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Tech News 2024, week 44
by Uzoma Ozurumba 28 Oct '24

28 Oct '24

Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/44> are available. *Updates for editors* - Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Chart/Project/U…> and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Charts>. - View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resol…>. For example, Pediapress.com <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:PediaPress>, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use Wikimedia Maps <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Maps> to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T375761> *Updates for technical contributors* - Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GuidedTour> to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Dark_mode>. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set emitTransitionOnStep to true to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag allowAutomaticBack to avoid back-buttons they don't want. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73927#10241528> - Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Nuke> will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366068> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/44> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.* -- Uzoma Ozurumba (She/her) Movement Communications Specialist (Product and Tech) meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:UOzurumba_(WMF)

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Tech News 2024, week 43
by Uzoma Ozurumba 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/43> are available. *Weekly highlight* - The Mobile Apps team has released an update <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/N…> to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/N…> to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IOS_App_Navigation_refresh_first_phase…>iOS Wikipedia App's profile menu and contents *Updates for editors* - Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Content_Disco…> and subscribe to their newsletter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Newsletter:Web_team%27s_p…> . - Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376499> will start to have temporary accounts <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Mylanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/…> created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User_account_types>. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/…>. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/…> . - View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks>. For example, the South Ndebele <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nr:Main_Page>, Pannonian Rusyn <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rsk:%D0%93%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%…> , Obolo <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ann:Uwu>, Iban <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/iba:Lambar_Keterubah> and Tai Nüa <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tdd:%E1%A5%9E%E1%A5%A8%E1%A5%9D%E1%A5%B4_%E1%…> Wikipedia languages were created last week. [1] <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36785>[2] <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35660>[3] <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36614>[4] <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33424>[5] <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36556> - It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type <https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z6005> launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter <https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikifunctions:Status_…> . *Updates for technical contributors* - [image: Advanced item] Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new {{#timef <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:ParserFunc…> :…}} parser function. For example, {{#timef:now|date|en}} will show as "21 October 2024". Previously, {{#time:…}} could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation. #timef (or #timefl for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223772>[7] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:ParserFunc…> - [image: Advanced item] Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words#Localiza…> using {{USERLANGUAGE}} instead of using {{int:lang}}. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T4085> - The Product and Tech Advisory Council <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Product_and_Technology_A…> (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Strategy/Initia…> initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. [9] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy/Initiatives/Technology_Co…> *In depth* - The latest quarterly Growth newsletter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Newsletters/32> is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects. - The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Security_Team#C…>, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures> (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of. - The Community Wishlist <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist> is now testing machine translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist/Updates#October_16,_2024…!> for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content. *Meetings and events* - 24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar - Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/…>, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel. - 20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Indic_Wikimedia_Hackatho…> in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences. *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/43> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.* -- Uzoma Ozurumba (She/her) Movement Communications Specialist (Product and Tech) meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:UOzurumba_(WMF)

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Tech News 2024, week 42
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 14 Oct '24

14 Oct '24

Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/42> are available. *Updates for editors* - The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools>, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_Discussions/De…> are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. [1] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Structured_Discussions/Deprecation>[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370722> - WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332342> on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the *hastemplate* and *incategory* keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [3] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_%28WMF%29/Notes/Language_Analyze…> - View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks>. For example, EditCheck <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Edit_check> was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles. *Updates for technical contributors* - Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector <https://iw.toolforge.org/copyvios> will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. [4] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:New_pages_patrol/Reviewers#Aut…'s_Copyvio_Tool> - Phabricator <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Phabricator> users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Phabricator/Help#Using_em…> has been fixed. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T356077> - [image: Advanced item] Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <bdi> element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Stable_interface_policy/F…> and might break at any time. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T375975> *In depth* - The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki_Product_Insight…> is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more. - The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter/2024/October> is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more. *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/42> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.*

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Tech News 2024, week 41
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 08 Oct '24

08 Oct '24

Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/41> are available. *Weekly highlight* - Communities can now request installation of Automoderator <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Moderator_Tools/Automoder…> on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AutoModerator/D…> for installation and configuration. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336934> *Updates for editors* - Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation/Secti…>, can now customize their articles suggestion list from 41 filtering options when using the tool. This topic-based article suggestion feature makes it easy for translators to self-discover relevant articles based on their area of interest and translate them. You can try it with your mobile device <https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ContentTranslation&act…>. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368422> - View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks> . *Updates for technical contributors* - It is now possible for <syntaxhighlight> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the copy=1 attribute is set on the tag <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:SyntaxHighlight…>. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40932> - Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T375789> - [image: Advanced item] Later this month, temporary accounts <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/…> will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376499>, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/…> . - [image: Advanced item] Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gerrit> and GitLab <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/GitLab> to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/nftables> firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Firewall#Throttling_with_nftables>, GitLab limits <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/GitLab/Abuse_and_rate_limiting> and Gerrit operations <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gerrit/Operations#Throttling_IPs>. - Five new wikis have been created: - a Wikipedia in Komering <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49224> ( w:kge: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kge:>) [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374813> - a Wikipedia in Mooré <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36096> (m:mos: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/mos:>) [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374641> - a Wiktionary in Madurese <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36213> ( wikt:mad: <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mad:>) [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374968> - a Wikiquote in Gorontalo <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2501174> ( q:gor: <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/gor:>) [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T375088> - a Wikinews in Shan <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56482> (n:shn: <https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/shn:>) [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T375430> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/41> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.*

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Introducing Tool-Watch: Your Feedback Needed!
by Vasanth Gopa 04 Oct '24

04 Oct '24

Dear Tool Maintainers of Toolforge, The idea for Tool-Watch <https://tool-watch.toolforge.org/> originated during the Wikimania Hackathon 2023. A group of us was exploring various tools from Toolhub and noticed that many of the links we clicked were not functioning. This sparked our interest in finding an existing monitoring tool for tools at Toolforge, but we were unable to locate one. Motivated by this experience, we began developing Tool-Watch, which has been live for some time now. As part of this initiative, we are considering implementing email notifications for tool maintainers. The goal is to notify maintainers if their tool has been down for an extended period, allowing for timely intervention and maintenance. We believe this will help keep our tools running smoothly and reduce unnecessary infrastructure costs and make the catalogue cleaner. We value your input and would love to hear your thoughts on this topic. Specifically, we’d like to know: - Would you find email notifications helpful if they are triggered only after extended downtime? - Should the notification be triggered after 3, 7, or 30 days of downtime? Or do you have any other time frame in mind? Please feel free to share your feedback by replying to this email or joining the discussion on Phabricator T368816#10201603 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368816#10201603>. Also, special thanks to Soham and other contributors for supporting me in building this tool! Tool: https://tool-watch.toolforge.org/ Phabricator discussion: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368816 Thank you for your continued support and dedication to our community. We look forward to hearing from you! Regards, Gopa Vasanth <https://gopavasanth.github.io/> Twitter <https://twitter.com/gopavasanth1999> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/gopa-vasanth/> | GitHub <https://github.com/gopavasanth> | Gerrit <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/gopavasanth> “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”

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