विक्षनरी:चौपाल/समाचार

तकनीकी समाचार:2023-02

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

• 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। [१]
• 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। [२]
• 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। [३]
• मैट्रिक्स एक चैट टूल है। अब आप उपयोग कर सकते हैं matrix: विकि पृष्ठों पर मैट्रिक्स लिंक बनाने के लिए। [४]
• 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। [५]

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 १० जनवरी ०७:०० यूटीसी पर (लक्ष्य विकी) और इसपर १२ जनवरी ०७:०० यूटीसी पर (लक्ष्य विकी).
• मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर होगा १० जनवरी. यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकियों और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर होगा ११ जनवरी. यह से सभी विकियों पर होगा १२ जनवरी (पंचांग).

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MediaWiki message delivery ०६:३७, १० जनवरी २०२३ (IST)

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. [६]

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 विक्षनरी वार्ता:. They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including विक्षनरी: pages (e.g., at the Village Pump). You can change your preferences (beta feature). [७]
• 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. [८]
• 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 ०६:४०, १७ जनवरी २०२३ (IST)

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. [९]

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. [१०][११]
• 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 ०५:१६, २४ जनवरी २०२३ (IST)

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. [१२]

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 ०५:३५, ३१ जनवरी २०२३ (IST)

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. [१३]

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. [१४]
• 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. [१५]
• 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 १५:५१, ६ फ़रवरी २०२३ (IST)

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. [१६]

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. [१७]

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. [१८][१९][२०]

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MediaWiki message delivery ०७:१८, १४ फ़रवरी २०२३ (IST)

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. [२१]

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. [२२][२३][२४]

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MediaWiki message delivery ०७:२७, २१ फ़रवरी २०२३ (IST)

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. [२५][२६]

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. [२७]

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MediaWiki message delivery ०५:१७, २८ फ़रवरी २०२३ (IST)

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. [२८]

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. [२९]

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MediaWiki message delivery ०५:१९, ७ मार्च २०२३ (IST)

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. [३०][३१]

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MediaWiki message delivery ०४:५०, १४ मार्च २०२३ (IST)

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. [३२]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

• मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर २१ मार्च से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर २२ मार्च से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर २३ 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. [३३]

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.

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

MediaWiki message delivery ०६:५५, २१ मार्च २०२३ (IST)

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। [३४]
• कुछ वैश्विक दुर्व्यवहार फ़िल्टर क्रियाएं अब स्थानीय परियोजनाओं पर लागू नहीं होंगी। [३५]
• 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। [३६]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

• मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर २८ मार्च से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर २९ मार्च से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर ३० मार्च (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

भविष्य के परिवर्तन

• आप विक्षनरी और विकिपीडिया पर सभी इतिहास पृष्ठ पर विज़ुअल अंतर चुन सकेंगे। [३७]
• 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। [३८]

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

MediaWiki message delivery ०६:४३, २८ मार्च २०२३ (IST)

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. [३९][४०][४१][४२][४३]

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. [४४]
• 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. [४५]
• 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. [४६]
• 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. [४७][४८][४९]

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.

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

MediaWiki message delivery ०५:०९, ४ अप्रैल २०२३ (IST)

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. [५०]
• 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. [५१]

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. [५२]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

• मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर ११ अप्रैल से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर १२ अप्रैल से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर १३ 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। [५३][५४]

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

MediaWiki message delivery ०१:३५, ११ अप्रैल २०२३ (IST)

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. [५५][५६]
• 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. [५७]

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. [५८][५९]
• For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed. [६०]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

• मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर १८ अप्रैल से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर १९ अप्रैल से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर २० अप्रैल (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

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

MediaWiki message delivery ०७:२४, १८ अप्रैल २०२३ (IST)

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. [६१]

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. [६२]
• 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. [६३][६४][६५]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [६६]
• मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर २५ अप्रैल से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर २६ अप्रैल से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर २७ 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.

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

MediaWiki message delivery ०३:३३, २५ अप्रैल २०२३ (IST)

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. [६७][६८][६९]
• The Video2commons tool has been updated. This fixed several bugs related to YouTube uploads. [७०]
• 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. [७१]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

• मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर २ मई से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर ३ मई से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर ४ मई (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

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

MediaWiki message delivery ०७:१५, २ मई २०२३ (IST)

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. [७२]
• 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. [७३]
• 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. [७४]

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 w: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. [७५]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

• मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर ९ मई से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर १० मई से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर ११ 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. [७६]

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. [७७]
• 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. [७८][७९]
• 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. [८०]

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

MediaWiki message delivery ०६:०६, ९ मई २०२३ (IST)

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. [८१]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

• मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर १६ मई से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर १७ मई से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर १८ 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। [८२]

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. [८३]

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

MediaWiki message delivery ०३:१५, १६ मई २०२३ (IST)

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. [८४]

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. [८५]
• मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर २३ मई से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर २४ मई से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर २५ मई (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

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

२२:२५, २२ मई २०२३ (IST)

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. [८६]
• 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. [८७]

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. [८८]

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. [८९]

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

MediaWiki message delivery ०३:३३, ३० मई २०२३ (IST)

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. [९०]
• 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. [९१]

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. [९२]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

• मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर ६ जून से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर ७ जून से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर ८ जून (कैलेंडर) से होगा।
• Bots will no longer be prevented from making edits because of URLs that match the spam blacklist. [९३]

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

MediaWiki message delivery ०४:२२, ६ जून २०२३ (IST)

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. [९४]
• 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. [९५]
• The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software. [९६]
• 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. [९७]

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. [९८]
• 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. [९९]
• 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. [१००]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

• मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर १३ जून से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर १४ जून से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर १५ 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. [१०१]

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.

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

MediaWiki message delivery २०:२१, १२ जून २०२३ (IST)

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. [१०२][१०३]

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. [१०४][१०५]

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

MediaWiki message delivery ०१:३८, २० जून २०२३ (IST)

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. [१०६]

समस्याएँ

• Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours. [१०७][१०८]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

• मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर २७ जून से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर २८ जून से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर २९ 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. [१०९][११०]
• 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. [१११]
• 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. [११२]
• The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components. [११३]

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. [११४]

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

MediaWiki message delivery २१:४८, २६ जून २०२३ (IST)

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. [११५]
• 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. [११६]

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).

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

MediaWiki message delivery ०४:२१, ४ जुलाई २०२३ (IST)

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. [११७]
• 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. [११८]
• 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. [११९]
• 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. [१२०]

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. [१२१]
• 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.

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

MediaWiki message delivery ०१:२४, ११ जुलाई २०२३ (IST)

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. [१२२]
• 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. [१२३]

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

MediaWiki message delivery ०४:३८, १८ जुलाई २०२३ (IST)

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 २५ जुलाई से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर २६ जुलाई से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर २७ जुलाई (कैलेंडर) से होगा।

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

MediaWiki message delivery ०७:५०, २५ जुलाई २०२३ (IST)

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. [१२४][१२५]
• 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. [१२६]

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. [१२७]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

• मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर १ अगस्त से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर २ अगस्त से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर ३ 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। [१२८]

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

MediaWiki message delivery ०५:२४, १ अगस्त २०२३ (IST)

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. [१२९]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

• इस सप्ताह मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण नहीं आएगा।

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

MediaWiki message delivery ०२:५१, ८ अगस्त २०२३ (IST)

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. [१३०]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

• मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर १५ अगस्त से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर १६ अगस्त से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर १७ 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। [१३१]

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.

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

MediaWiki message delivery ११:२९, १५ अगस्त २०२३ (IST)

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. [१३२]
• 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:) [१३३]
    • a Wikisource in Sundanese (s:su:) [१३४]
  • To catch up, the next most recent six wikis are:
    • विकिफंक्शन (f:) [१३५]
    • a Wiktionary in Mandailing (wikt:btm:) [१३६]
    • a Wikipedia in Ghanaian Pidgin (w:gpe:) [१३७]
    • a Wikinews in Gungbe (n:guw:) [१३८]
    • a Wiktionary in Kabardian (wikt:kbd:) [१३९]
    • a Wikipedia in Fante (w:fat:) [१४०]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

• मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर २२ अगस्त से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर २३ अगस्त से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर २४ 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. [१४१]

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२०:५५, २१ अगस्त २०२३ (IST)

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. [१४२]
• All विशेष:योगदान pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. [१४३]
• Wikisource users can now use the prpbengalicurrency label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the <pagelist> tag. [१४४]
• 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. [१४५][१४६]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

• मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर २९ अगस्त से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर ३० अगस्त से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर ३१ 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. [१४७]

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!

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

MediaWiki message delivery १९:३०, २८ अगस्त २०२३ (IST)

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. [१४८]
• 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. [१४९]
• 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. [१५०]
• One new wiki has been created:
  • a विकिपीडिया in Talysh (w:tly:) [१५१]

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. [१५२]

इस सप्ताह के परिवर्तन

• मीडियाविकि का नया संस्करण परीक्षण विकि और MediaWiki.org पर ५ सितम्बर से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर ६ सितम्बर से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर ७ 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। [१५३][१५४]

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

MediaWiki message delivery ०५:०३, ५ सितम्बर २०२३ (IST)

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. [१५५]
• 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. [१५६]

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. [१५७]

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. [१५८]
• 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.

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

MediaWiki message delivery ०२:३८, १२ सितम्बर २०२३ (IST)

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. [१५९][१६०]

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. [१६१]
• All wikis will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. [१६२]

भावी परिवर्तन

• The team investigating the Graph Extension posted a proposal for reenabling it and they need your input.

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

MediaWiki message delivery ००:४९, १९ सितम्बर २०२३ (IST)

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. [१६३]

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. [१६४][१६५]

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 २२:२१, २६ सितम्बर २०२३ (IST)

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. [१६६]
• 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. [१६७]

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MediaWiki message delivery ०६:५६, ३ अक्टूबर २०२३ (IST)

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:) [१६८]

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. [१६९]
• 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. [१७०]
• 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 २०:०९, ९ अक्टूबर २०२३ (IST)

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. [१७१]
• 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 ०५:१७, १७ अक्टूबर २०२३ (IST)

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. [१७२]

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 ०४:४६, २४ अक्टूबर २०२३ (IST)

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. [१७३][१७४]
• 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. [१७५]

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 ०४:५१, ३१ अक्टूबर २०२३ (IST)

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. [१७६]

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. [१७७]

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. [१७८][१७९]

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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:) [१८०]
  • a Wikipedia in Dagaare (w:dga:) [१८१]
  • a Wikipedia in Toba Batak (w:bbc:) [१८२]
  • a Wikiquote in Banjar (q:bjn:) [१८३]

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. [१८४]
• Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved. [१८५]

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. [१८६]

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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. [१८७][१८८]
• 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. [१८९][१९०][१९१]
• 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. [१९२]

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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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. [१९३][१९४]
• 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। [१९५]
• The deployment of "Add a link" announced last week was postponed. It will resume this week.

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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. [१९६]
• 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. [१९७]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [१९८][१९९]
• 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. [२००]
• 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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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. [२०१][२०२]

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. [२०३][२०४]

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). [२०५][२०६]

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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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। [२०७][२०८]
• 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. [२०९]
• 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. [२१०]

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.

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

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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. [२११]

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). [२१२][२१३]

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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. [२१४]
• 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. [२१५]
• Bot passwords and owner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages. [२१६]
• You can now thank edits made by bots. [२१७]
• 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). [२१८][२१९]
• 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. [२२०]
• 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. [२२१]

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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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. [२२२]

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). [२२३][२२४]

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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. [२२५]
• 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 ३० जनवरी से होगा। यह गैर-विकिपीडिया विकि और कुछ विकिपीडिया पर ३१ जनवरी से होगा। यह सभी विकियों पर १ फ़रवरी (कैलेंडर) से होगा। [२२६][२२७]
• 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:QrCode page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [२२८]
• 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. [२२९]

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

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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". [२३०][२३१]

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). [२३२][२३३]
• Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [२३४]

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. [२३५][२३६]

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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. [२३७][२३८][२३९] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [२४०][२४१]

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). [२४२][२४३]
• As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,[२४४] 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. [२४५]

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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. [२४६]
• 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. [२४७]

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). [२४८][२४९]

• 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. [२५०]

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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. [२५१]
• 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"))). [२५२]

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). [२५३][२५४]

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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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. [२५५]
• 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. [२५६]
• A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [२५७]

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). [२५८][२५९]

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. [२६०]
• 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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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). [२६१][२६२]
• 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. [२६३]
• The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [२६४]
• 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. [२६५]

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. [२६६][२६७]

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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. [२६८]
• 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. [२६९]
• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [२७०][२७१][२७२]
• Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [२७३]

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. [२७४]

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). [२७५][२७६]
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [२७७][२७८]

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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). [२७९][२८०]

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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. [२८१]

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). [२८२][२८३]

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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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. [२८४][२८५]
• Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [२८६]

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). [२८७][२८८]
• 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. [२८९]

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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. [२९०][२९१]

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). [२९२][२९३]
• 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). [२९४]
• 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. [२९५]

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. [२९६]

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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. [२९७]
• 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). [२९८][२९९]

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. [३००]

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