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Notizie tecniche: 2024-02

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

• mediawiki2latex è uno strumento che converte i contenuti wiki nei formati LaTeX, PDF, ODT e EPUB. I suoi tempi di esecuzione sono migliorati sensibilmente grazie ad alcune modifiche recenti. È ora possibile anche installare lo strumento sulla propria macchina locale in un container di Docker.
• È cambiato il metodo con cui viene selezionata una pagina a caso. Si ridurrà gradualmente il problema che alcune pagine appaiono con minore probabilità. [1]

Modifiche di questa settimana

• La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 9 gennaio. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 10 gennaio e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 11 gennaio (calendario). [2][3]

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Notizie tecniche: 2024-03

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

• D'ora in poi, le pagine basate sul modello di contenuto JSON si autoindenteranno col carattere tab al posto dello spazio. In questo modo la loro dimensione diminuirà drasticamente. [4]
• È ora possibile usare la sintassi JavaScript delle edizioni ES6 (o "ES2015") ed ES7 (o "ES2016") negli accessori e script personali degli utenti. MediaWiki valida il codice sorgente sia per proteggere le altre funzionalità del sito dagli errori di sintassi, sia per controllare che gli script siano eseguibili da tutti i browser supportati. In precedenza, la sintassi ES6 si poteva usare negli accessori attivando l'opzione requiresES6. Adesso l'opzione è deprecata. [5]
• È ora possibile configurare le password dei bot e i client OAuth personali affinché consentano la modifica solo di alcune pagine. [6]
• È ora possibile inviare ringraziamenti per le modifiche fatte da bot. [7]
• È stato pubblicato un aggiornamento sul futuro del Sondaggio sui desideri della comunità nel 2024! Si invitano gli utenti a lasciare un commento.

Modifiche di questa settimana

• La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 16 gennaio. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 17 gennaio e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 18 gennaio (calendario). [8][9]
• A partire dal 17 gennaio gli utenti che usano alcune vecchie versioni del browser Chrome (versioni 51-66 rilasciate negli anni 2016-2018) non riusciranno più ad accedere alla propria utenza sui wiki Wikimedia. Gli utenti di iOS 12 e di Safari su Mac OS 10.14 potrebbero invece dover ripetere l'accesso su ciascun wiki che visitano. [10]
• L'anno scorso è stato deprecato l'uso del modulo jquery.cookie a favore del modulo mediawiki.cookie. Adesso è stato eseguito uno script che ha completato le sostituzioni automaticamente. Il modulo jquery.cookie sarà rimosso da MediaWiki entro questa settimana. [11]

Modifiche future

• Wikimedia Deutschland sta provando a semplificare il modo in cui si riutilizzano le note. Si cercano utenti disposti a partecipare a videochiamate individuali tra gennaio e febbraio per aiutare gli sviluppatori a capire cosa può essere migliorato.

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Notizie tecniche: 2024-04

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Problemi

• La procedura guidata di caricamento dei file aggiunge automaticamente un collegamento alla pagina utente dell'utente che carica una propria opera. È stato corretto un bug che stava impedendo l'aggiunta del link. [12]

Modifiche di questa settimana

• La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 23 gennaio. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 24 gennaio e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 25 gennaio (calendario). [13][14]

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Notizie tecniche: 2024-05

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

• A partire da lunedì 29 gennaio, tutti i timestamp dei messaggi lasciati sulle pagine di discussione diventeranno dei link permanenti che si potranno copiare e condividere. Aprendo uno di questi link, si visualizzerà il rispettivo messaggio anche se nel frattempo è stato spostato altrove. La novità arriverà su tutti i wiki eccetto Wikipedia in inglese. Leggi maggiori informazioni su Diff oppure su Mediawiki.org. [15]
• Sono state fatte alcune modifiche ai CAPTCHA in modo tale che gli spambot e gli script li riescano a bypassare con maggiore difficoltà. Visita il task su Phabricator se vuoi lasciare un commento. Il personale sta monitorando sia le metriche relative ai CAPTCHA sia quelle relative alle nuove utenze e ai contributi.

Modifiche di questa settimana

• La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 30 gennaio. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 31 gennaio e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 1 febbraio (calendario). [16][17]
• Il 1º febbraio sarà aggiunto un link nel menu "Strumenti" con cui si potrà scaricare un codice QR che punta alla pagina che si sta visualizzando. Sarà inoltre introdotta una nuova pagina Speciale:QrCode che consentirà di creare codici QR per qualsiasi URL dei progetti Wikimedia. La funzionalità è stata sviluppata per esaudire il 19esimo desiderio più votato del Sondaggio 2023 sui desideri della comunità. [18]
• Esistono accessori che funzionano solo se l'utente usa determinati temi del sito. Una delle opzioni degli accessori che consente di verificare questa condizione è targets. L'opzione è obsoleta e sarà rimossa nel corso di questa settimana. Si consiglia di usare al suo posto l'opzione skins. [19]

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Notizie tecniche: 2024-06

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

• L'HTML delle cronologie nella versione mobile del sito è stato reso uniforme a quello nella versione desktop. Chiunque dovesse riscontrare problemi con le cronologie nella versione mobile può segnalarli su Phabricator.
• Gli amministratori della maggior parte dei wiki possono ora impostare i blocchi in modo tale che all'utente siano impedite solo una o più delle seguenti azioni: caricamento dei file, creazione di nuove pagine, spostamento (rinomina) delle pagine, invio delle notifiche di ringraziamento. La novità è stata introdotta per consentire agli amministratori di applicare blocchi adeguati alla problematicità degli utenti bloccati. Leggi maggiori informazioni. [20][21]

Modifiche di questa settimana

• La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 6 febbraio. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 7 febbraio e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 8 febbraio (calendario). [22][23]
• I permalink alle pagine di discussione non funzionavano correttamente se il loro URL conteneva diacritici e/o caratteri non latini. Il problema è stato risolto. [24]

Modifiche future

• Al fine di rendere uniforme l'aspetto delle note sui vari wiki, si raccomanda di non farle generare di default all'accessorio Reference Tooltips bensì ad Anteprima note (una funzione di MediaWiki). 24 progetti Wikipedia che hanno impostato Reference Tooltips come un accessorio attivo di default sono incoraggiati a rimuovere il flag "default" dalle impostazioni dell'accessorio. Su altri 46 progetti Wikipedia che hanno meno di 4 amministratori dell'interfaccia questa modifica sarà fatta dal team Technical Wishes verso metà febbraio, salvo che non emergano obiezioni. L'accessorio Reference Tooltips (che è più vecchio dell'estensione Anteprima note) potrà comunque essere attivato ancora da ciascun utente nelle proprie preferenze. [25][26]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:22, 5 feb 2024 (CET)

This Month in Education: January 2024

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This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 1 • January 2024

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In This Issue

• Cross-Continental Wikimedia Activities: A Dialogue between Malaysia and Estonia
• Czech programme SWW in 2023 – how have we managed to engage students
• Extending Updates on Wikipedia in Education – Elbasan, Albania
• Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Teacher’s guide – now available in Bulgarian language
• Summer students at Auckland Museum
• WikiDunong: EduWiki Initiatives in the Philippines Project
• Wikimedia Armenia's Educational Workshops
• Wikimedia Foundation publishes its first Child Rights Impact Assessment

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Notizie tecniche: 2024-07

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

• 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. [27][28][29] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [30][31]

Problemi

• 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.

Modifiche nel corso della settimana

• La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 13 febbraio. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 14 febbraio e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 15 febbraio (calendario). [32][33]
• As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,[34] 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. [35]

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MediaWiki message delivery 06:48, 13 feb 2024 (CET)

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 "Inviami una email quando viene modificata una pagina o un file presente tra gli osservati speciali" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails. [36]
• 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. [37]

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). [38][39]

• 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. [40]

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:36, 19 feb 2024 (CET)

Notizie tecniche: 2024-09

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

• Su alcuni wiki l'editor visuale per i dispositivi mobili è diventato l'editor che si apre di default a tutti gli utenti della versione mobile che non hanno ancora pubblicato nessuna modifica. Le ricerche condotte finora dimostrano che gli utenti che usano questo editor pubblicano più modifiche, ma d'altra parte le stesse sono annullate un po' più frequentemente. Gli utenti che usano l'editor del wikitesto sulla versione desktop visualizzeranno l'editor del wikitesto anche quando proveranno a fare una modifica sulla versione mobile per la prima volta. [41]
• D'ora in avanti la variabile wgGlobalGroups nell'oggetto mw.config elencherà solo i gruppi che sono attivi nel wiki. Gli script non dovranno più fare una chiamata API per controllare se un determinato gruppo è attivo. Di seguito viene riportato un esempio di come può essere ora eseguito il controllo: if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))) [42]

Modifiche di questa settimana

• La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 27 febbraio. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 28 febbraio e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 29 febbraio (calendario). [43][44]

Modifiche future

• Il diritto utente che permette di cambiare le etichette applicate alle modifiche (changetags) sarà tolto agli utenti dei siti Wikimedia e sarà lasciato di default soltanto agli admin e ai bot. Ciascuna comunità può chiedere che sia mantenuta l'attuale configurazione per il proprio wiki. La richiesta potrà essere fatta in questo task entro la fine di marzo 2024.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:23, 26 feb 2024 (CET)

Notizie tecniche: 2024-10

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

• È stata rimossa da tutti i wiki Wikisource la pagina Special:Book (così come la funzione "Crea un libro" a essa associata) che aveva smesso di funzionare. La pagina era implementata dalla vecchia estensione Collection. Gli utenti possono ancora scaricare i normali libri grazie all'estensione Wikisource. [45]
• D'ora in avanti le pagine nel namespace Discussione del sito Wikitech saranno generate col parser del wikitesto Parsoid di nuova generazione. Si prega di segnalare qualsiasi problema nella pagina di discussione associata alla pagina Problemi noti. Ciascun utente può provare il nuovo parser grazie alle opzioni dell'estensione ParserMigration. Leggi la documentazione di aiuto di ParserMigration per maggiori informazioni.
• È stata completata la manutenzione di etherpad. Si prega di segnalare eventuali problemi in questo task di Phabricator.
• L'estensione Gadgets consente agli amministratori dell'interfaccia di creare funzioni custom col CSS e JavaScript. Sono stati rimossi i namespace Gadget e Gadget_definition, nonché il permesso utente gadgets-definition-edit, che erano stati introdotti nel 2015 per un esperimento. I due namespace non erano mai stati usati pur essendo visibili in Speciale:Ricerca e Speciale:ElencoPermessiGruppi. La loro rimozione non ha comportato né spostamenti di pagine né modifiche di altro tipo. [46]
• Per migliorare l'usabilità della funzione "Aggiungi citazione" è stato spostato il pulsante di inserimento della citazione nell'elemento header del popup. [47]

Modifiche di questa settimana

• La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 5 marzo. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 6 marzo e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 7 marzo (calendario). [48][49]

Modifiche future

• Tutti i wiki saranno in modalità di sola lettura per alcuni minuti il 20 marzo intorno alle 14:00 UTC. Maggiori informazioni saranno inserite fra le notizie tecniche e pubblicate sui singoli wiki nelle prossime settimane. [50]
• Il markup HTML delle intestazioni e dei link di modifica delle sezioni cambierà nel corso dell'anno migliorando l'accessibilità. Leggi maggiori informazioni. Il nuovo markup sarà allineato con quello del nuovo parser del wikitesto Parsoid. È possibile testare la compatibilità degli accessori e dei fogli di stile col nuovo markup aggiungendo ?useparsoid=1 all'URL della pagina (per saperne di più) oppure attivando il nuovo parser nelle preferenze (per saperne di più).

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:47, 4 mar 2024 (CET)

Notizie tecniche: 2024-11

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche di questa settimana

• La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 12 marzo. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 13 marzo e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 14 marzo (calendario). [51][52]
• Sentiti i pareri di diverse comunità, il valore predefinito dell'interlinea di testo nel tema Minerva è stato riportato a 1.65. Ciascun utente può comunque personalizzare le impostazioni del testo nel menu della versione mobile del sito. [53]
• Il colore dei link attivi di Minerva sarà allineato a quello impostato su altre piattaforme Wikimedia e previsto dalle nostre buone pratiche di design. [54]
• 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. [55]

Modifiche future

• Tutti i wiki saranno in modalità di sola lettura per alcuni minuti il 20 marzo intorno alle 14:00 UTC. Maggiori informazioni saranno inserite fra le notizie tecniche e pubblicate sui singoli wiki nelle prossime settimane. [56][57]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:04, 12 mar 2024 (CET)

Notizie tecniche: 2024-12

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Modifiche recenti

• È stato rimosso il messaggio "I collegamenti interlinguistici sono in cima alla pagina a destra del titolo" che appariva nel menu principale del tema Vector 2022. Il messaggio serviva ad avvisare gli utenti della nuova posizione del selettore della lingua. [58]
• Adesso la funzione IP info ricava i dati anche da Spur, un database di indirizzi IP. In precedenza l'unica fonte dei dati era MaxMind. La funzione è stata arricchita con più dati in modo che risulti più utile ai patroller. [59]
• I servizi Grid Engine di Toolforge sono stati arrestati dopo che è stata completata la migrazione da Grid Engine a Kubernetes. [60][61][62]
• Su ciascun wiki è ora possibile sovrascrivere le motivazioni predefinite per cui si ripristinano le pagine. Per farlo bisogna creare il messaggio di sistema MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [63]

Problemi

• RevisionSlider è un'interfaccia utente che consente di navigare la cronologia di una pagina in modo interattivo. Reagiva male ai clic del mouse sui wiki dove si scrive da destra a sinistra. Il problema dovrebbe essere stato risolto. [64]

Modifiche di questa settimana

• La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 19 marzo. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 20 marzo e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 21 marzo (calendario). [65][66]
• Tutti i wiki saranno in modalità di sola lettura per alcuni minuti il 20 marzo intorno alle 14:00 UTC. [67][68]

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:39, 18 mar 2024 (CET)

This Month in Education: February 2024

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This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 2 • February 2024

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In This Issue

• 2 new courses in Students Write Wikipedia Starting this February
• More two wiki-education partnerships
• Open Education Week 2024 in Mexico
• Reading Wikipedia in Bolivia, the community grows
• Wiki Education Philippines promotes OERs utilization
• Wiki Loves Librarians, Kaduna
• Wiki Workshop 2024 CfP – Call for Papers Research track

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Notizie tecniche: 2024-13

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

• Il 18 marzo 2024 è stata fatta una modifica al software che ha impattato il modo in cui svariati progetti caricano i codici JavaScript e CSS (sia personali sia comuni) per il tema Vector 2022. Si invitano gli amministratori dei siti a consultare l'elenco delle cose da fare.

Modifiche di questa settimana

• La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 26 marzo. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 27 marzo e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 28 marzo (calendario). [69][70]

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:56, 25 mar 2024 (CET)

Notizie tecniche: 2024-14

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Modifiche recenti

• Gli utenti che hanno attivato la lettura accessibile tra le funzioni beta noteranno che è cambiata l'interlinea che viene impostata di default con le opzioni di grandezza del testo standard e grande. [71]

Modifiche di questa settimana

• La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 2 aprile. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 3 aprile e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 4 aprile (calendario). [72][73]

Modifiche future

• Ogni anno Wikimedia Foundation prepara un piano dei progetti a cui intende lavorare. È stata pubblicata una bozza degli obiettivi chiave per i dipartimenti Prodotti e Tecnologie. I suggerimenti elencati nella bozza guideranno la scelta delle principali modifiche tecniche che saranno fatte tra luglio 2024 e giugno 2025. Lascia un commento nella pagina di discussione.

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MediaWiki message delivery 05:36, 2 apr 2024 (CEST)

Notizie tecniche: 2024-15

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Modifiche recenti

• I browser possono installare componenti aggiuntivi chiamati estensioni. C'è una nuova estensione di Chrome chiamata Citation Needed che permette di vedere se una frase online è supportata da una voce di Wikipedia. Attualmente l'estensione può essere installata solo nel browser Chrome in inglese, ed è un piccolo esperimento volto a capire se Wikipedia può essere usata in un simile modo.
• È stata aggiunta una nuova funzione su tutti i wiki chiamata Ripristino modifica. La funzione si può attivare nelle preferenze utente e memorizza automaticamente nel browser le modifiche che non sono ancora state pubblicate. Se si riapre una finestra dopo averla chiusa per errore o dopo che il computer è crashato, si avrà la possibilità di recuperare il testo della modifica in sospeso. Lascia un commento sulla pagina di discussione del progetto. Lo sviluppo di questa funzione era il desiderio #8 del Sondaggio 2023 sui desideri della comunità.
• Sono stati pubblicati i risultati iniziali dei test di Edit Check, un nuovo strumento che migliora l'editor visuale. Edit Check è stato attivato di default su tutti i wiki dove è stato testato. Le comunità possono chiedere che il loro wiki sia uno dei prossimi che otterranno la funzione. [74][75]
• I lettori che usano il tema Minerva sui dispositivi mobili noteranno che è stata migliorata l'interlinea di tutte le impostazioni tipografiche. [76]

Modifiche di questa settimana

• La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 9 aprile. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 10 aprile e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 11 aprile (calendario). [77][78]
• L'editor visuale diventerà l'editor predefinito sulla versione mobile per i nuovi utenti registrati e quelli che non sono loggati. La modifica sarà fatta su tutti i wiki eccetto Wikipedia in inglese. [79]

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Notizie tecniche: 2024-16

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Problemi

• Non è stato applicato correttamente il tag "Annullato" agli annullamenti che sono stati fatti tra il 2 e l'8 aprile sui wiki che usano l'estensione Flagged Revisions. Inoltre nello stesso periodo non sono stati contrassegnati automaticamente come revisionati gli spostamenti, le protezioni e le importazioni. I due bug sono stati risolti. [80][81]

Modifiche di questa settimana

• La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 16 aprile. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 17 aprile e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 18 aprile (calendario). [82][83]
• D'ora in avanti la chiave d'ordine delle categorie predefinita avrà effetto anche sulle categorie aggiunte tramite template nelle note a pie' di pagina. In precedenza le note a pie' di pagina usavano il titolo della pagina come chiave d'ordine predefinita anche quando ne veniva impostata un'altra (al contrario, le chiavi d'ordine impostate per ciascuna categoria specifica hanno sempre funzionato correttamente). [84]
• Sarà aggiunta una nuova variabile nei filtri anti abusi. Si chiamerà page_last_edit_age e indicherà quanti secondi sono passati dall'ultima volta che è stata modificata ciascuna pagina. [85]

Modifiche future

• Gli sviluppatori volontari sono pregati gentilmente di aggiornare il codice degli strumenti e delle funzionalità che hanno sviluppato in modo che supportino gli account temporanei. Leggi maggiori informazioni.
• Quattro campi del database saranno rimossi dalle repliche (compreso Quarry). Le tabelle interessate sono solo abuse_filter e abuse_filter_history. Alcune query potrebbero non funzionare più se non vengono aggiornate. [86]

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Notizie tecniche: 2024-17

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Modifiche recenti

• A partire da questa settimana i nuovi utenti che modificano Wikipedia saranno incoraggiati a cimentarsi nelle attività strutturate. È stato dimostrato che le attività strutturate aumentano il coinvolgimento attivo dei nuovi arrivati e li invogliano a tornare sui wiki. [87]
• Candida i tuoi strumenti preferiti alla quinta edizione del Coolest Tool Award. Le candidature sono aperte fino al 10 maggio.

Modifiche di questa settimana

• La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 23 aprile. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 24 aprile e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 25 aprile (calendario). [88][89]

Modifiche future

• Si ricorda per l'ultima volta che entro la fine di maggio 2024 il tema Vector 2022 non condividerà più gli script/stili col vecchio tema Vector. Gli utenti che desiderano continuare a caricare i propri script utente con Vector 2022 devono copiare il contenuto della pagina Speciale:MiaPaginaUtente/vector.js in Speciale:MiaPaginaUtente/vector-2022.js. Leggi questa pagina per ulteriori dettagli tecnici. Se gli amministratori dell'interfaccia prevedono che le richieste di supporto per questo cambiamento saranno tante, possono inviare un messaggio di massa alla propria comunità come è stato fatto su Wikipedia in francese. [90]

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This Month in Education: March 2024

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This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 3 • March 2024

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• Reading Wikipedia in the classroom, Kaduna
• Reading Wikipedia in Ukraine – the course for educators is now available on demand
• Wiki Movement Brazil will once again support the Brazilian Linguistics Olympiad
• Wikipedia within the Education Setting in Albania

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Notizie tecniche: 2024-18

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Modifiche recenti

Esempio di una pagina di discussione in francese col nuovo aspetto.

• È cambiato l'aspetto delle pagine di discussione nei seguenti wiki: Wikipedia in azerbaigiano, Wikipedia in bengalese, Wikipedia in tedesco, Wikipedia in persiano, Wikipedia in ebraico, Wikipedia in hindi, Wikipedia in indonesiano, Wikipedia in coreano, Wikipedia in olandese, Wikipedia in portoghese, Wikipedia in rumeno, Wikipedia in thai, Wikipedia in turco, Wikipedia in ucraino, Wikipedia in vietnamita. I suddetti wiki hanno partecipato a un test della durata di un anno in cui la metà degli utenti ha provato il nuovo design. Dato che il test ha dato risultati positivi, si è deciso di rendere il nuovo design quello predefinito. Gli utenti che vogliono tornare al design precedente possono impostare un'opzione nelle preferenze. La novità arriverà anche su tutti gli altri wiki nelle prossime settimane. [91]
• Sono stati creati sette nuovi wiki:
  • Wikipedia in lingua betawi (w:bew:) [92]
  • Wikipedia in lingua kusaal (w:kus:) [93]
  • Wikipedia in lingua igala (w:igl:) [94]
  • Wikizionario in lingua karakalpaka (wikt:kaa:) [95]
  • Wikisource in lingua birmana (s:my:) [96]
  • Wikisource in lingua malese (s:ms:) [97]
  • Wikisource in lingua georgiana (s:ka:) [98]
• È ora possibile seguire i gruppi di messaggi/progetti su Translatewiki.net. La funzione invia una notifica quando viene aggiunto o cancellato un messaggio nel gruppo seguito. [99]
• È ora disponibile la modalità scura della versione mobile su tutti i wiki. La potranno provare inizialmente solo gli utenti registrati che hanno attivato la modalità avanzata. Si invitano gli utenti più tecnici a monitorare i problemi di accessibilità sui wiki. Leggi le istruzioni dettagliate.

Problemi

• Lo stile grafico delle mappe di Kartographer cambia se si imposta mapstyle="osm". In precedenza il parametro non influenzava le anteprime, dando l'impressione sbagliata che non funzionasse. Il problema è stato risolto. [100]

Modifiche di questa settimana

• La nuova versione di MediaWiki sarà sulle wiki di prova e MediaWiki.org dal giorno 30 aprile. Sarà disponibile sulle wiki non-Wikipedia e alcune Wikipedia dal giorno 1 maggio e sulle altre wiki dal giorno 2 maggio (calendario). [101][102]

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Tech News: 2024-19

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Mostra attività nelle discussioni"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [103][104]
• Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page. [105]
• Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. [106]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar). [107][108]
• When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [109]

Future changes

• A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
• Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally. [110]

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Tech News: 2024-20

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word __EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__ to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list. [111]
• If you use the user-preference "Mostra l'anteprima senza ricaricare la pagina", then the template-page feature "Anteprima di una pagina con questo template" will now also work without reloading the page. [112]
• Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the alt= attribute. This is identical in usage to the alt= attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. [113]
• The old Guided Tour for the "New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people. [114]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar). [115][116]
• The Speciale:Ricerca results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure. [117]

Future changes

• In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more. [118]
• Two columns of the pagelinks database table (pl_namespace and pl_title) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new linktarget table instead (lt_namespace and lt_title). In your existing SQL queries:
  1. Replace JOIN pagelinks with JOIN linktarget and pl_ with lt_ in the ON statement
  2. Below that add JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
  • See phab:T222224 for technical reasoning. [119][120]

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This Month in Education: April 2024

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This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 4 • April 2024

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• EduWiki Updates From Uganda
• Good news from Bolivia: Reading Wikipedia Program continues in 2024
• Hearing Health Project: Impactful partnership with Wiki Movement Brazil
• Wikimedia Spain, Amical Wikimedia and the University of Valencia develop Wikipedia educational project

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Tech News: 2024-21

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. [121]
• New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description. [122][123]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar). [124][125]
• The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.

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Tech News: 2024-22

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see T365107 and T365119.
• In March 2024 a new addPortlet API was added to allow gadgets to create new portlets (menus) in the skin. In certain skins this can be used to create dropdowns. Gadget developers are invited to try it and give feedback.
• Some CSS in the Minerva skin has been removed to enable easier community configuration. Interface editors should check the rendering on mobile devices for aspects related to the classes: .collapsible, .multicol, .reflist, .coordinates, .topicon. Further details are available on replacement CSS if it is needed.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar). [126][127]
• When you visit a wiki where you don't yet have a local account, local rules such as edit filters can sometimes prevent your account from being created. Starting this week, MediaWiki takes your global rights into account when evaluating whether you can override such local rules. [128]

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Tech News: 2024-23

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript. Documentation is available. [129]
• The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category". [130]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Kadazandusun (w:dtp:) [131]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (calendar). [132][133]

Future changes

• Next week, on wikis with the Vector 2022 skin as the default, logged-out desktop users will be able to choose between different font sizes. The default font size will also be increased for them. This is to make Wikimedia projects easier to read. Learn more.

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Tech News: 2024-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [134]
• The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
• The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the mw-reference-text class, Parsoid now also adds the reference-text class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [135]

Problems

• There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [136]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [137][138]
• The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a <span class="mw-cite-backlink"> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [139]
• On multilingual wikis that use the <translate> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [140]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:20, 10 giu 2024 (CEST)

This Month in Education: May 2024

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This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 5 • May 2024

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• Albania - Georgia Wikimedia Cooperation 2024
• Aleksandër Xhuvani University Editathon in Elbasan
• Central Bicol State University of Agriculture LitFest features translation and article writing on Wikipedia
• Empowering Youth Council in Bulqiza through editathons
• We left a piece of our hearts at Arhavi
• Wiki Movimento Brasil at Tech Week and Education Speaker Series
• Wikimedia MKD trains new users in collaboration with MYLA

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Tech News: 2024-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details. [141]
• The new Community Configuration extension is available on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases in the future. [142][143]
• The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page. [144]

Problems

• Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [145]
• Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here. [146]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar). [147][148]
• Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable. [149]
• Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. [150]

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Tech News: 2024-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions on the project talkpage. [151]
• The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode. [152]

Problems

• You can copy permanent links to talk page comments by clicking on a comment's timestamp. This feature did not always work when the topic title was very long and the link was used as a wikitext link. This has been fixed. Thanks to Lofhi for submitting the bug. [153]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar). [154][155]
• Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [156]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:32, 25 giu 2024 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update. [157]
• Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. [158]
• If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [159][160]
• Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [161]
• Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Mandailing (w:btm:) [162]

Problems

• Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [163]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:59, 2 lug 2024 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-28

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• At the Wikimedia Foundation a new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Chart. You can subscribe to the newsletter to get notified about new project updates and other news about Chart.
• The CampaignEvents extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on your wiki. This extension helps in managing and making events more visible, giving Event organizers the ability to use tools like the Event registration tool. To learn more about the deployment status and how to request this extension for your wiki, visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-wiki.
• Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
• Thank you to all of the authors who have contributed to MediaWiki Core. As a result of these contributions, the percentage of authors contributing more than 5 patches has increased by 25% since last year, which helps ensure the sustainability of the platform for the Wikimedia projects.

Problems

• A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed.

Future changes

• The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation explaining how to do the update. Learn more.

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This Month in Education: June 2024

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This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 6 • June 2024

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In This Issue

• From a Language Teacher to a Library Support Staff: The Wikimedia Effect
• 5th WikiEducation 2024 Conference in Mexico
• Lviv hosted a spring wikischool for Ukrainian high school students
• First class of teachers graduated from Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom 2024
• Empowering Digital Citizenship: Unlocking the Power of Open Knowledge with Participants of the LIFE Legacy
• Wiki Movimento Brazil supports online and in-person courses and launches material to guide educators in using Wikimedia projects
• Where to find images for free? Webinar for librarians answered many questions
• Wikimedia MKD and University of Goce Delchev start a mutual collaboration

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Tech News: 2024-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News survey

• Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 3 more days. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.

Recent changes

• Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.
• The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10.
• Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
• Editors who have access to The Wikipedia Library can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week.

Changes later this week

• This week, dark mode will be available on a number of Wikipedias, both desktop and mobile, for logged-in and logged-out users. Interface admins and user script maintainers are encouraged to check gadgets and user scripts in the dark mode, to find any hard-coded colors and fix them. There are some recommendations for dark mode compatibility to help.

Future changes

• Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page. [164]
• Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.

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Tech News: 2024-30

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature News

• Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
• Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [165]
• Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [166]
• Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
• Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. [167]

Project Updates

• Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.

Learn more

• Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff.
• How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin and Add a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.

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Tech News: 2024-31

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.

Bugs status

• Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
• Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

• There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
• There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Czech (voy:cs:) [168]

Learn more

• There is a new Wikimedia Foundation data center in São Paulo, Brazil which helps to reduce load times.
• There is new user research on problems with the process of uploading images.
• Commons Impact Metrics are now available via data dumps and API.
• The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available.

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Tech News: 2024-32

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• Two new parser functions will be available this week: {{#dir}} and {{#bcp47}}. These will reduce the need for Template:Dir and Template:BCP47 on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. [169][170]
• Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.
• The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.

Project updates

• Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
• The new parser is being rolled out on Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The Wikivoyage in inglese and Wikivoyage in ebraico were switched to Parsoid last week. For more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification.

Learn more

• There will be more than 200 sessions at Wikimania this week. Here is a summary of some of the key sessions related to the product and technology area.
• The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available.
• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more.
• The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available.
• The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available.

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Tech News: 2024-33

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• AbuseFilter editors and maintainers can now make a CAPTCHA show if a filter matches an edit. This allows communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots. [171]
• Stewards can now specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before this change by the Trust and Safety Product Team, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.

Project updates

• Nominations are open on Wikitech for new members to refresh the Toolforge standards committee. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in West Coast Bajau (w:bdr:) [172]

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Tech News: 2024-34

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
• Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [173]
• Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the categories property of mw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [174][175]

Bugs status

• Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with Talk:WP: so that their titles start with Wikipedia talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388.
• Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

• The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.

Learn more

• The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
• The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.

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Tech News: 2024-35

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• Administrators can now test the temporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
• Later this week, editors at wikis that use FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface. [176]

Bugs status

• Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will no longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

• Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
• Do you have a project and are willing to provide a three (3) month mentorship for an intern? Outreachy is a twice a year program for people to participate in a paid internship that will start in December 2024 and end in early March 2025, and they need mentors and projects to work on. Projects can be focused on coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, research). See the Outreachy page for more details, and a list of past projects since 2013.

Learn more

• If you're curious about the product and technology improvements made by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, read this recent highlights summary on Diff.
• To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
  • Community Configuration - Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together (55 mins) - about the Community Configuration project.
  • Future of MediaWiki. A sustainable platform to support a collaborative user base and billions of page views (30 mins) - an overview for both technical and non technical audiences, covering some of the challenges and open questions, related to the platform evolution, stewardship and developer experiences research.

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Tech News: 2024-36

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.

Feature news

• Editors who use the Speciale:TemplateNonUsati page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements. [177]
• Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
• Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now. [178]
• Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.

Project updates

• A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.

Learn more

• To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
  • Charts, the successor of Graphs - A secure and extensible tool for data visualization (25 mins) – about the above-mentioned Charts project.
  • State of Language Technology and Onboarding at Wikimedia (90 mins) – about some of the language tools that support Wikimedia sites, such as Content/Section Translation, MinT, and LanguageConverter; also the current state and future of languages onboarding. [179]

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Tech News: 2024-37

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page. [180][181]
• Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions entity:getSitelink() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [182]

Project updates

• Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [183]
• Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new MOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with MOS: (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language code mos). [184]

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This Month in Education: August 2024

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This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 7 • August 2024

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In This Issue

• Cross-Cultural Knowledge Sharing: Wikipedia's New Frontier at University of Tehran
• Let's Read Wikipedia in Bolivia reaches teachers in Cochabamba
• Results of the 2023 “Wikipedia for School” Contest in Ukraine
• Edu Wiki Camp in Serbia, 2024
• Wikimedia Human Rights Month this year engaged schools in large amount
• Strengthening Education Programs at Wikimania 2024: A Global Leap in Collaborative Learning
• Wiki Education programs are featured in a scientific outreach magazine, and Wiki Movimento Brasil offers training for researchers in the Amazon
• Wiki Movimento Brasil aims to adapt a game about Wikipedia, organize an academic event for scientific dissemination, and host the XXXIII Wiki-Education Workshop

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Tech News: 2024-38

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Improvements and Maintenance

• Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.
• The new automated Speciale:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [185]
• References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed. [186]
• It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. [187]
• Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
• Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes mw-message-box need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer cdx-message group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [188]

Technical project updates

• Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible. [189]

Tech in depth

• The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
• To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
  • Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are more details and links available in the Phabricator task.
  • Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.

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Tech News: 2024-39

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.

Updates for editors

A screenshot of the interface for the Alt Text suggested-edit feature

• Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page.
• The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
• It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within <syntaxhighlight> tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax {{…}} are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [190]
• Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [191][192]
• View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• From Wikimedia Enterprise:
  • The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on the project's blog post. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.
  • The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.

In depth

• The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the WDQS Graph Split project, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly" and "main" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata.

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Tech News: 2024-40

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
• Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding ?veaction=editsource to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [193]
• For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences. [194]
• The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
• View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.

In depth

• The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes. [195]

Meetings and events

• October 4–6: WikiIndaba Conference's Hackathon in Johannesburg, South Africa
• November 4–6: MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 in Vienna, Austria

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Tech News: 2024-41

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [196]

Updates for editors

• Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now customize their articles suggestion list from 41 filtering options when using the tool. This topic-based article suggestion feature makes it easy for translators to self-discover relevant articles based on their area of interest and translate them. You can try it with your mobile device. [197]
• View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• It is now possible for <syntaxhighlight> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the copy=1 attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [198]
• Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [199]
• Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.
• Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
• Five new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Komering (w:kge:) [200]
  • a Wikipedia in Mooré (m:mos:) [201]
  • a Wikizionario in Madurese (wikt:mad:) [202]
  • a Wikiquote in Gorontalo (q:gor:) [203]
  • a Wikinotizie in Shan (n:shn:) [204]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:42, 8 ott 2024 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-42

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. [205][206]
• WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [207]
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.

Updates for technical contributors

• Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. [208]
• Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [209]
• Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <bdi> element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time. [210]

In depth

• The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.
• The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.

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Tech News: 2024-43

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.

iOS Wikipedia App's profile menu and contents

Updates for editors

• Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
• Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
• View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week. [211][212][213][214][215]
• It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.

Updates for technical contributors

• Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new {{#timef:…}} parser function. For example, {{#timef:now|date|en}} will show as "30 January 2026". Previously, {{#time:…}} could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation. #timef (or #timefl for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [216][217]
• Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using {{USERLANGUAGE}} instead of using {{int:lang}}. [218]
• The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. [219]

In depth

• The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
• The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
• The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.

Meetings and events

• 24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar - Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel.
• 20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.

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Tech News: 2024-44

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Wikipedia.
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pediapress.com, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use Wikimedia Maps to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia. [220]

Updates for technical contributors

• Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set emitTransitionOnStep to true to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag allowAutomaticBack to avoid back-buttons they don't want. [221]
• Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. [222]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:56, 28 ott 2024 (CET)

Tech News: 2024-45

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [223]
• Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
• The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode. [224]
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.

Updates for technical contributors

• XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [225]

In depth

• Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.

Meetings and events

• MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:50, 4 nov 2024 (CET)

Tech News: 2024-46

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, users will notice that the FuzzyBot will now automatically create translated versions of categories used on translated pages. [226]
• View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the submitted task to use the SecurePoll extension for English Wikipedia's special administrator election was resolved on time. [227]

Updates for technical contributors

• In 1.44.0-wmf-2, the logic of Wikibase function getAllStatements changed to behave like getBestStatements. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable. [228]
• Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The impacted endpoints include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket.

In depth

• Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page for more information about this work. [229]

Meetings and events

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

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This Month in Education: October 2024

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This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 8 • October 2024

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In This Issue

• CBSUA Wiki Education turns 1 year
• 7th Senior WikiTown took place in Becov nad Teplou, Czech Republic
• Edit-a-thon about Modern Architecture in Kosovo
• Empowering Digital Literacy through Wikimedia in South Sudan
• Many new articles and contributions in September and October for Wikimedia MKD
• New Record: 5 Events in Municipal Library within a Month
• Wiki-Education programs in Brazil are centered around the Wikidata and Wikisource platforms
• WikiChallenge African Schools wins the “Open Pedagogy” Award 2024 from OE Global
• Wikipedia helps in improving cognitive skills
• Wikipedia in Graduate Studies: Expanding Research Impact
• WiLMa PH establishes a Wiki Club

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Tech News: 2024-47

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a redirect to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects. [230]
• View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pywikibot, which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge. [231]

Updates for technical contributors

• On wikis that use the FlaggedRevs extension, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this. [232][233]

In depth

• There is a new Diff post about Temporary Accounts, available in more than 15 languages. Read it to learn about what Temporary Accounts are, their impact on different groups of users, and the plan to introduce the change on all wikis.

Meetings and events

• Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10 2024. The registration for the event will close in mid-April 2025. The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual gathering that unites the global technical community to collaborate on existing projects and explore new ideas.
• Join the Wikimedia Commons community calls this week to help prioritize support for Commons which will be planned for 2025–2026. The theme will be how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. This is an opportunity for volunteers who work on different things to come together and talk about what matters for the future of the project. The calls will take place November 21, 2024, 8:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC.
• A Language community meeting will take place November 29, 16:00 UTC to discuss updates and technical problem-solving.

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:00, 19 nov 2024 (CET)

Tech News: 2024-48

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter will be available as a beta feature later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support, template folding, autocompletion, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the help page.
• The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such Ctrl+B for bold and Ctrl+I for italics. A full list of all six shortcuts is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. [234]
• Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: bswiki, elwiki, euwiki, fawiki, fiwiki, frwikiquote, frwikisource, frwikiversity, frwikivoyage, idwiki, lvwiki, plwiki, ptwiki, urwiki, viwikisource, zhwikisource. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF).
• View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected" if it includes a protected variable.

Updates for technical contributors

• The CodeEditor, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, now offers live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing Ctrl+, and un-selecting "Live Autocompletion".
• Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check this dashboard and the list in the Description of the task T350592 to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April. [235]
• The New PreProcessor parser performance report has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities. [236]

Meetings and events

• A Language community meeting will take place November 29 at 16:00 UTC. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, the language support track at Wiki Indaba, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:42, 25 nov 2024 (CET)

Tech News: 2024-49

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Two new parser functions were added this week. The {{#interwikilink}} function adds an interwiki link and the {{#interlanguagelink}} function adds an interlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning with MOS: on English Wikipedia conflict with the mos language code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia.
• Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [237]
• Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: arwiki, cawiki, frwiki, mediawikiwiki, orwiki, wawiki, wawiktionary, wikidatawiki, zhwiki. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF). [238]
• This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed. [239]

Updates for technical contributors

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:22, 2 dic 2024 (CET)

Tech News: 2024-50

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new #wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.

Updates for editors

Layout change for the Edit Check feature

• Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
• The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
• Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide. [240]
• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
• The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements. [241]
• The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, archiveUrl and archiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates. [242]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (voy:id:) [243]
• Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing. [244]
• View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases. [245][246]

Updates for technical contributors

• Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library. [247]
• Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.
• The 2024 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 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [248]

Meetings and events

• The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation discussions with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on December 12 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is new media and new contributors. Contributors from all wikis are welcome to attend.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:16, 9 dic 2024 (CET)

This Month in Education: November 2024

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This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 9 • November 2024

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In This Issue

• Auckland Museum Wikipedia Student Programme
• Citizenship and free knowledge on Wikipedia in Albanian language
• Engaging students with Wikipedia and Wikidata at Hasanuddin University’s Wikimedia Week
• Minigrant initiative by empowering the Rrëshen community in Albania
• Wikidata birthday in Albania, 2024
• Wikidata birthday in School
• Wikimedia Education Workshop at Lumbini Technological University
• Wikimedia MKD's new collaborations and new content
• Improving Historical Knowledge on Persian Wikipedia through a continuous Wikimedia Education Program: Shahid Beheshti University Wikipedia Education Program

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Tech News: 2024-51

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page.

Updates for editors

• Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history.
• Users of the Android Wikipedia App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
• The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information.
• The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the Android Wikipedia App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.

Updates for technical contributors

• There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January. [249]

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