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മറ്റൊരു ഭാഷയിൽ സന്ദേശം വായിക്കുക • ഈ ബഹുഭാഷാ വാർത്താക്കുറിപ്പിന്റെ സബ്സ്ക്രിപ്ഷൻ പട്ടിക

നീല റിബണുള്ള ഒരു സ്വർണ്ണ നക്ഷത്രവും, 50m എന്ന വാചകവും. — **5 കോടിയിലധികം തിരുത്തലുകൾ** ഡെസ്ക്ടോപ്പിലെ വിഷ്വൽ എഡിറ്റർ ഉപയോഗിച്ചാണ് നടത്തിയത്.

ഏഴ് വർഷം മുമ്പ് ഇതേ മാസത്തിലാണ്, എഡിറ്റിംഗ് ടീം മിക്ക വിക്കിപീഡിയ എഡിറ്റർമാർക്കും വിഷ്വൽ എഡിറ്റർ വാഗ്ദാനം ചെയ്തത്. അന്നു മുതൽ ഇന്നുവരെ എഡിറ്റർമാർ നിരവധി നാഴികക്കല്ലുകൾ പിന്നിട്ടു:

5 കോടിയിലധികം തിരുത്തലുകൾ ഡെസ്ക്ടോപ്പിലെ വിഷ്വൽ എഡിറ്റർ ഉപയോഗിച്ചാണ് നടത്തിയത്.
ഇരുപത് ലക്ഷത്തിലധികം പുതിയ ലേഖനങ്ങൾ വിഷ്വൽ എഡിറ്റർ ഉപയോഗിച്ചാണ് സൃഷ്ടിച്ചത്. അതിൽ 600,000 ത്തിലധികവും 2019ൽ സൃഷ്ടിച്ചത് ആണ്.
വിഷ്വൽ എഡിറ്ററിന്റെ ജനപ്രീതി ദിനംപ്രതി വർദ്ധിച്ചുവരുകയാണ്. വിഷ്വൽ എഡിറ്ററിന്റെ തുടക്കം മുതൽ എല്ലാ വർഷവും അത് ഉപയോഗിച്ച് നടത്തിയ എഡിറ്റുകളുടെ അനുപാതം വർദ്ധിച്ചുവരുന്നു.
2019 ൽ, പുതിയ എഡിറ്റർമാർ (100ൽ താഴെ തിരുത്തലുകൾ നടത്തിയ ലോഗിൻ ചെയ്ത എഡിറ്റർമാർ) നടത്തിയ 35% തിരുത്തലുകളും വിഷ്വൽ എഡിറ്റർ ഉപയോഗിച്ചാണ് നടത്തിയത്. ഇതിന്റെ ശതമാനം എല്ലാ വർഷവും വർദ്ധിക്കുന്നു.
മൊബൈൽ സൈറ്റിൽ 50 ലക്ഷത്തോളം തിരുത്തലുകൾ വിഷ്വൽ എഡിറ്റർ ഉപയോഗിച്ചാണ് നടത്തിയത്. 2018 ൽ എഡിറ്റിംഗ് ടീം മൊബൈൽ വിഷ്വൽ എഡിറ്റർ മെച്ചപ്പെടുത്താൻ തുടങ്ങിയതുമുതലാണ് ഈ തിരുത്തലുകൾ ഭൂരിഭാഗവും നടത്തിയത്.
2019 നവംബർ 17ന് മൊബൈൽ വിഷ്വൽ എഡിറ്ററിൽ ബഹിരാകാശത്തു നിന്നുള്ള ആദ്യ തിരുത്തൽ നടന്നു. 🚀 👩‍🚀
2017 വിക്കിടെക്സ്റ്റ് എഡിറ്ററിൽ 600,000 പുതിയ ലേഖനങ്ങൾ ആരംഭിച്ചത് ഉൾപ്പെടെ 70 ലക്ഷത്തിലധികം തിരുത്തലുകൾ എഡിറ്റർമാർ നടത്തി. വിഷ്വൽ എഡിറ്ററിന്റെ അന്തർനിർമ്മിത വിക്കിടെക്സ്റ്റ് മോഡാണ് 2017 വിക്കിടെക്സ്റ്റ് എഡിറ്റർ. നിങ്ങളുടെ ക്രമീകരണങ്ങളിൽ ഇത് പ്രവർത്തനക്ഷമമാക്കാം.

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12:55, 9 ജൂലൈ 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-30[തിരുത്തുക]

വിക്കിമീഡിയയുടെ സാങ്കേതിക സമുഹത്തിൽ നിന്നുള്ള ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ ടെക് വാർത്തകൾ ആണിത്. ഈ മാറ്റങ്ങളെക്കുറിച്ച് മറ്റ് ഉപയോക്താക്കളേയും അറിയിക്കുക. എല്ലാ മാറ്റങ്ങളും നിങ്ങളെ ബാധിക്കില്ല. ഇവിടെ വിവർത്തനങ്ങൾ ലഭ്യമാണ്.

സമീപകാല മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

ഒരു താൽ‌ക്കാലിക പരിഹാരം വിക്കികൾ‌ക്ക് അവരുടെ പ്രധാന പേജുകളെ കൂടുതൽ‌ മൊബൈൽ‌ സൗഹൃദമാക്കാൻ സഹായിച്ചിരുന്നു. ഇത് 2012 ലായിരുന്നു. 2017 മുതൽ ഇത് ശുപാർശ ചെയ്യാറില്ല. മൊബൈലിലെ പ്രധാന പേജിന്റെ പ്രത്യേക കേസിംഗ് ജൂലൈ 14 ന് പ്രവർത്തനം നിർത്തി. 60 വിക്കികളുടെ പ്രധാന പേജുകൾ ഇപ്പോൾ മൊബൈലിൽ നന്നായി പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നില്ല. ഏതൊക്കെയാണവ, അത് എങ്ങനെ ശരിയാക്കാം, എങ്ങനെ സഹായം നേടാം എന്നിവയൊക്കെ നിങ്ങൾക്ക് ഫബ്രിക്കേറ്ററിൽ കാണാൻ സാധിക്കും. ടെക് ന്യൂസിന്റെ 2020/24 ലക്കത്തിലും, 2020/26 ലക്കത്തിലും ഇതേ പ്രശ്‌നം റിപ്പോർട്ടുചെയ്‌തതാണ്.

പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ

ഇന്റർലാംഗ്വേജ് ലിങ്കുകളിൽ ഒരു പ്രശ്നമുണ്ടായി. മറ്റൊരു ഭാഷയിൽ ഒരു നിർദ്ദിഷ്ട പേജ് കണ്ടെത്താൻ സഹായിക്കുന്ന ലിങ്കുകളാണ് ഇന്റർലാംഗ്വേജ് ലിങ്കുകൾ. തരംതിരിക്കൽ പ്രക്രിയ തകർക്കപ്പെട്ടു. ഡവലപ്പർമാർ ഒരു പരിഹാരത്തിനായി ശ്രമിച്ചുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുകയാണ്. [1]
ചില ഉപയോക്താക്കൾക്ക് ഒരേ ഇവന്റിന്റെ അറിയിപ്പുകൾ ലഭിച്ചുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നു. ഇവയിൽ ചിലത് പഴയ സംഭവങ്ങളാണ്. [2]
ചില ഉപയോക്താക്കൾക്ക് ലോഗിൻ ചെയ്യുന്നതിൽ പ്രശ്‌നമുണ്ട്. ഇത് ഒരുപക്ഷേ ഒരു ബ്രൗസർ കുക്കി പ്രശ്നമാകാം. ഡവലപ്പർമാർ പ്രശ്നം മനസിലാക്കുന്നതിനായി പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നു. നിങ്ങൾക്ക് ലോഗിൻ ചെയ്യുന്നതിൽ പ്രശ്നമുണ്ടെങ്കിൽ വിശദാംശങ്ങൾ ഫബ്രിക്കേറ്ററിൽ കാണാൻ സാധിക്കും. [3]

ഈ ആഴ്ചയിലെ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

മീഡിയവിക്കിയുടെ പുതിയ പതിപ്പ് 21 ജൂലൈ മുതൽ ടെസ്റ്റ് വിക്കികളിലും MediaWiki.org ലും ലഭിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും. 22 ജൂലൈ മുതൽ വിക്കിപീഡിയ ഇതര വിക്കികളിലും ചില വിക്കിപീഡിയകളിലും ഇത് ലഭിക്കും. 23 ജൂലൈ ഓടെ എല്ലാ വിക്കികളിലും ഇത് ലഭിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും (കലണ്ടർ).

ഭാവിയിലെ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

അച്ചടിരൂപം എന്നൊരു ലിങ്ക് ഉണ്ട്. ഇത് അപ്രത്യക്ഷമാകും. കാരണം, ഇപ്പോഴത്തെ വെബ് ബ്രൗസറുകൾ‌ക്ക് പ്രിന്റ് ചെയ്യാൻ കഴിയുന്ന ഒരു പതിപ്പ് സൃഷ്‌ടിക്കാനും അല്ലെങ്കിൽ‌ അത് പ്രിന്റ് ചെയ്യാമ്പോൾ എങ്ങനെ കാണപ്പെടുമെന്ന് കാണിക്കാനും ഉള്ള സംവിധാനം ഉണ്ട്. [4]

ടെക് വാർത്തകൾ തയാറാക്കിയത്-ടെക് ന്യൂസ് എഴുത്തുകാർ, പോസ്റ്റുചെയ്തത് bot • സംഭാവന ചെയ്യുക • വിവർത്തനം ചെയ്യുക • സഹായം തേടു • അഭിപ്രായങ്ങൾ രേഖപ്പെടുത്തുക • സബ്‌സ്‌ക്രൈബുചെയ്യുക/അൺസബ്‌സ്‌ക്രൈബുചെയ്യുക.

19:13, 20 ജൂലൈ 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-31[തിരുത്തുക]

സമീപകാല മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

സ്റ്റാർട്ടർ കിറ്റ് ഇപ്പോൾ വിക്കി കമ്മ്യൂണിറ്റികൾക്കായി ലഭ്യമാണ്. ഈ പേജ് സാങ്കേതിക ഉറവിടങ്ങളും ഉപകരണങ്ങളും ശുപാർശകളും പട്ടികപ്പെടുത്തുന്നു. ഒരു വിക്കി പ്രവർത്തിപ്പിക്കുന്നതിന് ഇവ അത്യാവശ്യമാണ്. പരിമിതമായ കമ്മ്യൂണിറ്റി പരിചയം ഉള്ള ചെറിയ വിക്കികൾക്ക് ഇത് കൂടുതലും ഉപയോഗപ്രദമാണ്. [5]
ഡെസ്ക്ടോപ്പ് മെച്ചപ്പെടുത്തലുകൾ പ്രോജക്റ്റിന്റെ ആദ്യ സവിശേഷതകൾ എല്ലാ വിക്കികളിലും, ലോഗിൻ ചെയ്തിട്ടുള്ള ഉപയോക്താക്കൾക്ക് ഇപ്പോൾ ലഭ്യമാണ്. അവ ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നതിന്, പ്രാദേശിക അല്ലെങ്കിൽ ആഗോള ക്രമീകരണങ്ങളിലെ, ദൃശ്യരൂപ മുൻഗണനകൾ വിഭാഗത്തിലെ പഴയ വെക്റ്റർ ഉപയോഗിക്കുക എന്ന ഓപ്ഷൻ അൺചെക്ക് ചെയ്യുക. കൂടുതൽ മെച്ചപ്പെടുത്തലുകൾ ആസൂത്രണം ചെയ്തിട്ടുണ്ട്, കാത്തിരിക്കുക. അഭിപ്രായങ്ങൾ സ്വാഗതം ചെയ്യുന്നു.
പല വിക്കികളിലും, UTCLiveClock എന്ന ഗാഡ്‌ജെറ്റ് ലഭ്യമാണ്. ഗാഡ്‌ജെറ്റ് mediawiki.org- ൽ നിന്ന് നേരിട്ട് ഇംപോർട്ട് ചെയ്യുന്ന വിക്കികളിലെ ഉപയോക്താക്കൾക്ക് ഇപ്പോൾ UTC ക്ക് പകരം മറ്റ് സമയമേഖലകൾ തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കാൻ കഴിയും.

പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ

‍മീഡിയാവിക്കിക്കായുള്ള ഡിപ്ലോയ്മെന്റ് ട്രെയിൻ ഈ ആഴ്ചയിൽ തടഞ്ഞിരിക്കുന്നു. [6][7]
വിവർത്തന-അറിയിപ്പ് ബോട്ട് എല്ലാ വിവർത്തകർക്കും ഒരേ സന്ദേശം ഒന്നിലധികം തവണ അയയ്ക്കുന്നുണ്ടായിരുന്നു. ഇത് പരിഹരിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. [8]
ചില ഉപയോക്താക്കൾക്ക് ഒരേ അറിയിപ്പ് ഒന്നിലധികം തവണ ലഭിക്കുന്നു. ഇത് പരിഹരിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. [9]

ഈ ആഴ്ചയിലെ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

മീഡിയവിക്കിയുടെ പുതിയ പതിപ്പ് 28 ജൂലൈ മുതൽ ടെസ്റ്റ് വിക്കികളിലും MediaWiki.org ലും ലഭിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും. 29 ജൂലൈ മുതൽ വിക്കിപീഡിയ ഇതര വിക്കികളിലും ചില വിക്കിപീഡിയകളിലും ഇത് ലഭിക്കും. 30 ജൂലൈ ഓടെ എല്ലാ വിക്കികളിലും ഇത് ലഭിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും (കലണ്ടർ).

13:51, 27 ജൂലൈ 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-32[തിരുത്തുക]

പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ

വിക്കിഡാറ്റ അന്വേഷണ സേവനത്തിലേക്കുള്ള എല്ലാ അന്വേഷണങ്ങളും ജൂലൈ 23 വ്യാഴാഴ്ച 17:50 നും 17:59 (UTC)നും ഇടയിൽ പരാജയപ്പെട്ടു. ചില ചോദ്യങ്ങൾ ഒരു നീണ്ട കാലയളവിൽ പരാജയപ്പെട്ടിരുന്നു. [10]
കഴിഞ്ഞ കുറച്ച് ആഴ്ചകളായി ഇന്റർലാംഗ്വേജ് ലിങ്കുകൾ‌ തെറ്റായ ക്രമത്തിൽ ആയിരുന്നു. രണ്ടാഴ്ച മുമ്പുള്ള ടെക് വാർത്തയിലും ഈ പ്രശ്നം പരാമർശിച്ചിരുന്നു. പ്രശ്നം ഇപ്പോൾ പരിഹരിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. [11]
ആഗോള ക്രമീകരണങ്ങളിലെ "പഴയ വെക്റ്റർ ഉപയോഗിക്കുക" ഓപ്ഷനിൽ ഒരു പ്രശ്നമുണ്ട്. ഇത് പരിഹരിക്കുന്നതിനായി ഡവലപ്പർമാർ പ്രവർത്തിച്ചുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നു. [12]
വിക്കിബേസ് എക്സ്റ്റൻഷനിലെ ഒരു ബഗ് വിക്കിമീഡിയ കോമൺസിലെ പ്രധാന (പ്രമാണം) നാമമേഖലയിൽ (നെയിംസ്‌പെയ്‌സ്) "പേരുമാറ്റത്തിൽനിന്നുള്ള സംരക്ഷണം", "ഉണ്ടാക്കൽ സംരക്ഷണം" തുടങ്ങിയവയെ പ്രവർത്തനരഹിതമാക്കി. പുതിയ സംരക്ഷണങ്ങൾ ചേർക്കാനും നിലവിലുള്ള സംരക്ഷണങ്ങളിൽ മാറ്റംവരുത്താനും (താൾ സൃഷ്ടിക്കലും, തലക്കെട്ട് മാറ്റവും മറ്റും അനുവദിക്കുന്നത്) കഴിഞ്ഞിരുന്നില്ല. ഇത് ഇപ്പോൾ പരിഹരിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. [13]

ഈ ആഴ്ചയിലെ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

വീഡിയോ പ്ലെയർ ലളിതവും ആധുനികവുമായി മാറും. ഈ ആഴ്ചയിൽ നിലവിലെ ബീറ്റ സവിശേഷത മിക്ക വിക്കിപീഡിയ ഇതര വിക്കികളിലും എല്ലാവർക്കുമുള്ള വീഡിയോ പ്ലെയറായി മാറും. പഴയ പ്ലെയറിനെ നീക്കംചെയ്യും. [14]
ഉപയോക്താക്കളുടെ global.js, global.css പേജുകൾ ഇപ്പോൾ മൊബൈൽ‌ സൈറ്റിലും ലോഡുചെയ്യപ്പെടും. മൊബൈൽ സ്കിന്നിൽ സ്റ്റൈലുകൾ പ്രയോഗിക്കുന്നത് എങ്ങനെ ഒഴിവാക്കാമെന്ന് ഈ ഡോക്യുമെന്റേഷനിൽ നിങ്ങൾക്ക് വായിക്കാം. [15]
മോണോബുക്ക് സ്കിന്നിൽ, searchGoButton എന്ന ഐഡന്റിഫയർ ഇപ്പോൾ searchButton എന്നാണ്. ഇത് CSS, JS ഗാഡ്‌ജെറ്റുകളെ ബാധിച്ചേക്കാം. മൈഗ്രേഷൻ നിർദ്ദേശങ്ങൾ T255953 ൽ കാണാം. ഇത് മുമ്പ് 27-ാമത്തെ ലക്കത്തിൽ ൽ പരാമർശിച്ചിരുന്നു.
ചർച്ചകൾ പതിവായി ആർക്കൈവ് ചെയ്യുന്നതിന് ബോട്ട് ഓപ്പറേറ്റർമാർക്ക് പൈവിക്കിബോട്ട് ഉപയോഗിക്കാം. വലിയ ആർക്കൈവുകൾ തടയാൻ ബോട്ട് counter ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന രീതി മാറ്റി. [16]
മീഡിയവിക്കിയുടെ പുതിയ പതിപ്പ് 4 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് മുതൽ ടെസ്റ്റ് വിക്കികളിലും MediaWiki.org ലും ലഭിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും. 5 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് മുതൽ വിക്കിപീഡിയ ഇതര വിക്കികളിലും ചില വിക്കിപീഡിയകളിലും ഇത് ലഭിക്കും. 6 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് ഓടെ എല്ലാ വിക്കികളിലും ഇത് ലഭിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും (കലണ്ടർ).

15:42, 3 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-33[തിരുത്തുക]

സമീപകാല മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

ഓഗസ്റ്റ് ആദ്യ വാരത്തിൽ ഫയൽഇംപോർട്ടറും ഫയൽ എക്സ്പോർട്ടറും എല്ലാ വിക്കികളിലെയും സ്റ്റാൻഡേർഡ് സവിശേഷതകളായി. യഥാർത്ഥ ഫയൽ വിവരങ്ങൾക്കും നാൾവഴിക്കും കേടുകൂടാതെ പ്രാദേശിക വിക്കികളിൽ നിന്ന് വിക്കിമീഡിയ കോമൺസിലേക്ക് പ്രമാണങ്ങൾ (ഫയലുകൾ) കൈമാറാൻ അവ നിങ്ങളെ സഹായിക്കുന്നു. [17]

പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ

ആരാണ് അവസാനമായി എഡിറ്റുചെയ്തത് എന്നതിനെക്കുറിച്ച് മൊബൈൽ സ്കിൻ പേജിന്റെ ചുവടെ ഒരു സന്ദേശം പ്രദർശിപ്പിക്കുന്ന പതിവുണ്ട്. കഴിഞ്ഞ ദിവസങ്ങളിൽ ഇത് ചില വിക്കിടെക്സ്റ്റ് ആണ് പ്രദർശിപ്പിച്ചിരുന്നത്. ഇത് ഇപ്പോൾ പരിഹരിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. ഘടനാപരമായ ചർച്ചകളിലെയും ഉള്ളടക്ക വിവർത്തനത്തിലെയും ചില സന്ദേശങ്ങൾ ഇപ്പോഴും അസംസ്കൃത വിക്കിടെക്സ്റ്റായി ദൃശ്യമാകാം. ഡവലപ്പർമാർ അതിൽ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നുണ്ട്. [18]

ഈ ആഴ്ചയിലെ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

മീഡിയവിക്കിയുടെ പുതിയ പതിപ്പ് 11 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് മുതൽ ടെസ്റ്റ് വിക്കികളിലും MediaWiki.org ലും ലഭിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും. 12 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് മുതൽ വിക്കിപീഡിയ ഇതര വിക്കികളിലും ചില വിക്കിപീഡിയകളിലും ഇത് ലഭിക്കും. 13 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് ഓടെ എല്ലാ വിക്കികളിലും ഇത് ലഭിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും (കലണ്ടർ).

ഭാവിയിലെ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

എല്ലാ വിക്കികളിലും സെപ്റ്റംബർ 1 ന് കുറച്ച് മിനിറ്റ് നേരത്തേക്ക് എഡ്റ്റ് ചെയ്യാൻ സാധിക്കില്ല (Read-only). 13:30നും 15:30നും (UTC) ഇടയിൽ ആണ് ഇത് ആസൂത്രണം ചെയ്തിട്ടുള്ളത്. കൂടുതൽ വിവരങ്ങൾ ടെക് വാർത്തകളിൽ പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കും, മാത്രമല്ല വരും ആഴ്ചകളിൽ പ്രാദേശിക വിക്കികളിൽ അറിയിപ്പ് നൽകുന്നതായിരിക്കും. [19][20]

16:06, 10 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-34[തിരുത്തുക]

സമീപകാല മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

മാറ്റം തിരസ്ക്കരിക്കുക (undo) എന്ന ലിങ്ക് ഉപയോഗിച്ച് നിങ്ങൾ ഒരു എഡിറ്റ് പഴയപടിയാക്കുകയാണെങ്കിൽ, നിങ്ങളുടെ എഡിറ്റ് തിരസ്ക്കരിക്കൽ (undo) റ്റാഗ് ഉപയോഗിച്ച് അടയാളപ്പെടുത്താറുണ്ട്. മാറ്റം തിരസ്ക്കരിക്കുന്നതിനുമുമ്പ് എഡിറ്റ് വിൻഡോയിൽ നിങ്ങൾ ഒരു മാറ്റവും വരുത്തിയില്ലെങ്കിൽ മാത്രമേ ഇനി ഇത് സംഭവിക്കുകയുള്ളൂ. ഉപയോക്താക്കൾ യഥാർത്ഥത്തിൽ മറ്റെന്തെങ്കിലും ചെയ്യുമ്പോൾ അവ തിരസ്ക്കരിക്കലുകളായി അടയാളപ്പെടുത്തുന്നത് ഒഴിവാക്കാനാണിത്. [21]
പുതിയ OOUI പതിപ്പ് ഇന്റർനെറ്റ് എക്സ്പ്ലോറർ 8-ൽ പ്രവർത്തിക്കില്ല. എന്നുവച്ചാൽ വിക്കികൾ, ഇന്റർനെറ്റ് എക്സ്പ്ലോറർ 8-ൽ വിചിത്രമായി കാണപ്പെടുകയും നന്നായി പ്രവർത്തിക്കാതിരിക്കുകയും ചെയ്യാം. ടെക്/വാർത്തകൾ/2020/17ൽ ഇത് റിപ്പോർട്ടുചെയ്‌തിട്ടുണ്ട്. ഇതിന് കാരണം വളരെ പഴയ ബ്രൗസറുകളിൽ വിക്കികൾ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നത് മറ്റ് പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ സൃഷ്ടിക്കുന്നു എന്നതാണ്. [22]

ഈ ആഴ്ചയിലെ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

മീഡിയവിക്കിയുടെ പുതിയ പതിപ്പ് 18 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് മുതൽ ടെസ്റ്റ് വിക്കികളിലും MediaWiki.org ലും ലഭിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും. 19 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് മുതൽ വിക്കിപീഡിയ ഇതര വിക്കികളിലും ചില വിക്കിപീഡിയകളിലും ഇത് ലഭിക്കും. 20 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് ഓടെ എല്ലാ വിക്കികളിലും ഇത് ലഭിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും (കലണ്ടർ).

ഭാവിയിലെ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

എല്ലാ വിക്കികളിലും സെപ്റ്റംബർ 1 ന് കുറച്ച് മിനിറ്റ് നേരത്തേക്ക് എഡ്റ്റ് ചെയ്യാൻ സാധിക്കില്ല (Read-only). 13:30നും 15:30നും (UTC) ഇടയിൽ ആണ് ഇത് ആസൂത്രണം ചെയ്തിട്ടുള്ളത്. കൂടുതൽ വിവരങ്ങൾ ടെക് വാർത്തകളിൽ പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കുകയും അടുത്ത ആഴ്ചയിൽ പ്രാദേശിക വിക്കികളിൽ അറിയിക്കുകയും ചെയ്യും. ഇതൊരു ഓർമ്മപ്പെടുത്തലാണ്. ഈ അറിയിപ്പ് സന്ദേശം വിവർത്തനം ചെയ്യുക വഴി നിങ്ങൾക്ക് ഞങ്ങളെ സഹായിക്കാനാകും. [23][24]

20:41, 17 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2020 (UTC)

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ഈ ആഴ്ചയിലെ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

മീഡിയവിക്കിയുടെ പുതിയ പതിപ്പ് 25 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് മുതൽ ടെസ്റ്റ് വിക്കികളിലും MediaWiki.org ലും ലഭിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും. 26 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് മുതൽ വിക്കിപീഡിയ ഇതര വിക്കികളിലും ചില വിക്കിപീഡിയകളിലും ഇത് ലഭിക്കും. 27 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് ഓടെ എല്ലാ വിക്കികളിലും ഇത് ലഭിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും (കലണ്ടർ).

17:59, 24 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2020 (UTC)

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പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ

ഇതൊരു ഓർമ്മപ്പെടുത്തലാണ്. എല്ലാ വിക്കികളിലും സെപ്റ്റംബർ 1 ന് കുറച്ച് മിനിറ്റ് നേരത്തേക്ക് എഡിറ്റുചെയ്യാൻ കഴിയില്ല (വായിക്കാൻ മാത്രമായിരിക്കും). 14:00നും 15:00നും (UTC) ഇടയിലാണ് ഇത് ആസൂത്രണം ചെയ്തിരിക്കുന്നത്. അറിയിപ്പ് സന്ദേശത്തിലെ വിശദാംശങ്ങൾ പരിശോധിക്കുക. [25][26]

ഈ ആഴ്ചയിലെ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

ഈ ആഴ്ച പുതിയ മീഡിയവിക്കി പതിപ്പുകളൊന്നുമില്ല.

20:09, 31 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2020 (UTC)

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ഈ ആഴ്ചയിലെ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

സാധാരണയായി, നിലവില്ലാത്ത ഒരു ശീർഷകത്തിലേക്കോ അല്ലെങ്കിൽ ഒരു നാൾപ്പതിപ്പ് മാത്രമുള്ള ഒരു റീഡയറക്റ്റിലേക്കോ മാത്രമേ താളുകളുടെ തലക്കെട്ട് മാറ്റാൻ കഴിയു. എന്നാൽ ഒരു പുതിയ ഉപയോക്തൃ അനുമതി ഒന്നിൽ കൂടുതൽ നാൾപ്പതിപ്പുകൾ ഉള്ള റീഡയറക്‌റ്റുകളിലേക്ക് പേജുകൾ നീക്കാൻ ഉപയോക്താക്കളെ അനുവദിക്കുന്നു. [27]
മീഡിയവിക്കിയുടെ പുതിയ പതിപ്പ് 8 സെപ്റ്റംബർ മുതൽ ടെസ്റ്റ് വിക്കികളിലും MediaWiki.org ലും ലഭിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും. 9 സെപ്റ്റംബർ മുതൽ വിക്കിപീഡിയ ഇതര വിക്കികളിലും ചില വിക്കിപീഡിയകളിലും ഇത് ലഭിക്കും. 10 സെപ്റ്റംബർ ഓടെ എല്ലാ വിക്കികളിലും ഇത് ലഭിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും (കലണ്ടർ).
എല്ലാ മീഡിയവിക്കി API മൊഡ്യൂളുകളും ഇനിമുതൽ watch എന്നതിനുപകരം watchlist എന്ന് ഉപയോഗിക്കും. ഇത് മുമ്പ് പൊരുത്തപ്പെടുന്നില്ലായിരുന്നു. [28]

ഭാവിയിലെ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

വിക്കിപീഡിയ ആൻഡ്രോയ്ഡ് അപ്ലിക്കേഷൻ ടീം ഭാവിയിൽ പട്രോളിംഗ് ഉപകരണങ്ങളിൽ പ്രവർത്തിച്ചേക്കാം. നിങ്ങൾക്ക് അല്ലെങ്കിൽ പരിചയസമ്പത്ത് കുറഞ്ഞ പട്രോളർമാർക്ക് ഏതെല്ലാം ഉപകരണങ്ങൾ ഉപയോഗപ്രദമാകുമെന്ന് അവരെ അറിയിക്കുന്നത് നന്നായിരിക്കും. Mediawiki.org- ലെ പേജ് കാണുക.
ഒ‌.ടി‌.ആർ‌.എസ്. പുതിയ പതിപ്പിലേക്ക് അപ്‌ഡേറ്റുചെയ്യുന്നതാണ്. ഇതിന് ഏകദേശം രണ്ട് ദിവസമെടുക്കും. ഈ ദിവസങ്ങളിൽ ഒ‌.ടി‌.ആർ‌.എസ്. ഏജന്റുമാർ‌ക്ക് സിസ്റ്റത്തിലേക്ക് ആക്‌സസ് ഉണ്ടായിരിക്കില്ല. അപ്‌ഡേറ്റ് സമയത്ത് വരുന്ന ഇമെയിലുകൾ അപ്‌ഡേറ്റ് പൂർത്തിയാകുമ്പോൾ കൈമാറുന്നതായിരിക്കും. സെപ്റ്റംബർ 14-ാം തീയതി 08:00 (UTC) ന് ഇത് ആരംഭിക്കാനാണ് ഇപ്പോൾ പദ്ധതിയിട്ടിചിക്കുന്നത്. ഇതിന് മാറ്റം വന്നേക്കാം. [29]
ഉപയോക്താക്കൾക്ക് ആവശ്യമെങ്കിൽ വിക്കിപീഡിയ ആൻഡ്രോയിഡ് അപ്ലിക്കേഷൻ പുഷ് അറിയിപ്പുകൾ അയയ്‌ക്കും. നിങ്ങളുടെ സംവാ‍ദ താളിൽ ആരെങ്കിലും സന്ദേശം അയയ്ക്കുകയോ അല്ലെങ്കിൽ നിങ്ങളുടെ എഡിറ്റ് പഴയപടിയാക്കപ്പെടുകയോ ചെയ്താൽ അത് അറിയാൻ നിങ്ങളെ ഇത് സഹായിക്കും. ഇത് പ്രവർത്തിക്കാൻ Google Play Services ആവശ്യമാണ്. Google Play Services ഇല്ലാതെ തന്നെ ആപ്ലിക്കേഷൻ ഉപയോഗിക്കാൻ കഴിയും, പക്ഷേ പുഷ് അറിയിപ്പുകൾ പ്രവർത്തിക്കില്ല. Android 4.4 ഉപയോക്താക്കൾക്കും, ആപ്ലിക്കേഷൻ പ്രവർത്തിപ്പിക്കുന്നതിന് Google Play Services ആവശ്യമാണ്. [30][31]
വിക്കിമീഡിയ കോഡ് അവലോകനം GitLabലേക്ക് നീക്കപ്പെടാം. ഇത് വിക്കിമീഡിയ സെർവറുകളിൽ ഹോസ്റ്റുചെയ്യപ്പെടും. നിങ്ങൾക്ക് കൺസൾട്ടേഷൻൽ പങ്കെടുക്കാൻ സാധിക്കും.
വെക്റ്റർ സ്കിന്നിലെ ഡ്രോപ്പ്ഡൗൺ മെനുകൾ ഒരു .menu ക്ലാസ് ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നു. ഇത് ഭാവിയിൽ പ്രവർത്തിക്കില്ല. സ്ക്രിപ്റ്റുകൾക്ക് ഇതിന് പകരം nav ul ഉപയോഗിക്കാം. .vectorTabs, .vectorMenu എന്നിവയും പ്രവർത്തിക്കില്ല. ചില സ്ക്രിപ്റ്റുകൾ അപ്‌ഡേറ്റ് ചെയ്യേണ്ടതുണ്ട്. നിങ്ങൾക്ക് ഇതിനെപ്പറ്റി കൂടുതൽ ഫാബ്രിക്കേറ്ററിൽ വായിക്കുാം.

15:59, 7 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2020 (UTC)

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പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ

വിക്കിപീഡിയ അപ്ലിക്കേഷനുകൾ കഴിഞ്ഞയാഴ്ച CSS ഇല്ലാതെ പേജുകൾ ദൃശ്യമായിരുന്നു. ഇതിനർത്ഥം അവ തെറ്റായി ആയിരുന്നു കാണപ്പെട്ടിരുന്നത്. ഇത് വേഗത്തിൽ ശരിയാക്കിയെങ്കിലും CSS ഇല്ലാത്ത കാഷ്ഡ് പേജുകൾ കുറച്ച് മണിക്കൂറുകൾ കൂടി ഇങ്ങനെ കാണപ്പെട്ടിരുന്നു. [32][33]

ഈ ആഴ്ചയിലെ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

മീഡിയവിക്കിയുടെ പുതിയ പതിപ്പ് 15 സെപ്റ്റംബർ മുതൽ ടെസ്റ്റ് വിക്കികളിലും MediaWiki.org ലും ലഭിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും. 16 സെപ്റ്റംബർ മുതൽ വിക്കിപീഡിയ ഇതര വിക്കികളിലും ചില വിക്കിപീഡിയകളിലും ഇത് ലഭിക്കും. 17 സെപ്റ്റംബർ ഓടെ എല്ലാ വിക്കികളിലും ഇത് ലഭിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും (കലണ്ടർ).

16:19, 14 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2020 (UTC)

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സമീപകാല മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

പഴയപടിയാക്കിയ എഡിറ്റുകൾക്കായി ഒരു പുതിയ ടാഗ് ഉണ്ട്. പേജിന്റെ പഴയ പതിപ്പിലേക്ക് തിരസ്കരിച്ചതോ (undo) റോൾബാക്ക് ചെയ്തതോ സ്വമേധയാ തിരസ്കരിച്ചതോ (manual revert) ആയ എഡിറ്റുകൾ ഇത് കാണിക്കുന്നു. [34][35]

ഈ ആഴ്ചയിലെ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

വിക്കിയിൽ ഒരു നിശ്ചിത കാലയളവിൽ നിങ്ങൾക്ക് ചെയ്യാൻ കഴിയുന്നവയുടെ എണ്ണം പരിമിതപ്പെടുത്തിയിരിക്കുന്നു. ഇത് മിനിറ്റിലുള്ള എഡിറ്റുകളുടെ എണ്ണം അല്ലെങ്കിൽ ഒരു ദിവസം നിങ്ങൾ ഇമെയിൽ ചെയ്യുന്ന ഉപയോക്താക്കളുടെ എണ്ണം തുടങ്ങിയവ ആകാം. ചില ഉപയോക്തൃ അവകാശങ്ങളെ ഇവ ബാധിച്ചേക്കില്ല. പരിധി നിങ്ങളെ ബാധിക്കുന്നില്ലെങ്കിലും നിങ്ങൾക്ക് ഉടൻ തന്നെ അത് കാണാൻ സാധിക്കും. [36]
മീഡിയവിക്കിയുടെ പുതിയ പതിപ്പ് 22 സെപ്റ്റംബർ മുതൽ ടെസ്റ്റ് വിക്കികളിലും MediaWiki.org ലും ലഭിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും. 23 സെപ്റ്റംബർ മുതൽ വിക്കിപീഡിയ ഇതര വിക്കികളിലും ചില വിക്കിപീഡിയകളിലും ഇത് ലഭിക്കും. 24 സെപ്റ്റംബർ ഓടെ എല്ലാ വിക്കികളിലും ഇത് ലഭിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും (കലണ്ടർ).

21:27, 21 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-40[തിരുത്തുക]

സമീപകാല മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

അഡ്‌മിൻമാ‍ർക്ക് Special:AbuseLogൽ ഇല്ലാതാക്കിയ പുനരവലോകനങ്ങളിലേക്കുള്ള ലിങ്കുകൾ ഇപ്പോൾ കാണാൻ കഴിയും. ഇത് Special:Undelete ന്റെ ഇന്റർഫേസ് ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നു. [37]
ചില ഉപയോക്തൃ ഗ്രൂപ്പുകളിലേക്ക് എഡിറ്റർ‌മാർ‌ യാന്ത്രികമായി ചേർ‌ക്കപ്പെടുന്നു. ഉദാഹരണത്തിന്, എഡിറ്റർ‌മാരെ മതിയായ സമയവും എഡിറ്റുകളും ആയാൽ autoconfirmed users എന്നതിലേക്ക് ചേർ‌ക്കുന്നു. ദുരുപയോഗ അരിപ്പകൾക്ക് ഒരു നിശ്ചിത സമയത്തേക്ക് ഉപയോക്താക്കളെ സ്വപ്രേരിതമായി ഉപയോക്തൃ അവകാശങ്ങളിൽ ചേർക്കുന്നതിൽ നിന്ന് തടയാൻ കഴിയും. ഉപയോക്താക്കളെ അവരുടെ അവകാശങ്ങളിൽ നിന്ന് നീക്കംചെയ്യാനും അവയ്ക്ക് കഴിയും. ഫാബ്രിക്കേറ്ററിൽ‍ തങ്ങളുടെ വിക്കിക്ക് ഈ കാലയളവ് മാറ്റാൻ വിക്കികൾക്ക് ഇപ്പോൾ ആവശ്യപ്പെടാം. നിലവിൽ ഇത് അഞ്ച് ദിവസമാണ്. [38]

പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ

ഒരു പുതിയ മാറ്റം കാരണം കഴിഞ്ഞ വർഷം ചില ദുരുപയോഗ അരിപ്പകൾ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നത് നിർത്തി. ആ പ്രവർത്തനത്തിന് ലഭ്യമല്ലാത്ത വേരിയബിളുകൾ ഉപയോഗിക്കാൻ അവർ ശ്രമിച്ചാൽ അവ പരാജയപ്പെടും. ഇത് ഇപ്പോൾ പരിഹരിച്ചു. [39]

ഈ ആഴ്ചയിലെ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

മീഡിയവിക്കിയുടെ പുതിയ പതിപ്പ് 29 സെപ്റ്റംബർ മുതൽ ടെസ്റ്റ് വിക്കികളിലും MediaWiki.org ലും ലഭിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും. 30 സെപ്റ്റംബർ മുതൽ വിക്കിപീഡിയ ഇതര വിക്കികളിലും ചില വിക്കിപീഡിയകളിലും ഇത് ലഭിക്കും. 1 ഒക്ടോബർ ഓടെ എല്ലാ വിക്കികളിലും ഇത് ലഭിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും (കലണ്ടർ).

ഭാവിയിലെ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

സംവാ‍ദ താളിൽ നിന്നോ നാൾവഴിയിൽ നിന്നോ മറ്റ് ഭാഷാ പതിപ്പുകളിലേക്കുള്ള ഭാഷാ ലിങ്കുകൾ നിങ്ങൾക്ക് കാണാൻ കഴിയില്ല. നിങ്ങൾ ഒരു ലേഖനം എഡിറ്റുചെയ്യുമ്പോൾ അവ കാണിക്കില്ല. ഇത് മാറ്റാം. ഒരു നാൾവഴി താളിൽ നിന്ന് മറ്റൊരു നാൾവഴി താളിലേക്കാണോ ലേഖനത്തിലേക്കാണോ ലിങ്ക് ചെയ്യേണ്ടതെന്ന് തീരുമാനിച്ചിട്ടില്ല. നിങ്ങൾക്ക് ഫാബ്രിക്കേറ്ററിലെ ചർച്ചയിൽ പങ്കെടുക്കാം.
ലിങ്ക് നിറങ്ങൾ മാറാം. ലിങ്കുകളും മറ്റ് വാചകങ്ങളും തമ്മിലുള്ള വ്യത്യാസം കൂടുതൽ വ്യക്തമാക്കുന്നതിനാണിത്. നിങ്ങൾക്ക് ഫാബ്രിക്കേറ്ററിൽ കൂടുതൽ വായിക്കുാൻ സാധിക്കും.
നിങ്ങളുടെ ക്രമീകരണങ്ങളിൽ വെബിലാണോ ഇമെയിലിലാണോ വ്യത്യസ്ത അറിയിപ്പുകൾ ലഭിക്കുേണ്ടത് എന്നത് നിങ്ങൾക്ക് തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കാം. ഈ ആഴ്ച അവസാനം Apps എന്നത് ഇതരമാർഗങ്ങളിലൊന്നായി നിങ്ങൾ കാണും. Android, iOS വിക്കിപീഡിയ അപ്ലിക്കേഷനുകൾ ആഗ്രഹിക്കുന്നവർക്ക് പുഷ് അറിയിപ്പുകൾ നൽകുന്നതിനാലാണിത്. ടെസ്റ്റ് വിക്കിയിൽ നിങ്ങൾക്ക് ക്രമീകരണങ്ങൾ കാണാൻ കഴിയും. ഒക്ടോബറോടെ Android- ലും 2021 ന്റെ തുടക്കത്തോടെ iOS- ലും പുഷ് അറിയിപ്പുകൾ നേടുക എന്നതാണ് ലക്ഷ്യം. [40]
നിങ്ങൾക്ക് ഉടനെ തന്നെ ഒരു നിശ്ചിത സമയത്തേക്ക് നിങ്ങളുടെ വാച്ച് ലിസ്റ്റിൽ പേജുകൾ ഇടാനുള്ള സംവിധാനം ലഭിക്കും. നിങ്ങൾക്ക് കുറച്ച് സമയത്തേക്ക് എന്തെങ്കിലും കാണണമെങ്കിലും എന്നാൽ ഇത് എന്നെന്നേക്കുമായി നിങ്ങളുടെ വാച്ച് ലിസ്റ്റിൽ ആവശ്യമില്ലെങ്കിലും ഇത് ഉപയോഗിക്കാം. ഇത് ഇപ്പോൾ mediawiki.orgൽ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നു, പിന്നീട് കൂടുതൽ വിക്കികളിലേക്ക് വരും. നിങ്ങൾക്ക് കൂടുതൽ വായിക്കാനും മറ്റ് വിക്കികളിൽ എപ്പോൾ വരുമെന്ന് കാണാനും കഴിയും.
ഈ വർഷത്തെ മികച്ച പുതിയ സാങ്കേതിക ഉപകരണങ്ങളെന്ന് വിക്കിമീഡിയക്കാർ കരുതുന്നവയെ നിങ്ങൾക്ക് കാണാൻ കഴിയും. നിങ്ങൾക്ക് അവയെ നാമനിർദ്ദേശം ചെയ്യാനും കഴിയും.

21:24, 28 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2020 (UTC)

മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയിൽ വിക്കിഡാറ്റ ഇൻഫോബോക്സുകൾ വ്യാപകമായി ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നത് സംബന്ധിച്ച്[തിരുത്തുക]

മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലെ ഇൻഫോബോക്സുകളിൽ ഭൂരിഭാഗവും ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് ഭാഷഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നവയാണെന്ന് അറിയാമല്ലോ. വിവർത്തനം ചെയ്യുന്ന ലേഖനങ്ങളിലെ എല്ലാത്തരത്തിലുള്ള ഇൻഫോബോക്സുകളും ഇംഗ്ലീഷിലാണ് ഇവിടെ വരുന്നത്. അത് പിന്നീട് മാന്വലായി മലയാളത്തിലാക്കുകയാണ് ചെയ്യുന്നത്. അതുകൊണ്ട് അത്തരത്തിലുള്ള ലേഖനങ്ങളിൽ എല്ലാം തന്നെ വ്യാപകമായ തിരുത്തൽ ആവശ്യമാണ്. കൂടാതെ മലയാളത്തിൽ മാത്രം ഉള്ള ലേഖനങ്ങളിൽ ഇൻഫോബോക്സുകൾ നിർമ്മിക്കുന്നത് കുറച്ച് ശ്രമകരമായ പണിയാണ്. ഇതിന് ഓരോ വിഷയങ്ങളിലുമുള്ള ഇൻഫോബോക്സുകളുടെ വിശദമായ പഠനം വേണ്ടിവരും. ഈ രണ്ട് പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾക്കുമുള്ള ഒരു എളുപ്പ പരിഹാരമാണ് വിക്കിഡാറ്റ ഇൻഫോബോക്സുകൾ. ഇത്തരം ഇൻഫോബോക്സുകളിലെ ഡാറ്റ മുഴുവനും വിക്കിഡാറ്റയിൽ നിന്നാണ് വരുന്നത്. അതുകൊണ്ട് ഡാറ്റ തിരുത്തേണ്ടത് വിക്കിഡാറ്റയിലാണ്. കൂടാതെ വിക്കിഡാറ്റ എല്ലാ ഭാഷകളെയും പിൻതുണയ്ക്കുന്നതായതുകൊണ്ട് മലയാളം ഡാറ്റ കൊണ്ടുവരിക എന്നത് ശ്രമകരമായ കാര്യമല്ല. കൂടാതെ ഒന്നിലധികം സ്ഥലങ്ങളിൽ ഡാറ്റയുടെ വിവ‍ർത്തനം ഒഴിവാകും.

ഗുണങ്ങൾ

ഇൻഫോബോക്സുകൾ ഓട്ടോമാറ്റി്ക്കായി ഉണ്ടാവുന്നു. ഓരോ ലേഖനത്തിലും വലിയ പട്ടിക തുടക്കത്തിലേ ചേർക്കേണ്ടതില്ല
ലേഖനം തിരുത്തുമ്പോൾ (വിക്കിഎഡിറ്റ് മോഡിൽ) തുടക്കത്തിൽ കാണപ്പെടുന്ന വലിയ ഒരു പട്ടിക ഒഴിവാകുന്നു. കൂടുതൽ വൃത്തിയായി കാണപ്പെടുന്നു.
ഒരു വിവരത്തിന്റെ ഒന്നിലധികം സ്ഥലങ്ങളിലുള്ള വിവർത്തനം ഒഴിവാക്കപ്പെടുന്നു. ഉദാ: രാജ്യം എന്ന വിവരം ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന എല്ലാ ഇൻഫോബോക്സുകളിലും തിരുത്തണം പക്ഷെ വിക്കിഡാറ്റയിലാവുമ്പോൾ ഒരു സ്ഥലത്ത് മാത്രം തിരുത്തിയാൽ മതി
വിക്കിഡാറ്റയിൽ കൂടുതൽ പേർ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നതുകൊണ്ട് ഡാറ്റ കൂടുതൽ ശരിയായിരിക്കാനും അപ്ഡേറ്റഡായിരിക്കാനുമുള്ള സാദ്ധ്യത
കൂടുതൽ വിവരങ്ങൾക്ക് അവലംബങ്ങൾ ഉണ്ടായിരിക്കാനുള്ള സാദ്ധ്യത
എല്ലാത്തരത്തിലുമുള്ള ലേഖനങ്ങളിൽ ഇൻഫോബോക്സുകൾ എളുപ്പത്തിൽ ചേർക്കാനുള്ള സൗകര്യം

ദോഷങ്ങൾ

ഡാറ്റ മുഴുവനും വിക്കിഡാറ്റയിൽ നിന്ന് വരുന്നു. ഇവിടെ ഡാറ്റ സൂക്ഷിക്കുന്നില്ല
വിക്കിഡാറ്റയിൽ തിരുത്തപ്പെടുന്നതനുസരിച്ച് ഇവിടത്തെ ഡാറ്റയിൽ മാറ്റം വരുന്നു.
വിക്കിഡാറ്റയിൽ ഇല്ലാത്ത വിവരം ഇൻഫോബോക്സിൽ വരില്ല.

ഇവിടെ ഉപയോഗിക്കപ്പെട്ടട്ടുള്ള ചില ഇൻഫോബോക്സുകൾ - ലിനസ്‌ ബെനഡിക്റ്റ്‌ ടോർവാൾഡ്സ്‌ - Infobox person/Wikidata , മഞ്ഞപ്ര_(എറണാകുളം_ജില്ല) - Databox എന്നീ വിക്കിഡാറ്റ ഇൻഫോബോക്സുകൾ സാമ്പിളായി ഉപയോഗിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു. കൂടുതൽ വിക്കിഡാറ്റ ഇൻഫോബോക്സുകൾ കറ്റാലൻ വിക്കിയിൽ ഉള്ളത് ഇവിടെ - മലയാളത്തിൽ കാണാൻ ഇന്റർഫേസ് ഭാഷ മലയാളമാക്കിയാൽ മതി. കറ്റാലൻ ഭാഷയിലുള്ള 80 വിക്കിഡാറ്റ ഇൻഫോബോക്സുകൾ

ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് വിക്കിയിൽ ആളുകൾ കൂടുതലുള്ളതുകൊണ്ട് അവിടെ വളരെ കുറച്ച് വിക്കിഡാറ്റ ഇൻഫോബോക്സുകളാണ് ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നത്. ചെറിയ വിക്കികളിലാണ് ഇവ കൂടുതലായി ഉപയോഗിക്കാനാവുക അതുകൊണ്ട് കറ്റാലൻ ഭാഷയിൽ നിന്ന് ഇവ ഇങ്ങോട് ഇറക്കുമതി ചെയ്ത് തിരുത്തി മലയാളമാക്കേണ്ടിവരും. ഇവയെപ്പറ്റിയുള്ള അഭിപ്രായവും വോട്ടുകളും നടത്തിയാൽ നമുക്ക് അടുത്ത നടപടികൾ തീരുമാനിക്കാം. --രൺജിത്ത് സിജി {Ranjithsiji} ✉ 15:34, 3 ഒക്ടോബർ 2020 (UTC)Reply[മറുപടി]

ഘട്ടം ഘട്ടമായി ഒരോ വിഭാഗത്തിലും കൊണ്ടു വന്നു നോക്കാം, സാങ്കേതിക പദങ്ങളുടെ തർജ്ജിമ പ്രശ്നമാകാൻ ഇടയുണ്ട്. തൽക്കാലം വ്യക്തികൾ, സ്ഥലങ്ങൾ, ബന്ദ്ധപ്പെട്ടിട്ടുള്ള ലേഖനങ്ങളിൽ പരീക്ഷണാടിസ്ഥാനത്തിൽ ചേർക്കാമെന്ന് കരുതുന്നു.--KG (കിരൺ) 16:18, 4 ഒക്ടോബർ 2020 (UTC)Reply[മറുപടി]

പരീക്ഷണാടിസ്ഥാനത്തിൽ കുറച്ച് ഇൻഫോബോക്സുകൾ ആദ്യം ചെയ്യുന്നതിനോട് യോജിക്കുന്നു. മുൻപൊക്കെ മിക്കപ്പോഴും ഭാഷാവ്യത്യാസങ്ങൾ പ്രശ്നമാവാറുണ്ടായിരുന്നു. അതായത്, Language "inflections" പലപ്പോഴും ഇംഗ്ലീഷ്, യൂറോപ്യൻ ഭാഷാ ശൈലികൾക്ക് മാത്രം ഉതകുന്ന തരത്തിലാണ് പലയിടത്തും കോഡു ചെയ്തു വച്ചിരിക്കുന്നത്. അതുകൊണ്ട് ഏറെ മാറ്റേണ്ടിവരാനും സാധ്യതയുണ്ട്. എല്ലാ ഇൻഫോബോക്സും കുത്തിയിരുന്ന് മാറ്റേണ്ട സാഹചര്യമുണ്ടായാൽ ഇരട്ടിപ്പണിയാവാം. കാരണം ഇപ്പോഴത്തേതിൽനിന്ന് വിപരീതമായി രണ്ടു വിക്കികളിൽ മാറ്റം വരുത്തേണ്ടതിനാൽ. അതുകൊണ്ട് ഒന്ന് പരീക്ഷിച്ചു നോക്കിയിട്ട് കുഴപ്പമൊന്നുമില്ലങ്കിൽ വ്യാപകമായി ചെയ്യാനാണ് എന്റെ എളിയ നിർദേശം. --ജേക്കബ് (സംവാദം) 20:44, 4 ഒക്ടോബർ 2020 (UTC)Reply[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2020-41[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Recent changes

There is a new tool where you can see which home wiki users have in discussions on Meta. This can help show which communities are not part of the discussion on wikis where we make decisions that affect many other wikis.
You can now thank users for file uploads or for changing the language of a page. [41]

Problems

There were many errors with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new version was rolled back. Updates that should have happened last week are late. [42]
Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [43]
Many pages have JavaScript errors. You can read more and now see a list of user scripts with errors.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 October. It will be on all wikis from 8 October (calendar).
Letters immediately after a link are shown as part of the link. For example the entire word in [[Child]]ren is linked. On Arabic wikis this works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic letters will extend links on Arabic wikis. [44]

Future changes

You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [45]

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16:24, 5 ഒക്ടോബർ 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-42[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Problems

Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last week's updates are also late. [46][47][48]

Changes later this week

Live previews didn't show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This has now been fixed. You can also test CSS and JavaScript pages even if you have the live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well. [49][50]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (calendar).

Future changes

A new stable version of Pywikibot is coming soon. [51]

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15:24, 12 ഒക്ടോബർ 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-43[തിരുത്തുക]

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 20 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 October. It will be on all wikis from 22 October (calendar).

Future changes

You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [52]
In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [53]
Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID #jump-to-nav. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either #siteSub or #mw-content-text. A list of affected scripts is at the top of phab:T265373.

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16:31, 19 ഒക്ടോബർ 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-44[തിരുത്തുക]

പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ

27 ഒക്ടോബർ ഏകദേശം 14:00ന് (UTC) നിങ്ങൾക്ക് വിക്കികൾ വായിക്കാൻ കഴിയും എന്നാൽ ഒരു മണിക്കൂർ വരെ എഡിറ്റുചെയ്യാൻ കഴിയില്ല. ഇത് ഒരു മണിക്കൂർ പോലും ഉണ്ടാകില്ല. [54]
കഴിഞ്ഞ ആഴ്ച, മൊബൈൽ വാച്ച് ലിസ്റ്റുകളിലും സമീപകാല മാറ്റങ്ങളിലും "മാറ്റങ്ങൾ" എന്ന ലിങ്കുകൾ വ്യത്യാസങ്ങൾക്ക് പകരം പേജ് നാൾപ്പതിപ്പിലേക്ക് ലിങ്കുചെയ്തിരുന്നു. ഇത് ഇപ്പോൾ പരിഹരിച്ചു. [55]

ഈ ആഴ്ചയിലെ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

ഈ ആഴ്ച പുതിയ മീഡിയവിക്കി പതിപ്പുകളൊന്നുമില്ല.

ഭാവിയിലെ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

2018 ൽ ഇന്റർഫേസ് അഡ്മിനിസ്ട്രേറ്റർ എന്ന ഉപയോക്തൃ ഗ്രൂപ്പ് അവതരിപ്പിച്ചതുമുതൽ, അഡ്മിനിസ്ട്രേറ്റർമാർക്ക് CSS/JS പേജുകളുടെ ഇല്ലാതാക്കിയ ചരിത്രം കാണാൻ കഴിഞ്ഞിരുന്നില്ല. ഇപ്പോൾ അവർക്ക് കഴിയും. [56]
ചേഞ്ച് ടാഗുകൾ എന്നതിൽ ഒരു പ്രശ്‌നമുണ്ടായിരുന്നു. തിരസ്കരിച്ച എഡിറ്റിന് ശേഷം നേരിട്ട് ലരുന്ന പേജ്-സംരക്ഷണ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ പോലുള്ള പേജ് പ്രവർത്തനങ്ങൾക്ക് സോഫ്റ്റ്വെയർ "Reverted" ടാഗ് ഉപയോഗിക്കുമായിരുന്നു. പുതിയ എഡിറ്റുകളിൽ ഇത് ഇപ്പോൾ പരിഹരിച്ചുട്ടുണ്ട്. [57]
Reply tool നവംബറിൽ മിക്ക വിക്കിപീഡിയകളിലും ഒരു ഓപ്റ്റ്-ഇൻ ബീറ്റ സവിശേഷത ആയി വരുന്നതായിരിക്കും. കുറിപ്പ്: തീയതി തീരുമാനിച്ചുകഴിഞ്ഞാൽ മറ്റൊരു പ്രഖ്യാപനം നടത്തുന്നതായിരിക്കും. [58]

17:38, 26 ഒക്ടോബർ 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-45[തിരുത്തുക]

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

You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser uses very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It could lead to downgrade attacks. Since October 29, 2020, users who use old TLS versions will not be able to connect to Wikimedia projects. A list of browser recommendations is available. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [59]
There is a new automatic tracking category available: Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments. It collects pages which use the {{formatnum}} parser function with invalid (non-numeric) input, e.g. {{formatnum:TECHNEWS}}. Note that {{formatnum:123,456}} is also invalid input: as described in the documentation, the argument should be unformatted so that it can be reliably and correctly localised. The tracking category will help identify problematic usage and double-formatting. The new tracking category's name can be translated at translatewiki. [60]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 4. It will be on all wikis from November 5 (calendar).
Administrators and stewards will be able to use a special page (Special:CreateLocalAccount) to force local account creation for a global account. This is useful when account creation is blocked for that user (by a block or a filter). [61]
The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias on November 4. This change excludes the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias, plus a few smaller Wikipedias with special circumstances. You can read the help page and the troubleshooting guide for more information. [62]

Future changes

A discussion has been restarted about using a Unicode minus sign (− U+2212) in the output of {{formatnum}} when it is given a negative argument. [63]
In the future IP addresses of unregistered users will not be shown for everyone. They will get an alias instead. There will be a new user right or an opt-in function for more vandal fighters to see the IPs of unregistered users. There would be some criteria for who gets the user right or opt-in. There will also be other new tools to help handle vandalism. This is early in the process and the developers are still collecting information from the communities before they suggest solutions.

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16:09, 2 നവംബർ 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-46[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

You can see reference previews. This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been a beta feature. It will move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be the first ones. You can let them know if your wiki is interested. [64]
From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the internationalisation library. They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [65][66]

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15:50, 9 നവംബർ 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-47[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [67][68]

Changes later this week

If you merged two pages in a namespace where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed. [69]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 November. It will be on all wikis from 19 November (calendar).

Future changes

The Community Wishlist Survey is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.

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15:37, 16 നവംബർ 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-48[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Timestamps in Special:Log are now links. They go to Special:Log for only that entry. This is how timestamps work on for example the history page. [70]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from 1 December. Unclaimed projects can be deleted from 1 January. [71]

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17:18, 23 നവംബർ 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-49[തിരുത്തുക]

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 1 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 December. It will be on all wikis from 3 December (calendar).

Future changes

The iOS Wikipedia app will show readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will first be shown only to some iOS app users as a test. [72][73]
The Wiki Replicas can be used for SQL queries. You can use Quarry, PAWS or other ways to do this. To make the Wiki Replicas stable there will be two changes. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. [74]

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17:44, 30 നവംബർ 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-50[തിരുത്തുക]

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

You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [75][76]

Changes later this week

Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [77][78]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all wikis from 10 December (calendar).

Future changes

You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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16:14, 7 ഡിസംബർ 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-51[തിരുത്തുക]

സമീപകാല മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

KaiOS ഫോണുകൾക്കായി ഒരു വിക്കിപീഡിയ ആപ്ലിക്കേഷൻ ഉണ്ട്. സെപ്റ്റംബറിൽ ഇത് ഇന്ത്യയിൽ പുറത്തിറങ്ങി. ഇത് ഇപ്പോൾ മറ്റ് രാജ്യങ്ങളിലും ഡൗൺലോഡ് ചെയ്യാൻ കഴിയും. [79]

ഈ ആഴ്ചയിലെ മാറ്റങ്ങൾ

മീഡിയവിക്കിയുടെ പുതിയ പതിപ്പ് 15 ഡിസംബർ മുതൽ ടെസ്റ്റ് വിക്കികളിലും MediaWiki.org ലും ലഭിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും. 16 ഡിസംബർ മുതൽ വിക്കിപീഡിയ ഇതര വിക്കികളിലും ചില വിക്കിപീഡിയകളിലും ഇത് ലഭിക്കും. 17 ഡിസംബർ ഓടെ എല്ലാ വിക്കികളിലും ഇത് ലഭിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും (കലണ്ടർ).

21:34, 14 ഡിസംബർ 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-52[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2021.

Recent changes

The {{citation needed}} template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added. [80]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a <langconvert> tag that can convert a piece of text on a page. [81]
Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January. [82]

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20:53, 21 ഡിസംബർ 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-02[തിരുത്തുക]

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

You can choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed. [83]
You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [84]
Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
- The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [85]
- Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [86]
- When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback. [87]
Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the watchlist to watch will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [88]
Scribunto's file metadata now includes length. [89]
CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50. [90]
There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all wikis from 14 January (calendar).

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15:42, 11 ജനുവരി 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-03[തിരുത്തുക]

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 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all wikis from 21 January (calendar).

Future changes

The Growth team plans to add features to get more visitors to edit to more Wikipedias. You can help translating the interface.
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). [91]
MassMessage posts could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be timestamped you can let the developers know.

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16:09, 18 ജനുവരി 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-04[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Problems

You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech for a short time on 28 January at 09:00 (UTC). [92][93]

Changes later this week

Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [94]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

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18:30, 25 ജനുവരി 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-05[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Problems

IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed. [95]

Changes later this week

You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [96]
Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [97][98]
Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55 as well as the 1.2.3.4/27 syntax for IP ranges. [99]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Future changes

Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more. [100][101]
Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be 185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.

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22:38, 1 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-06[തിരുത്തുക]

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 Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [102]

Changes later this week

You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [103]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Future changes

When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [104][105]
Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [106]
Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [107]

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17:41, 8 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-07[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Problems

There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned. [108][109]
Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [110]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).

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17:55, 15 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2021 (UTC)

Technical maintenance planed‬[തിരുത്തുക]

A maintenance operation will be performed tomorrow morning UTC time (Wednesday 17th at 07:00 AM UTC).

It will impact all wikis and is supposed to last up to one minute.

During this time, new translations may fail, and Notifications may not be delivered. For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.

A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.

Thank you, SGrabarczuk (WMF) 17:45, 16 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2021 (UTC)Reply[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2021-08[തിരുത്തുക]

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 visual editor will now use MediaSearch to find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better images. [111]
The syntax highlighter now works with more languages: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU. [112]

Problems

Editing a timeline might have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly. [113]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 February. It will be on all wikis from 25 February (calendar).

Future changes

There is a user group for developers and users interested in working on Wikimedia wikis with the Rust programming language. You can join or tell others who want to make your wiki better in the future.

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00:17, 23 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-09[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Recent changes

Wikis using the Growth team tools can now show the name of a newcomer's mentor anywhere through a magic word. This can be used for welcome messages or userboxes.
A new version of the VideoCutTool is now available. It enables cropping, trimming, audio disabling, and rotating video content. It is being created as part of the developer outreach programs.

Problems

There was a problem with the job queue. This meant some functions did not save changes and mass messages were delayed. This did not affect wiki edits. [114]
Some editors may not be logged in to their accounts automatically in the latest versions of Firefox and Safari. [115]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 March. It will be on all wikis from 4 March (calendar).

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19:07, 1 മാർച്ച് 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-10[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Section translation now works on Bengali Wikipedia. It helps mobile editors translate sections of articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis with a smaller number of articles. You can test it and leave feedback.
Flagged revisions now give admins the review right. [116]
When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article. [117]

Problems

Many graphs have JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing. [118]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 March. It will be on all wikis from 11 March (calendar).
The New Discussion tool will soon be a new discussion tools beta feature for on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new discussions. [119]

Future changes

There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates and those who create or maintain them. You can read more.
Reference Previews will become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a setting with Page Previews. If you prefer the Reference Tooltips or Navigation-Popups gadget you can keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown. [120][121]
New JavaScript-based functions will not work in Internet Explorer 11. This is because Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can read more.

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17:51, 8 മാർച്ച് 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-11[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Recent changes

Wikis that are part of the desktop improvements project can now use a new search function. The desktop improvements and the new search will come to more wikis later. You can also test it early.
Editors who put up banners or change site-wide JavaScript code should use the client error graph to see that their changes has not caused problems. You can read more. [122]

Problems

Due to database issues the Wikimedia Beta Cluster was read-only for over a day.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 March. It will be on all wikis from 18 March (calendar).

Future changes

You can add a newline or carriage return character to a custom signature if you use a template. There is a proposal to not allow them in the future. This is because they can cause formatting problems. [123][124]
You will be able to read but not edit 12 wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
You can use Quarry for SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. PAWS and other ways to do SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later. [125]

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23:22, 15 മാർച്ച് 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-12[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Recent changes

There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. They don't have a touch screen so readers navigate with the phone keys. There is now a simulator so you can see what it looks like.
The reply tool and new discussion tool are now available as the "Discussion tools" beta feature in almost all wikis except German Wikipedia.

Problems

You will be able to read but not edit twelve wikis for a short period of time on 23 മാർച്ച് at 06:00 (UTC). This can also affect password changes, logging in to new wikis, global renames and changing or confirming emails. This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 March. It will be on all wikis from 25 March (calendar).
Syntax highlighting colours will change to be easier to read. This will soon come to the first wikis. [126]

Future changes

Flagged revisions will no longer have multiple tags like "tone" or "depth". It will also only have one tier. This was changed because very few wikis used these features and they make the tool difficult to maintain. [127][128]
Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015 this was moved from wg* to mw.config. wg* will soon no longer work. [129]

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16:52, 22 മാർച്ച് 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-13[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Some very old web browsers don’t work well with the Wikimedia wikis. Some old code for browsers that used to be supported is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. [130]
IRC recent changes feeds have been moved to a new server. Make sure all tools automatically reconnect to irc.wikimedia.org and not to the name of any specific server. Users should also consider switching to the more modern EventStreams. [131]

Problems

When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split. It might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. [132]
Some translatable pages on Meta could not be edited. This was because of a bug in the translation tool. The new MediaWiki version was delayed because of problems like this. [133][134]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 March. It will be on all wikis from 1 April (calendar).

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17:30, 29 മാർച്ച് 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-14[തിരുത്തുക]

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 can collapse part of an article so you have to click on it to see it. When you click a link to a section inside collapsed content it will now expand to show the section. The browser will scroll down to the section. Previously such links didn't work unless you manually expanded the content first. [135]

Changes later this week

The citoid API will use for example 2010-12-XX instead of 2010-12 for dates with a month but no days. This is because 2010-12 could be confused with 2010-2012 instead of December 2010. This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the Extended Date/Time Format. [136]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 April. It will be on all wikis from 8 April (calendar).

Future changes

PAWS can now connect to the new Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 28 April. There is a new way to connect to the databases. Until 28 April both ways to connect to the databases will work. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech.

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19:39, 5 ഏപ്രിൽ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-16[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Email to the Wikimedia wikis are handled by groups of Wikimedia editors. These volunteer response teams now use Znuny instead of OTRS. The functions and interface remain the same. The volunteer administrators will give more details about the next steps soon. [137][138]
If you use syntax highlighting, you can see line numbers in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors when editing templates. This is to make it easier to see line breaks or talk about specific lines. Line numbers will soon come to all namespaces. [139][140][141]
Because of a technical change there could be problems with gadgets and scripts that have an edit summary area that looks similar to this one. If they look strange they should use mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.edit.styles') to go back to how they looked before. [142]
The latest version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis last week. There was no Tech News issue last week.

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in two weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.

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16:48, 19 ഏപ്രിൽ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-17[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Templates have parameters that can have specific values. It is possible to suggest values for editors with TemplateData. You can soon see them as a drop-down list in the visual editor. This is to help template users find the right values faster. [143][144][145]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 April. It will be on all wikis from 29 April (calendar).

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21:24, 26 ഏപ്രിൽ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-18[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Twinkle is a gadget on English Wikipedia. It can help with maintenance and patrolling. It can now be used on other wikis. You can get Twinkle on your wiki using the twinkle-starter GitHub repository.

Problems

The content translation tool did not work for many articles for a little while. This was because of a bug. [146]
Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes. [147]

Changes later this week

Reference Previews will become a default feature on a number of wikis on 5 May. This is later than planned because of some changes. You can use it without using Page Previews if you want to. The earlier plan was to have the preference to use both or none. [148][149]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Future changes

The CSS classes .error, .warning and .success do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead. [150]

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15:43, 3 മേയ് 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-19[തിരുത്തുക]

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 11 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 May. It will be on all wikis from 13 May (calendar).

Future changes

You can see what participants plan to work on at the online Wikimedia hackathon 22–23 May.

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15:09, 10 മേയ് 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-20[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Recent changes

There is a new toolbar in the Reply tool. It works in the wikitext source mode. You can enable it in your preferences. [151] [152] [153]
Wikimedia mailing lists are being moved to Mailman 3. This is a newer version. For the character encoding to work it will change from UTF-8 to utf8mb3. [154][155]
An earlier issue of Tech News said that the citoid API would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first. [156]

Changes later this week

MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist will be renamed MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist. The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles. [157]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 May. It will be on all wikis from 20 May (calendar).

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13:48, 17 മേയ് 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-21[തിരുത്തുക]

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 Wikimedia movement has been using IRC on a network called Freenode. There have been changes around who is in control of the network. The Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts have decided to move to the new Libera Chat network instead. This is not a formal decision for the movement to move all channels but most Wikimedia IRC channels will probably leave Freenode. There is a migration guide and ongoing Wikimedia discussions about this.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 May. It will be on all wikis from 27 May (calendar).

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17:06, 24 മേയ് 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-22[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Problems

There was an issue on the Vector skin with the text size of categories and notices under the page title. It was fixed last Monday. [158]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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17:05, 31 മേയ് 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-23[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 June. It will be on all wikis from 10 June (calendar).

Future changes

The Wikimedia movement uses Phabricator for technical tasks. This is where we collect technical suggestions, bugs and what developers are working on. The company behind Phabricator will stop working on it. This will not change anything for the Wikimedia movement now. It could lead to changes in the future. [159][160][161]
Searching on Wikipedia will find more results in some languages. This is mainly true for when those who search do not use the correct diacritics because they are not seen as necessary in that language. For example searching for Bedusz doesn't find Będusz on German Wikipedia. The character ę isn't used in German so many would write e instead. This will work better in the future in some languages. [162]
The CSRF token parameters in the action API were changed in 2014. The old parameters from before 2014 will stop working soon. This can affect bots, gadgets and user scripts that still use the old parameters. [163][164]

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20:02, 7 ജൂൺ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-24[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Recent changes

Logged-in users on the mobile web can choose to use the advanced mobile mode. They now see categories in a similar way as users on desktop do. This means that some gadgets that have just been for desktop users could work for users of the mobile site too. If your wiki has such gadgets you could decide to turn them on for the mobile site too. Some gadgets probably need to be fixed to look good on mobile. [165]
Language links on Wikidata now works for multilingual Wikisource. [166]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

In the future we can't show the IP of unregistered editors to everyone. This is because privacy regulations and norms have changed. There is now a rough draft of how showing the IP to those who need to see it could work.
German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [167]
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 28 June. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [168][169]

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20:26, 14 ജൂൺ 2021 (UTC)

Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions[തിരുത്തുക]

Dear all,

Wikimania 2021 will be hosted virtually for the first time in the event's 15-year history. Since there is no in-person host, the event is being organized by a diverse group of Wikimedia volunteers that form the Core Organizing Team (COT) for Wikimania 2021.

Event Program - Individuals or a group of individuals can submit their session proposals to be a part of the program. There will be translation support for sessions provided in a number of languages. See more information here.

Below are some links to guide you through;

Please note that the deadline for submission is 18th June 2021.

Announcements- To keep up to date with the developments around Wikimania, the COT sends out weekly updates. You can view them in the Announcement section here.

Office Hour - If you are left with questions, the COT will be hosting some office hours (in multiple languages), in multiple time-zones, to answer any programming questions that you might have. Details can be found here.

Best regards,

MediaWiki message delivery (സംവാദം) 04:18, 16 ജൂൺ 2021 (UTC)Reply[മറുപടി]

On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team

Tech News: 2021-25[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Recent changes

The otrs-member group name is now vrt-permissions. This could affect abuse filters. [170]

Problems

You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [171]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 June. It will be on all wikis from 24 June (calendar).

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15:48, 21 ജൂൺ 2021 (UTC)

Editing news 2021 #2[തിരുത്തുക]

ഇത് മറ്റൊരു ഭാഷയിൽ വായിക്കുക. • ഈ ബഹുഭാഷാവാർത്താക്കുറിപ്പിൻറെ സബ്‌സ്ക്രിപ്ഷൻ പട്ടിക

Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

പ്രധാന ഫലങ്ങൾ:

മറുപടി ടൂളുകളുള്ള, ഡീഫോൾട്ടായി പ്രവേശനാനുവാദമുള്ള പുതിയ എഡിറ്റർമാർ ഒരു ടോക് പേജിൽ അഭിപ്രായങ്ങൾ രേഖപ്പെടുത്തേണ്ടതായിട്ടുണ്ട്.
The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

ഈ ടൂളുകൾ സഹായകമാണെന്നുള്ള ആത്മവിശ്വാസം എഡിറ്റിംഗ് ടീമിനുണ്ടാക്കാൻ ഈ ഫലങ്ങൾ സഹായിക്കും.

പ്രതീക്ഷകളോടെ

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "Discussion tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (സംവാദം)

14:14, 24 ജൂൺ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-26[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Recent changes

Wikis with the Growth features now can configure Growth features directly on their wiki. This uses the new special page Special:EditGrowthConfig. [172]
Wikisources have a new OCR tool. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add .ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; } to your common.css page. [173]

Problems

You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [174][175]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 June. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

Future changes

Threshold for stub link formatting, thumbnail size and auto-number headings can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback.
A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users. [176][177]

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16:31, 28 ജൂൺ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-27[തിരുത്തുക]

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

The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 19 July.

Recent changes

AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes. [178]

Problems

InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from archive.is to web.archive.org. [179]

Changes later this week

The tool to find, add and remove templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year. [180][181]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful. [182]

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17:32, 5 ജൂലൈ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-29[തിരുത്തുക]

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 tool to find, add and remove templates was updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It was supposed to come to the first wikis on 7 July. It was delayed to 12 July instead. It will come to more wikis later this year. [183][184]
Special:UnconnectedPages lists pages that are not connected to Wikidata. This helps you find pages that can be connected to Wikidata items. Some pages should not be connected to Wikidata. You can use the magic word __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ on pages that should not be listed on the special page. [185]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 July. It will be on all wikis from 22 July (calendar).

Future changes

How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will soon change. This can affect bots, gadgets, user scripts and extensions. You can read more. You can test it on Testwiki or Testwiki 2.
The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more.

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15:31, 19 ജൂലൈ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-30[തിരുത്തുക]

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

A new version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis the week before last week. This was not in Tech News because there was no newsletter that week.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 July. It will be on all wikis from 29 July (calendar).

Future changes

If you use the Monobook skin you can choose to switch off responsive design on mobile. This will now work for more skins. If ⧼monobook-responsive-label⧽ is unticked you need to also untick the new preference Enable responsive mode. Otherwise it will stop working. Interface admins can automate this process on your wiki. You can read more.

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21:10, 26 ജൂലൈ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-31[തിരുത്തുക]

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 your wiki uses markup like <div class="mw-content-ltr"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl"> without the required dir attribute, then these will no longer work in 2 weeks. There is a short-term fix that can be added to your local wiki's Common.css page, which is explained at T287701. From now on, all usages should include the full attributes, for example: <div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="en"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl" dir="rtl" lang="he">. This also applies to some other HTML tags, such as span or code. You can find existing examples on your wiki that need to be updated, using the instructions at T287701.
Reminder: Wikimedia has migrated to the Libera Chat IRC network, from the old Freenode network. Local documentation should be updated.

Problems

Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 30 minutes. There was a problem with generating dynamic lists of articles on the Russian Wikinews, due to the bulk import of 200,000+ new articles over 3 days, which led to database problems. The problematic feature has been disabled on that wiki and developers are discussing if it can be fixed properly. [186][187]

Changes later this week

When adding links to a page using VisualEditor or the 2017 wikitext editor, disambiguation pages will now only appear at the bottom of search results. This is because users do not often want to link to disambiguation pages. [188]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 August. It will be on all wikis from 5 August (calendar).

Future changes

The team of the Wikipedia app for Android is working on communication in the app. The developers are working on how to talk to other editors and get notifications. You can read more. They are looking for users who want to test the plans. Any editor who has an Android phone and is willing to download the app can do this.
The Beta Feature for Discussion tools will be updated in the coming weeks. You will be able to subscribe to individual sections on a talk page at more wikis. You can test this now by adding ?dtenable=1 to the end of the talk page's URL (example).

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20:46, 2 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2021 (UTC)

[please test] Growth team features[തിരുത്തുക]

Hello! Sorry to use English. Please help translate to your language.

I'm Trizek (WMF). I work as a community relations specialist for the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm here to share a message from the Growth team.

As you may already know, the Growth team's goal is to create features that would help newcomers. Our goal is to help newcomers when they edit for the first time and also to increase the retention of new editors. Several wikis already have these features since a long time now. Working with these wikis, the Growth team found evidence of the efficiency of these new features.

These features will be available for all new accounts on your Wikipedia starting on the week of August 23, 2021. This way your Wikipedia will offer more options for newcomers to make good first edits and become community members.

Which features?[തിരുത്തുക]

We have created several features to help them, and also to help community members who help them :

Newcomer homepage: a new special page, the best place for a newcomer to get started. Please visit it at Special:Homepage It includes:
- Newcomer tasks: a feed of task suggestions that help newcomers learn to edit. Newcomers have been making productive edits through this feed! Know more about this tool.
- Mentorship module [optional]: each newcomers has a direct link to an experienced user (see below). This way, they can ask questions about editing Wikipedia, less the need to find where to ask for assistance.
- Impact module: the user sees how many pages views articles they edit received. Have a look at Special:Impact for yours!
Help panel: a platform to provide resources to newcomers while they are editing. If they do some suggested tasks, they are guided step-by-step on the process of editing.
Welcome Survey: communities can know why newcomers create an account on Wikipedia. You can see it at Special:WelcomeSurvey.

The features available right now in your preferences (here and there) so that you can try them. They are not yet visible to newcomers.

How to help?[തിരുത്തുക]

First, we need help to translate the features. At the moment, most of the messages newcomers will see on your Wikipedia are in English, some of them have been translated using machine translation. Please help translate the interface (done on translatewiki.net. It needs a specific account).

Also, I need your help checking on the configuration the team setups as default. Please try the features and let us know if something questions you.

Newcomers tasks are based on templates to suggest edits to newcomers. You can check the templates used on MediaWiki:NewcomerTasks.json. You can also change the templates and the help links defined there. Several templates can be added for the same task.

It you are familiar with Phabricator, here is the ticket about this deployment. Please find your wiki in the list to access all the information we used for the deployment. Please have a look at it. You can suggest changes by replying to this message.

If you wish to, you can create a list of mentors. This will activate the optional Mentorship module. Please format the list following the guidance. You need at least one mentor for each 500 new accounts created monthly on your wiki (3 mentors minimum). Are you hesitant to become a mentor? Please check the resources we have written based on other mentors' experiences. Please tell us if you are interested by creating a mentor list!

Let me know if you have any question about this deployment, please ping me! Of course, if this message is not at the right place, please move or share it (and let me know).

All the best, Trizek (WMF), 15:33, 4 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2021 (UTC)Reply[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2021-32[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Problems

You can read but not edit 17 wikis for a few minutes on 10 August. This is planned at 05:00 UTC. This is because of work on the database. [189]

Changes later this week

The Wikimania Hackathon will take place remotely on 13 August, starting at 5:00 UTC, for 24 hours. You can participate in many ways. You can still propose projects and sessions.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 August. It will be on all wikis from 12 August (calendar).
The old CSS <div class="visualClear"></div> will not be supported after 12 August. Instead, templates and pages should use <div style="clear:both;"></div>. Please help to replace any existing uses on your wiki. There are global-search links available at T287962.

Future changes

The Wikipedia Library is a place for Wikipedia editors to get access to sources. There is an extension which has a new function to tell users when they can take part in it. It will use notifications. It will start pinging the first users in September. It will ping more users later. [190]
Vue.js will be the JavaScript framework for MediaWiki in the future. [191]

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16:20, 9 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-33[തിരുത്തുക]

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

You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet. [192]

Problems

There was a problem on wikis which use the Translate extension. Translations were not updated or were replaced with the English text. The problems have been fixed. [193][194][195]

Changes later this week

A revision tag will soon be added to edits that add links to disambiguation pages. This is because these links are usually added by accident. The tag will allow editors to easily find the broken links and fix them. If your wiki does not like this feature, it can be hidden. [196]
Would you like to help improve the information about tools? Would you like to attend or help organize a small virtual meetup for your community to discuss the list of tools? Please get in touch on the Toolhub Quality Signal Sessions talk page. We are also looking for feedback from tool maintainers on some specific questions.
In the past, edits to any page in your user talk space ignored your mute list, e.g. sub-pages. Starting this week, this is only true for edits to your talk page. [197]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 August. It will be on all wikis from 19 August (calendar).

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19:27, 16 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-34[തിരുത്തുക]

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 Score extension (<score> notation) has been re-enabled on public wikis and upgraded to a newer version. Some musical score functionality may no longer work because the extension is only enabled in "safe mode". The security issue has been fixed and an advisory published.

Problems

You will be able to read but not edit some wikis for a few minutes on 25 August. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. During this time, operations on the CentralAuth will also not be possible.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 August. It will be on all wikis from 26 August (calendar).

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21:58, 23 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2021 (UTC)

Read-only reminder[തിരുത്തുക]

A maintenance operation will be performed on Wednesday August 25 06:00 UTC. It should only last for a few minutes.

This will affect your wiki as well as 11 other wikis. During this time, publishing edits will not be possible.

Also during this time, operations on the CentralAuth will not be possible (GlobalRenames, changing/confirming e-mail addresses, logging into new wikis, password changes).

For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.

A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.

Please help your community to be aware of this maintenance operation. നന്ദി!

20:34, 24 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-35[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Some musical score syntax no longer works and may needed to be updated, you can check Category:Pages with score rendering errors on your wiki for a list of pages with errors.

Problems

Musical scores were unable to render lyrics in some languages because of missing fonts. This has been fixed now. If your language would prefer a different font, please file a request in Phabricator. [198]

Changes later this week

The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more about this.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 September. It will be on all wikis from 2 September (calendar).

Future changes

You will be able to read but not edit Commons for a few minutes on 6 September. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 13 September. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [199]

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16:00, 30 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-36[തിരുത്തുക]

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 wikis that have Growth features deployed have been part of A/B testing since deployment, in which some newcomers did not receive the new features. Now, all of the newcomers on 21 of the smallest of those wikis will be receiving the features. [200]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

In 2017, the provided jQuery library was upgraded from version 1 to 3, with a compatibility layer. The migration will soon finish, to make the site load faster for everyone. If you maintain a gadget or user script, check if you have any JQMIGRATE errors and fix them, or they will break. [201][202]
Last year, the Portuguese Wikipedia community embarked on an experiment to make log-in compulsory for editing. The impact report of this trial is ready. Moving forward, the Anti-Harassment Tools team is looking for projects that are willing to experiment with restricting IP editing on their wiki for a short-term experiment. Learn more.

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15:20, 6 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-37[തിരുത്തുക]

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

45 new Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. [203]
A majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. The Growth team has published an FAQ page about the features. This translatable FAQ covers the description of the features, how to use them, how to change the configuration, and more.

Problems

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 14 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [204]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 September. It will be on all wikis from 16 September (calendar).
Starting this week, Wikipedia in Italian will receive weekly software updates on Wednesdays. It used to receive the updates on Thursdays. Due to this change, bugs will be noticed and fixed sooner. [205]
You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet. [206]
The syntax highlight tool marks up code with different colours. It now can highlight 23 new code languages. Additionally, golang can now be used as an alias for the Go programming language, and a special output mode has been added to show a program's output. [207][208]

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15:34, 13 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-38[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Growth features are now deployed to almost all Wikipedias. For the majority of small Wikipedias, the features are only available for experienced users, to test the features and configure them. Features will be available for newcomers starting on 20 September 2021.
MediaWiki had a feature that would highlight local links to short articles in a different style. Each user could pick the size at which "stubs" would be highlighted. This feature was very bad for performance, and following a consultation, has been removed. [209]
A technical change was made to the MonoBook skin to allow for easier maintenance and upkeep. This has resulted in some minor changes to HTML that make MonoBook's HTML consistent with other skins. Efforts have been made to minimize the impact on editors, but please ping Jon (WMF) on wiki or in phabricator if any problems are reported.

Problems

There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of an accidental restart of the search servers. [210]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 September. It will be on all wikis from 23 September (calendar).
The meta=proofreadpage API has changed. The piprop parameter has been renamed to prpiprop. API users should update their code to avoid unrecognized parameter warnings. Pywikibot users should upgrade to 6.6.0. [211]

Future changes

The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "Discussion tools" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. [212]
The previously announced change to how you obtain tokens from the API has been delayed to September 21 because of an incompatibility with Pywikibot. Bot operators using Pywikibot can follow T291202 for progress on a fix, and should plan to upgrade to 6.6.1 when it is released.

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18:31, 20 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-39[തിരുത്തുക]

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

iOS 15 has a new function called Private Relay (Apple website). This can hide the user's IP when they use Safari browser. This is like using a VPN in that we see another IP address instead. It is opt-in and only for those who pay extra for iCloud. It will come to Safari users on OSX later. There is a technical discussion about what this means for the Wikimedia wikis.

Problems

Some gadgets and user-scripts add items to the portlets (article tools) part of the skin. A recent change to the HTML may have made those links a different font-size. This can be fixed by adding the CSS class .vector-menu-dropdown-noicon. [213]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 September. It will be on all wikis from 30 September (calendar).
The GettingStarted extension was built in 2013, and provides an onboarding process for new account holders in a few versions of Wikipedia. However, the recently developed Growth features provide a better onboarding experience. Since the vast majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features, GettingStarted will be deactivated starting on 4 October. [214]
A small number of users will not be able to connect to the Wikimedia wikis after 30 September. This is because an old root certificate will no longer work. They will also have problems with many other websites. Users who have updated their software in the last five years are unlikely to have problems. Users in Europe, Africa and Asia are less likely to have immediate problems even if their software is too old. You can read more.
You can receive notifications when someone leaves a comment on user talk page or mentions you in a talk page comment. Clicking the notification link will now bring you to the comment and highlight it. Previously, doing so brought you to the top of the section that contained the comment. You can find more information in T282029.

Future changes

The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "Discussion tools" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. See the list of wikis. [215]

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22:21, 27 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-40[തിരുത്തുക]

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

A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them has been enabled for the following 10 wikis: mediawiki.org, the Italian, Catalan, Hebrew and Vietnamese Wikipedias, French Wikisource, and English Wikivoygage, Wikibooks, Wiktionary and Wikinews. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist on those wikis you can let the developers know.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 October. It will be on all wikis from 7 October (calendar).
Some gadgets and bots that use the API to read the AbuseFilter log might break. The hidden property will no longer say an entry is implicit for unsuppressed log entries about suppressed edits. If your bot needs to know this, do a separate revision query. Additionally, the property will have the value false for visible entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response. [216]
A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them will be enabled for all production wikis. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist you can let the developers know.

Future changes

You can soon get cross-wiki notifications in the iOS Wikipedia app. You can also get notifications as push notifications. More notification updates will follow in later versions. [217]
The JavaScript variables wgExtraSignatureNamespaces, wgLegalTitleChars, and wgIllegalFileChars will soon be removed from mw.config. These are not part of the "stable" variables available for use in wiki JavaScript. [218]
The JavaScript variables wgCookiePrefix, wgCookieDomain, wgCookiePath, and wgCookieExpiration will soon be removed from mw.config. Scripts should instead use mw.cookie from the "mediawiki.cookie" module. [219]

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16:30, 4 ഒക്ടോബർ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-41[തിരുത്തുക]

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 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 October. It will be on all wikis from 14 October (calendar).

The "auto-number headings" preference is being removed. You can read phab:T284921 for the reasons and discussion. This change was previously announced. A JavaScript snippet is available which can be used to create a Gadget on wikis that still want to support auto-numbering.

Meetings

You can join a meeting about the Desktop Improvements. A demonstration version of the newest feature will be shown. The event will take place on Tuesday, 12 October at 16:00 UTC. See how to join.

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15:30, 11 ഒക്ടോബർ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-42[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Toolhub is a catalogue to make it easier to find software tools that can be used for working on the Wikimedia projects. You can read more.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 October. It will be on all wikis from 21 October (calendar).

Future changes

The developers of the Wikipedia Android app are working on communication in the app. You can now answer questions in survey to help the development.
3–5% of editors may be blocked in the next few months. This is because of a new service in Safari, which is similar to a proxy or a VPN. It is called iCloud Private Relay. There is a discussion about this on Meta. The goal is to learn what iCloud Private Relay could mean for the communities.
Wikimedia Enterprise is a new API for those who use a lot of information from the Wikimedia projects on other sites. It is a way to get big commercial users to pay for the data. There will soon be a copy of the Wikimedia Enterprise dataset. You can read more. You can also ask the team questions on Zoom on 22 October 15:00 UTC.

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20:53, 18 ഒക്ടോബർ 2021 (UTC)

Coolest Tool Award 2021: Call for nominations[തിരുത്തുക]

The third edition of the m:Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations!

Tools play an essential role for the Wikimedia projects, and so do the many volunteer developers who experiment with new ideas and develop and maintain local and global solutions to support the Wikimedia communities. The Coolest Tool Award aims to recognize and celebrate the coolest tools in a variety of categories.

The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December. Deadline to submit nominations is October 27. More information: m:Coolest Tool Award. Thanks for your recommendations! -- SSethi (WMF) for the 2021 Coolest Tool Academy team 05:56, 19 ഒക്ടോബർ 2021 (UTC)Reply[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2021-43[തിരുത്തുക]

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 Coolest Tool Award 2021 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 27 October.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 October. It will be on all wikis from 28 October (calendar).

Future changes

Diff pages will have an improved copy and pasting experience. The changes will allow the text in the diff for before and after to be treated as separate columns and will remove any unwanted syntax. [220]
The version of the Liberation fonts used in SVG files will be upgraded. Only new thumbnails will be affected. Liberation Sans Narrow will not change. [221]

Meetings

You can join a meeting about the Community Wishlist Survey. News about the disambiguation and the real-time preview wishes will be shown. The event will take place on Wednesday, 27 October at 14:30 UTC. See how to join.

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20:07, 25 ഒക്ടോബർ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-44[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Recent changes

There is a limit on the amount of emails a user can send each day. This limit is now global instead of per-wiki. This change is to prevent abuse. [222]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 November. It will be on all wikis from 4 November (calendar).

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20:27, 1 നവംബർ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-45[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Mobile IP editors are now able to receive warning notices indicating they have a talk page message on the mobile website (similar to the orange banners available on desktop). These notices will be displayed on every page outside of the main namespace and every time the user attempts to edit. The notice on desktop now has a slightly different colour. [223][224]

Changes later this week

Wikidata will be read-only for a few minutes on 11 November. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [225]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

In the future, unregistered editors will be given an identity that is not their IP address. This is for legal reasons. A new user right will let editors who need to know the IPs of unregistered accounts to fight vandalism, spam, and harassment, see the IP. You can read the suggestions for how that identity could work and discuss on the talk page.

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20:36, 8 നവംബർ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-46[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Most large file uploads errors that had messages like "stashfailed" or "DBQueryError" have now been fixed. An incident report is available.

Problems

Sometimes, edits made on iOS using the visual editor save groups of numbers as telephone number links, because of a feature in the operating system. This problem is under investigation. [226]
There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error. [227]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 November. It will be on all wikis from 18 November (calendar).

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22:06, 15 നവംബർ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-47[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
The template dialog in VisualEditor and in the new wikitext mode Beta feature will be heavily improved on a few wikis. Your feedback is welcome.

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20:02, 22 നവംബർ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-48[തിരുത്തുക]

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 30 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 December. It will be on all wikis from 2 December (calendar).

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21:14, 29 നവംബർ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-49[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Problems

MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 December. It will be on all wikis from 9 December (calendar).
At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at Special:MentorDashboard. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project.
The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008), action=ajax, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module. [228]
An old ResourceLoader module, jquery.jStorage, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to mediawiki.storage instead. [229]

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21:58, 6 ഡിസംബർ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-50[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Recent changes

There are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis, [[WB:]] will go to the local language default for the [[Project:]] namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process. [230]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 December. It will be on all wikis from 16 December (calendar).

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22:27, 13 ഡിസംബർ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-51[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 10 January 2022.

Recent changes

Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (<DynamicPageList>) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis. [231]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February. [232]

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22:05, 20 ഡിസംബർ 2021 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2022 is coming. Help us![തിരുത്തുക]

The Community Wishlist Survey 2022 starts in less than two weeks (Monday 10 January 2022, 18:00 UTC). We, the team organizing the Survey, need your help.

Translate important messages

Promote the Survey

Among anyone and everyone you know who has an account on wiki.

Promote the Survey on social media, via instant messaging apps, in other groups and chats, in your WikiProject, Wikimedia affiliate - wherever contributors with registered accounts may be.

Only you can make the difference

How many people will hear and read about the Survey in their language? How many will decide to participate? Will there be enough of you to vote for a change you would like to see? It all depends on you, volunteers.

Why are we asking?

We have improved the documentation. It's friendlier and easier to use. This will mean little if it's only in English.
Thousands of volunteers haven't participated in the Survey yet. We'd like to improve that, too. Three years ago, 1387 people participated. Last year, there were 1773 of them. We hope that in the upcoming edition, there will be even more. You are better than us in contacting Wikimedians outside of wikis. We have prepared some images to share. More to come.

What is the Community Wishlist Survey?

It's an annual survey that allows contributors to the Wikimedia projects to propose and vote for tools and platform improvements. Long years of experience in editing or technical skills are not required.

Thanks, and be safe and successful in 2022! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 03:15, 29 ഡിസംബർ 2021 (UTC)Reply[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-02[തിരുത്തുക]

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

A oauth_consumer variable has been added to the AbuseFilter to enable identifying changes made by specific tools. [233]
Gadgets are now able to directly include JSON pages. This means some gadgets can now be configured by administrators without needing the interface administrator permission, such as with the Geonotice gadget. [234]
Gadgets can now specify page actions on which they are available. For example, |actions=edit,history will load a gadget only while editing and on history pages. [235]
Gadgets can now be loaded on demand with the withgadget URL parameter. This can be used to replace an earlier snippet that typically looks like withJS or withCSS. [236]
At wikis where the Mentorship system is configured, you can now use the Action API to get a list of a mentor's mentees. [237]
The heading on the main page can now be configured using MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin for logged-in users and MediaWiki:Mainpage-title for logged-out users. Any CSS that was previously used to hide the heading should be removed. [238] [239]
Four special pages (and their API counterparts) now have a maximum database query execution time of 30 seconds. These special pages are: RecentChanges, Watchlist, Contributions, and Log. This change will help with site performance and stability. You can read more details about this change including some possible solutions if this affects your workflows. [240]
The sticky header has been deployed for 50% of logged-in users on more than 10 wikis. This is part of the Desktop Improvements. See how to take part in the project.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 January. It will be on all wikis from 13 January (calendar).

Events

Community Wishlist Survey 2022 begins. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.

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01:23, 11 ജനുവരി 2022 (UTC)

Save the Date: Coolest Tool Award 2021: this Friday, 17:00 UTC[തിരുത്തുക]

Hello all,

The ceremony of the 2021 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC.

This award is highlighting software tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects. The ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to our tool developers and maybe discover new tools!

Thanks for joining! andre (talk) -08:02, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-03[തിരുത്തുക]

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

When using WikiEditor (also known as the 2010 wikitext editor), people will now see a warning if they link to disambiguation pages. If you click "Review link" in the warning, it will ask you to correct the link to a more specific term. You can read more information about this completed 2021 Community Wishlist item.
You can automatically subscribe to all of the talk page discussions that you start or comment in using DiscussionTools. You will receive notifications when another editor replies. This is available at most wikis. Go to your Preferences and turn on "Automatically subscribe to topics". [241]
When asked to create a new page or talk page section, input fields can be "preloaded" with some text. This feature is now limited to wikitext pages. This is so users can't be tricked into making malicious edits. There is a discussion about if this feature should be re-enabled for some content types.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 January. It will be on all wikis from 20 January (calendar).

Events

Community Wishlist Survey 2022 continues. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.

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19:54, 17 ജനുവരി 2022 (UTC)

Last two days for submitting proposals[തിരുത്തുക]

Tomorrow is the last day for submitting proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey 2022.

Also, everyone is welcome to translate, promote, and discuss proposals. SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 14:45, 22 ജനുവരി 2022 (UTC)Reply[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-04[തിരുത്തുക]

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 25 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 January. It will be on all wikis from 27 January (calendar).
The following languages can now be used with syntax highlighting: BDD, Elpi, LilyPond, Maxima, Rita, Savi, Sed, Sophia, Spice, .SRCINFO.
You can now access your watchlist from outside of the user menu in the new Vector skin. The watchlist link appears next to the notification icons if you are at the top of the page. [242]

Events

You can see the results of the Coolest Tool Award 2021 and learn more about 14 tools which were selected this year.
You can translate, promote, or comment on the proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. Voting will begin on 28 January.

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21:37, 24 ജനുവരി 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-05[തിരുത്തുക]

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 a gadget should support the new ?withgadget URL parameter that was announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specify supportsUrlLoad in the gadget definition (documentation). [243]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 February. It will be on all wikis from 3 February (calendar).

Future changes

A change that was announced last year was delayed. It is now ready to move ahead:
- The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on translatewiki (direct links are available) or by administrators on your wiki.

Events

You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 28 January and 11 February. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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17:41, 31 ജനുവരി 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-06[തിരുത്തുക]

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

English Wikipedia recently set up a gadget for dark mode. You can enable it there, or request help from an interface administrator to set it up on your wiki (instructions and screenshot).
Category counts are sometimes wrong. They will now be completely recounted at the beginning of every month. [244]

Problems

A code-change last week to fix a bug with Live Preview may have caused problems with some local gadgets and user-scripts. Any code with skin-specific behaviour for vector should be updated to also check for vector-2022. A code-snippet, global search, and example are available.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 February. It will be on all wikis from 10 February (calendar).

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21:15, 7 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-07[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Purging a category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely. This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong. [245]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 February. It will be on all wikis from 17 February (calendar).
In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [246]

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19:18, 14 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2022 (UTC)

Rollout of the new audio and video player[തിരുത്തുക]

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Hello,

Over the next months we will gradually change the audio and video player of Wikis from Kultura to Video.js and with that, the old player won’t be accessible anymore. The new player has been active as a beta feature since May 2017.

The new player has many advantages, including better design, consistent look with the rest of our interface, better compatibility with browsers, ability to work on mobile which means our multimedia will be properly accessible on iPhone, better accessibility and many more.

The old player has been unmaintained for eight years now and is home-brewn (unlike the new player which is a widely used open source project) and uses deprecated and abandoned frameworks such as jQuery UI. Removing the old player’s code also improves performance of the Wikis for anyone visiting any page (by significantly reducing complexity of the dependency graph of our ResourceLoader modules. See this blog post.). The old player has many open bugs that we will be able to close as resolved after this migration.

The new player will solve a lot of old and outstanding issues but also it will have its own bugs. All important ones have been fixed but there will be some small ones to tackle in the future and after the rollout.

What we are asking now is to turn on the beta feature for the new player and let us know about any issues.

You can track the work in T100106

Thank you, Amir 17:59, 17 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2022 (UTC)Reply[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-08[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Special:Nuke will now provide the standard deletion reasons (editable at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown) to use when mass-deleting pages. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [247]
At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features by default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update their help resources. Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change. [248]
You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search results. This is done with the markup class=notpageimage. For example, [[File:Example.png|class=notpageimage]]. [249]
There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes by date in the mobile skin. While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all the HTML changes is on Phabricator.

Events

Community Wishlist Survey results have been published. The ranking of prioritized proposals is also available.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 February. It will be on all wikis from 24 February (calendar).

Future changes

The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [250][251]
Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions on Wikitech. [252]
Administrators will soon have the option to delete/undelete the associated "talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option will also be available. This was a request from the 2021 Wishlist Survey.

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19:11, 21 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-09[തിരുത്തുക]

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

When searching for edits by change tags, e.g. in page history or user contributions, there is now a dropdown list of possible tags. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [253]
Mentors using the Growth Mentor dashboard will now see newcomers assigned to them who have made at least one edit, up to 200 edits. Previously, all newcomers assigned to the mentor were visible on the dashboard, even ones without any edit or ones who made hundred of edits. Mentors can still change these values using the filters on their dashboard. Also, the last choice of filters will now be saved. [254][255]
The user group oversight was renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. You may need to update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to Special:Listusers, or uses of NUMBERINGROUP.

Problems

The recent change to the HTML of tracking changes pages caused some problems for screenreaders. This is being fixed. [256]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 March. It will be on all wikis from 3 March (calendar).

Future changes

Working with templates will become easier. Several improvements are planned for March 9 on most wikis and on March 16 on English Wikipedia. The improvements include: Bracket matching, syntax highlighting colors, finding and inserting templates, and related visual editor features.
If you are a template developer or an interface administrator, and you are intentionally overriding or using the default CSS styles of user feedback boxes (the classes: successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox), please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at phab:T300314 if you think you might be affected.

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22:59, 28 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-10[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Problems

There was a problem with some interface labels last week. It will be fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the support for skins which do not have active maintainers. [257]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).

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21:15, 7 മാർച്ച് 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-11[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Recent changes

In the Wikipedia Android app it is now possible to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode. [258][259]

Problems

There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days. You can read more on Meta-wiki.
There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then. [260]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
When using uselang=qqx to find localisation messages, it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as "നാൾവഴി കാണുക". [261]
Access to പ്രത്യേകം:നാൾപ്പതിപ്പ് മായ്ക്കൽ has been expanded to include users who have deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the deleterevision right could access this special page. [262]
On the പ്രത്യേകം:മായ്ച്ചവ പുനഃസ്ഥാപനം pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions. [263]

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the IP Masking implementation strategy and next steps. The announcement can be read here.
The Wikipedia Android app developers are working on new functions for user talk pages and article talk pages. [264]

Events

The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.

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22:07, 14 മാർച്ച് 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-12[തിരുത്തുക]

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

New code release schedule for this week

There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can read more about this project.

Recent changes

You can now set how many search results to show by default in your Preferences. This was the 12th most popular wish in the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. [265]
The Jupyter notebooks tool PAWS has been updated to a new interface. [266]

Future changes

Interactive maps via Kartographer will soon work on wikis using the FlaggedRevisions extension. Please tell us which improvements you want to see in Kartographer. You can take this survey in simple English. [267]

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16:00, 21 മാർച്ച് 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-13[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Recent changes

There is a simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular database maintenance. It will be performed on 29 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 31 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [268][269]

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19:54, 28 മാർച്ച് 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-14[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Problems

For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the പ്രത്യേകം:സമീപകാലമാറ്റങ്ങൾ feed. This bug has been fixed. [270]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 April. It will be on all wikis from 7 April (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 7 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

Starting next week, Tech News' title will be translatable. When the newsletter is distributed, its title may not be Tech News: 2022-14 anymore. It may affect some filters that have been set up by some communities. [271]
Over the next few months, the "Add a link" Growth feature will become available to more Wikipedias. Each week, a few wikis will get the feature. You can test this tool at a few wikis where "Link recommendation" is already available.

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21:00, 4 ഏപ്രിൽ 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-15[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Recent changes

There is a new public status page at www.wikimediastatus.net. This site shows five automated high-level metrics where you can see the overall health and performance of our wikis' technical environment. It also contains manually-written updates for widespread incidents, which are written as quickly as the engineers are able to do so while also fixing the actual problem. The site is separated from our production infrastructure and hosted by an external service, so that it can be accessed even if the wikis are briefly unavailable. You can read more about this project.
On Wiktionary wikis, the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [272][273]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).

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19:44, 11 ഏപ്രിൽ 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-16[തിരുത്തുക]

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 19 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 April. It will be on all wikis from 21 April (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 19 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 21 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the associated "Talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
On selected wikis, 50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents. When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements project. [274]
Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes: successbox, errorbox, warningbox. The styles for those classes and messagebox will be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February issue of Tech News.

Future changes

Kartographer will become compatible with FlaggedRevisions page stabilization. Kartographer maps will also work on pages with pending changes. [275] The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated. [276] [277] [278]

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23:11, 18 ഏപ്രിൽ 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-17[തിരുത്തുക]

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 many wikis (group 1), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [279][280]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 April. It will be on all wikis from 28 April (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 26 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Some very old browsers and operating systems are no longer supported. Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in very old browsers like Internet Explorer 9 or 10, Android 4, or Firefox 38 or older. [281]

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22:55, 25 ഏപ്രിൽ 2022 (UTC)

Editing news 2022 #1[തിരുത്തുക]

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The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at the 20 Wikipedias that participated in the test. You will be able to turn it off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

Whatamidoing (WMF) 18:55, 2 മേയ് 2022 (UTC)Reply[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-18[തിരുത്തുക]

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 all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [282][283]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 May. It will be on all wikis from 5 May (calendar).

Future changes

The developers are working on talk pages in the Wikipedia app for iOS. You can give feedback. You can take the survey in English, German, Hebrew or Chinese.
Most wikis will receive an improved template dialog in VisualEditor and New Wikitext mode. [284] [285]
If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme. [286]
Several CSS IDs related to MediaWiki interface messages will be removed. Technical editors should please review the list of IDs and links to their existing uses. These include #mw-anon-edit-warning, #mw-undelete-revision and 3 others.

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19:33, 2 മേയ് 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-19[തിരുത്തുക]

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

You can now see categories in the Wikipedia app for Android. [287]

Problems

Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [288]
Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change. [289]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [290]
Incompatibility issues with Kartographer and the FlaggedRevs extension will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension on May 24.
The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022).

Future meetings

The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.

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15:22, 9 മേയ് 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-20[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [291]
The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on all wikis from 19 May (calendar).

Future changes

You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons. [292]

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18:57, 16 മേയ് 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-21[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. [293]
The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [294]

Problems

The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [295]
Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation. [296]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).

Future changes

Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [297]

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00:20, 24 മേയ് 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-22[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Recent changes

In the AbuseFilter extension, an ip_in_ranges() function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple ip_in_range() expressions joined by | into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [298]
The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 31 May at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [299][300]
The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the uciprange parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit. [301]
A new parser function will be introduced: {{=}}. It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates. [302]

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20:28, 30 മേയ് 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-23[തിരുത്തുക]

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 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
A new str_replace_regexp() function can be used in abuse filters to replace parts of text using a regular expression. [303]

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02:45, 7 ജൂൺ 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-24[തിരുത്തുക]

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

All wikis can now use Kartographer maps. Kartographer maps now also work on pages with pending changes. [304][305]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 14 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [306]
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Abkhazian Wikipedia, Achinese Wikipedia, Adyghe Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Akan Wikipedia, Alemannisch Wikipedia, Amharic Wikipedia, Aragonese Wikipedia, Old English Wikipedia, Syriac Wikipedia, Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Asturian Wikipedia, Atikamekw Wikipedia, Avaric Wikipedia, Aymara Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, South Azerbaijani Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [307]
The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [308][309]

Future meetings

The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place today (13 June). The following meetings will take place on: 28 June, 12 July, 26 July.

Future changes

By the end of July, the Vector 2022 skin should be ready to become the default across all wikis. Discussions on how to adjust it to the communities' needs will begin in the next weeks. It will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual basis. Learn more.

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16:58, 13 ജൂൺ 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-25[തിരുത്തുക]

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 Wikipedia App for Android now has an option for editing the whole page at once, located in the overflow menu (three-dots menu ). [310]
Some recent database changes may affect queries using the Quarry tool. Queries for site_stats at English Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata will need to be updated. Read more.
A new user_global_editcount variable can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. [311]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).
Users of non-responsive skins (e.g. MonoBook or Vector) on mobile devices may notice a slight change in the default zoom level. This is intended to optimize zooming and ensure all interface elements are present on the page (for example the table of contents on Vector 2022). In the unlikely event this causes any problems with how you use the site, we'd love to understand better, please ping Jon (WMF) to any on-wiki conversations. [312]

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
Parsoid's HTML output will soon stop annotating file links with different typeof attribute values, and instead use mw:File for all types. Tool authors should adjust any code that expects: mw:Image, mw:Audio, or mw:Video. [313]

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20:17, 20 ജൂൺ 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-26[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Wikimedia Enterprise API service now has self-service accounts with free on-demand requests and monthly snapshots (API documentation). Community access via database dumps & Wikimedia Cloud Services continues.
All Wikimedia wikis can now use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua after creating local modules and templates. Discussions are welcome on the project talk page.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 28 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [314]
Some global and cross-wiki services will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 30 June at 06:00 UTC. This will impact ContentTranslation, Echo, StructuredDiscussions, Growth experiments and a few more services. [315]
Users will be able to sort columns within sortable tables in the mobile skin. [316]

Future meetings

The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (28 June). The following meetings will take place on 12 July and 26 July.

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20:02, 27 ജൂൺ 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-27[തിരുത്തുക]

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 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 5 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 7 July at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
This change only affects pages in the main namespace in Wikisource. The Javascript config variable proofreadpage_source_href will be removed from mw.config and be replaced with the variable prpSourceIndexPage. [317]

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19:31, 4 ജൂലൈ 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-28[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Recent changes

In the Vector 2022 skin, the page title is now displayed above the tabs such as Discussion, Read, Edit, View history, or More. Learn more. [318]
It is now possible to easily view most of the configuration settings that apply to just one wiki, and to compare settings between two wikis if those settings are different. For example: Japanese Wiktionary settings, or settings that are different between the Spanish and Esperanto Wikipedias. Local communities may want to discuss and propose changes to their local settings. Details about each of the named settings can be found by searching MediaWiki.org. [319]
The Anti-Harassment Tools team recently deployed the IP Info Feature as a Beta Feature at all wikis. This feature allows abuse fighters to access information about IP addresses. Please check our update on how to find and use the tool. Please share your feedback using a link you will be given within the tool itself.

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 12 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.

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19:24, 11 ജൂലൈ 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-29[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Problems

The feature on mobile web for Nearby Pages was missing last week. It will be fixed this week. [320]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).

Future changes

The Technical Decision Forum is seeking community representatives. You can apply on wiki or by emailing TDFSupport@wikimedia.org before 12 August.

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22:59, 18 ജൂലൈ 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-30[തിരുത്തുക]

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 www.wikibooks.org and www.wikiquote.org portal pages now use an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [321]

Problems

Last week, some wikis were in read-only mode for a few minutes because of an emergency switch of their main database (targeted wikis). [322]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
The external link icon will change slightly in the skins Vector legacy and Vector 2022. The new icon uses simpler shapes to be more recognizable on low-fidelity screens. [323]
Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "Change block" and "ഉപയോക്താവിനുള്ള തടയൽ നീക്കുക" instead of just "ഉപയോക്താവിനെ തടയുക" if the user is already blocked. [324]

Future meetings

The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (26 July).

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19:26, 25 ജൂലൈ 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-31[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Improved LaTeX capabilities for math rendering are now available in the wikis thanks to supporting Phantom tags. This completes part of the #59 wish of the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).
The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 0. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.

Future meetings

This week, three meetings about Vector (2022) with live interpretation will take place. On Tuesday, interpretation in Russian will be provided. On Thursday, meetings for Arabic and Spanish speakers will take place. See how to join.

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21:21, 1 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-32[തിരുത്തുക]

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

GUS2Wiki copies the information from പ്രത്യേകം:GadgetUsage to an on-wiki page so you can review its history. If your project isn't already listed on the Wikidata entry for Project:GUS2Wiki you can either run GUS2Wiki yourself or make a request to receive updates. [325]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 9 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 11 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future meetings

The Wikimania Hackathon will take place online from August 12–14. Don't miss the pre-hacking showcase to learn about projects and find collaborators. Anyone can propose a project or host a session. Newcomers are welcome!

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19:49, 8 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-33[തിരുത്തുക]

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 Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia community decided to block IP editing from October 2021 to April 2022. The Wikimedia Foundation's Product Analytics team tracked the impact of this change. An impact report is now available.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 August. It will be on all wikis from 18 August (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 16 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 18 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 1. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes. [326][327][328]

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21:08, 15 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-34[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Two problems with Kartographer maps have been fixed. Maps are no longer shown as empty when a geoline was created via VisualEditor. Geolines consisting of points with QIDs (e.g., subway lines) are no longer shown with pushpins. [329][330]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 25 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The colours of links and visited links will change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. [331]

Future changes

The new [വരിക്കാരാവുക] button helps newcomers get answers. The Editing team is enabling this tool everywhere. You can turn it off in your preferences. [332]

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00:11, 23 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-35[തിരുത്തുക]

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 Realtime Preview is available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 2. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals. Please note that when this Beta feature is enabled, it may cause conflicts with some wiki-specific Gadgets.

Problems

In recent months, there have been inaccurate numbers shown for various പ്രത്യേകം:സ്ഥിതിവിവരം at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed. [333]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 30 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation wants to improve how Wikimedia communities report harmful incidents by building the Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) to make it easy and safe for users to make reports. You can leave comments on the talk page, by answering the questions provided. If you have ever faced a harmful situation that you wanted to report/reported, join a PIRS interview to share your experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

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23:04, 29 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-36[തിരുത്തുക]

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 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 6 September at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 8 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
On Special pages that only have one tab, the tab-bar's row will be hidden in the Vector-2022 skin to save space. The row will still show if Gadgets use it. Gadgets that currently append directly to the CSS id of #p-namespaces should be updated to use the mw.util.addPortletLink function instead. Gadgets that style this id should consider also targeting #p-associated-pages, the new id for this row. Examples are available. [334][335]

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23:21, 5 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-37[തിരുത്തുക]

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 search servers have been upgraded to a new major version. If you notice any issues with searching, please report them on Phabricator. [336]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).
Syntax highlighting is now tracked as an expensive parser function. Only 500 expensive function calls can be used on a single page. Pages that exceed the limit are added to a tracking category. [337]

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01:49, 13 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-38[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Two database fields in the templatelinks table are now being dropped: tl_namespace and tl_title. Any queries that rely on these fields need to be changed to use the new normalization field called tl_target_id. See T299417 for more information. This is part of normalization of links tables. [338][339]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar).
In Kartographer maps, you can use icons on markers for common points of interest. On Tuesday, the previous icon set will be updated to version maki 7.2. That means, around 100 new icons will be available. Additionally, all existing icons were updated for clarity and to make them work better in international contexts. [340][341]

Future changes

In a group discussion at Wikimania, more than 30 people talked about how to make content partnership software in the Wikimedia movement more sustainable. What kind of support is acceptable for volunteer developers? Read the summary and leave your feedback.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:15, 19 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2022 (UTC)Reply[മറുപടി]

The Vector 2022 skin as the default in two weeks?[തിരുത്തുക]

Hello. I'm writing on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Web team. In two weeks, we would like to make the Vector 2022 skin the default on this wiki.

We have been working on it for the past three years. So far, it has been the default on more than 30 wikis, including sister projects, all accounting for more than 1 billion pageviews per month. On average 87% of active logged-in users of those wikis use Vector 2022.

It would become the default for all logged-out users, and also all logged-in users who currently use Vector legacy. Logged-in users can at any time switch to any other skins. No changes are expected for users of these skins.

Top of an article
Vector legacy (current default)
Vector 2022

A section of an article
Vector legacy (current default)
Vector 2022

About the skin[തിരുത്തുക]

[Why is a change necessary] The current default skin meets the needs of the readers and editors as these were 13 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using Wikimedia projects. The old Vector doesn't meet their needs.

[Objective] The objective for the new skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It draws inspiration from previous requests, the Community Wishlist Surveys, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins. We reduced PHP code in Wikimedia deployed skins by 75%. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.

[Changes and test results] The skin introduces a series of changes that improve readability and usability. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.

The sticky header makes it easier to find tools that editors use often. It decreases scrolling to the top of the page by 16%.
The new table of contents makes it easier to navigate to different sections. Readers and editors jumped to different sections of the page 50% more than with the old table of contents. It also looks a bit different on talk pages.
The new search bar is easier to find and makes it easier to find the correct search result from the list. This increased the amount of searches started by 30% on the wikis we tested on.
The skin does not negatively affect pageviews, edit rates, or account creation. There is evidence of increases in pageviews and account creation across partner communities.

[Try it out] Try out the new skin by going to the appearance tab in your preferences and selecting Vector 2022 from the list of skins.

How can editors change and customize this skin?[തിരുത്തുക]

It's possible to configure and personalize our changes. We support volunteers who create new gadgets and user scripts. Check out our repository for a list of currently available customizations, or add your own.

Our plan[തിരുത്തുക]

If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying in the week of October 3, 2022. If your community would like to request more time to discuss the changes, hit the button and write to us. We can adjust the calendar.

Request for more time to discuss the change

Also, if you'd like ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please ping me here or write on the talk page of the project. We will also gladly answer! See our FAQ. Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (സംവാദം) 03:13, 22 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2022 (UTC)Reply[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-39[തിരുത്തുക]

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

Parsoid clients should be updated to allow for space-separated multi-values in the rel attribute of links. Further details are in T315209.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 September. It will be on all wikis from 29 September (calendar).
Visual diffs will become available to all users, except at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [342]
Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. [343] [344]
In the ഘടകം namespace, pages ending with .json will be treated as JSON, just like they already are in the ഉപയോക്താവ് and മീഡിയവിക്കി namespaces. [345]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:29, 27 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2022 (UTC)Reply[മറുപടി]