Wikitech-ambassadors February 2025

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming Language Community Meeting (Feb 28th, 14:00 UTC) and Newsletter
by Srishti Sethi 25 Feb '25

25 Feb '25

Hello everyone, This is a reminder that the Language Community Meeting is taking place this coming Friday, February 28th, at 14:00 UTC. Please see more details and how to join here: < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/… >. Highlights of this meeting will include learning about: * Keyboard and tools for the Sámi languages, presented by the Indigenous language technology group at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. * Translation contributions from the Bahasa Lampung community in Indonesia. Looking forward to your participation! Cheers, Srishti & Oscar *Srishti Sethi* Senior Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM Oscar Costero <oscarcostero86(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone! > > We’re excited to announce that the next *Language Community Meeting* is > happening soon, *February 28th at 14:00 UTC*! If you’d like to join, > simply sign up on the *wiki page > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…>* > . > > This is a participant-driven meeting where we share updates on > language-related projects, discuss technical challenges in language wikis, > and collaborate on solutions. In our last meeting, we covered topics like > developing language keyboards, creating the Moore Wikipedia, and updates > from the language support track at Wiki Indaba. > > *Got a topic to share?* Whether it’s a technical update from your > project, a challenge you need help with, or a request for interpretation > support, we’d love to hear from you! Feel free to *reply to this message* or > add agenda items to the document *here > <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-feb-2025>*. > > Also, we wanted to highlight that the sixth edition of the Language & > Internationalization newsletter (January 2025) is available here > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…>. > This newsletter provides updates from the October–December 2024 quarter on > new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical > projects and support efforts, details about community meetings, and ideas > for contributing to projects. To stay updated, you can subscribe to the > newsletter on its wiki page > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…> > . > > We look forward to your ideas and participation at the language community > meeting, see you there! > > Cheers, > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]… > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

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Tech News 2025, week 09
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 24 Feb '25

24 Feb '25

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Tech News 2025, week 08
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 17 Feb '25

17 Feb '25

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/2025/08> are available. *Weekly highlight* - Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the Special:Homepage for newcomers. This feature will help newcomers to be informed about editing activities they can participate in. Administrators can create a new event to showcase at Special:CommunityConfiguration. To learn more about this feature, please read the Diff post <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/02/12/community-updates-module-connecting-n…>, have a look at the documentation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Communi…>, or contact the Growth team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Growth>. *Updates for editors* - Starting next week, talk pages at these wikis – Spanish Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia – will get a new design <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/05/02/making-talk-pages-better-for-everyone/>. This change was extensively tested as a Beta feature and is the last step of talk pages improvements <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Featur…>. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T379102> - You can now navigate to view a redirect page directly from its action pages, such as the history page. Previously, you were forced to first go to the redirect target. This change should help editors who work with redirects a lot. Thanks to user stjn for this improvement. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5324> - When a Cite reference is reused many times, wikis currently show either numbers like "1.23" or localized alphabetic markers like "a b c" in the reference list. Previously, if there were so many reuses that the alphabetic markers were all used, an error message <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Cite_error_references_no_backlink…> was displayed. As part of the work to modernize Cite customization <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383036>, these errors will no longer be shown and instead the backlinks will fall back to showing numeric markers like "1.23" once the alphabetic markers are all used. - The log entries for each change to an editor's user-groups are now clearer by specifying exactly what has changed, instead of the plain before and after listings. Translators can help to update the localized versions <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T369466>. Thanks to user Msz2001 for these improvements. - A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Nuke> tool, which allows administrators to mass delete pages, to enable users to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378488> - Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Nuke> tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376378> - [image: Recurrent item] View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resol…>. For example, a bug was fixed in the configuration for the AV1 video file format, which enables these files to play again. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T382193> *Updates for technical contributors* - Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to most Wiktionaries over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyage to Parsoid Read Views last year. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Parsoid/Parser_Unification> project page. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T385923>[7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T371640> - Developers of tools that run on-wiki should note that mw.Uri is deprecated. Tools requiring mw.Uri must explicitly declare mediawiki.Uri as a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser native URL API soon. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384515> *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/2025/08> • 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 2025, week 07
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 10 Feb '25

10 Feb '25

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/2025/07> are available. *Weekly highlight* - The Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has published a draft of their recommendations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Product_and_Technology_A…> for the Wikimedia Foundation's Product and Technology department. They have recommended focusing on mobile experiences <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Product_and_Technology_A…>, particularly contributions. They request community feedback at the talk page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Product_and_Technology_Advisory_Counci…> by 21 February. *Updates for editors* - The "Special pages" portlet link will be moved from the "Toolbox" into the "Navigation" section of the main menu's sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions at T385346 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T385346>. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333211> - As part of this year's work around improving the ways readers discover content on the wikis, the Web team will be running an experiment with a small number of readers that displays some suggestions for related or interesting articles within the search bar. Please check out the project page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Content_Disco…> for more information. - [image: Advanced item] Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (prefers-reduced-motion <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-reduced-mot…>, prefers-reduced-transparency <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-reduced-tra…>, prefers-contrast <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-contrast>, and forced-colors <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/forced-colors>). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384175> - [image: Recurrent item] View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resol…>. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the Special:CentralAuth page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T377024> *Updates for technical contributors* - Wikidata now supports a special language as a "default for all languages" <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Default_values_for_la…> for labels and aliases. This is to avoid excessive duplication of the same information across many languages. If your Wikidata queries use labels, you may need to update them as some existing labels are getting removed. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312511> - The function getDescription was invoked on every Wiki page read and accounts for ~2.5% of a page's total load time. The calculated value will now be cached, reducing load on Wikimedia servers. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383660> - As part of the RESTBase deprecation effort <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase/deprecation>, the /page/related endpoint has been blocked as of February 6, 2025, and will be removed soon. This timeline was chosen to align with the deprecation schedules for older Android and iOS versions. The stable alternative is the "morelike" action API in MediaWiki, and a migration example <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/services/mobileapps/%2B/982154/1…> is available. The MediaWiki Interfaces team can be contacted <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376297> for any questions. [6] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/…> *In depth* - The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Language_and_Pr…> is available. It includes: Updates about the "Contribute" menu; details on some of the newest language editions of Wikipedia; details on new languages supported by the MediaWiki interface; updates on the Community-defined lists feature; and more. - The latest Chart Project newsletter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Chart/Project/Updates#January_2025…> is available. It includes updates on the progress towards bringing better visibility into global charts usage and support for categorizing pages in the Data namespace on Commons. *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/2025/07> • 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 2025, week 06
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

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