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Tech News: 2024-09[edit]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well. [1]
The mw.config value wgGlobalGroupsnow only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is:if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [2]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (calendar). [3][4]
Future changes
- The right to change edit tags (
changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.
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MediaWiki message delivery 19:20, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-10[edit]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The
Special:Bookpage (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension. [5] - Wikitech now uses the next-generation Parsoid wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the Known Issues discussion page. You can use the ParserMigration extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation for more details.
- Maintenance on etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket.
- Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The
GadgetandGadget_definitionnamespaces andgadgets-definition-edituser right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made. [6] - A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [7]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar). [8][9]
Future changes
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [10]
- The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See Heading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add
?useparsoid=1to your URL (more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info).
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MediaWiki message delivery 19:44, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
Speedy deletion on File:Gaziantep Zeytin Tarlası IMG 9902.jpeg[edit]
Just wondering what the story is with File:Gaziantep Zeytin Tarlası IMG 9902.jpeg and why you've tagged it for speedy deletion as {{No license since}}?
Clearly there's an attempt to add a licence, and some automated piece of Lua has broken. It was moved from tr:WP, maybe that did it. Now there's a template call {{Self|GÖBL|cc-a-bp-4.0,3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0}} which is throwing up a Lua error 'Lua error: expandTemplate: template "cc-a-bp-4.0,3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0" does not exist.' That's clearly something broken at our end, not a real licensing issue. And never something that should be deleted without discussion, using the speedy process! Andy Dingley (talk) 02:17, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
- Andy Dingley, someone moved a file from some wikipedia, but did not change licenses. I was hoping the uploader would fix it. I guess I could have also tracked down which wikipedia it was and figure names of matching templates here, but it is really uploder's job. Lua error is not a software issue but deliberate attempt to stop Lua code and display error if a license template does not exist. I am currently working on fixing licenses in all the files that have this issue. --Jarekt (talk) 03:00, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
- So the answer is to burn the file, without even raising it in our forum for such things, without making any effort to fix a mechanical problem? Andy Dingley (talk) 03:06, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
- It is not mechanical problem, since someone uploaded a file with invalid license. The user should be aware that it is a bad upload. I can fix this file but do not want to be doing it for other uploads by the same user, who might be unaware of the issue. --Jarekt (talk) 03:15, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
- Fair enough, but it should have gone through a DR. As it is, speedy deletion seems to be getting used more and more as "simpler deletion", which is something it's never been intended for. Andy Dingley (talk) 03:45, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
- It is not mechanical problem, since someone uploaded a file with invalid license. The user should be aware that it is a bad upload. I can fix this file but do not want to be doing it for other uploads by the same user, who might be unaware of the issue. --Jarekt (talk) 03:15, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
- So the answer is to burn the file, without even raising it in our forum for such things, without making any effort to fix a mechanical problem? Andy Dingley (talk) 03:06, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-11[edit]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar). [11][12]
- After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed. [13]
- The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [14]
- 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. [15]
Future changes
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [16][17]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:02, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-12[edit]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. [18]
- IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers. [19]
- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [20][21][22]
- Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [23]
Problems
- RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. [24]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar). [25][26]
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [27][28]
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