विकिपीडिया:चौपाल/समाचार/पुरालेख 5

यह पुरानी चर्चाओं का पुरालेख है। इस पन्ने की सामग्री को संपादित न करें अगर आप कोई नई चर्चा आरंभ करना चाहते हैं अथवा किसी पुरानी चर्चा को पुनः आगे बढ़ाना चाहते हैं, कृपया यह कार्य वर्तमान वार्ता पन्ने पर करें।

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Tech News: 2018-02

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

On Wikidata, the "सहेजें" button when you edit is now called "प्रकाशित करें". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "पृष्ठ सहेजें" to "बदलाव प्रकाशित करें". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [1][2]
Some edits will get an automatic tag on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways. [3]
Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [4]
Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated. [5][6]

Problems

Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem. [7]
With the new filters in the recent changes, "चयनित निकालें" in "नामस्थान" did not work for "सुरक्षित फ़िल्टर" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [8]
The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 instead of #Résumé even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March). [9]
Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [10]

Changes later this week

Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this you will be able to read but not edit Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis. [11]
The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems. [12][13]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).
WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: ext.wikiEditor. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed. [14]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:19, 8 जनवरी 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-3

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

Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [15]
There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [16]

Problems

Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [17][18]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [19][20]

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18:45, 15 जनवरी 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-04

नए तकनीकी समाचार विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय द्वारा। कृपया अन्य सदस्यों को इस परिवर्तन के बारे में बताएं। सभी परिवर्तन आप पर प्रभाव नहीं डालेगा। अनुवाद उपलब्ध है।

हाल के बदलाव

विशेष:हालिया चैनलों के लिंक्ड या Special:RecentChangesLinked पर फ़िल्टर हाल के परिवर्तन पेज जैसे समान रूप मिलेंग। पृष्ठ को कुछ नई सुविधाएं भी मिलेंगी। [21][22]

समस्यायें

नए OOUI look के साथ मेनू और पॉपअप नीचे की बजाय ऊपर की ओर खोल सकते हैं इसका इस्तेमाल लंबे समय तक लटकती मेनू को आसान बनाने के लिए किया गया था। कभी-कभी ये मेनू अन्य बातों से अतिच्छादित हो जाते हैं। यह अब

सुधारना हो गया है। [23]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

इस हफ्ते कोई नया मिडियाविकी संस्करण नहीं है।

बैठकें

आप IRC पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में शामिल हो सकते हैं। मीटिंग के दौरान, स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स से सलाह मांग सकते हैं। बैठक होगी 24 जनवरी के १६:००(UTC) पर। देखें: कैसे जुड़ें।

भविष्य के बदलाव

irc.wikimedia.org 22 फरवरी को रिबूट किया जाएगा कुछ बॉट्स इसका इस्तेमाल हाल के परिवर्तन फीड को प्राप्त करने के लिए करते हैं। उन्हें स्वचालित रूप से फिर से कनेक्ट करने में सक्षम होने की आवश्यकता है या वे तब तक काम नहीं करेंगे जब तक उन्हें तय नहीं किया जाता। अधिकांश बॉट्स स्वचालित रूप से फिर से कनेक्ट हो सकते हैं। [24]

तकनीकी समाचार तकनीकी प्रचारक द्वारा और प्रकाशन बॉट • योगदान • अनुवाद • सहायता लें • प्रतिक्रिया दें • अनुसरण करें या हटाएँ।

23:55, 22 जनवरी 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-05

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

इस हफ्ते कोई नया मिडियाविकी संस्करण नहीं है।

बैठकें

आप IRC पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में शामिल हो सकते हैं। मीटिंग के दौरान, स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स से सलाह मांग सकते हैं। बैठक होगी 31 जनवरी के १६:००(UTC) पर। देखें: कैसे जुड़ें।

भविष्य में परिवर्तन

The Wikimedia Foundation is working on how to get less unmaintained code on Wikimedia wikis. This could be by finding maintainers or removing unmaintained features. They are now looking for feedback on what do do with AbuseFilter, the IRC RecentChanges feed, the RelatedSites extension and TimedMediaHandler. You can leave feedback on the linked talk pages. [25]

17:06, 29 जनवरी 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-06

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

Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [26]
The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [27]
Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [28]

Problems

Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [29]

Changes later this week

When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [30]
When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [31]
The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of हाँ or नहीं it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [32]
Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [33]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Education Program extension will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the Programs and Events Dashboard. [34][35]

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20:51, 5 फ़रवरी 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-07

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

TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [36][37][38]
Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week

You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [39]
The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [40]
The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [41]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 February at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved. [42]

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21:59, 12 फ़रवरी 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-08

हाल के बदलाव

हाल के परिवर्तन पेज पर संक्षिप्ताक्षरों की व्याख्या परिवर्तनों की सूची के साथ अधिव्यापन हो सकती है। इसे हल किया गया है। [43][44]
You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [45]

समस्यायें

Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [46]
Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [47][48]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 फ़रवरी. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 फ़रवरी. It will be on all wikis from 22 फ़रवरी (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 फ़रवरी at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 फ़रवरी at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible. [49]
Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.

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22:54, 19 फ़रवरी 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-09

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

Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [50]

Problems

Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [51][52]
Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [53]
Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [54][55][56]

Changes later this week

Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [57]
The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [58][59]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:52, 26 फ़रवरी 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-10

विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय द्वारा नया तकनीकी समाचार कृपया अन्य सदस्यों को भी इन बदलावों के बारे में बतायें। हर बदलाव आपको प्रभावित नहीं करेगा। अनुवाद उपलब्ध है।

हाल के बदलाव

अब आप लम्बे संपादन सारांश लिख सकते हैं। [60]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

आप उपयोगकर्ताओं को संपादन सारांश में सूचित कर सकते हैं। वे एक पिंग प्राप्त करेंगे जैसे कि वे विकी पेज पर उल्लेख किए गए हों। [61]
विशेष:AbuseLog पर आप केवल उन कार्यों की सूची चुन सकते हैं जिनसे वास्तव में संपादन होता हैं। अन्य क्रियाएं होती हैं जब फ़िल्टर ने संपादक को चेतावनी दी या संपादन को अवरुद्ध किया। अधिक खोज विकल्प भी हैं। [62][63]
यथादृश्य संपादक और २०१७ विकीटेक्स्ट एडिटर में स्वत: संदर्भ खोज प्रदान करने के लिए विकि सीटोइड सक्षम कर सकते हैं, लेकिन यह जटिल है। यदि विन्यास सही नहीं है तो यह उपकरण अब जावास्क्रिप्ट कंसोल में चेतावनी देगा। विन्यास सही नहीं है, तो जल्द ही सीटोइड स्वयं को अक्षम कर देगा। जांचें कि आपका विकी सही ढंग से कॉन्फ़िगर किया गया है। अगर आपको इसकी ज़रूरत है तो आप मदद के लिए पूछ सकते हैं। [64]
मिडियाविकी का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकी और MediaWiki.org पर 6 मार्च से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकी और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 7 मार्च से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 8 मार्च (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप संपादक दल से आगे होने वाले बैठक में मिल सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान आप डेवेलपर को उन त्रुटियों के बारे में बता सकते हैं जो आपको बहुत महत्वपूर्ण लगती हैं। बैठक मार्च को १९:३० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें: कैसे जुड़ें
आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में शामिल हो सकते हैं। मीटिंग के दौरान, स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स से सलाह मांग सकते हैं। बैठक मार्च १६:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। कैसे शामिल हों देखें।

भविष्य के परिवर्तन

भविष्य में आप वैश्विक प्राथमिकताओं का उपयोग कर सकेंगे। इसका मतलब है कि आप प्रत्येक विकी के लिए हर बार प्राथमिकता बदलने के बजाय सभी विकी के लिए इसे बदल सकते हैं। अब आप [https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:GlobalPreferences 17:12, 5 मार्च 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-11

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

3D models can now be uploaded to Commons. [65]
Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [66]
Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [67]
Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [68]

Problems

The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [69]

Changes later this week

You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [70]
It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [71][72]
A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [73][74][75]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 मार्च. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 मार्च. It will be on all wikis from 15 मार्च (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 मार्च at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 मार्च at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:43, 12 मार्च 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-12

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 March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [76]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 मार्च. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 मार्च. It will be on all wikis from 22 मार्च (calendar).

Meetings

There is no Editing team meeting this week.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 मार्च at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [77][78]
In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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15:03, 19 मार्च 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-13

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

Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [79] [80]
The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [81]
TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [82]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [83]
Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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20:03, 26 मार्च 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-14

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

Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

Problems

MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [84][85][86]
The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [87]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns. [88]
Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [89][90][91]
AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [92] [93]
In Special:Preferences, the preference "जब भी फ़िल्टर बदल जाए तो पृष्ठ को पुनः लोड करें (जावास्क्रिप्ट की ज़रूरत है)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [94]
You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [95]
You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [96]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [97][98]

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19:28, 2 अप्रैल 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-15

हाल के बदलाव

कुछ पृष्ठों में टेम्पलेट्स होते हैं जो उस लेख की समस्याओं का वर्णन करते हैं। अब मोबाइल पाठकों के लिए एवं लेख में क्या गलत है और वे इसे ठीक करने में कैसे मदद कर सकते हैं के बारे में और अधिक जानकारी है। [99]
अब आप किसी पेज पर संपादनों के आलावा भी कई और कार्यों के लिए उपयोगकर्ताओं को धन्यवाद कर सकते हैं। यह पिछले साल की इच्छासूची सर्वेक्षण में शीर्ष दस अनुरोधों में से एक था। [100]
श्रेणियों के क्रमबद्ध क्रम में सोमवार 9 अप्रैल (यूटीसी) से कुछ समय के लिए त्रुटियां होंगी। हम एक अंतर्राष्ट्रीयकरण पुस्तकालय (आईसीयू) के संस्करणों को नवीनीकृत कर रहे हैं और डेटाबेस को अपडेट करने के लिए एक स्क्रिप्ट का उपयोग कर रहे हैं। यह विकी आकार के आधार पर कुछ घंटों से कुछ दिनों के बीच का समय लेगा। आप अधिक विवरण पढ़ सकते हैं। [101]
टैग फ़िल्टर शीर्षक अब उन विकी पर बेहतर काम करेंगे जहां टैग फ़िल्टर का शीर्षक उस भाषा में है जो उस विकी की भाषा की तुलना में किसी अन्य दिशा में लिखा गया है। उदाहरण के लिए हिब्रू या अरबी विकी (दाएं से बाएं लिखा हुआ) पर अंग्रेज़ी शीर्षक (बाएं से दाएं लिखा हुआ) हो। [102]

समस्याएँ

नए आइकन परिवर्तनों के कारण हाल के परिवर्तन पेज पर सहेजे गए फ़िल्टर के लिए बुकमार्क चिह्न गायब हो गया था। अब यह सुधार दिया गया है। [103]
मार्च में एक हफ्ते के लिए हाल ही में हुए परिवर्तन पेज और अन्य पृष्ठों पर जहां आप को टैग दिखते हैं वहां पर पुनरावर्तनों के लिए पुनरावर्तन और पूर्ववत टैग दोनों दिख रहे थे। अब यह सुधार दिया गया है। [104]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मिडियाविकी का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकी और MediaWiki.org पर 10 अप्रैल से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकी और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 11 अप्रैल से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 12 अप्रैल (कैलेंडर) से होगा।
परीक्षित संपादनों में अब दो के बजाय तीन स्तर हैं। हाल के परिवर्तन फ़िल्टर का अपरीक्षित, स्वतः परीक्षित और मैन्युअल रूप से परीक्षित संपादन दिखाने के लिए अद्यतन किया गया है। [105]

बैठकें

आप संपादक दल से आगे होने वाले बैठक में मिल सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान आप डेवेलपर को उन त्रुटियों के बारे में बता सकते हैं जो आपको बहुत महत्वपूर्ण लगती हैं। बैठक अप्रैल को १८:३० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें: कैसे जुड़ें
आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में शामिल हो सकते हैं। मीटिंग के दौरान, स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स से सलाह मांग सकते हैं। बैठक अप्रैल १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। कैसे शामिल हों देखें।

भविष्य के परिवर्तन

आईओएस और एंड्रॉइड ऐप्स को समन्वयित पढ़ने वाली सूचियाँ अप्रैल में बाद में पहुँच जाएँगी।

तकनीकी समाचार तकनीक राजदूत द्वारा तैयार हुआ और बॉट द्वारा प्रकाशित • योगदान करें • अनुवाद करें • सहायता लें • प्रतिक्रिया दें • अनुसरण करें या हटाएँ।

18:09, 9 अप्रैल 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-16

विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय द्वारा नया तकनीकी समाचार कृपया अन्य सदस्यों को भी इस बदलाव के बारे में बतायें। हर बदलाव आपको प्रभावित नहीं करेगी। अनुवाद उपलब्ध है।

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [106]
Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [107][108]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 अप्रैल. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 अप्रैल. It will be on all wikis from 19 अप्रैल (calendar).

बैठकें

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 अप्रैल at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 अप्रैल at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

भविष्य में परिवर्तन

The new PDF renderer could not create PDFs from books. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki. PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function. [109]
Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3. [110]
Volunteer developers can fill out the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey. The last day is April 22 (UTC). This is a third-party service survey. See the privacy statement.

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15:20, 16 अप्रैल 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-17

विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय द्वारा नया तकनीकी समाचार कृपया अन्य सदस्यों को भी इस बदलाव के बारे में बताएं। हर बदलाव आपको प्रभावित नहीं करेगी। अनुवाद उपलब्ध है।

हाल के बदलाव

पृष्ठ पूर्वावलोकन अब सभी विकिपीडिया पर है।
आईओएस और एंड्रॉइड ऐप्स में अब समन्वयित पढ़ने वाली सूचियाँ हैं। इसका अर्थ यह है कि यदि आप ऐप्स का उपयोग करते हैं तो आप अपने अन्य उपकरणों पर लेखों को एक निजी सूची में सहेज सकते हैं।
२०१० विकिटेक्स्ट संपादक में आइकन बदल गए हैं। [111]
यथादृश्य संपादिका और २०१७ विकीटेक्स्ट आपको प्रकाशित करें दबाए जाने के बाद एक संपादन सारांश लिखने के लिए कहता है। यह बटन अब एक अंडाकार भी दिखाता है। यह दिखाने के लिए है कि प्रकाशित करें दबाने वाला अंतिम चरण नहीं है। [112]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मिडियाविकी का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकी और MediaWiki.org पर 24 अप्रैल से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकी और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 25 अप्रैल से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 26 अप्रैल (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप संपादक दल से आगे होने वाली अगली बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान आप डेवेलपर को उन त्रुटियों के बारे में बता सकते हैं जो आपको बहुत महत्वपूर्ण लगती हैं। बैठक अप्रैल को १८:३० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें: कैसे जुड़ें
आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में शामिल हो सकते हैं। मीटिंग के दौरान, स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह मांग सकते हैं। बैठक अप्रैल १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। कैसे शामिल हों देखें।

भविष्य के परिवर्तन

<mapframe> मई में अधिकांश विकिपीडिया में आएगा। इसका मतलब है कि आप लेखों में संवादात्मक मानचित्र डाल सकते हैं। नौ विकिपीडिया जो ध्वजांकित संशोधनों के सख्त संस्करण का उपयोग करते हैं, उन्हें मई में यह सुविधा नहीं मिलेगी। [113]
रोलबैक फ़ंक्शन बदल सकता है। यह एक जर्मन समुदाय अनुरोध था। प्रस्तावित समाधान पर रोलबैक अधिकार वाले सभी संपादक प्रतिक्रिया दे सकते हैं। प्रतिक्रिया देने का आखिरी दिन ४ मई (यूटीसी) है।

18:16, 23 अप्रैल 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-18

विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय द्वारा नया तकनीकी समाचार। कृपया अन्य सदस्यों को भी इस बदलाव के बारे में बताएं। हर बदलाव आपको प्रभावित नहीं करेगी। अनुवाद उपलब्ध है।

हाल के बदलाव

The parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links. [114]

समस्याएँ

We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator. [115]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right. [116]
When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date. [117]
You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the संपादन section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly. [118]
There is a new abuse filter function called equals_to_any. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
मिडियाविकी का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकी और MediaWiki.org पर 1 मई से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकी और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 2 मई से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 3 मई (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप संपादक दल से आगे होने वाली अगली बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान आप डेवेलपर को उन त्रुटियों के बारे में बता सकते हैं जो आपको बहुत महत्वपूर्ण लगती हैं। बैठक मई को १८:३० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें: कैसे भाग लें
आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। मीटिंग के दौरान, स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह मांग सकते हैं। बैठक मई १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। कैसे भाग लें देखें।

भविष्य के परिवर्तन

The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jhareaccount example.comwikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [119][120][121]

16:18, 30 अप्रैल 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-20

विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय द्वारा नवीनतम तकनीकी समाचार। कृपया अन्य सदस्यों को भी इन बदलावों के बारे में बताएं। हर बदलाव आपको प्रभावित नहीं करेगा। अनुवाद उपलब्ध है।

हाल के बदलाव

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उन्नत खोज कार्य बीटा सुविधा सभी विकिमीडिया विकियों पर है। यह कुछ विशेष खोज कार्यों को सीखना और उनका उपयोग करना आसान बनाता है। [122]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

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बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान, स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह मांग सकते हैं। बैठक मई १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। कैसे भाग लें देखें।

भविष्य के परिवर्तन

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22:22, 14 मई 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-21

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 22 मई से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 23 मई से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 24 मई (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान, स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह मांग सकते हैं। बैठक मई १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। कैसे भाग लें देखें।

भावी परिवर्तन

किसी लेख में एक पुस्तक के विभिन्न पृष्ठों का संदर्भ देना आसान हो सकता है। आप प्रतिक्रिया दे सकते हैं। प्रतिक्रिया के लिए अंतिम दिन २७ मई है।

17:33, 21 मई 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-22

हाल के बदलाव

अब आप अधिकतर विकियों पर वैश्विक वरीयताओं का उपयोग कर सकते हैं। इसका मतलब है कि आप एक ही समय में सभी विकियों के लिए प्राथमिकताएं सेट कर सकते हैं। इससे पहले आपको उन्हें प्रत्येक विकि पर अलग अलग बदलना पड़ा। वैश्विक वरीयताएँ इस सप्ताह के अंत में विकिपीडिया में आएँगी। [124][125]
अवरुद्ध मोबाइल उपयोगकर्ताओं के लिए अब यह देखना आसान है कि उन्हें अवरुद्ध क्यों किया गया था। [126]
विकिडाटा अब शब्दावली डेटा का समर्थन करता है। यह शब्दों का वर्णन करने में मदद करता है।
अब विशेष:उपयोगकर्ता सूची पर एक चेकबॉक्स है जो आपको केवल अस्थायी उपयोगकर्ता समूहों में उपयोगकर्ताओं को देखने देता है। [127]
हाल ही में कुछ दुर्लभ अदृश्य यूनिकोड वर्णों को पृष्ठ शीर्षक से प्रतिबंधित कर दिया गया है। इसमें सॉफ्ट हाइफ़न (U+00AD) और बाएं से दाएं (U+2066) और दाएं से बाएं (U+2067) मार्कर अलग हैं। इन पात्रों के साथ मौजूदा पेज जल्द ही एक स्क्रिप्ट द्वारा स्थानांतरित किया जाएगा। [128]
विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदायों का समर्थन करने के लिए एक नया विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन दल है। इसे तकनीकी कार्य दल कहा जाता है। टीम के अधिकांश सदस्यों ने इससे पहले अन्य दलों में भी इसी तरह का काम किया था। [129]

समस्याएं

कुछ अनुवाद करने योग्य पृष्ठ नवीनतम अनुवादों के बजाय पुराने अनुवाद दिखा रहे हैं। इस मुद्दे का कारण ठीक कर दिया गया है। हम नवीनतम अनुवाद दिखाने के लिए स्वचालित रूप से सभी पृष्ठों का अद्यतन करेंगे। [130]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

पासवर्ड नीतियाँ नाम का एक नया विशेष पृष्ठ होगा। यह पृष्ठ उस विकि पर प्रत्येक उपयोगकर्ता समूह के लिए पासवर्ड नियमों के बारे में जानकारी देता है। [131]
Diffs में स्थानांतरित अनुच्छेद देखने का एक नया तरीका अधिकांश विकियों में आ रहा है। यह स्थानांतरित अनुच्छेद और उनमें परिवर्तनों को ढूंढना आसान बनाता है। [132]
मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 29 मई से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 30 मई से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 31 मई (कैलेंडर) से होगा।
यथादृश्य संपादिका और २०१७ विकिटेक्स्ट संपादक में स्वचालित संदर्भ खोज प्रदान करने के लिए विकि सीटोइड सक्षम कर सकते हैं। यह जटिल है। कॉन्फ़िगरेशन सही नहीं है तो यह उपकरण अब स्वयं को अक्षम कर देगा। इसने फरवरी से जावास्क्रिप्ट कंसोल में इसके बारे में चेतावनी दी है। जांचें कि आपका विकि सही तरीके से कॉन्फ़िगर किया गया है। यदि आपको इसकी आवश्यकता है तो आप सहायता के लिए पूछ सकते हैं। [133]

बैठकें

आप संपादक दल से आगे होने वाली अगली बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान आप डेवेलपर को उन त्रुटियों के बारे में बता सकते हैं जो आपको बहुत महत्वपूर्ण लगती हैं। बैठक मई को १८:३० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें: कैसे भाग लें
आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान, स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह मांग सकते हैं। बैठक मई १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। कैसे भाग लें देखें।

भावी परिवर्तन

सामग्री अनुवाद ड्राफ्ट जिनका एक वर्ष से अधिक में अद्यतन नहीं किया गया है हटा दिए जाएंगे। इससे अन्य उपयोगकर्ता उन लेखों का अनुवाद कर पाएंगे। [134]
एक सर्वेक्षण जानकारी एकत्र कर रहा है कि उपयोगकर्ता क्या सोचते हैं कि विकिमीडिया विकि पृष्ठ कैसे लोड किए जाते हैं। इस जानकारी का भावी विकास में उपयोग किया जा सकता है। [135]
कुछ विकि रीमेक्स पदच्छेद पुस्तकालय का उपयोग करने के लिए स्विच करेंगे। यह टाईडी को प्रतिस्थापित करने के लिए है। यह ३० मई और १३ जून को होगा। सभी उच्च प्राथमिकता वाले लिंटर श्रेणियों में मुख्य नामस्थान में १०० से कम लिंटर त्रुटियों वाले विकि स्विच करेंगे। इसमें विकिडाटा शामिल है। टाईडी को जुलाई के पहले सप्ताह में सभी विकि पर से हटा दिया जाएगा। [136][137]

12:40, 29 मई 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-23

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

मोनोबुक स्किन को मोबाइल उपकरणों के लिए अनुकूलित किया गया है। यह अब अलग दिखता है। [138]
प्लेनेट विकिमीडिया विकीमीडिया के बारे में ब्लॉग एकत्र करता है। अब यह प्लेनेट का उपयोग करने के बजाय रॉडोग फ़ीड एग्रीगेटर का उपयोग करेगा। [139][140]
विशेष: यहाँ क्या जुड़ता है में पुनर्निर्देशन कड़ियाँ अब मूल पृष्ठ से जोड़ती हैं न कि लक्ष्य पृष्ठ से। ऐसा पहले किया गया था और कुछ पृष्ठों पर इस्तेमाल किए गए संदेश बदल गए थे। यह उन विकियों के लिए एक समस्या थी जिन्होंने संदेश को अनुकूलित किया था। एक नए बदलाव ने पुराने संदेशों का अनुकूलन के लिए एक और प्रचलित के साथ उपयोग करके इसे ठीक कर दिया है। जिन विकियों ने पहले से ही अपने अनुकूलित संदेशों को बदल दिया है उनको फिर से अनुकूलन को स्थानांतरित करना होगा। [141]

समस्याएँ

आप १३ जून को ०६:०० और ०६:३० यूटीसी के बीच कुछ विकि संपादित नहीं कर पाएंगे। आप देख सकते हैं कि आपका विकि उनमें से एक है।
MassMessage ने २४-२८ मई काम नहीं किया। यही कारण है कि पिछले हफ्ते तकनीकी समाचार देर से पहुँचा। [142]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 5 जून से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 6 जून से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 7 जून (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप संपादक दल से आगे होने वाली अगली बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान आप डेवेलपर को उन त्रुटियों के बारे में बता सकते हैं जो आपको बहुत महत्वपूर्ण लगती हैं। बैठक जून को १८:३० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें: कैसे भाग लें
आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान, स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह मांग सकते हैं। बैठक जून १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। कैसे भाग लें देखें।

भावी परिवर्तन

ध्यानसूची के लिए संपादन समीक्षा के लिए नए फ़िल्टर टूल और इंटरफ़ेस बीटा छोड़ देंगे। यह जून या जुलाई की शुरुआत में होने की योजना है। [143][144]

21:54, 4 जून 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-24

विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय द्वारा नवीनतम तकनीकी समाचार। कृपया अन्य सदस्यों को भी इन बदलावों के बारे में बताएँ। हर बदलाव आपको प्रभावित नहीं करेगा। अनुवाद उपलब्ध है।

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

एंड्रॉइड या आईओएस की विकिपीडिया ऐप में प्रयोक्ता पढ़ने की सूचियाँ बना सकते हैं। अगर आप अपने खाते में लॉग इन हैं तो पढ़ने की सूचियों को विभिन्न उपकरणों पर देखा जा सकता है। आप वेब ब्राउजर से अपनी पढ़ने की सूची में पृष्ठ जोड़ सकें इसलिए अब ब्राउज़र एक्सटेंशन है। फिलहाल यह फ़ायरफ़ॉक्स और क्रोम के साथ काम करता है। [145]
Pywikibot का एक नया संस्करण आया है। Pywikibot मीडियाविकि के विकियों पर कार्यों को स्वचालित करने के लिए एक उपकरण है। [146]

समस्याएँ

मोनोबुक स्किन को मोबाइल उपयोगकर्ताओं के लिए बेहतर काम करने के लिए बदला गया था। इससे कुछ समस्याएँ हुईं। उन्हें ठीक करने के लिए इस परिवर्तन को वापस किया गया था। नया संस्करण अब विकियों पर वापस आ गया है। मोनोबुक उपयोगकर्ता नए अनुक्रियाशील डिजाइन का उपयोग न करने का विकल्प चुन सकते हैं। [147]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

संपादन समीक्षा के लिए नए फ़िल्टर ध्यानसूची के लिए टूल और इंटरफ़ेस बीटा से बाहर आ जाएंगे। ज्यादातर विकि के लिए यह १८ जून को होगा। बाकी के लिए यह २५ जून को होगा। [148][149]

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 12 जून से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 13 जून से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 14 जून (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप पाठक वेब टीम आईआरसी कार्यालय समय में शामिल हो सकते हैं। वहां आप मौजूदा मीडियाविकि स्किन के लिए मोबाइल वेब पर योगदान करने के लिए टूल पर चर्चा कर सकते हैं। बैठक १८ जून को १६:०० बजे (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।
आप संपादक दल से होने वाली अगली बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान आप डेवेलपर को उन त्रुटियों के बारे में बता सकते हैं जो आपको बहुत महत्वपूर्ण लगती हैं। बैठक जून को १८:३० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें: कैसे भाग लें
आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान, स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह मांग सकते हैं। बैठक जून १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। कैसे भाग लें देखें।

भावी परिवर्तन

आप स्थानीय विकि फ़ाइलों को कॉमन्स पर ले जाने और उनके मूल डेटा को बरकरार रखने में सक्षम होंगे। पहले विकियों में यह जून में होने की योजना है।

21:55, 11 जून 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-25

विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय द्वारा नवीनतम तकनीकी समाचार। कृपया अन्य सदस्यों को भी इन परिवर्तनों के बारे में बताएँ। हर परिवर्तन आपको प्रभावित नहीं करेगा। अनुवाद उपलब्ध है।

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

सिंटेक्स हाइलाइटिंग बाएँ से दाएँ पाठ वाले विकिमीडिया विकियों पर बीटा फीचर रहा है। अब यह एक सामान्य फीचर है। यह कोडमिरर पर आधारित है। [150]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

इस सप्ताह मीडियाविकि का कोई नया संस्करण नहीं आएगा।

बैठकें

आप संपादक दल से होने वाली अगली बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान आप डेवेलपर को उन त्रुटियों के बारे में बता सकते हैं जो आपको बहुत महत्वपूर्ण लगती हैं। बैठक जून को १८:३० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें: कैसे भाग लें
आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक जून १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। कैसे भाग लें देखें।

भावी परिवर्तन

कुछ पुराने वेब ब्राउज़र विकिमीडिया विकियों पढ़ने में सक्षम नहीं रहेंगे। ऐसा इसलिए है क्योंकि वे उनसे जुड़ने के लिए एक असुरक्षित तरीके का उपयोग करते हैं। इसका मतलब है कि सभी की सुरक्षा कम हो जाती है। यह विकिमीडिया विकियों के सरे ट्रैफ़िक के लगभग ०.०८% को प्रभावित करेगा है। उदाहरण के लिए यह उन्हें प्रभावित करता है जो विकिपीडिया को प्लेस्टेशन ३ पर पढ़ते हैं। [151][152]
ध्यानसूची के लिए संपादन समीक्षा के लिए नए फ़िल्टर टूल और इंटरफ़ेस बीटा से बाहर आ जाएंगे। क्योंकि इस सप्ताह मीडियाविकि का कोई नया संस्करण नहीं आएगा इसलिए ज्यादातर विकि के लिए यह २५ जून को होगा। बाकी के लिए यह जुलाई के आरम्भ में होगा। यह पहले बताए गए समय से बाद में होगा। [153][154]
जिन विकियों ने रीमेक्स पदच्छेद पुस्तकालय का उपयोग करने के लिए अभी तक स्विच नहीं किया है वे ५ जुलाई को करेंगे। यह टाईडी को प्रतिस्थापित करने के लिए है। आप शेष त्रुटियों को ठीक करने में मदद कर सकते हैं। [155]

21:47, 18 जून 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-26

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

हमारा जुपीटर हब सिस्टम PAWS का अपग्रेड हुआ है और लोगो बना है। इससे कई त्रुटियों का निवारण हो जाना चाहिए।

समस्याएँ

जब एक कड़ी का पाठ इटालिक्स में होता था या अन्य प्रारूपण होता था तो आप कभी-कभी यथादृश्य संपादिका में इसे संपादित नहीं कर सकते थे। अब यह सुधार दिया गया है। [156][157]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

सामग्री अनुवाद उपयोगकर्ता जो अरबी, अंग्रेजी, फ्रेंच, जापानी और रूसी में से किन्ही दो के बीच अनुवाद करते हैं उन्हें एक शोध परियोजना का हिस्सा बनने के लिए कहा जाएगा। यह लेखों का अनुवाद करने के लिए बेहतर उपकरण बनाने के लिए है। [158]
मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 26 जून से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 27 जून से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 28 जून (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप संपादक दल से होने वाली अगली बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान आप डेवेलपर को उन त्रुटियों के बारे में बता सकते हैं जो आपको बहुत महत्वपूर्ण लगती हैं। बैठक जून को १८:३० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें: कैसे भाग लें
आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक जून १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। कैसे भाग लें देखें।

23:10, 25 जून 2018 (UTC)

Tidy to RemexHtml

पार्सिंग दल ५ जुलाई २०१८ को इस विकि पर टाइडी को रेमेक्स से प्रतिस्थापित कर देगा।

इस विकि पर कुछ पृष्ठ पुराने HTML का प्रयोग करते हैं। यह परिवर्तन उन पृष्ठों की रूप रेखा बदल सकता है। प्रभावित हुए सभी पृष्ठों की सूची Special:LintErrors पर उपलब्ध है।

अधिक जानकारी के लिए यह ईमेल संदेश पढ़ें। mw:Help:Extension:Linter पर दिशानिर्देश पढ़ें। आप mw:Talk:Parsing/Replacing Tidy पर प्रश्न पूछ सकते हैं। इन समस्याओं का समाधान करने में सहायता करने के लिए धन्यवाद।

m:User:Elitre (WMF) 14:38, 2 जुलाई 2018 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2018-27

विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय द्वारा नवीनतम तकनीकी समाचार। कृपया अन्य सदस्यों को भी इन परिवर्तनों के बारे में बतायें। हर परिवर्तन आपको प्रभावित नहीं करेगा। अनुवाद उपलब्ध है।

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

टैग्ज़ का डेटाबेस बदल दिया जायेगा। यह फ़्रेंच विकिपीडिया पर २ जुलाई और अन्य विकियों पर ९ जुलाई को होगा। यदि हाल में हुए परिवर्तन धीमे हो जायें या आप सम्पादन सहेज न पायें तो कृपया रिपोर्ट करें। यह विशेषकर उन सम्पादकों को प्रभावित कर सकता है जो डेटाबेस का टूलफ़ॉर्ज पर प्रयोग करते थे। [159]

समस्यायें

पिछले सप्ताह का मीडियाविकि अध्यातन वापस ले लिया गया था। ऐसा डेटाबेस की समस्या की वजह से हुआ था। [160]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

इस सप्ताह मीडियाविकि का कोई नया संस्करण नहीं आयेगा।

बैठकें

आप संपादक दल से होने वाली अगली बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान आप डेवेलपर को उन त्रुटियों के बारे में बता सकते हैं जो आपको बहुत महत्वपूर्ण लगती हैं। बैठक जुलाई को १८:३० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें: कैसे भाग लें।
आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक जुलाई १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। कैसे भाग लें देखें।

00:46, 3 जुलाई 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-28

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

WebM वीडियो फ़ाइलें छोटे फ़ाइल आकार की होती हैं लेकिन फिर भी गुणवत्ता समान ही होती है। WebM फाइलों को बनाने में और लंबा समय लगेगा। [161]
ध्यानसूची के लिए संपादन समीक्षा के लिए नए फ़िल्टर टूल और इंटरफ़ेस बीटा से बाहर आ जाएंगे। यह कार्य अब तक हो जाना चाहिए था परन्तु इसमें देर हो गयी।ज्यादातर विकि के लिए यह ९ जुलाई को होगा। बाकी के लिए यह १६ जुलाई को होगा। [162]
सभी विकि अब टाईडी के स्थान पर रीमेक्स पदच्छेद पुस्तकालय का उपयोग करते हैं। इससे त्रुटियाँ हो सकती हैं। आप त्रुटियों को ठीक करने में मदद कर सकते हैं। [163]

समस्याएँ

जब आप कोई सम्पादन वापस लेते थे तो रोलबैक और पूर्ववत दोनों टैग मिल सकते थे। यह ठीक कर दिया गया है। [164]
स्वतःपरीक्षित उपयोगकर्ताओं द्वारा किये रोलबैक परीक्षित चिह्नित नहीं होते थे। यह ठीक कर दिया गया है। [165]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

जब आप यथादृश्य संपादिका में कोई कड़ी संपादित करते हैं तो कड़ी किससे जोड़ती है (लक्ष्य) या उसका पाठ (नाम) को बदलने के लिए दो अलग-अलग बटन होंगे। [166][167]
मोबाइल संस्करण पर आप अपने उपयोगकर्ता पेज से किसी संपादक के योगदान के लिए एक कड़ी होती है। अब यह तब भी काम करेगी जब कि उन्होंने कोई उपयोगकर्ता पृष्ठ ही नहीं बनाया हो। [168]
जब आप मोबाइल पर चर्चा संपादित करते हैं तो कभी-कभी आपका हस्ताक्षर स्वचालित रूप से जुड़ जाता है। यदि आप मैन्युअल रूप से हस्ताक्षर जोड़ चुके हैं तब यह नहीं होगा। यह हस्ताक्षर के दोहराव से बचने के लिए है। [169]
संरचित चर्चा टूलबार में अधिक स्टाइल विकल्प होंगे। [170]
जब आप विकिमीडिया कोड को Gerrit में देखेंगे तो एक नया इंटरफ़ेस होगा। यह नए उपयोगकर्ताओं के लिए डिफ़ॉल्ट रूप से चलेगा। डेवलपर्स के लिए भी ऐसा ही है। ऐसा यह समझना आसान करने के लिए किया जा रहा है कि क्या हो रहा है। [171]
मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 10 जुलाई से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 11 जुलाई से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 12 जुलाई (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप संपादक दल से होने वाली अगली बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान आप डेवेलपर को उन त्रुटियों के बारे में बता सकते हैं जो आपको बहुत महत्वपूर्ण लगती हैं। बैठक जुलाई को १८:३० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें: कैसे भाग लें।
आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक जुलाई १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। कैसे भाग लें देखें।

भावी परिवर्तन

आज सभी प्रबंधक सभी विकि के लिए CSS और जावास्क्रिप्ट संपादित कर सकते हैं। इसके लिए एक नया उपयोगकर्ता समूह बनाया जायेगा। ऐसा इसलिए किया जा रहा है क्योंकि अगर सभी प्रबंधक खाते जावास्क्रिप्ट को संपादित कर सकते हैं, भले ही उनकी कभी भी ऐसा करने की योजना न हो या वे नहीं जानते कि यह कैसे काम करता है, तो यह एक सुरक्षा ख़तरा है। आप और पढ़ सकते हैं। [172]
पृष्ठ पूर्वावलोकन नए खातों के लिए डिफ़ॉल्ट रूप से चलेगा। [173]

23:10, 9 जुलाई 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-29

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

अब आप विकिमीडिया विकियों पर वैश्विक वरीयताओं का उपयोग कर सकते हैं। आप उन्हें वैश्विक वरीयताएँ पृष्ठ पर सेट कर सकते हैं। [174]
अब आप Special:log/create पर बनाए जा रहे पृष्ठों का एक नया लॉग देख सकते हैं। इसमें वे पृष्ठ शामिल हैं जिन्हें बाद में हटा दिया गया है। यह अब कॉमन्स और विकिडेटा को छोड़कर सभी विकिमीडिया विकियों पर उपलब्ध है। [175]
आप देख सकते हैं कि विशिष्ट देशों से किसी विकि के कितने पेजव्यू थे। [https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/hi.wikipedia.org/reading/page-views-by-country/normal%7Cmap%7C2-Year~2016060100~2018071100 16:01, 16 जुलाई 2018 (UTC)

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जब आप अपने खाते में लॉग इन करते हैं तो आप लॉग इन रहने का चयन कर सकते हैं। यह चेकबॉक्स अब उन उपयोगकर्ताओं के मोबाइल संस्करण पर पहले से बेहतर काम करता है जिनके पास जावस्क्रिप्ट नहीं है। [176]
Citoid का उपयोग करने वाले विकिज़ स्वचालित रूप से स्वीडिश समाचार साइटों के लिए उद्धरण उत्पन्न कर सकते हैं। यह केवल यथादृश्य संपादिका में काम करता है। यह अब स्वीडिश सार्वजनिक सेवा रेडियो के लिए काम करता है। भविष्य में और आएगा। भविष्य में अन्य भाषाओं में समाचार साइटों को जोड़ने के लिए इसका इस्तेमाल कर सकते हैं। [177]
संपादक प्रति मिनट अधिकतम ९० संपादन कर सकते हैं। यह पिछले महीने से नया है। [178]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 24 जुलाई से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 25 जुलाई से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 26 जुलाई (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक जुलाई १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। कैसे भाग लें देखें।

09:44, 24 जुलाई 2018 (UTC)

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Special:Log पर डिजाइन बदल गया है। यह जल्द ही फिर से बदल जाएगा। डेवलपर्स समस्याओं को ठीक करने पर काम कर रहे हैं। [179]

समस्याएँ

1.32.0-wmf.13 के प्रविस्तारण में आंशिक रूप से देर हुई है। त्रुटि सुधर के बाद सभी प्रविस्तारण फिर से शुरू किये गए और सफलतापूर्वक संपन्न किये गए हैं। [180][181]
1.32.0-wmf.14 के प्रविस्तारण में आंशिक रूप से देर हुई है। [182][183]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 31 जुलाई से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 1 अगस्त से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 2 अगस्त (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप संपादक दल से होने वाली अगली बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान आप डेवेलपर को उन त्रुटियों के बारे में बता सकते हैं जो आपको बहुत महत्वपूर्ण लगती हैं। बैठक 31 जुलाई को १८:३० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।
आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 1 अगस्त १५:०० (यूटीसी) और २३:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भावी परिवर्तन

एक सामुदायिक चर्चा के बाद, उपयोगकर्ताओं के लिए एक नया समूह बनाया जाएगा। "इंटरफेस प्रबंधक" एकमात्र ऐसे उपयोगकर्ता होंगे जिन्हें MediaWiki:Common.css या MediaWiki:Common.js जैसे इंटरफ़ेस पृष्ठों को संपादित करने की अनुमति होगी। यह तकनीकी समस्याओं से बचने और सुरक्षा में सुधार के लिए किया जाता है। यह परिवर्तन अगस्त २०१८ के अंत तक प्रभावी होगा।

14:05, 30 जुलाई 2018 (UTC)

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विशेष:नएपृष्ठ का स्वरूप अब OOUI है। [184]

समस्याएँ

दो हफ्ते पहले का मीडियाविकि संस्करण देर से आया था। ऐसा एक त्रुटि के कारण हुआ था। यह ३० जुलाई को सभी विकियों पर था। [185][186]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 7 अगस्त से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 8 अगस्त से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 9 अगस्त (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप संपादक दल से होने वाली अगली बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान आप डेवेलपर को उन त्रुटियों के बारे में बता सकते हैं जो आपको बहुत महत्वपूर्ण लगती हैं। बैठक 7 अगस्त को १८:३० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।
आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 8 अगस्त १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

19:39, 6 अगस्त 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-33

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टेम्पलेट्स में CSS अब सभी विकियों पर एक अलग पृष्ठ में संग्रहीत किया जा सकता है। इसे टेम्पलेट स्टाइल कहा जाता है। यह इसे संपादित करना आसान बनाता है कि टेम्पलेट्स कैसी दिखती हैं। [187]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

इस सप्ताह मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण नहीं आएगा।

बैठकें

आप संपादक दल से होने वाली अगली बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान आप डेवेलपर को उन त्रुटियों के बारे में बता सकते हैं जो आपको बहुत महत्वपूर्ण लगती हैं। बैठक 14 अगस्त को १८:३० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।
आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 15 अगस्त १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भावी परिवर्तन

डेवलपर्स उपयोगकर्ताओं को अवरुद्ध करने के अधिक तरीकों की योजना बना रहे हैं। यह किसी को किसी पृष्ठ या नामस्थान से अवरुद्ध करना हो सकता है। आप और पढ़ सकते हैं। आप वार्ता पृष्ठ पर प्रतिक्रिया छोड़ सकते हैं। [188]

17:53, 13 अगस्त 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-34

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 21 अगस्त से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 22 अगस्त से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 23 अगस्त (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 22 अगस्त १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भावी परिवर्तन

सामुदायिक इच्छा-सूची सर्वेक्षण २०१८, २९ अक्टूबर को शुरू होगा। सर्वेक्षण तय करता है कि सामुदायिक तकनीकी दल किस पर काम करेगा। आप २९ अक्टूबर से ११ नवंबर तक प्रस्ताव पोस्ट कर सकते हैं। आप १६ नवंबर से ३० नवंबर तक प्रस्तावों पर मतदान कर सकते हैं।
लिगेसी जावास्क्रिप्ट वैश्विक चर को सात साल के लिए बहिष्कृत कर दिया गया है। उन्हें जल्द ही सभी विकियों से हटा दिया जाएगा। जो गैजेट्स और स्क्रिप्ट उनका उपयोग करते हैं, काम करना बंद कर देंगे। आप अपने समुदाय के गैजेट्स को "group0" विकियों पर देख सकते हैं। उदाहरण के लिए परीक्षण विकिपीडिया या mediawiki.org। वहाँ लिगेसी जावास्क्रिप्ट वैश्विक चर पहले से ही अक्षम कर दिए गए हैं। पुरानी स्क्रिप्ट को ठीक करने के लिए आप माइग्रेशन गाइड पढ़ सकते हैं। [189]

16:46, 20 अगस्त 2018 (UTC)

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अब आप मोबाइल दृश्य में diffs में स्थानांतरित अनुच्छेद देख सकते हैं। यह सभी भाषाओं में डेस्कटॉप दृश्य पर भी काम करता है। [190]
सभी विकिमीडिया विकियों पर प्रशासक अब इंटरफेस व्यवस्थापक के उपयोगकर्ता अधिकारों को हटा सकते हैं। [191]

समस्याएँ

कुछ diffs पंक्तियों को गलत क्रम में दिखाते हैं। डेवलपर्स इसे ठीक करने पर काम कर रहे हैं। [192]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

जब आप किसी उपयोगकर्ता का धन्यवाद करते हैं तो जो संदेश दिखता है वो बदल जाएगा। यह इसे समझना आसान बनाने के लिए है। [193]
AWB संपादन सारांश में AWB का उपयोग करना बंद कर देगा। इसके बजाय यह AWB टैग जोड़ देगा। [194]
कुछ दुरुपयोग फ़िल्टर चर बदल गए हैं। अब गैर विशेषज्ञों के लिए इन्हें समझना आसान है। पुराने चर अभी भी काम करेंगे लेकिन फ़िल्टर संपादकों को उन्हें नए चरों के साथ बदलने के लिए प्रोत्साहित किया जाता है। आप बदले गए चरों की सूची mediawiki.org पर पा सकते हैं। उनमें एक टिप्पणी है कि Deprecated। इसके बजाय उपयोग करें। एक उदाहरण article_text है जो अब page_title है। [195]
दुरुपयोग फ़िल्टर अब इसका उपयोग कर सकते हैं कि पृष्ठ कितना पुराना है। चर page_age है। [196]
मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 28 अगस्त से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 29 अगस्त से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 30 अगस्त (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप संपादक दल से होने वाली अगली बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान आप डेवेलपर को उन त्रुटियों के बारे में बता सकते हैं जो आपको बहुत महत्वपूर्ण लगती हैं। बैठक 28 अगस्त को १८:३० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।
आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 29 अगस्त १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भावी परिवर्तन

डेटा सेंटर परीक्षण की वजह से आप १२ सितंबर और १० अक्टूबर को एक घंटे तक विकि संपादित नहीं कर पाएंगे। यह १४:०० (यूटीसी) से शुरू होगा। यदि आप इस समय के दौरान संपादन सहेजने का प्रयास करते हैं तो आप संपादन खो सकते हैं। जिस समय में आप संपादित नहीं कर सकते एक घंटे से भी कम हो सकता है। आप इसके बारे में और अधिक पढ़ सकते हैं।

16:16, 27 अगस्त 2018 (UTC)

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There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [197][198]
There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [199][200]
You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [201]
wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [202]
When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [203]

समस्याएँ

UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [204]
You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [205]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 4 सितम्बर से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 5 सितम्बर से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 6 सितम्बर (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 5 सितम्बर १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भावी परिवर्तन

The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation.
The RelatedSites extension will be removed from Wikivoyage.
Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server will be removed. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used. [206]

16:48, 3 सितंबर 2018 (UTC)

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हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

जब आप दृश्य संपादक के साथ टेम्पलेट को जोड़ते या संपादित करते हैं तो इनपुट बॉक्स बहुत बड़े होते थे। यह तय किया गया है। जब तक आप उन पर क्लिक नहीं करेंगे तब तक इनपुट बॉक्स छोटे होंगे। फिर वे पाठ को फिट करने के लिए आकार बदल देंगे। [207]

समस्याएँ

कुछ diffs ने लाइनों को गलत क्रम में दिखाया था। यह पिछले हफ्ते ठीक कर दिया गया था। [208]
पढ़ने के रूप में एक क्रॉस-विकी अधिसूचना चिह्नित करना हर बार काम नहीं करता था। अन्य विकी अद्यतन नहीं किया गया था। अब यह सुधर गया है। [209]
<maplink> कुछ दिनों तक काम नहीं किया। यह एक बग की वजह से था। अब यह सुधर गया है। [210]
कुछ टेम्पलेट्स द्वारा {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} उपयोग किया जाता है। कुछ समय के लिए {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} के साथ सहेजे गए संपादन के लिए पिछले उपयोगकर्ता का नाम सहेज लेगा, न कि आपका उपयोगकर्ता नाम। यह अब ठीक हो गया है। त्रुटि से पहले किए गए संपादन अभी भी गलत हैं और उन्हें ठीक करने की आवश्यकता होगी। [211]
जब आप किसी पृष्ठ को ले जाते हैं तो शीर्षक अभी भी पुराना पृष्ठ नाम दिखाता है। डेवलपर्स इसे ठीक करने पर काम कर रहे हैं। [212]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

डेटा सेंटर टेस्ट की वजह से आप 12 सितंबर और 10 अक्टूबर को एक घंटे तक विकी संपादित नहीं कर पाएंगे। यह 14:00 (यूटीसी) से शुरू होगा। यदि आप इस समय के दौरान सहेजने का प्रयास करते हैं तो आप संपादन खो सकते हैं। वह समय जब आप संपादित नहीं कर सकते हैं तो एक घंटे से भी कम हो सकता है। आप इसके बारे में और अधिक पढ़ सकते हैं।
डेटा सेंटर परीक्षण के कारण इस सप्ताह मीडियाविकि का कोई नया संस्करण नहीं होगा। इस सप्ताह के लिए परिवर्तन इसके बजाय अगले सप्ताह होंगे।

बैठकें

आप संपादक दल से होने वाली अगली बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान आप डेवेलपर को उन त्रुटियों के बारे में बता सकते हैं जो आपको बहुत महत्वपूर्ण लगती हैं। बैठक 11 सितम्बर को १८:३० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।
आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 12 सितम्बर १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भविष्य में परिवर्तन

डेवलपर्स मोबाइल फोन पर विकियों को बेहतर बनाने पर काम करते हैं। मोबाइल दृश्य में सामग्री को पढ़ने में आसान बनाते समय आने वाली सामान्य समस्याओं की एक सूची है। आप पृष्ठ पर चीजें जोड़ सकते हैं और दूसरों से मदद करने के लिए कह सकते हैं।

22:35, 10 सितंबर 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-39

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

वरीयताएँ फ़ॉर्म बदल कर सामान्य रूप का प्रयोग करेगा। यदि आपको कोई समस्याएँ दिखाई देती हैं तो कृपया फैब्रिकटेर पर रिपोर्ट करें। [213]
मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 25 सितम्बर से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 26 सितम्बर से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 27 सितम्बर (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 26 सितम्बर १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

15:23, 24 सितंबर 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-40

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

सामान्य पृष्ठ अब जावास्क्रिप्ट के रूप में लोड नहीं किए जा सकते हैं। आप URL में ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript का उपयोग करके ऐसा कर सकते हैं। केवल MediaWiki: नामस्थान में पूरी तरह संरक्षित पृष्ठ: या उपयोगकर्ता जावास्क्रिप्ट उपपृष्ठ अब जावास्क्रिप्ट के रूप में लोड किए जा सकते हैं। यह बेहतर सुरक्षा के लिए है। [214][215]

समस्याएँ

Translatewiki.net से नए और अद्यतन अनुवाद थोड़ी देर के लिए विकियों तक नहीं पहुंचेंगे। आप अभी भी translatewiki.net पर संदेशों का अनुवाद कर सकते हैं। विकिमीडिया विकियों का नए अनुवादों के साथ बाद में अध्यतन किया जाएगा। यह अनुवाद प्रणाली पर चल रहे काम की वजह से है। [216][217]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 2 अक्टूबर से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 3 अक्टूबर से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 4 अक्टूबर (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 3 अक्टूबर १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।
आप विकीमीडिया फाउंडेशन सर्च प्लेटफार्म टीम के साथ बैठक में शामिल हो सकते हैं। बैठक ३ अक्टूबर को १५:०० यूटीसी पर होगी। यदि आप जानना चाहते हैं कि खोज फ़ंक्शन कैसे काम करता है या आपके कोई प्रश्न हैं तो देखें कि कैसे जुड़ें।

भावी परिवर्तन

डेटा सेंटर परीक्षण के कारण आप १० अक्टूबर को एक घंटे तक विकि पढ़ने में तो सक्षम होंगे लेकिन संपादित नहीं कर सकेंगे। यह १४:०० (यूटीसी) से शुरू होगा। यदि आप इस समय के दौरान सम्पादन सहेजने का प्रयास करते हैं तो आप सम्पादन खो सकते हैं। वह समय जब आप संपादित नहीं कर सकते हैं एक घंटे से भी कम हो सकता है। आप इसके बारे में और अधिक पढ़ सकते हैं।

17:35, 1 अक्टूबर 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-41

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

शिक्षा कार्यक्रम एक्सटेंशन को सभी विकीमीडिया परियोजनाओं से हटा दिया गया था। आप इसके बजाय कार्यक्रम और आयोजन डैशबोर्ड या फाउंटेन का उपयोग कर सकते हैं। [218]

समस्याएँ

जब आप यथादृश्य संपादिका के साथ एक तालिका से कॉपी और पेस्ट करते थे तो एक समस्या थी। यह वहाँ href जोड़ सकता है जहाँ यह नहीं होना चाहिए। अब यह सुधर गया है। [219]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

डेटा सेंटर परीक्षण के कारण आप १० अक्टूबर को एक घंटे तक विकि पढ़ने में तो सक्षम होंगे लेकिन संपादित नहीं कर सकेंगे। यह १४:०० (यूटीसी) से शुरू होगा। यदि आप इस समय के दौरान सम्पादन सहेजने का प्रयास करते हैं तो आप सम्पादन खो सकते हैं। वह समय जब आप संपादित नहीं कर सकते हैं एक घंटे से भी कम हो सकता है। आप इसके बारे में और अधिक पढ़ सकते हैं।
डेटा सेंटर परीक्षण के कारण इस सप्ताह मीडियाविकि का कोई नया संस्करण नहीं होगा। इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन इसके बजाय अगले सप्ताह होंगे।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 10 अक्टूबर १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

23:38, 8 अक्टूबर 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-42

समस्याएँ

सर्वर स्विच के बाद कुछ समय के लिए कुछ पृष्ठ, संपादन और उपयोगकर्ता गायब हो गए थे। गुम सामग्री और उपयोगकर्ताओं को एक दिन के भीतर ठीक कर दिया गया था। कुछ वरीयताओं और अन्य चीजों को ठीक करने में कुछ और दिन लग सकते हैं। [220]
विकियों का translatewiki.net से नए और अद्यतन अनुवादों के साथ फिर से अद्यतन किया गया है। यह सप्ताह में एक बार होगा। डेवलपर्स समस्या को ठीक करने पर काम कर रहे हैं ताकि हम फिर से अक्सर अनुवाद अद्यतन कर सकें। [221]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

जब आप एक दुरुपयोग फ़िल्टर बनाते हैं जो संपादन को रोकता है तो आप इसके लिए एक विशिष्ट त्रुटि संदेश लिख सकते हैं। इससे पहले सभी दुरुपयोग फ़िल्टरों के संपादन को रोकने पर एक ही त्रुटि संदेश आता था। [222]
मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 16 अक्टूबर से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 17 अक्टूबर से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 18 अक्टूबर (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

सम्पादक दल के साथ और कोई बैठक नहीं होगी। ऐसा इसलिए है क्योंकि पर्याप्त विकिमीडियन दिलचस्पी नहीं रखते थे। जो त्रुटियाँ आपको बहुत महत्वपूर्ण लगती हैं उनके बारे में डेवलपर्स को बताने के लिए आप सामान्य रूप से फैब्रीकेटर का उपयोग कर सकते हैं। [223]
आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 17 अक्टूबर १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

22:41, 15 अक्टूबर 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-43

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 23 अक्टूबर से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 24 अक्टूबर से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 25 अक्टूबर (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 24 अक्टूबर १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भावी परिवर्तन

The Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.

23:11, 22 अक्टूबर 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-44

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

आप सामुदायिक इच्छासूची सर्वेक्षण में प्रस्ताव प्रस्तुत कर सकते हैं। सर्वेक्षण निर्धारित करता है कि सामुदायिक तकनीकी दल क्या काम करेगा। आप ११ नवंबर तक प्रस्ताव प्रस्तुत कर सकते हैं। आप १६ नवंबर से ३० नवंबर तक प्रस्तावों पर मतदान कर सकते हैं।
The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [224]

समस्याएँ

आपकी ध्यानसूची यह दिखा सकती कि आप कौनसे परिवर्तन देख लिए हैं। यह कुछ दिनों से काम नहीं कर रहा था। इसे ठीक कर दिया गया है। [225]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 30 अक्टूबर से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 31 अक्टूबर से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 1 नवम्बर (कैलेंडर) से होगा।
२००६ विकिपाठ सम्पादक अब उपलब्ध नहीं है। यह वरीयताओं से हटा दिया जाएगा। यह बहुत समय से सामान्य सम्पादक नहीं रहा है। इसे २०१० विकिपाठ सम्पादक द्वारा प्रतिस्थापित कर दिया गया था। [226][227]

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 31 अक्टूबर १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

20:09, 29 अक्टूबर 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-45

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

अब आप साँचों को सम्पादित करने के लिए TemplateWizard का प्रयोग कर सकते हैं। यह केवल २०१० विकिपाठ सम्पादक में काम करता है यथादृश्य संपादिका या २०१७ विकिपाठ सम्पादक में नहीं। यदि आप पर क्लिक करते हैं तो आप पॉप-अप में जानकारी भर सकते हैं। आप TemplateWizard को अपनी बीटा सुविधा वरीयताओं में चालू कर सकते हैं। [228]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

आप संपादन संघर्ष को दो कॉलम दृश्य में देखना चुन सकते हैं। यह एक बीटा सुविधा है। यह आपको अपनी वरीयताओं में मिलेगा। दो कॉलम संपादन संघर्ष के लिए इंटरफेस बदल जाएगा। आप और पढ़ सकते हैं।
जब आप यथादृश्य संपादिका के साथ संपादित करते हैं तो आप "स्वचालित" उद्धरण टैब का उपयोग कर सकते हैं। यह आपको उद्धरण उत्पन्न करने में मदद करता है। अब आप इस टैब में सादा पाठ उद्धरण या जर्नल लेख या पुस्तक का शीर्षक लिखने में सक्षम होंगे। यह क्रॉसरेफ़ और वर्ल्डकैट डेटाबेस खोजेगा और शीर्ष परिणाम जोड़ देगा। [229]
मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 6 नवम्बर से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 7 नवम्बर से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 8 नवम्बर (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 7 नवम्बर १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

17:29, 5 नवम्बर 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-46

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

कुछ पुराने मोबाइल ब्राउज़र फिर से इच्छासूची का उपयोग कर सकते हैं। यह थोड़े समय से काम नहीं कर रहा था। इन ब्राउज़रों को ग्रेड सी ब्राउज़र कहा जाता है। उदाहरण के लिए यह विंडोज एक्सप्लोरर वाले विंडोज फोन ८.१ और विंडोज १० वाले लुमिया ५३५ के लिए सहायक है। [230]

समस्याएँ

आप दो कॉलम दृश्य में संपादन संघर्षों को देखना चुन सकते हैं। यह एक बीटा सुविधा है। आप इसे अपनी वरीयताओं में देख सकते हैं। इस दृश्य का उपयोग करने वाले उपयोगकर्ता जब कोई पूर्वावलोकन देखना चाहते थे तो संपादन संघर्ष समाधान पृष्ठ दिखाई देता था। यह ठीक कर दिया गया है। [231][232][233]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 13 नवम्बर से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 14 नवम्बर से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 15 नवम्बर (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 14 नवम्बर १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भावी परिवर्तन

लेखों का अनुवाद करने के लिए आप सामग्री अनुवाद टूल का उपयोग कर सकते हैं। डेवलपर एक नये संस्करण पर काम कर रहे हैं। परिवर्तनों में से एक रखरखाव श्रेणी होगी। लेख जहाँ उपयोगकर्ता बिना किसी बदलाव के मशीन अनुवाद से बहुत अधिक पाठ जोड़ते हैं, उस श्रेणी में होंगे। ऐसा इसलिए है ताकि समुदाय उसकी समीक्षा कर सके। उपयोगकर्ताओं को इस आलेख को प्रकाशित करने से पहले चेतावनी दी जाएगी कि इसमें मशीन अनुवादों से बहुत अपरिवर्तित पाठ है। [234]

19:22, 12 नवम्बर 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-47

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

आप सामुदायिक इच्छासूची सर्वेक्षण में प्रस्ताव प्रस्तुत कर सकते हैं। सर्वेक्षण निर्धारित करता है कि सामुदायिक तकनीकी दल क्या काम करेगा। आप ११ नवंबर तक प्रस्ताव प्रस्तुत कर सकते हैं। आप १६ नवंबर से ३० नवंबर तक प्रस्तावों पर मतदान कर सकते हैं।
sameAs डेटा के लिए एक ए/बी परीक्षण हो रहा है। यह खोज इंजन के साथ सही जानकारी को ढूंढना आसान बनाता है। यह विकि पृष्ठ के मेटाडाटा को बदलता है। यह पृष्ठ के रूप को नहीं बदलता। [235]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

इस सप्ताह मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण नहीं आएगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 21 नवम्बर १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भावी परिवर्तन

विकिमीडिया विकि पाठकों को पृष्ठों की सामग्री की समस्याएँ दिखाने के लिए साँचों का उपयोग करते हैं। उदाहरण के लिए यदि कोई स्रोत नहीं है या पृष्ठ को फिर से लिखना आवश्यक है। जल्द ही इन साँचों का उपयोग करने पर मोबाइल वेबसाइट अधिक जानकारी दिखाएगी। कुछ साँचों को अद्यतन करने की आवश्यकता हो सकती है। [236]
शिक्षा कार्यक्रम एक्सटेंशन को सभी विकीमीडिया परियोजनाओं से हटा दिया गया था। एक्सटेंशन द्वारा उपयोग की गई डेटाबेस तालिका को संग्रहीत किया जाएगा। यह एक महीने में होगा। अगर आप अपने विकि पर जानकारी चाहते हैं तो आपको इसे सामान्य विकि पृष्ठ पर स्थानांतरित कर देना चाहिए। [237]

23:28, 19 नवम्बर 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-48

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [238]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [239]
Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [240]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 नवम्बर. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 नवम्बर. It will be on all wikis from 29 नवम्बर (calendar).

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 28 नवम्बर १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भावी परिवर्तन

The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [241]

22:22, 26 नवम्बर 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-49

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

यदि वे स्वयं के अलावा किसी अन्य व्यक्ति द्वारा अवरोधित किए जाते हैं तो व्यवस्थापक स्वयं को अनवरोधित नहीं कर पाएंगे। ऐसा इसलिए है क्योंकि अगर कोई अन्य व्यक्ति व्यवस्थापक खाते लेता है और अन्य व्यवस्थापक उन्हें अवरोधित नहीं कर सकते हैं तो इससे नुकसान हो सकता है। यदि यह आपके समुदाय के लिए एक समस्या है तो आप इसे फैब्रिकेटर पर रिपोर्ट कर सकते हैं। आप मेटा पर भी सवाल पूछ सकते हैं। फ़ेब्रिकेटर पर इस बारे में एक चर्चा है कि इसे कैसे हल किया जाए यदि दो व्यवस्थापक एक दूसरे के साथ एक छोटी विकी पर वहस करते हैं। [242]
जब आप उन्हें MediaViewer. में देखते हैं तो छोटी एसवीजी छवियां अब बड़ी होती हैं। [243]
आप अनुभाग नाम पर क्लिक करके संपादन सारांश से एक अनुभाग में जा सकते हैं। इससे पहले आपको तीर पर क्लिक करना पड़ा। [244]
जब आप एक फुटनोट पर कूद गए जिसे किसी लेख में कई बार संदर्भित किया गया था, तो यह देखना मुश्किल हो सकता है कि आप टेक्स्ट में कहां थे। अब आपके रास्ते वापस खोजने में मदद के लिए कूद अंक और हाइलाइट्स हैं। [245][246]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

इस सप्ताह मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण नहीं आएगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 5 दिसम्बर १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

16:13, 3 दिसम्बर 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-50

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 11 दिसम्बर से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 12 दिसम्बर से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 13 दिसम्बर (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 12 दिसम्बर १६:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भावी परिवर्तन

नए खातों के लिए अब कम से कम ८ वर्ण लंबे कूटशब्द की आवश्यकता होगी। प्रबंधक, इंटरफ़ेस प्रबंधक, प्रशासक, पर्यवेक्षकों, सेंट्रल नोटिस प्रबंधक, वैश्विक नामकरण, उपयोगकर्ता की जांच करने वाले, प्रबंधक और कुछ अन्य उपयोगकर्ता समूहों कम से कम 10 वर्ण लंबे कूटशब्द की आवश्यकता होगी। ऐसा इसलिए है क्योंकि यदि हमलावर इन खातों को लेते हैं तो वो विकि को नुकसान पहुंचा सकता है। [247][248]
जब आप एक फुटनोट पर जाते हैं तो यह आपको पॉप-अप के रूप में संदर्भ दिखाएगा। ऐसा इसलिए है ताकि आपको संदर्भ देखने के लिए पृष्ठ के बिलकुल नीचे नहीं जाना पड़े। यह २०१९ में होगा। कुछ विकियों में पहले से ही गैजेट हैं जो ऐसा करते हैं। आप इसे बंद कर पाएंगे। [249]

17:33, 10 दिसम्बर 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-51

तकनीकी समाचार

Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [250][251]
Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [252]
The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.

समस्याएँ

<ref> tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example <ref name="adams" group="books">. If a <ref> tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [253]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 18 दिसम्बर से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 19 दिसम्बर से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 20 दिसम्बर (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 19 दिसम्बर १६:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भावी परिवर्तन

The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [254]

20:35, 17 दिसम्बर 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-02

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

टेक न्यूज़ के लेखक, संपादक और अनुवादक आपको 2019 की शुभकामनाएँ देते हैं।

हाल के बदलाव

RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [255]
MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [256]
codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [257]
On several wikis, an account named "Abuse filter" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.

समस्यायें

In AbuseFilter, the "कार्यों की रेट सीमा पार होने पर कदम उठाएँ" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [258]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 जनवरी. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 जनवरी. It will be on all wikis from 10 जनवरी (calendar).

बैठकें

Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.

18:30, 7 जनवरी 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-03

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

अब आप सामग्री अनुवाद टूल में गूगल अनुवाद का उपयोग कर सकते हैं। [259][260]
अब आप कॉमन्स पर फ़ाइलों में कैप्शन जोड़ सकते हैं। कैप्शन फ़ाइल का संक्षिप्त विवरण हैं। हमारे द्वारा उपयोग की जाने वाली सभी भाषाओं में उनका अनुवाद किया जा सकता है। वे विकिटेक्स मार्कअप का उपयोग नहीं कर सकते
इससे पहले एक उद्धृत एचटीएमएल विशेषता को एक स्थान का पालन करना पड़ता था। अब यह नहीं है। इसका मतलब है कि जब आप पाठ के उस हिस्से को संपादित नहीं करते थे, तब भी कुछ पृष्ठ अलग दिख सकते हैं। [261][262]
Templates with <templatestyles> could not show the difference between the the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. <templatestyles> has a new wrapper parameter now. You can use it for selectors like .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [263]

समस्यायें

जब आप हाल के बदलावों के फीड में या किसी पृष्ठ के इतिहास में कोई संपादन देखते हैं, तो उनमें से कुछ में |टैग] होता है। कुछ टैग अपने आप जुड़ जाते हैं। आप मैन्युअल रूप से टैग भी जोड़ सकते हैं। संपादन के लिए टैग जो मैन्युअल रूप से जोड़े गए हैं, संपादित किए जा सकते हैं। यह थोड़ी देर के लिए काम नहीं किया। अब यह सुधर गया है। [264]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new FileExporter. It will be a beta feature on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it and check your wiki's configuration file.
यदि किसी ने अपना खाता संभाला है तो विकर्स को अधिक नुकसान हो सकता है। इसमें व्यवस्थापक और अन्य उपयोगकर्ता समूह शामिल हैं। वे उन पासवर्ड का उपयोग नहीं कर सकते हैं जो सामान्य पासवर्ड की सूची में हैं। कॉमन्स पासवर्ड वाले खातों को संभालना आसान है। आम पासवर्डों की सूची को कुछ हफ्ते पहले बनाया गया था और इसमें एक अलग त्रुटि संदेश है। कुछ उपयोगकर्ता समूहों को उन लोगों के लिए जोड़ा गया है जो कॉमन्स पासवर्ड का उपयोग नहीं कर सकते हैं। यह उपयोगकर्ता अधिकारों के साथ सभी खातों की सुरक्षा के लिए है जो नुकसान का कारण बन सकता है। [265]
The AbuseFilter variable minor_edit has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter.
मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 15 जनवरी से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 16 जनवरी से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 17 जनवरी (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 16 जनवरी १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भविष्य में परिवर्तन

भविष्य में उपयोगकर्ताओं को एक पृष्ठ या नाम स्थान के संपादन से अवरुद्ध किया जा सकता है। "ब्लॉक" का अर्थ क्या होगा। इसका मतलब है कि आपको उन उपकरणों को अपडेट करना पड़ सकता है जिन्हें आप संभालते हैं जो ब्लॉक को संभालते हैं। [266]

17:55, 14 जनवरी 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-04

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

Tech News

Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was because of a problem with MassMessage. If you did not get last week's issue, you can read it on Meta. [267]

Recent changes

The content translation tool can now use version 2 as the default version for users who turned on the beta feature. For example it adds the tracking category Pages with unreviewed translations to translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category in Special:TrackingCategories on Wikipedias.
https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org can now convert collects of up to 800 pages to PDF, EPUB or ODT. Previously this was 200 pages.

Problems

When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17 January and is now fixed. [268]
MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone. [269][270]
Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This has now been fixed. [271]

Changes later this week

You will be able to use template styles in the Module namespace. [272]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all wikis from 24 January (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:33, 21 जनवरी 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-05

हाल के बदलाव

विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय से नवीनतम तकनीकी समाचार। कृपया इन परिवर्तनों के बारे में अन्य उपयोगकर्ताओं को बताएं। सभी परिवर्तन आपको प्रभावित नहीं करेंगे। अनुवाद उपलब्ध हैं।

समस्यायें

जब कोई पृष्ठ पर एक नाम ले जाता है जो पहले से ही मौजूद होता है, तो वह पृष्ठ जिसमें वह नाम होता है जिसे हटा दिया गया है। कुछ महीनों के लिए यह हमेशा काम नहीं करता था। कुछ उपयोगकर्ताओं ने इसके बजाय एक त्रुटि संदेश देखा। अब यह सुधर गया है। [273]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

इस सप्ताह मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण नहीं आएगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 30 जनवरी १६:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

18:15, 28 जनवरी 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-06

विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय से नवीनतम तकनीकी समाचार कृपया इन परिवर्तनों के बारे में अन्य उपयोगकर्ताओं को बताएं। सभी परिवर्तन आपको प्रभावित नहीं करेंगे। अनुवाद उपलब्ध हैं।

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

विशेष:प्राथमिकता में दुर्भाग्य से एक बॉक्स को खोलना आसान था। अब यह तय हो जाएगा। [274]
मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 5 फ़रवरी से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 6 फ़रवरी से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 7 फ़रवरी (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 6 फ़रवरी १६:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

17:12, 4 फ़रवरी 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-07

हाल के बदलाव

आप मोबाइल पाठकों को पेज की समस्याएं दिखाने के लिए एमबॉक्स सीएसएस क्लास का उपयोग कर सकते हैं। जब आप एक बॉक्स का उपयोग करते हैं तो ऐसी कक्षाएं होती हैं जिनका आप उपयोग कर सकते हैं।

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 12 फ़रवरी से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 13 फ़रवरी से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 14 फ़रवरी (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 13 फ़रवरी १६:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

18:45, 11 फ़रवरी 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-08

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

जब आप मोबाइल वेब पर किसी को धन्यवाद करते हैं, तो धन्यवाद को रद्द करने के लिए अब आपके पास दो सेकंड का समय होगा। यह उस स्थिति में है जब आपने गलती से धन्यवाद बटन पर क्लिक किया था। [275]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 19 फ़रवरी से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 20 फ़रवरी से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 21 फ़रवरी (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 20 फ़रवरी १६:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भावी परिवर्तन

यदि किसी नाम का कोई पृष्ठ नहीं है, तो उसके मोबाइल खोज परिणामों में एक लाल कड़ी जोड़ने का प्रस्ताव है। यह डेस्कटॉप पर ऐसे ही काम करता है। आप प्रतिक्रिया छोड़ सकते हैं। [276]

23:14, 18 फ़रवरी 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-09

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

आईओएस विकिपीडिया ऐप का एक नया संस्करण है। उदाहरण के लिए यह सिंटैक्स हाइलाइटिंग और नए टूलबार के लिए विकेटेक्स्ट लिखना आसान है। इसमें रात मोड भी है, एक पन्न-इन-पेज फ़ंक्शन और अन्य चीजें हैं। आप प्रतिक्रिया और सुझाव दे सकते हैं [277]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

जब आप अपनी वॉचलिस्ट या हालिया परिवर्तन पृष्ठ को देखते हैं तो आप संपादन की समीक्षा के लिए नए फ़िल्टर का उपयोग कर सकते हैं। वहां आप विभिन्न संपादन को फ़िल्टर करने के लिए टैग चुन सकते हैं। खाली टैग अब नहीं दिखाए जाएंगे [278]
मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 26 फ़रवरी से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 27 फ़रवरी से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 28 फ़रवरी (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 27 फ़रवरी १६:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भावी परिवर्तन

एंड्रॉइड के लिए विकिपीडिया ऐप उपयोगकर्ताओं को विकीडिया विवरणों को विकीडिया का ऑब्जेक्ट्स को जोड़ने के लिए आमंत्रित करेगा, जिनके पास विकिपीडिया लेख हैं लेकिन कोई विकृत विवरण नहीं है। यह केवल उन उपयोगकर्ताओं को आमंत्रित करेगा जिन्होंने ऐप में वापस बिना विकृत विवरणों को पुनः प्राप्त नहीं किया है। यह स्पैम और खराब संपादन से बचने के लिए है आप अधिक पढ़ सकते हैं और प्रतिक्रियाछोड़ सकते हैं।

21:17, 25 फ़रवरी 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-10

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 5 मार्च से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 6 मार्च से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 7 मार्च (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 6 मार्च १६:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भावी परिवर्तन

आप वार्ता पृष्ठों के भविष्य के बारे में प्रतिक्रिया दे सकते हैं।
मोबाइल वेबसाइट आपके कंप्यूटर या फोन पर एक सामान्य फ़ॉन्ट के बजाय मानक फ़ॉन्ट्स का उपयोग करेगी। इससे कई स्क्रिप्ट में पाठ पढ़ने में आसानी होगी। [279][280]

16:38, 4 मार्च 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-11

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

Pages can use geocoordinates from Wikidata with the mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements Lua function or the #statements parser function. If they do, they will now be shown using a Kartographer <maplink> if the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on Phabricator.
अब विकिमीडिया विकियों पर लिंकस्ट्रीम लिंक देखने के लिए जब लिंक जोड़े या हटाए जाते हैं। आप चर्चा और योजना पढ़ सकते हैं।

समस्याएँ

कुछ विकि 19 मार्च (UTC) को थोड़े समय के लिए संपादित नहीं कर पाएंगे। यह [15:00 UTC|15:00] यूटीसी पर शुरू होगा। यह 15 मिनट तक चलेगा लेकिन शायद कम होगा। आप प्रभावित विकियों की सूची देख सकते हैं। यह नेटवर्क रखरखाव के कारण है। आप अभी भी विकी पढ़ सकते हैं।
संपादकों जो दृश्य संपादक के साथ संपादित करने के लिए फ़ायरफ़ॉक्स का उपयोग करते हैं उन्हें पाठ की प्रतिलिपि बनाने में समस्या थी। जब उन्होंने पाठ का चयन करने की कोशिश की जिसमें फ़ुटनोट्स, टेम्प्लेट या बीच में चित्र शामिल थे, तो वे अक्सर केवल पाठ का हिस्सा होते हैं। अब यह सुधर गया है। [281]
8 मार्च को कुछ मानचित्रों ने कुछ समय के लिए काम नहीं किया। यह तय हो गया है। [282][283]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 12 मार्च से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 13 मार्च से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 14 मार्च (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 13 मार्च १६:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

19:29, 11 मार्च 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-12

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March. [284][285]
मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 19 मार्च से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 20 मार्च से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 21 मार्च (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 20 मार्च १६:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भावी परिवर्तन

Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers. [286]
Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.

19:44, 18 मार्च 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-13

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

सभी नए अनुवादों के लिए सामग्री अनुवाद टूल के नए संस्करण का उपयोग किया जाएगा। पुराने संस्करण का उपयोग अभी भी उन अनुवादों के लिए किया जाएगा जो इसके साथ शुरू किए गए थे। अधिकांश उपयोगकर्ता कोई भी परिवर्तन नहीं देखेंगे। प्रकाशित अनुवादों में से 80% से अधिक पहले से ही नए संस्करण का उपयोग कर रहे हैं। [287]

समस्याएँ

iOS में सफ़ारी पर सम्पादन करने में समस्या आती थी। जबाप सम्पादन सारांश लिखते थे तो सम्पादन को सहेज नहीं पाते थे। यह अब ठीक कर दिया गया है। [288]
The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon. [289]
Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them. [290]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 26 मार्च से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 27 मार्च से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 28 मार्च (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 27 मार्च १६:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

18:05, 25 मार्च 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-14

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

सूचनाएँ आपको विकि पर होने वाली चीजों के बारे में बताती हैं। आप अपने द्वारा बनाए गए पृष्ठों की नयी कड़ियों के बारे में सूचनाएँ चालू कर सकते हैं। प्रदर्शन कारणों से आप अब इस बारे में ई-मेल प्राप्त नहीं कर सकते। [291]
मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 2 अप्रैल से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 3 अप्रैल से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 4 अप्रैल (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 3 अप्रैल १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

16:29, 1 अप्रैल 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-15

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can read more.
Admins on French and Polish Wikipedia can block someone from editing a page or a namespace. If your wiki wants to get these blocks before they are available to all wikis, you can tell the developers. [292][293]

समस्याएँ

You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on 11 April at 05:00 (UTC). This is because of a hardware problem. You can see a list of the affected wikis. [294]
A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [295]
Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [296]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site. [297]
The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more. [298]
The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return "" (empty string). When you read a page it will return "-" (dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces. [299]
मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 9 अप्रैल से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 10 अप्रैल से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 11 अप्रैल (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 10 अप्रैल १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भावी परिवर्तन

You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. [300][301]
The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.

18:24, 8 अप्रैल 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-16

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

विकिपाठ संपादक के लिए अब सभी विकियों में टेम्पलेटविज़ार्ड हैं।

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 16 अप्रैल से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 17 अप्रैल से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 18 अप्रैल (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 17 अप्रैल १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भावी परिवर्तन

विकिडेटा में suggestion नाम की एक नई अवरोध स्थिति आएगी। इससे WikibaseQualityConstraints अवरोध जाँच एपीआई के काम करने का तरीक़ा बदल जाएगा। [302][303]
आप कॉमन्स पर संरचित डेटा के लिए depictsप्रॉपर्टी का परीक्षण कर सकते हैं।

23:00, 15 अप्रैल 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-17

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

The advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook. [304][305][306]
The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [307]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

इस सप्ताह मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण नहीं आएगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 23 अप्रैल १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भावी परिवर्तन

Wikipedia articles will have the sameAs meta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test. [308][309]

19:08, 23 अप्रैल 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-18

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

हाल के बदलाव

The Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [310][311]

समस्यायें

Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [312]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [313]
When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in local storage instead of session storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [314]
You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [315]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 अप्रैल. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 मई. It will be on all wikis from 2 मई (calendar).

बैठकें

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 मई at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

भावी परिवर्तन

The Wikidata wb_terms table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more. You can ask for help if you need it.
Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [316]

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22:28, 29 अप्रैल 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-19

विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय द्वारा नवीनतम तकनीकी समाचार कृपया इन परिवर्तनों के बारे में अन्य उपयोगकर्ताओं को बताएँ। सभी परिवर्तन आपको प्रभावित नहीं करेंगे। अनुवाद उपलब्ध हैं।

समस्याएँ

Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem. [317]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 7 मई से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 8 मई से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 9 मई (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 8 मई १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

16:27, 6 मई 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-20

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 14 मई से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 15 मई से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 16 मई (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 15 मई १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

00:48, 14 मई 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-21

हाल के बदलाव

The report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019 has been published. Communities are invited to start phase 2 of the consultation on their wikis.

समस्यायें

कुछ दिनों के लिए अन्य विकिमीडिया विकियों पर कॉमन्स से फ़ाइलों के लिए फ़ाइल विवरण ठीक से नहीं दिखाए गए थे। उदाहरण के लिए छवि विवरण और लाइसेंस जानकारी गायब थी। अब यह सुधर गया है। [318][319]
जब आप उन्हें देखने का प्रयास करते हैं तो कुछ भिन्नताएं एक त्रुटि संदेश दिखाती हैं। डेवलपर्स इसे ठीक करने पर काम कर रहे हैं। यह कुछ संपादित टिप्पणियों के कारण हो सकता है। [320][321]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 21 मई से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 22 मई से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 23 मई (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 22 मई १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भावी परिवर्तन

विकिपीडिया पर सामग्री अनुवाद उपकरण मशीन अनुवाद का उपयोग कर सकते हैं। ऐसे अनुवादों को रोकने के लिए एक प्रणाली है जहाँ संपादक मशीन अनुवाद की गलतियों को ठीक नहीं करते हैं। यह चेतावनी देता है या उन्हें रोक देता है अगर वे सिर्फ मशीन अनुवाद उन्हें कॉपी करते हैं। यदि यह प्रणाली बहुत सख्त है या पर्याप्त सख्त नहीं है तो आप भाषा टीम को बताएं। [322]
Wikidata wbeditentity API समापन बिंदु सभी उपनामों को हटा देगा यदि अनुरोध में कोई अन्य उपनाम शामिल हो। इस तरह काम करना चाहिए था। बग के कारण यह इस तरह से काम नहीं कर रहा है। यह 12 जून से शुरू होगा। [323]

13:04, 20 मई 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-22

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

Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [324][325]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:34, 27 मई 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-24

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

जब आप विकि पर किसी पृष्ठ से एक पीडीएफ बनाते हैं तो यह अब प्रोटॉन द्वारा किया जाता है। इससे पहले हम इलेक्ट्रॉन का उपयोग करते थे। इसे वैसा ही दिखना चाहिए लेकिन बेहतर काम करना चाहिए। दोनों क्रोमियम का उपयोग करते हैं। यह प्रणाली जब आप कई लेखों को एक किताब में इकट्ठा करते हैं और उनसे पीडीएफ बनाते हैं उससे अलग है। [326][327]
ध्वजांकित संशोधन एक्सटेंशन अब मानक OOUI आइकन का उपयोग करता है। स्थिति के लिए अतिरिक्त छोटे सुधार अगले परिनियोजन में होंगे। [328]
बॉट्स और अन्य स्क्रिप्ट जो एक पहचानने योग्य उपयोगकर्ता-एजेंट सेट नहीं करते हैं, के अनुरोध सख्ती से सीमित किए गये हो सकते हैं, जब तक कि वे स्वयं की पहचान ठीक प्रकार से नहीं देते। [329]

समस्याएँ

कृपया जाँच लें कि आपके विकि पर ध्वजांकित संशोधन विन्यास आपकी अपेक्षा के अनुरूप है (या कुछ सप्ताह पहले जैसे है) यदि नहीं, तो कृपया [$ fr इसकी सूचना दें]। [330]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

इस सप्ताह मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण नहीं आएगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 12 जून १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

17:06, 10 जून 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-25

समस्याएँ

आप 19 जून को ०५:०० (यू॰सी॰टी॰) पर ३० मिनट के लिए विकिमीडिया कॉमन्स को संपादित करने में सक्षम नहीं होंगे। यह एक हार्डवेयर समस्या को ठीक करने के लिए है। [331]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

MIDI फाइलें जल्द ही स्कोर एक्सटेंशन के बिना खेली जा सकेंगी। फिर आप उन्हें [[File:Filename.midi]] के साथ जोड़ सकते हैं। बाद में override_midi और override_audio काम करना बंद कर देंगे। इसके बजाय आपको MIDI फ़ाइल को संगीत स्कोर के नीचे जोड़ना होगा। [332]
एक नया वीडियो प्लेयर जल्द ही पुराने को बदल देगा। आप अपनी प्राथमिकताओं में इसे बीटा सुविधा के रूप में सक्षम कर सकेंगे। अगर कोई बड़ी समस्या नहीं होंगी तो यह सभी के लिए सक्षम होगा। [333]
मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 18 जून से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 19 जून से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 20 जून (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 19 जून १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भावी परिवर्तन

कुछ गैजेट और उपयोगकर्ता स्क्रिप्ट अभी भी पुराने wgEnableAPI और wgEnableWriteAPI मान का उपयोग करते हैं। ये मूल्य हमेशा सत्य होते हैं। जल्द ही उन्हें हटा दिया जाएगा। इससे गैजेट और स्क्रिप्ट टूट सकते हैं। आपको इन मूल्यों का उपयोग नहीं करने के लिए अपने गैजेट को ठीक करना चाहिए। [334]

20:37, 17 जून 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-26

विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय से नवीनतम तकनीकी समाचार कृपया इन परिवर्तनों के बारे में अन्य उपयोगकर्ताओं को बताएँ। सभी परिवर्तन आपको प्रभावित नहीं करेंगे। अनुवाद उपलब्ध हैं।

समस्याएँ

पिछले हफ्ते मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण समस्याओं के कारण पूरी तरह से जारी नहीं किया गया था। इसे मंगलवार को अधिकांश विकियों से और गुरुवार को परीक्षण विकियों से हटा दिया गया था। [335]
पिछले सप्ताह डेटाबेस सर्वरों में से किसी में समस्या के कारण अधिकांश विकि धीमे हो गये थे और फिर कुछ समय के लिए केवल पढ़े ही जा रहे थे। इसे अब बदल दिया गया है। [336]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 25 जून से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 26 जून से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 27 जून (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

बैठकें

आप अगले विकिमीडिया लैंग्वेज शोकेस को देख या उससे जुड़ सकते हैं। यह विकिमीडिया परियोजनाओं में मशीन अनुवाद के उपयोग के बारे में होगा। प्रदर्शन 26 जून १३:०० यू॰टी॰सी॰ पर होगा। बाद में देखने के लिए एक रिकॉर्डिंग रखी जाएगी।
आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 26 जून १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

17:30, 24 जून 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-27

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

The development of Wikidata Bridge has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia. [337]

समस्याएँ

Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress. [338]
Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed. [339]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database. [340]
इस सप्ताह (कलेंडर) विकियों पर मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण नहीं आएगा।

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 3 जुलाई १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

21:23, 1 जुलाई 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-28

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

ईवेंट आयोजकों के लिए, यदि आप सामूहिक खाता निर्माण के लिए आईपी कैप को अस्थायी रूप से हटाने का अनुरोध करते हैं, तो इससे अब उन नए खातों के लिए सम्पादन दर की सीमा बढ़ जाएगी, जो एक और अड़चन को रोक देगा। [341]
सभी विक्शनरी, विकियात्रा और विकिस्रोस विकियों के प्रबंधक अब नई आंशिक ब्लॉक सुविधा का उपयोग करने में सक्षम हैं। [342]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 9 जुलाई से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 10 जुलाई से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 11 जुलाई (कैलेंडर) से होगा।
डेस्कटॉप उपयोगकर्ताओं के लिए मीडियाविकि की सॉफ़्टवेयर विंडो का प्रारूप बदल जाएगा। लेआउट सरल होगा, बटन गाढ़े और स्पष्ट होंगे, और हटाने के बटन सिर्फ आइकन होंगे। यह मोबाइल डिजाइन की तरह है। यह सामग्री अनुवाद, यथादृश्य संपदिका, टेम्पलेट विज़ार्ड और अन्य टूल को प्रभावित करेगा। [343]

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 10 जुलाई १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भावी परिवर्तन

विकिडेटा ३० जुलाई को ०५:०० बजे से ०५:३० यूटीसी पर सर्वर स्विच के कारण केवल पढ़ने के लिए मोड में होगा। [344]
१५ जुलाई से नए विकिडेटा आरडीएफ डंप के नाम प्रारूप में परिवर्तन होगा। [345]

20:13, 8 जुलाई 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-29

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 mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the mobile web and give feedback. [346]

Changes later this week

The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called Abuse filter and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical problems. It will not do any other changes. You can read more.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all wikis from 18 July (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback. [347]

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15:30, 15 जुलाई 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-30

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

Communities interested by easing newcomers' first steps can now benefit from the Growth team experiments on their wikis. Check the conditions and the request process.
The Coolest Tool Award 2019 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools by July 29. The awarded tools will be presented at Wikimania. [348]

Problems

The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2. [349]

Changes later this week

Phabricator database will be moved to a different server. Writes will be blocked on Thursday 25 July, between 05:30 and 06:00 AM UTC. Reads will remain unaffected. [350]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 July. It will be on all wikis from 25 July (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Some items in the visual editor will change later this week. This will make it easier to edit links, citations, and templates on both desktop and mobile. [351][352]
With advanced search turned on you will be able to choose the sorting order of the search results when you do a search. [353][354]
Users who edit from IP addresses whitelisted on a request for temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation will bypass CAPTCHAs. This will happen in August. If you think this should not happen for some reason, please let us know.
The variable user_wpzero will be removed from AbuseFilter. A list of filters needing a fix is provided.

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13:07, 22 जुलाई 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-31

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

Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [355]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 August (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:42, 29 जुलाई 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-32

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 6 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 August. It will be on all wikis from 8 August (calendar).

Problems

A change in RelatedArticles extension accidentally enabled it for everyone, not just for mobile users. This has been fixed. [356][357]

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Today everyone can see IP addresses if someone edits without an account. In the future this could be more hidden. This is to protect unregistered editors so fewer can see their IP address. This would only happen after we make sure the tools for vandal fighting can still be effective. You can read more and comment.

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13:24, 5 अगस्त 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-33

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

Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools. Feedback on the discussion page is appreciated. [358]
Due to the absence of volunteer maintenance of Cologne Blue skin, the link to activate it will be hidden. The skin will still work, but editors using it are encouraged to switch to another skin. [359]

Changes later this week

Due to Wikimania, there is no deployment this week. [360]

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The "Wikidata item" link will be moved from "Tools" to "In other projects" section on all Wikimedia projects, starting on August 21. Full announcement, Phabricator task.

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18:19, 12 अगस्त 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-34

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

Tech News

There will be no Tech News issue next week. The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 2 September 2019.

Problems

Some abuse filters stopped working because of a code change. Only variables for the current action will work. Variables defined inside a branch may not work outside of that branch. You can read more to see how to fix the filters.
Only six accounts can be created from one IP address per day. Between 12 August and August 15 this was two accounts per day. This was because of a security issue. It is now six accounts per day again. [361]

Changes later this week

Only a limited number of accounts can be created from one IP address. An IP address can be whitelisted so that it can create as many accounts as needed. This is useful at events where many new persons learn to edit. IP addresses that are whitelisted for this reason will also not show CAPTCHAs when you create accounts. This will happen on Wednesday. [362]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 August. It will be on all wikis from 22 August (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

There is an RFC about creating a new global user group with the right to edit abuse filters. This will be used to fix broken filters and make sure all filters will still work when software changes happen. You can read more and comment.
Special:Contributions/newbies will no longer be working. This is because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the recent changes feed instead. [363]

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15:21, 19 अगस्त 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-36

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 the new termbox interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages. [364]
The new version of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week.
The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues. [365]
The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute. [366]
The advanced version of the edit review pages (Recent Changes, Watchlist, and Related Changes) now include two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces. However the "All discussions" filter does not include pseudo talk pages, like discussions that are in the Project: or Wikipedia: namespaces. But it will include changes happening on Project talk: or the Wikipedia talk:. [367]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 सितम्बर. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 सितम्बर. It will be on all wikis from 5 सितम्बर (calendar).
When you log in, the software checks your password to see if it follows the Password policy. From this week, it will also complain if your password is one of the most common passwords in the world. If your password is not strong enough, please consider to change your password for a stronger password. [368]

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 सितम्बर at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You will be able to read but not to edit Wikidata for up to 30 minutes on September 10 at 05:00 (UTC). [369]
You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 17 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [370]
You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 24 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [371]
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to 30 minutes on September 26 at 05:00 (UTC). [372]

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09:07, 4 सितंबर 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-39

विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय से नवीनतम टेक न्यूज। कृपया इन परिवर्तनों के बारे में अन्य उपयोगकर्ताओं को बताएं। सभी परिवर्तन आपको प्रभावित नहीं करेंगे। अनुवाद उपलब्ध हैं।

समस्याएँ

दृश्य संपादक का उपयोग करने वाले कुछ संपादन काम नहीं कर रहे थे। अब यह सुधर गया है। [373]
पिछले सप्ताह की टेक न्यूज में डिलीवरी की समस्या थी। कुछ को समाचार पत्र नहीं मिला। कुछ को एक से अधिक बार मिला। डेवलपर्स समस्या पर काम कर रहे हैं। [374]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 24 सितम्बर से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 25 सितम्बर से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 26 सितम्बर (कैलेंडर) से होगा।
आप 24 सितंबर को 05:00 बजे (UTC) तक 30 मिनट के लिए मध्यम आकार की विकियों की एक महत्वपूर्ण संख्या को पढ़ सकेंगे लेकिन संपादित नहीं कर सकेंगे। आप देख सकते हैं कि कौन से विकी हैं। [375]
आप 26 सितंबर को 05:00 बजे (UTC) 30 मिनट तक विकिमीडिया कॉमन्स को पढ़ पाएंगे लेकिन संपादित नहीं कर पाएंगे। [376]

बैठकें

आप आईआरसी पर तकनीकी सलाह बैठक में भाग ले सकते हैं। बैठक के दौरान स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स सलाह माँग सकते हैं। बैठक 25 सितम्बर १५:०० (यूटीसी) पर होगी। देखें कि कैसे भाग लें।

भावी परिवर्तन

भविष्य में इंटरनेट एक्सप्लोरर 6 और 7 का समर्थन नहीं किया जा सकता है। इसका मतलब है कि ब्राउज़र थोड़ा अजीब लगना शुरू हो सकता है। उन्हें सुरक्षा का समर्थन नहीं मिलेगा। ऐसा इसलिए है क्योंकि अब लगभग कोई भी ब्राउज़र का उपयोग नहीं करता है। उनका समर्थन करना बाकी सभी के लिए विकी को कम सुरक्षित बनाता है। [377]

13:26, 24 सितंबर 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-40

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's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The problem where some pages got it three times should now be fixed. [378]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 अक्टूबर. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 अक्टूबर. It will be on all wikis from 3 अक्टूबर (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 अक्टूबर at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working on a watchlist expiry feature. This means you can put things on your watchlist for a period of time instead of forever. They are looking for feedback on the questions they have.
Special:Contributions will get the standard OOUI look. This makes it easier to use on mobile and makes it look like other Special: pages. There is a script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to. [379]

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16:49, 30 सितंबर 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-41

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 abuse filter function now has a faster parser. This is to shorten the waiting time when you save an edit. [380]

Problems

There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text with footnotes. It will be fixed soon. [381]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 October. It will be on all wikis from 10 October (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Community Wishlist Survey has a new format. It will focus on wikis that typically get less support. It will probably go back to the normal format next year. It is not decided exactly how it will work this year. You can leave feedback.
The URL of the Wikimedia wiki main pages could be changed. This is because the current URLs cause several problems. For example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page would be https://www.wikidata.org/ instead. You can tell the developers if this would cause problems for your wiki.
There is a new technical community newsletter. You can read more about the work of Wikimedia's technical community. Subscribe to get the information in the future.
Outreachy is an internship program for groups who are underrepresented in free and open-source software. There are seven Wikimedia projects about coding, documentation and quality assurance in the next round. Persons who fit the criteria can apply. The last day to apply is 5 November.

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15:34, 7 अक्टूबर 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-42

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 now use more advanced editing tools on the mobile web. You can turn them on and off in your preferences in the mobile version. [382]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 October. It will be on all wikis from 17 October (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are no longer supported. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They will not get security support. You can't read Wikimedia wikis in Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows versions that are older than Windows XP. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them made the wikis less secure for everyone else. [383]
In the future section headings might have a share link. This is to make it easier to link to the section. You can read more and discuss.

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23:32, 14 अक्टूबर 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-43

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 API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as internal. API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives. [384]

Problems

There is a translation tool we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed. [385]
The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed. [386]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (calendar).
Reference Previews will be a beta feature on all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 October. See how to join.

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14:18, 21 अक्टूबर 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-44

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 post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist. [387][388]
You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
OOUI now allows using px (pixels) instead of em (em) for some specific cases. [389][390]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 अक्टूबर. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 अक्टूबर. It will be on all wikis from 31 अक्टूबर (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 अक्टूबर at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January. [391]
Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named wg* to mw.config. The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.

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16:09, 28 अक्टूबर 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-45

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

At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites. [392]

Changes later this week

MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip to set a different default block length for IP editors. [393]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:47, 4 नवम्बर 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-46

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

MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.

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22:02, 11 नवम्बर 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-47

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

You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the centralauth database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames. [394]

Changes later this week

You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:16, 18 नवम्बर 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-48

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 mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script. [395]
Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them. [396]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view. [397]

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16:51, 25 नवम्बर 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-49

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

Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work. [398]
The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns "" (empty string). When you read a page it returns "-" (dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces. [399]

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16:57, 2 दिसम्बर 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-50

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

Recent changes

Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language. [400]
There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article. [401]

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16:35, 9 दिसम्बर 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-51

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

Problems

The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again. [402]
Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem. [403]

Changes later this week

You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki. [404]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now. [405]

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00:15, 17 दिसम्बर 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-52

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

Tech News

Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.

Recent changes

All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "advanced mode".

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

You can use setlang in the URL to change the user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript is not working in your browser. [406]

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20:03, 23 दिसम्बर 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-02

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

When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [407]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 January. It will be on all wikis from 9 January (calendar).

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21:18, 6 जनवरी 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-03

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 no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade attacks. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the browser recommendations. [408]
Special:LinkSearch has been moved from the "विशेष पृष्ठ अनुप्रेषित कर रहें हैं" section on Special:SpecialPages to the "पृष्ठ सूचियाँ" section. [409]

Changes later this week

Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are सिर्फ स्वतः स्थापित सदस्यों को अनुमति है and सिर्फ प्रबंधकों को अनुमति है. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see. [410]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all wikis from 16 January (calendar).

Future changes

Deepcat and Catgraph will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead. [411]
You can use <ref follow="…"> to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead. [412]

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MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) 18:39, 13 जनवरी 2020 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2020-04

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 21 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 January. It will be on all wikis from 23 January (calendar).

Future changes

There is a new suggestion for what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work go faster. You can give feedback.
Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will no longer support Python 2. Use the python2 tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so. [413]
The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The timing for this cut may change. You can discuss in Phabricator if this affects you. [414]
You can read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.

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19:40, 20 जनवरी 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-05

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

Some mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown. Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working on fixing it. [415][416]
Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions can't move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing it. [417]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

There is JavaScript code on Special:Undelete for administrators that makes it possible to automatically select multiple checkboxes by holding the "Shift" key and clicking. This code is also loaded by accident on other special pages and on articles. This makes pages slower to load. This will be fixed. If you know of other special pages where this is useful please tell the developers at phab:T232688.

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18:52, 27 जनवरी 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-06

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 4 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 February. It will be on all wikis from 6 February (calendar).

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20:04, 3 फ़रवरी 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-07

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

There is a new version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem. [418]

Problems

There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things. [419]

Changes later this week

The MediaWiki action API is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work. [420]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February (calendar).

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19:09, 10 फ़रवरी 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-08

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

Pages on Wikidata and Commons now load faster. You can read more about page load performance. [421][422]

Changes later this week

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

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16:16, 17 फ़रवरी 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-09

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 25 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be on all wikis from 27 February (calendar).

Future changes

There will be a reply button after each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later. You can test the reply button. It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first wikis last week.

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20:59, 24 फ़रवरी 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-10

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

Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug. [423]

Changes later this week

If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. [424]
When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security. [425]
On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to. [426]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 March. It will be on all wikis from 5 March (calendar).

Future changes

The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback. [427]
There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list. [428]

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00:35, 3 मार्च 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-11

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

There is a new search word called articletopic. You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon. [429][430][431]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all wikis from 12 March (calendar).

Future changes

There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year. [432]

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17:14, 9 मार्च 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-12

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

There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org. [433]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).

Future changes

If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface. [434][435]
You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.

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21:18, 16 मार्च 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-13

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

Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed. [436][437]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 March. It will be on all wikis from 26 March (calendar).

Future changes

There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.

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17:05, 23 मार्च 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-14

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 beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts. [438]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed. [439]
There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback. [440]

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17:24, 30 मार्च 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-15

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

There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [441]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (calendar).

Future changes

MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to. [442]

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19:01, 6 अप्रैल 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-16

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 now use the articletopic search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic. [443]
You can see wiki tools in the new Tools Gallery. [444]
You can see edits from the Wikimedia Cloud Services in a new dashboard.
When you use filters on a history page you sometimes don't see any edits. There is a text explaining this now. Before it was just empty. [445]
There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog. [446]

Problems

There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest. [447][448][449]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 (calendar).

Future changes

Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed. [450]
The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated <source> tag, as well as the use of the deprecated enclose parameter, will add tracking categories.

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15:30, 13 अप्रैल 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-17

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

तकनीकी समाचार

The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills. [451]
Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed. div#content is now .mw-body. div.portal is now .portal. div#footer is now #footer. This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them. [452]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

इस सप्ताह मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण नहीं आएगा।

भविष्य में परिवर्तन

Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011. [453]
The font in the diffs will change. [454]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar).

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18:44, 20 अप्रैल 2020 (UTC)

Technical maintenance planned

(Sorry for using English. कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें.)

A maintenance operation will be performed on Thursday 30th April at 05:00 AM UTC.

It impacts all wikis and is supposed to last a few minutes.

During this time, new translations may fail, and Notifications may not be delivered. For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.

A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.

Please help making your community aware of this maintenance operation.

Trizek (WMF), 18:01, 27 अप्रैल 2020 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Reminder: Technical maintenance planed

Sorry to use English. कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें.

This is a reminder of the message sent on Monday 27th April.

A maintenance operation will be performed on Thursday 30th April at 05:00 AM UTC.

It impacts all wikis and is supposed to last a few minutes.

During this time, new translations may fail, and Notifications may not be delivered. For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.

A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.

Please help making your community aware of this maintenance operation.

Trizek (WMF) 15:13, 29 अप्रैल 2020 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2020-19

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

Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 5 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [455]
Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 7 May. This will also affect CentralAuth. This can for example affect global renames, password changes, changing or confirming your email address and logging in to new wikis. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [456]

Changes later this week

You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can soon turn these notifications off for individual pages. [457]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 May. It will be on all wikis from 7 May (calendar).

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16:59, 4 मई 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-20

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

Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr. [458]

Problems

Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [459]
Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [460][461]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 May. It will be on all wikis from 14 May (calendar).

Future changes

JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via mw.config.exists() or mw.user.tokens.exists(). You can use exists() or get() to check one at a time instead. [462]

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20:40, 11 मई 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-21

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

If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. [463][464]

Problems

There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them. [465]
Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [466][467]

Changes later this week

The Wikipedia app for Android can let users add depicts on Commons. The beta version used computer-aided tagging. This was removed to get more specific depicts. [468]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files. [469]
Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction, div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces, div#p-variants and div#footer. They will have to remove div. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5. [470]
Some CSS for the Vector skin has been changed. This affects #p-variants, #p-namespaces, #p-personal, #p-views and #p-cactions. They can no longer use > ul. You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how.

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17:18, 18 मई 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-22

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 visual editor will now work in the Modern skin. The changes that needed to happen for this to work could cause problems for some scripts or gadgets. [471]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 27. It will be on all wikis from May 28 (calendar).

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14:17, 25 मई 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-23

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

There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos. [472]

Problems

There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May. [473][474][475]
The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed. [476]

Changes later this week

You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon turn them off also in the notifications you get. [477]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all wikis from 4 June (calendar).

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22:30, 1 जून 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-24

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

Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting. [478]
Self-closed tags now work as in the HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them. <b/> is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work. area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect <references /> or <ref />. [479]
There is a banner called WikidataPageBanner. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on MediaWiki:Sitenotice so that editors know to test and style for mobile too. [480][481]

Changes later this week

You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets. [482]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June (calendar).

Future changes

A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [483]

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21:11, 8 जून 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-25

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

Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.

Problems

There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed. [484]
Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed. [485]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (calendar).

Future changes

Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help. [486]
The selectors .menu and .vectorMenu will no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts. .menu should be replaced by ul. .vectorMenu should be replaced by .vector-menu. [487]

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21:36, 15 जून 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-26

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

There are some new tools to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed. [488]
Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS selectors. .vectorTabs should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs to fix this. [489]

Changes later this week

The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback. [490]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (calendar).

Future changes

A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [491]

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18:48, 22 जून 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-27

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

Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [492]
Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed. [493]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

Future changes

The Modern and Monobook skins use the ID searchGoButton for the go button. This is searchButton for Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change to searchButton in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use searchButton. You can read more and see a list of affected scripts.

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16:30, 29 जून 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-28

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 Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed. [494]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 July. It will be on all wikis from 9 July (calendar).

Future changes

Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more. [495]
The iOS Wikipedia app developers are thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help them by answering the survey.
Some rules for user signatures will soon be enforced. Lint errors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.

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20:17, 6 जुलाई 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-29

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

Users can thank others for their edits. Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets who harass others using thanks. [496]

Problems

Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week. [497][498]

Changes later this week

Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background. Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using <translate nowrap></translate> on the source page. [499]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (calendar).

Future changes

Wikimedia code review plans to use GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. [500][501][502][503]

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16:29, 13 जुलाई 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-30

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

Recent changes

A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help in Phabricator. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News 2020/24 and 2020/26.

Problems

There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution. [504]
Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events. [505]
Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a browser cookie problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details on Phabricator. [506]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 July. It will be on all wikis from 23 July (calendar).

Future changes

There is a प्रिन्ट करने लायक link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway. [507]

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19:13, 20 जुलाई 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-31

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 Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this. [508]
The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck लिगेसी Vector का उपयोग करें in your local or global preferences in section स्किन की वरीयताएँ. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget directly from mediawiki.org, end users can now choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC.

Problems

The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week. [509][510]
Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed. [511]
Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed. [512]

Changes later this week

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

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13:51, 27 जुलाई 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-32

नई tech news विकिपीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय द्वारा. कृपया अन्य यूजरो को इन बदलावों के बारे मे बताएं . सभी बदलाव आपको प्रभावित नहीं करेंगे . Translations उपलब्ध है.

समस्याएँ

23 जुलाई को 17:50 से 17:59 UTC के बीच Wikidata Query Service से सभी प्रश्न विफल हो गये. कुछ प्रश्न लंबे समय के दौरान विफल hi गए. [513]
पिछले कुछ हफ्तों से अन्तरभाषा कड़ियों का क्रम गलत था। यह समस्या दो सप्ताह पूर्व के तकनीकी समाचारों में भी उल्लिखीत की गयी थी। अब ये समस्या ठीक कर ली गयी है। [514]
global preferences के "लिगेसी Vector का उपयोग करें" ऑप्शन के साथ कुछ समस्याएं हैं . डेवलपर्स इसको सही करने पर काम कर रहे हैं. [515]
A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed. [516]

इस सप्ताह के दौरान बदलाव

video player अब सरल और आधुनिक बन जाएगा. इस हफ्ते, पर्याप्त का बीटा फीचर सभी के लिए, ज्यादातर नॉन-विकिपीडिया विकी'स पर नया वीडियो प्लेयर बन जाएगा. पुराना प्लेयर हटाया जाएगा . [517]
सदस्यों के global.js और global.css पृष्ठ अब मोबाइल साइट पर भी लोड होंगे। मोबाइल दृश्य में इस शैली को लागू करने से रोकने के लिए आप प्रलेखन पढ़ सकते हैं। [518]
मोनोबुक त्वचा में, searchGoButton पहचानकर्ता अब searchButton है। यह सीएसएस और जावास्क्रिप्ट उपकरणों को प्रभावित कर सकता है। प्रव्रजन अनुदेश T255953 पर प्राप्त किये जा सकते हैं। यह पहले समस्या 27 पर उल्लिखित किया गया था।
बॉट संचालक पायविकिबॉट को नियमित पुरालेखन चर्चाओं के लिए काम में ले सकते हैं। जब बॉट counter को काम में लेता है उस समय के व्यवहार को बड़े पुरालेखों के लिए परिवर्तित किया जा सकता है। [519]
मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण 4 अगस्त से टेस्ट विकियों और MediaWiki.org पर मिलेगा। यह 5 अगस्त से गैर-विकिपीडिया विकियों कुछ विकिपीडियाओं पर मिलेगा। यह 6 अगस्त से यह सभी विकियों पर होगा। (पंचांग)

तकनीकी समाचारों को तकनीकी समाचार लेखकों द्वारा लिखा गया और बॉट द्वारा भेजा गया • योगदान • अनुवाद • सहायता प्राप्त करें • प्रतिपुष्टि लिखें • हस्ताक्षर करें अथवा हटायें।

15:42, 3 अगस्त 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-33

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

FileImporter and FileExporter became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact. [520]

Problems

The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions and content translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it. [521]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 12. It will be on all wikis from August 13 (calendar).

Future changes

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [522][523]

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16:06, 10 अगस्त 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-34

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

If you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an undo tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else. [524]
The new OOUI version will not work with Internet Explorer 8. This means the wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was reported in Tech/News/2020/17. This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates other problems. [525]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis next week. This is a reminder. You can help by translating the announcement message. [526][527]

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20:41, 17 अगस्त 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-35

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 25 अगस्त से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 26 अगस्त से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 27 अगस्त (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

17:59, 24 अगस्त 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-36

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

This is a reminder. All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 14:00 and 15:00 UTC. Please check on the details on the announcement message. [528][529]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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20:09, 31 अगस्त 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-37

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

Normally pages can be moved to a title that has no existing page yet or to a page that has only one revision, which is a redirect to the page to be moved. A new user right allows editors to move pages over one-revision pages that redirect to anywhere. [530]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 September. It will be on all wikis from 10 September (calendar).
All MediaWiki API modules will now use watchlist instead of watch. This was inconsistent before. [531]

Future changes

The Wikipedia Android app team might work on patrolling tools in the future. You can let them know what tools would be useful for you or for less experienced patrollers. See the page on mediawiki.org.
OTRS will be updated to a new version. This will probably take around two days. OTRS agents will not have access to the system during these days. Emails that come in during the update will be delivered when the update is done. The plan is to start around 08:00 UTC on 14 September. This could change. [532]
The Wikipedia Android app will send push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will need Google Play Services to work. It will also be possible to get the app without Google Play Services but push notifications will not work. Google Play Services is also used to make the app work for Android 4.4 users. [533][534]
Wikimedia code review could move to GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. You can take part in the consultation.
Dropdown menus in the Vector skin use a .menu class. This will not work in the future. Scripts can use nav ul instead. .vectorTabs and .vectorMenu will also not work. Some scripts need to be updated. You can read more in Phabricator.

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15:59, 7 सितंबर 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-38

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 Wikipedia apps briefly showed pages without CSS last week. This meant they looked wrong. It was quickly fixed but cached pages without CSS were shown for a few hours. [535][536]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 September. It will be on all wikis from 17 September (calendar).

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16:18, 14 सितंबर 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-39

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

There is a new tag for reverted edits. For example you can see it in the recent changes feed or in the article history. It is added to edits when they have been undone, rollbacked or manually reverted to an older version of the page. [537][538]

Changes later this week

The number of times you can do something in a period of time on wiki is limited. This could be the number of edits per minute or the number of users you email in a day. Some users are not affected by all limits because of their user rights. They could soon see the limit even if it does not affect them. [539]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 September. It will be on all wikis from 24 September (calendar).

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21:27, 21 सितंबर 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-40

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

Admins can now see links to diffs of deleted revisions on Special:AbuseLog. This uses the interface of Special:Undelete. [540]
Editors are automatically added to some user groups. For example editors are added to autoconfirmed users when they have edited enough times and long enough. Abuse filters can hinder users from automatically getting user rights for a period of time. They can also remove rights user have. Wikis can now ask to change how long this period of time is for their wiki in Phabricator. It is currently five days. [541]

Problems

Last year some abuse filters stopped working because of a new change. If they tried to use variables that were unavailable for that action they would fail. This has now been fixed. [542]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 September. It will be on all wikis from 1 October (calendar).

Future changes

You can't see the language links to other language versions from the talk page or history page. They are also not shown when you edit an article. This could change. It is not decided if for example the history page should link to another history page or to the article. You can take part in the discussion in Phabricator.
The link colours could change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. You can read more in Phabricator.
In your preferences you can choose to get different notifications on the web or by email. You will see Apps as one of the alternatives later this week. This is because the Android and iOS Wikipedia apps will use push notifications for those who want them. You can see the preferences on the test wiki. The goal is to have push notifications on Android in October and on iOS in early 2021. [543]
You can soon put pages on your watchlist for a limited time. This could be useful if you want to watch something for a shorter time but don't want it on your watchlist forever. It now works on mediawiki.org and will come to more wikis later. You can read more and see when it will come to other wikis.
You can see what Wikimedians think are the best new technical tools this year. You can also nominate them.

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21:23, 28 सितंबर 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-41

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

There is a new tool where you can see which home wiki users have in discussions on Meta. This can help show which communities are not part of the discussion on wikis where we make decisions that affect many other wikis.
You can now thank users for file uploads or for changing the language of a page. [544]

Problems

There were many errors with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new version was rolled back. Updates that should have happened last week are late. [545]
Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [546]
Many pages have JavaScript errors. You can read more and now see a list of user scripts with errors.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 October. It will be on all wikis from 8 October (calendar).
Letters immediately after a link are shown as part of the link. For example the entire word in [[Child]]ren is linked. On Arabic wikis this works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic letters will extend links on Arabic wikis. [547]

Future changes

You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [548]

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16:24, 5 अक्टूबर 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-42

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

Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last week's updates are also late. [549][550][551]

Changes later this week

Live previews didn't show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This has now been fixed. You can also test CSS and JavaScript pages even if you have the live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well. [552][553]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (calendar).

Future changes

A new stable version of Pywikibot is coming soon. [554]

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15:24, 12 अक्टूबर 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-43

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 20 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 October. It will be on all wikis from 22 October (calendar).

Future changes

You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [555]
In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [556]
Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID #jump-to-nav. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either #siteSub or #mw-content-text. A list of affected scripts is at the top of phab:T265373.

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16:31, 19 अक्टूबर 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-44

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

You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on October 27 around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [557]
Last week, links to "diffs" from mobile watchlists and recentchanges were linking to page-revisions instead of diffs. This has now been fixed. [558]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

Since the introduction of the interface administrators user group in 2018, administrators couldn’t view the deleted history of CSS/JS pages. Now they can. [559]
There was a problem with the Change Tags. The software would apply the "Reverted" tag to any page actions such as page-protection changes if they came directly after a reverted edit. This has now been fixed for new edits. [560]
The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias in November. Another announcement will be made once the date is finalized. [561]

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17:38, 26 अक्टूबर 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-45

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 no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser uses very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It could lead to downgrade attacks. Since October 29, 2020, users who use old TLS versions will not be able to connect to Wikimedia projects. A list of browser recommendations is available. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [562]
There is a new automatic tracking category available: Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments. It collects pages which use the {{formatnum}} parser function with invalid (non-numeric) input, e.g. {{formatnum:TECHNEWS}}. Note that {{formatnum:123,456}} is also invalid input: as described in the documentation, the argument should be unformatted so that it can be reliably and correctly localised. The tracking category will help identify problematic usage and double-formatting. The new tracking category's name can be translated at translatewiki. [563]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 4. It will be on all wikis from November 5 (calendar).
Administrators and stewards will be able to use a special page (Special:CreateLocalAccount) to force local account creation for a global account. This is useful when account creation is blocked for that user (by a block or a filter). [564]
The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias on November 4. This change excludes the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias, plus a few smaller Wikipedias with special circumstances. You can read the help page and the troubleshooting guide for more information. [565]

Future changes

A discussion has been restarted about using a Unicode minus sign (− U+2212) in the output of {{formatnum}} when it is given a negative argument. [566]
In the future IP addresses of unregistered users will not be shown for everyone. They will get an alias instead. There will be a new user right or an opt-in function for more vandal fighters to see the IPs of unregistered users. There would be some criteria for who gets the user right or opt-in. There will also be other new tools to help handle vandalism. This is early in the process and the developers are still collecting information from the communities before they suggest solutions.

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16:09, 2 नवम्बर 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-46

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

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

You can see reference previews. This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been a beta feature. It will move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be the first ones. You can let them know if your wiki is interested. [567]
From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the internationalisation library. They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [568][569]

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15:49, 9 नवम्बर 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-47

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

Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most 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. [570][571]

Changes later this week

If you merged two pages in a namespace where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed. [572]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 November. It will be on all wikis from 19 November (calendar).

Future changes

The Community Wishlist Survey is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.

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15:36, 16 नवम्बर 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-48

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

Timestamps in Special:Log are now links. They go to Special:Log for only that entry. This is how timestamps work on for example the history page. [573]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from 1 December. Unclaimed projects can be deleted from 1 January. [574]

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17:18, 23 नवम्बर 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-49

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 1 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 December. It will be on all wikis from 3 December (calendar).

Future changes

The iOS Wikipedia app will show readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will first be shown only to some iOS app users as a test. [575][576]
The Wiki Replicas can be used for SQL queries. You can use Quarry, PAWS or other ways to do this. To make the Wiki Replicas stable there will be two changes. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. [577]

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17:44, 30 नवम्बर 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-50

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

Recent changes

You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [578][579]

Changes later this week

Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [580][581]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all wikis from 10 December (calendar).

Future changes

You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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16:14, 7 दिसम्बर 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-51

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

Recent changes

There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too. [582]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all wikis from 17 December (calendar).

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21:34, 14 दिसम्बर 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-52

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

Tech News

Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2021.

Recent changes

The {{citation needed}} template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added. [583]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a <langconvert> tag that can convert a piece of text on a page. [584]
Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January. [585]

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20:53, 21 दिसम्बर 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-02

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 choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed. [586]
You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [587]
Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
- The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [588]
- Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [589]
- When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback. [590]
Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the watchlist to watch will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [591]
Scribunto's file metadata now includes length. [592]
CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50. [593]
There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all wikis from 14 January (calendar).

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15:41, 11 जनवरी 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-03

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 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all wikis from 21 January (calendar).

Future changes

The Growth team plans to add features to get more visitors to edit to more Wikipedias. You can help translating the interface.
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). [594]
MassMessage posts could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be timestamped you can let the developers know.

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16:09, 18 जनवरी 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-04

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

You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech for a short time on 28 January at 09:00 (UTC). [595][596]

Changes later this week

Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [597]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

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18:30, 25 जनवरी 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-05

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

IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed. [598]

Changes later this week

You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [599]
Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [600][601]
Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55 as well as the 1.2.3.4/27 syntax for IP ranges. [602]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Future changes

Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more. [603][604]
Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be 185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.

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22:38, 1 फ़रवरी 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-06

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 Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [605]

Changes later this week

You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [606]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Future changes

When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [607][608]
Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [609]
Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [610]

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17:41, 8 फ़रवरी 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-07

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

There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned. [611][612]
Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [613]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).

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17:55, 15 फ़रवरी 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-08

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 visual editor will now use MediaSearch to find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better images. [614]
The syntax highlighter now works with more languages: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU. [615]

Problems

Editing a timeline might have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly. [616]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 February. It will be on all wikis from 25 February (calendar).

Future changes

There is a user group for developers and users interested in working on Wikimedia wikis with the Rust programming language. You can join or tell others who want to make your wiki better in the future.

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00:17, 23 फ़रवरी 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-09

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

Wikis using the Growth team tools can now show the name of a newcomer's mentor anywhere through a magic word. This can be used for welcome messages or userboxes.
A new version of the VideoCutTool is now available. It enables cropping, trimming, audio disabling, and rotating video content. It is being created as part of the developer outreach programs.

Problems

There was a problem with the job queue. This meant some functions did not save changes and mass messages were delayed. This did not affect wiki edits. [617]
Some editors may not be logged in to their accounts automatically in the latest versions of Firefox and Safari. [618]

Changes later this week

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

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19:07, 1 मार्च 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-10

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

Section translation now works on Bengali Wikipedia. It helps mobile editors translate sections of articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis with a smaller number of articles. You can test it and leave feedback.
Flagged revisions now give admins the review right. [619]
When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article. [620]

Problems

Many graphs have JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing. [621]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 March. It will be on all wikis from 11 March (calendar).
The New Discussion tool will soon be a new discussion tools beta feature for on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new discussions. [622]

Future changes

There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates and those who create or maintain them. You can read more.
Reference Previews will become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a setting with Page Previews. If you prefer the Reference Tooltips or Navigation-Popups gadget you can keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown. [623][624]
New JavaScript-based functions will not work in Internet Explorer 11. This is because Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can read more.

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17:51, 8 मार्च 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-11

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

Wikis that are part of the desktop improvements project can now use a new search function. The desktop improvements and the new search will come to more wikis later. You can also test it early.
Editors who put up banners or change site-wide JavaScript code should use the client error graph to see that their changes has not caused problems. You can read more. [625]

Problems

Due to database issues the Wikimedia Beta Cluster was read-only for over a day.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 March. It will be on all wikis from 18 March (calendar).

Future changes

You can add a newline or carriage return character to a custom signature if you use a template. There is a proposal to not allow them in the future. This is because they can cause formatting problems. [626][627]
You will be able to read but not edit 12 wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
You can use Quarry for SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. PAWS and other ways to do SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later. [628]

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23:21, 15 मार्च 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-12

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

There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. They don't have a touch screen so readers navigate with the phone keys. There is now a simulator so you can see what it looks like.
The reply tool and new discussion tool are now available as the "चर्चा उपकरण" beta feature in almost all wikis except German Wikipedia.

Problems

You will be able to read but not edit twelve wikis for a short period of time on 23 मार्च at 06:00 (UTC). This can also affect password changes, logging in to new wikis, global renames and changing or confirming emails. This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 March. It will be on all wikis from 25 March (calendar).
Syntax highlighting colours will change to be easier to read. This will soon come to the first wikis. [629]

Future changes

Flagged revisions will no longer have multiple tags like "tone" or "depth". It will also only have one tier. This was changed because very few wikis used these features and they make the tool difficult to maintain. [630][631]
Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015 this was moved from wg* to mw.config. wg* will soon no longer work. [632]

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16:52, 22 मार्च 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-13

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

Some very old web browsers don’t work well with the Wikimedia wikis. Some old code for browsers that used to be supported is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. [633]
IRC recent changes feeds have been moved to a new server. Make sure all tools automatically reconnect to irc.wikimedia.org and not to the name of any specific server. Users should also consider switching to the more modern EventStreams. [634]

Problems

When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split. It might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. [635]
Some translatable pages on Meta could not be edited. This was because of a bug in the translation tool. The new MediaWiki version was delayed because of problems like this. [636][637]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 March. It will be on all wikis from 1 April (calendar).

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17:30, 29 मार्च 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-14

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

Editors can collapse part of an article so you have to click on it to see it. When you click a link to a section inside collapsed content it will now expand to show the section. The browser will scroll down to the section. Previously such links didn't work unless you manually expanded the content first. [638]

Changes later this week

The citoid API will use for example 2010-12-XX instead of 2010-12 for dates with a month but no days. This is because 2010-12 could be confused with 2010-2012 instead of December 2010. This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the Extended Date/Time Format. [639]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 April. It will be on all wikis from 8 April (calendar).

Future changes

PAWS can now connect to the new Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 28 April. There is a new way to connect to the databases. Until 28 April both ways to connect to the databases will work. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech.

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19:39, 5 अप्रैल 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-16

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

Email to the Wikimedia wikis are handled by groups of Wikimedia editors. These volunteer response teams now use Znuny instead of OTRS. The functions and interface remain the same. The volunteer administrators will give more details about the next steps soon. [640][641]
If you use syntax highlighting, you can see line numbers in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors when editing templates. This is to make it easier to see line breaks or talk about specific lines. Line numbers will soon come to all namespaces. [642][643][644]
Because of a technical change there could be problems with gadgets and scripts that have an edit summary area that looks similar to this one. If they look strange they should use mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.edit.styles') to go back to how they looked before. [645]
The latest version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis last week. There was no Tech News issue last week.

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in two weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.

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16:48, 19 अप्रैल 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-17

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

Templates have parameters that can have specific values. It is possible to suggest values for editors with TemplateData. You can soon see them as a drop-down list in the visual editor. This is to help template users find the right values faster. [646][647][648]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 April. It will be on all wikis from 29 April (calendar).

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21:24, 26 अप्रैल 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-18

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

Twinkle is a gadget on English Wikipedia. It can help with maintenance and patrolling. It can now be used on other wikis. You can get Twinkle on your wiki using the twinkle-starter GitHub repository.

Problems

The content translation tool did not work for many articles for a little while. This was because of a bug. [649]
Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes. [650]

Changes later this week

Reference Previews will become a default feature on a number of wikis on 5 May. This is later than planned because of some changes. You can use it without using Page Previews if you want to. The earlier plan was to have the preference to use both or none. [651][652]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Future changes

The CSS classes .error, .warning and .success do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead. [653]

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15:43, 3 मई 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-19

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 11 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 May. It will be on all wikis from 13 May (calendar).

Future changes

You can see what participants plan to work on at the online Wikimedia hackathon 22–23 May.

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15:09, 10 मई 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-20

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

There is a new toolbar in the Reply tool. It works in the wikitext source mode. You can enable it in your preferences. [654] [655] [656]
Wikimedia mailing lists are being moved to Mailman 3. This is a newer version. For the character encoding to work it will change from UTF-8 to utf8mb3. [657][658]
An earlier issue of Tech News said that the citoid API would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first. [659]

Changes later this week

MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist will be renamed MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist. The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles. [660]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 May. It will be on all wikis from 20 May (calendar).

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13:48, 17 मई 2021 (UTC)

Growth Newsletter #18

Welcome to the eighteenth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Structured tasks

A screenshot of "add a link" feature in development in beta.

"Add a link" is now being tested in production and is nearing release on our four pilot wikis (Arabic, Czech, Vietnamese, and Bengali Wikipedias). We'll be doing final tests this week and next week, and then plan to deploy to the four wikis either during May 24 week, or May 31 week. After two weeks, we will analyze the initial data to identify any problems or trends. We expect that this feature will engage new kinds of newcomers in easy and successful edits. If things are going well after four weeks, we'll progressively deploy it to the wikis with Growth features.

News for mentors

Mockup of the Mentor dashboard.

We are currently working on a Mentor dashboard. This special page aims to help mentors be more proactive and be more successful at their role. The first iteration will include a table that shows an overview of the mentors current mentees, a module with their own settings, and a module that will allow them to store their best replies to their mentees questions.
We've conducted our quarterly audit on Growth's four pilot wikis to see the activity of mentors. It appears that the vast majority of mentors are active.

Community configuration

Community configuration editing form under development

We are working on project to allow communities to manage the configuration of the Growth features on their own. In the past, communities have needed to work directly with the Growth team to set up and alter the features. We plan to put this capability in the hands of administrators, through an easy-to-use form, so that the features can be easily tailored to fit the needs of each community. While we developed it initially for Growth features, we think this approach could have uses in other features as well. We'll be trying this on our pilot wikis in the coming weeks, and then we'll bring it to all Growth wikis soon after. We hope you check out the project page and add any of your thoughts to the talk page.

Scaling

Growth features are now available on 35 wikis. Here is the list of the most recent ones: रोमानियाई विकिपीडिया, डेनिश विकिपीडिया, थाई विकिपीडिया, इंडोनेशियाई विकिपीडिया, क्रोएशियाई विकिपीडिया, अल्बानियाई विकिपीडिया, एस्पेरांतो विकिपीडिया, हिन्दी विकिपीडिया, नॉर्वेजियाई बोकमाल विकिपीडिया, जापानी विकिपीडिया, तेलुगू विकिपीडिया, स्पेनी विकिपीडिया, सरल अंग्रेज़ी विकिपीडिया, मलय विकिपीडिया, तमिल विकिपीडिया, यूनानी विकिपीडिया, कातालान विकिपीडिया.
A new group of Wikipedias has been defined for the deployment of Growth features. Please contact us if you have questions about the deployment process, or if your community likes to get the features in advance.
After discussion with the English Wikipedia community, the Growth features will be tested on a small percentage of new accounts. At the moment, registered users can test the features by turning them on in their preferences.

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15:23, 17 मई 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-21

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 Wikimedia movement has been using IRC on a network called Freenode. There have been changes around who is in control of the network. The Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts have decided to move to the new Libera Chat network instead. This is not a formal decision for the movement to move all channels but most Wikimedia IRC channels will probably leave Freenode. There is a migration guide and ongoing Wikimedia discussions about this.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 May. It will be on all wikis from 27 May (calendar).

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17:06, 24 मई 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-22

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

There was an issue on the Vector skin with the text size of categories and notices under the page title. It was fixed last Monday. [661]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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17:05, 31 मई 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-23

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 8 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 June. It will be on all wikis from 10 June (calendar).

Future changes

The Wikimedia movement uses Phabricator for technical tasks. This is where we collect technical suggestions, bugs and what developers are working on. The company behind Phabricator will stop working on it. This will not change anything for the Wikimedia movement now. It could lead to changes in the future. [662][663][664]
Searching on Wikipedia will find more results in some languages. This is mainly true for when those who search do not use the correct diacritics because they are not seen as necessary in that language. For example searching for Bedusz doesn't find Będusz on German Wikipedia. The character ę isn't used in German so many would write e instead. This will work better in the future in some languages. [665]
The CSRF token parameters in the action API were changed in 2014. The old parameters from before 2014 will stop working soon. This can affect bots, gadgets and user scripts that still use the old parameters. [666][667]

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20:02, 7 जून 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-24

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

Logged-in users on the mobile web can choose to use the advanced mobile mode. They now see categories in a similar way as users on desktop do. This means that some gadgets that have just been for desktop users could work for users of the mobile site too. If your wiki has such gadgets you could decide to turn them on for the mobile site too. Some gadgets probably need to be fixed to look good on mobile. [668]
Language links on Wikidata now works for multilingual Wikisource. [669]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

In the future we can't show the IP of unregistered editors to everyone. This is because privacy regulations and norms have changed. There is now a rough draft of how showing the IP to those who need to see it could work.
German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [670]
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 28 June. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [671][672]

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20:26, 14 जून 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-25

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 otrs-member group name is now vrt-permissions. This could affect abuse filters. [673]

Problems

You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [674]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 June. It will be on all wikis from 24 June (calendar).

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15:48, 21 जून 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-26

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

Wikis with the Growth features now can configure Growth features directly on their wiki. This uses the new special page Special:EditGrowthConfig. [675]
Wikisources have a new OCR tool. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add .ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; } to your common.css page. [676]

Problems

You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [677][678]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 June. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

Future changes

Threshold for stub link formatting, thumbnail size and auto-number headings can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback.
A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users. [679][680]

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16:31, 28 जून 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-27

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

Tech News

The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 19 July.

Recent changes

AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes. [681]

Problems

InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from archive.is to web.archive.org. [682]

Changes later this week

The tool to find, add and remove templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year. [683][684]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful. [685]

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17:32, 5 जुलाई 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-29

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 tool to find, add and remove templates was updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It was supposed to come to the first wikis on 7 July. It was delayed to 12 July instead. It will come to more wikis later this year. [686][687]
Special:UnconnectedPages lists pages that are not connected to Wikidata. This helps you find pages that can be connected to Wikidata items. Some pages should not be connected to Wikidata. You can use the magic word __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ on pages that should not be listed on the special page. [688]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 July. It will be on all wikis from 22 July (calendar).

Future changes

How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will soon change. This can affect bots, gadgets, user scripts and extensions. You can read more. You can test it on Testwiki or Testwiki 2.
The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more.

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15:30, 19 जुलाई 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-30

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

Recent changes

A new version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis the week before last week. This was not in Tech News because there was no newsletter that week.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 July. It will be on all wikis from 29 July (calendar).

Future changes

If you use the Monobook skin you can choose to switch off responsive design on mobile. This will now work for more skins. If ⧼monobook-responsive-label⧽ is unticked you need to also untick the new preference उत्तरदायी मोड सक्षम करें. Otherwise it will stop working. Interface admins can automate this process on your wiki. You can read more.

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21:10, 26 जुलाई 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-31

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

If your wiki uses markup like <div class="mw-content-ltr"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl"> without the required dir attribute, then these will no longer work in 2 weeks. There is a short-term fix that can be added to your local wiki's Common.css page, which is explained at T287701. From now on, all usages should include the full attributes, for example: <div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="en"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl" dir="rtl" lang="he">. This also applies to some other HTML tags, such as span or code. You can find existing examples on your wiki that need to be updated, using the instructions at T287701.
Reminder: Wikimedia has migrated to the Libera Chat IRC network, from the old Freenode network. Local documentation should be updated.

Problems

Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 30 minutes. There was a problem with generating dynamic lists of articles on the Russian Wikinews, due to the bulk import of 200,000+ new articles over 3 days, which led to database problems. The problematic feature has been disabled on that wiki and developers are discussing if it can be fixed properly. [689][690]

Changes later this week

When adding links to a page using VisualEditor or the 2017 wikitext editor, disambiguation pages will now only appear at the bottom of search results. This is because users do not often want to link to disambiguation pages. [691]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 August. It will be on all wikis from 5 August (calendar).

Future changes

The team of the Wikipedia app for Android is working on communication in the app. The developers are working on how to talk to other editors and get notifications. You can read more. They are looking for users who want to test the plans. Any editor who has an Android phone and is willing to download the app can do this.
The Beta Feature for चर्चा उपकरण will be updated in the coming weeks. You will be able to subscribe to individual sections on a talk page at more wikis. You can test this now by adding ?dtenable=1 to the end of the talk page's URL (example).

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20:46, 2 अगस्त 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-32

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

You can read but not edit 17 wikis for a few minutes on 10 August. This is planned at 05:00 UTC. This is because of work on the database. [692]

Changes later this week

The Wikimania Hackathon will take place remotely on 13 August, starting at 5:00 UTC, for 24 hours. You can participate in many ways. You can still propose projects and sessions.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 August. It will be on all wikis from 12 August (calendar).
The old CSS <div class="visualClear"></div> will not be supported after 12 August. Instead, templates and pages should use <div style="clear:both;"></div>. Please help to replace any existing uses on your wiki. There are global-search links available at T287962.

Future changes

The Wikipedia Library is a place for Wikipedia editors to get access to sources. There is an extension which has a new function to tell users when they can take part in it. It will use notifications. It will start pinging the first users in September. It will ping more users later. [693]
Vue.js will be the JavaScript framework for MediaWiki in the future. [694]

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16:19, 9 अगस्त 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-33

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 add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet. [695]

Problems

There was a problem on wikis which use the Translate extension. Translations were not updated or were replaced with the English text. The problems have been fixed. [696][697][698]

Changes later this week

A revision tag will soon be added to edits that add links to disambiguation pages. This is because these links are usually added by accident. The tag will allow editors to easily find the broken links and fix them. If your wiki does not like this feature, it can be hidden. [699]
Would you like to help improve the information about tools? Would you like to attend or help organize a small virtual meetup for your community to discuss the list of tools? Please get in touch on the Toolhub Quality Signal Sessions talk page. We are also looking for feedback from tool maintainers on some specific questions.
In the past, edits to any page in your user talk space ignored your mute list, e.g. sub-pages. Starting this week, this is only true for edits to your talk page. [700]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 August. It will be on all wikis from 19 August (calendar).

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19:26, 16 अगस्त 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-34

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 Score extension (<score> notation) has been re-enabled on public wikis and upgraded to a newer version. Some musical score functionality may no longer work because the extension is only enabled in "safe mode". The security issue has been fixed and an advisory published.

Problems

You will be able to read but not edit some wikis for a few minutes on 25 August. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. During this time, operations on the CentralAuth will also not be possible.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 August. It will be on all wikis from 26 August (calendar).

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21:58, 23 अगस्त 2021 (UTC)

Read-only reminder

A maintenance operation will be performed on Wednesday August 25 06:00 UTC. It should only last for a few minutes.

This will affect your wiki as well as 11 other wikis. During this time, publishing edits will not be possible.

Also during this time, operations on the CentralAuth will not be possible (GlobalRenames, changing/confirming e-mail addresses, logging into new wikis, password changes).

For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.

A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.

Please help your community to be aware of this maintenance operation. धन्यवाद!

20:34, 24 अगस्त 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-35

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

Some musical score syntax no longer works and may needed to be updated, you can check Category:Pages with score rendering errors on your wiki for a list of pages with errors.

Problems

Musical scores were unable to render lyrics in some languages because of missing fonts. This has been fixed now. If your language would prefer a different font, please file a request in Phabricator. [701]

Changes later this week

The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more about this.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 September. It will be on all wikis from 2 September (calendar).

Future changes

You will be able to read but not edit Commons for a few minutes on 6 September. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 13 September. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [702]

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16:00, 30 अगस्त 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-36

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 wikis that have Growth features deployed have been part of A/B testing since deployment, in which some newcomers did not receive the new features. Now, all of the newcomers on 21 of the smallest of those wikis will be receiving the features. [703]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

In 2017, the provided jQuery library was upgraded from version 1 to 3, with a compatibility layer. The migration will soon finish, to make the site load faster for everyone. If you maintain a gadget or user script, check if you have any JQMIGRATE errors and fix them, or they will break. [704][705]
Last year, the Portuguese Wikipedia community embarked on an experiment to make log-in compulsory for editing. The impact report of this trial is ready. Moving forward, the Anti-Harassment Tools team is looking for projects that are willing to experiment with restricting IP editing on their wiki for a short-term experiment. Learn more.

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15:19, 6 सितंबर 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-37

हाल के बदलाव

45 new Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. [706]
A majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. The Growth team has published an FAQ page about the features. This translatable FAQ covers the description of the features, how to use them, how to change the configuration, and more.

समस्याएँ

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 14 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [707]

इस सप्ताह के दौरान बदलाव

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 14 सितम्बर से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 15 सितम्बर से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 16 सितम्बर (कैलेंडर) से होगा।
Starting this week, Wikipedia in Italian will receive weekly software updates on Wednesdays. It used to receive the updates on Thursdays. Due to this change, bugs will be noticed and fixed sooner. [708]
You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet. [709]
The syntax highlight tool marks up code with different colours. It now can highlight 23 new code languages. Additionally, golang can now be used as an alias for the Go programming language, and a special output mode has been added to show a program's output. [710][711]

15:33, 13 सितंबर 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-38

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

Growth features are now deployed to almost all Wikipedias. For the majority of small Wikipedias, the features are only available for experienced users, to test the features and configure them. Features will be available for newcomers starting on 20 September 2021.
MediaWiki had a feature that would highlight local links to short articles in a different style. Each user could pick the size at which "stubs" would be highlighted. This feature was very bad for performance, and following a consultation, has been removed. [712]
A technical change was made to the MonoBook skin to allow for easier maintenance and upkeep. This has resulted in some minor changes to HTML that make MonoBook's HTML consistent with other skins. Efforts have been made to minimize the impact on editors, but please ping Jon (WMF) on wiki or in phabricator if any problems are reported.

Problems

There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of an accidental restart of the search servers. [713]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 September. It will be on all wikis from 23 September (calendar).
The meta=proofreadpage API has changed. The piprop parameter has been renamed to prpiprop. API users should update their code to avoid unrecognized parameter warnings. Pywikibot users should upgrade to 6.6.0. [714]

Future changes

The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "चर्चा उपकरण" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. [715]
The previously announced change to how you obtain tokens from the API has been delayed to September 21 because of an incompatibility with Pywikibot. Bot operators using Pywikibot can follow T291202 for progress on a fix, and should plan to upgrade to 6.6.1 when it is released.

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18:31, 20 सितंबर 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-39

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

iOS 15 has a new function called Private Relay (Apple website). This can hide the user's IP when they use Safari browser. This is like using a VPN in that we see another IP address instead. It is opt-in and only for those who pay extra for iCloud. It will come to Safari users on OSX later. There is a technical discussion about what this means for the Wikimedia wikis.

Problems

Some gadgets and user-scripts add items to the portlets (article tools) part of the skin. A recent change to the HTML may have made those links a different font-size. This can be fixed by adding the CSS class .vector-menu-dropdown-noicon. [716]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 September. It will be on all wikis from 30 September (calendar).
The GettingStarted extension was built in 2013, and provides an onboarding process for new account holders in a few versions of Wikipedia. However, the recently developed Growth features provide a better onboarding experience. Since the vast majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features, GettingStarted will be deactivated starting on 4 October. [717]
A small number of users will not be able to connect to the Wikimedia wikis after 30 September. This is because an old root certificate will no longer work. They will also have problems with many other websites. Users who have updated their software in the last five years are unlikely to have problems. Users in Europe, Africa and Asia are less likely to have immediate problems even if their software is too old. You can read more.
You can receive notifications when someone leaves a comment on user talk page or mentions you in a talk page comment. Clicking the notification link will now bring you to the comment and highlight it. Previously, doing so brought you to the top of the section that contained the comment. You can find more information in T282029.

Future changes

The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "चर्चा उपकरण" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. See the list of wikis. [718]

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22:21, 27 सितंबर 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-40

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

Recent changes

A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them has been enabled for the following 10 wikis: mediawiki.org, the Italian, Catalan, Hebrew and Vietnamese Wikipedias, French Wikisource, and English Wikivoygage, Wikibooks, Wiktionary and Wikinews. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist on those wikis you can let the developers know.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 October. It will be on all wikis from 7 October (calendar).
Some gadgets and bots that use the API to read the AbuseFilter log might break. The hidden property will no longer say an entry is implicit for unsuppressed log entries about suppressed edits. If your bot needs to know this, do a separate revision query. Additionally, the property will have the value false for visible entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response. [719]
A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them will be enabled for all production wikis. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist you can let the developers know.

Future changes

You can soon get cross-wiki notifications in the iOS Wikipedia app. You can also get notifications as push notifications. More notification updates will follow in later versions. [720]
The JavaScript variables wgExtraSignatureNamespaces, wgLegalTitleChars, and wgIllegalFileChars will soon be removed from mw.config. These are not part of the "stable" variables available for use in wiki JavaScript. [721]
The JavaScript variables wgCookiePrefix, wgCookieDomain, wgCookiePath, and wgCookieExpiration will soon be removed from mw.config. Scripts should instead use mw.cookie from the "mediawiki.cookie" module. [722]

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16:30, 4 अक्टूबर 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-41

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 October. It will be on all wikis from 14 October (calendar).

The "auto-number headings" preference is being removed. You can read phab:T284921 for the reasons and discussion. This change was previously announced. A JavaScript snippet is available which can be used to create a Gadget on wikis that still want to support auto-numbering.

Meetings

You can join a meeting about the Desktop Improvements. A demonstration version of the newest feature will be shown. The event will take place on Tuesday, 12 October at 16:00 UTC. See how to join.

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15:29, 11 अक्टूबर 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-42

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

Recent changes

Toolhub is a catalogue to make it easier to find software tools that can be used for working on the Wikimedia projects. You can read more.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 October. It will be on all wikis from 21 October (calendar).

Future changes

The developers of the Wikipedia Android app are working on communication in the app. You can now answer questions in survey to help the development.
3–5% of editors may be blocked in the next few months. This is because of a new service in Safari, which is similar to a proxy or a VPN. It is called iCloud Private Relay. There is a discussion about this on Meta. The goal is to learn what iCloud Private Relay could mean for the communities.
Wikimedia Enterprise is a new API for those who use a lot of information from the Wikimedia projects on other sites. It is a way to get big commercial users to pay for the data. There will soon be a copy of the Wikimedia Enterprise dataset. You can read more. You can also ask the team questions on Zoom on 22 October 15:00 UTC.

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20:53, 18 अक्टूबर 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-43

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

Recent changes

The Coolest Tool Award 2021 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 27 October.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 October. It will be on all wikis from 28 October (calendar).

Future changes

Diff pages will have an improved copy and pasting experience. The changes will allow the text in the diff for before and after to be treated as separate columns and will remove any unwanted syntax. [723]
The version of the Liberation fonts used in SVG files will be upgraded. Only new thumbnails will be affected. Liberation Sans Narrow will not change. [724]

Meetings

You can join a meeting about the Community Wishlist Survey. News about the disambiguation and the real-time preview wishes will be shown. The event will take place on Wednesday, 27 October at 14:30 UTC. See how to join.

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20:07, 25 अक्टूबर 2021 (UTC)

Growth Newsletter #19

Welcome to the nineteenth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in Wikimedia projects.

Structured tasks

"Add an image" prototype, showing suggested image for the article

"Add a link" is the team's first structured task. It uses machine-learning to suggest wikilinks as easy edits for newcomers. It was deployed in May 2021 on four Wikipedias and then in July on eight more Wikipedias after we evaluated the initial results. So far, we've seen a high level of engagement from newcomers. Communities that have the feature suggested valuable ideas for improvement. We'll work on improvements and then contact more communities to deploy it.
"Add an image" is the team's second structured task, currently in development. It is an editing task that suggests Commons images for unillustrated Wikipedia articles. We have conducted many community discussions and tests. Then, we've decided to build a first prototype. We'll first deploy it only to our pilot Wikipedias, to learn whether newcomers can be successful with the task. The project page contains links to interactive prototypes. We are very interested to hear your thoughts on this idea as we build and test the early versions. These prototypes have already been tested by newcomers, in English and Spanish.

News for mentors

The Mentor dashboard is available at our pilot wikis: Arabic, Czech, and Bengali Wikipedias. It will soon be available at a few more volunteering wikis, as a test. [725]
At wikis where the mentor dashboard is deployed, a new filter is available for mentors. Mentors can monitor their mentees' activity in Watchlist and RecentChanges, so they can help support their mentees' work. For privacy reasons, this filter can't be accessed by someone else than the mentor itself. This filter only filters mentees assigned to the mentor. This filter is not visible for people who are not listed as mentors [726]

Community configuration

Communities now have the ability to configure how Growth features behave on their own wikis. At Special:EditGrowthConfig, community members can add a list of volunteer mentors, alter the templates used for suggested edits, update help links, and more. This special page is editable by administrators and interface admins.

Scaling

We are proud to announce that all Wikipedias now have the Growth features! Thank you to all the community members who helped the team build the features and bring them to their wikis. The only exception is Chinese Wikipedia (zh), for technical reasons. [727]
The wikis that have Growth features deployed have been part of A/B testing since deployment, in which some newcomers did not receive the new features. Now, all of the newcomers on 280 of the smallest of those Wikipedias have the features. [728][729]
A test is undergoing at English Wikipedia: 25% of newcomers receive the Growth features. The results from this test will be part of a discussion of how to proceed on that wiki.
Now that Growth features are available at Wikipedia, the Growth team considers to extend them to other projects. Some Wikisource users have expressed some interest in getting Growth features. There is currently a discussion about implementing them on Wikisource.

News for communities

Do you have questions about the Growth features? This translatable FAQ contains answers to the most common questions about the Growth team work.
The Growth features were recently used in a test amongst Latin American donors to give donors the opportunity to learn to edit. You can see the results here.
Interface translations are important for newcomers. Please help for your language, by translating or copyediting interface translations for the Growth features.
Help:GettingStarted was a feature developed in 2013, which directed newcomers to articles that needed editing. We recently removed this feature from all wikis, because it has been replaced by the Growth features.

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18:36, 26 अक्टूबर 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-44

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

There is a limit on the amount of emails a user can send each day. This limit is now global instead of per-wiki. This change is to prevent abuse. [730]

Changes later this week

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

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20:27, 1 नवम्बर 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-45

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

Mobile IP editors are now able to receive warning notices indicating they have a talk page message on the mobile website (similar to the orange banners available on desktop). These notices will be displayed on every page outside of the main namespace and every time the user attempts to edit. The notice on desktop now has a slightly different colour. [731][732]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

Wikidata will be read-only for a few minutes on 11 November. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [733]
इस सप्ताह मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण नहीं आएगा।

भविष्य में परिवर्तन

In the future, unregistered editors will be given an identity that is not their IP address. This is for legal reasons. A new user right will let editors who need to know the IPs of unregistered accounts to fight vandalism, spam, and harassment, see the IP. You can read the suggestions for how that identity could work and discuss on the talk page.

20:35, 8 नवम्बर 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-46

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

Most large file uploads errors that had messages like "stashfailed" or "DBQueryError" have now been fixed. An incident report is available.

Problems

Sometimes, edits made on iOS using the visual editor save groups of numbers as telephone number links, because of a feature in the operating system. This problem is under investigation. [734]
There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error. [735]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 November. It will be on all wikis from 18 November (calendar).

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22:06, 15 नवम्बर 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-47

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

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
The template dialog in VisualEditor and in the new wikitext mode Beta feature will be heavily improved on a few wikis. Your feedback is welcome.

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20:01, 22 नवम्बर 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-48

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 30 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 December. It will be on all wikis from 2 December (calendar).

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21:14, 29 नवम्बर 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-49

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

MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 December. It will be on all wikis from 9 December (calendar).
At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at Special:MentorDashboard. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project.
The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008), action=ajax, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module. [736]
An old ResourceLoader module, jquery.jStorage, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to mediawiki.storage instead. [737]

21:58, 6 दिसम्बर 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-50

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

Recent changes

There are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis, [[WB:]] will go to the local language default for the [[Project:]] namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process. [738]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 December. It will be on all wikis from 16 December (calendar).

22:26, 13 दिसम्बर 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-51

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

Tech News

Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 10 January 2022.

Recent changes

Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (<DynamicPageList>) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis. [739]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February. [740]

22:05, 20 दिसम्बर 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-02

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

Recent changes

A oauth_consumer variable has been added to the AbuseFilter to enable identifying changes made by specific tools. [741]
Gadgets are now able to directly include JSON pages. This means some gadgets can now be configured by administrators without needing the interface administrator permission, such as with the Geonotice gadget. [742]
Gadgets can now specify page actions on which they are available. For example, |actions=edit,history will load a gadget only while editing and on history pages. [743]
Gadgets can now be loaded on demand with the withgadget URL parameter. This can be used to replace an earlier snippet that typically looks like withJS or withCSS. [744]
At wikis where the Mentorship system is configured, you can now use the Action API to get a list of a mentor's mentees. [745]
The heading on the main page can now be configured using MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin for logged-in users and MediaWiki:Mainpage-title for logged-out users. Any CSS that was previously used to hide the heading should be removed. [746] [747]
Four special pages (and their API counterparts) now have a maximum database query execution time of 30 seconds. These special pages are: RecentChanges, Watchlist, Contributions, and Log. This change will help with site performance and stability. You can read more details about this change including some possible solutions if this affects your workflows. [748]
The sticky header has been deployed for 50% of logged-in users on more than 10 wikis. This is part of the Desktop Improvements. See how to take part in the project.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 January. It will be on all wikis from 13 January (calendar).

Events

Community Wishlist Survey 2022 begins. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.

01:23, 11 जनवरी 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-03

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

When using WikiEditor (also known as the 2010 wikitext editor), people will now see a warning if they link to disambiguation pages. If you click "Review link" in the warning, it will ask you to correct the link to a more specific term. You can read more information about this completed 2021 Community Wishlist item.
You can automatically subscribe to all of the talk page discussions that you start or comment in using DiscussionTools. You will receive notifications when another editor replies. This is available at most wikis. Go to your Preferences and turn on "Automatically subscribe to topics". [749]
When asked to create a new page or talk page section, input fields can be "preloaded" with some text. This feature is now limited to wikitext pages. This is so users can't be tricked into making malicious edits. There is a discussion about if this feature should be re-enabled for some content types.

Changes later this week

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

Events

Community Wishlist Survey 2022 continues. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.

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19:54, 17 जनवरी 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-04

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 25 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 January. It will be on all wikis from 27 January (calendar).
The following languages can now be used with syntax highlighting: BDD, Elpi, LilyPond, Maxima, Rita, Savi, Sed, Sophia, Spice, .SRCINFO.
You can now access your watchlist from outside of the user menu in the new Vector skin. The watchlist link appears next to the notification icons if you are at the top of the page. [750]

Events

You can see the results of the Coolest Tool Award 2021 and learn more about 14 tools which were selected this year.
You can translate, promote, or comment on the proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. Voting will begin on 28 January.

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21:37, 24 जनवरी 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-05

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

If a gadget should support the new ?withgadget URL parameter that was announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specify supportsUrlLoad in the gadget definition (documentation). [751]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 February. It will be on all wikis from 3 February (calendar).

Future changes

A change that was announced last year was delayed. It is now ready to move ahead:
- The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on translatewiki (direct links are available) or by administrators on your wiki.

Events

You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 28 January and 11 February. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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17:41, 31 जनवरी 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-06

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

English Wikipedia recently set up a gadget for dark mode. You can enable it there, or request help from an interface administrator to set it up on your wiki (instructions and screenshot).
Category counts are sometimes wrong. They will now be completely recounted at the beginning of every month. [752]

Problems

A code-change last week to fix a bug with Live Preview may have caused problems with some local gadgets and user-scripts. Any code with skin-specific behaviour for vector should be updated to also check for vector-2022. A code-snippet, global search, and example are available.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 February. It will be on all wikis from 10 February (calendar).

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21:15, 7 फ़रवरी 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-07

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

Purging a category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely. This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong. [753]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 February. It will be on all wikis from 17 February (calendar).
In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [754]

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19:18, 14 फ़रवरी 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-08

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

Special:Nuke will now provide the standard deletion reasons (editable at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown) to use when mass-deleting pages. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [755]
At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features by default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update their help resources. Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change. [756]
You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search results. This is done with the markup class=notpageimage. For example, [[File:Example.png|class=notpageimage]]. [757]
There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes by date in the mobile skin. While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all the HTML changes is on Phabricator.

Events

Community Wishlist Survey results have been published. The ranking of prioritized proposals is also available.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 February. It will be on all wikis from 24 February (calendar).

Future changes

The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [758][759]
Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions on Wikitech. [760]
Administrators will soon have the option to delete/undelete the associated "talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option will also be available. This was a request from the 2021 Wishlist Survey.

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19:11, 21 फ़रवरी 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-09

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

When searching for edits by change tags, e.g. in page history or user contributions, there is now a dropdown list of possible tags. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [761]
Mentors using the Growth Mentor dashboard will now see newcomers assigned to them who have made at least one edit, up to 200 edits. Previously, all newcomers assigned to the mentor were visible on the dashboard, even ones without any edit or ones who made hundred of edits. Mentors can still change these values using the filters on their dashboard. Also, the last choice of filters will now be saved. [762][763]
The user group oversight was renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. You may need to update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to Special:Listusers, or uses of NUMBERINGROUP.

Problems

The recent change to the HTML of tracking changes pages caused some problems for screenreaders. This is being fixed. [764]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 March. It will be on all wikis from 3 March (calendar).

Future changes

Working with templates will become easier. Several improvements are planned for March 9 on most wikis and on March 16 on English Wikipedia. The improvements include: Bracket matching, syntax highlighting colors, finding and inserting templates, and related visual editor features.
If you are a template developer or an interface administrator, and you are intentionally overriding or using the default CSS styles of user feedback boxes (the classes: successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox), please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at phab:T300314 if you think you might be affected.

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22:59, 28 फ़रवरी 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-10

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

There was a problem with some interface labels last week. It will be fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the support for skins which do not have active maintainers. [765]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).

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21:15, 7 मार्च 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-11

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 Wikipedia Android app it is now possible to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode. [766][767]

Problems

There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days. You can read more on Meta-wiki.
There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then. [768]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
When using uselang=qqx to find localisation messages, it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as "इतिहास देखें". [769]
Access to विशेष:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the deleterevision right could access this special page. [770]
On the विशेष:पुनर्स्थापन pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions. [771]

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the IP Masking implementation strategy and next steps. The announcement can be read here.
The Wikipedia Android app developers are working on new functions for user talk pages and article talk pages. [772]

Events

The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.

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22:07, 14 मार्च 2022 (UTC)

Growth Newsletter #20

Welcome to the twentieth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in Wikimedia projects.

Suggested edits

As of February, 300,000 suggested edits have been completed since the feature was first deployed in December 2019.

Add a link is the team's first structured task, deployed in May 2021. It has improved outcomes for newcomers. The team is now working on a second iteration based on community feedback and data analysis. Improvements will include: improved algorithmic suggestions, guardrails to prevent too many similar links to be added, and clearer encouragement for users to continue making edits. After adding these improvements, we will deploy this task to more Wikipedias.

Add an image is the second structured task built by our team. It was deployed in November 2021 to four pilot Wikipedias. This is a more challenging task for newcomers. However, it adds more value to articles (so far, over 1,000 images have been added). We are currently learning from communities and from the data on what is working well and what needs improvements. The project page contains links to interactive prototypes. We are very interested to hear your thoughts on this idea as we build and test the early versions. We will soon deploy this task to more Wikipedias as a test.

"Add a link" and "Add an image" now both have a limitation on how many of these tasks newcomers can do per day. It is meant to discourage careless newcomers from making too many problematic edits.

Positive reinforcement

Over the last two years, the Growth team has focused on building suggested edits: easy tasks for newcomers to start with. We have learned with this experience that these tasks help many newcomers to make their first edits. Now, the team is starting a new project : "positive reinforcement". Its goal is to make newcomers proud of their editing and to make them want to come back for more of them. With the positive reinforcement project, we are considering three kinds of features:

Impact stats: give newcomers the ability to see how many people read the articles they edit.
Leveling up: encourage newcomers to progress from easier tasks to harder tasks.
Personalized praise: encourage mentors and other editors to "thank" and award newcomers for good work.

This project is just beginning, and we hope for community thoughts on the direction. We know that things can wrong if we offer the wrong incentives to newcomers, so we want to be careful. Please visit the talk page to help guide the project!

News for mentors

The mentor dashboard is available at all wikis. It helps mentors see who their mentees are and keep track of their activity. It is automatically activated where a list of mentors has been created. If you need assistance to create a list of mentors, please contact us.
The mentor dashboard has a new module: settings. It is now possible for mentors to define their status (active or away). They can specify the volume of questions they want to receive, and they can claim mentees in an easier way. It is also possible for mentors to quit, which will automatically reassign their mentees to other mentors.
We are working on an ability for a mentee to opt-out (and back in) to having a mentor.
Previously, in the table that displays mentees activity, the filters displayed all mentees, even the ones with zero edits or lots of edits. We have changed this so that only mentees with between 1 and 500 edits are visible by default. Mentors can change this value in their filters.
We are currently working on a special page for mentors to sign-up.

Some wikis have created userboxes that mentors can display on the user pages. If your wiki has one, please link it to Wikidata!

Scaling

Previously, at most Wikipedias, only 80% of newcomers were getting the Growth features. This was done for experimentation, to have a control group. We have changed this setting. Now 100% of new accounts at all Wikipedias get the Growth features (except a few, kept as test wikis). We invite communities to update their onboarding documentation and tutorials. Please include the Growth features in it. To help you, we have created an help page that can be translated and adapted to your wiki.

How to help

Do you have questions about the Growth features? This translatable FAQ contains answers to the most common questions about the Growth team work. We regularly update it.

Interface translations are important for newcomers. Please help for your language, by translating or copyediting interface translations for the Growth features.

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17:12, 16 मार्च 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-12

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

New code release schedule for this week

There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can read more about this project.

Recent changes

You can now set how many search results to show by default in your Preferences. This was the 12th most popular wish in the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. [773]
The Jupyter notebooks tool PAWS has been updated to a new interface. [774]

Future changes

Interactive maps via Kartographer will soon work on wikis using the FlaggedRevisions extension. Please tell us which improvements you want to see in Kartographer. You can take this survey in simple English. [775]

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16:00, 21 मार्च 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-13

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

There is a simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular database maintenance. It will be performed on 29 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 31 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [776][777]

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19:54, 28 मार्च 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-14

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

For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the विशेष:RecentChanges feed. This bug has been fixed. [778]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 April. It will be on all wikis from 7 April (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 7 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

Starting next week, Tech News' title will be translatable. When the newsletter is distributed, its title may not be Tech News: 2022-14 anymore. It may affect some filters that have been set up by some communities. [779]
Over the next few months, the "Add a link" Growth feature will become available to more Wikipedias. Each week, a few wikis will get the feature. You can test this tool at a few wikis where "Link recommendation" is already available.

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21:00, 4 अप्रैल 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-15

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

There is a new public status page at www.wikimediastatus.net. This site shows five automated high-level metrics where you can see the overall health and performance of our wikis' technical environment. It also contains manually-written updates for widespread incidents, which are written as quickly as the engineers are able to do so while also fixing the actual problem. The site is separated from our production infrastructure and hosted by an external service, so that it can be accessed even if the wikis are briefly unavailable. You can read more about this project.
On Wiktionary wikis, the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [780][781]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).

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19:44, 11 अप्रैल 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-16

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 19 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 April. It will be on all wikis from 21 April (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 19 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 21 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the associated "Talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
On selected wikis, 50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents. When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements project. [782]
Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes: successbox, errorbox, warningbox. The styles for those classes and messagebox will be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February issue of Tech News.

Future changes

Kartographer will become compatible with FlaggedRevisions page stabilization. Kartographer maps will also work on pages with pending changes. [783] The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated. [784] [785] [786]

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23:11, 18 अप्रैल 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-17

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

On many wikis (group 1), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [787][788]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 April. It will be on all wikis from 28 April (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 26 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Some very old browsers and operating systems are no longer supported. Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in very old browsers like Internet Explorer 9 or 10, Android 4, or Firefox 38 or older. [789]

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22:55, 25 अप्रैल 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-18

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

On all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [790][791]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 May. It will be on all wikis from 5 May (calendar).

Future changes

The developers are working on talk pages in the Wikipedia app for iOS. You can give feedback. You can take the survey in English, German, Hebrew or Chinese.
Most wikis will receive an improved template dialog in VisualEditor and New Wikitext mode. [792] [793]
If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme. [794]
Several CSS IDs related to MediaWiki interface messages will be removed. Technical editors should please review the list of IDs and links to their existing uses. These include #mw-anon-edit-warning, #mw-undelete-revision and 3 others.

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19:33, 2 मई 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-19

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 now see categories in the Wikipedia app for Android. [795]

Problems

Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [796]
Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change. [797]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [798]
Incompatibility issues with Kartographer and the FlaggedRevs extension will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension on May 24.
The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022).

Future meetings

The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.

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15:21, 9 मई 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-20

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

Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [799]
The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on all wikis from 19 May (calendar).

Future changes

You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons. [800]

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18:57, 16 मई 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-21

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

Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. [801]
The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [802]

Problems

The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [803]
Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation. [804]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).

Future changes

Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [805]

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00:20, 24 मई 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-22

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 AbuseFilter extension, an ip_in_ranges() function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple ip_in_range() expressions joined by | into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [806]
The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 31 May at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [807][808]
The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the uciprange parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit. [809]
A new parser function will be introduced: {{=}}. It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates. [810]

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20:27, 30 मई 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-23

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 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
A new str_replace_regexp() function can be used in abuse filters to replace parts of text using a regular expression. [811]

02:45, 7 जून 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-24

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

All wikis can now use Kartographer maps. Kartographer maps now also work on pages with pending changes. [812][813]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 14 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [814]
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Abkhazian Wikipedia, Achinese Wikipedia, Adyghe Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Akan Wikipedia, Alemannisch Wikipedia, Amharic Wikipedia, Aragonese Wikipedia, Old English Wikipedia, Syriac Wikipedia, Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Asturian Wikipedia, Atikamekw Wikipedia, Avaric Wikipedia, Aymara Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, South Azerbaijani Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [815]
The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [816][817]

Future meetings

The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place today (13 June). The following meetings will take place on: 28 June, 12 July, 26 July.

Future changes

By the end of July, the Vector 2022 skin should be ready to become the default across all wikis. Discussions on how to adjust it to the communities' needs will begin in the next weeks. It will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual basis. Learn more.

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16:58, 13 जून 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-25

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 Wikipedia App for Android now has an option for editing the whole page at once, located in the overflow menu (three-dots menu ). [818]
Some recent database changes may affect queries using the Quarry tool. Queries for site_stats at English Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata will need to be updated. Read more.
A new user_global_editcount variable can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. [819]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).
Users of non-responsive skins (e.g. MonoBook or Vector) on mobile devices may notice a slight change in the default zoom level. This is intended to optimize zooming and ensure all interface elements are present on the page (for example the table of contents on Vector 2022). In the unlikely event this causes any problems with how you use the site, we'd love to understand better, please ping Jon (WMF) to any on-wiki conversations. [820]

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
Parsoid's HTML output will soon stop annotating file links with different typeof attribute values, and instead use mw:File for all types. Tool authors should adjust any code that expects: mw:Image, mw:Audio, or mw:Video. [821]

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20:17, 20 जून 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-26

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

Wikimedia Enterprise API service now has self-service accounts with free on-demand requests and monthly snapshots (API documentation). Community access via database dumps & Wikimedia Cloud Services continues.
All Wikimedia wikis can now use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua after creating local modules and templates. Discussions are welcome on the project talk page.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 28 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [822]
Some global and cross-wiki services will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 30 June at 06:00 UTC. This will impact ContentTranslation, Echo, StructuredDiscussions, Growth experiments and a few more services. [823]
Users will be able to sort columns within sortable tables in the mobile skin. [824]

Future meetings

The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (28 June). The following meetings will take place on 12 July and 26 July.

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20:01, 27 जून 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-27

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 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 5 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 7 July at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
This change only affects pages in the main namespace in Wikisource. The Javascript config variable proofreadpage_source_href will be removed from mw.config and be replaced with the variable prpSourceIndexPage. [825]

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19:31, 4 जुलाई 2022 (UTC)

Growth team newsletter #21

Welcome to the twenty-first newsletter from the Growth team!

New project: Positive reinforcement

Mockup of the Impact module, redesigned to add Positive reinforcement.

The Growth team started a new project: Positive reinforcement. We want newcomers to understand there is an interest in regularly editing Wikipedia, and we want to improve new editor retention.
We asked users from Arabic, Bangla, Czech and French Wikipedia about their feedback. Some people participated at mediawiki.org as well.
We summarized the initial feedback gathered from these community discussions, along with how we plan to iterate based on that feedback.
The first Positive Reinforcement idea is a redesign of the impact module: incorporating stats, graphs, and other contribution information. This idea received the widest support, and we plan to start our work based on the design illustrated on the side.
Please let us know what you think of this project, in any language.

For mentors

We have worked on two new features, to inform them about the mentorship:
- In the Mentor module, we now provide more information about the public nature of the mentors/newcomer relationship and the fact that talk pages are public.
- We now allow newcomers to opt-in and opt-out of mentorship.

Scaling

"Add a link" available at more wikis ― Add a link feature has been deployed to more wikis: Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Abkhazian Wikipedia, Achinese Wikipedia, Adyghe Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Akan Wikipedia, Alemannisch Wikipedia, Amharic Wikipedia, Aragonese Wikipedia, Old English Wikipedia, Syriac Wikipedia, Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Asturian Wikipedia, Atikamekw Wikipedia, Avaric Wikipedia, Aymara Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, South Azerbaijani Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure locally how this feature works.
"Add an image" available at more wikis ― Add an image feature will be deployed to more wikis: Greek Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia. These communities will be able to configure locally how this feature works. [826]

Suggested edits

Selecting topics ― We have created an "AND" filter to the list of topics at Special:Homepage. This way, newcomers can decide to select very specific topics ("Transportation" AND "Asia") or to have a broader selection ("Transportation" OR "Asia"). At the moment this feature is tested at pilot wikis.
Changes for Add a link ― We have built several improvements that came from community discussion and from data analysis. They will be available soon at the wikis.
- Algorithm improvements ― The algorithm now avoids recommending links in sections that usually don't have links and for first names. Also, it now limits each article to only having three link suggestions by default (limited to the highest accuracy suggestions of all the available ones in the article).
- User experience improvements ― We added a confirmation dialog when a user exits out of suggestion mode prior to making changes. We also improved post-edit dialog experience and allow newcomers to browse through task suggestions from the post-edit dialog.
- Community configuration ― We allow communities to set a maximum number of links per article via Special:EditGrowthConfig.
- Future change for Add a link feature ― We will suggest underlinked articles in priority. [827]
Patrolling suggested edits ― Some users at Arabic Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia, and Russian Wikipedia told us that "Add a link" and "Add an image" edits can be challenging to patrol. We are now brainstorming improvements to help address this challenge. We have already some ideas and we started some work to address this challenge. If you have any thoughts to add about the challenges of reviewing these tasks or how we should improve these tasks further, please let us know, in any language.

Community configuration

Communities can configure how the features work, using Special:EditGrowthConfig.

Communities can set the maximum number of "add an image" suggested tasks a newcomer can complete daily. [828]
Future change: allow communities to customize the "add a link" quality gate threshold easily, using Special:EditGrowthConfig. [829]

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13:03, 5 जुलाई 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-28

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 page title is now displayed above the tabs such as Discussion, Read, Edit, View history, or More. Learn more. [830]
It is now possible to easily view most of the configuration settings that apply to just one wiki, and to compare settings between two wikis if those settings are different. For example: Japanese Wiktionary settings, or settings that are different between the Spanish and Esperanto Wikipedias. Local communities may want to discuss and propose changes to their local settings. Details about each of the named settings can be found by searching MediaWiki.org. [831]
The Anti-Harassment Tools team recently deployed the IP Info Feature as a Beta Feature at all wikis. This feature allows abuse fighters to access information about IP addresses. Please check our update on how to find and use the tool. Please share your feedback using a link you will be given within the tool itself.

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 12 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.

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19:23, 11 जुलाई 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-29

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 feature on mobile web for Nearby Pages was missing last week. It will be fixed this week. [832]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).

Future changes

The Technical Decision Forum is seeking community representatives. You can apply on wiki or by emailing TDFSupport@wikimedia.org before 12 August.

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22:59, 18 जुलाई 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-30

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 www.wikibooks.org and www.wikiquote.org portal pages now use an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [833]

Problems

Last week, some wikis were in read-only mode for a few minutes because of an emergency switch of their main database (targeted wikis). [834]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
The external link icon will change slightly in the skins Vector legacy and Vector 2022. The new icon uses simpler shapes to be more recognizable on low-fidelity screens. [835]
Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "Change block" and "सदस्य को अनब्लॉक करें" instead of just "आई॰पी॰ अवरुद्ध करें।" if the user is already blocked. [836]

Future meetings

The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (26 July).

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19:26, 25 जुलाई 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-31

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

Improved LaTeX capabilities for math rendering are now available in the wikis thanks to supporting Phantom tags. This completes part of the #59 wish of the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).
The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 0. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.

Future meetings

This week, three meetings about Vector (2022) with live interpretation will take place. On Tuesday, interpretation in Russian will be provided. On Thursday, meetings for Arabic and Spanish speakers will take place. See how to join.

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21:21, 1 अगस्त 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-32

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

GUS2Wiki copies the information from विशेष:GadgetUsage to an on-wiki page so you can review its history. If your project isn't already listed on the Wikidata entry for Project:GUS2Wiki you can either run GUS2Wiki yourself or make a request to receive updates. [837]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 9 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 11 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future meetings

The Wikimania Hackathon will take place online from August 12–14. Don't miss the pre-hacking showcase to learn about projects and find collaborators. Anyone can propose a project or host a session. Newcomers are welcome!

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19:49, 8 अगस्त 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-33

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 Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia community decided to block IP editing from October 2021 to April 2022. The Wikimedia Foundation's Product Analytics team tracked the impact of this change. An impact report is now available.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 August. It will be on all wikis from 18 August (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 16 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 18 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 1. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes. [838][839][840]

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21:07, 15 अगस्त 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-34

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

Two problems with Kartographer maps have been fixed. Maps are no longer shown as empty when a geoline was created via VisualEditor. Geolines consisting of points with QIDs (e.g., subway lines) are no longer shown with pushpins. [841][842]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 25 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The colours of links and visited links will change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. [843]

Future changes

The new [सदस्यता लें] button helps newcomers get answers. The Editing team is enabling this tool everywhere. You can turn it off in your preferences. [844]

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00:11, 23 अगस्त 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-35

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 Realtime Preview is available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 2. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals. Please note that when this Beta feature is enabled, it may cause conflicts with some wiki-specific Gadgets.

Problems

In recent months, there have been inaccurate numbers shown for various विशेष:Statistics at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed. [845]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 30 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation wants to improve how Wikimedia communities report harmful incidents by building the Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) to make it easy and safe for users to make reports. You can leave comments on the talk page, by answering the questions provided. If you have ever faced a harmful situation that you wanted to report/reported, join a PIRS interview to share your experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

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23:04, 29 अगस्त 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-36

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 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 6 September at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 8 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
On Special pages that only have one tab, the tab-bar's row will be hidden in the Vector-2022 skin to save space. The row will still show if Gadgets use it. Gadgets that currently append directly to the CSS id of #p-namespaces should be updated to use the mw.util.addPortletLink function instead. Gadgets that style this id should consider also targeting #p-associated-pages, the new id for this row. Examples are available. [846][847]

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23:20, 5 सितंबर 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-37

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 search servers have been upgraded to a new major version. If you notice any issues with searching, please report them on Phabricator. [848]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).
Syntax highlighting is now tracked as an expensive parser function. Only 500 expensive function calls can be used on a single page. Pages that exceed the limit are added to a tracking category. [849]

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01:48, 13 सितंबर 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-38

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

Two database fields in the templatelinks table are now being dropped: tl_namespace and tl_title. Any queries that rely on these fields need to be changed to use the new normalization field called tl_target_id. See T299417 for more information. This is part of normalization of links tables. [850][851]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar).
In Kartographer maps, you can use icons on markers for common points of interest. On Tuesday, the previous icon set will be updated to version maki 7.2. That means, around 100 new icons will be available. Additionally, all existing icons were updated for clarity and to make them work better in international contexts. [852][853]

Future changes

In a group discussion at Wikimania, more than 30 people talked about how to make content partnership software in the Wikimedia movement more sustainable. What kind of support is acceptable for volunteer developers? Read the summary and leave your feedback.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:14, 19 सितंबर 2022 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Growth team newsletter #22

Welcome to the twenty-second newsletter from the Growth team!

Newcomers tasks reach the 500,000 edits milestone — more data publicly available

As of the last week of June 2022, the newcomers of the world have completed over 500,000 newcomer tasks. In other words, newcomers have made over half a million Wikipedia edits via Growth’s “Suggested Edits” module.

About 30% of those edits were completed on mobile devices.
Usage continues to increase; in June 2022 almost 50,000 newcomer tasks were completed.

We have added some new data to Grafana. You can now check the number of edits and reverts by task types, or the number of questions asked to mentors. You can filter the data by wiki.

If you have any questions, or there is more data you want access to, please let us know.

Ongoing projects and explorations

The new impact module is part of the Positive Reinforcement project. The image displays the mockup for mobile we used for user testing.

We are continuing our work on our new project, Positive Reinforcement. User testing of initial Positive Reinforcement designs was just completed. Interviews were conducted in Arabic, English, and Spanish. The outcome has been published on the Positive Reinforcement page. We are now utilizing user testing feedback along with prior community feedback to iterate and improve designs.

We are exploring the idea of a Copy Edit structured task. We have tested copy edits in Wikipedia articles for arwiki, bnwiki, cswiki, eswiki (Growth pilot-wikis) and enwiki with two different methods: LanguageTool and Hunspell. We will share more details here and on the associated Copy Edit page once the evaluation is complete.

Add an image was utilized at GLAM events in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile. For an overview of what was learned from these events, read: #1Pic1Article I: how Latin American heritage experts added images to Wikipedia (in English).

Experiments analysis

Add a Link Experiment Analysis has been published. The most important points are:

Newcomers who get the Add a Link structured task are more likely to be activated (i.e. make a constructive first article edit).
They are also more likely to be retained (i.e. come back and make another constructive article edit on a different day).
The feature also increases edit volume (i.e. the number of constructive edits made across the first couple weeks), while at the same time improving edit quality (i.e. the likelihood that the newcomer's edits aren't reverted).

Newcomer task edit type analysis has been published.

Communities had expressed concern that newcomers whose initial edits were structured tasks wouldn’t go on to learn how to complete more difficult tasks. The Growth team data scientist conducted a Newcomer task edit type analysis to see if this was indeed the case.
Results from analysis indicate that this likely isn’t a significant concern. More than 70% of users who start with the easy task "Add a link" also make another task type. Read the full analysis and methodology here.

News for mentors

A new system for the mentors list

The configuration of the mentors list will change over the next weeks. In the future, mentors will sign up, edit their mentor description and quit using Special:MentorDashboard. This new system will make the development of new features for mentors much easier.

At the moment, the mentor list is a simple page anyone can edit, unless it’s protected. With the new page, mentors will be able to edit only their own description, while administrators will be able to edit the entire mentors' list if needed.

The deployment will happen first at the pilot wikis, then at all wikis. Existing lists of mentors will be automatically converted, no action will be needed from the mentors. [854][855]

Mentors will be informed about the next steps soon, by a message posted on the talk page of existing Mentor lists.

Learn more about this new structured page on mediawiki.org.

A tip for mentors

Did you know that mentors can filter their mentees' changes at Special:MentorDashboard (and star the ones that require attention)? This feature helps to keep an eye on newcomers' edits, helping mentors to fix minor details, and encourage them if necessary.

And did you know that mentors have special filters to highlight their mentees' edits at Special:RecentChanges? Look for the following filters in RecentChanges: Your starred mentees, Your unstarred mentees.

Other improvements

Some improvements will be made to the mentor dashboard in the coming weeks:

While we now offer some options for mentors to take a break, the option to quit mentoring was not easy to find. This will be improved. [856]
Mentors at wikis using FlaggedRevisions will have a way to discover their mentees' pending edits. [857]
Dashboard discovery for new mentors will be improved. [858]

Recent changes and fixed bugs

We moved to a new Image Suggestions API. This new API will allow us to deploy Add an Image to more wikis. [859]
Starting September 19, a few more wikis now offer Add an image to newcomers. These wikis are यूनानी विकिपीडिया, पोलिश विकिपीडिया, चीनी विकिपीडिया, इंडोनेशियाई विकिपीडिया, रोमानियाई विकिपीडिया. [860]
Add an image has been disabled for a few days due to technical issue. "Add an image" added a blank line instead of an image. This has been fixed. [861]
In order to know if Special:EditGrowthConfig is used by communities, we now instrument page loads and saves of configuration. [862]

Have a question? A suggestion?

Please let us know! You can also read our FAQ page.

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17:19, 21 सितंबर 2022 (UTC)

तकनीकी समाचार: 2022-39

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

पार्सोएड ग्राहकोंको अद्यतन करना चाहिये ताकि rel लिंकों के अट्रिब्युट में स्पेस द्वारा अलग किया हुआ वहु–मान प्रयोग की जाए। अधिक जानकारी T315209 में।

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 27 सितम्बर से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 28 सितम्बर से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 29 सितम्बर (कैलेंडर) से होगा।
दृश्य अन्तरें सब सदस्यों को उपलब्ध होगा, विक्शनरीयाँ और विकिपीडिया के अलावा। [863]
अरबी, बांग्ला, चीनी, फ्रेंच, हाईटियन क्रियोल, हिब्रू, कोरियाई और वियतनामी विकिपीडिया में मोबाइल साइट पर वार्ता पृष्ठ बदल जाएगा। उनका उपयोग करना आसान होना चाहिए और अधिक जानकारी प्रदान करनी चाहिए। [864] [865]
In the मॉड्यूल namespace, pages ending with .json will be treated as JSON, just like they already are in the सदस्य and मीडियाविकि namespaces. [866]

MediaWiki message delivery 00:29, 27 सितंबर 2022 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2022-40

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

Kartographer maps can now show geopoints from Wikidata, via QID or SPARQL query. Previously, this was only possible for geoshapes and geolines. [867] [868]
The Coolest Tool Award 2022 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 12 October.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar).
Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. (Last week's release was delayed) [869] [870]
The scribunto-console API module will require a CSRF token. This module is documented as internal and use of it is not supported. [5]
The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikimedia projects. Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:22, 4 अक्टूबर 2022 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2022-41

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 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).
On some wikis, Kartographer maps in full size view will be able to display nearby articles. After a feedback period, more wikis will follow. [871][872]

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14:07, 10 अक्टूबर 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-42

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 recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in Special:Search will be limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510. [873]
A bug that caused problems in loading article thumbnails in Special:Search has been fixed. Further details are in T320406.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 October. It will be on all wikis from 20 October (calendar).
Lua module authors can use mw.loadJsonData() to load data from JSON pages. [874]
Lua module authors can enable require( "strict" ) to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "Module:No globals" on most wikis. [875]

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated at most wikis. The "उत्तर दें" button will look different after this change. [876]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:45, 17 अक्टूबर 2022 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2022-43

विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय से नवीनतम तकनीकी समाचार। कृपया दूसरे सदस्यों को इन बदलावों के बारे में बताएँ। सभी बदलावों से आप प्रभावित नहीं होंगे। अनुवादक उपलब्ध हैं।

हाल में हुए बदलाव

Special:Search में ऑडियो प्लेयर के संरेखण और चित्र के प्लेसहोल्डर की ऊँचाई से संबंधित कुछ छोटे यथादृश्य सुधार किए गए हैं। अधिक जानकारी T319230 पर है।
विकिपीडियाओं पर एक नई वरीयता जोड़ी गई है जिससे Special:Search में लेखों के अंगूठाकारों को छिपाया जा सकता है। पूरी जानकारी T320337 पर है।

समस्याएँ

पिछले हफ़्ते तीन विकियों (फ़्रांसीसी विकिपीडिया, जापानी विकिपीडिया, रूसी विकिपीडिया) पर 25 मिनट के लिए पठन पहुँच थी। यह हार्डवेयर में एक समस्या के चलते हुआ था। [877]

इस हफ़्ते के बदलाव

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकियों और MediaWiki.org पर 25 अक्टूबर से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडियाओं पर 26 अक्टूबर से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 27 अक्टूबर (कैलेंडर) से होगा।
कुछ विकियों के मुख्य डेटाबेस में बदलावों के कारण ये कुछ मिनटों के लिए पठन मोड में होंगे। यह काम 25 अक्टूबर को 07:00 UTC (12:30 IST) (लक्षित विकियाँ) और 27 अक्टूबर को 7:00 UTC (12:30 IST) (लक्षित विकियाँ) पर किया जाएगा।
बुधवार से कुछ विकिपीडियाओं के एक समूह पर "एक कड़ी जोड़ें" उपलब्ध होगी (असमिया विकिपीडिया, बश्किर विकिपीडिया, बाली विकिपीडिया, बवेरियाई विकिपीडिया, सामोगितियाई विकिपीडिया, मध्य बिकोल विकिपीडिया, बेलारूसी विकिपीडिया, बेलारूसी (ताराश्केविका) विकिपीडिया, बेलारूसी विकिपीडिया, भोजपुरी विकिपीडिया, बिस्लामा विकिपीडिया, बिस्लामा विकिपीडिया, बाम्बारा विकिपीडिया, बिष्णुप्रिया विकिपीडिया, ब्रेटन विकिपीडिया, बोस्नियाई विकिपीडिया, बुगिनी विकिपीडिया, बुर्यात विकिपीडिया, इंडोनेशियाई विकिपीडिया)। यह अधिक विकिपीडियाओं पर इस उपकरण के प्रगतिशील तैनात-कार्य का हिस्सा है। समुदाय कॉन्फ़िगर कर सकते हैं कि यह सुविधा लोकल रूप से कैसे काम करेगी। [878]
बुधवार 26 अक्टूबर 2022 से मेंटर्स की सूची उन विकियों पर अपग्रेड कर दी जाएगी जहाँ पर मेंटरशिप उपलब्ध है। मेंटरशिप प्रणाली वर्तमान मॉडल पर काम करती जाएगी। साइन-अप की प्रक्रिया को बदल दिया जाएगा, और प्रबंधन के एक नए विकल्प को उपलब्ध कराया जाएगा। और यह बदलाव विकिपीडियाओं पर मेंटरशिप की प्रणाली के निर्माण को आसान बना देगा। [879][880][881]
यूनिकोड 11 के अनुसार छोटे अक्षरों से शुरू होने वाले नामों के पृष्ठों को स्थानांतरित कर दिया जाएगा या फिर हटा दिया जाएगा। प्रभावित पृष्ठों की सूची m:Unicode 11 case map migration पर उपलब्ध है। अधिक जानकारी T292552 पर पाई जा सकती है।
Vector 2022 स्किन छोटे विकिपीडियाओं पर डिफ़ॉल्ट स्किन बन जाएगा। अधिक जानें।

भविष्य के बदलाव

उत्तर उपकरण और नया विषय उपकरण, दोनों को जल्द एक विशेष अक्षर मेन्यू प्राप्त होगा। [882]

तकनीकी समाचार तकनीक राजदूत द्वारा तैयार हुआ और बॉट द्वारा प्रकाशित • योगदान करें • अनुवाद करें • सहायता लें • प्रतिक्रिया दें • सदस्यता लें या छोड़ें।

MediaWiki message delivery 21:21, 24 अक्टूबर 2022 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2022-44

विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय से नवीनतम तकनीकी समाचार। कृपया दूसरे सदस्यों को इन बदलावों के बारे में बताएँ। सभी बदलावों से आप प्रभावित नहीं होंगे। अनुवाद उपलब्ध हैं।

हाल में हुए बदलाव

एक Kartographer नक्शे पर कीबोर्ड नेविगेशन का इस्तेमाल करते समय फ़ोकस ठीक से नज़र आएगा। [883]
विशेष:RecentChanges में अब आप "⧼rcfilters-filter-newuserlogactions-label⧽" के फ़िल्टर के साथ नए सदस्यों के निर्माण की लॉग एंट्रियाँ छिपा सकते हैं। [884]

इस हफ़्ते के बदलाव

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकियों और MediaWiki.org पर 1 नवम्बर से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडियाओं पर 2 नवम्बर से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 3 नवम्बर (कैलेंडर) से होगा।
यथादृश्य सम्पादिका के नक्शा डायलॉग में अब कुछ सहायता टेक्स्ट है। [885]
अब यथादृश्य सम्पादिका में एक ड्रॉपडाउन मेन्यू की मदद से Kartographer नक्शे की भाषा चुनी जा सकती है। [886]
अब यथादृश्य सम्पादिका के ज़रिए Kartographer नक्शे में कैप्शन जोड़ा जा सकता है। [887]
अब यथादृश्य सम्पादिका के ज़रिए Kartographer नक्शे का बॉर्डर छिपाया जा सकता है। [888]

तकनीकी समाचार तकनीकी समाचार लेखकों द्वारा तैयार हुआ और बॉट द्वारा प्रकाशित • योगदान करें • अनुवाद करें • सहायता लें • प्रतिक्रिया दें • सदस्यता लें या छोड़ें।

MediaWiki message delivery 21:14, 31 अक्टूबर 2022 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2022-45

हाल में हुए बदलाव

Event Registration उपकरण का एक अद्यत संस्करण testwiki और test2wiki पर परीक्षण के लिए उपलब्ध है। यह उपकरण कार्यक्रम के आयोजकों और भागीदारों को सुविधाएँ प्रदान करता है। हमारे परियोजना वार्ता पृष्ठ पर आपकी प्रतिक्रिया का स्वागत है। परियोजना के बारे में अधिक जानकारी उपलब्ध है। [889]

समस्याएँ

पिछले हफ़्ते दो बार, 45 मिनटों के लिए, कुछ फ़ाइलें और अंगूठाकार लोड न हो पाए, और ज़्यादातर लॉग-इन किए हुए सदस्यों के लिए। इसके कारण की जाँच-पड़ताल चल रही है और घटना रिपोर्ट जल्द उपलब्ध होगी।

इस हफ़्ते के बदलाव

इस हफ़्ते मीडियाविकि का कोई नया संस्करण नहीं आया।

MediaWiki message delivery 00:31, 8 नवम्बर 2022 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2022-46

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

At Wikidata, an interwiki link can now point to a redirect page if certain conditions are met. This new feature is called sitelinks to redirects. It is needed when one wiki uses one page to cover multiple concepts but another wiki uses more pages to cover the same concepts. Your feedback on the talkpage of the new proposed guideline is welcome. [890]
The www.wikinews.org, www.wikiversity.org, and www.wikivoyage.org portal pages now use an automated update system. [891]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 November. It will be on all wikis from 17 November (calendar).
There will be a new link to directly "Edit template data" on Template pages. [892]

Future changes

Wikis where mobile DiscussionTools are enabled (these ones) will soon use full CSS styling to display any templates that are placed at the top of talk pages. To adapt these “talk page boxes” for narrow mobile devices you can use media queries, such as in this example. [893]
Starting in January 2023, Community Tech will be running the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) every two years. This means that in 2024, there will be no new proposals or voting.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:53, 14 नवम्बर 2022 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2022-47

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 display of non-free media in the search bar and for article thumbnails in Special:Search has been deactivated. Further details are in T320661.

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 22 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 24 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:20, 21 नवम्बर 2022 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2022-48

नवीनतम तकनीकी समाचार विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय से। कृपया अन्य उपयोगकर्ताओं को इन परिवर्तनों के बारे में बताएं। सभी बदलाव आपको प्रभावित नहीं करेंगे। अनुवाद उपलब्ध हैं।

हाल में हुए बदलाव

Vector 2022 skin में एक नई प्राथमिकता, "सीमित चौड़ाई मोड सक्षम करें" जोड़ा गया है। यदि आपका मॉनिटर 1600 पिक्सेल या चौड़ा है तो वरीयता प्रत्येक पृष्ठ पर टॉगल के रूप में भी उपलब्ध है। यह लॉग-आउट और लॉग-इन उपयोगकर्ताओं के लिए पेज की चौड़ाई बढ़ाने की अनुमति देता है। [894]

इस सप्ताह के अंत में परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 29 नवम्बर होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकियों और 30 नवम्बर के कुछ विकिपीडिया पर होगा। यह 1 दिसम्बर (कैलेंडर) से सभी विकियों पर होगा।
कुछ विकीज़ अपने मुख्य डेटाबेस में बदलाव के कारण कुछ मिनटों के लिए केवल-पढ़ने के लिए होंगे। यह 29 नवम्बर को किया जाएगा 07:00 UTC पर (लक्षित विकी) और 1 दिसम्बर को 7:00 UTC पर (लक्षित विकीज़)।
SVG छवि प्रारूप में दिखाए गए गणितीय फ़ार्मुलों में अब उन ब्राउज़रों के लिए PNG फ़ॉल-बैक नहीं होंगे जो उनका समर्थन नहीं करते हैं। यह जनरेशन सिस्टम को आधुनिक बनाने के काम का हिस्सा है। फरवरी 2018 तक केवल पीएनजी संस्करण दिखाना डिफ़ॉल्ट विकल्प था। [895][896][897]
कुछ विकियों पर जो फ़्लैग किए गए संशोधनों का उपयोग करते हैं, एक नया चेकबॉक्स जोड़ा जाएगा to Special:ऐसे योगदान जो आपको उपयोगकर्ता द्वारा केवल लंबित परिवर्तन देखने में सक्षम बनाते हैं। [898]

भविष्य परिवर्तन

पार्सर के HTML आउटपुट में मीडिया को कैसे संरचित किया जाता है, यह अगले सप्ताह की शुरुआत में group1 wikis पर बदल जाएगा (लेकिन विकिमीडिया कॉमन्स या मेटा-विकी नहीं)। यह परिवर्तन सामग्री की पहुंच में सुधार करता है, और संबंधित CSS को लिखना आसान बनाता है। आपको अपनी साइट-सीएसएस, या उपयोगकर्ता स्क्रिप्ट और गैजेट को अपडेट करने की आवश्यकता हो सकती है। यहां किस कोड की जांच करनी है, कोड को कैसे अपडेट करना है, और किसी संबंधित समस्या की रिपोर्ट कहां करनी है के विवरण हैं। [899]

तकनीकी समाचार तकनीकी समाचार लेखक द्वारा तैयार और bot द्वारा पोस्ट किया गया • योगदान • अनुवाद • मदद पाएं • प्रतिक्रिया दें • सदस्यता लें या सदस्यता समाप्त करें।

MediaWiki message delivery 20:01, 28 नवम्बर 2022 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Growth team newsletter #23

Welcome to the twenty-third newsletter from the Growth team!

Highlights

Mentorship: We released the new structured mentor list to all wikis. This change makes mentorship easier to setup, manage and use.
Positive reinforcement: An improved impact module is available for testing.

Screenshot of the positive reinforcement module improvements.

Positive reinforcement: an improved impact module to test

The goal of the Growth team is to encourage newcomers to try editing for the first time, and encourage them to keep editing. We want to increase newcomers' motivation by showing them how impactful their edits are.

Newcomers have access to an impact module; you can find yours at Special:Impact. The revised impact module provides new editors with more context about their impact. It will display the number of edits, the number of thanks received, the last time they edited, the number of consecutive days they edited, and the number of views for the articles they edited.

This module will soon be available at our pilot wikis starting December 1. You can already test this new module at Beta Wikipedia. For safety reasons, do not use your regular account and password at Beta wiki. Create a new, specific account for this wiki, with a different password.

Structured tasks: improvements based on patroller feedback

After the deployment of Structured tasks, we received feedback from various communities regarding how patrollers of recent changes were feeling overwhelmed by an increase in edits to check, and how some edits were poor quality or of poor relevance.

We made several improvements based on the feedback we received. Several points of improvement have already been addressed:

Patroller fatigue:
- By default, newcomers can complete up to 25 "add a link" tasks and 25 "add an image" tasks per day. If patrollers are overburdened, each community can use Special:EditGrowthConfig to lower that limit.

Quality of edits: what constitutes a "quality edit" is not a well defined concept. We initiated a discussion and summarized our findings. We also worked on the following improvements:
- Add a Link
  - Underlinked articles are now prioritized, so it's less likely that newcomers are adding links to articles that are already have a lot of links.
  - The confidence score was increased, so suggestions are more likely to be accurate.
  - The default number of suggested links per article has been lowered to 3. This can be changed at Special:EditGrowthConfig. Communities can also exclude articles containing certain templates or categories from being suggested.
- Add an Image
  - Lists will no longer receive "add an image" suggestions.
  - Disambiguation pages will no longer receive "add an image" suggestions.
  - We have many further improvements we plan to make to "add an image" in early 2023. [900]

The Positive Reinforcement project will also address some of the concerns around encouraging newcomers to progress to higher value edits. The Growth team will soon work on strategies geared at "Leveling up" newcomers so they progress from easy to more difficult tasks.

Recent changes

All Wikipedias now have the same onboarding experience. Previously, at a few wikis, 20% of new accounts didn't get the Growth features when they created their account. These 20% of new accounts were used as a control group, in order to know if the Growth features were changing newcomers' behavior. Experiments have shown that Growth features improve activation and retention, and as we want to provide the same onboarding experience at all Wikipedias, we have decided to remove the control groups. We will utilize control groups when testing new features, and German Wikipedia keeps a control group at their request. [901]
The quality score for "add a link" suggestions will change. We will suggest less links for each article, but they will be more accurate. We will first deploy it at our pilot wikis, and then to all other wikis where this feature is available. [902][903]
Growth's features FAQ has been updated and expanded. This page centralizes all the information about Growth features. We invite you to read it, and, if you can, to translate it.

News for mentors

All Wikipedias can now setup and manage a mentorship program in an easier way.
- We changed the process to make it more reliable, easier to improve and easier to use.
- Wikipedias where mentorship hasn't been enabled yet can turn mentorship on following a new process. When done, mentors can sign-up by visiting Special:MentorDashboard.
- Wikipedias where the list of mentors already existed have been converted to the new system.
- A new special page — Special:ManageMentors — now displays the list of mentors. This page can be transcluded on any other page. There are also new processes to signup as a mentor or to quit mentorship, and we improved community mentorship management.
The Mentor dashboard's "Your mentees" module will have a new footer, called "Recent changes by your mentees". This footer will include a link to Recent changes, where mentors can see only edits made by their own mentees. [904]

Deployments

Add a link has been deployed to a 5th round of wikis. [905]

Improving this newsletter

We plan to have a more regular newsletter, every two months. We also want to know if the current format suits you! Let us know what you like, what you like less and your suggestions of improvements: leave us a comment, in your preferred language.

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20:58, 29 नवम्बर 2022 (UTC)

तकनीकी समाचार: 2022-49

हाल में हुए बदलाव

विकिस्रोत पर ProofreadPage नामक एक उपकरण का इस्तेमाल किया जाता है। ProofreadPage OpenSeadragon का इस्तेमाल करता है जो एक मुक्त-स्रोत उपकरण है। OpenSeadragon जावास्क्रिप्ट API को चित्रों को डायनामिक रूप से लोड करने के लिए दोबारा लिखा गया है। API के पुराने संस्करण द्वारा प्रदत्त कार्यक्षमता अब भी काम करेगी मगर वह अब समर्थित नहीं। सदस्य-स्क्रिप्टों और गैजेट्स को अब API के नए संस्करण पर माइग्रेट करना होगा। API के नए संस्करण द्वारा प्रदत्त कार्यक्षमता को MediaWiki पर प्रलेखित किया गया है। [906][907]

इस हफ़्ते के बदलाव

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण 6 दिसम्बर से परीक्षण विकियों और MediaWiki.org पर होगा। यह 7 दिसम्बर से गैर-विकिपीडिया विकियों और कुछ विकिपीडियाओं पर होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 8 दिसम्बर से होगा (पंचाँग)।

MediaWiki message delivery 00:40, 6 दिसम्बर 2022 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2022-50

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

Recent changes

An A/B test has begun at 15 Wikipedias for DiscussionTools on mobile. Half of the editors on the mobile web site will have access to the उत्तर दें tool and other features. [908]
The character = cannot be used in new usernames, to make usernames work better with templates. Existing usernames are not affected. [909]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (calendar).
The HTML markup used by DiscussionTools to show discussion metadata below section headings will be inserted after these headings, not inside of them. This change improves the accessibility of discussion pages for screen reader software. [910]

Events

The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award will happen online on Friday 16 December 2022 at 17:00 UTC! The event will be live-streamed on YouTube in the MediaWiki channel and added to Commons afterwards.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:33, 12 दिसम्बर 2022 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2022-51

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

Tech News

Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2023.

Recent changes

On a user's contributions page, you can filter it for edits with a tag like 'reverted'. Now, you can also filter for all edits that are not tagged like that. This was part of a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [911]
A new function has been used for gadget developers to add content underneath the title on article pages. This is considered a stable API that should work across all skins. Documentation is available. [912]
One of our test wikis is now being served from a new infrastructure powered by Kubernetes (read more). More Wikis will switch to this new infrastructure in early 2023. Please test and let us know of any issues. [913]

Problems

Last week, all wikis had no edit access for 9 minutes. This was caused by a database problem. [914]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
The word "उत्तर दें" is very short in some languages, such as Arabic ("ردّ"). This makes the चर्चा उपकरण button on talk pages difficult to use. An arrow icon will be added to those languages. This will only be visible to editors who have the Beta Feature turned on. [915] [916]

Future changes

Edits can be automatically "tagged" by the system software or the संपादन फ़िल्टर विन्यास system. Those tags link to a help page about the tags. Soon they will also link to Recent Changes to let you see other edits tagged this way. This was a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [917]
The Trust & Safety tools team have shared new plans for building the Private Incident Reporting System. The system will make it easier for editors to ask for help if they are harassed or abused.
Realtime Preview for Wikitext is coming out of beta as an enabled feature for every user of the 2010 Wikitext editor in the week of January 9, 2023. It will be available to use via the toolbar in the 2010 Wikitext editor. The feature was the 4th most popular wish of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021.

Events

You can now register for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, taking place on May 19–21 in Athens, Greece. You can also apply for a scholarship until January 14th.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:59, 19 दिसम्बर 2022 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार:2023-02

हाल में हुए बदलाव

आप हाल के परिवर्तन फ़ीड या अपनी ध्यानसूची पर संपादन फ़िल्टर करने के लिए टैग का उपयोग कर सकते हैं। अब आप उन संपादनों को फ़िल्टर करने के लिए टैग का उपयोग कर सकते हैं जिन्हें आप देखना नहीं चाहते हैं। पहले आप केवल उन टैग्स के साथ संपादन पर ध्यान केंद्रित करने के लिए टैग का उपयोग कर सकते थे। [918]
विशेष:व्हाटलिंक्स हियर उन सभी पेजों को दिखाता है जो किसी खास पेज से लिंक होते हैं। उन पृष्ठों को वर्णानुक्रम में कैसे क्रमबद्ध किया जाए, इसके लिए अब एक प्रोटोटाइप है। आप चर्चा फैब्रिकेटर टिकट में देख सकते हैं।
अब आप धन्यवाद फ़ंक्शन का उपयोग अपनी ध्यानसूची और उपयोगकर्ता योगदान पृष्ठ पर कर सकते हैं। [919]
इसे नया नाम देने के लिए विकी पृष्ठ को स्थानांतरित किया जा सकता है। जब आप किसी पृष्ठ को स्थानांतरित करते हैं तो अब आप सामान्य कारणों के साथ ड्रॉपडाउन मेनू प्राप्त कर सकते हैं। ऐसा इसलिए है ताकि आपको हर बार स्पष्टीकरण लिखने की आवश्यकता न पड़े। [920]
मैट्रिक्स एक चैट टूल है। अब आप उपयोग कर सकते हैं matrix: विकि पृष्ठों पर मैट्रिक्स लिंक बनाने के लिए। [921]
जब आप बहुभाषी विकियों पर हाल के परिवर्तनों को देखते हैं तो आप अनुवादों को फ़िल्टर कर सकते हैं। इसने सभी अनुवादों को नहीं छुपाया। अब आप उपपृष्ठों का अनुवाद भी छिपा सकते हैं। [922]

इस सप्ताह के अंत में परिवर्तन

विकीटेक्स्ट के लिए रीयलटाइम पूर्वावलोकन एक उपकरण है जो संपादकों को विकिटेक्स्ट संपादित करते समय पृष्ठ का पूर्वावलोकन करने देता है। यह २०१० विकिपाठ संपादक के सभी उपयोगकर्ताओं के लिए सक्षम होगा। यह आपको एडिटर टूलबार में मिल जाएगा।
कुछ विकीज़ अपने मुख्य डेटाबेस में बदलाव के कारण कुछ मिनटों के लिए केवल-पढ़ने के लिए होंगे। पर किया जाएगा 10 जनवरी ०७:०० यूटीसी पर (लक्ष्य विकी) और इसपर 12 जनवरी ०७:०० यूटीसी पर (लक्ष्य विकी).
मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर होगा 10 जनवरी. यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकियों और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर होगा 11 जनवरी. यह से सभी विकियों पर होगा 12 जनवरी (पंचांग).

MediaWiki message delivery 01:06, 10 जनवरी 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2023-03

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 "पिछला" 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. [923]

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 वार्ता: and सदस्य वार्ता: namespaces. These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such as विकिपीडिया वार्ता:. They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including विकिपीडिया: pages (e.g., at the Village Pump). You can change your preferences (beta feature). [924]
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. [925]
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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MediaWiki message delivery 01:09, 17 जनवरी 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2023-04

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. [926]

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. [927][928]
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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MediaWiki message delivery 23:45, 23 जनवरी 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2023-05

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. [929]

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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MediaWiki message delivery 00:04, 31 जनवरी 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Growth team newsletter #24

Welcome to the twenty-fourth newsletter from the Growth team!

Newcomer experience projects

The Growth team partnered with other WMF teams to conduct several experiments around increasing account creation and new editor retention. Results from four of these experiments are now available:

Thank you pages & banners - Encourage donors to create accounts through thank you pages and banners.
Marketing experiment - Run ads on-wiki and off-wiki to see how this impacts account activation.
"Add an image" GLAM events - Host GLAM events that focus on using the "Add an image" tool.
Welcome emails - Experiment sending welcome emails to newly created accounts.

Newcomer tasks

Several communities suggested improving "add a link", by suggesting underlinked articles first. We released this change to Growth pilot wikis. We will review the data and collect feedback before considering releasing it to more wikis. [930]
The deployment of the "add a link" to all Wikipedias is still in progress. Suggested links use a prediction model, which has to be trained. The deployments will resume after we finish training all models. [931]

Mentorship

When someone wants to signup as a mentor, they are now informed if they don't meet the defined criteria. [932]
Workshop hosts asked us to have workshop attendees assigned to them. They can soon use a custom URL parameter. This way, workshop hosts will continue mentoring the event's attendees after the workshop. It will be available in February. [933]
Have you considered to help new editors on your wiki, by signing up to be a Mentor?
- Please visit Special:MentorDashboard to check on the conditions to be a mentor, and sign up.
- If your wiki does not have Mentorship enabled, consider setting it up. The Growth team can provide advice and assist as needed. Please ping Trizek (WMF) for assistance.

Other news

In Special:SpecialPages, Growth experiments now have their own section. [934]
This newsletter will have a new publication period, 6 times a year: January, March, May, July, September, November.

Translations

Newsletter translation: We are looking for translators for this newsletter. If you are interested and have the needed English language proficiency to assist, then please add your name to this list. You will receive an invite on your talk page to translate the newsletter when it is ready.
Interface translation: You can also help by translating the interface, or reviewing translations to make them more inclusive. Interface translations are hosted at translatewiki.net.

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14:44, 31 जनवरी 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-06

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. [935]

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. [936]
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. [937]
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 10:20, 6 फ़रवरी 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2023-07

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. [938]

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. [939]

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. [940][941][942]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:47, 14 फ़रवरी 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2023-08

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. [943]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar).
The voting phase for the Community Wishlist Survey 2023 ends on 24 February at 18:00 UTC. The results of the survey will be announced on 28 February.

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. [944][945][946]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:56, 21 फ़रवरी 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2023-09

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, 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. [947][948]

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. [949]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:46, 27 फ़रवरी 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2023-10

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. [950]

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. [951]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:48, 6 मार्च 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2023-11

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. [952][953]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:19, 13 मार्च 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2023-12

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

समस्याएँ

Last week, some users experienced issues loading image thumbnails. This was due to incorrectly cached images. [954]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 21 मार्च से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 22 मार्च से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 23 मार्च (कैलेंडर) से होगा।
A link to the user's विशेष:CentralAuth page will appear on विशेष:योगदान — some user scripts which previously added this link may cause conflicts. This feature request was voted #17 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
The विशेष:दुरुपयोग फ़िल्टर edit window will be resizable and larger by default. This feature request was voted #80 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
There will be a new option for Administrators when they are unblocking a user, to add the unblocked user’s user page to their watchlist. This will work both via विशेष:अवरोध हटाएँ and via the API. [955]

बैठकें

You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on 24 March at 17:00 (UTC). See details and how to join.

MediaWiki message delivery 01:24, 21 मार्च 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-13

नवीनतम तकनीकी समाचार विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय से द्वारा लिखित हैं। कृपया अन्य उपयोगकर्ताओं को इन परिवर्तनों के बारे में बताएं। सभी बदलाव आपको प्रभावित नहीं करेंगे। अनुवाद उपलब्ध हैं।

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

दुर्व्यवहार फ़िल्टर स्थिति सीमा को १००० से बढ़ाकर २००० कर दिया गया था। [956]
कुछ वैश्विक दुर्व्यवहार फ़िल्टर क्रियाएं अब स्थानीय परियोजनाओं पर लागू नहीं होंगी। [957]
डेस्कटॉप उपयोगकर्ता अब उपकरण मेनू में सदस्यता लें लिंक पर क्लिक करके टॉक पेजों की सदस्यता लेने में सक्षम हैं। यदि आप किसी वार्ता पृष्ठ की सदस्यता लेते हैं, तो उस वार्ता पृष्ठ पर नए विषय शुरू होने पर आप सूचना प्राप्त करते हैं। यह पृष्ठ को आपकी ध्यानसूची में डालने या किसी एक चर्चा की सदस्यता लेने से अलग है। [958]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 28 मार्च से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 29 मार्च से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 30 मार्च (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

भविष्य के परिवर्तन

आप विक्षनरी और विकिपीडिया पर सभी इतिहास पृष्ठ पर विज़ुअल अंतर चुन सकेंगे। [959]
लीगेसी मोबाइल सामग्री सेवा जुलाई २०२३ में जा रही है। सेवा निरंतरता सुनिश्चित करने के लिए डेवलपर्स को इससे पहले Parsoid या किसी अन्य API पर स्विच करने के लिए प्रोत्साहित किया जाता है। [960]

MediaWiki message delivery 01:12, 28 मार्च 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Growth team newsletter #25

Welcome to the twenty-fifth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations

Celebrations

Leveling up release

We released Leveling up features to our pilot wikis on March 22 for an initial A/B test.
In this test, we use post-edit dialogs (pop-ups shown after publishing an edit) and notifications to encourage new editors to try new types of newcomer-friendly suggested edits.
We are closely monitoring the short term impact of this feature as well as the longer term effect on newcomer productivity and retention. If the experiment shows positive results, we will release this feature to more wikis.

5,000+ images added via the newcomer task in February

In February 2023, 5,035 images were added via the newcomer “add an image” feature (on all wikis where available); 155 were reverted.
Since the feature “add an image” was launched: 36,803 images have been added; 2,957 images were reverted.

Recent changes

Add a link
- Community Ambassadors completed an initial evaluation that confirmed that prioritizing underlinked articles resulted in better article suggestions. We then evaluated the change on Growth pilot wikis, and results suggest that more newcomers are successfully completing the task and experiencing fewer reverts. We have now deployed the new prioritization model to all wikis with "add a link" enabled. [961][962]
- We continue the deployment of "add a link" to more wikis. These changes are regularly announced in Tech News. To know if newcomers at your wiki have access to this feature, please visit your Homepage.
The Impact module was deployed on our pilot wikis, where we conducted an A/B test. We published initial findings, and a data scientist is now completing experiment analysis. [963]
Donor Thank you page experiment – Donors land on a “thank you” page after donation, and that landing page now includes a call to action to try editing: Example Thank you page in French. This promising feature is tested at several Wikipedias (French Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia).
Growth features are now the default experience on both test.wikipedia.org and test2.wikipedia.org. You can test our features there.

Upcoming work

Add an image – We plan to offer section-level image suggestions as a structured task for newcomers.
- We are starting design work. [964]
- Growth team Ambassadors helped with an initial evaluation of these section-level image suggestions. [965]
- We will start a community consultation in which we share initial ideas and designs soon. [966]
IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation – We will support this project for all Growth Team maintained products and extensions that may be affected by IP Masking. [967]

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13:10, 1 अप्रैल 2023 (UTC)

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-14

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

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. [968][969][970][971][972]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

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. [973]
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. [974]
Some of the links in विशेष:विशेष पृष्ठ 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. [975]
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. [976][977][978]

भावी परिवर्तन

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.

MediaWiki message delivery 23:38, 3 अप्रैल 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-15

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

In the visual editor, it is now possible to edit captions of images in galleries without opening the gallery dialog. This feature request was voted #61 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [979]
You can now receive notifications when another user edits your user page. See the "Edit to my user page" option in your Preferences. This feature request was voted #3 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [980]

समस्याएँ

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. [981]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 11 अप्रैल से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 12 अप्रैल से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 13 अप्रैल (कैलेंडर) से होगा।
बुधवार से कुछ विकिपीडियाओं के एक समूह पर "एक कड़ी जोड़ें" उपलब्ध होगी (मोरक्कन अरबी विकिपीडिया, डेनिश विकिपीडिया, डिंका विकिपीडिया, नीची सर्बियाई विकिपीडिया, एवे विकिपीडिया, यूनानी विकिपीडिया, एमिलियानो-रोमाग्नोलो विकिपीडिया, एस्पेरांतो विकिपीडिया, एस्टोनियाई विकिपीडिया, बास्क विकिपीडिया, एक्सट्रेमाडुरान विकिपीडिया, तुम्बुका विकिपीडिया, फ़ुलाह विकिपीडिया, फ़िनिश विकिपीडिया, वोरो विकिपीडिया, फ़िजी विकिपीडिया, फ़रोई विकिपीडिया, अर्पितान विकिपीडिया, उत्तरी फ़्रिसियाई विकिपीडिया, फ़्रियुलियाई विकिपीडिया, आयरिश विकिपीडिया, गयानी क्रियोल विकिपीडिया, स्कॉटिश गेलिक विकिपीडिया, गैलिशियाई विकिपीडिया, गिलाकी विकिपीडिया, गुआरानी विकिपीडिया, गोवा कोंकणी विकिपीडिया, गोथिक विकिपीडिया, गुजराती विकिपीडिया, मैंक्स विकिपीडिया)। यह अधिक विकिपीडियाओं पर इस उपकरण के प्रगतिशील तैनात-कार्य का हिस्सा है। समुदाय कॉन्फ़िगर कर सकते हैं कि यह सुविधा लोकल रूप से कैसे काम करेगी। [982][983]

MediaWiki message delivery 20:04, 10 अप्रैल 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-16

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

You can now see nearby articles on a Kartographer map with the button for the new feature "Show nearby articles". Six wikis have been testing this feature since October. [984][985]
The Special:GlobalWatchlist page now has links for "mark page as read" for each entry. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [986]

समस्याएँ

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. [987][988]
For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed. [989]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 18 अप्रैल से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 19 अप्रैल से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 20 अप्रैल (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

MediaWiki message delivery 01:53, 18 अप्रैल 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-17

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

The date-selection menu on pages such as विशेष:योगदान will now show year-ranges that are in the current and past decade, instead of the current and future decade. This feature request was voted #145 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [990]

समस्याएँ

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. [991]
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. [992][993][994]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [995]
मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 25 अप्रैल से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 26 अप्रैल से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 27 अप्रैल (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

भावी परिवर्तन

The Editing team plans an A/B test for a usability analysis of the Talk page project. The planned measurements are available. Your wiki may be invited to participate. Please suggest improvements to the measurement plan at the discussion page.
The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input until May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023 on Meta-wiki.

MediaWiki message delivery 22:02, 24 अप्रैल 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-18

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the French and Italian Wikipedias. More languages will be added in the near future. This is part of the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [996][997][998]
The Video2commons tool has been updated. This fixed several bugs related to YouTube uploads. [999]
The विशेष:वरीयताएँ page has been redesigned on mobile web. The new design makes it easier to browse the different categories and settings at low screen widths. You can also now access the page via a link in the Settings menu in the mobile web sidebar. [1,000]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 2 मई से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 3 मई से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 4 मई (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

MediaWiki message delivery 01:44, 2 मई 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-19

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

When you close an image that is displayed via MediaViewer, it will now return to the wiki page instead of going back in your browser history. This feature request was voted #65 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [1,001]
The SyntaxHighlight extension now supports wikitext as a selected language. Old alternatives that were used to highlight wikitext, such as html5, moin, and html+handlebars, can now be replaced. [1,002]
Preloading text to new pages/sections now supports preloading from localized MediaWiki interface messages. Here is an example at the Czech Wikipedia that uses preload=MediaWiki:July. [1,003]

समस्याएँ

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 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. [1,004]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 9 मई से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 10 मई से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 11 मई (कैलेंडर) से होगा।
Until now, all new OAuth apps went through manual review. Starting this week, apps using identification-only or basic authorizations will not require review. [1,005]

भावी परिवर्तन

During the next year, MediaWiki will stop using IP addresses to identify logged-out users, and will start automatically assigning unique temporary usernames. Read more at IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation/Updates. You can join the discussion about the format of the temporary usernames. [1,006]
There will be an A/B test on 10 Wikipedias where the Vector 2022 skin is the default skin. Half of logged-in desktop users will see an interface where the different parts of the page are more clearly separated. You can read more. [1,007][1,008]
jquery.tipsy will be removed from the MediaWiki core. This will affect some user scripts. Many lines with .tipsy( can be commented out. OO.ui.PopupWidget can be used to keep things working like they are now. You can read more and read about how to find broken scripts. [1,009]

MediaWiki message delivery 00:35, 9 मई 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-20

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

समस्याएँ

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. [1,010]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 16 मई से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 17 मई से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 18 मई (कैलेंडर) से होगा।
बुधवार से कुछ विकिपीडियाओं के एक समूह पर "एक कड़ी जोड़ें" उपलब्ध होगी (गोरोंटालो विकिपीडिया, हौसा विकिपीडिया, हक्का चीनी विकिपीडिया, हवाई विकिपीडिया, फ़िजी हिन्दी विकिपीडिया, क्रोएशियाई विकिपीडिया, ऊपरी सोरबियाई विकिपीडिया, हैती क्रियोल विकिपीडिया, इंटरलिंगुआ विकिपीडिया, इंटरलिंगुए विकिपीडिया, इग्बो विकिपीडिया, इलोको विकिपीडिया, इंगुश विकिपीडिया, इडो विकिपीडिया, आइसलैंडिक विकिपीडिया, इनुक्तितुत विकिपीडिया, जमैकन पतोय विकिपीडिया, जावानी विकिपीडिया)। यह अधिक विकिपीडियाओं पर इस उपकरण के प्रगतिशील तैनात-कार्य का हिस्सा है। समुदाय कॉन्फ़िगर कर सकते हैं कि यह सुविधा लोकल रूप से कैसे काम करेगी। [1,011]

भावी परिवर्तन

There is a recently formed team at the Wikimedia Foundation which will be focusing on experimenting with new tools. Currently they are building a prototype ChatGPT plugin that allows information generated by ChatGPT to be properly attributed to the Wikimedia projects.
Gadget and userscript developers should replace jquery.cookie with mediawiki.cookie. The jquery.cookie library will be removed in ~1 month, and staff developers will run a script to replace any remaining uses at that time. [1,012]

MediaWiki message delivery 21:43, 15 मई 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-21

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

The "recent edits" time period for page watchers is now 30 days. It used to be 180 days. This was a Community Wishlist Survey proposal. [1,013]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

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. [1,014]
मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 23 मई से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 24 मई से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 25 मई (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

16:53, 22 मई 2023 (UTC)

Growth team newsletter #26

Welcome to the twenty-sixth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations

One million Suggested Edits

We passed the 1 million Suggested edits milestone in late April!

The Suggested edits feature (AKA Newcomer tasks) increase newcomer activation by ~12%, which flows on through to increased retention. (source)
Suggested edits increase the number of edits newcomers complete in their first two weeks and have a relatively low revert rate. (source)
Suggested edits are available on all Wikipedia language editions.
Newer Suggested edits, like Add a link and Add an image, aren’t yet deployed to all wikis, but these structured tasks further increase the probability that newcomers will make their first edit. (source)

Positive reinforcement

Positive reinforcement aims to encourage newcomers who have visited our homepage and tried Growth features to keep editing.

The new Impact module was released to Growth pilot wikis in December 2022, and we are now scaling the feature to another ten wikis. [1,015]
The Leveling up features are deployed at our pilot wikis.
The Personalized praise features were deployed at our pilot wikis on May 24. Mentors at pilot wikis will start to receive notifications weekly when they have “praise-worthy” mentees. Mentors can configure their notification preferences or disable these notifications.

Add an image

We are creating a new section-level variation of the “add an image” task. We have tested the accuracy of suggestions, and the development of this new task is well-underway. [1,016]

Other updates

We are progressively releasing Add a link to more wikis. [1,017]
After adding Thanks to Recent Changes, Watchlist and Special:Contributions, we investigated Thanks usage on the wikis. There is no evidence that thanks increased after the feature was added on more pages.
We helped with code review for the 2023 Community Wish to add Notifications for user page edits. [1,018]
We have been attending several community events, that we documented in our Growth’s Community events report.

What's next for Growth?

We shared an overview of Growth annual planning ideas, and have started community discussion about these potential projects. We would love to hear your feedback on these ideas!

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15:14, 29 मई 2023 (UTC)

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-22

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

Citations can once again be added automatically from ISBNs, thanks to Zotero's ISBN searches. The current data sources are the Library of Congress (United States), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (French National Library), and K10plus ISBN (German repository). Additional data source searches can be proposed to Zotero. The ISBN labels in the VisualEditor Automatic tab will reappear later this week. [1,019]
The page विशेष:ध्यानसूची सम्पादन now has "Check all" options to select all the pages within a namespace. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [1,020]

समस्याएँ

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. [1,021]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

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. [1,022]

MediaWiki message delivery 22:01, 29 मई 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-23

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

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. [1,023]
Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference for "पेज द्वारा समूह परिणाम". This has now been fixed. [1,024]

समस्याएँ

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. [1,025]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 6 जून से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 7 जून से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 8 जून (कैलेंडर) से होगा।
Bots will no longer be prevented from making edits because of URLs that match the spam blacklist. [1,026]

MediaWiki message delivery 22:51, 5 जून 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-24

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

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. [1,027]
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. [1,028]
The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software. [1,029]
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. [1,030]

समस्याएँ

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. [1,031]
Currently, the "इस पृष्ठ को डिफ़ॉल्ट से इस शीर्षक से छाँटें" 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. [1,032]
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. [1,033]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 13 जून से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 14 जून से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 15 जून (कैलेंडर) से होगा।
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. [1,034]

भावी परिवर्तन

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.

MediaWiki message delivery 14:49, 12 जून 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-25

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

Flame graphs are now available in WikimediaDebug. [1,035][1,036]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

इस सप्ताह मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण नहीं आएगा।
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. [1,037][1,038]

MediaWiki message delivery 20:07, 19 जून 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-26

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

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. [1,039]

समस्याएँ

Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours. [1,040][1,041]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 27 जून से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 28 जून से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 29 जून (कैलेंडर) से होगा।
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. [1,042][1,043]
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. [1,044]
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. [1,045]
The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components. [1,046]

भावी परिवर्तन

How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change in the coming weeks at group2 wikis. This change improves the accessibility of content. You may need to update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems. [1,047]

MediaWiki message delivery 16:17, 26 जून 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-27

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

As part of the rolling out of the audio links that play on click wishlist proposal, small wikis will now be able to use the inline audio player that is implemented by the Phonos extension. [1,048]
From this week all gadgets automatically load on mobile and desktop sites. If you see any problems with gadgets on your wikis, please adjust the gadget options in your gadget definitions file. [1,049]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

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).

MediaWiki message delivery 22:50, 3 जुलाई 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-28

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

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. [1,050]
विशेष: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. [1,051]
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.

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

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 विशेष:बाहरी कड़ी खोज and API counterparts has changed from http to both http and https. [1,052]
विशेष:बाहरी कड़ी खोज 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. [1,053]

भावी परिवर्तन

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. [1,054]
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.

MediaWiki message delivery 19:52, 10 जुलाई 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-29

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

We are now serving 1% of all global user traffic from Kubernetes (you can read more technical details). We are planning to increment this percentage regularly. You can follow the progress of this work.

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

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. [1,055]
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. [1,056]

MediaWiki message delivery 23:07, 17 जुलाई 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-30

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

On July 18, the Wikimedia Foundation launched a survey about the technical decision making process for people who do technical work that relies on software that is maintained by the Foundation or affiliates. If this applies to you, please take part in the survey. The survey will be open for three weeks, until August 7. You can find more information in the announcement e-mail on wikitech-l.

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 25 जुलाई से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 26 जुलाई से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 27 जुलाई (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

MediaWiki message delivery 02:19, 25 जुलाई 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-31

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

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 विशेष:नए पृष्ठ and revision history pages can now be inverted. For example, you can hide edits that were made using an automated tool. [1,057][1,058]
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. [1,059]

समस्याएँ

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. [1,060]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 1 अगस्त से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 2 अगस्त से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 3 अगस्त (कैलेंडर) से होगा।
बुधवार से कुछ विकिपीडियाओं के एक समूह पर "एक कड़ी जोड़ें" उपलब्ध होगी (जॉर्जियाई विकिपीडिया, करकल्पक विकिपीडिया, कबाइल विकिपीडिया, काबार्डियाई विकिपीडिया, कबीय विकिपीडिया, किकुयु विकिपीडिया, कज़ाख़ विकिपीडिया, ख़्मेर विकिपीडिया, कन्नड़ विकिपीडिया, कश्मीरी विकिपीडिया, कोलोनियाई विकिपीडिया, कुर्दी विकिपीडिया, कोर्निश विकिपीडिया)। यह अधिक विकिपीडियाओं पर इस उपकरण के प्रगतिशील तैनात-कार्य का हिस्सा है। समुदाय कॉन्फ़िगर कर सकते हैं कि यह सुविधा लोकल रूप से कैसे काम करेगी। [1,061]

MediaWiki message delivery 23:53, 31 जुलाई 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Growth team newsletter #27

Welcome to the twenty-seventh newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations

Annual plan for Growth

We shared our annual plan, for the period July 2023 - June 2024.

Our first project of the year will be Community configuration 2.0, which helps editors with extended rights transparently and easily configure important on-wiki functionality.

After we finish work on Community configuration 2.0, we will hope to fit in one of the following projects:

Article creation: This project aims to provide new editors with better guidance and guardrails in the article creation process, with the intention of lightening the load of new page reviewers.
Non-editing participation: This project aims to create low-risk ways for readers to participate in Wikipedia with the intention of funneling more readers into contributing to the Wikimedia movement.

Please let us know what you think about these projects on the related talk page, or Growth's annual plan talk page.

Suggested edits

The new "Add an image" section-level task

We released a new Section-level “add an image” structured task to Growth pilot wikis (Arabic, Bengali, Czech, and Spanish). This task was part of the Structured Data Across Wikipedia project. We are monitoring the edits made, and we look for community feedback as well.

Suggested Edits are now receiving topic predictions via the new Language-Agnostic Topic Classification. This change affects non-English Wikipedia wikis. It will ensure newcomers receive a greater diversity of task recommendations. Before, as this feature was a test, English Wikipedia was used to select topics. The change is gradual as lists of topics are refreshed when they become empty. The Research team will evaluate the impact in a few months. [1,062]

Starting on August 1, 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, Cornish Wikipedia.

Mentorship

The Growth team provides dedicated features to establish a mentorship program for newcomers. Every newcomer gets a volunteer mentor who provides encouragement and answers questions. Communities can set up or join this mentorship system by visiting Special:ManageMentors. This mentorship system is configurable by the community at Special:EditGrowthConfig.

More communities have implemented mentorship. A Wikimedia Foundation data scientist will be looking at the impact of Mentorship. We will look at the impact on Spanish and English Wikipedia. [1,063]

The Growth team will also host a Mentoring new editors on Wikipedia session at Wikimania 2023 in Singapore. Workshop attendees will help brainstorm improvements to Growth’s mentorship features.

Positive reinforcement

We will share more complete experiment analysis for all the three parts of the Positive reinforcement project soon. At the moment, the new Impact module, Leveling up, and Personalized praise are still being A/B tested on the Growth team's pilot wikis.

In the meantime, initial leading indicators for the Personalized praise project have been published. Although this is still a relatively small sample, results seem healthy. They show that Mentors are indeed receiving notifications and clicking through to view their praise-worthy mentees.

Growth contributes to IP Editing migration

The Growth team is currently focusing on IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation. It is a project that touches many different Wikimedia Foundation teams. The Growth team will focus on temporary accounts through two main points:

the user experience of a logged-out user, that switches to a temporary account,
change Growth-owned extensions and features, so that they work as expected with temporary accounts. [1,064]

Community Configuration 2.0

We are still in the early planning stage of the Community Configuration 2.0 project:

We are gathering internal Wikimedia Foundation teams' needs, so as community feedback. [1,065]
We have started to investigate design improvements. [1,066]
We are also reviewing similar tools that are part of other products. [1,067]

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12:42, 1 अगस्त 2023 (UTC)

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-32

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

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 "अधिक" menu. [1,068]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

इस सप्ताह मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण नहीं आएगा।

MediaWiki message delivery 21:19, 7 अगस्त 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-33

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

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. [1,069]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 15 अगस्त से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 16 अगस्त से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 17 अगस्त (कैलेंडर) से होगा।
बुधवार से कुछ विकिपीडियाओं के एक समूह पर "एक कड़ी जोड़ें" उपलब्ध होगी (लातिन विकिपीडिया, लाडिनो विकिपीडिया, लक्समबर्गी विकिपीडिया, लाक विकिपीडिया, लेज़गिन विकिपीडिया, लिंगुआ फ़्रांका नोवा विकिपीडिया, गांडा विकिपीडिया, लिम्बर्गिश विकिपीडिया, लिगुरियाई विकिपीडिया, लोम्बार्ड विकिपीडिया, लिंगाला विकिपीडिया, लातगालियाई विकिपीडिया, लातवियाई विकिपीडिया, मैथिली विकिपीडिया, बान्युमासान विकिपीडिया, मोक्शा विकिपीडिया, मालागासी विकिपीडिया, आर्मीनियाई विकिपीडिया, किरगिज़ विकिपीडिया)। यह अधिक विकिपीडियाओं पर इस उपकरण के प्रगतिशील तैनात-कार्य का हिस्सा है। समुदाय कॉन्फ़िगर कर सकते हैं कि यह सुविधा लोकल रूप से कैसे काम करेगी। [1,070]

भावी परिवर्तन

A few gadgets/user scripts which add icons to the Minerva skin need to have their CSS updated. There are more details available including a search for all existing instances and how to update them.

MediaWiki message delivery 05:58, 15 अगस्त 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-34

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

The GDrive to Commons Uploader tool is now available. It enables securely selecting and uploading files from your Google Drive directly to Wikimedia Commons. [1,071]
From now on, we will announce new Wikimedia wikis in Tech News, so you can update any tools or pages.
- Since the last edition, two new wikis have been created:
  - a Wiktionary in Pa'O (wikt:blk:) [1,072]
  - a Wikisource in Sundanese (s:su:) [1,073]
- To catch up, the next most recent six wikis are:
  - विकिफंक्शन (f:) [1,074]
  - a Wiktionary in Mandailing (wikt:btm:) [1,075]
  - a Wikipedia in Ghanaian Pidgin (w:gpe:) [1,076]
  - a Wikinews in Gungbe (n:guw:) [1,077]
  - a Wiktionary in Kabardian (wikt:kbd:) [1,078]
  - a Wikipedia in Fante (w:fat:) [1,079]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 22 अगस्त से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 23 अगस्त से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 24 अगस्त (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

भावी परिवर्तन

There is an existing stable interface policy for MediaWiki backend code. There is a proposed stable interface policy for frontend code. This is relevant for anyone who works on gadgets or Wikimedia frontend code. You can read it, discuss it, and let the proposer know if there are any problems. [1,080]

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15:24, 21 अगस्त 2023 (UTC)

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-35

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

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. [1,081]
All विशेष:योगदान pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. [1,082]
Wikisource users can now use the prpbengalicurrency label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the <pagelist> tag. [1,083]
Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "Enable the visual editor" is now shown on the "संपादन" tab at all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "बीटा सुविधाएँ" tab at some wikis. The preference "अलग विकिटेक्स्ट एडिटर की जगह यथादृश्य संपादिका के अंदर ही विकिटेक्स्ट मोड का इस्तेमाल करें।" is now also shown on the "संपादन" tab at all wikis, instead of the "बीटा सुविधाएँ" tab. [1,084][1,085]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 29 अगस्त से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 30 अगस्त से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 31 अगस्त (कैलेंडर) से होगा।
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. [1,086]

भावी परिवर्तन

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!

MediaWiki message delivery 13:59, 28 अगस्त 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-36

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

EditInSequence, a feature that allows users to edit pages faster on Wikisource has been moved to a Beta Feature based on community feedback. To enable it, you can navigate to the beta features tab in Preferences. [1,087]
As part of the changes for the Generate Audio for IPA and Audio links that play on click wishlist proposals, the inline audio player mode of Phonos has been deployed to all projects. [1,088]
There is a new option for Administrators when they are changing the usergroups for a user, to add the user’s user page to their watchlist. This works both via विशेष:सदस्य अधिकार and via the API. [1,089]
One new wiki has been created:
- a विकिपीडिया in Talysh (w:tly:) [1,090]

समस्याएँ

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. [1,091]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 5 सितम्बर से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 6 सितम्बर से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 7 सितम्बर (कैलेंडर) से होगा।
बुधवार से कुछ विकिपीडियाओं के एक समूह पर "एक कड़ी जोड़ें" उपलब्ध होगी (पूर्वी मारी विकिपीडिया, माओरी विकिपीडिया, मिनांगकाबाउ विकिपीडिया, मैसिडोनियाई विकिपीडिया, मलयालम विकिपीडिया, मंगोलियाई विकिपीडिया, मराठी विकिपीडिया, पश्चिमी मारी विकिपीडिया, मलय विकिपीडिया, माल्टाई विकिपीडिया, मिरांडी विकिपीडिया, एर्ज़्या विकिपीडिया, माज़ंदरानी विकिपीडिया, नाहुआत्ल विकिपीडिया, नीपोलिटन विकिपीडिया, निम्न जर्मन विकिपीडिया, निम्न सैक्सन विकिपीडिया, नेपाली विकिपीडिया, नेवारी विकिपीडिया, नॉर्वेजियाई निनोर्स्क विकिपीडिया, नोवियाल विकिपीडिया, न्को विकिपीडिया, नॉर्मन विकिपीडिया, उत्तरी सोथो विकिपीडिया, नावहो विकिपीडिया, न्यांजा विकिपीडिया, ऑक्सिटन विकिपीडिया, लिव्वी-करेलियाई विकिपीडिया, ओरोमो विकिपीडिया, ओड़िया विकिपीडिया, ओसेटिक विकिपीडिया, पंजाबी विकिपीडिया, पांगासीनान विकिपीडिया, पाम्पांगा विकिपीडिया, पापियामेंतो विकिपीडिया, पिकार्ड विकिपीडिया, पेनसिलवेनिया जर्मन विकिपीडिया, पैलेटीन जर्मन विकिपीडिया, नॉर्फ़ोक / पिटकेर्न विकिपीडिया, पीडमंटी विकिपीडिया, पश्चिमी पंजाबी विकिपीडिया, पोंटिक विकिपीडिया, पश्तो विकिपीडिया)। यह अधिक विकिपीडियाओं पर इस उपकरण के प्रगतिशील तैनात-कार्य का हिस्सा है। समुदाय कॉन्फ़िगर कर सकते हैं कि यह सुविधा लोकल रूप से कैसे काम करेगी। [1,092][1,093]

MediaWiki message delivery 23:32, 4 सितंबर 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-37

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

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. [1,094]
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. [1,095]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

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. [1,096]

भावी परिवर्तन

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. [1,097]
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.

MediaWiki message delivery 21:07, 11 सितंबर 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-38

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

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

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. [1,098][1,099]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

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. [1,100]
All wikis will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. [1,101]

भावी परिवर्तन

The team investigating the Graph Extension posted a proposal for reenabling it and they need your input.

MediaWiki message delivery 19:19, 18 सितंबर 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2023-39

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 Vector 2022 skin will now remember the pinned/unpinned status for the Table of Contents for all logged-out users. [1,102]

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. [1,103][1,104]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on 27 October at 17:00 (UTC). See details and how to join.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:51, 26 सितंबर 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2023-40

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

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. [1,105]
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.

Changes later this week

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).

Future changes

The Vector 2022 skin will no longer use the custom styles and scripts of Vector legacy (2010). The change will be made later this year or in early 2024. See how to adjust the CSS and JS pages on your wiki. [1,106]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:26, 3 अक्टूबर 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2023-41

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

One new wiki has been created: a विकिपीडिया in Fon (w:fon:) [1,107]

Changes later this week

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. [1,108]
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. [1,109]
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 अक्टूबर 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Growth team newsletter #28

Welcome to the twenty-eighth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations

Community Configuration, concept A: Accordion style

Community Configuration, concept B: Dashboard style

Community configuration 2.0

Community Configuration 2.0 is a feature that will enable Wikimedia communities to easily customize and configure features to meet their unique needs. This approach provides non-technical moderators with more independence and control over enabling/disabling and customizing features for their communities.
Technical approach and associated tasks are detailed in this Epic task on Phabricator.
Initial designs are drafted for two different approaches (see images). We will soon demo interactive prototypes to interested admins, stewards, and experienced editors (T346109). Please let us know if you have feedback on the design approach, or want to participate in prototype testing.

IP Masking

The Growth team has been working on several updates to ensure Growth maintained features will be compatible with future IP Masking changes. This work has included code changes to: Recent Changes (T343322), Echo notifications (T333531), the Thanks extension (T345679) and Mentorship (T341390).
Before December, the Growth team will initiate community discussions with the goal of migrating communities from Flow to DiscussionTools. This move aims to minimize the necessity for additional engineering work to make Flow compatible with IP Masking. (T346108)

Mentorship

We assembled some resources for mentors at Mediawiki wiki. This resource page is translatable and will be linked from the mentor dashboard.
We are working to resolve a bug related to mentors properly returning after being marked as "Away". (T347024)
Half of newcomers at English Wikipedia get a mentor assigned to them. To ensure every newcomer receives mentorship, we need additional volunteer mentors at English Wikipedia to achieve a 100% coverage rate. We also encourage experienced users from other wikis to help newcomers at their own community.

Scaling Growth features

We continue the deployment of the structured task "add a link" to all Wikipedias. We plan to scale the task to all Wikipedias that have link suggestions available by the end of 2023.
We plan to scale the new Impact Module to all Wikipedias soon, but first we are investigating a bug with the job that refreshes the Impact Module data. (T344428)
At some wikis, newcomers have access to the "add an image" structured task. This task suggests images that may be relevant to add to unillustrated articles. Newcomers at these wikis can now add images to unillustrated articles sections. (T345940) The wikis that have this task are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table.

Other news

We disabled the “add an image” task temporarily (T345188) because there was a failure in the image suggestions pipeline (T345141). This is now fixed.
You can read a report about the Growth team’s representation at Wikimania in Singapore here. Growth team members presented two sessions at Wikimania Singapore.
After a 2.5 years-long collaboration with Bangala Wikipedia, we have decided to start a collaboration with another wiki. Swahili Wikipedia is now a pilot wiki for Growth experiments.

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Trizek_(WMF) संवाद 23:16, 16 अक्टूबर 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2023-42

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 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. [1,110]
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 23:46, 16 अक्टूबर 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2023-43

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

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. [1,111]

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 अक्टूबर 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2023-44

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 Structured Content team, as part of its project of improving UploadWizard on Commons, made some UX improvements to the upload step of choosing own vs not own work (T347590), as well as to the licensing step for own work (T347756).
The Design Systems team has released version 1.0.0 of Codex, the new design system for Wikimedia. See the full announcement about the release of Codex 1.0.0.

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. [1,112][1,113]
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. [1,114]

Future changes

There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. You can help by reviewing this proposal and sharing what you think about it.
The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:21, 30 अक्टूबर 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2023-45

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. [1,115]

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. [1,116]

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. [1,117][1,118]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:05, 6 नवम्बर 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2023-46

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

Four new wikis have been created:
- a Wikipedia in Moroccan Amazigh (w:zgh:) [1,119]
- a Wikipedia in Dagaare (w:dga:) [1,120]
- a Wikipedia in Toba Batak (w:bbc:) [1,121]
- a Wikiquote in Banjar (q:bjn:) [1,122]

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. [1,123]
Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved. [1,124]

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. [1,125]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:52, 13 नवम्बर 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2023-47

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

There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [1,126][1,127]
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. [1,128][1,129][1,130]
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. [1,131]

Future changes

There is an update on re-enabling the Graph Extension. To speed up the process, Vega 2 will not be supported and only some protocols will be available at launch. You can help by sharing what you think about the plan.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:55, 21 नवम्बर 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-48

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

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

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. [1,132][1,133]
मीडियाविकी की जावास्क्रिप्ट प्रणाली अब गैजेट्स और उपयोगकर्ता स्क्रिप्ट में $async - await वाक्यविन्यास की अनुमति देगी। गैजेट लेखकों को याद रखना चाहिए कि उपयोगकर्ताओं के ब्राउज़र इसका समर्थन नहीं कर सकते हैं इसलिए इसका उचित उपयोग किया जाना चाहिए। [1,134]
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 नवम्बर 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Growth team newsletter #29

Welcome to the twenty-ninth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations

Community Conversations

The Growth team will host its first community conversation Monday, 4 December (19:00 - 20:30 UTC). The topic for this meeting will be Mentorship.

This first meeting language will be English, but we plan to host conversations in other languages, and about other topics. Please visit the conversation page on-wiki for the details on how to join. You can also watch the page, or suggest ideas for upcoming conversations there.

Impact Module

At the beginning of November 2023, the Growth team deployed the New Impact Module to all Wikipedias. We recently released a follow up improvement to how edit data was displayed based on editor feedback. [1,135]

Add a Link

We released “add a link” to 35 more Wikipedias. [1,136] [1,137]

We have a few Wikipedias remaining:

German and English Wikipedia will be contacted at the beginning of January 2024.
There are a few small wikis that will not receive the task until they have enough articles for the algorithm to work properly.

Community Configuration

We shared Community Configuration 2.0 plans with technical stakeholders. [1,138] 🖂
Initial Community Configuration design ideas have been shared and discussed with community members.
A basic Community Configuration 2.0 demo is released on ToolForge.
Developers can find some initial proof of concept code shared on gitlab.

Mentorship

When a mentor marked themselves as "Away", they were not getting their name assigned to new accounts when they returned. This has been fixed. [1,139]

We improved the message received by newcomers when their mentor quits, to reduce confusion. [1,140]

We worked on ensuring that all mentees are assigned to an active mentor. This required reassigning mentees with no mentors to a new mentor. We paused this as the clean-up script confused some editors. We will resume it when the identified blockers are resolved. [1,141]

It is now possible to create an Abuse Filter to prevent one user from signing up as a mentor. [1,142]

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18:05, 1 दिसम्बर 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-49

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. [1,143]
The "इस पृष्ठ को डिफ़ॉल्ट से इस शीर्षक से छाँटें" feature in VisualEditor is working again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords. [1,144]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [1,145][1,146]
On 6 December, people who have the enabled the preference for "Show discussion activity" will notice the talk page usability improvements appear on pages that include the __NEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word. If you notice any issues, please share them with the team on Phabricator.

Future changes

The Toolforge Grid Engine shutdown process will start on December 14. Maintainers of tools that still use this old system should plan to migrate to Kubernetes, or tell the team your plans on Phabricator in the task about your tool, before that date. [1,147]
Communities using Structured Discussions are being contacted regarding the upcoming deprecation of Structured Discussions. You can read more about this project, and share your comments, on the project's page.

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 23:49, 4 दिसम्बर 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2023-50

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

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. [1,148][1,149]

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. [1,150][1,151]

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). [1,152][1,153]

Future changes

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 दिसम्बर 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2023-51

विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय से नवीनतम "तकनीकी समाचार"। कृपया अन्य उपयोगकर्ताओं को इन परिवर्तनों के बारे में बताएं। सभी परिवर्तन आपको प्रभावित नहीं करेंगे। अनुवाद उपलब्ध हैं।

तकनीकी समाचार

तकनीकी समाचार का अगला अंक 8 जनवरी 2024 को छुट्टियों के कारण भेजा जाएगा।

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

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). अगला सप्ताह मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण नहीं आएगा। [1,154][1,155]
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. [1,156]
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 विशेष:UnconnectedPages). There will also be support for manual redirects. [1,157]

भविष्य के बदलाव

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.

MediaWiki message delivery 16:17, 18 दिसम्बर 2023 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2024-02

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

mediawiki2latex is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can install on your local machine.
The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing. [1,158]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar). [1,159][1,160]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:19, 9 जनवरी 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-03

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

Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. [1,161]
Gadgets and personal user scripts may now use JavaScript syntax introduced in ES6 (also known as "ES2015") and ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki validates the source code to protect other site functionality from syntax errors, and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers. Previously, Gadgets could use the requiresES6 option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future. [1,162]
Bot passwords and owner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages. [1,163]
You can now thank edits made by bots. [1,164]
An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024 has been published. Please read and give your feedback.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar). [1,165][1,166]
Starting on January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions 51–66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately. [1,167]
The jquery.cookie module was deprecated and replaced with the mediawiki.cookie module last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed. [1,168]

Future changes

Wikimedia Deutschland is working to make reusing references easier. They are looking for people who are interested in participating in individual video calls for user research in January and February.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:12, 16 जनवरी 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-04

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

A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed. [1,169]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 January. It will be on all wikis from 25 January (calendar). [1,170][1,171]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:03, 23 जनवरी 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2024-05

विकिमीडिया तकनीकी समुदाय से नया तकनीकी समाचार। कृपया अन्य उपयोगकर्ताओं को इन परिवर्तनों के बारे में बताएं। सभी परिवर्तन आप पर प्रभाव नहीं लगेंगे। अनुवाद उपलब्ध हैं।

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [1,172]
There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 30 जनवरी से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 31 जनवरी से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 1 फ़रवरी (कैलेंडर) से होगा। [1,173][1,174]
On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new विशेष:QrKodu page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [1,175]
Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the targets option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the skins option instead. [1,176]

MediaWiki message delivery 19:31, 29 जनवरी 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2024-05

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [1,177]
There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 30 जनवरी से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 31 जनवरी से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 1 फ़रवरी (कैलेंडर) से होगा। [1,178][1,179]
On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new विशेष:QrKodu page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [1,180]
Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the targets option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the skins option instead. [1,181]

MediaWiki message delivery 19:32, 29 जनवरी 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

तकनीकी समाचार: 2024-05

हाल में हुए परिवर्तन

Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [1,182]
There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर 30 जनवरी से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर 31 जनवरी से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर 1 फ़रवरी (कैलेंडर) से होगा। [1,183][1,184]
On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new विशेष:QrKodu page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [1,185]
Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the targets option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the skins option instead. [1,186]

MediaWiki message delivery 19:38, 29 जनवरी 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-06

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 mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to the phabricator task.
On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity. Learn more about "action blocks". [1,187][1,188]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar). [1,189][1,190]
Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [1,191]

Future changes

24 Wikipedias with Reference Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make Reference Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For 46 Wikipedias with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February, unless there are concerns. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings. [1,192][1,193]

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:22, 5 फ़रवरी 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-07

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 WDQS Graph Split experiment is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels. [1,194][1,195][1,196] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [1,197][1,198]

Problems

There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black; this issue is fixed.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar). [1,199][1,200]
As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,[1,201] tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped. [1,202]

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MediaWiki message delivery 05:48, 13 फ़रवरी 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-08

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

If you have the "मेरी ध्यानसूची में दर्ज किसी भी पृष्ठ अथवा किसी भी चित्र में बदलाव आने पर मुझे ईमेल भेजें" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails. [1,203]
There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the task's description.
The maximum file size when using Upload Wizard is now 5 GiB. [1,204]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar). [1,205][1,206]

Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
The CSS filter property can now be used in HTML style attributes in wikitext. [1,207]

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MediaWiki message delivery 15:36, 19 फ़रवरी 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-09

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 mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well. [1,208]
The mw.config value wgGlobalGroups now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is: if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [1,209]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (calendar). [1,210][1,211]

Future changes

The right to change edit tags (changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:23, 26 फ़रवरी 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-10

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 Special:Book page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension. [1,212]
Wikitech now uses the next-generation Parsoid wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the Known Issues discussion page. You can use the ParserMigration extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation for more details.
Maintenance on etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket.
Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The Gadget and Gadget_definition namespaces and gadgets-definition-edit user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made. [1,213]
A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [1,214]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar). [1,215][1,216]

Future changes

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. 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. [1,217]
The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See Heading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add ?useparsoid=1 to your URL (more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info).

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:46, 4 मार्च 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-11

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar). [1,218][1,219]
After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed. [1,220]
The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [1,221]
Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost. [1,222]

Future changes

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. 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. [1,223][1,224]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:04, 11 मार्च 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-12

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 notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. [1,225]
IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers. [1,226]
The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [1,227][1,228][1,229]
Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [1,230]

Problems

RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. [1,231]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar). [1,232][1,233]
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [1,234][1,235]

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MediaWiki message delivery 17:39, 18 मार्च 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-13

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

An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar). [1,236][1,237]

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:56, 25 मार्च 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-14

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

Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [1,238]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar). [1,239][1,240]

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:35, 2 अप्रैल 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-15

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

Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
A new Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
Initial results of Edit check experiments have been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it. Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check. [1,241][1,242]
Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [1,243]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar). [1,244][1,245]
New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. [1,246]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:37, 8 अप्रैल 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-16

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

Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [1,247][1,248]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [1,249][1,250]
Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). [1,251]
A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [1,252]

Future changes

Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the abuse_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated. [1,253]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:28, 15 अप्रैल 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-17

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

Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [1,254]
You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [1,255][1,256]

Future changes

This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of विशेष:मेरा पृष्ठ/vector.js to विशेष:मेरा पृष्ठ/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [1,257]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:27, 22 अप्रैल 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Growth News, April 2024

The Growth team will now send quarterly reports to keep you in the loop. Growth team weekly updates are available on wiki (in English) if you want to know more about our day-to-day work.

If you want to receive more general updates about technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement (including Growth work), we encourage you to subscribe to Tech News.

Community Configuration

Growth features are currently configurable at Special:EditGrowthConfig. This quarter we are working on making Community Configuration accessible for other MediaWiki developers while also moving Growth feature configuration to the new CommunityConfiguration extension.

An early version of Community Configuration can be tested at Spanish Beta Wikipedia. We plan to release the new Community Configuration extension to pilot wikis (Arabic and Spanish Wikipedia) in early May, 2024. The first non-Growth team feature to utilize Community Configuration will be Automoderator.

In parallel with the development, the Growth team will propose Community Configuration usage guidelines, Community Configuration design guidelines, and provide technical documentation.

Experiment Results

Add a Image experiment analysis results

The Growth team conducted an experiment to assess the impact of the “Add an Image” structured task on the Newcomer Homepage's "Suggested Edits" module. This analysis finds that the Add an Image structured task leads to an increase in newcomer participation on the mobile web platform, particularly by making constructive (non-reverted) article edits:

The likelihood that mobile web newcomers make their first article edit (+17.0% over baseline)
The likelihood that they are retained as newcomers (+24.3% over baseline)
The number of edits they make during their first two weeks on the wiki (+21.8% over baseline)
A lower probability of the newcomers' edits will be reverted (-3.3% over baseline).

Personalized praise experiment results

This feature was developed for Mentors as part of the Growth team's Positive Reinforcement project. When A/B testing on Spanish Wikipedia, we found no significant impact on retention, but we found a significant positive impact on newcomer productivity. However, we concluded that the results weren’t positive enough to justify the time investment from Mentors. We plan to discuss this feature with our pilot wikis, and consider further improvements before scaling this feature further. Meanwhile, communities willing to test the feature can ask to have it deployed. (T361763)

English donors encouraged to try editing

As in previous years, donors were directed to a Thank you page after donation (example). However, this year we tested a new “Try editing Wikipedia,” call to action on the Thank You page. This call to action linked to a unique account creation page. From this account creation page we were able to track Registrations and Activation (editing for the first time). During the English banner campaign, the Donor Thank you page led to 4,398 new accounts, and 441 of those accounts went on to constructively edit within 24 hours. (T352900)

Future work

Annual Plan

The Growth team and the Editing team will work on the WE1.2 Key Result in the coming fiscal year. We will start initial discussions with communities soon to help finalize our plans. (T361657)

Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module

We plan to A/B test adding a new Community Configurable module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We are early in the planning phase of this project that will take place first at our pilot wikis and wikis volunteering. We welcome community feedback on initial designs and plans, in any language at our project talk page.

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18:55, 23 अप्रैल 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-18

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

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks. [1,258]
Seven new wikis have been created:
- a विकिपीडिया in Betawi (w:bew:) [1,259]
- a विकिपीडिया in Kusaal (w:kus:) [1,260]
- a विकिपीडिया in Igala (w:igl:) [1,261]
- a विकिकोश in Karakalpak (wikt:kaa:) [1,262]
- a विकिस्रोत in Burmese (s:my:) [1,263]
- a विकिस्रोत in Malay (s:ms:) [1,264]
- a विकिस्रोत in Georgian (s:ka:) [1,265]
You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [1,266]
Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.

Problems

Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [1,267]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar). [1,268][1,269]

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:33, 30 अप्रैल 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-19

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

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [1,270][1,271]
Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page. [1,272]
Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. [1,273]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar). [1,274][1,275]
When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [1,276]

Future changes

A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally. [1,277]

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:44, 6 मई 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-20

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

On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word __EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__ to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list. [1,278]
If you use the user-preference "पृष्ठ पुनः लोड किए बिना पूर्वावलोकन दिखाएँ", then the template-page feature "पृष्ठ की झलक इस साँचे के साथ देखें" will now also work without reloading the page. [1,279]
Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the alt= attribute. This is identical in usage to the alt= attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. [1,280]
The old Guided Tour for the "New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people. [1,281]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar). [1,282][1,283]
The विशेष:खोज results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure. [1,284]

Future changes

In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more. [1,285]
Two columns of the pagelinks database table (pl_namespace and pl_title) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new linktarget table instead (lt_namespace and lt_title). In your existing SQL queries:
1. Replace JOIN pagelinks with JOIN linktarget and pl_ with lt_ in the ON statement
2. Below that add JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
- See phab:T222224 for technical reasoning. [1,286][1,287]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:58, 13 मई 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-21

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 Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. [1,288]
New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description. [1,289][1,290]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar). [1,291][1,292]
The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:04, 20 मई 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-22

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

Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see T365107 and T365119.
In March 2024 a new addPortlet API was added to allow gadgets to create new portlets (menus) in the skin. In certain skins this can be used to create dropdowns. Gadget developers are invited to try it and give feedback.
Some CSS in the Minerva skin has been removed to enable easier community configuration. Interface editors should check the rendering on mobile devices for aspects related to the classes: .collapsible, .multicol, .reflist, .coordinates, .topicon. Further details are available on replacement CSS if it is needed.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar). [1,293][1,294]
When you visit a wiki where you don't yet have a local account, local rules such as edit filters can sometimes prevent your account from being created. Starting this week, MediaWiki takes your global rights into account when evaluating whether you can override such local rules. [1,295]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:15, 28 मई 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-23

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

It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript. Documentation is available. [1,296]
The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category". [1,297]
One new wiki has been created: a विकिपीडिया in Kadazandusun (w:dtp:) [1,298]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (calendar). [1,299][1,300]

Future changes

Next week, on wikis with the Vector 2022 skin as the default, logged-out desktop users will be able to choose between different font sizes. The default font size will also be increased for them. This is to make Wikimedia projects easier to read. Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:34, 3 जून 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-24

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 software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [1,301]
The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the mw-reference-text class, Parsoid now also adds the reference-text class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [1,302]

Problems

There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [1,303]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [1,304][1,305]
The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a <span class="mw-cite-backlink"> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [1,306]
On multilingual wikis that use the <translate> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [1,307]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:20, 10 जून 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-25

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

People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details. [1,308]
The new Community Configuration extension is available on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases in the future. [1,309][1,310]
The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page. [1,311]

Problems

Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [1,312]
Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here. [1,313]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar). [1,314][1,315]
Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable. [1,316]
Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. [1,317]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:48, 17 जून 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-26

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

Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions on the project talkpage. [1,318]
The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode. [1,319]

Problems

You can copy permanent links to talk page comments by clicking on a comment's timestamp. This feature did not always work when the topic title was very long and the link was used as a wikitext link. This has been fixed. Thanks to Lofhi for submitting the bug. [1,320]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar). [1,321][1,322]
Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [1,323]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:32, 24 जून 2024 (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Tech News: 2024-27

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

Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update. [1,324]
Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. [1,325]
If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [1,326][1,327]
Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [1,328]
Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
One new wiki has been created: a विकिपीडिया in Mandailing (w:btm:) [1,329]

Problems

Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [1,330]

Future changes

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