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Tech News: 2024-47
editLatest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a redirect to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects. [1]
- View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pywikibot, which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge. [2]
Updates for technical contributors
- On wikis that use the FlaggedRevs extension, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this. [3][4]
In depth
- There is a new Diff post about Temporary Accounts, available in more than 15 languages. Read it to learn about what Temporary Accounts are, their impact on different groups of users, and the plan to introduce the change on all wikis.
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- Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10 2024. The registration for the event will close in mid-April 2025. The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual gathering that unites the global technical community to collaborate on existing projects and explore new ideas.
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Tech News: 2024-48
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- A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter will be available as a beta feature later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support, template folding, autocompletion, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the help page.
- The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such
Ctrl+Bfor bold andCtrl+Ifor italics. A full list of all six shortcuts is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. [5] - Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: bswiki, elwiki, euwiki, fawiki, fiwiki, frwikiquote, frwikisource, frwikiversity, frwikivoyage, idwiki, lvwiki, plwiki, ptwiki, urwiki, viwikisource, zhwikisource. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF).
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- The CodeEditor, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, now offers live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing
Ctrl+,and un-selecting "Live Autocompletion". - Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check this dashboard and the list in the Description of the task T350592 to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April. [6]
- The New PreProcessor parser performance report has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities. [7]
Meetings and events
- A Language community meeting will take place November 29 at 16:00 UTC. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, the language support track at Wiki Indaba, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.
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Hello, I am wondering on how do add an alias/ aka section to a persons infobox that can redirect to an external webpage. Thanks for your help! --Gt3lmp2 (talk) 10:47, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Gt3lmp2 For aliases, you can use the parameter 'other_names' or 'alias' in the {{Infobox person}} (see this for documentation). For link out to external webpage, we don't encourage links to external websites per WP:External links in most cases. If you have a list of aliases, you can list them out in the 'other_names' field, and then add the external link as a reference by wrapping the link in <ref></ref> tag. An example would be
- – robertsky (talk) 10:59, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
:{{Collapsible list : | title = List of aliases<ref>http external link</ref> : | 1 = <!--(First item in list; the "1 =" is usually not required)--> : | 2 = <!--(Second item in list; ditto)--> : | 3 = <!--(Third item in list; etc.)--> : | <!-- etc. --> :}} :
- Thanks for this! Gt3lmp2 (talk) 11:02, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
NOP for 152.58.93.148 ?
editIP 152.58.93.148 Doesn't seem to be an Open Proxy Momosixer (talk) 11:34, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Momosixer I am using the information provided through mw:Extension:IPInfo. Currently it shows some proxy activity. Due to legal policy, I am unable to share further information. – robertsky (talk) 12:02, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:IP_Information_tool_guidelines will fix link later – robertsky (talk) 12:04, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- From my own tests, it is highly unlikely that 152.58.93.148 is a webhost or a proxy. Your 1 year block seems unwarranted. Momosixer (talk) 12:21, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Momosixer Feel free to take it up at ANI. I don't know what tests or checks you have conducted but I stand by the information that was given to me through the toll. – robertsky (talk) 13:10, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- From my own tests, it is highly unlikely that 152.58.93.148 is a webhost or a proxy. Your 1 year block seems unwarranted. Momosixer (talk) 12:21, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:IP_Information_tool_guidelines will fix link later – robertsky (talk) 12:04, 29 November 2024 (UTC)