Quangdat201 does) is wrong and can cause adding works which are actually not out of copyright - that is, the works' pages which are actually copyvios.

In addition to that explanation on the Quangdat201's talk page, I can tell one more consideration. When a user adds a text here, he/she has a book or other source of information from which he/she actually has got the text, and that book must have the needed iformation when and where the work (or the current version of the work represented there) was published, so for the user it shouldn't be a problem to put that information in the header of the page being added, because he/she already has (should have) that information. In the case when user doesn't have that information - in that case he/she cannot be sure that the text is out of copyright, and cannot be sure that he doesn't do a copyvio while publishing the text.

One more point: the publication data is also needed not only for avoiding copyright violation, but also for cataloging of versions of works presented in the Wikisource. It is known that significant and pupular works are usually published many times and have many versions, so when a user puts a page with a work and doesn't provide from which book (or other source) this version of work was acquired, it would be hard for future contributors of the Wikisource to find out where the current version of the work has come from, so enforcing the rule - to add the publication data immediately when the page is created, - would save time for future users to find the origin of the version of the work represented on the page.

So I would like to create opinion poll - to know whether users (especially experienced users and admins) agree that the multilingual Wikisource must have a rule requiring providing publication data for newly-added content pages in the mainspace of the Wikisource. As far as I know many (or all) big Wikisources (like English and other ones) have such rules, and I don't see any reason why the multilingual Wikisource should not have such a rule too.

Any comments and opinions are welcomed. --Nigmont (talk) 09:30, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, that is a huge problem. Unsourced, not categorized, fake texts... -jkb- (talk) 10:36, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I fully agree with the suggested rule. Just one more or less stylistic clarification : "...the main namespace (except maybe scan-backed pages...". I do not see the point in repeating this data. Draco flavus (talk) 11:01, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Good point, though I always put publication data even on scan-backed pages while adding them in the Moksha and Erzya categories (the languages I am working on), I agree - other language Wikisources may have other preferences and their contributors may decide that repeating that data is not desired. I corrected the wording accordingly (removing the word "maybe"), let's leave scan-backed pages on full discretion of the contributors. --Nigmont (talk) 13:02, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The Polish texts (scan-backed) translude usually the template {{Dane tekstu}}, the publication date is there explicitly given. So the information is still there. Draco flavus (talk) 14:31, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Vote

Do you support the idea that the mutilingual Wikisource needs to have a rule - requiring to provide with publication data all the content pages in the main namespace (except maybe scan-backed pages with scans/files having the reqired publication data)?

Results

Enough time have elapsed from the start of the vote, and all users who voted here supported that the rule should be added. Therefore we have to create the rule and add it somewhere on a Wikisource policy page. I will open a new topic soon -- to discuss what should the rule look like. --Nigmont (talk) 11:39, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-41

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  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Swahili Wikipedia, Walloon Wikipedia, Waray Wikipedia, Wolof Wikipedia, Kalmyk Wikipedia, Xhosa Wikipedia, Mingrelian Wikipedia, Yiddish Wikipedia, Yoruba Wikipedia, Zhuang Wikipedia, Zeelandic Wikipedia, Min Nan Wikipedia, Zulu Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [170]
  • At some wikis, newcomers are suggested images from Commons to add to articles without any images. Starting on Tuesday, newcomers at these wikis will be able to add images to unillustrated article sections. The specific wikis are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table. You can learn more about this feature. [171]
  •   In the mobile web skin (Minerva) the CSS ID #page-actions will be replaced with #p-views. This change is to make it consistent with other skins and to improve support for gadgets and extensions in the mobile skin. A few gadgets may need to be updated; there are details and search-links in the task.

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MediaWiki message delivery 14:39, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Opportunities open for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission, and the Case Review Committee

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Hi everyone! The Affiliations Committee (AffCom), Ombuds commission (OC), and the Case Review Committee (CRC) are looking for new members. These volunteer groups provide important structural and oversight support for the community and movement. People are encouraged to nominate themselves or encourage others they feel would contribute to these groups to apply. There is more information about the roles of the groups, the skills needed, and the opportunity to apply on the Meta-wiki page.

On behalf of the Committee Support team,

~ Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16:41, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, new here. I was reading on Wikisource an original text in English and clicked on the equivalent page in another language. It is obvious that the translation was done by users who knew little about the topic and little about literary English, most probably used a translation app. I poked around a little bit more and found a translated version of the text published by a well-respected editor, however still copy-righted. What is the policy of Wikisource in that case? Delete with a note and add a link to the published translation? Best, --2tirets4tildes (talk) 09:23, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-42

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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. [172]
  • 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 addPortletLink and #p-namespaces that 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 23:47, 16 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Review and comment on the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package

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Dear all,

Please review and comment on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package from now until 29 October 2023. The selection rules package was based on older versions by the Elections Committee and will be used in the 2024 Board of Trustees selection. Providing your comments now will help them provide a smoother, better Board selection process. More on the Meta-wiki page.

Best,

Katie Chan
Chair of the Elections Committee

01:13, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-43

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  • 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. [173]

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 23:16, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-44

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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. [174][175]
  • 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. [176]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:21, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The rule for providing texts with their sources

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According to the voting in the topic above (A_lot_of_unsourced_texts_being_added_on_the_multilingual_Wikisource), we need to create the rule and add it somewhere in policy page(s).

First, we need to describe the rule itself. I can propose such text:

All content pages of the main space of the Wikisource, except pages of user-created translations, must be provided with publication data of where and when the work represented on the page was published. This information should be added in the header or beginning of the page.
If the work was published in a book, then the information must contain the book's name and year when the book was published; also (not mandatory) information about the author's, publishing house, city and ISBN if they are known (may be omitted if they are unknown or absent).
If the work was published in a periodical issue, then the information must contain the periodical's name and year when the issue was published; also (not mandatory) the number of the issue in the year (or volume if the periodical is published in volume-based format) and month and day of the periodical issue if any of those are known, also publishing house, city if they are known.

Since I am not a native English speaker, I propose to somebody with native or very good knowledge of English to fix the text given above to make it looking good from the point of English grammar and English sense.

Also a question: should we make some exceptions for this rule -- to point out some cases when giving publication data is not mandatory? I think we need to add some:

  • As it was remarked during the voting (User:Draco flavus pointed out), to put publication data for scan-backed pages should not be mandatory if all required information provided on the proofread index and/or a file from which the work has been proofread.
  • Also in my opinion, in the case when a work was published as a part of collection or as a part of a periodical issue, and the work's page was created as a subpage of the main page representing the entire book or the periodical issue, then duplication of the information from the root page (given the root page already has publication data for the entire book or periodical issue) on the subpage is not required (but may be done if the contributors want to add it).
  • Also, publication data IMHO is not required for government works -- such as constitutions of countries, legislative acts and others, that is, works licensed like PD-USGov or PD-RU-exempt. Freedom from copyright for such acts are not connected with publication year or death year of author's, they are released into Public Domain unconditionally; also in some cases it is not easy to find the first edition where the act was originally published (for example, for acts in Russia there could be some government newspapers where such acts are usually published first). For those reasons, publication data for government acts released into PD by force of laws of the country, is not required, IMHO, we can omit it on those pages.
  • And one more case that can be an issue: the Wikisource contains specimens of short but well-known works translated in many languages, for example Pater noster. Many translations of such works presented here in the multilingual Wikirource are not provided with publication data too. Should we require publication data for such pages too? I am not sure...

And the last point: we should also decide -- where to add the rule after we create it's precise statements, on which page? I would propose to add it to the page Wikisource:Copyright policy, because possible copyright violation is the major issue originating from the absence of publishing data on the work's page. Or maybe we should add the rule on some other page?

So, let's discuss all of that. Pinging all who voted: @-jkb-, Draco flavus, Koavf, Ankry, Jusjih: other users are welcomed to the discussion too, of course. --Nigmont (talk) 11:53, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This all seems sensible. We should require publication data for non-original translations, such as those Pater noster pages as well. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:42, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Source is important not only to determine whether the copyright expired on the work, but also to determine whether the work is out of copyright (or freely licensed) for other reasons, and to determine whether the work is real in the first place. For this reason, I’d require a source for every work, including Pater noster translations and law text. (In case of ProofreadPage scans or individual chapters of works on subpages, the source field on Commons / the source provided at the main page of the work counts as a source, so those cases aren’t exempted either, just we allow not duplicating the same pieces of information all over the place.) On the other hand, not all works were first published in books or periodicals (or maybe the first publication is not known, but the copyright status can be determined without that), so we should say something about works whose known publication is a web page, a flyer, or even a house wall. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 10:58, 5 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-45

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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

  • 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. [177]

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. [178]

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. [179][180]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:05, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Move request, revert a previous one

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Move page اومارمیدڭ؟ towards Wikisource:How does one edit a page. --ZandDev (talk) 17:04, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  Done How odd. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:37, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Change content model

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Use Special:ChangeContentModel to change content model of Help:Font_size_templates/styles.css to sanitized-css. --ZandDev (talk) 01:18, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:36, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-46

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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. [185]
  • Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved. [186]

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. [187]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:52, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-47

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  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [188][189]
  • 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. [190][191][192]
  • 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. [193]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:55, 21 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

FYI: Celebrating 20 years of Wikisource and 3,000+ years of history

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https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/11/23/celebrating-20-years-of-wikisource-and-3000-years-of-history/ —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 10:11, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-48

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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.

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. [194][195]
  •   MediaWiki's JavaScript system will now allow async/await syntax in gadgets and user scripts. Gadget authors should remember that users' browsers may not support it, so it should be used appropriately. [196]
  • The deployment of "Add a link" announced last week was postponed. It will resume this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:08, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-49

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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

  • 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. [197]
  • 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. [198]

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Future changes

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 23:50, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-50

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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. [202][203]

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. [204][205]

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). [206][207]

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  •   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 02:12, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(New) Feature on Kartographer: Adding geopoints via QID

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Since September 2022, it is possible to create geopoints using a QID. Many wiki contributors have asked for this feature, but it is not being used much. Therefore, we would like to remind you about it. More information can be found on the project page. If you have any comments, please let us know on the talk page. – Best regards, the team of Technical Wishes at Wikimedia Deutschland


Thereza Mengs (WMDE) 12:31, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-51

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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. [208][209]
  • 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. [210]
  •   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. [211]

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 16:17, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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