User talk:Asartea/Archive 8

3271: 3476: 4875: 3919: 2511:, 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 4646: 1717: 1796: 3930: 3887: 885: 4939: 4917: 4886: 4864: 3961: 3897: 2156: 975: 933: 895: 4371:(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. 3290: 31: 4853: 4717: 3876: 2119: 874: 1775: 2130: 922: 3466: 5009: 4003: 1036: 3278: 3208: 4476: 4319: 4286: 3755: 3669: 2587: 2500: 4534:, 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. 4527: 3974: 2203: 1423: 1259: 1190: 1170: 1014: 578: 562: 456: 231: 199: 5069: 4696: 2226: 1068: 1620: 1450: 1239: 776: 627: 436: 179: 3085: 1750: 4906: 964: 4928: 3950: 4679: 4963: 3136: 988: 3335: 3102: 2522:(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. 4898: 3942: 2111: 956: 4572: 2240: 5258: 4254:

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

2890:

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

2533:

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

4541:

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

4483:

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

2935:

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

2603:

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

4759:

Any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed during Round 5, which starts on 1 September at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. If two or

2783:

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

2756:

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

1638:

Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Knowledge, 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

2324:

extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Knowledge, and Swahili Knowledge, 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

1838:

Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed during Round 4, which starts on 1 July at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page.

419:

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

4322:

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

2539: 1576:

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

1288:

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

645:

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.

4562: 1839:

Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on

5177:

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 Knowledge. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can

3064:. We've got a ton of wonderful editors taking back their pitchforks today. Don't worry, for they come in peace, to forcibly fix and extend existing scripts you use with sheer passion. There's so many, them forks have got what's basically their own column now! 5264: 3777: 1947: 2920:

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

4760:

more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on

2773:. 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. 801:

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.

5023: 4337:

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

2375:

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

1431:

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,

2381: 2571:, 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 2523: 1959:, 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. 4553: 2568: 803: 219:

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.

3791: 3122: 2572: 1964:

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

3700:

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.

3234:

An easily configurable script to add a link to the #p-vector-user-menu-overflow portlet with a name, target, and icon. This one should be a relatively easier one. I would do it myself, but I'm too busy rotting away on

2751:

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

1272:

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.

206:

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.

2987: 2973: 2739:. 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. 1476:. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Knowledge article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During 5053: 3741:

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

4298: 4131: 4240: 2340: 162: 2980: 5036: 2784:

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

4639:

The fourth round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 29 August. Each of the 8 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 472 points, and the following contestants scored more than 700 points:

3328:

is just like Enterprisey's script, except you select your status from a dropdown instead of cycling through them with a button. The WMF operates out of car-centric infrastructure anyway. Shame!

4368: 2748:

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.

2519: 1943: 5211:

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

5106: 4495:(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. 5223:

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

581:

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:

221: 4385:

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

3805: 1586:

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.

1373:

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

5196:

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

4480: 2708: 2591: 2372: 4511:

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

4349:

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

2530: 1390:. 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 5241:. 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 1707:

The third round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 June. As with Round 2, this round was competitive: each of the 16 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 256 points.

2333: 1980:. 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 1640: 4393: 3784: 2344: 1946:, 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 4248: 5272: 2800: 2377: 569:

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

4704: 1627:

of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Knowledge wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (

1457:

of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Knowledge wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (

1246:

of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Knowledge wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (

5019: 1998: 5255:

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:

4559:

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:

4017: 165:" 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. 4244: 1290: 1055: 783:

of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Knowledge wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (

634:

of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Knowledge wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (

443:

of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Knowledge wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (

186:

of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Knowledge wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (

4102: 4725: 1972: 1942:

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

2609: 2594:

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

4973: 4736:

Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated. Contestants put in extraordinary amounts of effort during this round, and their scores can be seen

4013: 3903: 2745: 2187: 2172: 2167: 2162: 5096: 5060: 4654: 1725: 906: 901: 4389:. 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. 3126: 2535: 1047: 2917: 2326: 1644: 1599: 1383: 978: 5298: 5179: 4596: 4411: 4176: 3823: 3012: 2944: 2822: 2627: 2417: 2357:

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,

2061: 1664: 1606:

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.

1513: 1310: 821: 663: 486: 347: 5146: 5040: 4135: 2146: 1783: 1758: 997: 944: 4531: 2484:. 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 2398:. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 1 more week. The survey is covered by 4687: 2922: 2001:, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium. 1005: 5318: 4992: 4616: 4485: 4431: 4196: 4067: 3843: 3032: 2937: 2848: 2842: 2653: 2647: 2595: 2437: 2081: 1684: 1533: 1330: 841: 683: 506: 367: 5218:

Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now.

4121:

Team, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.

2278: 2042:. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 2 weeks. The survey is covered by 1391: 1132: 4276: 3794:

is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more.

463:. 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 3224: 5197: 3890: 2605: 2192: 1956: 1804: 1093: 1078: 4838: 4260: 1274: 1210: 3908: 888: 2181: 5123: 4382: 4044: 3354:; his fork adds a config variable to automatically highlight duplicate links on the loading of any page where the portlet link would've appeared. 2255: 1109: 939: 5212: 4950: 4945: 4920: 4833: 4512: 4386: 4354: 4118: 3728: 2785: 2554: 2314: 1994: 1485: 4748:

credits. They have conducted 357 featured content reviews, as well as 553 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 30 articles to

3717: 1827:

credits. They have conducted 279 featured article reviews, as well as 492 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 22 articles to

911: 421: 4566: 4264: 3861: 2892: 2310: 1977: 1912: 1578: 1406: 257: 5128: 4239:

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

4143: 4049: 3121:

is this edition's featured script. By loading diffs inline on every page that shows a list of changes, it implements the 2023 community wish

2707:(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 2260: 2177: 2141: 1477: 1225:

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.

1114: 5238: 4889: 4867: 4346: 3743: 2703:

only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out.

1981: 1496:

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.

237: 133: 4575:(30 mins) - an overview for both technical and non technical audiences, covering some of the challenges and open questions, related to the 4268: 4256: 4139: 1001: 4492: 4098: 3933: 3798: 2994: 2910: 2715: 2546: 2099: 859: 3395: 727: 4272: 3997:. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked. 3721: 2947:. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions. 158: 5118: 4039: 2250: 1104: 5268: 3683: 2804: 467:

so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a

4279:. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. 3325: 3242: 5331: 4629: 4444: 4396:

is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.

4209: 3856: 3675: 3045: 2860: 2770: 2665: 2450: 2094: 1697: 1546: 1405:

is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the

1343: 854: 696: 519: 380: 3758:

The new parser is being rolled out on Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikivoyage were

1181:

so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a

109:

On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word

5306: 5294: 5165: 4604: 4592: 4462: 4419: 4407: 4227: 4184: 4172: 4086: 3964: 3831: 3819: 3708:

Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance

3655: 3111: 3020: 3008: 2878: 2830: 2818: 2683: 2635: 2623: 2468: 2425: 2413: 2297: 2069: 2057: 1930: 1672: 1660: 1564: 1521: 1509: 1469: 1361: 1318: 1306: 1151: 829: 817: 714: 671: 659: 537: 494: 482: 398: 355: 343: 97: 3527: 1426:

Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center.

1374: 3078: 2723: 4737: 3399: 3319: 3180: 2711:

project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.

1816: 1027:

feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title.

549:

Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see

414:

feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title.

5302: 5079: 4843: 4600: 4415: 4180: 3866: 3827: 3539: 3016: 2826: 2631: 2421: 2136: 2104: 2065: 1668: 1517: 1387: 1314: 864: 825: 667: 490: 351: 149: 4353:. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were 4303:. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. 3557: 2321: 2026:

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

1984:

on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months.

1024: 411: 5142: 4829: 4063: 2274: 1908: 1128: 566: 3332: 2696: 1493: 1177:. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and 3633: 3563: 3533: 3145: 1163:

The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering.

2704: 5089: 4289:

Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the

3246: 3149: 3050: 5164: