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Tech News: 2024-50

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new #wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.

Updates for editors

Layout change for the Edit Check feature
  • Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
  • The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
  • Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide.
  • The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
  • The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements.
  • The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, archiveUrl and archiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates.
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (voy:id:)
  • Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing.
  • Recurrent item View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library.
  • Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.
  • The 2024 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 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
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Question from Abdulmujibalhaddad (05:23, 10 December 2024)

what will happen if i editing something because i though the article had wrong source, particulary in history ? --Abdulmujibalhaddad (talk) 05:23, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-51

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page.

Updates for editors

  • Users of the iOS Misplaced Pages App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history.
  • Users of the Android Misplaced Pages App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
  • The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information.
  • The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
  • Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the Android Misplaced Pages App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.

Updates for technical contributors

  • There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:22, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

New pages patrol January 2025 Backlog drive

January 2025 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol
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Happy holidays!

A golden Misplaced Pages logo with stars, balloons, and the words "New Year" Happy holidays and a prosperous 2025! Two squirrels in a tree

Rae, one of my first interactions with you was emailing answers@ over the summer when I wanted to know how the UCOC was licensed. Thank you for the diligent follow up to my question. But since then I have enjoyed getting to know you better, and it was a pleasure meeting you at WCNA. I hope to see you in NYC for WCNA2025 :) Best to you and yours in 2025, and happy holidays! HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 04:50, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Monu badmash 10k on 3000 (number) (23:04, 22 December 2024)

monu __badmash__10 --Monu badmash 10k (talk) 23:04, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

Hello Vermont: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Misplaced Pages. Cheers, AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 01:49, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Mkbonline (16:37, 24 December 2024)

What we can change? --Mkbonline (talk) 16:37, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@Mkbonline: What do you want to change? You can edit almost all pages :) Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 18:21, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Ysrkavali on Pattapu language (14:37, 25 December 2024)

I need to add links and need to add some content it's not not shwoing --Ysrkavali (talk) 14:37, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

@Ysrkavali: I've made an edit to format the link as a citation, and to restore content I think you accidentally partially removed in a previous edit. If you're using the visual editor, there's an easy tool for automatic citations. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 18:27, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
thank you Ysrkavali (talk) 00:30, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Ibrahim01721 (12:00, 26 December 2024)

If I don’t give any references or links in my article then will Misplaced Pages remove it? --Ibrahim01721 (talk) 12:00, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

@Ibrahim01721: generally, yes other editors would remove or fix unsourced content. Be sure to include sources for content that you add. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 03:57, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Question from Etzel Provence on User talk:Etzel Provence (22:26, 27 December 2024)

Waarom word deze info van Etzel verwijderd? Er is niks mis mee. Hij is een belangrijke invloed geweest op de muziek van curacao. Hij is 4 jaar geleden overleden. En het is belangrijk dat zijn legacy blijft leven voor iedereen die naar zijn info zoekt. --Etzel Provence (talk) 22:26, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

It looks like an editor has since provided context on your talk page. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 03:58, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 224, December 2024

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