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 8 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 June. It will be on all wikis from 10 June (
calendar).
Future changes
- The Wikimedia movement uses Phabricator for technical tasks. This is where we collect technical suggestions, bugs and what developers are working on. The company behind Phabricator will stop working on it. This will not change anything for the Wikimedia movement now. It could lead to changes in the future. [1] [2] [3]
- Searching on Wikipedia will find more results in some languages. This is mainly true for when those who search do not use the correct
diacritics because they are not seen as necessary in that language. For example searching for
Beduszdoesn't findBęduszon German Wikipedia. The characteręisn't used in German so many would writeeinstead. This will work better in the future in some languages. [4] 
The
CSRF token parameters in the
action API were changed in 2014. The old parameters from before 2014 will stop working soon. This can affect bots, gadgets and user scripts that still use the old parameters.
[5]
[6]
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20:01, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Logged-in users on the mobile web can choose to use the advanced mobile mode. They now see categories in a similar way as users on desktop do. This means that some gadgets that have just been for desktop users could work for users of the mobile site too. If your wiki has such gadgets you could decide to turn them on for the mobile site too. Some gadgets probably need to be fixed to look good on mobile. [7]
- Language links on Wikidata now works for multilingual Wikisource. [8]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- In the future we can't show the IP of unregistered editors to everyone. This is because privacy regulations and norms have changed. There is now a rough draft of how showing the IP to those who need to see it could work.
- German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [9]
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 28 June. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [10] [11]
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20:25, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
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Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly. |
You have been trouted for: I am the subject of the article 'Robert Letellier' which appeared on Wikipedia without my knowledge or consent. I have edited it to retain elements of my privacy, and request that you restore my edits made yesterday. Le Domino noir ( talk) 09:58, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
- Wikipedia is not censored, and perhaps you should read WP:CENSOR. SHB2000 ( talk) 10:00, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
Hey SHB200, would you mind personally reviewing this revert you just performed to see it isn't harmful? thx! I'm working to address a tag. [12] 92.30.81.54 Thx! ( talk) 12:48, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
- That's not a quality edit, and if you want to make test edits, use the graffiti wall. Don't do it on main space, where readers will be reading it and then come up to me saying "it was a quality edit".
SHB2000 (
talk)
12:53, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
- Well I sure think it was quality - what would you recommend I do differently, so I don't bother you again with my changes? Edit summary for each sentence removed, maybe?
92.30.81.54 (
talk)
13:12, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
- Well, it's simple. Don't remove content.
SHB2000 (
talk)
13:32, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
- I certainly won't agree to that. I'll leave better edit summaries for you to scrutinize on an edit by edit basis, and will respond promptly to any worries you may have. If you revert such edits as well without explanation, I'd be happy to engage in a discussion on the matter with external parties involved, say the harassment board.
92.30.81.54 (
talk)
13:43, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
- You may want to be careful on the comment, as that can be taken as a legal threat, which aren't welcome here per WP:LEGAL. And to the edit, I've looked a bit more detail in your edit history, and okay, you may revert me, just with a better edit summary so it does not seem suspicious (and another editor might revert you, so just provide a better edit summary or log in). Also, FYI, register an account please, as it's quite difficult to build a reputation with an IP address. SHB2000 ( talk) 13:48, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
- I certainly won't agree to that. I'll leave better edit summaries for you to scrutinize on an edit by edit basis, and will respond promptly to any worries you may have. If you revert such edits as well without explanation, I'd be happy to engage in a discussion on the matter with external parties involved, say the harassment board.
92.30.81.54 (
talk)
13:43, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
- Well, it's simple. Don't remove content.
SHB2000 (
talk)
13:32, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
- Well I sure think it was quality - what would you recommend I do differently, so I don't bother you again with my changes? Edit summary for each sentence removed, maybe?
92.30.81.54 (
talk)
13:12, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
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
otrs-membergroup name is nowvrt-permissions. This could affect abuse filters. [13]
Problems
- You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [14]
Changes later this week
- The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 June. It will be on all wikis from 24 June (
calendar).
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15:48, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
- News and notes: Elections, Wikimania, masking and more
- In the media: Boris and Joe, reliability, love, and money
- Disinformation report: Croatian Wikipedia: capture and release
- Recent research: Feminist critique of Wikipedia's epistemology, Black Americans vastly underrepresented among editors, Wiki Workshop report
- Traffic report: So no one told you life was gonna be this way
- News from the WMF: Searching for Wikipedia
- WikiProject report: WikiProject on open proxies interview
- Forum: Is WMF fundraising abusive?
- Discussion report: Reliability of WikiLeaks discussed
- Obituary: SarahSV
- News and notes: Elections, Wikimania, masking and more
- In the media: Boris and Joe, reliability, love, and money
- Disinformation report: Croatian Wikipedia: capture and release
- Recent research: Feminist critique of Wikipedia's epistemology, Black Americans vastly underrepresented among editors, Wiki Workshop report
- Traffic report: So no one told you life was gonna be this way
- News from the WMF: Searching for Wikipedia
- WikiProject report: WikiProject on open proxies interview
- Forum: Is WMF fundraising abusive?
- Discussion report: Reliability of WikiLeaks discussed
- Obituary: SarahSV
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
- Wikis with the
Growth features now can
configure Growth features directly on their wiki. This uses the new special page
Special:EditGrowthConfig. [15] - Wikisources have a new
OCR tool. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add
.ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; }to your common.css page. [16]
Problems
- You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [17] [18]
Changes later this week
- The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 June. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (
calendar).
Future changes
Threshold for stub link formatting,thumbnail sizeandauto-number headingscan be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback.- A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users. [19] [20]
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16:31, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
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 8 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 June. It will be on all wikis from 10 June (
calendar).
Future changes
- The Wikimedia movement uses Phabricator for technical tasks. This is where we collect technical suggestions, bugs and what developers are working on. The company behind Phabricator will stop working on it. This will not change anything for the Wikimedia movement now. It could lead to changes in the future. [1] [2] [3]
- Searching on Wikipedia will find more results in some languages. This is mainly true for when those who search do not use the correct
diacritics because they are not seen as necessary in that language. For example searching for
Beduszdoesn't findBęduszon German Wikipedia. The characteręisn't used in German so many would writeeinstead. This will work better in the future in some languages. [4] - The
CSRF token parameters in the
action API were changed in 2014. The old parameters from before 2014 will stop working soon. This can affect bots, gadgets and user scripts that still use the old parameters.
[5]
[6]
Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
20:01, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
| ||||||
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
- Logged-in users on the mobile web can choose to use the advanced mobile mode. They now see categories in a similar way as users on desktop do. This means that some gadgets that have just been for desktop users could work for users of the mobile site too. If your wiki has such gadgets you could decide to turn them on for the mobile site too. Some gadgets probably need to be fixed to look good on mobile. [7]
- Language links on Wikidata now works for multilingual Wikisource. [8]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- In the future we can't show the IP of unregistered editors to everyone. This is because privacy regulations and norms have changed. There is now a rough draft of how showing the IP to those who need to see it could work.
- German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [9]
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 28 June. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [10] [11]
Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
20:25, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
|
|
Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly. |
You have been trouted for: I am the subject of the article 'Robert Letellier' which appeared on Wikipedia without my knowledge or consent. I have edited it to retain elements of my privacy, and request that you restore my edits made yesterday. Le Domino noir ( talk) 09:58, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
- Wikipedia is not censored, and perhaps you should read WP:CENSOR. SHB2000 ( talk) 10:00, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
Hey SHB200, would you mind personally reviewing this revert you just performed to see it isn't harmful? thx! I'm working to address a tag. [12] 92.30.81.54 Thx! ( talk) 12:48, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
- That's not a quality edit, and if you want to make test edits, use the graffiti wall. Don't do it on main space, where readers will be reading it and then come up to me saying "it was a quality edit".
SHB2000 (
talk)
12:53, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
- Well I sure think it was quality - what would you recommend I do differently, so I don't bother you again with my changes? Edit summary for each sentence removed, maybe?
92.30.81.54 (
talk)
13:12, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
- Well, it's simple. Don't remove content.
SHB2000 (
talk)
13:32, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
- I certainly won't agree to that. I'll leave better edit summaries for you to scrutinize on an edit by edit basis, and will respond promptly to any worries you may have. If you revert such edits as well without explanation, I'd be happy to engage in a discussion on the matter with external parties involved, say the harassment board.
92.30.81.54 (
talk)
13:43, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
- You may want to be careful on the comment, as that can be taken as a legal threat, which aren't welcome here per WP:LEGAL. And to the edit, I've looked a bit more detail in your edit history, and okay, you may revert me, just with a better edit summary so it does not seem suspicious (and another editor might revert you, so just provide a better edit summary or log in). Also, FYI, register an account please, as it's quite difficult to build a reputation with an IP address. SHB2000 ( talk) 13:48, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
- I certainly won't agree to that. I'll leave better edit summaries for you to scrutinize on an edit by edit basis, and will respond promptly to any worries you may have. If you revert such edits as well without explanation, I'd be happy to engage in a discussion on the matter with external parties involved, say the harassment board.
92.30.81.54 (
talk)
13:43, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
- Well, it's simple. Don't remove content.
SHB2000 (
talk)
13:32, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
- Well I sure think it was quality - what would you recommend I do differently, so I don't bother you again with my changes? Edit summary for each sentence removed, maybe?
92.30.81.54 (
talk)
13:12, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
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
otrs-membergroup name is nowvrt-permissions. This could affect abuse filters. [13]
Problems
- You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [14]
Changes later this week
- The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 June. It will be on all wikis from 24 June (
calendar).
Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
15:48, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
- News and notes: Elections, Wikimania, masking and more
- In the media: Boris and Joe, reliability, love, and money
- Disinformation report: Croatian Wikipedia: capture and release
- Recent research: Feminist critique of Wikipedia's epistemology, Black Americans vastly underrepresented among editors, Wiki Workshop report
- Traffic report: So no one told you life was gonna be this way
- News from the WMF: Searching for Wikipedia
- WikiProject report: WikiProject on open proxies interview
- Forum: Is WMF fundraising abusive?
- Discussion report: Reliability of WikiLeaks discussed
- Obituary: SarahSV
- News and notes: Elections, Wikimania, masking and more
- In the media: Boris and Joe, reliability, love, and money
- Disinformation report: Croatian Wikipedia: capture and release
- Recent research: Feminist critique of Wikipedia's epistemology, Black Americans vastly underrepresented among editors, Wiki Workshop report
- Traffic report: So no one told you life was gonna be this way
- News from the WMF: Searching for Wikipedia
- WikiProject report: WikiProject on open proxies interview
- Forum: Is WMF fundraising abusive?
- Discussion report: Reliability of WikiLeaks discussed
- Obituary: SarahSV
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
- Wikis with the
Growth features now can
configure Growth features directly on their wiki. This uses the new special page
Special:EditGrowthConfig. [15] - Wikisources have a new
OCR tool. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add
.ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; }to your common.css page. [16]
Problems
- You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [17] [18]
Changes later this week
- The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 June. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (
calendar).
Future changes
Threshold for stub link formatting,thumbnail sizeandauto-number headingscan be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback.- A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users. [19] [20]
Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
16:31, 28 June 2021 (UTC)