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Tech News 2023, week 35
by Benoît Evellin (Trizek) 28 Aug '23

28 Aug '23

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/2023/35> are available. *Recent changes* - As part of the changes for the better diff handling of paragraph splits <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Better_diff_…>, improved detection of splits is being rolled out. Over the last two weeks, we deployed this support to group0 <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train#Groups> and group1 wikis. This week it will be deployed to group2 wikis. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341754> - All Special:Contributions <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions> pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T324166> - Wikisource users can now use the prpbengalicurrency label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the <pagelist> tag. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268932> - Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "Enable the visual editor" is now shown on the "Editing" tab <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing> at all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "Beta features" tab at some wikis. The preference "Use the wikitext mode inside the visual editor, instead of a different wikitext editor." is now also shown on the "Editing" tab at all wikis, instead of the "Beta features" tab. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T335056>[5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344158> *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.24> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap>). - 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 <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/IDM>. - 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 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener>. This feature will come to more wikis in future weeks. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267921> *Future changes* - The removal of the DoubleWiki extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:DoubleWiki> 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 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344544>. - 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 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T340606>; feedback is welcome! *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/35> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.* -- Benoît Evellin - Trizek (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Tech News 2023, week 33
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 15 Aug '23

15 Aug '23

The latest technical newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/33. 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. You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. —————————— Other languages: Deutsch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/33/de>, English, Tiếng Việt <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/33/vi>, Türkçe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/33/tr>, français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/33/fr>, italiano <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/33/it>, magyar <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/33/hu>, norsk bokmål <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/33/nb>, polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/33/pl>, português do Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/33/pt-br>, svenska <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/33/sv>, čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/33/cs>, русский <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/33/ru>, עברית <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/33/he>, العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/33/ar>, हिन्दी <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/33/hi>, বাংলা <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/33/bn>, ಕನ್ನಡ <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/33/kn>, 中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/33/zh>, 日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/33/ja> 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/2023/33> are available. *Recent changes* - The Content translation system is no longer using Youdao's machine translation service <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Content_translation/…>. 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] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329137> *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.22> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap>). - 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…>" (Latin Wikipedia, Ladino Wikipedia, Luxembourgish Wikipedia, Laki Wikipedia, Lezghian Wikipedia, Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia, Ganda Wikipedia, Limburgish Wikipedia, Ligurian Wikipedia, Lombard Wikipedia, Lingala Wikipedia, Latgalian Wikipedia, Latvian Wikipedia, Maithili Wikipedia, Basa Banyumasan Wikipedia, Moksha Wikipedia, Malagasy Wikipedia, Armenian Wikipedia, Kyrgyz 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/T308136> *Future changes* - 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 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344067>. *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/33> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.*

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Tech News 2023, week 32
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 08 Aug '23

08 Aug '23

The latest technical newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/32. 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. You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. —————————— Other languages: Bahasa Indonesia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/id>, Deutsch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/de>, English, Tiếng Việt <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/vi>, Türkçe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/tr>, español <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/es>, français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/fr>, italiano <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/it>, norsk bokmål <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/nb>, polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/pl>, suomi <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/fi>, svenska <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/sv>, čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/cs>, русский <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/ru>, українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/uk>, עברית <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/he>, العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/ar>, فارسی <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/fa>, हिन्दी <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/hi>, বাংলা <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/bn>, ಕನ್ನಡ <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/kn>, 中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/zh>, 日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/ja>, 粵語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/32/yue> 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/2023/32> are available. *Recent changes* - Mobile Web editors can now edit a whole page at once <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobi…>. To use this feature, turn on "Advanced mode" in your settings and use the "Edit full page" button in the "More" menu. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203151> *Changes later this week* - There is no new MediaWiki version this week. *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/32> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.*

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