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Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/44> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- When using keyboard navigation on a Kartographer
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartograph…>
map, the focus will become more visible. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T315997>
- In Special:RecentChanges, you can now hide the log entries for new
user creations with the filter for "New users". [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321155>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.8>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 November. It
will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 November. It will
be on all wikis from 3 November (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/Roadmap>).
- The maps dialog
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartograph…>
in VisualEditor now has some help texts. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318818>
- It is now possible to select the language of a Kartographer
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartograph…>
map in VisualEditor via a dropdown menu. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318817>
- It is now possible to add a caption to a Kartographer
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartograph…>
map in VisualEditor. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318815>
- It is now possible to hide the frame of a Kartographer
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartograph…>
map in VisualEditor. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318813>
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Below is the English version.
You can help write the next newsletter: Whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
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Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/43> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- There have been some minor visual fixes in Special:Search, regarding
audio player alignment and image placeholder height. Further details are in
T319230 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T319230>.
- On Wikipedias, a new preference
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-searchop…>
has been added to hide article thumbnails in Special:Search. Full details
are in T320337 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320337>.
*Problems*
- Last week, three wikis (French Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Russian
Wikipedia) had read-only access for 25 minutes. This was caused by a
hardware problem. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320990>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.7>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 October. It
will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 October. It will
be on all wikis from 27 October (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/Roadmap>).
- 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 October at 07:00
UTC (targeted
wikis
<https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s5.dblist>)
and on 27 October at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis
<https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s4.dblist>).
- Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Add_a_l…>"
(Assamese Wikipedia, Bashkir Wikipedia, Balinese Wikipedia, Bavarian
Wikipedia, Samogitian Wikipedia, Bikol Central Wikipedia, Belarusian
Wikipedia, Belarusian (Taraškievica) Wikipedia, Bulgarian Wikipedia,
Bhojpuri Wikipedia, Bislama Wikipedia, Banjar Wikipedia, Bambara Wikipedia,
Bishnupriya Wikipedia, Breton Wikipedia, Bosnian Wikipedia, Buginese
Wikipedia, Buryat Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia). This is part of
the progressive
deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304110>. The communities can configure
how this feature works locally
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Community_configur…>.
[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304549>
- Starting on Wednesday October 26, 2022, the list of mentors will be
upgraded at wikis where Growth mentorship is available
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14339834>. The mentorship system will
continue to work as it does now. The signup process will be replaced
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Communities/How_to…>,
and a new management option will be provided. Also, this change
simplifies the
creation of mentorship systems at Wikipedias
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Communities/How_to…>.
[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T314858>[4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310905>[5]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Structured_mentor_…>
- Pages with titles that start with a lower-case letter according to
Unicode 11 will be renamed or deleted. There is a list of affected
pages at m:Unicode
11 case map migration
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Unicode_11_case_map_migration>. More
information can be found at T292552
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T292552>.
- The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest
Wikipedias. Learn more
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Impro…>
.
*Future changes*
- The Reply tool
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Replyi…>
and New Topic tool
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/New_di…>
will soon get a special characters menu
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Special_char…>.
[6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249072>
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Below is the English version.
You can help write the next newsletter: Whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.
More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.
As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/42/de>, English, Esperanto
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/42/ar>, فارسی
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/42/fa>, বাংলা
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/42/bn>, ಕನ್ನಡ
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/42/kn>, 中文
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/42/zh>, 日本語
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/42/ja>, 粵語
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/42/yue>, ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/42/mni>
Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/42> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- The recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in
Special:Search <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306883> will be
limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320510>. [1]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_Data_Across_Wi…>
- A bug that caused problems in loading article thumbnails in
Special:Search has been fixed. Further details are in T320406
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320406>.
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.6>
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
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap>).
- Lua module authors can use mw.loadJsonData()
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_r…>
to load data from JSON pages. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217500>
- Lua module authors can enable require( "strict" )
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_r…>
to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "Module:No
globals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16748603>" on most wikis. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209310>
*Future changes*
- The Beta Feature
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeat…>
for DiscussionTools
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools>
will be updated at most wikis. The "reply" button will look different after
this change. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320683>
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Below is the English version.
You can help write the next newsletter: Whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
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More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.
As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/40/eo>, Tiếng Việt
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/40/sv>, čeština
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/40/cs>, русский
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/40/ru>, українська
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/40/uk>, עברית
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/40/ar>, فارسی
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/40/fa>, ಕನ್ನಡ
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/40/zh>, 日本語
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/40/ja>, 粵語
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/40/yue>, ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/40/mni>
Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/40> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Kartographer
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartograph…>
maps can now show geopoints from Wikidata, via QID or SPARQL query.
Previously, this was only possible for geoshapes and geolines. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307695> [2]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation/Geopoi…>
- The Coolest Tool Award 2022
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Coolest_Tool_Award>
is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 12 October.
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.4>
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
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap>).
- Talk pages on the mobile site
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools#Mobi…>
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) [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318302> [4]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Mobile>
- The scribunto-console API module will require a CSRF token
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Tokens>. This
module is documented as internal and use of it is not supported. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212071>
- The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest
Wikimedia projects. Learn more
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Impro…>
.
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