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Tech News: 2024-46

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Latest 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

Updates for technical contributors

  • Advanced item In 1.44.0-wmf-2, the logic of Wikibase function getAllStatements changed to behave like getBestStatements. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable. [3]
  • Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The impacted endpoints include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket.

In depth

  • Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page for more information about this work. [4]

Meetings and events

  • 21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC) - Community call with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:04, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Draftify and talk pages

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Hi, Stradivarius! Once again, many thanks for Draftify; 9+ years, how time flies. For a while, the AfC submission wizard (docs) has supported WikiProject banners on the talk page of a draft. Could Draftify be updated to include the talk page of a user draft when moving it so we don't have to manually follow up? Best, Sam Sailor 06:12, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reminder to participate in Wikipedia research

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 00:18, 13 November 2024 (UTC) [reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Module sandbox notice

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Template:Module sandbox notice has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 12:10, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Module:Tasks

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Module:Tasks has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 13:34, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Module:RFPP

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Module:RFPP has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 13:35, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Module:Search link has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 13:36, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Module:Request redirect

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Module:Request redirect has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 13:38, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/Anagramator

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Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/Anagramator has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 17:24, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/BannerConvert

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Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/BannerConvert has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 17:24, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/Latvian declension

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Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/Latvian declension has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 17:24, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/League table

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Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/League table has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 17:24, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/Parent title

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Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/Parent title has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 17:24, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for merger of Template:Testcase

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Template:Testcase has been nominated for merging with Template:Test case. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 21:48, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 18 November 2024

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ArbCom 2024 Elections voter message

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Tech News: 2024-47

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Latest 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. [5]
  • 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. [6]

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. [7][8]

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.

Meetings and events

  • 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.
  • Join the Wikimedia Commons community calls this week to help prioritize support for Commons which will be planned for 2025–2026. The theme will be how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. This is an opportunity for volunteers who work on different things to come together and talk about what matters for the future of the project. The calls will take place November 21, 2024, 8:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC.
  • A Language community meeting will take place November 29, 16:00 UTC to discuss updates and technical problem-solving.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:58, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/RGConvert

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Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/RGConvert has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 15:39, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/ah

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Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/ah has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 15:39, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/gambiarra

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Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/gambiarra has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 15:39, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/html

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Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/html has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 15:39, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/icon

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Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/icon has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 15:40, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/pageSubster

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Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/pageSubster has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 15:40, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/portalCheck

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Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/portalCheck has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 15:40, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/previewbug

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Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/previewbug has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 15:40, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/region topic

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Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/region topic has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 15:41, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/whitespacebug

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Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/whitespacebug has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 15:41, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-48

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Latest 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

  • Wishlist item 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+B for bold and Ctrl+I for italics. A full list of all six shortcuts is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. [9]
  • 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).
  • View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected" if it includes a protected variable.

Updates for technical contributors

  • 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".
  • Advanced item 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. [10]
  • Advanced item 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. [11]

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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MediaWiki message delivery 22:39, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-49

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Latest 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

  • Two new parser functions were added this week. The {{#interwikilink}} function adds an interwiki link and the {{#interlanguagelink}} function adds an interlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning with MOS: on English Wikipedia conflict with the mos language code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia.
  • Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [12]
  • Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: arwiki, cawiki, frwiki, mediawikiwiki, orwiki, wawiki, wawiktionary, wikidatawiki, zhwiki. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF). [13]
  • This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
  • View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed. [14]

Updates for technical contributors

  • In late February, temporary accounts will be rolled out on at least 10 large wikis. This deployment will have a significant effect on the community-maintained code. This is about Toolforge tools, bots, gadgets, and user scripts that use IP address data or that are available for logged-out users. The Trust and Safety Product team wants to identify this code, monitor it, and assist in updating it ahead of the deployment to minimize disruption to workflows. The team asks technical editors and volunteer developers to help identify such tools by adding them to this list. In addition, review the updated documentation to learn how to adjust the tools. Join the discussions on the project talk page or in the dedicated thread on the Wikimedia Community Discord server (in English) for support and to share feedback.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:20, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – December 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

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